Carpenter Center: Photography Archives
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| Fax | (617) 495-8170 |
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| Address: | Carpenter Center: Photography Archives
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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| Extent of Collections: | Greater than 60,000 items. |
| Dates: | 1840-1999 |
| Holdings Description: | History of photography section includes photographs by William Henry Jackson, Timothy O’Sullivan, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Hosef Koudelka, O. Winston Link, Minor White, and others; Social Ethics Collection on Social Reform in the United States, 1895-1910, including photographs by Francs Benjamin Johnston, Percy Byron, J.H. Adams, Lewis Hine, and many anonymous photographers; Social History of America Collection contains a large group of negatives and prints from professional photographers’ studios, 1929-1965. Major subject area is American social life and customs, including the history of wedding photography and death.
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| Contact for permission to publish requests: | Barbara Norfleet or Suzanne Greenberg swgreenb@fas.harvard.edu |
| Reproduction services: |
| Photographic reproduction services. |
| Photocopying by staff only. |
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Please address comments and updates to archinfo@hulmail.harvard.edu.
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