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The collection consists of materials collected by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim. The collection maintains the organization, which is generally by subject or location, devised by the Gernsheims. Boxes and brief descriptions of their contents follow. Select subjects are followed by a number in parentheses that indicates the number of prints present.
Box 1, Subjects: Aeronautics to Scientific -- Aeronautics (964:0102:0001-0003); Children (964:0102:0004-0007); Dance, theatre, music, circus acts and magicians (964:0102:0008-0024); Polar explorers (964:0102:0025); Railroads (964:0102:0026-0028); and Scientific and experimental photographs (964:0102:0029, 964:0103:0001-0004).
Box 2, Subjects: Ships to Unidentified -- Ships and sailors (964:0102:0029-0041, 964:0102:0116); Sports and games (964:0102:0042-0061, 964:0731:0003-0005); Women workers (964:0102:0062); Photo collages and photomontages (964:0165:0001-0004); Unidentified architecture (964:0102:0063-0079); Unidentified landscapes (964:0102:0080-0086); Unidentified people (964:0102:0087-0089); and Unidentified groups of people (964:0102:0090-0115).
Box 3, Men and Women Identified -- Photogravures of identified people (964:0166:0001-0013); Identified individuals in alphabetical order (964:0717:0001-0043); Photographs of identified individuals (964:0338:0001-0003, 964:0717:0044-0062); Portrait of unidentified woman (964:0609:0001). Identified individuals include Roald Amundsen, Otto von Bismarck, Albert Einstein, Henrik Ibsen, Koch, Maurice Maeterlinck, Guy de Maupassant, Karl Marx, Mill, John Ruskin, Smiles, Walt Whitman, Emile Zola, John Leighton, Eadweard Muybridge, and Antoine Claudet.
Box 4, People -- Approximately half of the people featured are identified. Many of the prints are mounted and were likely removed from albums. The photographs include single and group portraits, people outdoors engaged in sports and other activities, and Westminster Abbey. Some of the photographs were reproduced in the Gernsheims' publications (964:0104:0001-0210).
Box 5, Royalty -- Edward VII (964:0105:0001-0008); Alexandra (964:0105:0009); Alfred (964:0105:0010-0014); George V (964:0105:0015-0017); British royalty railcars (964:0105:0018-0023); British peerage (964:0105:0024-0031); and European royalty and peerage (964:0105:0032-0040).
Box 6, Movie Stars -- Photographic prints of early to mid-20th century American and British actors and actresses, most of whom are identified. Among those included are: Fred Astaire, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Noel Coward, Joan Crawford, Dame Edith Evans, Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Groucho Marx, James Mason, David Niven, Vincent Price, Shirley Temple, Rudolph Valentino, John Wayne, and Orson Welles (964:0106:0001-0067). Also included are six autographed, tabloid tear sheets that include the following: Rod La Rocque, Greta Nissen, Gloria Swanson, and Anna May Wong (964:0106:0068-0073).
Box 7, British Groups -- Unidentified groups (964:0107:0001); Identified groups (964:0107:0002-0010); Political meetings (964:0107:0011-0013); Aldershot (964:0107:0014-0015); Dry dock for Great Eastern (964:0107:0016-0017); HRH and staff (964:0107:0018); British military regiments (964:0107:0020-0024); Russian battleship (964:0107:0025); and Meeting of the British Association at Bath (964:0107:0026). The photograph formerly described as "End of Opium War (panorama)" was transferred to the Felice Beato Photography Collection (PH-01008) and is listed under the accession number 964:0107:0019.
Box 8, News and Historic Events, Captioned -- Various news events (964:0108:0001-0024).
Box 9, World War II -- Nazi Concentration Camps issued by the British Ministry of Information (964:0109:0001-0025); Attack on the West issued by the British Ministry of Information (964:0109:0026-0062); Freeing the Port of Antwerp (964:0109:0063-0074); New Army Weapons (964:0109:0075-0085); Rocket Firing Aircraft (964:0109:0086-0097); [Torpedoes] (964:0109:0098-0116); Liberation of Europe (964:0109:0117-0118); Invasion “Supply Line” Lies Offshore (964:0109:0119); and unidentified (964:0109:0120).
Box 10, Locations: Afghanistan to Madeira Islands -- Afghanistan (964:0110:0001-0002); Africa (964:0110:0003); Australia (964:0110:0004-0006); Austria (964:0010:0007-0009); Belgium / Denmark (964:0110:0010-0016); Egypt (964:0010:0017-0032); Egypt -- Suez War (964:0010:0033-0044); Greece (964:0010:0045-0057); India -- Adamanese (964:0010:0058-0060); Japan (964:0010:0061); and Madeira Islands (964:0010:0062-0063). This box also contains three photographs that are not part of this collection: two photographs from the Felice Beato Photography Collection (PH-01008), listed in that collection record under the accession numbers 964:0124:0001-0002; and one print from the Unidentified Photographers (non-Gernsheim) Photography Collection (PH-00384), listed in that collection record under the accession number 959:0011:0003.
Box 11, Locations: Malta to Switzerland -- Malta (964:0111:0001-0004); The Netherlands (964:0111:0005-0006); Norway (964:0111:0007-0013); Pakistan (964:0111:0014); Penang (964:0111:0015-0018); Portugal (964:0111:0019-0021); Singapore (964:0111:0022-0024); South Africa (964:0111:0025-0031); Spain (964:0111:0032); Switzerland (964:0111:0033-0059); and unidentified (964:0111:0060).
Box 12, England Identified -- Buildings and structures (964:0112:0001-0020); London miscellaneous scenes (964:0112:0021-0027); London street scenes (964:0112:0028-0038); Beach scenes (964:0112:0039-0045); Castles (964:0112:0046-0056); Colleges and universities (964:0112:0057-0060); Harbor scenes (964:0112:0061-0063); Interiors (964:0112:0064-0070); Landscapes (964:0112:0071-0089); and Architecture (964:0112:0090-0103); and Art reproduction of stained glass window (964:0722:0001). Also included in this box are six prints from the Unidentified Photographers (non-Gernsheim) Photography Collection (PH-00384), listed in that collection record under accession numbers 959:0011:0004-0009.
Box 13, England Unidentified -- Street scenes (964:0013:0001-0004).
Box 14, France -- Cathedrals (964:0114:0001-0005); Chateaux (964:0114:0006-0012); French Military including from the Franco-Prussian War (964:0114:0013-0017); Paris (964:0114:0018-0033); Towns and villages (964:0114:0034-0044); Miscellaneous (964:0114:0045-0047). Also included in this box are two prints, which are of Amiens and Reims cathedrals, from the Unidentified Photographers (non-Gernsheim) Photography Collection (PH-00384). They are listed in that collection record under accession numbers (2001:0060:0005-0006).
Box 15 - German architecture -- Aachen (1 item); Berlin (7 items); Braunschweig (1 items); Cassel (2 items); Cologne (7 items); Dresden (7 items); Frankfurt (1 item); Heidelberg (2 items); Lubeck (5 items); Meissen (1 item); Munich (2 items); Stuttgart (4 items); Unidentified (25 items).
Box 16 - Italy -- Florence (3 items); Misc. photos (2 items); Naples (7 items); Pompey (12 items); Rome (4 items); Venice (17 items); Other cities (6 items).
Box 17 - India -- Misc. (25 items); Afghan War (22 items); British in India (12 items).
Box 18 - Scotland, Ireland, and Wales (26 items).
Box 19 - Photographs of works of art (76 items). Included are the 1860-1861 Prospectus for the Art Union of Glasgow (Glasgow: [Art Union of Glasgow], 1861) [copy 1] . Three pages on 1 sheet, folded, accompanied by three copies of "the very beautiful line engraving on steel, by Lumb Stocks, after the painting by W. P. Frith, R.A., entitled "Many Happy Returns of the Day." Albumen prints, individually mounted (964:0126:0001-0003), and 1860-1861 Prospectus for the Art Union of Glasgow (Glasgow: [Art Union of Glasgow], 1861) [copy 2] . Three pages on 1 sheet, folded, accompanied by "a selection of Parian Statuettes". Albumen prints of five different neoclassical statues, individually mounted. Three of the statues are after William Beattie and depict the three muses Thalia, Terpsichore, and Euterpe (964:0127:0001-0003). The other two are of a winged nike and a woman, possibly Rebecca, with an urn (964:0127:0004-0005).
Box 20 - Not on Gernsheim’s list and prints from unknown source(s), most identified -- Samuel Morris House; Six prints of California images (6); Circa 1870 fire engine (purchased) see back; Snow scene with buildings (Oregon?); Cloud Cap Inn near Mt. Hood, Oregon; Six people sitting on porch; Large group of men & boys (boys school), 980:0033:0032; Five women & child holding bouquets of flowers – 980:0033:0033; Woolsworth Building, New York; US government survey parties & sailboat at San Francisco; Two African American women playing banjo, circa 1930; G. W. Barker & Peter Reid at Niagara Falls, 1868; Couple sitting at Niagara Falls, 1875; A group of eight people printed in on a view of Niagara (?) River, circa 1892.
Box 21 - Framed print mounted on canvas -- People in horse-drawn bus (964:0121:0001).
Box 22 - Mounted photos from “Views of the Orient” show (964:0122:0001-0002).
Box 23 - Oversize box -- Art works (5); Views of Japan (#10, 11, 16 missing) (10 items).
Select item-level information for prints in the aforementioned boxes follows.
964:0037:0001 -- Unidentified photographer. Portrait of unidentified boy, circa 1870. Albumen print, 18.4 x 13.7 cm (oval image); 25.7 x 20.5 cm (sheet). Item originally attributed by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim to Julia Margaret Cameron;
964:0122:0002 -- Unidentified photographer. Execution of 'Namoa' Pirates, 1891, 1891. Albumen print, 21 x 27 cm (print); 29.7 x 38.7 cm (mount). The mount is likely a page from an album; on the other side of the page is 964:0122:0001 -- Lai, Fong (Chinese, 1839?-1890). Street in Canton, 2 Aug. 1893, 1893. Albumen print, 28.8 x 23.6 cm (print;
964:0122:0003 -- Unidentified photographer. Kowloon. 11th May. 1891, 1891. Albumen print, 20.9 x 27 cm (print); 29.7 x 38.7 cm (mount). The mount is likely a page from an album; on the other side of the page is 964:0122:0004. The image shows the 'Namoa' pirates after being beheaded;
964:0122:0004 -- Unidentified photographer. Chinese Women. 1893, 1893. Albumen print, 20.9 x 27 cm (print); 29.7 x 38.7 cm (mount). The mount is likely a page from an album; on the other side of the page is 964:0122:0003;
964:0609:0001 -- Unidentified photographer. Portrait of unidentified woman, circa 1873. Albumen print. Inscribed by Helmut Gernsheim along top edge of mount verso: "Paper watermarked top left-hand corner 'S & C Malmedy' (Belgium) / c. 1873". Stamped lower center, mount verso: "GERNSHEIM COLLECTION";
964:3502:0001-0003 -- Three photographs related to Sir Edward O'Mally, M.P., on verso of 964:3501:0003;
964:3506:0001 -- Unidentified photographer. Snapshot of Guilhermina Suggia (Portuguese, 1885-1950) playing her cello outside, likely 1900s. Gelatin silver print, 12.7 x 8.8 cm;
964:3506:0002 -- Unidentified photographer. Snapshot of two women and a boy outdoors; the woman at left may be the cellist, Guilhermina Suggia (Portuguese, 1885-1950), likely 1900s. Gelatin silver print, 13.6 x 8.6 cm. |
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Special permission required Light Sensitive Materials Box 2 (964:0156:0001-0010; 964:0157:0001-0008)
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H Box, Medium (964:3457:0016, 0019)
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S Box, Small (964:3506:0001-0002)
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X Box, Medium (964:3501:0003; 964:3502:0001-0003)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 01, Subjects: A - Sci (964:0102:0001-0029; 964:0103:0001-0004)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 02, Subjects: Shi - Unid (964:0102:0029-0116; 964:0165:0001-0004; 964:0731:0003-0005)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 03, Men & Women Identified (964:0166:0001-0013; 964:0338:0001-0003; 964:0609:0001; 964:0717:0001-0062)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 04, People (964:0104:0001-0210)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 05, Royalty (964:0105:0001-0040)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 06, Movie Stars (964:0106:0001-0073)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 07, British Groups (964:0107:0001-0026)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 08 - News & historic events (964:0108:0001-0024)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 09, World War II (964:0109:0001-0120)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 10, Locations: Afg - Mad (959:0011:0003; 964:0110:0001-0063; 964:0124:0001-0002)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 11, Locations: Mal - Swi) (964:0111:0001-0060)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 12, England Identified (964:0112:0001-0104)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 13, England Unidentified (964:0113:0001-0004)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 14, France (964:0114:0001-0047)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 15 - German architecture (964:0115:0001-0063)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 16 - Italy (964:0115:0064; 964:0116:0001-XXXX)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 17 - India (964:0117:0001-)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 18 - Scotland, Ireland, and Wales (964:0118:0001-)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 19 - Photographs of works of art (964:0119:0001-)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 20 - Not on Gernsheim's list (964:0120:0001-)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 21 - Framed print mounted on canvas (964:0121:0001)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 22, Views of Orient (964:0122:0001-0004)
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Unid. Gernsheim Box 23 (964:0123:0001-)
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