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Photograph albums

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:

19th century theatrical photographs album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275049048680]
Identifier: 6156
Abstract

This photograph album consists of photographs of actors and actresses, many in theatrical costume and posies, as well as photographs of stage sets with actors. The actors, actresses and productions are unidentified.

Dates: circa 1890s

All Nations Foundation Child Welfare Clinic photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058047557]
Identifier: 7156
Abstract A photograph album from 1935 showing the work of the Child Welfare Clinic, a project of the Los Angeles-based All Nations Foundation, then one of the largest non-governmental social welfare organizations in Los Angeles. The All Nations Foundation, founded in 1918, purchased land and buildings and equipped gymnasiums, playgrounds, libraries, and medical clinics in East Los Angeles for a community where three-fourths of the families were on public assistance. The album also documents a...
Dates: 1935

American Photo Company Cuba photograph album

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0598
Abstract Photograph album consisting of 27 black and white silver prints, each approximately 8 x 10", of Cuba. Scenes include landscapes, city scapes, and genre scenes. Each photograph is accompanied by a glassine leaf with typed photo descriptions. Of particular note are photographs of both the sinking and raising of the USS Maine. Also includes a poem written by Irene Wright, who may have been the owner of the album. Wright was an American historian who spent time in Havana as a writer for the...
Dates: circa 1911

Asian Pacific American Student Services records

 Collection
Identifier: 5257
Abstract

This collection consists of folders that the office of the Asian Pacific American Student Services held on groups, organizations, and businesses that provided services to Asian Americans. These folders, arranged alphabetically, include organizations such as the Japanese American Museum, the Bishop Museum, community centers, health services, and more.

Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1979-2009

Maceo Braxton, Jr. family photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275049031165]
Identifier: 7109
Abstract An album of family portraits and other material assembled at the time of Maceo Braxton, Jr.'s graduation from West Point in 1974. The more than 40 photographs in the album prominently feature Braxton (1953-2008)--a Black physician and military officer--as well as his parents, Maceo Braxton, Sr. (1922-1997) and Bernice Maiflorence Braxton (1924-2013), and his four siblings in their Los Angeles home. Many of the portraits feature Braxton's mother, Bernice, who worked at the University of...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1974; 1944; 1980

California family photograph album

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 7098
Abstract A photograph album of an unidentified family in California with snapshots of various people and places taken circa 1900-1905. Places pictured include Sierra Madre, Alhambra, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Laurel Canyon, Redwood City, San Francisco, the Cliff House (San Francisco), Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park), and "E.B.B. Pasadena Home." Most of the handwritten captions in the album that indicate names are illegible and/or first-name-only, but some names are still legible: Helen Douglass,...
Dates: 1900 - 1905

Milton Carlson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7110
Abstract

A collection of scrapbooks, notebooks, photographs, photograph albums, ledgers, postcards, and court transcripts and testimonies from Milton Carlson. Carlson was a criminologist and handwriting expert.

Dates: 1896 - 1918

Robert Clark photographs and papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll2012-139
Abstract

Photographs, papers, and organizational records of Robert Clark primarily documenting his life and travels, 1992-2003, as well as AIDS organizations in the Illinois and Missouri area, 1991-2001. Robert Clark, a gay rights activist from the St. Louis area, lived with his partner Tom Gibbons for over 50 years.

Dates: circa 1850-2003

Paul Courtright papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058596132]
Identifier: 3330
Abstract The Paul Courtright papers contain photograph albums, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, maps, reports, books, correspondence, journals, and other material collected and/or created by Paul Courtright, a former Peace Corps volunteer who was stationed in the Jeonnam Province of South Korea from 1979 to 1981. While working with leprosy patients in rural South Korea, Courtright witnessed the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. Courtright later published a book, Witnessing Gwangju: A...
Dates: 1905 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1979 - 1985

Floyd C. Covington papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7057
Abstract Floyd C. Covington was a Black civic leader in Los Angeles from the late 1920s to the 1970s. Through his work as the first Executive Director of the Los Angeles Urban League and his service in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Covington redefined social welfare and equal opportunity in both employment and housing for various communities in Los Angeles. Covington's papers contain his early scholarship and poetry from his youth and education in Seattle, Washington and Topeka,...
Dates: 1901 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970