Description: |
The collection consists of 2,164 color slides (35 mm and 2 x 2 inch ) taken by the artist and art instructor William Lewis Lester (American, 1910-1991). A variety of places and subjects are represented including: Austin, Texas; Colorado; of various local and international scenes. The photographer's subject groupings follow.
Mounted 2 x 2 inch slides
997:0071:0001-0011 -- Sketching Campbell’s Hole, Spring 1960;
997:0071:0012-0019 -- Campfire at Campbell’s Hole, Jones Farwell, 1960;
997:0071:0020-0025 -- Summer Breakfast, Campbell’s Hole, 1959;
997:0071:0026-0034 -- Corpus del Mar, Feb. 1959;
997:0071:0035-0043 -- Corpus Coast / Sloans, Feb. 1959;
997:0071:0044-0055 -- Allan Jr. High [School] ruins, 1956;
997:0071:0056-0065 -- Allan Jr. High [School] ruins - fire, 1956;
997:0071:0066-0071 -- Goat Ranch, San Antonio, Sylvia, Virginia, 1957;
997:0071:0072-0076 -- Bull Creek, May 1957;
997:0071:0077-0089 -- Best of Bull Creek, 1957;
997:0071:0090-0098 -- Best of details of the fields;
997:0071:0099-0106 -- Best of details of the fields;
997:0071:0107-0115 -- Details of field, graveyard, pastures, flowers, cedar stumps;
997:0071:0116-0127 -- Best in miscellaneous landscapes, April 1957;
997:0071:0128-0138 -- Miscellaneous landscapes, April 1957;
997:0071:0139-0147 -- Miscellaneous Architecture;
997:0071:0148-0157 -- Wildflowers and sunsets, April 1957;
997:0071:0158-0169 -- Best of old houses and old buildings;
997:0071:0170-0181 -- Best of old houses and old buildings;
997:0071:0182-0192 -- Miscellaneous figures and street scenes;
997:0071:0193-0202 -- Miscellaneous figures and street scenes;
997:0071:0203-0252 -- Best of San Francisco, 1960;
997:0071:0253-0270 -- New Orleans, 1958;
997:0071:0271-0291 -- Rockport with the McBees, 1961;
997:0071:0292-0298 -- On the way to Rockport, 1961;
997:0071:0299-0317 -- Padre Island with Sylvia, 1963;
997:0071:0318-0334 -- Colorado, 1947;
997:0071:0335-0345 -- White Sands, 1974;
997:0071:0346-0353 -- Big Bend, 1959;
997:0071:0354-0392 -- Walls / Abstraction in general / Etc.;
997:0071:0393-0437 -- Best California coast, 1960;
997:0071:0438-0485 -- Campbell’s Hole;
997:0071:0486-0548 -- Best of New York, 1957;
997:0071:0549-0561 -- Painting Class, Spring 1961;
997:0071:0562-0570 -- Big Bend, 1957;
997:0071:0571-0573 -- Miscellaneous;
997:0071:0574-0596 -- Hamilton’s Pool and Pedernales, 1957;
997:0071:0597-0717 -- Seconds;
997:0071:0718-0768 -- Siena and San Gimignano Buildings and Monuments, 1960;
997:0071:0769-0851 -- Italy. Rome - North by auto, 1975;
997:0071:0852-0930 -- Florence - people, windows, markets - Arezzo, 1968;
997:0071:0931-0960 -- Paris to Madrid to Ávila, 1964;
997:0071:0961-0989 -- Toledo, 1964;
997:0071:0990-1040 -- Best of Paris, 1964;
997:0071:1041-1090 -- Alps, Montreux, Burgundy, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Verona, 1964;
997:0071:1091-1134 -- Venice, Ravenna, (dbl. images?), 1964 / San Marcos, 1968;
997:0071:1135-1183 -- Venice, Ravenna (canals, back streets), 1964;
Mounted 35 mm slides
997:0071:1184-1196 -- [Unlabeled];
997:0071:1197-1224 -- Lake Powell #1, Sept. 1979;
997:0071:1225-1258 -- Zion #1, Sept. 1979;
997:0071:1259-1282 -- Barton Springs / Zilker Park, 1978;
997:0071:1283-1307 -- Between Lake Powell and Zion, Sept. 1979;
997:0071:1308-1335 -- Lake Powell, Zion seconds, 1979;
997:0071:1336-1388 -- Seconds, Wyoming / Colorado, 1981;
997:0071:1389-1423 -- Telluride;
997:0071:1424-1461 -- Teton Park, NE Utah;
997:0071:1462-1488 -- NE Utah, Teton Park, 1981;
997:0071:1489-1522 -- Aspen and desert landscape / Kit Karson [sic, Carson] / Million Dollar Highway / Sky;
997:0071:1523-1568 -- Landscapes;
997:0071:1569-1602 -- Kit Karson [sic, Carson] PK, Ouray - Silverton, Other Landscapes, 1981;
997:0071:1603-1631 -- Mexico, Spain, NY, Paris;
997:0071:1632-1648 -- Italy;
997:0071:1649-1713 -- Spain, Selection #3, 1982;
997:0071:1714-1739 -- Seville, Carmona, 1982;
997:0071:1740-1755 -- Plasencia, Salamanca, Zamora, 1982;
997:0071:1756-1765 -- Arcos de la Frontera, Carmona;
997:0071:1766-1831 -- Spain Selection #1, 1982;
997:0071:1832-1899 -- Spain Selection #2, 1982;
997:0071:1900-1920 -- Miscellaneous Spain, 1982;
997:0071:1921-1930 -- Évora, Portugal, 1982;
997:0071:1931-1943 -- Granada, 1982;
997:0071:1944-1958 -- Portugal Southeast and Albufeira, 1982;
997:0071:1959-1969 -- Mérida, Cáceres, 1982;
997:0071:1970-1991 -- Seconds, Spain, 1982;
997:0071:1992-2001 -- Segovia, 1982;
997:0071:2002-2014 -- Ronda, Malaga, 1982;
997:0071:2015-2024 -- Toledo, Jaén, 1982;
997:0071:2025-2035 -- Loua, Carmona, 1982;
Unmounted 35 mm slides
997:0071:2036-2060 -- Leaville [Leadville?] and Misc. Landscape, 1981;
997:0071:2061-2085 -- Teton Park and Misc., 1981;
997:0071:2086-2111 -- Telluride, 1981;
997:0071:2112-2117 -- NE Utah;
997:0071:2118-2141 -- Kit Karson [sic, Carson], Ouray, Silverton, 1981;
Unmounted 2 x 2 inch slides
997:0071:2142-2164 -- Reconsider.
Slides of Lester's travels in Mexico and Central America form the William Lester Slide Collection that is located at the Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin (http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/00168/lac-00168.html). |
