Transparencies
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Images designed for viewing by transmitted light. Most often refers to transparent positive photographs; can also refer to transparent nonphotographic images that are designed for projection viewing or as intermediates for reproduction.
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Lucien Aigner photographs and papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1837
Abstract:
The collection contains contact sheets, negatives, transparencies, slides, photographic prints, scrapbooks, writings, professional and personal papers, correspondence, printed material, cameras and other recording equipment, and audiovisual and computer media created and collected by Hungarian photojournalist Lucien Aigner.
Dates:
1886–2011
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
Miguel A. Gandert photographs and papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2964
Abstract:
The collection consists of photographic prints (chiefly in black and white), contact sheets, printed material, and computer disks.
Dates:
1972-2005
River of No Return Collection
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 591
Abstract:
The River of No Return Collection consists of photographs created by Laura McPhee that document sites and persons in the Sawtooth Valley of Idaho, 2003-2008, related to her work as the initial Artist in Residence in the area underwritten by the Alturas Foundation, as well as project files, 2003-2014, which contain material related imagery and products from the project, including a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2006, and her book, ...
Dates:
2003-2014
Peter Palmquist collection of male photographers in the American west
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2733
Abstract:
The collection includes information about and examples of the work of male amateur and commercial photographers, studio assistants, photographic processors, colorists, and photojournalists collected by Peter Palmquist from 1971 until his death in 2003. The collection, which documents the practice and occupation of photography in the American west, circa 1840 to circa 1900, consists of biographical files for more than nine thousand men and businesses, as well as photographs and ancillary...
Dates:
circa 1840-2003
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
David Plowden photographs and papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2957
Abstract:
This collection consists of photographs and papers that document the work of David Plowden as a photographer and author, 1943-2011. The photographic work in the collection records scenes from main streets and churches in small towns to barns and grain elevators in farmlands, as well as industrial cityscapes of cities like Chicago, Illinois, and New York City. The images also document railroads and their infrastructures, as well as bridges and canals throughout the United States and Canada,...
Dates:
1943-2011
Jonathan Williams photographs
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 757
Abstract:
The Jonathan Williams Photographs include portraits of persons in his social circle, principally poets, painters, writers, artists, and friends, as well as images of outsider art and artists, architecture, gravesites, and landscapes, circa 1951-circa 1997. The collection includes photograph albums of Polaroid prints, as well as loose Polaroid prints, color transparencies, black and white negatives, copy slides, and copy negatives. Overall, the images in the collection document Williams' work...
Dates:
circa 1951-2007, bulk 1951-1997