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Journal of Guggenheim year

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Description: This is the typed manuscript by Charis Wilson documenting the year Wilson and Edward Weston spent traveling and photographing California and the American West after Weston received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937. The trip resulted in the publication of the book California and the West (1940).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1937, March 22-1939, April 24.
Call number: mssHM 51997
Creator: Wilson, Charis (1914-2009)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Charis Wilson, November 1987.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Charis Wilson journal, letters, and notes documenting the Whitman trip with Edward Weston

Manuscripts

This small collection includes Charis Wilson's typed journal for the eight-month trip she and Weston took during 1941 for the "Whitman" tour as well as supporting material including correspondence, the trip itinerary, notes, photographs, letters of introduction for Weston, newspaper clippings, brochures and miscellaneous ephemera, a negative list, and a list of illustrations for Leaves of Grass with Whitman quotations selected by Wilson. The journal typescript draft contains two black and white photographs. Also included is correspondence between Weston, Wilson, George Macy, and Merle Armitage regarding the Limited Editions Club project as well as letters Weston and Wilson received during the "Whitman" trip. Among the authors of letters of introduction for Weston are photographer and curator, Beaumont Newhall, and artist Charles Sheeler. The material was kept in the order in which it came to the Huntington Library. The original folders were also retained (if present). The Huntington Library also has Charis Wilson's journal (typescript) from her and Edward Weston's Guggenheim-funded trip throughout California and the West in 1937 to 1939, which resulted in the book California and the West. Call number: HM 51997

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Charis Wilson Interview at the Huntington Library [videorecording]

Visual Materials

Nine hours of interviews with Charis Wilson reviewing and discussing the Huntington's Edward Weston Collection of photographs. In the early 1940s, Wilson's husband, photographer Edward Weston, selected and printed 500 of his finest photographs for the Huntington Library as an outgrowth of his Guggenheim fellowship. The collection includes the full interviews as well as an edited version.

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Charis Wilson's Journal and Supporting Material

Manuscripts

This small collection contains materials created and collected by Charis Wilson during the eight-month trip she took with her husband, photographer Edward Weston, in 1941 to take photographs to illustrate a Limited Edition Club edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. It includes Wilson's typed journal for the trip, as well as supporting material including correspondence, the trip itinerary, notes, photographs, letters of introduction for Weston, newspaper clippings, brochures and miscellaneous ephemera, a negative list, and a list of illustrations for Leaves of Grass with Whitman quotations selected by Wilson. The journal typescript draft contains two black-and-white photographs. Also included is correspondence between Weston, Wilson, George Macy, and Merle Armitage regarding the Limited Editions Club project as well as letters Weston and Wilson received during the "Whitman" trip. Among the authors of letters of introduction for Weston are photographer and curator Beaumont Newhall and artist Charles Sheeler.

mssWilsonjournal

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Empty folder entitled "Typd Add Lists Used -------- Unused with some letters." Folder was empty when Library received it

Manuscripts

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Correspondence, Notes, etc

Manuscripts

mssWilsonjournal

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Wilson, Charis, 1914-2009. Journal Entries pp. 129-166

Manuscripts

Also includes material for unpaginated journal entries. Travel through Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Maine, Connecticut. 18 items. Includes two letters by Charis Wilson to Pete Fusco and related newspaper clipping (1978).

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Journal of Guggenheim year

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Charis Wilson journal, letters, and notes documenting the Whitman trip with Edward Weston

Charis Wilson Interview at the Huntington Library [videorecording]

Charis Wilson's Journal and Supporting Material

Empty folder entitled "Typd Add Lists Used -------- Unused with some letters." Folder was empty when Library received it

Correspondence, Notes, etc

Wilson, Charis, 1914-2009. Journal Entries pp. 129-166