Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Cemeteries
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Cemeteries forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
Caterpillar Tractor Co. Photoprints
Holling, W. J.
Chandler, Don
Caterpillar Tractor Co. (Peoria, Ill.).
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11 photoprints of Caterpillar Tractor Co. buildings and products: three photographs of company buildings, including two aerial views, and eight photographs of tractors, including views of machines at work in various locations. Tractors with various models of scrapers are shown in San Antonio, Texas; Whittier, California; and Colquitt County, Georgia. Locations …
Exhibition Records
This accession consists of records that document the exhibition research, planning, and execution activities of the Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). Records also document the Deputy Director's interaction within and among the offices under her direction, as well as outside contacts and dealings. These records were created …
Robert Cage photographs of Turkey Tayac and other Piscataway people
Photographs depicting Piscataway dancers, a burial ground, herb gathering and food preparation, and a meeting at Piscataway Park in Maryland on October 29, 1978. Most of the photographs were made in Maryland in July and October, 1978. Many of the images show Turkey Tayac (Phillip Proctor) shortly before his death.
Houston, Texas Photo Album
Some of the 345 silver gelatin photoprints, mounted on gray paper pages in this album, apparently were taken in Houston, as the title page indicates. However, many others were taken in New Orleans, and possibly other areas in the Gulf States. The New Orleans pictures depict City Park, St. Louis Cathedral …
Beverly B. Mack photographic collection
This collection contains 664 digital images (JPEG files) depicting the built environment, landscape and people of Morocco, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria and South Africa. A large number of images depict people in and around the Gidan Rumfa palace in Kano, Nigeria, including spectators of and participants in a ceremonial procession celebrating Eid ul-Fitr (the end of Ramadan); servants, concubines, praise singers and musicians in and near the palace harem; members of the royal household and the royal guards; and Alhaji Ado Bayero, the Emir of Kano. Other images depict architectural features of the palace. Images from Morocco, Ghana, Niger and South Africa include various scenes of daily life, architecture, markets, cemeteries and landscapes.
W. A. Fishbaugh Panama Canal Photograph Album
Hunt, George Laird
Fishbaugh, William Arthur
Minear, A. Bruce
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Photograph album of commercially-produced photographs of Panama Canal construction.
Jan Faul, "Farming the Welsh Hills" Portfolio
Photographs taken under a grant from the Graham Foundation to document disappearing family farms in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. This project shows the urbanization of this mostly rural county in central Wisconsin located between Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison. Welsh men and women came to Waukesha County in the 1840s and became part of America's dairy history. After five or six generations, many of these farms are still family owned. Today's farms are threatened by developers due to rising land prices.
MS 4380 Cornelia Horsford Photographs
Photographs: I-a - House site by Stony Brook. Fireplace like a fallen oven, ashes under stones, pavement extends towards dam, possibly used for drying fish. 21.5 cm. I-b - Same house site. II - Grave at Beaver Brook Cemetery. III-a - Rune stone; only 4 letters legible. III-b - Rune stone compared with a Greenland rune stone …
Jan Faul "Potomac : East and West" (portfolio of photoprints)
The collection is a set of twenty-four black-and-white silver gelatin prints entitled "Potomac: East and West," by Jan Faul, 1991. They include agricultural landscapes, cemeteries, industrial buildings commercial buildings in rural areas, etc., in the Potomac River region of Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Each image contains a small area hand-colored by the photographer, providing a subtly mysterious, often whimsical or humorous effect.
