Manuscripts

Photographic Positives

Description

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.

Type

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Production date

1866-1977.

Call number

mssJL

Creator

London, Jack (1876-1916)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

The nucleus of the collection was purchased by Henry Huntington from Charmian London in 1925. Additional groups of material were acquired by both gift and purchase from Mrs. London and later from literary executors Irving Shepard and I. Milo Shepard over many years. Further material has been acquired from other sources; the provenance of these items is noted on the individual folders.

Photograph Albums

Manuscripts

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.

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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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[RESTRICTED] Photographic Negatives, Positives, and Prints

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 Prints

Manuscripts

The photographs are all original (either contemporary prints made prior to 1917 or later prints made from the original negative). Each print is individually numbered with a "JLP" prefix and filed in its own envelope. Included in this section are a number of photographs of Elizabeth Wiley Baxter; Marshall and Louis Bond; Romaine Fielding; Hawaiian scenes (such as Diamond Head); Jack London Ranch scenes (including the cottage where the Londons lived, the dam and lake, eucalyptus fields, Jack London's gravesite, and the vineyards); George Wharton James; Martin Johnson; Dayelle and Willard Kittredge; Charmian London (over 31 photographs from 1879-1940); Elizabeth May Maddern London; Flora Wellman London; Jack London (over 54 photographs from 1896-1916); John London; Joan London Miller; New York, New York; Edward Biron Payne; Virginia Prentiss; Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer; Louis Edwin Stevens; Vallejo, California; Venice, Italy; Vera Cruz, Mexico; Wake Robin Lodge (in Glen Ellen, California); Anna Strunsky Walling; and Jack London's Wolf House, as well as an array of South Sea Island photographs, some featuring Jack London's yacht Snark.

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Negative and Positives. JLP 608-620

Manuscripts

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

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Subseries B. Photographs

Visual Materials

This subseries contains photographic prints, negatives, and transparencies primarily of interior spaces on the NS Savannah, as well as photographs of the ship bow, a model of the ship exterior, and three pieces of artwork displayed in the ship. Many of the photographs are credited to New York City photographer Alexandre Georges. Most of the photographs were presumably taken in the early 1960s following the installation of furniture, artwork, and fixtures on the ship. Most images exist in duplicate or multiple formats, with at least one copy typically accompanied by a descriptive typewritten caption and a photograph number.

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Photographic Positives

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