California -- Pictorial works
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Peter E. Palmquist papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2965
Abstract:
Papers and related material documenting Peter Palmquist's roles as a collector and historian of photography, as well as a photographer, 1952-2003. Material includes correspondence, writings, research files, printed material, photographs, audiovisual material, and electronic files.
Dates:
circa 1822-2003, bulk 1952-2003
Peter E. Palmquist photographs
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 524
Abstract:
Photographic material that chiefly documents Peter Palmquist's professional life as a photographer. This includes images from his service in the United States Army, mainly with the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Paris, France, 1955-1959, as well as his career as a staff photographer for Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, 1961-1989. The latter photographs include significant documentation of the Theater Arts Department and its productions. Other photographs and...
Dates:
circa 1950-2003
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