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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 794 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel Colgate, Class of 1891, Yale College, photograph collection documenting life at Yale

 Collection
Call Number: RU 675
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs documenting Samuel Colgate's (Yale 1891) student life at Yale, including sports.

Dates: circa 1891

Collection of photographs relating to European colonization in Africa

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1606
Scope and Contents: This collection consists of photograph albums, loose photographs, memorabilia and published material that document a European colonialist perspective of Africa and Egypt, and document both African peoples and European colonizers. Locations depicted in the photographs include Cameroon, Dar es Salaam, Egypt, Kenya, Namibia, Sudan, Tanga, Zambia, other regions throughout Africa, as well as some in Europe.Identified photographers in this collection include Alfredo Augusto Freire de...
Dates: circa 1890s-1930s

Collection on prominent figures in historical recorded sound

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 103
Abstract:

This collection provides supplemental information on more than one thousand preeminent figures directly or indirectly related to historical sound recordings, mostly through photographs and other pictorial images, such as postcards and drawings, as well as through correspondence, clippings, articles, and other promotional material.

Dates: 1800-2000

Connecticut Hall, Yale University, photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RU 700
Abstract:

The materials contain photographs, slides, and pictures of Connecticut Hall at Yale, which was known as South Middle College from 1882 to 1905. Included are photographs of the renovation work completed in 1953.

Dates: 1753-2000

Connecting the Dots: For a Just Transition

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 221
Abstract:

Inkjet prints of photographic images created by Will Wilson for his series, Connecting the Dots: For a Just Transition, 2019-2021.

In an artist's statement for the series, Wilson writes that it "intends to shape a platform for voices of resilience, Indigenous knowledge and restorative systems of remediation while bearing witness to a history of environmental damage and communal loss on the Navajo Nation."

Dates: 2019-2021

Barnaby Conrad papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 687
Abstract:

The papers consist of writings, printed material, photographs, and artwork by and relating to the American author and artist Barnaby Conrad. Material relates primarily to Conrad's published works Fun While It Lasted (1969); La Fiesta Brava: The Art of the Bull Ring (1953); Matador (1952); and Barnaby Conrad's Encyclopedia of Bullfighting (1961). Among the papers are unsorted typescript and handwritten drafts of writings.

Dates: 1951-1975

Harlan Ward Cooley papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1277
Abstract:

Letters, photographs, manuscripts, and clippings of Harlan Ward Cooley, primarily relating to Yale and his classmates in the class of 1888. Also included is a biographical sketch of Cooley by his daughter, Julia Cooley Altrocchi.

Dates: 1879-1971

Franklin Lindley Couch, Class of 1917, Yale College, memorabilia

 Collection
Call Number: RU 864
Abstract:

The materials consist of memorabilia, photographs, artifacts, and an engraving documenting Franklin Lindley Couch's (Yale 1917) extracurricular activities while a student at Yale. Included are materials documenting the Yale Courant staff, Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Calcium Light Night, and the Yale Field Artillery in World War I.

Dates: circa 1911-1917

Edward Gordon Craig collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 433
Scope and Contents: This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to Edward Gordon Craig, acquired by the library from a variety of sources. Series I, Hamill and Barker Purchase (1912-1958), contains letters from a variety of correspondents to Craig's friend Ewald Junge, who also collected Craig...
Dates: 1905-1963

Louise Crane and Victoria Kent papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 473
Abstract: The Louise Crane and Victoria Kent Papers document the personal and professional lives of Louise Crane, Victoria Kent, and Josephine Boardman Crane, and consist of correspondence, subject files, personal papers, financial documents, clippings, photographs, and slides. The papers provide evidence of the Crane family's philanthropic work and involvement in a number of cultural associations, including the China Institute in America, Harpsichord Music Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and...
Dates: 1809-1998

Douglas Crase and Frank Polach papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1134
Scope and Contents:

The Douglas Crase and Frank Polach papers contain writings, correspondence, photographs, research materials, artwork, and other papers by, to, or relating to the lives and work Douglas Crase and Frank Polach. Also includes extensive materials relating to the lives and work of Rupert Barnaby, Dwight Ripley, and Robert Dash.

Dates: 1896-2013

Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange Collection

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 184
Abstract: Portraits created by Will Wilson of Native American artists, arts professionals, and leaders as well as others, 2012-2020. He generally makes his portraits at public venues at which people are given the opportunity to sit. Wilson created the images using a wet plate collodion process that produced tintypes on sheets of aluminum. He then gave the tintypes to the sitters after he created high-resolution digital scans of the objects. The arrangement of the collection gathers the portraits by...
Dates: 2012-2020

Marjorie Morse Crunden Papers

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 53
Abstract:

Marjorie Morse Crunden, the daughter of a Baptist medical missionary in China, was educated in the United States, including at Yale School of Nursing. Correspondence includes letters from her parents; from her fiancé, Allan B. Crunden, a Yale medical student who transferred to Temple University School of Medicine; and from other friends and family. The collection also includes a five-year diary.

Dates: 1924-1942

Custodial and administrative services, Yale University, photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RU 763
Abstract:

Photographs of Yale custodians and dining hall employees, some posed formally, some capturing work activities.

Dates: 1865-1959

Simon Cutts constructed archive

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 206
Scope and Contents:

This collection contains correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs, objects, artwork, and other papers by or relating to poet, publisher, editor, and artist Simon Cutts. Cutts and his partner Erica Van Horn run the publishing press Coracle Press. Material in the collection document Cutts' art making process, representing his mediums of concrete and visual poetry, sculpture, glass, neon, and publications.

Dates: 1945-2017

Tano D'Amico photographs and papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 655
Abstract:

The collection consists of photographic prints, contact prints, and negatives by Italian photojournalist Tano D'Amico documenting social movements, political events, and daily life in Italy and Palestine, as well as notebooks containing notes for D'Amico's lectures, essays, and books. Materials are dated from 1969 to 2021.

Dates: 1969–2021

George B. Darling papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 770
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, and writings which document the professional career of George B. Darling. The papers highlight Darling's role as head of the Division of Medicine at Yale University, 1946-1953, and as director of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, 1957-1972. The papers also include files from Darling's participation in Operation Crossroads as a civilian observer of the atomic testing at Bikini Atoll. There are also photographs from personal...
Dates: 1805-1995

Paul Jean Gaston Darrot papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 591
Abstract:

A collection of 210 photographs and 100 stereopticon glass slides compiled by Paul Jean Gaston Darrot during World War I in France.

Dates: 1914-1919

Robert Dash papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 792
Abstract: The papers include correspondence, writings, journals, sketchbooks, workbooks, photographs, clippings and other papers, artwork, and audiovisual materials. Correspondence includes letters with many fellow poets, painters, and gardeners. Writings include typescripts and manuscripts by Dash and others. Journals and workbooks include writings, drawings, and other documents pertaining mainly to paintings and the evolution of the gardens at Dash's Long Island estate, Madoo. Artwork includes...
Dates: 1954-2010