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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent. The concept does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "

Found in 800 Collections and/or Records:

Venezia, Porta della Carta (palazzo ducale), 3011 , 1900

 Item — 1: Series 1; Series 2, Folder: 9
Call Number: MSS 12, Series II
Scope and Contents:

Depicts an entrance to the Doges' Palace. Blind-stamped on front: "Neue Photographische Gesellschaft, A.G., Berlin-Steglitz, 1900."

Dates: 1900

Venezia, Procuratie S. Cristofaro, 3139 , 1900

 Item — 1: Series 1; Series 2, Folder: 9
Call Number: MSS 12, Series II
Scope and Contents:

Depicts a man on a gondola in front of the Procuracy of St. Christopher. Blind-stamped on front: "Neue Photographische Gesellschaft, A.G., Berlin-Steglitz, 1900."

Dates: 1900

Verandah of Reduit , 1880s or 1890s

 Item — 1: Series 1; Series 2, Folder: 6
Call Number: MSS 12, Series II
Scope and Contents:

Has the ink stamp of "Alex. Rambert" on the reverse.

Dates: 1880s or 1890s

View of road and cliffs, South Africa , 1890s

 Item — 1: Series 1; Series 2, Folder: 8
Call Number: MSS 12, Series II
Scope and Contents:

Has, on the reverse, the ink stamp of the Territorial Studio (Umtata).

Dates: 1890s

Gerald Robert Vizenor papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 539
Abstract:

The collection consists of writings, correspondence, research and teaching material, photographs, printed material, audiovisual material, computer disks, and other papers, documenting the literary and academic career of Gerald Robert Vizenor and relating to many of his published works on Native American literature, history, and culture.

Dates: 1880-2020, bulk 1960-2015

Walther Volbach Collection on Adolphe Appia

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1014
Scope and Contents: The collection includes correspondence, writings, newspaper and journal articles, photographs, and publications relating to Walther Volbach's research and writings on Adolphe Appia. Included are over sixty typescript essays, articles, and scenarios by Adolphe Appia, many bearing the stamp of the Fondation Adolphe Appia, Geneve. A typescript of Volbach's translation of many of these writings which was published as Adolphe Appia: Essays, Articles, and Scenarios in...
Dates: 1890-1969

Karl M. Waage Archives

 Collection
Call Number: IPAR.001198
Abstract:

The archives of Karl M. Waage encompassing his career at Yale. These include annotated maps, field notebooks, photographs, correspondence, and biographical material.

Dates: 1915-1999

Wake and Bellhouse collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 33
Scope and Contents: The collection comprises 16 cabinet photographs and 11 carte-de-visite photographs, dated between 1862 and 1892, relating to the Wake and Bellhouse families of Sheffield. With a small oval portrait in a contemporary frame, and a mid-19th century original manuscript story written by a young girl, entitled “The History of a Dog, True Story.” The story is fourteen pages, with an additional page listing other “books by the same authoress.” The handwriting suggests a young hand. Bound...
Dates: 1862-1892

Franklin Jasper Walls Collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 33
Abstract:

The collection includes programs, photographs, and stage directions related to Cupid and Psyche, a masque performed in 1916 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Yale School of the Fine Arts. The collection also includes architectural drawings by Walls for a theater at the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT, and correspondence related to Walls’s consultations with the Display Stage Lighting Co., Inc.

Dates: circa 1916-1925

Walpole family ephemera collection

 Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 17
Abstract:

A collection of printed portraits, topographical views, real estate advertisements, maps, and other ephemera associated with the English historian and collector Horace Walpole (1717-1797), his family, and their properties. The majority of the items are plates produced for publications, and over half of the collection is related to two of the family's estates, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Middlesex, and Houghton Hall near King's Lynn, Norfolk.

Dates: 1716-1903

Alfred Wareing archive

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 49
Scope and Contents:

The collection comprises material relating to the theatrical manager and producer, Alfred Wareing, and his family. Incudes photographs, correspondence and clippings.

Dates: ca. 1891-2007

Masood Ali Wilbert Warren Papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 32
Abstract:

The Masood Ali Wilbert Warren Papers includes sketchbooks, sketches, and drawings created by Warren, 1933-1988, as well as photographs and collected material.

Dates: 1933-1988

Warren Photographs of Yale and New Haven

 Collection
Call Number: RU 635
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs by Warren [Photographers?] of Yale and New Haven, Connecticut buildings and scenes.

Dates: circa 1890

Aleksander Wat papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 705
Abstract: The papers document the life and writings of Aleksander Wat, from his early poetry in the 1910s to the posthumous publication of his work by his wife Paulina and by Czes?aw Mi?osz. Early material (prior to the end of the Second World War) is sparse and consists chiefly of correspondence, personal documents and photographs. Among the early material is documentation of the Wat's exile in Kazakhstan. Later material includes numerous notebooks that contain drafts of poetry and prose writings,...
Dates: 1915-1988

Warren G. Waterman, Class of 1892, Yale College, photograph album documenting life at Yale

 Collection
Call Number: RU 654
Abstract:

The collection consists of a photograph album titled "A Pictorial Record of the Class of 1892 in Yale College." The album contains photographs of various student activities, classmates, campus scenes, and aspects of student life at Yale in the 1890s. The album belonged to Warren Gookin Waterman (Yale 1892).

Dates: circa 1892

Stand Watie papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3204
Abstract: Correspondence and legal, financial, land, and government records documenting Stand Watie's participation in the American Civil War and the government of the Cherokee Nation. Includes correspondence, land records, and a treaty draft documenting the use and negotiation of Creek and Cherokee land near Georgia and Oklahoma, 1827-1869; two receipts documenting the sale of enslaved African American people, 1832 and 1841; and letters among members of the Watie family, including Charles Watie,...
Dates: 1827-1977, bulk 1832-1870

Maurine Watkins papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1079
Abstract:

The Maurine Watkins Papers, which span from 1890 to 2012, contain writings, including scripts and short stories, printed material, correspondence, photographs and other papers by or relating to Maurine Watkins. Watkins was a journalist and playwright whose most well-known work was the play "Chicago," which Bob Fosse adapted into an award-winning musical.

Dates: circa 1890-2012

Webb family photographs, circa 1930-1980

 Item — 3: Series 3, Folder: 15
Call Number: MSS 8, Series III
Scope and Contents: The items were housed in a file labeled "Webb Family Snaps and L.J.W. at Various Stages of her Career. Australian Family and Friends." They are now removed to a new folder; the original is retained.The photos depict members the Webb family of Australia, an offshoot of the Carr family. Some of the family members pictured here may be related to those named in genealogical tables drawn in the 1960s or 1970s labeled as "Egerton-Warburton Cousins" which feature in Item 7. Also...
Dates: circa 1930-1980

Harvey Weiss papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 992
Abstract:

The collection consists primarily of artwork and storyboards for books authored and illustrated by Harvey Weiss, as well as correspondence, clippings, printed material, photographs and other material relating to various book projects and several illustrated journals. The collection documents Harvey Weiss's career as a children's illustrator and author, and his process of researching, writing and illustrating books.

Dates: circa 1955-2007

Brian K. Welch, Class of 1916, Yale College, photograph collection documenting life at Yale and in New Haven

 Collection
Call Number: RU 666
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs of Brian K. Welch (Yale 1916) documenting student life at Yale, including sports on Old Campus, dorm rooms, and scenes of New Haven, Connecticut.

Dates: circa 1916