Call Number:

PH-01732

Collection Name:

Posters Photography Collection

No. of Items:

3 flat file drawers

Span Dates:

1970-circa 2000

Description:

The collection contains a large number of posters commemorating various photographers, events, exhibitions, etc. Many contain reproductions of photographic images. Two of the photographers represented are Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Fritz Henle, along with many others. Exhibitions for photographic processes and formats are also represented. HRHRC sponsored exhibits as well as exhibits from Britain and Germany are included in this collection. Time period represented is 1970 (ca.) to 2000.
The majority of posters are not accessioned. A partial list of those that are follows:

997:0128:0001 -- One poster by William (Bill) P. Wright, Jr. of the Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas, signed by the photographer, n.d.;
998:0052:0052 -- One panoramic poster/calendar by Gus Foster with reproduction of the image “Sunflowers, Wallace County, Kansas,” 1997;
2000:0047:0001 -- Columbia College, Chicago “Lectures in Photography”” series, Fall 2000 ;
2000:0067:0001 -- Stu Levy, “The Silver Image Gallery,” 1984;
2000:0067:0002: Stu Levy, “Mississippi Mud,” 1989.

Location(s):

Flat File (Gernsheim Collection posters)
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Flat File (Gernsheim Collection posters)
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Flat File (Gernsheim Collection posters)
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