Manuscripts

Photograph Albums

Description

This series contains photograph albums with photographs primarily taken by Jack and Charmian London on their travels and at home. The prints are pasted into 90 small and 26 large albums. The albums are beginning to deteriorate due to the natural action of the chemicals used in developing the photographs, and the originals do not circulate. Access to the images is available through digital reproductions available in the Huntington Digital Library.

In addition, this series also contains 24 boxes of contact prints and 20 binders of corresponding film negatives (previously in boxes 513-516) that were previously used as reading room surrogates for the original albums.

Type

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Production date

1866-1977.

Call number

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Creator

London, Jack (1876-1916)

Contact prints and contact print negatives

Manuscripts

This subseries contains contact prints of the photograph albums and were used as circulating copies in the reading room prior to the digitization of the original albums in 2016. Note: Many of the contact print images are of poor quality. The albums were photographed in in 1976, prior to the donation of the originals in 1983, when the Shepard family loaned the albums to the Library for the purpose of copying. Each photograph was copied (and each page of the album was also copied in its entirety) on thirty-five millimeter roll film. Contact prints of these photographs were assembled and made available for reference. Image reproductions made from the contact prints were ordered using the numbers printed on the negatives (in addition to the JPL album number and volume number). The contact print negatives were removed from Boxes 513-516 and are now housed 20 3-ring binders, binders 1-20.

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Contact prints of photograph albums 91-93; Jack London at Yale; and Album covers and list of albums

Manuscripts

This box includes contact prints for albums 91-92, as well as: JLP 531 Album 93, Lunn's Summer Photographs (of Glen Ellen). 1915-1916 JLP 605, Jack London at Yale. 1905 JLP 606 Album Covers and List of Albums. Before 1950

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Photograph albums

Visual Materials

The photograph albums are focused on project surveys, construction, operations, and facilities related to various hydroelectric projects dating from approximately 1904 through 1945. Many volumes depict the Big Creek project from inception through its numerous expansions. Volumes were compiled by Southern California Edison as well as engineering firms and consultants; employees; and various predecessor companies, including Pacific Light & Power, Edison Electric Company, Southern Sierras Power Company, Mount Whitney Power Company, Nevada Power, Mining and Milling Company, and Nevada-California Electric Corporation. Original Edison volume number is noted where known. Some "albums" are compilations of loose photographs by topic. A majority of the albums were scanned and are available in the Huntington Digital Library (see Series 1).

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Photograph Albums

Manuscripts

The collection includes literary manuscripts of most of London's works, extensive correspondence files, documents, photographs, ephemera, and scrapbooks.

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Large Photograph Albums

Manuscripts

The collection includes literary manuscripts of most of London's works, extensive correspondence files, documents, photographs, ephemera, and scrapbooks.

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Photographic Positives

Manuscripts

The photographic positives (ektapan "inner positives") includes images copied from original negatives in Jack London's negative collection; many of the positives duplicate images also found in the photograph albums held in the series below. The original negatives are now deposited with the State of California. Since these positives were made directly from the negatives, without going through a print process, the quality is generally good.

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Photograph Albums

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