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Capt. R.B. Haselden looking at a manuscript

Description: Captain Haselden is wearing a light three-piece suit and striped tie and is examining a bound manuscript. A microscopic apparatus is focused on the bottom of the page but is unused by Captain Haselden. The photograph is not mounted on a page. MS notes on envelope "Huntington Library, Staff. R.B. Haselden. Similar to 107 (124)."
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Call number: photCL 107 vol13 (161)
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Staff photographing Gainsborough's Jonathan Buttall: the blue boy, in the Huntington residence

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A series of three photographs of the photographing of Thomas Gainsborough's Jonathan Buttall: the blue boy (1770). The man on the ground on the left holds steady the ladder that the photographer is on, another man stands on the right, and Dr. Batrig stands on a platform helping the photographer. Labels accompanying photographs in album read "Apparatus for making exposures for color plates of paintings in New Gallery. Huntington Art Gallery."

photCL 107 vol13 (26)

Maurice Block examining two small bronzes

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Three-quarters length portrait of Maurice Block (Curator of Art, 1928-1948) examining bronzes on a table in the loggia. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 11 Maurice Block, Curator of Art Collections. Huntington Art Gallery." Photograph appeared in Los Angeles Times article of November 6, 1938. Appeared in Westways, March 1938.

photCL 107 vol13 (11)

Staff photographing paintings in the portrait gallery in the Huntington residence

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Four men watch as Dr. Batrig helps the photographer prepare to take a picture. The camera is mounted on a tripod, and artificial lights are on either side of the picture. The painting that is the focus of their photography is Thomas Gainsborough's Jonathan Buttall: the blue boy (1770). Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 25 Apparatus for making exposures for color plates of paintings in New Gallery. Huntington Art Gallery." Photograph appeared in Los Angeles Times article of November 6, 1938. Another version of this is no. 545 Pictures Archives, box 3, folder 5. MS note on verso reads "Photograph of the equipment used for making color separation plates for Life Magazine."

photCL 107 vol13 (25)

Maurice Block examining figurines

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photCL 107 vol13 pg2 (11)

Dr. L. Bendikson with camera for microphotography

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Dr Lodewyk Bendikson stands behind a desk with a complicated apparatus for taking photographs microscopically. Dr. Bendikson is wearing a dark three-piece suit with a light tie. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 140 Dr. L. Bendikson, in charge of Department of Photographic Reproductions, Huntington Library, with camera for microphotography."

photCL 107 vol13 pg26 (140)

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The Navy Yard Chattanooga Tenn Capt. Slayton's Mill

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Image of the Union Navy Yard in Chattanooga. There is a large building with a cupola in the center of the image, probably Captain Slayton's Mill. In the foreground, on the right, is an enclosed yard with various wagons; in the center is a large barn-like building.

photCL 491

Capt. R.B. Haselden looking at a manuscript

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