Call Number:

PH-00274

Collection Name:

Itinerant Photographer Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

473 glass negatives

Span Dates:

1934

Description:

The collection is comprised of 473 glass negatives of Corpus Christi, Texas, business interiors made by an unidentified itinerant photographer in the month of February 1934. The negatives were left in the studio of George Tallmadge, a local Corpus Christi photographer. When Tallmadge left Corpus Christi in the early 1940s, he passed the negatives to his friend and fellow photographer Dr. John F. “Doc” McGregor. When McGregor retired in 1976, he donated these negatives, along with his own work, to the Ransom Center.

A descriptive finding aid for the collection is available online (see link below), and digital positives derived from the negatives are available through the Center's Digital Collections portal at https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll86. On-site patrons may also consult modern contact prints, which were made from the 473 negatives, that are contained in notebooks 1-11, Dr. John "Doc" McGregor Collection, in the Photography Reference section of the Reading and Viewing Room.

Access Restrictions:

Due to the fragility of the collection, access is limited to the digital surrogates. Physical access to the collection can only be granted by the Curator of Photography. Please contact Reading and Viewing Room staff with any questions.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00513

Location(s):

See digital surrogates Glass negatives (976:0021:0001-0473)
Click here to request this item from the reading room

See Also:

http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/itinerant/

John Frederick "Doc" McGregor Photography Collection