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Visual Materials
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)
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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)
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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)
Visual Materials
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 pg2 (11)
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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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Visual Materials
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
