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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:

C. B. Wells photographs of Yale

 Collection
Call Number: RU 639
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs by C. B. Wells of the Yale residential colleges, various academic buildings, commencement 1936, and scenes of Yale and New Haven in winter during the 1930s. Included are photographs taken after the 1938 hurricane.

Dates: circa 1930-1939

John Emory Buxton Wells, Class of 1917, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RU 1116
Abstract:

The John Emory Buxton Wells, Class of 1917, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, photograph collection consists of six photographs of Wells in group portraits of the St. Elmo society, the St. Elmo Society German dance, in front of the Adee Boathouse, the 1917 Sheffield freshman class, and possibly the Delta Phi fraternity.

Dates: Circa 1914-1917

Herbert F. West collection of A. Hugh Fisher

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 795
Abstract: The Herbert F. West Collection of A. Hugh Fisher consists of correspondence, writings, clippings, tearsheets, and fine art sent to Herbert West by the artist Alfred Hugh Fisher between 1938 and 1945. It includes over 300 letters from Fisher to West, 1938-1945; autobiographical memoirs by Fisher; volumes of travel journals (in the form of letters to his colleague Halford Mackinder) covering Fisher's work with the Visual Instruction Committee of the British Colonial Office and recording his...
Dates: 1860-1945, bulk 1901-1945

Western film lobby card and poster collection

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2607
Abstract: The collection consists primarily of lobby cards, posters, and promotional fliers, relating to western films made from 1916 to the 1980s. There are also some pressbooks and photographs in the collection. Represented within the collection are works by notable directors, such as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Allan Dwan, Henry King, Billy Wilder, Roman Polanski, William S. Hart, Sergio Leone, André de Toth, Nicholas Ray, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann, and Sam Peckinpah. Also represented are works...
Dates: 1916-1981

Edith Wharton collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 42
Abstract:

The Edith Wharton Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and personal papers relating to the life and career of American author Edith Wharton, as well as letters and research material gathered by Gaillard Lapsley, Percy Lubbock, Oscar Lichtenberg, Georges Markow-Totevy, and Louis Auchincloss.

Dates: 1868-1981 (inclusive)

Whiffenpoofs, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 156
Abstract:

The records consist of song arrangements, sheet music, audio recordings, membership lists, advertisements, clippings, photographs, posters, scrapbooks, and other memorabilia of the Yale Whiffenpoofs.

Dates: 1904-2009

Walter Francis White and Poppy Cannon papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 38
Abstract:

The Walter White and Poppy Cannon Papers document the careers and lives of Walter White and Poppy Cannon and span the dates 1910 to 1956. The Papers contain correspondence, writings, other papers, and photographs documenting Walter White's career as the Secretary for the N.A.A.C.P. and as a writer. Poppy Cannon's career as an editor, writer, and publicity consultant is also documented in the Papers.

Dates: circa 1910-1956

Mary Hoyt Wiborg papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1408
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, personal papers, printed material, and electronic files by or relating to Mary Hoyt Wiborg. Materials document her life as an expatriate in France, service as a volunteer nurse in both World Wars, and work as a playwright. Included are letters from Wiborg to her father Frank Bestow Wiborg in 1918, describing her experiences at a French military hospital during World War I, and correspondence with her sisters Sara Murphy and...
Dates: circa 1910s-2017, bulk 1914-1964

Wickham Family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 773
Abstract: The papers contain correspondence, family papers, diaries, sermons, photoprints, and other materials documenting the personal lives and professional careers of Joseph Dresser Wickham, Elizabeth Cooke Merwin Wickham and several Wickham, Merwin, Porter, and Roe relatives. The Wickham family papers have extensive material on such family subjects as relationships between brothers and sisters and parents and children, courtship, death, marriage, and the difficulties endured by stepmothers and...
Dates: 1785-1958, bulk 1814-1901

Paul Wilkinson photograph collection documenting Yale during World War II

 Collection
Call Number: RU 704
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs of Paul Wilkinson documenting the Yale campus during World War II. Included are photographs of facilities used by the armed services billeted on campus.

Dates: 1944

Mo Willems papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1003
Abstract:

The collection includes writings, artwork, photographs, audiovisual material, electronic media, a drawing table, correspondence, personal papers, and other papers by or relating to Mo Willems.

Dates: circa 1962-2013, bulk 1981-2011

William B. Greeley Memorial Laboratory, Yale University, photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RU 627
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs documenting the construction of Greeley Laboratory at Yale. Included are exterior and interior views.

Dates: 1958-1959

Mary A. Williams photographs of Memorial Quadrangle, Yale University

 Collection
Call Number: RU 683
Abstract:

The materials consist of glass plate negatives and photographs by Mary A. Williams of the completed buildings and courtyards of the Memorial Quadrangle at Yale.

Dates: circa 1930

Terry Tempest Williams papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2700
Abstract:

The collection consists of correspondence, writings, including manuscripts and proofs, journals, notebooks, day books, research files, photographs, printed materials, awards, artwork, and audiovisual materials related to the life and work of Terry Tempest Williams.

Dates: 1872-2015, bulk 1967-2015

William Carlos Williams papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 116
Abstract: The William Carlos Williams Papers document the life and work of poet, prose writer, dramatist, and physician William Carlos Williams. The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, medical records, artwork, sound recordings, newspaper clippings and printed material, and personal papers. The papers primarily document Williams's life as a prolific writer, including drafts of prose, poetry, drama, lectures and readings; and correspondence and writings of others that reveal his...
Dates: circa 1880-1985, bulk 1930-1973

Frederick Ely Williamson, Class of 1898, Yale College, photographs documenting life at Yale University

 Collection
Call Number: RU 1023
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographic prints from the scrapbook of Frederick Ely Williamson, Yale College Class of 1898. Includes images of individual students, student rooms and Yale buildings.

Dates: circa 1898

John Willis photographs

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-4516
Abstract: The collection documents Willis’ career as a photographer from the 1970s through 2019. It contains approximately 20,000 film negatives and corresponding contact prints. Photographs by Willis include black and white 35mm negatives, medium format 6x6cm, 6x7cm, 6x17cm negatives, and large format 4x5”, 5x7” and 8x10” negatives and contact prints for all images published in Recycled Realities and Views From the Reservation, as well as...
Dates: 1880-2019, bulk 1980-2019

Photographs of Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 155
Abstract:

Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites, events, and persons in Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota in 2010-2011.

Dates: 2010-2011

Photographs of Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 148
Abstract:

Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites and persons in Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota chiefly in 2013.

Dates: 2011-2013

Photographs of Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 185
Abstract:

Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites and persons in Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota, 2013-2015. Most 101 inkjet prints depict landscapes and homes at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and formed part of a traveling one-day exhibition by John Willis and Brent Sturlaugson, House/Home: A Work in Progress, 2015-2016.

Dates: 2014-2015