Paul Kagan photographs of utopian communities and personal papers
Scope and Contents
Utopian communities and other groups represented in the collection include an Amish community, Ananda Ashrama, Caspar Compound, Divine Light Mission, Esoteric Fraternity, The Farm, Fundación Indra Devi, Fountaingrove, Fountain of the World, Halcyon, Holy City, Icaria Speranza, Kaweah Colony, Krotona (including Happy Valley School), Lama Foundation, Lemurian Fellowship, Llano del Rio, The Lord's Land, Pisgah Faith Home, Pisgah Grande, Point Loma, Rosicrucian Fellowship, Questhaven Retreat, Self-Realization Golden World Colony, Table Mountain Ranch, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Theosophical Society (Pasadena), Unification Church, and Vedanta Temple (Santa Barbara).
Dates
- circa 1895-circa 1989
- Majority of material found within 1968 - 1976
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Boxes 18-19: Copy photographs are for reference use only, and are not to be reproduced. For further information consult the appropriate curator.
Box 20: (audiovisual material): Restricted fragile. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
4 Linear Feet ((23 boxes) + 3 broadside folders)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Utopian communities and other groups represented in the collection include an unidentified Amish community, Ananda Ashrama, Caspar Compound, Divine Light Mission, Esoteric Fraternity, The Farm, Fundacio?n Indra Devi, Fountaingrove, Fountain of the World, Halcyon, Holy City, Icaria Speranza, Kaweah Colony, Krotona (including Happy Valley School), Lama Foundation, Lemurian Fellowship, Llano del Rio, The Lord's Land, Pisgah Faith Home, Pisgah Grande, Point Loma, Rosicrucian Fellowship, Questhaven Retreat, Self-Realization Golden World Colony, Table Mountain Ranch, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Theosophical Society (Pasadena), Unification Church, and Vedanta Temple (Santa Barbara).
Biography
Processing Information
- Amish -- Pictorial works
- California -- Pictorial works
- Christian communities -- California
- Collective settlements -- California
- Communal living
- Communal living -- California
- Communal living -- New Mexico
- Communal living -- Pennsylvania
- Communal living -- Tennessee
- Cooperative societies -- California
- Divine Light Mission
- Fountaingrove (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- Fundacion Indra Devi
- Halcyon (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- Happy Valley (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- Happy Valley School
- Holy City (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- Icaria-Speranza (Collective settlement) -- Pictorial works
- Kagan, Paul, 1943-1993
- Kaweah Colony
- Krotona Institute of Theosophy (Ojai, Calif.)
- Lama Foundation
- Lemurian Fellowship (Organization)
- Llano Colony (Secular community)
- Photographic prints
- Pisgah Grande (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- Pisgah Home Movement
- Point Loma Theosophical Society
- Rosicrucian Fellowship
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
- Socialism -- California
- Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
- Theosophy -- California
- Underground periodicals
- Unification Church
- University of California, Berkeley
- Utopias -- History -- 19th century
Creator
- Title
- Guide to the Paul Kagan Photographs of Utopian Communities and Personal Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Matthew Daniel Mason
- Date
- June 2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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