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Photographs of the American West

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 75
Abstract:

This collection includes portfolios of photographs and panoramic photographs created by Halverson that document the American West, 1987-2017.

Dates: 1987-2017

Alfred A. Hart and Carleton E. Watkins Stereographs of the Central Pacific Railroad

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 1265
Abstract:

Albumen stereographs and half stereographs published by Alfred A. Hart and Carleton E. Watkins of the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in California and Utah, 1865-1869.

Dates: 1865-1869

Carroll T. Hobart papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2396
Abstract: The papers document Carroll T. Hobart's involvement in the Yellowstone Park Improvement Company and the Northern Pacific Railroad through correspondence, photographs, printed material, and documents. The correspondence consists mostly of Hobart's business correspondence. Principal correspondents include his wife Alice, his contractor brother Charles F. Hobart, and T. F. Oakes and Robert Harris of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The photographs include images of Yellowstone National Park by F....
Dates: 1871-1904

W. E. Hook photographs of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 511
Abstract:

Photographs collected by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library that document the photography of W. E. Hook, 1885-1908. The collection chiefly includes photographs of sites in Colorado, as well as some images of New Mexico and Texas. Photographs in the collection document the different presentation methods used by Hook to market his images, including cabinet photographs, as well as the variant titles he used in negatives and on photographic mounts.

Dates: 1885-1908

Alan Hovhaness letters to Judith Malina

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 359
Abstract:

The collection consists of Alan Hovhaness's letters to Judith Malina with accompanying notes, poems, photographs, and printed material. Two letters from Hovhaness to Malina's husband, Julian Beck, and a carbon copy of his response are also included.

Dates: 1953-1959

Elizabeth Hudson collection of E. Œ. Somerville and personal papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 28
Abstract: Collection contains correspondence, writings, drawings and paintings, and other papers documenting the life of E. Œ. Somerville, as well as materials related to Elizabeth Hudson's interest in the military and her involvement in the relief efforts of World Wars I and II. Correspondence includes letters to Hudson from the Chiswick Press, Hildegarde Coghill, Geraldine Cummins, Edith Somerville, Moira Somerville, and A. J. A. Symons concerning the Somerville family's life in Ireland, Edith...
Dates: 1879-1970

Langston Hughes collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 28
Abstract: The Langston Hughes Collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, sound recordings, video recordings, electronic files, and other material documenting the life, work, and remembrance of Langston Hughes.Series I, Josephine DeWitt Rhodehamel Gift, is organized into three subseries: Letters from Langston Hughes, Writings of Langston Hughes and Writings of Others. There are letters to Rhodehamel and holograph and typescript versions of poems for Dear Lovely Death.Series...
Dates: 1924-1969

L. Stark Humes collection of photographs of the Klondike region

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Call Number: WA Photos 993
Abstract: Photographs collected by Ladell Stark Humes of the Klondike region of the Yukon, as well as other areas in Alaska and Yukon Territory, circa 1865-1939. Photographers chiefly represented in the collection include William Howard Case, Case & Draper, Robert Collier, and A. W. Hall. Depicted are Native American men, women, and children; gold mining efforts; and town and landscape views. Also present are stereographs produced by the Keystone View Company of Inuit men, women, and...
Dates: circa 1865-1939

Collection of identification photographs of Industrial Workers of the World strikers

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 718
Abstract:

60 identification photographs of 59 individuals arrested in connection with the Everett Massacre, an armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World union (also referred to as "Wobblies") who had come from Seattle in support of striking shingle workers, on 1916 November 5. Identifications are stamped on the versos and completed in manuscript.

Dates: 1916-1922

Into the Woods

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1469
Abstract:

Ten photographs of trees in Columbia County, New York, created by Karen Halverson in 2014-2015. The photographer introduced tree flagging tape into the scenes with a range of colors.

Dates: 2014-2015

William E. Irwin Photographs collection

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 516
Abstract:

Photographs of sites and individuals in Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory, as well as Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and other places in the American West, circa 1893-1935, chiefly created by William E. Irwin, as well as by his brothers, John Allison Irwin and Marvin Elmore Irwin.

Dates: 1885-1945

William Henry Jackson photographs of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Mexico

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 215
Abstract:

Photographs taken by William Henry Jackson and published by W.H. Jackson & Co. of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Mexico, circa 1880s.

Dates: circa 1880s

William Walker Whitehall Johnston photograph album of Wales, the West Indies, and the 1st West India Regiment

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 887
Abstract:

Disbound photograph album with images that document people and the built landscape in the West Indies, circa 1859-1865, and views of people and sites in Wales, 1858. The album includes several studio portraits of Johnston, and a studio portrait that probably depicts his father, Thomas Francis Johnston.

Dates: 1858-1865

Paul Kagan photographs of utopian communities and personal papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2640
Abstract: Chiefly photographs created and copied by Kagan while conducting research for his book, New World Utopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community. The photographs document nineteenth- and twentieth-century utopian communities, most located in California, with others in New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. The collection includes material that Kagan collected about utopian communities, including audiotapes of interviews and related events, as well as drawings and photographs....
Dates: circa 1895-circa 1989, bulk 1968-1976

Land of Zenj photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 619
Abstract: The collection, assembled by the rare book dealers Jenny Allsworth and Humphrey Winterton, brings together photographs, photograph albums, glass lantern slides, and a lantern projector, which document the Sultanate of Zanzibar and European colonial expansion in East and Central Africa from 1870 to 1914. Also documented are early Arab and Portuguese coastal settlements at Kilwa, Mafia, Pemba, Sofala, and Zanzibar. The collection also represents the work of certain photographers who operated...
Dates: 1869-2006, bulk 1869-1937

Edward G. Levy collection of papers relating to music

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Call Number: GEN MSS 955
Abstract: Contains manuscript and printed music, and scrapbooks, photographs, printed material, and other materials relating to nineteenth-twentieth century American and European music, collected by Edward G. Levy. Four scrapbooks made by Helen D. Love Scranton, genealogist and daughter of Edward Gurley Love (1850-1919) and Lucy Cleveland Prindle, contain advertisements, programs, tickets, and manuscript notes relating to performances of opera, musicals, plays, orchestral music, chamber music, vocal...
Dates: 1859-1970s, bulk 1880-1910

Llewelyn Davies family papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 554
Abstract:

The Llewelyn Davies family papers contain correspondence, photographs, and other material relating chiefly to the Llewelyn Davies family, though materials also relate to members of the Du Maurier family and to author and dramatist J. M. Barrie, whose character, "Peter Pan," was inspired by the Llewelyn Davies children.

Dates: 1842-1963

Photographs of Washington, D.C., and New Haven, Connecticut

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Call Number: GEN MSS 590
Abstract:

Photographs created by Alexander Lmanian that document locations and events in Washington, D.C., and its vicinity, 1964-1968, as well as New Haven, Connecticut, 1968-1969. The images of Washington document the physical impact of riots on the city following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4-8, 1968.

Dates: 1964-1969, bulk 1968-1969

Photographs of Alaska and British Columbia

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 154
Abstract: Photographs at Klawock, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, as well as West Cracroft Island and Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia created during the summers of 2012 and 2013, and printed as 91 inkjet color and black-and-white prints that document Tlingit, Haida, and other indigenous people and cultures. The collection consists of six groups of images related to discrete events. Events include a memorial service for Dian Darlene White, the ceremonial...
Dates: 2012-2013

Photographs of Alaska and Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 151
Abstract:

Photographs of Alaska and Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, 2011-2012, printed as thirty-three black-and-white gelatin silver prints and five color inkjet prints that chiefly document Haida and Tlingit people, sites, and cultures.

Dates: 2011-2012