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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works that discuss photographs themselves as objects of special interest, including their classification, cataloging, copying, coloring, mounting, etc.

Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

Bertha Drew Hartzell papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-022
Abstract The Bertha Drew Hartzell papers consist primarily of diaries, which she kept most of her life. Included are her travel journals, which record her journeys through Europe, and brief accounts of her daily activities from 1897 to 1950. The collection also includes clippings about the life of Artur Rubinstein, letters between Rubinstein and members of Bertha's family, photos, and other memoranda. One diary was kept by husband, Morton, and two others were apparently kept by Bertha's father,...
Dates: 1863-1990

Samuel Proal Hatfield Civil War photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-092
Abstract This photograph album of the 4th Connecticut Volunteers, Company G (later renamed the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery) is an informative collection of well-known and historically significant photographs, maps and drawings of battles, forts, geographic locations, and people divided into eight sections. Locations photographed are primarily in Virginia, including Yorktown, Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Broadway Landing, the Peninsular Campaign, and the Bermuda Hundred area. There are also...
Dates: 1861-1865

Paul O. Krumm collection on Middletown printing

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-390
Abstract

Paul Otto Krumm, (1882-1979), was a printer who worked at Pelton & King printers and bookbinders from 1903-1925, and then at the Middletown Press until 1959. This collection consists of one archival box of general material relating to his life and interests and a 100-page scrapbook with specimens of print jobs he did for Pelton's during his time there. This includes many programs for local events, business cards and advertisements for local businesses and items printed for Wesleyan.

Dates: 1896-1997

Long Lane School photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-077
Abstract

The Long Lane photographs includes copies of historical photographs (the originals are held in the Connecticut State Library), photographs of Long Lane buildings, and digital photographs of the interiors of buildings prior to demolition.

Dates: circa 1999-2005

William Manchester papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-169
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscript drafts, proofs, galleys, extensive research and reference materials, photographs, and other documentation relating to Manchester's professional career, his eighteen books and dozens of articles and other writings, and personal affairs, including his college years, awards, speeches, financial and legal matters, the construction of his Middletown house, and travels. Also includes scrapbooks, audio and video tapes and computer files, and realia.

Dates: 1934-2004

William E. Mead papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-094
Abstract

William E. Mead was an alumnus of Wesleyan University and served as professor at the school, in addition to teaching and administration at high schools. His wife, Kate Mead Hurd, was a physician and author. The Meads travelled extensively in Europe and other parts of the world. The William E. Mead papers include diaries recording his life and travels, correspondence and other materials removed from the diaries, and journals and a photograph album of a trip to Iceland in 1891.

Dates: 1880-1944

Miscellaneous 19th century Wesleyan faculty and student photographs, 1892-1893

 Collection — Box 7, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Images of Wesleyan faculty and students from the 1892-1893 school year. Images are all from Hardy photography studio, Boston and are on cardboard. Images include Van Vleck, Conn, Winchester, Singer, Lake, Blakeslee, Cutts, Talmadge, Harris, Danes, Hibbard, Armstrong, Raymond, Merrill, Prentice, Atwater, Hubbard, Morse, and McKee.

Dates: 1892-1893

Neumann family photo albums

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2014-015
Dates: dates unknown

David Warner Peterson photograph album

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: 1000-201
Abstract

Photograph album belonging to David Warner Peterson member of the Wesleyan Class of  1951. 

Dates: 1949-1952

Photographs from "Changing Visions: Prints, Drawings and Photographs During the Weimar Republic and After"

 Collection — Box 7, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Three items that were on display in the Davison Art Center show, "Changing Visions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs during the Weimar Republic and After" and then donated to the archives. Two photographs and one postcard of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, German, as described below:

Dates: 1831-