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Peter Palmquist collection of Humboldt County, California, male photographers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2670
Abstract:
The collection includes information about and examples of the work of male amateur and commercial photographers, studio assistants, photographic processors, colorists, photojournalists, film makers, and film theaters collected by Peter Palmquist from 1971 until his death in 2003. The collection documents the practice and occupation of photography in Humboldt County, California, from around the incorporation of the county in 1853. This collection consists of biographical files collected by...
Dates:
[circa 1850]-2003, bulk 1973-2003
Peter Palmquist collection of women in photography
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2600
Abstract:
This collection consists of biographical files collected by Peter Palmquist for over thirty thousand women involved in photography and photographic materials that represent the work of nearly two thousand women. Palmquist began the Women in Photography International Archive in 1971 as a systematic study of women photographers in California, which then extended to the American West. By 1994, he broadened the collection to include women involved in photography since its beginning to...
Dates:
circa 1840-2017
Phoenix Theatre records
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 421
Abstract:
The Phoenix Theatre Records consist of production files, administrative and financial records, correspondence, photographs, music, audiovisual material, production programs and posters, and other materials that document the organization, administration, financial activities, and productions of the Phoenix Theatre from its creation in 1953 to the closing of the company in 1982.
Dates:
circa 1932-1984, bulk 1953-1982
Photographic order book for images of California, Hawaii, and Yellowstone National Park
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 214
Abstract:
Photographic order book (disbound prior to acquisition) from an unidentified photography studio (possibly Underwood & Underwood) containing photographs of California, Hawaii, and Yellowstone National Park, circa 1880-1911. Photographs of California include landscape views, street scenes, logging, and agriculture--among the identified locations are San Francisco, Stockton, and San Bernardino. Photographs of Hawaii are primarily of Honolulu and show landscape views, harbor views, Native...
Dates:
circa 1880-1911
Photographs of Asian Americans
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 485
Abstract:
Photographs of Asian Americans created by Asian American photographers and others, chiefly in California, circa 1930-1982.
Dates:
circa 1930-1982
Photographs of Migrant Agricultural Laborers in California
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 225
Abstract:
Collection of thirty-eight photographs that document aspects of housing, medical care, and education for migrant agricultural laborers in California, 1969-1971, created by photographers Harvey Saul Columbus and Calind Lewis Potts as well as by the California Farm Workers Health Service. Many of the agricultural laborers are Hispanic Americans as well as several African Americans.
Dates:
1969-1971
Photographs of prominent African Americans
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 76
Abstract:
Photographs drawn from various collections in the James Weldon Johnson Collection. The collection includes predominantly images of prominent African American writers, cultural leaders, and entertainers, as well as photographs by important African American photographers. A small number of images document people and places outside the United States. The collection forms a visual record of artists, writers, actors, musicians, and politicians active chiefly in the United States from the 1920s...
Dates:
1875-1978
Photographs of scenes from films relating to the American West, Southwest, and Mexico
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 1292
Abstract:
582 photographs of scenes from films relating to the American West, Southwest, and Mexico, 1931-1998.
Dates:
1931-1998
Photographs of the Garment District in New York City
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 998
Abstract:
Street photographs that document people, urban scenery, and activity in the Garment District in the Manhattan borough of New York City, 1977-1978. Images include couriers carting clothing on racks, pedestrians, vehicles, and buildings.
Dates:
1976-2013
Photographs of the Manzanar Concentration Camp, California
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 537
Abstract:
Black and white photographs of the Manzanar concentration camp photographed in 1943 by Ansel Adams and printed from the original negatives by Alan Ross in 1985 for the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History, and Science in Fresno, California.
Dates:
1985
David Plowden photographs and papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2957
Abstract:
This collection consists of photographs and papers that document the work of David Plowden as a photographer and author, 1943-2011. The photographic work in the collection records scenes from main streets and churches in small towns to barns and grain elevators in farmlands, as well as industrial cityscapes of cities like Chicago, Illinois, and New York City. The images also document railroads and their infrastructures, as well as bridges and canals throughout the United States and Canada,...
Dates:
1943-2011
Maria H. Dehon Polk collection of Constant Coquelin
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 453
Abstract:
Chiefly letters from Coquelin to Maria H. Dehon, including ALS and manuscript transcriptions, and photographs. Also present are a small amount of other correspondence, writings by Coquelin, including an undated holograph of a work on Moliére's Tartuffe, published in 1884, printed materials concerning the Maison de retraite des vieux comédiens, other ephemera, and clippings. Letters from Coquelin, 1894-1908 and undated, concern his friendship with Dehon, their travels, and Coquelin's...
Dates:
[ca. 1884]-1934
Dudley Poore papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 599
Abstract:
Collection contains correspondence, notebooks and diaries, writings, photographs, and other materials documenting the personal and professional life of American poet and author Dudley Poore. Poore was part of a circle of writers at Harvard University that included e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Robert Hillyer, Robert Stewart Mitchell, and Cuthbert Wright, and the correspondence features letters with these associates, as well as John Peale Bishop, Dudley Fitts, Robert Finch, Arthur K....
Dates:
1840s-1975
Robert J. Hare Powel papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 494
Abstract:
The papers contain writings and other materials documenting the early career of playwright Robert J. Hare Powel. Writings include scenarios, outlines, and drafts for scripts of stage plays, most of which appear to date from the late-1920s to mid-1930s. Other materials include correspondence, photographs, and a scrapbook documenting Powel's work and theater generally. Correspondence consists of letters to Powel and comments regarding productions of his plays. Photographs consist of stage...
Dates:
1869-1959
Richard Henry Pratt papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1174
Abstract:
The papers primarily relate to Richard Henry Pratt’s work and theories on education as a means of assimilating Native Americans into white American society. This is documented in correspondence, letter-press books, writings, diaries, notes, and photographs. Also included are papers relating to Pratt’s family, responses to Pratt’s work, and documentation about his founding and running the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which removed Native American children from their homes and forced...
Dates:
1862-1972
Robert Beverly Price papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3643
Abstract:
Correspondence, photographs, printed materials, drawings, and other papers, by or relating to Missouri banker, Robert Beverly Price. Includes 60 autograph and typescript letters, signed, 1860-1922, undated. Letters concern either the Boone County National Bank of Columbia or the Price family, with most letters being from Robert Beverly Price to his wife, Evaline Hockaday Price, or granddaughter, Emily Blair Henrotin. There are also newspaper articles (loose and in a scrapbook) regarding...
Dates:
1853-1942
Frederic Prokosch collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 685
Abstract:
The Frederic Prokosch collection contains material by or relating to American novelist and translator Frederic Prokosch. There are corrected drafts and proofs to several early novels, including The Asiatics (1935), The Seven Who Fled (1937), The Conspirators (1943), Age of Thunder (1945), The Idols of the Cave (1946), and Storm and Echo (1948). There are also drafts of shorter works, including stories and individual poems, as well as three collections of poetry dating from the same period,...
Dates:
1908-1968, bulk 1935-1952
Richard Pryor collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 179
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains film scripts, promotional photographs taken on film sets, press kits, and a storyboard relating to the acting career of Richard Pryor. The collection spans 1971 to 1991.
Dates:
1971-1991
Phelps Putnam papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 429
Abstract:
The Phelps Putnam papers contain correspondence, writings, and personal papers documenting the life and work of poet Howard Phelps Putnam. Correspondence in the collection features letters with family, Yale college friends, including Russell Cheney, Farwell Knapp, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Charles Walker, and other authors, including Paul Rosenfeld, Allen Tate, and Stark Young. Writings contains drafts for poems and short prose pieces dating from 1914 to the late 1940s. Other materials in...
Dates:
1914-1951
Ellery Queen papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 335
Abstract:
The Ellery Queen Papers document the mystery writing career of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, writing as "Ellery Queen." The collection includes correspondence, fan mail, telegrams, advertisements, proposals for ventures, photographs, and ephemera relating to Ellery Queen. The collection does not include drafts of manuscripts, but includes American Weekly newspaper articles, likely written by Lee, with clippings describing authentic murder cases, and fan mail documenting their 1948...
Dates:
1929-1972, bulk 1946-1971