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Collection Title:
Creator:
Bachrach, Louis Fabian, 1881-1963.
Inclusive Dates:
1950-1963
Abstract:
Papers of the American portrait photographer. Correspondence, holograph and typescript articles, interviews, speeches, and notes; published materials, including articles by and about Bachrach, clippings, pamphlets, and press releases; and photographs taken by Bachrach, his son Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr., and his father David Bachrach. Correspondence includes that of Sherman Adams, Joseph Alsop, Stewart Alsop, Joseph S. Clark, John F. Collins, Walter Cronkite, Ralph E. Flanders, J. William Fulbright, Barry M. Goldwater, Conrad Hilton, Luther Hodges, Herbert Hoover, Walter Lippmann, Maurine Brown Neuberger, Jacqueline Onassis, Norman Vincent Peale, James Reston, George W. Romney, and Leverett Saltonstall.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Interviews.
Photographs.
Pamphlets.
Press releases.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
United States -- Officials and employees -- Portraits.
Photographers.
Photography
Photographers -- United States.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographs.
Portrait photography.
Presidents -- United States -- Portraits.

Creator:
Becker, Ronald G.
Inclusive Dates:
1836-1960
Abstract:
More than one thousand photographs of 19th century sideshows and circuses, most by photographer Charles Eisenmann or his successor Frank Wendt, the remainder by unknown photographers. Most of the photographs depict the physical abnormalities of humans and animals featured at these shows. Subjects include P.T. Barnum, the P.T. Barnum Firm (Barnum and Bailey Circus), and Tom Thumb. Also included are Becker's research notes, an 1865-1868 run of The New York Clipper (forerunner of Billboard Magazine), and various print (broadsides and posters) and non-print circus memorabilia.
Type of Material:
Advertising fliers.
Albumen prints.
Broadsides (notices)
Cabinet photographs.
Cartes-de-visite.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Ephemera.
Gelatin silver prints.
Notes (documents)
Pamphlets.
Photographs.
Posters.
Salted paper prints.
Subject:
New York clipper.
Photographers.
Photography
Abnormalities, Human -- Photographs.
Advertising, Circus.
Amusement parks -- Photographs.
Animals -- Abnormalities -- Photographs.
Broadsides -- 19th century.
Cabinet photographs.
Carte de visite photographs.
Circus -- Collectibles.
Circus animals -- Photographs.
Circus performers -- United States -- Photographs.
Deformities, Artificial -- Photographs.
Dwarfs -- Portraits.
Freak shows -- Photographs.
Giants -- Portraits.
Photography of the grotesque -- United States.
Portrait photography.
Posters -- 19th century.
Printed ephemera.
Conjoined twins -- Portraits.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Gropper family.
Inclusive Dates:
1930-1969
Abstract:
Correspondence, clippings, photographs
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Photographic postcards.
Photographs.
Subject:
Atelier Lotte Jacobi: Berlin-New York.
Photographers.
Photography
Photographers.
Photography, Artistic.
Portrait photography.
Women photographers.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Leak, Ann E.
Inclusive Dates:
1871-1871
Abstract:
Photograph of Ann Leak, "Born Without Arms," with a sample of her toe writing on reverse
Type of Material:
Albumen prints.
Photographs.
Subject:
Abnormalities, Human -- Photographs.
Cabinet photographs.
Portrait photography.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
MacDonald, Pirie, 1867-1942.
Inclusive Dates:
1929-1929
Abstract:
Photograph of Louis Untermeyer, autographed.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
Literature -- American Poetry
Photography
Poets, American.
Portrait photography.

6.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Obrist, Max.
Inclusive Dates:
1914-1923
Abstract:
Papers of the amateur photographer (1878-1961). Collection includes seventy-nine original glass stereoscopic photographs, a stereoscope, twenty-three single glass plate photographs and a holographic identification list. Photographs were taken in and around St. Gallen, Switzerland by Max Obrist between 1914 and 1923 and include family portraits, architectural shots, a train accident and his father's embroidery factory.
Type of Material:
Autochromes (photographs)
Photographs.
Stereoscopes.
Stereoscopic photographs.
Subject:
Switzerland -- Pictorial works.
Photographers.
Photography
Avalanches -- Switzerland -- Photographs.
Color photography.
Embroidery industry -- Switzerland -- Photographs.
Photographers.
Architectural photography.
Photography, Stereoscopic.
Portrait photography.
Swiss Americans.
Travel photography.

7.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Sipprell, Clara E. (Clara Estelle), 1885-1975.
Inclusive Dates:
1915-1970
Abstract:
Papers of the American photographer. Original photographs, arranged as character studies, landscapes, portraits, and still life studies. Correspondence (1929-1970), clippings, interviews, photographs of her. Portraits of Louis Adamic, Svetlana Allilueva, Van Wyck Brooks, Pearl S. Buck, Rudolf Bultmann, Charles E. Burchfield, Fyodor Chaliapin, Ralph Adams Cram, W.E.B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Ralph E. Flanders, Michel Fokine, Robert Frost, Eva Hansl, Roy Harris, Granville Hicks, Malvina Hoffman, Langston Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Louis Krasner, Serge Koussevitzky, Luigi Lucioni, Emil Ludwig, Edwin Markham, Isamu Noguchi, Maxfield Parrish, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dane Rudhyar, Ruth St. Denis, Otis Skinner, Ida Tarbell, Howard Thurman, Ridgely Torrence, Hendrik Van Loon, and others
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Autochromes (photographs)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Glass plate negatives.
Negatives (photographs)
Photographs.
Portraits.
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Yugoslavia -- Pictorial works.
Yugoslavia -- Description and travel.
Photographers.
Photography
Available light photography.
Nature photography.
Photographers -- United States.
Photography -- Equipment and supplies.
Photography, Artistic.
Portrait photography.
Russians -- Portraits.
Still-life photography.
Women photographers -- United States.
Yugoslavs -- Portraits.