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Call Number: |
PH-00074 |
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Collection Name: |
Fritz Henle Photography Collection |
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Creator: |
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No. of Items: |
1,262 photographs |
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Span Dates: |
circa 1930s-circa 1990s |
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Description: |
The holdings by Fritz Henle (American, 1909-1993) include landscapes, travel views, and images related to the Cities Service project (circa 1953) and general oil industry in Texas and Louisiana, as well as portraits of area residents made in Ceylon, China, Germany, Haiti, Hawaii, India, Japan, the Middle East, and the Virgin Islands, and in Paris, France and New York; nudes; and intimate portraits of Pablo Casals. Approximately 1,025 gelatin silver and 213 color prints. Time period represented early 1930s to present. Also a portfolio titled Mexico, containing 24 silver gelatin prints. Time period of photographs 1936 to 1945, portfolio assembled circa 1945. This collection also includes five audiocassettes, four of which are recordings Henle made with Marta Casals, the cellist's widow. The other is a discussion between Henle and Heini Vogler. |
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Access Restrictions: |
48-hour advance notice is required to access the oversize nude photograph. For additional information, please contact Reading and Viewing Room Staff.; Digital surrogates for the sound recordings in this collection are not currently available. For more information, please contact Reading and Viewing Room Staff. |
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Location(s): |
Contact Reading and Viewing Room Staff Sound Recordings Flat File (Posters) Flat File (Posters) Flat File (979:0035:0004, 0044-0047: 982:0004:0009) Henle, F., Box 1 (Korea, Japan, China, Ceylon, & India) Henle, F., Box 2 (Early work) Henle, F., Box 3 (Middle East, Italy, Crete, Greece, & Mexico) Henle, F., Box 4 (New York) Henle, F., Box 11 (Contact sheets) Henle, F., Box 5 (New York) Henle, F., Box 6 (Logan, West Virginia) Henle, F., Box 7 (New Orleans, 1936) Henle, F., Box 8 (Hawaii, America, Paris, Germany, & misc. Europe) Henle, F., Box 10 (Paris) Henle, F., Box 12 (Haiti, 1958 & Virgin Islands) Henle, F., Box 13 (The Caribbean) Henle, F., Box 9 (Paris, 1938 master prints) Henle, F., Box 14 (The Caribbean) Henle, F., Box 15 (Nudes, portraits & personalities) Henle, F., Box 16 (Portraits of Frida Khalo, Diego Rivera, & Miguel Covarrubias) Henle, F., Box 18 (Color prints: 13 unaccessioned prints) Henle, F., Box 19 (Color prints: 12 unaccessioned prints) Henle, F., Box 20 (Color prints: 6 unaccessioned prints) Henle, F., Box 21 (Color prints: 10 unaccessioned prints) Henle, F., Box 22 (Color prints) Henle, F., Box 23 (Color prints: 989:0017:0001-0008; 989:0018:0001-0011; 988:0112:0001, 0007) Henle, F., Box 25 (Color prints: 990:0004:0001-0013) Henle, F., Box 26 (Cibachrome Prints, 1983: 982:0051:0001-0010; 985:0044:0001-0005) Henle, F., Box 27 (Cibachrome Prints, 1983, 982:0051:0011-0030; 986:0019:0025-0028) Henle, F., Box 24 (Color prints: 999:0004:0001-0004) Henle, F., Box 28 (991:0031:00XX-0029; 991:0032:0001) Henle, F., Box 29 (Master Prints: Italy, the United States, Virgin Islands, Germany, the Bahamas, Mexico, and Henle's magazine/fashion work) Henle, F., Box 30 (Master prints: Industrial scenes in Germany, Fashion Work, 988:0111:0051-0101; 988:0112:0003; 989:0019:0001-0022) Henle, F., Box 31 (Nudes master prints) Henle, F., Box 32 (Nudes series) Henle, F., Box 33 (Nudes series, Mussolini) Henle, F., Box 34 (Nazi parade, Mussolini, Borges) Henle, F., Box 37 (Movie set) Henle, F., Box 38 (Movie set) Henle, F., Box 39 (Misc., 991:0035:0001-0002) Henle, F., Box 35 (China, cities services & oil industry) Henle, F., Box 36 (Cities services & oil industry) Henle, F., Box 40 (Misc.) Henle, F., Box 42 (Mexico portfolio 983:0024:0001-0024; 3 unaccessioned prints) Henle, F., Box 17 (Henle ephemera, NY Studio, Virgin Islands show and personal photos: 979:0057:0001-0002; 980:0016:0001-0016; 981:0001:0001-0014) Henle, F., Box 41 (Blue Book Reproductions [Pablo Casals book], 987:0036:0006-0023) Henle, F., Box 43 (Industrial, 2012:0028:0001-0024) Henle, F., Box 44 (Industrial, 2012:0028:0025-0048) Flat File (Germany-Exhausted mine-worker print; 985:0043:0003) Flat File (3 unaccessioned prints) Curatorial permission required (Prints made for HRC exhibition in Henle temp boxes 1-5) Flat File (986:0004:0002-0003; 986:0019:0019-0020; 986:0072:0001; five unaccessioned prints) Flat File (986:0004:0001, 0004; 988:0112:0009; seven unaccessioned prints) Flat File (990:0004:0012-0013; 2004:0005:0001; thirteen unaccessioned prints) Flat File (4 unaccessioned prints) Flat File (19 unaccessioned prints) Flat File (982:0051:0016; 984:0015:0031; 984:0056:0070; 988:0112:0004; 990:0004:0011; 995:0019:0025, 0027; 2004:0026:0015, 0031; eight unaccessioned prints) Flat File (986:0019:0024; 12 unaccessioned prints) Flat File (982:0051:0018; 989:0017:0008; 2004:0026:0018-0019; 2009:0011:0001-0007; seven unaccessioned prints) Flat File (986:0038:0003, 0056a) 48-hour advance notice required Screen Storage (Oversize nude) |
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