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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 786 Collections and/or Records:

British Painting Photograph Collection

 Collection
Call Number: VRC 17
Abstract:

Collection consists of mounted black and white and color reproductions of British paintings. Content varies from original photographic prints to reproductions from magazines and other published sources. Some sections have accompanying clippings folders.

Dates: ca. 1900-2005

Hermann Broch archive

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 1
Abstract:

The Hermann Broch Archive contains correspondence; manuscripts of books, plays, poems, articles and essays, book reviews, and short stories; writings of others; personal papers; photographs; and videocassettes.

Dates: 1872-1990s, bulk 1930-1951

Joseph Brodsky papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 613
Abstract: The Joseph Brodsky Papers document the life and work of Russian-born poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky, with a particular emphasis on the time period of his residence in the United States (1972-1996). The papers consist of correspondence, writings, personal papers (including legal, medical and financial records), audiovisual material, teaching material, student papers, newspaper clippings and printed ephemera, spanning the years 1890-2004, with the bulk of the material dating...
Dates: circa 1890-2004, bulk 1972-1996

Thomas S. Bronson, Class of 1886, Sheffield Scientific School, photograph collection documenting life at Yale

 Collection
Call Number: RU 649
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs of Yale and New Haven. Included in the collection are building, sports, circus, and beach scenes. Many of these photographs were used in This Was Connecticut: Images of a Vanished World (1977).

Dates: Circa 1900

John Sawyer Brooks papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1435
Abstract:

The John Sawyer Brooks Papers contain correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs and drawings, and other papers, most relating to missionaries and mission administration at the Mendi Mission in Sierra Leone, 1851-1859. Also present are papers relating to the Mount Pleasant Mission in Peel Township, Ontario, 1846-1855, and to the Brooks family, 1850s-circa 2000.

Dates: 1846-2000, bulk 1851-1859

Doris Bry papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 865
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of correspondence, publication material, art work, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating to Doris Bry's various editorial projects and professional association with Georgia O'Keeffe. The January 2017 acquisition consists of records organized by and received from the Doris Bry Trust, including correspondence between Bry and O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz estate papers, research materials for catalogues raissoné for O'Keeffe and Stieglitz, records of...
Dates: circa 1880s-2010s, bulk 1930s-2010s

Daniel Webster Buck papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3907
Abstract: Letters and business papers documenting Daniel Webster Buck's service with the United States Army 8th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, Company E, from 1861 to 1864; position as U.S. Deputy Marshal in Montana from circa 1866 to 1874; and role as acting agent for the Blackfeet Indian Agency in Montana from 1873 to 1876. Included is a tintype photograph of Buck by an unidentified photographer, circa 1880, and a cabinet card photograph of "Hamillin" by studio photographer James Presley Ball,...
Dates: 1861-1892

Polly S. Buck photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RU 655
Abstract:

The collection is comprised of photographs used in We Minded the Store Yale Life and Letters During World War II (1975) by Polly S. Buck. The photographs depict student life in Branford College, Yale University, during the years 1944-1946, a large majority of which are of the Navy ROTC. The collection also includes photographs of individual students and clippings.

Dates: 1944-1946

Buildings constructed for Yale University's bicentennial photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RU 697
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs of buildings constructed for the Yale bicentennial. The bulk of the collection documents the University Dining Hall and Woolsey Hall. One photograph documents construction in 1901.

Dates: circa 1901-1963

Buildings, grounds and landmarks in New Haven photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RU 685
Abstract: The materials consist of maps, photographs, engravings, drawings, slides, and lithographs of New Haven, Connecticut scenes, residences, buildings, and landmarks. The bulk of The materials consist of photographs of New Haven and surrounding environs from 1860-1930s. Included are aerial views, scenes of the New Haven Green, photographs of streets, and various individual residences. Of particular interest are the snapshots of houses used for tax purposes, or as documentation of the structure...
Dates: 1653-1970

Alfred C. Burrill papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1657
Abstract:

The papers consist of letters, photographs, postcards, and clippings, which document Alfred C. Burrill's summer of 1903, when he was a student at Yale's summer school of forestry in Pennsylvania. Burrill's work on a study of poplar trees, which was conducted in Maine later in that summer, is also described in these papers, as are a few student essays from 1900.

Dates: 1900-1903

Photographs of Abandoned Wooden Buildings and Artifacts in Montana

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 410
Abstract:

Photographs created by Richard S. Buswell of Helena, Montana, of abandoned wooden buildings and artifacts in Montana, 1975-2018, and printed by him, 1986-2019. Images include exteriors and interiors of cabins, barns, hotels, general stores, and blacksmith shops, as well as railroad trestles and cemeteries.

Dates: 1986-2019

Solomon D. Butcher photographs and photographic postcards of Nebraska

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 1273
Abstract:

Photographs and photographic postcards created by Solomon Devore Butcher of Nebraska, circa 1870-1916. Identified locations include Alliance, Anselmo, Ansley, Arcadia, Arnold, Bayard, Broken Bow, Callaway, Cozad, Crawford, Gibbon, Gothenburg, Kearney, Maxwell, Merna, Oconto, Pleasanton, Seneca, Shelton, and Wood River. Depicted are towns, businesses, events, sod houses, and landscapes.

Included are postcards of Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.

Dates: circa 1870-1916

Mary Ellen Bute Papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 603
Abstract:

Scripts, correspondence and photographs documenting the film productions of Mary Ellen Bute and Ted Nemeth. The films represented in this collection include "Passages from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake," "Skin of Our Teeth," and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking."

Dates: 1907-1985

George Daniel Butler collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 899
Abstract:

Approximately 600 photographs collected by George Daniel Butler, depicting the Yale section of the U.S. Ambulance Service with the French army, June 22, 1917-April 23, 1919. Also included are postcards of cities and historic sites in France.

Dates: 1917-1919

Philip Laurance Buttrick papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1655
Abstract:

The papers are composed of photographs taken or collected by Philip Buttrick during his travels and studies. Primary subjects are grazed land in the western United States and cork oak forests in the Mediterranean region.

Dates: 1925-1930

Robert Byron Papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 605
Abstract:

The Robert Byron papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, drawings, and other material that document his work as a writer and art critic. The papers provide evidence of Byron's travels and writing career as well as his work as a propagandist during World War II.

Dates: 1757-2010, bulk 1909-1941

Calhoun College, Yale University, photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RU 605
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs documenting the construction of Calhoun College at Yale.

Dates: 1931-1932

Ken Campbell archive

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 25
Scope and Contents: The collection spans the years 1975-2003 and reveals Ken Campbell's creative process throughout his career as a book artist. The bulk of the collection contains Ken Campbell's artist book materials and separate prints which relate to several of his books. Proofs, extra sheets, letterpress forms, zinc etching plates, photographs, negatives and dummies document Campbell's creative process. The collection also includes materials about Campbell's unpublished book ...
Dates: 1975-2003

Cango Caves Exterior, Prince Albert, Oudtshoorn , circa 1900

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

Depicts the exterior of the Cango Caves in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. Eight people stand in front--a group of men and boys, wearing Western garb and appearing to be tourists at the cave. Has the ink stamp of "T.D. Ravenscroft" of Rondebosch (Cape Town), on the reverse

Dates: circa 1900