Guide to the Barbara Singley Collection 1987.0030

Enid Ocegueda
California Museum of Photography
2015
3824 Main Street
Riverside 92521


Contributing Institution: California Museum of Photography
Title: Barbara Singley Collection
Identifier/Call Number: 1987.0030
Physical Description: 1 box Box contains 144 stereographs
Date (inclusive): 1870-1963
Abstract: The collection contains the personal stereograph collection of Barbara Singley Hitchcock, granddaughter of B.L. Singley, founder of the Keystone View Company. This collection notably contains a few stereo views of the Singley Family.
Language of Material: English .

Scope and Contents

The Barbara Singley Collection consists of 144 stereo views that Mrs. Barbara Singley Hitchcock personally collected. Within this collection there are thirty-six stereo views from other stereograph companies, twenty-five stereo views of WWI, and twenty-one stereo views of the Singley Family.

Biographical / Historical

Barbara Singley Hitchcock is daughter of Lloyd Singley, son of the late B.L. Singley, who, in 1892, founded the Keystone View Company in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Barbara Singley married Mr. Lawrence Sill Hitchcock in 1947 and published a cookbook in 1993, titled "Casserole Cooking."

Arrangement

No original order had been maintained during processing. Currently arranged within six sections: (1) Keystone Buff Cards - Arranged by Negative Number (2) Keystone "Story" Cards - Arranged by Negative Number (3) Keystone Gray Cards - Arranged by Negative Number (4) WWI Series 1-36 - Arranged by Negative Number (5) Other Stereograph Company Series (6) Family of B.L. Singley

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was donated by Barbara Singley Hitchcock (Mrs. Lawrence S. Hitchcock), granddaughter of B.L. Singley in 1987.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright has been assigned to the UCR/California Museum of Photography. All requests for permission to publish reproductions from photographs or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Collections.

Preferred Citation

Barbara Singley Collection, Gift of Barbara Singley Hitchcock, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research, by appointment.

Processing Information

Processed by Enid Ocegueda, August 2015

 

Keystone Buff Cards

 

Keystone "Story" Cards

 

Keystone Gray Cards

 

World War I Series 1-36

 

Other Stereograph Company Series

 

Family of B.L. Singley