William Butler Yeats photograph collection | Collections | The Huntington

William Butler Yeats photograph collection | Collections | The Huntington

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W. B. Yeats correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence written by W.B. Yeats to his friend, and fellow Irish writer, Katherine Tynan (1861-1931). Issues discussed by Yeats include his and Tynan's writing, the writings of other prominent authors of the period, and his personal life.
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George F. Chalender collection of railroad photographs
Visual Materials
A collection of 66 photographs (prints) of various railroad subjects, including steam locomotives, stations, and many scenes of train wrecks, approximately 1880s-1939. Subjects include the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad; and a set of six cabinet card photographs titled "View of the Great Railroad Wreck," showing the wreckage (and crowds of people) of the disastrous 1887 Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad's "Great Chatsworth Train Wreck" in Illinois. Other images include several photographic postcards of trains and scenes of wrecks from 1939. Accompanying the photographs is a 7-page typescript biography of Chalender, with his portrait.
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George F. Chalender collection of railroad photographs
Visual Materials
A collection of 66 photographs (prints) of various railroad subjects, including steam locomotives, stations, and many scenes of train wrecks, approximately 1880s-1939. Subjects include the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad; and a set of six cabinet card photographs titled "View of the Great Railroad Wreck," showing the wreckage (and crowds of people) of the disastrous 1887 Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad's "Great Chatsworth Train Wreck" in Illinois. Other images include several photographic postcards of trains and scenes of wrecks from 1939. Accompanying the photographs is a 7-page typescript biography of Chalender, with his portrait.
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Will H. Thrall Photograph Collection
Visual Materials
This collection contains photographs, negatives, and some ephemera chiefly collected by California conservationist and editor William H. Thrall (1873-1963) for use in Trails magazine. Thrall served as managing editor of the publication from 1934 to 1939, which was produced to encourage the use of mountain trails and outdoor recreation in Los Angeles County. The collection includes approximately 1200 prints (Boxes 1-4); 68 glass negatives (Boxes 7-8); approximately 2300 film negatives; 150 slides; and miscellaneous documents and ephemera, and a folding pocket camera. The photographs primarily date from the 1930s, but also include copy prints (and some originals) of late 19th and early 20th photographs. The images depict mountain and forested landscapes and outdoor recreational activities including hiking, skiing, and camping, chiefly in the San Gabriel Mountains and surrounding mountains of Southern California. Many of the photographs include individuals involved in recreational activities as well images of historical mountain pioneers. The photographs chiefly consist of 4.5 x 2.75 inch snapshots and 8 x 10 and 6 x 10 inch prints, by photographers including Dan P. Alexander, Carl H. Bauer, Harlow Dormer, C. C. Vernon, and Thrall. There is also a group of glass plate negatives and film negatives, including a group of unprinted film negatives that appear to be personal photographs with views of nature, groups of people, family scenes, buildings, boating, and trips, in the 1930s-1950s (Box 15). The film negatives have handwritten numbers presumably assigned by Thrall. Many of the prints appear in Trails magazine, which was published quarterly by the Mountain League of Southern California from Winter 1934 to Spring 1939 (Volume 6, No. 1). In Autumn 1941, the Southern California Outdoor Federation began publishing a new edition of Trails Magazine (without Thrall as editor), but only two issues were published (Volume 2, Nos. 1-2).
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William Newton Meeks family photograph collection
Visual Materials
A collection of 68 photographs, primarily portraits, of William Newton Meeks, his wife, Abigail Livia Martha Davis, their children, and other Meeks and Davis family members, including Abigail's brother, Charles Sylvanus Davis. Also included are photographs of the Meeks' mansion (1890s) in Temescal, a neighborhood of Oakland, California, featuring an attached greenhouse or conservatory. There are also some photographs of engravings of earlier relatives, including Captain John Meeks (b. 1737), James Cooper, Susannah (Cooper) Meeks, Phineas Davis, and Isaac Davis. A group portrait depicts the wedding party of Meeks' daughter Blanche Thayer and John Heath, son of a pioneer California family, in 1889.
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William H. Weinland photograph collection
Visual Materials
The William H. Weinland Photograph Collection contains 525 loose photographs and 3 photograph albums that depict the people, experiences, and places witnessed by Moravian missionary William H. Weinland (1861-1930) and his family during their years of missionary service between the mid 1880s and the 1920s, first in Alaska and, more extensively, among Native Americans of Southern California. Though the vast majority of the photographs depict life on the Morongo Reservation, near Banning, California, Weinland was an itinerant of sorts, an activist who sought a foothold for Protestantism wherever he could. Consequently, there are images from a number of the reservations that surrounded Morongo. The Alaska images were photographed by Weinland and fellow missionary Henry Hartmann, as many of the mounts attest, and by the commercial photographer M. Lorenz. The Morongo views are harder to attribute, though many were definitely taken by Weinland himself. Some commercial photographers are also represented throughout this portion of the collection. Volumes 2 and 3 were albums compiled by Sarah Morris, one of the first schoolteachers at Morongo and a personal friend of the Weinlands. Her albums focus, naturally enough, on the schoolhouses where she taught as well as her charges. There are about 50 original film and glass plate negatives in the collection. Contact prints were made for reference use and are in Boxes 1 to 5, according to subject. See the Negatives series for a list of the item numbers.
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