ALAN R. WOOLWORTH:
An Inventory of His Research Notebooks on Minnesota Photography and
Photographers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
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| Creator: |
Woolworth, Alan R. (Alan Roland),
1924-, creator.
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| Title: | Research Notebooks on Minnesota
Photography and Photographers. Alan R. Woolworth Papers. |
| Dates: | 1988-1995. |
| Abstract: | Research notebooks containing photocopied biographical and
historical data about 19th and 20th century Minnesota photography and photographers
compiled by Alan R. Woolworth. |
| Quantity: | 74 volumes (loose-leaf). |
| Location: | Reading Room: See Detailed Description
for a list of the volumes. |
Alan R. Woolworth was born August 19, 1924 in Clear Lake, South Dakota. Woolworth was
educated at the University of Nebraska and the University of Minnesota. He engaged
in archaeological field work (1949-) in Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and
Minnesota; was staff archaeologist for the State Historical Society of North Dakota
(1952-1957); was curator of exhibits at the Dearborn (Michigan) Historical Museum
(1957-1960); and had a long career with the Minnesota Historical Society as museum
curator (1960-1967), head of Museum and Historic Sites Department (1967-1968), chief
archaeologist (1969-1979), and research fellow emeritus (1979-2014). Woolworth died
in Minneapolis on August 13, 2014.
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This set of photocopied research notebooks form a small part of the Alan R. Woolworth
Papers, 1774-2004 (bulk 1830-2000). The notebooks focus exclusively on photography,
photographic techniques, and Minnesota photographers, during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. The information contains biographical and historical data
compiled from a variety of published, printed, and unpublished sources including
newspapers, city directories, advertisements, census records, bibliographies and
indexes, books, periodicals, research articles, conferences, and Woolworth's
notes.
As an archaeologist, Woolworth used photography as a documentary method. As a
researcher, he often consulted prints and photographs created by others. His
interest in Minnesota photographers and photography were directly related to his
interest in Minnesota archaeology, history, and material culture.
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Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here].
Research Notebooks on Minnesota Photography and Photographers, 1988-1995.
Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional
examples.
Location of Originals:
The original notebooks are in the Alan R. Woolworth Papers at the Minnesota
Historical Society but are closed to general use for preservation purposes.
Processing Information:
Processed by: Lydia Lucas, 2005.
Catalog ID number: 990065148270104294
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 1 | Early Illustrations of the Minnesota Region, circa 1820-1880.
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| | | Compiled by Alan R. Woolworth and Dorothy Gimmestad. Includes "Some Sources
for Illustrations of Territorial Minnesota, 1849-1858" (1 p., typed); an
alphabetical listing of early Minnesota photographers, by G. Hubert Smith (1
p.); selected pages from a catalog of an exhibition at the Library of
Congress celebrating the establishment of Minnesota Territory (1949);
illusrtrations and lists of early Minnesota illustrations from various
monographs and periodicals, especially Harpers
Weekly and Northwest Magazine. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 2 | Minnesota Daguerrians and Ambrotypists, 1848-1870: General and A-J.
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| | | Contains an assortment of articles, extracts, notes, lists of daguerrians and
ambrotypists in Minnesota, correspondence with researchers, and copies of
images, newspaper articles, census pages, city directory pages, etc. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 3 | Minnesota Daguerrians and Ambrotypists, 1848-1870: K-W. |
| | | Contains an assortment of articles, extracts, notes, lists of daguerrians and
ambrotypists in Minnesota, correspondence with researchers, and images,
newspaper articles, census and city directory pages, etc. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 4 | Notes and Papers of G. Hubert Smith on Minnesota Photographers and
Photography. |
| | | Biographical sketches, notes, lists, compilations, correspondence, and
articles by Smith or copied by him from other sources or repositories. A few
items are duplicated in Volume 1. Includes "List of Source Materials on
Northern Overland Expeditions" (4 p.); "First Photographers of Minnesota"
(typescripts, 2 versions, both 8 p.); and a biographical article on Smith by
Alan R. Woolworth. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 5 | Beal, Alonzo H. (1833-19--) and Sons. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 6 | The Clement Hudon Beaulieu Family. |
| | | Information on a number of members of the Beaulieu family, including
photographer Robert George Beaulieu (1858-1935). Includes White Earth
Reservation enrollment and landholder lists; printed testimony of Clement H.
Beaulieu before the U.S. Senate regarding affairs at the White Earth
Reservation (1887); selected pages from a report to the U.S. House of
Representatives of an investigation of the White Earth Reservation (1913);
and proceedings and testimony in the same investigation (1912-1915). |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 7 | Bromley, Edward A. (1848-1925). |
| | | Full notebook title: "Biographical Data on Edward A. Bromley; Catalogs of His
Negative Collections; and Feature Stories He Wrote & Illustrated."
Includes two lists of the Bromley Photograph Collection at the Minneapolis
Public Library. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 8 | Carbutt, John (1832-1905). |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 9 | Ebell, Adrian J. (1840-1877). |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 10 | Eldridge, Sarah L. (Judd) (1802-1886). |
| | | Also information on her husband, Ariel Eldridge, and on other members of the
Judd family. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 11 | Elwell, Talmadge (1828-1903). |
| | | Includes "The Diary of Tallmadge Elwell, Pioneer Daguerreotypist, 1852" by
James Taylor Dunn (published transcription with biographical sketch; no
publication data included). |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 12 | Hesler, Alexander (1823-1895). |
| | | Also includes information on the steamboat War Eagle, well known on the Upper
Mississippi in the 1850s and believed to be the subject of one of Hesler's
stereoscopic daguerreotypes. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 13 | Hill, Joseph (1820-1892) and James H. Kelley. |
| | | Full notebook title: "Hill & Kelly, St. Anthony & St. Paul; Joseph
Hill, St. Paul and St. Cloud; Eugene Hill, St. Cloud." Eugene was Joseph
Hill's son. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 14 | Illingworth, William H. (1842-1893). |
| | | Includes considerable information on the 1874 Custer Expedition, for which
Illingworth was the official photographer. Also includes copies of six
photos by or of by Illingworth. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 15 | Ingersoll, Truman W. (1862-1922). |
| | | About half of the notebook is a photocopy of a typescript biography by Judy
Rauenhorst. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 16 | Jacoby, William H. (1841-1906) and Son. |
| | | Full notebook title: "William H. Jacoby, photographer, Minneapolis, Minn., W.
H. Jacoby & Son, Charles L. Jacoby, c.1887-1892." Includes a typescript
biography by Tracey Baker (1983, 8 p.). |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 17 | Jarvis, William H. (dentist and daguerrean, 1801?- ) |
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| Reading Room | 18 | Fred Levie. |
| | | Photographer at Minneapolis (1912-1916), Sandstone (1916-1919), and
Minneapolis again (1919-1931). At the front of the notebook is a 4-page
resume by Alan R. Woolworth (1996). |
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| Reading Room | 19 | Martin, James E. (1825-1869). |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 20 | Oleson, John H. (1850-1881) and Annie G. (Johnson) Oleson.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 21 | Olson, Olaf/Oliver (1883-1949). |
| | | In two sections, one for Olaf Olson of Cloquet, Minnesota (1883-1949) and one
for Oliver Olson of Duluth and Cloquet. Oliver Olson was especially noted
for his pictures of the 1918 Cloquet-Moose Lake forest fire. Olaf/Ole Olson
may have been the same person. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 22 | Shepherd, Harry (1854-19--). |
| | | First African American photographer in St. Paul, ca.1887-1905. Notebook also
includes information on his teacher, John A. Scholten of St. Louis,
Missouri. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 23 | The Sweet Family (circa 1867-1931). |
| | | Full notebook title: "The Sweet Family (Francis P., Eleanor B., Louis D., and
Frank) (c. 1865-1940)." Mainly concerns Louis (Lou) D. Sweet, active in
Minneapolis 1897-1930, and the Sweet Studios. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 24 | Tuttle, Moses C. (1830-1915). |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 25 | Upton, Benjamin F. (1818- ). |
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| Reading Room | 26 | Whitney, Joel Emmons (1822-1886). |
| | | First photographer in St. Paul, noted for his stereographs and other early
views. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 27 | Wright, Kenneth M. (1895-1964). |
| | | Consists mostly of a 16-page biography of Wright by MHS sound and visual
collections intern Steven Quaal (undated), and two short articles by Donald
Hough featuring a fictional character based on Wright. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 28 | Zimmerman, Charles A. (1844-1909). |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 29 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers (A), circa 1850-1930.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 30 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers (B), circa 1850-1930.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 31 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers (C-E), circa 1850-1930.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 32 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers (F-G), circa 1850-1930.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 33 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers (H), circa 1850-1930.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 34 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers (I-L), circa 1850-1930.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 35 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers (M-Mc), circa 1850-1930.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 36 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers (N-P), circa 1850-1930.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 37 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers (Q-S), circa
1850-1930. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 38 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers (T-Z), circa 1850-1930.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 39 | Women Photographers in Minnesota Territory (1848-1858) and Minnesota
(1859-1930). |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 40 | Photographers of the 1918 Fires in Northern Minnesota. |
| | | In several sections: General materials, notes, and biographical sketches by
Alan Woolworth; William Bull (1877-1942); Earl L. Irish ( -1954); Hugh
McKenzie (1879-1957); Martin A. Olmen; and Duluth Photo-Engraving Company.
Several of Woolworth's biographical sketches are duplicated in other
notebooks. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 41 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers, Second Series (A-I),
circa 1850-1930. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 42 | Biographical Data on Minnesota Photographers, Second Series (J-Z),
circa 1850-1930. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 43 | Excerpts on Photographers from Minnesota Business Directories,
1865-1940. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 44 | Data on Photographers from Minnesota, North and
South Dakota and Montana Gazetteer and Business Directory ,
1878-1922, R. L. Polk & Co., St. Paul, Minnesota. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 45 | Minnesota Photographers, A List Compiled from City Directories by
Patricia A. Harpole, 1993-1994. |
| | | Three printouts from a database: one alphabetical by name; one alphabetical
by city; one by date in two sequences (single years and dual years, e.g.
1856/57). At the front of the notebook is a list of city directories that
Harpole checked for her compilation. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 46 | Photographers in Duluth, Minnesota, Superior, Wisconsin, the North
Shore of Lake Superior, and the Iron Ranges. |
| | | Mainly biographical notes and copies of city directory pages and newspaper
articles. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 47 | Union List of Materials on Photographs and Photographers in the
Duluth Public Library, 1969; and Duluth Photographers and Studios,
1869-1930. |
| | | In two sections. "Union List of Minnesota Materials," Duluth Public Library,
contains a printout bibliography, collection information forms for
photograph collections, and a few miscellany. "Duluth Photographers and
Studios" is a photocopied card file, alphabetical by name. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 48 | Photographers in Red Wing and Goodhue County, Minnesota, circa
1862-1910. |
| | | From city and county directories, county histories, and newspapers. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 49 | Photographers in Rochester and Olmsted County, Minnesota, circa
1866-1931. |
| | | From city and county directories. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 50 | Photographers in Saint Anthony and Minneapolis, circa 1850-1932.
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| | | Includes a few later newspaper articles about early photographers. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 51 | Photographers in Saint Paul, circa 1850-1930. |
| | | Compiled from city directories, gazetteers, and newspapers. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 52 | Photographers in Saint Paul Directories, 1850-1874. |
| | | Includes the Minnesota State Business Directory for 1873, with listings of
photographers in many Minnesota towns. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 53 | Photographers in Saint Paul Directories, 1875-1880. |
| | | Includes copies from the 1880 federal census. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 54 | Photographers in Stillwater, Minnesota, circa 1848-1930. |
| | | Compiled from city directories, county histories, and newspapers. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 55 | Photographers in Winona, Minnesota, circa 1866-1930. |
| | | Compiled from city directories. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 56 | Photographers in Winona and Winona County, Minnesota, circa
1868-1891. |
| | | Compiled from newspapers. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 57 | Photographers in Minnesota Communities (A-F), circa 1850-1930.
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| | | Compiled from directories, newspapers, and assorted local history sources.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 58 | Photographers in Minnesota Communities (G-Mc), circa 1850-1930.
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| | | Compiled from directories, newspapers, and assorted local history sources.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 59 | Photographers in Minnesota Communities (M-Z), circa 1850-1930.
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| | | Compiled from directories, newspapers, and assorted local history sources.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 60 | Some Published Biographical and Thematic Studies of Photographers in
the United States, circa 1849-1920. |
| | | Includes: |
| | | Newspaper obituary of Edwin Land, March 2, 1991. |
| | | "Hold it! A pioneer photographer's studio..." [Henry H. Bennett],
Nutshell News, February
1991. |
| | | Printout (October 1987) from the America
History and Life database of 241 citations to articles on
North American photographers active 1850-1920. |
| | | "One shutterbug wears more than meets the eye" [Jack Naylor],
Smithsonian, October 1987. |
| | | "John Vachon: A certain look," American
Heritage, February 1989. |
| | | A few other biographical and citation notes. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 61 | Published Articles on Photographers in Minnesota. |
| | | Includes the following articles, some of which are duplicated in other
notebooks |
| | | Bonnie G. Wilson, "Working the light: Nineteenth-century
professional photographers in Minnesota," Minnesota History, summer 1990. |
| | | Bonnie G. Wilson, "St. Anthony Falls on silver: A daguerreotype
collection," The Daguerrian
Annual. |
| | | Tracey Baker, "Nineteenth-century Minnesota women photographers,"
Journal of the West, January
1989. |
| | | Alan R. Woolworth, "Minnesota Indians: A photographic album,"
Minnesota History, fall
1981. |
| | | Virginia L. Martin, "MHS Collections: The eye of Brechet," Minnesota History, summer 1977. |
| | | "Glen M. Dye," from History of Minneapolis,
Gateway to the Northwest, 1923, p. 704-708. |
| | | Alan R. Woolworth, "Adrian J. Ebell, photographer and journalist
of the Dakota War of 1862," Minnesota
History, summer 1994. |
| | | James Taylor Dunn, "The diary of Tallmadge Elwell, pioneer
daguerreotypist, 1852," The Daguerrian
Annual. |
| | | Helen McCann White, "'His world was art': Dr. Andrew
Falkenshield," Minnesota History, spring
1991. |
| | | Beaumont Newhall, "Minnesota daguerreotypes," Minnesota History, spring 1954. |
| | | "MHS Collections: Focus on fine art: The photography of Jerome
Liebling," Minnesota History, winter
1989. |
| | | Moira F. Harris, "Small format, big view: Curt Teich postcards of
Minnesota," Minnesota History , fall
1995. |
| | | Patricia C. Albers and William R. James, "Images and reality:
Post cards of Minnesota's Ojibway people, 1900-80," Minnesota History, summer 1985. |
| | | Robert C. Wheeler, "William T. Roleff: Master photographer,"
Minnesota History, spring
1983. |
| | | Bruce M. White, "Indian visits: Stereotypes of Minnesota's native
people," Minnesota History, fall
1992. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 62 | Some Notes for a History of Photography in Minnesota and the Rise of
Amateur Photography. |
| | | Includes the following: |
| | | Assorted newspaper articles and notes, and extracts from
published sources. |
| | | Christian A. Peterson, "The Minneapolis Camera Club at the turn
of the century," Hennepin County History,
winter 1988. |
| | | The Minnesota portion of An Index to
American Photographic Collections, compiled by the
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House,
1982. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 63 | Census and Other Statistical Data on Photography in Minnesota,
1850-1910. |
| | | Copies of tables and statistics from the published federal censuses of
manufactures; individual pages from the Minnesota population and
manufactures schedules; and miscellaneous other published statistics (mainly
for St. Paul and Minneapolis). |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 64 | Printed Sources Searched for Data on Minnesota Photographers,
Organized by County (A-L). |
| | | Title pages, covers, and other citation information, mostly of county/local
history sources. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 65 | Printed Sources Searched for Data on Minnesota Photographers,
Organized by County (M-Z). |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 66 | Printed Sources Searched for Data on Minnesota Photographers:
Hennepin, Ramsey and St. Louis Counties. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 67 | Financial Data on Photography in Minnesota. |
| | | A few miscellaneous articles, extracts from local histories, and invoices.
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 68 | Records of the Minnesota Historical Society's Collections of
Photographs. |
| | | Copies of pages from MHS annual and biennial reports (1851-1909, 1923), and a
few miscellaneous items. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 69 | Data on the Use of Photographs as Historical Documents; Suggestions
for the Use of Photographs in Historical Research; and Suggestions for
Historical Research on Photographs. |
| | | Includes the following: |
| | | George E. Francis, "Photography as an aid to local history,"
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society, 1889. |
| | | Carlos A. Schwantes, "The use of photographs in illustrating
history," Cite AB, April 24,
1989. |
| | | Dorothy M. Burke, "Local history and the historical photograph,"
parts I and II, Hennepin County History,
fall 1987 and spring 1988. |
| | | Robert A. Weinstein and Larry Booth, "Preservation of
photographic materials," in Collection, Use, and
Care of Historical Photographs, p. 132-143. |
| | | Selected pages from Ralph W. Andrews,
Picture Gallery Pioneers, 1850-1875.' |
| | | Henry Norman, "The Mother of Parliaments: Glimpses of life in the
House of Commons," The Century Magazine,
May 1904. |
| | | "Mirrors of the past: Historical photographs and American
history," in Thomas J. Schlereth, Artifacts and
the American Past, p. 11-47 and endnotes p.
240-250. |
| | | Notes and bibliography from a conference on Photographs as
Cultural Resources held in Madison, Wisconsin, 1983. |
| | | Oliver Jensen, "Windows on another time,"
American Heritage, March 1988. |
| | | Bradley B. Williams, "Photography in the American West: Victorian
overtones," Journal of the West, January
1994. |
| | | Marsha Peters and Bernard Mergen, "Doing the rest: The uses of
photographs in American studies," American
Quarterly, 29:3, 1977. |
| | | Ann Dunmire Heinz, "Lens on a small town: The photographs of
Clarence Marchington," Colorado Heritage,
1986. |
| | | Harry T. Cleven, "A. B. Wilse: Immigrant with a camera," The Norseman , July 1986. |
| | | Introduction and epilogue from Mary Bennett and Paul C. Juhl,
Iowa Stereographs: Three-dimensional Visions
of the Past , Iowa City, 1997. |
| | | "Old stereographs, saved from oblivion, stir our memories," Smithsonian, February 1979. |
| | | Mayfield S. Bray, "Still pictures in the Audiovisual Archives
Division of the National Archives," [preliminary draft of a guide],
1972. |
| | | "Western and frontier subjects selected from files of photographs
... in custody of U.S. Army Signal Corps" [list]. |
| | | Robert L. Spude, "Shadow catchers: A portrait of Arizona's
pioneer photographers, 1863-1893," The Journal of
Arizona History, autumn 1989. |
| | | Diane Hellekson, "Women and the land: Duluth's Tweed Museum
exhibition...," Minnesota Monthly, February
1987. |
| | | Assorted small articles, extracts, notes, newspaper pages, book
reviews and citations, etc. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 70 | Directories and Other Research Tools for the Study of 19th Century
Photography in the United States. |
| | | Includes the following: |
| | | Sample pages from Peter E. Palmquist, A
Directory of Women in California Photographs, 1900-1920 ,
1991. |
| | | Minnesota section of Ross J. Kelbaugh,
Directory of Civil War Photographers, Volume 3. |
| | | Biographical sources used in the compilation of Minnesota Biographies, Minnesota Historical
Society, 1912. |
| | | "An introduction to directory research," Photo Archives, Museum
of New Mexico, undated. Photocopy of typescript with accompanying
bibliography by Richard Rudisill. |
| | | Selected pages (Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, traveling
photographers) from Carl Mautz, Checklist of
Western Photographers: A Reference Workbook, 3rd edition,
1986. |
| | | Jon M. Williams, "Daguerreotypists, ambrotypists, and
photographers in Wilmington, Delaware, 1842-1859," Delaware History, spring-summer 1979. |
| | | Jeffrey D. Marshall, "Photographs in the Special Collections
Department, Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont," Vermont History, winter 1990. |
| | | Ron Polito, "Combining directory research with demographic
analysis," in Photographers: A Sourcebook for
Historical Research, 1991, p. 44-46. |
| | | -"The man who captured the Earth's beauty" [Ansel Adams], Time, Sept. 3, 1990. |
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| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 71 | Studies About Photography of American Indians in the 19th and 20th
Centuries and a Catalog of Sioux/Dakota Indian Photographs in the Wanamaker
Collection, Indiana University. |
| | | Includes the following: |
| | | Frank Weitenkampf, "Early pictures of North American Indians: A
question of ethnology," New York Public Library, 1950. |
| | | John C. Ewers, "Artifacts and pictures as documents in the
history of Indian-white relations," in Smith and Kvasnicka, Indian-white relations: A Persistent
Paradox, 1976. |
| | | From Paula Richardson Fleming and Judith Luskey, The North American Indians in Early
Photographs, 1986. |
| | | John C. Ewers, "Thomas M. Easterly's pioneer daguerreotypes of
Plains Indians," Missouri Historical Society Bulletin, July 1968. |
| | | Margaret B. Blackman, "Studio Indians: Cartes de visite of native
people in British Columbia, 1862-1872," Archivaria 21, winter 1985/86. |
| | | Lonna M. Malmsheimer, "'Imitation white man': Images of
transformation at the Carlisle Indian School,"
Studies in Visual Communication, Fall 1985. |
| | | Owen Edwards, "The birth of a myth," Geo, March 1984. |
| | | A few miscellaneous references to photographs, or works about
photographs, of Indians. |
| | | Photocopy of handwritten index pages for Sioux [Dakota],
Chippewa, and upper Midwest images, William Hammond Mathers Museum,
Indiana University [presumably the Wanamaker Collection, although not
identified as such]. |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 72 | Minnesotans' Views on Photographs and Their Uses of Them in Albums,
Homes, etc. |
| | | Newspaper articles (copies of transcriptions), and extracts from printed
sources, in which artists, photographers, and photographs are mentioned or
discussed. Includes several examples of published early photographs.
Includes lengthy excerpts from the diaries of Andrew J. Fisk; and G. Hubert
Smith, "Pictures and history," Bulletin of the
American Association of State and Local History (Sept. 1949).
|
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 73 | Advertisements for Cameras, Photographic Supplies and Photo
Processing in Minnesota. |
| | | Mostly from newspapers. |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Location | Volume |
| Reading Room | 74 | The Conley Camera Company, Spring Valley and Rochester, Minnesota.
|
| | | Advertisements by, and published references to, Kerry E. Conley and the
Conley Camper Company. |
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the
Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics,
persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Photography -- Minnesota.
- Photographers -- Minnesota.
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