Call Number:

PH-00358

Collection Name:

Hunter-Rose Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

8000 items

Span Dates:

circa 1850-1940

Description:

The collection contains images from “The Famous N. H. Rose Collection of Old Time Photographs” by various photographers including Noah H. Rose, a San Antonio commercial photographer and collector of photographs of what he termed "early day characters and scenes." J. Marvin Hunter (1880-1957), a friend of Rose, was a printer and publisher of newspapers, most notably the Bandera New Era, as well as the Frontier Times, a publication "devoted to Frontier History, Border Tragedy and Pioneer Achievement," which he co-published with his father, Warren Hunter. Hunter also founded and operated the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera, Texas, to showcase his collection of frontier and historical artifacts. Rose and Hunter were friends from an early age and together they published The Album of Gunfighters in 1951.

The collection consists predominately of photographs of the Old West and the Southwest, dating from between circa 1850 to the 1960s. The photographs taken by Rose date from the 1930s. Among the other photographers represented in the collection are D. P. Barr, A. A. Brack, and W. D. Smithers. Typical subjects featured in this collection include Native Americans, frontiersmen, cowboys, outlaws, and Texas Rangers, as well as Texas governors and other statesmen. Individuals represented in the collection include Jesse and Frank James, Judge Roy Bean, Billy the Kid, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, David Crockett, General George Custer, and Sam Houston and his family. There are also photographs of historical places and scenes, military forts and encampments, and towns in Texas and surrounding states, such as New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma. Among the Texas towns represented in the collection are Del Rio, San Antonio, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, as well as Bandera, home of Hunter's Frontier Times Museum. The collection also contains photographs and manuscript materials relating to both J. Marvin Hunter and N. H. Rose.

Both vintage and copy prints in a variety of formats are included in the collection. The formats range from cabinet cards, cigarette cards and cartes-de-visite, to panoramic prints. Among the photographic processes represented in the collection are albumen prints, cyanotypes, and tintypes, as well as both nitrate and safety negatives. In addition to copy prints of daguerreotypes and other processes, there are photographic reproductions of drawings, paintings, and other works of art, some of which pre-date photography. The collection also contains postcards and original letters, as well as negatives of letters, newspaper articles, and legal, financial, and military documents.

The material has been left in its original order and is divided as follows: Series I. Identified Photographs; Series II. Unidentified Photographs; Series III. Oversize Photographs (2 oversize boxes, 1 flat file drawer); and Series IV. Nitrate Negatives (5 boxes). The finding aid for this collection contains indexes of correspondents and of identified photographers represented in the collection, though the majority of the photographers have not been identified.

Access Restrictions:

Negatives cannot be paged to the Reading and Viewing Room without curatorial permission. For additional information, please contact the Curator of Photography.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00271

Location(s):

Restricted access Hunter Rose Boxes 21, 24
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Hunter-Rose Box 30 (965:0005:0008, 0014, 0024, 0050, 0057)
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Hunter-Rose Box 31 (965:0005:0016-0018, 0025, 0028, 0035)
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Hunter-Rose Box 32 (965:0009, 0011, 0015, 0023, 0032, 0037, 0051-0056)
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Curatorial permission required Glass negative
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Hunter-Rose Boxes 01-06
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Hunter-Rose Boxes 07-12
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Hunter-Rose Boxes 13-18
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Hunter-Rose Boxes 19-20, 22-23
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Osf 1 (965:0005:0026-0027, 0029, 0061)
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Osf 2 (965:0005:0005-0007, 0010)
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Osf 3 (965:0005:0019-0022, 0030, 0031)
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Osf 4 (965:0005:0038-0043)
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Osf 5 (965:0005:0044-0047, 0058-0060)
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Osf 6 (965:0005:0001-0004, 0036, 0062)
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Osf 7 (Access prints for panoramic negatives)
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Curatorial permission required Cold Storage (Hunter-Rose Boxes 25-29, film-based negatives)
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