Series 1: Barbara Morgan exhibition materials
1923-2006
Administrative/Biographical History
While best known for her dance photography, Barbara Morgan produced and exhibited a wide range of artistic works. Exhibitions
showcased Morgan's drawings, gouache, lithographs, oil paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and woodcuts, light drawings, photograms,
and photomontage, in addition to her other photographs.
Morgan's work has been featured in solo and group shows all over the world, including national and international traveling
exhibitions. In the United States, notable institutions that organized exhibitions include George Eastman House and the International
Museum of Photography, MoMA, and the Smithsonian Institution's National Gallery of Art, National Museum of History and Technology,
and National Portrait Gallery. Morgan's work has also been exhibited internationally, in Germany, France, Japan, Sweden, Italy,
and Egypt.
Morgan's solo exhibitions were among her most significant showings. One of her early major photography exhibits,
Modern American Dance, was organized by the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art in the mid-1940s. This show traveled in both the United States
and internationally, visiting Cuba and parts of South America, where the exhibit was known as
La Danza Moderna. After gaining notoriety as a photographer, Morgan eventually returned to some of her earlier creative methods. Her 1961
exhibit at the Ruth Sherman Gallery was one of her first major drawing and painting exhibits during this period of her life.
A major retrospective exhibit of Morgan's photography was installed at MoMA in 1972.
Scope and Content
This series relates to exhibitions of Barbara Morgan's works of art between the 1920s and mid-2000s. Materials include correspondence,
publicity documents (such as fliers, press releases, and reception invitations), checklists and catalogs, loan agreements,
reviews, notes, receipts, and congratulatory letters. Some of these materials document lectures and seminars Morgan gave in
conjunction with her exhibitions.
Several folders also contain photographic prints, panoramic photographs, slides, and negatives of Morgan's exhibition installations.
Exhibitions with extensive photographic documentation include her 1934 painting exhibition at the Mellon Galleries, 1969-1970
show at the National Museum of History and Technology, and 1977 photography exhibition at Marquette University.
Morgan's exhibitions with less documentation are arranged by decade at the end of the series, followed by other exhibition-related
materials, including exhibition requests and correspondence, lists, notes, and other photographic documentation. The exhibition
lists are rough lists, created by Morgan, of her exhibitions between 1925 and 1986. Collector lists are of individuals or
organizations that own Morgan's works. The numbered list of works of art (Box 218, folder 14) contains the names and serial
numbers of her drawings, paintings, and prints created between 1920 and 1967. The numbers correspond to those written in pencil
on the verso of most of the pieces in Series 10: Barbara Morgan's drawings, paintings, and prints. The photographic documentation
of her works of art are images that have not been attributed to a specific exhibition. Exhibition notes are planning-related.
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box 1, folder 1
4th
Weltausstellung der Photographie
1976-1977
box 1, folder 2
VII Photographers Gallery
1962-1963
box 1, folder 3
92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association,
Famous Faces at the Y: 1934-1974
1974
box 1, folder 4
253 Gallery of Photographic Art,
Visions and Vistas
1985-1986
box 1, folder 5
Akron Art Museum,
A History of Women Photographers
1996-1997
box 1, folder 6
American Craftmen's Council,
Visual Communication in the Crafts
1960
box 1, folder 7
American Repertory Dance Company,
Gestures of Life: Martha Graham's Legacy through the Lens of Barbara Morgan
2003-2004
box 1, folder 8-11
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
1970-1974
box 1, folder 12
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art,
Masterworks from the Photography Collection
1980-1981
box 1, folder 13
Aperture Foundation,
Aperture at 50: A Celebration of Photography
2002
box 1, folder 14-15
Arizona State University
1961-1962
box 1, folder 16-17
Baldwin Street Gallery of Photography
1978-1980
box 1, folder 18
Barnard College,
American Modern Dance: 1935-1945, Highlights of Dance Productions by Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman
1991
box 2, folder 1-2
Bennington Festival of the Modern Dance
1938-1944
Scope and Content
Photographs from the festival were used to create a traveling catalog of Morgan's work that circulated through four rounds
of tours between 1939 and 1942.
box 2, folder 3
Boston Women's Collective,
Women: A Photographic Exhibition
1973-1978
box 2, folder 4
Briarcliff Public Library,
Barbara Morgan: Photographs and Drawings
1965
box 2, folder 5
Bruce Museum,
Images of Dance
1981
box 2, folder 6
Bruce Silverstein Gallery,
Barbara Morgan: Leaps and Bounds
2001
box 2, folder 7
Bruce Silverstein Gallery,
Invisible Urges: Prints, Drawings, Watercolors, & Photographs, 1921-1980
2006
box 2, folder 8
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts,
In the American Grain: Barbara Morgan Photographs, 1935-1944
2000
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Scope and Content
Includes one 3 1/2 inch floppy disk labeled "In the American Grain: Barbara Morgan Photographs 1935-1944." Label indicates
the disk contains a price sheet and curator's text.
box 2, folder 9
Camera Obscura Gallery,
Barbara Morgan: Retrospective
2002
box 2, folder 10
Carnegie Institute of Technology
1964-1965
box 2, folder 11
Ceeje Galleries,
Barbara Morgan: Paintings, Photographs
1963-1965
box 2, folder 12
Chateauvallon Dance Festival
1982
box 2, folder 13
Chrysler Museum of Art
1985
box 2, folder 14-15
Chrysler Museum of Art,
Martha Graham Dance Photographs by Barbara Morgan
2005
box 2, folder 16
Columbia University,
A Portfolio of the Dance
1939
box 2, folder 17
Columbus Museum,
An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital
circa 2001
box 2, folder 18
Connecticut College Dance Festival
1959
box 2, folder 19
Daniel Wolf Incorporated,
Barbara Morgan: Limited Editions
1981
box 2, folder 20
Danziger Gallery,
Barbara Morgan: A Retrospective
1999
box 2, folder 21
Daytona Beach Community College
1989-1990
box 2, folder 22
Detroit Jewish Community Center
1945
box 3, folder 1
Detroit Public Library
1954
box 3, folder 2
Doris Humphrey Repertory Dance Company
1992-1994
box 3, folder 3
Douglas Elliott Gallery,
Barbara Morgan: 55 Year Retrospective
1980
box 3, folder 4
Equivalents Gallery
1979-1981
box 3, folder 5
Erie Art Museum,
Light on the Feet: Masters of Dance Photography
2001
box 3, folder 6
Exchange National Bank of Chicago
1968-1974
box 3, folder 7
Five College Dance Department,
Riffing on a Tradition: Pearl Primus and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
2002
box 3, folder 8
Floating Foundation of Photography
1982
box 3, folder 10
Fotografiska Museet,
Tusen och en bild
1977-1979
box 3, folder 11
Franklin Institute Science Museum,
Lensless Photography
1982-1984
box 3, folder 12
Friends of Photography
1970-1971
box 3, folder 13
Galerie Zabriskie
1981-1984
box 3, folder 14
Gallery 292,
Barbara Morgan: Visual Metaphor
1997
box 3, folder 15
George Eastman House
1957
box 3, folder 16
George Eastman House,
The Invisible World Revealed
1960
box 3, folder 17
George Eastman House
1964-1965
box 3, folder 18
Harvey School for Boys,
Barbara Morgan: Drawings and Watercolors
1970
box 3, folder 19
Hastings Creative Arts Council,
Barbara Morgan: Photographs and Paintings
1977
box 3, folder 20
Hoff-Barthelson Music School
1961-1962
box 3, folder 21
Holden Luntz Gallery,
All that Jazz
2004
box 3, folder 22
Hollis Taggart Galleries,
Important Modernist Works on Paper
1997
box 153, folder 2
Hollis Taggart Galleries,
Concerning Expressionism
1998
box 3, folder 23
Howard Greenberg Gallery,
Dance in America
1996
box 3, folder 24
Hudson River Museum
1965-1966
box 3, folder 25
Hudson River Museum,
Light and Lens
1973
box 3, folder 26
Hudson River Museum,
Women in America: The Second Hundred Years
1975
box 3, folder 28
Infinite Eye Gallery
1975
box 4, folder 1
Institute of American Indian Arts
1971-1974
box 4, folder 2
International Center of Photography,
Remarkable American Women
1976-1977
box 4, folder 3-7, box 153, folder 2
International Center of Photography,
Recollections: Ten Women of Photography
1977-1983; 1990
box 4, folder 8-10
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House,
Barbara Morgan: Photomontage
1979-1982
box 4, folder 11
Iona College,
Barbara Morgan 1935-1945: Dialogues with Dance
1994
box 4, folder 12
Jacob Burns Film Center,
Martha Graham: Photographs by Barbara Morgan
2004
box 4, folder 13
Jane Corkin Gallery
1980-1982
box 4, folder 14
Jeffrey Fuller Fine Art,
Barbara Morgan: Photographs, Paintings, Drawings
1981-1982
box 4, folder 16
Johns Hopkins Hospital
1979-1980
box 4, folder 18
Kathleen Ewing Gallery,
Barbara Morgan: Martha Graham, Sixteen Dances in Photographs, and Photomontage
1981-1982
box 5, folder 1
Katonah Gallery
1960-1987
box 5, folder 2
Kingpitcher Gallery for Contemporary Art
1973
box 5, folder 3
Larchmont Public Library
1979
box 5, folder 4
Laurence Miller Gallery,
Barbara Morgan: The Spirit of New York 1930-1945
1993
box 5, folder 5
MacDowell Colony,
Seven Decades at the Colony
1976
box 5, folder 6-9
Marquette University
1976-1978
box 5, folder 10-12, box 153, folder 3, box 215, folder 3
Marquette University,
Barbara Morgan: Prints, Drawings, Watercolors and Photography
1982-1990, 1996
box 5, folder 13
Marquette University
2000
box 5, folder 14, box 153, folder 4
Marquette University,
Faces of Modern Dance: Barbara Morgan Photographs
2004
Scope and Content
Material related to the exhibition and accompanying catalog of the same name. For the photographic prints exhibited in the
Marquette University exhibit, as well as works included in earlier versions of the exhibition checklist, see Series 9: Barbara
Morgan photographic material, Subseries 9.2: Dance photography.
box 5, folder 15-16
Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance,
50th Anniversary Celebration
1975
box 5, folder 17
Marymount College, Tarrytown,
Shadows, Light, Movement: Moments in American History
1991
box 5, folder 18
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Light 7
1968-1969
box 5, folder 19
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Being Without Clothes
1970
box 5, folder 20
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Eye of the West: Camera Vision and Cultural Consensus
1977-1978
box 6, folder 2
Middle Tennessee State University
1977-1978
box 6, folder 4-5
Montclair Art Museum
1970-1971
Scope and Content
Includes acetate negatives
box 6, folder 6
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
1972
box 6, folder 7
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
1978
box 6, folder 8
MoMA,
In and Out of Focus
1948-1950
box 6, folder 9-10
MoMA,
Family of Man
1954-1955
box 6, folder 11-14
Museum of Modern Art
1971-1972
box 7, folder 1
Neikrug Galleries,
Why Photography?
1974-1975
box 7, folder 2
Neuberger Museum of Art
2002
box 7, folder 3
Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst,
Frauen in der Kunst
1977
box 7, folder 4
New Canaan Library,
Drawings: Barbara Morgan
1960
box 7, folder 5
New York Public Library
1939; 1997
box 7, folder 6
Ohio Silver Gallery
1971-1972
box 7, folder 7
Orange County Art Association,
Super Cream
1973
box 7, folder 8
Ovo Photo,
Femmes Photographes
1974
box 7, folder 9
Palazzo Fortuny,
Fotografia y Danza
1981
box 7, folder 10
Philadelphia Museum of Art
1970-1973
box 7, folder 11
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
In Her Own Image
1973
box 7, folder 12
Phoenix College
1970-1972
box 7, folder 13
Photographic Resource Center,
Locomotion
1989-1990
box 7, folder 14
Photo Graphics Workshop
1978-1980
box 7, folder 15
Photography in the Fine Arts,
PFA Exhibit II
1959-1960, 1965
box 7, folder 16
Photography in the Fine Arts,
PFA IV
1962-1963
box 7, folder 17
Photography in the Fine Arts,
1965 New York World's Fair Exhibition
1965
box 7, folder 18
Photography in the Fine Arts,
PFA V
1966-1967
box 7, folder 19
Photography Place
1971-1977
box 7, folder 20
Port of History Museum,
Choreographics: Twentieth Century Dance Photography
1986
box 7, folder 21
Public Library of Newark New Jersey
1960
box 7, folder 22
Queensborough Community College
1984
box 7, folder 23
Rochester Institute of Technology,
Stillness and Mobility
1977-1978
box 330, folder 9-10, box 349, folder 6
Rochester Institute of Technology
1989
box 8, folder 1-4, box 188, folder 3
Ruth Sherman Gallery
1960
box 8, folder 5
St. Louis Art Museum,
Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century
1997
box 8, folder 6
San Francisco Museum of Art,
Women of Photography
1975
box 8, folder 7
Scarsdale Historical Society,
The Role of Women in Westchester, 1850-1979
1979
box 8, folder 8
Sidney Janis Gallery,
The Photographer and the Artist
1975-1976
box 8, folder 9-10
Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art, Inter-American Office,
Modern American Dance/La Danza Moderna
1944-1946
box 8, folder 11-13
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of History and Technology,
Women, Cameras, and Images IV: Barbara Morgan
1968-1970
box 8, folder 14
Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery,
Portraits of the American Stage: 1771-1971
1971
box 8, folder 15
Society for Photographic Education, New York Region,
SPEctrum
1973
box 8, folder 16
Soho Triad Fine Arts
2001
box 8, folder 17
Squibb Gallery,
A Tribute to Dance
1979
box 9, folder 1
Stanford University,
The Dance of Life in a Variety of Media
1990-1991
box 9, folder 2
Summit Art Center,
Images of Women
1978
box 9, folder 3
Sweet Briar College,
Barbara Morgan: Images of Dance and Movement
1990
box 9, folder 4
Temple University,
Women/Image/Nature
1980-1981
box 9, folder 5
United States Information Agency
1956-1960
Scope and Content
This folder contains materials relating to two exhibitions:
I Hear America Singing and
The American Spirit. It appears the two exhibitions displayed the same works but had different titles. Both were international group photography
exhibits based in Germany.
box 9, folder 6
United States Information Agency,
Photography USA
1975
box 9, folder 7
United States Information Agency,
Reflections: Images in America
1975
Scope and Contents
Includes material on two exhibitions exhibited in Germany titled
I Hear America Singing and
The American Spirit.
box 9, folder 8
United States Office of War Information
1945
box 9, folder 9
University of California, Berkeley
1962
box 9, folder 10-11
University of Michigan Museum of Art,
I See America Dancing: Photographs by Barbara Morgan
1991-1992
box 9, folder 12-13
University of Missouri, St. Louis,
Light Abstractions
1979-1981
box 9, folder 14
University of New Mexico,
Early 20th Century Photography
1976-1978
box 9, folder 15
Vision Gallery of Photography
1980-1981
box 9, folder 16
Walton Arts Center,
Radiant Movement: Dance Photographs by Barbara Morgan
2004
box 9, folder 17
Washington Gallery of Photography
1975-1976
box 9, folder 18
Wellesley College, Jewett Arts Center,
Ten New England Women Photographers
1971-1972
box 9, folder 19
Wesleyan University, Davison Art Center,
American Document: Barbara Morgan Dance Photographs
2005-2006
box 9, folder 20
Westchester Art Society
1964
box 10, folder 1
Westchester Art Society,
Juried Exhibition of Graphics 1970
1970
box 10, folder 2
White Plains Public Library
1975
box 10, folder 3
Whitney Museum of American Art
1959
Scope and Content
This exhibit was not a public event. It was displayed for museum staff as an opportunity for them to view and become acquainted
with artwork from their collection.
box 10, folder 4
Whitney Museum of American Art,
Photography in America
1971, 1973-1975, 1977
box 10, folder 5
Whitney Museum of American Art,
The Working Woman, 1840-1945
1979-1980
box 10, folder 6-7
William M. Lyons Gallery
1980-1981
box 10, folder 8-9
Williams College Museum of Art
1979-1980
box 10, folder 10
Witkin Gallery,
Photographs by Barbara Morgan, Naomi Savage, Nancy Sirkis
1969
box 10, folder 11
Witkin Gallery,
Tenth Anniversary Show
1979
box 10, folder 12
"Woman Photograph Man" /
Women Photograph Men
1976-1978
Scope and Content
"Woman Photograph Man" was a slide presentation given at the 1976 International Women's Arts Festival that was later published
as the book
Women Photograph Men. The book had its own traveling exhibition. Materials in this file pertain to both events.
box 10, folder 13
Women Look at Women
1974-1976
box 10, folder 14
Women See Woman
1973-1976
box 10, folder 15
Women's Art Symposium
1976-1977
box 11, folder 2
Exhibitions (includes slides)
1970s
box 11, folder 3
Exhibitions (includes slides)
1980s
box 11, folder 6
Exhibitions
circa 1930-2006
box 11, folder 7
Exhibition requests and correspondence, A-L
1940-1991
box 11, folder 8
Exhibition requests and correspondence, M-Z
1940-1991
box 11, folder 9
Exhibition lists
1925-1986
box 11, folder 11
Exhibition notes
circa 1943-1979
box 11, folder 10
Collectors lists
circa 1961
box 218, folder 14
Numbered list of drawings, paintings, and prints
circa 1967
box 218, folder 2, box 436, folder 1
Documentation of works of art - photographic prints
circa 1920s-1930s, 1960s-1980s
box 316, box 317, box 318, folder 3-5, box 319, folder 3-4, box 320, box 321, box 322, box 218, folder 3, box 601, box 602, box 603, box 604
Documentation of works of art - slides
1930s-1980s
Scope and Content
This material consists of reproduction slides (2 x 2 format, glass, and strip film) depicting Barbara Morgan's works of art,
Barbara and Willard's photographs of the Southwest, some of Willard's other photographs, and some images by others.
box 188, folder 7, box 218, folder 4-13
Documentation of works of art - slides, transparencies, and contact prints
circa 1930s-1940s, 1980s
Scope and Content
This material consists of slides, transparencies, contact prints, and other photographic material of Barbara Morgan's works
of art. Also included is early color slide film of Martha Graham, other dancers, and the Morgan family.
Series 2: Barbara Morgan correspondence
1923-2004
Scope and Content
This series comprises Barbara Morgan's personal and professional correspondence, including friends and acquaintances who were
artists, and friends from her youth in California.
Subseries 2.1: Personal correspondence
1923-1990
box 12, folder 1-28
Abbott-Boyes
1939-1986
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Bill Agee, Laura Andreson, Merle Armitage, Isadora Bennett, Patrick
Bensard, and Valerie Bettis.
The Ansel Adams folder includes a copy of Adams'
Recollected Moments inscribed to Barbara Morgan. Additional correspondence from Ansel Adams, primarily related to his
Basic Photo book series, is in Series 20: Publishing company materials.
box 13, folder 1-19
Breitenbach-Casalini
1942-1985
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Marilyn Bridges, Peter Bunnell, Shirley Burden, Joseph Campbell & Jean Erdman, and Paul Caponigro.
box 14, folder 1-26
Chandler-DeLackner
1927-1986
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Claudia Chapline, Leonora Clark, Walter Clark, Van Deren Coke, Barbara Confino, Imogen Cunningham,
Merce Cunningham, Asadata Dafora, Worden Day and Dale DeArmond.
Also includes many letters from a former boyfriend, Marcelo Concepcion, dated 1919-1921.
box 15, folder 1-4, box 16, folder 1-9, box 188, folder 4
Delano, Annita
1923-1976
Scope and Content
Boxes 15 and 16 contain correspondence between Barbara Morgan and her lifetime friend Annita Delano. One segment of Morgan's
letters to Annita were saved by Delano and returned to the Morgan family after her death. The two friends continued to correspond
by mail throughout their lives, but not all of the letters were acquired by the family; thus not found in the collection.
Five letters from Barbara to Annita from the early 20s are held in the Annita Delano papers at the Archives of American Art.
Box 15. 1923-1929. Primarily Barbara Morgan's letters to Annita Delano.
Box 16 is primarily Annita Delano's letters to Barbara Morgan. Also includes sketches, wood block prints, and other artwork
by Delano.
box 17, folder 1-31
DeLuca-Frackman
1934-1990
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Jack Deschin, Otto Doering, Barbara Doering, Lucy Doering, and Eugene Exman.
box 18, folder 1-28
Frank-Hammang
1929-1987
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Andres Galvan, Laura Gilpin and Martha Graham.
box 19, folder 1-22
Haskell-Jacobi
1938-1988
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Doug Haskell, Helen Haskell, Erick Hawkins, Paul Henrickson, Jamake Highwater, Hanya Holm, Doris
Humphrey, Russell Vernon Hunter, and Lotte Jacobi.
The Lotte Jacobi folder also includes a few photographs by Jacobi, some of which feature Barbara Morgan. For other Morgan
portraits by Jacobi, see Series 19: Family materials.
box 20, folder 1-38
James-Lowe
1937-1985
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Harry James, Una Johnson, Indira Kallianpurkar, Marcia Keegan, Eleanor King, Dee Knapp, Dorothea
Lange, Russell Lee, José Limón, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gertrude Lippincott, and Diana Loercher.
box 21, folder 1-30
Luke-M
1938-1990
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Margaret Marshall, Sophie Maslow, and László Moholy-Nagy.
box 22, folder 1-21
Nagrin-Pashgian
1932-1990
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Daniel Nagrin, J.B. Neumann, Dione Neutra, Beaumont Newhall, Nancy Newhall, Bob Osborne, and
Elodie Osborne.
There is more correspondence from Dione Neutra in Series 14: Willard Morgan architecture photography and projects. Beaumont
Newhall correspondence also includes biographical articles and exhibition catalogs.
box 23, folder 1-14
Patnaik-Prestini
1965-1988
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Deba Patnaik, Shirley Pelou, Francois Pelou, and James Prestini.
In addition to letters, James Prestini sent Barbara Morgan photocopied news articles accompanied by his typed philosophical
commentary. Folders include both correspondence and commentary, as well as biographical information about Prestini. Correspondence
related to their collaborative book project
Prestini's Art in Wood is in Series 4: Barbara Morgan photographic projects.
box 24, folder 1-7
Prestini
1970s
Scope and Content
Includes additional philosophical commentary by James Prestini.
box 25, folder 1-6
Prestini
1979-1984
Scope and Content
Includes additional philosophical commentary by James Prestini.
box 26, folder 1-14
Prestini-Ronquillo
1941-1986
Scope and Content
Includes additional philosophical commentary from James Prestini, and correspondence with Jerome Pryor, Kitty Reeve, Alastair
Reid, Jean Reynolds, and Leon Ronquillo.
box 27, folder 1-28
Ross-Sternal
1943-1986
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Arthur Rothstein, Gail Russell, James Sage, Elsa Schmid, Alice Sipley, Eugene Smith, Albert Stadler,
and Edward Steichen.
Arthur Rothstein's folder includes holiday cards featuring photos of Rothstein and his family, with each family member holding
a different type of camera.
box 28, folder 1-24
Stodelle-Van Slyke
1940-1990
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Ernestine Stodelle, Roy Stryker, John Szarkowski, Helen Tamiris, Jerry Uelsmann, and Beren Van
Slyke.
box 29, folder 1-24
Van Tuyl-White
1929-1987
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Marian Van Tuyl, Erlo Van Waveren, Bertha Wardell, Al Weber, Marian Wenzel, Brett Weston, Edward
Weston, Harold Weston, and Minor White.
In addition to correspondence, Minor White folders also include material related to his 1972 book and exhibition
Octave of Prayer, and his memorial.
box 30, folder 1-28
Whiting-unidentified
1924-1988
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Frederick Wight, William Carlos Williams, Courtia Worth, Claire Yaffa, Richard Zakia, Carl Zigrosser,
and William Zorach.
box 31, folder 1-6
Sympathy letters - death of Willard Morgan
1967
box 32, folder 1-7
Holiday cards
1930s-1970s
box 193, box 194
Correspondence photocopies
undated
Subseries 2.2: Business correspondence
1938-2004
box 35, folder 1-33
Addison Gallery - Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc.
1938-1995
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with the Amon Carter Museum, the Archives of American Art, Bennington College, Ceejee Gallery,
The Christian Science Monitor, Christie's, DaCapo Press,
Dance Magazine, the Dance Notation Bureau, and Duell Sloan & Pearce, Inc.
box 36, folder 1-32
Eastern Buddhist Society - KCET
1944-1987
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with the Edgemont School, the Frederick Wight Gallery, Friends of Photography, Hanya Holm Dance Project,
International Center of Photography, International Museum of Photography/George Eastman House, and the Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston.
International Museum of Photography/George Eastman House folders include material related to Barbara Morgan's contribution
to
The Photographer's Cookbook, compiled by the Museum in 1977 and published by Aperture in 2016.
box 37, folder 1-33
Len Hartnett Archival Products - Philadelphia Museum of Art
1938-2004
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with the Library of Congress, Light Gallery, the Martha Graham Foundation, the Martha Graham School
of Contemporary Dance, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Weston Naeff, the New York Public Library,
the NYU Department of Dance and Dance Education, the New York World's Fair, and the Pasadena Art Museum.
box 38, folder 1-32
Photographer's Gallery - Tucker, Anne
1955-1990
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Pomona College, Princeton University Libraries, Progresso Fotografico, Sarah Lawrence College,
and the Smithsonian Institution.
box 39, folder 1-19
United States Atomic Energy Commission - Westchester Art Society
1953-1985
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Witkin Gallery, who represented Barbara Morgan during the later part of her career.
box 40, folder 1-15
Women See Men - business correspondence 1990s
1938-1990s
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Worcester Art Museum, and folders of miscellaneous correspondence and business correspondence
dating from 1938-1990s organized chronologically.
box 41, folder 1-20
Outgoing correspondence A-Z
1940s-1980s
Series 3: Barbara Morgan professional materials
1929-2000s
Scope and Content
Correspondence and other materials related to the professional use and management of Barbara Morgan's photographic material.
Business records include documentation of sales, permission requests, and grant applications. Photo date books created by
Morgan catalog her work by title, dates and numbers. Also includes material on the
Barbara Morgan Dance Portfolio, published in 1977.
"Permanence files" include correspondence, notes, and published materials reflecting Morgan's interest and research in the
archival preservation of her photographic work.
Subseries 3.1: Business records
1929-1990s
Scope and Content
Barbara Morgan's business files reflect the management, use, and disposition of her photographic work. Files include sales
records and permission requests, as well as grant applications, material related to the
Barbara Morgan Dance Portfolio, published in 1977, and potential plans for the future care of her prints and negatives. Materials include two photo date
books Morgan kept to catalog her work, which document her organizational system and includes subjects, negative numbers, and
dates for her photographs. Negative numbers in the photo date books correlate with those that are written on negatives and
appear on contact sheets and other prints throughout the collection. The photo date books (Box 44, folder 9; and Box 45, folders
1 and 2) also provide an overview and inventory of Morgan's photography throughout her career.
box 42, folder 1
Apprentices, possible
1972-1976
box 42, folder 3
Archives - UCLA photograph project
1967
box 42, folder 4
Archives - UCLA photograph project
1967
box 42, folder 5
Archives - UCLA photograph transfer
1973-1974
box 42, folder 6
Archives - notes
circa 1957
box 42, folder 7
Archives - grant possibilities
1970s
box 42, folder 8
Auction and sale catalogs
1970s-1990s
box 42, folder 9
Bills and utilities
1929-1941
box 42, folder 11
Categories of inventory
1980
box 42, folder 12
Collecting the Photograph symposium
1975
box 42, folder 13
Collector contacts
1960s-1970s
box 42, folder 14
Color organ research
1934-1935
box 42, folder 15
Color organ - mobile color
1953
box 43, folder 1
Dance requests
1930s-1940s
box 43, folder 3
Dance Portfolio - essays and text
1976-1977
box 43, folder 4
Dance Portfolio - orders
1977-1981
box 43, folder 5
Dance Portfolio - supplemental
1976-1977
box 43, folder 6
Dance Portfolio - publicity, mock-ups
1976-1977
box 43, folder 9
Grants - CAPS (Creative Artists Public Service Program)
1971-1972
box 43, folder 10
Grants - Guggenheim Foundation
1939-1940
box 43, folder 11
Grants - Guggenheim Foundation
1971-1975
box 43, folder 12
Grants - Guggenheim Foundation - letters of recommendation
1939
box 43, folder 13
Grants - National Endowment for the Arts
1975-1981
box 43, folder 14
Grants - letters of recommendation
1981
box 43, folder 16
Legal and copyright questions
1970s
box 44, folder 1-8
Permission for reproduction
1944-1980s
box 44, folder 9
Photograph date book
1937-1956
box 45, folder 1
Photograph date book
1972
box 45, folder 2
Photograph date book (copy)
1972
box 45, folder 3
Possible touring show
circa 1961
box 45, folder 4
Pricing for photographs
1960s-1970s
box 45, folder 5
Prospective galleries
1960s-1990s
box 45, folder 7-8
Requests for information by Barbara Morgan
1958-1979
box 45, folder 9-10
Requests for information about Barbara Morgan
1950s-1977
box 46, folder 1
Submitted photographs
1970s
box 46, folder 3-5
Sales - photographic prints
1960s-1980
box 46, folder 6
Sales - postcards
1977-1979
box 46, folder 7
Sales - posters
1977-1979
Subseries 3.2: "Permanence" files
1944-1979
Scope and Content
Notes, correspondence, and other material related to Barbara Morgan's research and interest in the archival preservation of
her own photographs. Included in the Ansel Adams folder is a letter Adams wrote to Morgan outlining his photographic processing
procedure, which Morgan kept hanging on the wall of her darkroom.
box 47, folder 5
Archival problems in processing
1975
box 47, folder 6
Archival - Regional Center for Conservation of Photographic Prints
1975
box 47, folder 7
Archival supplies
1964-1975
box 47, folder 8
Institute for Graphic Communication - Conservation of Photographs conference
1970
box 47, folder 10
Nitrate film
1978
Conditions Governing Access
Materials in the Nitrate film, 1978 file include cellulose nitrate film unavailable for access. This nitrate film must be
digitized in order to be available for access. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for
more information.
box 47, folder 11
Ostroff - photo permanency
1979
box 47, folder 12
Permanence conference
1969-1970
box 47, folder 13
Photograph notes - processing
undated
box 47, folder 15
Technical - photography - platinum - Candelario
1944
Subseries 3.3: Published photographs
1930s-2000s
Scope and Content
Copies of printed material in which Barbara Morgan's photographs appeared, including books, magazines, and various ephemera,
such as theater playbills.
box 48, folder 1-6, box 49, folder 1-5, box 50, folder 1-4, box 436, folder 12-13, box 440, folder 3, box 196, folder 5
Martha Graham photographs
1930s-2000s
box 50, folder 5-6, box 151, folder 1-5
Other dance photographs
1930s-2000s
box 152, folder 1-6, box 153, folder 5
Other photographs
1930s-2000s
box 209, folder 4-5
Unknown photographs
1930s-2000s
Scope and Contents
Box 209 contains two folders of photographic magazines, including
Camera and Darkroom,
Popular Photography,
Life,
National Geographic,
Art On Paper, and
ARTnews.
Series 4: Barbara Morgan photographic projects
1930s-2008
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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Scope and Content
This series contains material generated from Barbara Morgan's major photography projects, including the Bennington College
Festival of Modern Dance, the books
Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs,
Summer's Children,
Presitini's Art in Wood, and others, as well as numerous smaller projects, such as photography for colleges and other schools. Materials for her
project and book ideas are also included.
See also Subseries 19.5 for materials related to the Morgan family project,
Growing Americans (Chicken Movie.)
The photographic materials included in this series consist of photographic prints, contact sheets and prints, and negatives.
The photographic prints range from small (up to 8 x 10 format), to medium (up to 16 x 20 format), to large (over 16 x 20 format).
Subseries 4.1: Bennington College Festival of Modern Dance
1938-1982
1938-1939
Scope and Content
This subseries contains correspondence and other documentation related to Barbara Morgan's photographs of the Bennington College
Festival of Modern Dance in 1938. It also includes a range of photographic prints, contact sheets and prints, and negatives.
box 51, folder 2
Correspondence about photographs
1938-1969
box 448, folder 1
Photographic prints (large)
undated
Scope and Content
Box 448, Folder 1 contains 8 x 10 prints of Graham dancers matted on a large foamcore board.
box 336, box 348, folder 3-4, box 371, folder 6
Photographic prints (medium)
1938
Scope and Contents
Box 336. 1935-1938, undated. Black and white prints, 8 x 10 and larger, printed on 11 x 14 photographic paper, unmounted.
20 folders (20 prints), including Martha Graham: with Erick Hawkins at Bennington (non-dance on grass, sky background), Graham
solo at Sarah Lawrence, and in
Deep Song and
Ekstasis (torso); Hawkins in
American Document; Graham and Group in
American Provincials,
Deaths and Entrances. Also includes experimental double exposure dance prints.
8 x 10 prints, mounted, include Graham in
Deaths and Entrances, and Tamiris-Nagrin in
When the Saints Go Marching In.
box 51, folder 5-9
Photographic prints (small)
1938, undated
Scope and Contents
This box includes 8 x 10 vintage prints of the dancers at Bennington in 1938 in rehearsal, backstage in costuming and make-up,
casual group and with Louis Horst. Also includes portraits of musicians, critic John Martin, and dancers Martha Graham and
Erick Hawkins, Graham and Hawkins with Graham Group, Charles Weidman, Doris Humphrey, and one folder of 4 x 5 contact prints
of Graham, Hawkins, Cunningham, Bettis, Humphrey, Si Lan Chen, and Holm.
Folder 6 includes a list of dancers and dances performed at Bennington with Morgan photograph numbers.
This box also includes correspondence with Barbara Morgan regarding her photographs and her invitation as official photographer
of the Bennington Festival, a transcript of an interview with Barbara Morgan by Theresa Bowers regarding the Bennington Summer
School of the Dance Project, publicity and printed ephemera.
box 51, box 290, box 302, box 305, box 433, box 434, box 435, box 454, box 458, box 462, box 463, box 558, box 562, box 563
Cut film - negatives and contact prints
1938, undated
Scope and Contents
Boxes 51 (folder 10), 290, 302, 305, 433, 434, and 435, 454, 458, 462, 463, and 562 contain 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha
Graham and other dancers at Bennington College.
Boxes 434, and 435, 454, 458, 462, 463, 562, and 563 contain 4 x 5 negatives of Martha Graham and other dancers at Bennington
College, including Hanya Holm with Louis Horst and goat; Bill Bales and Charles Weidman; Weidman dancer Lee Sherman; Erick
Hawkins; Doris Humphrey with Charles Weidman; Harvey Rerr; stage designer Arch Lauterer; Ethel Butler directing Graham rehearsal
under a tent; Ralph Gilbert; Frances Hawkins; Hausley; Ray Green; John Martin; Bessie Schonberg; Norman and Ruth Lloyd; Kurt
Sachs; Ted Glass; Francisca Boas; Marian Van Tyl; May O'Donnell; Bennington campus and casuals with Bennington dancers.
For detailed descriptions of the 4 x 5 negatives and contact prints, see Subseries 9.8 Cut film (4 x 5 format and smaller)
negatives and contact prints, 1920s-1970s, undated.
Box 558 contains 5 x 7 and 35mm negatives of Martha Graham and Group, Graham and Hawkins (35mm color and black and white transparencies),
Louis Horst, and candid shots of other dancers at Bennington College, 1938. Also includes Graham and Group in Primitive Mysteries.
Other subjects in Box 558 include Sabro Hasagawa, copy negatives of Edward Weston photographs, Otis Art Institute student
work 1925, Barbara Morgan experimental and nature photographs, slides and negatives of Barbara Morgan photographic exhibitions.
Subseries 4.2: Book projects
1930s-1997
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email spec-coll@library.ucla.edu.
Scope and Content
This subseries contains correspondence, reviews, publicity, photographic material, and other documentation of Barbara Morgan's
major photography book projects. It also includes the typescript and photographic material for an unrealized book project
about Marie James, the Morgan family's cook and housekeeper.
box 52, folder 1-9
Barbara Morgan (Aperture)
1964
box 1, folder 10
Barbara Morgan (Aperture - Masters of Photography Series)
1988
box 52, folder 11-14
Barbara Morgan (monograph)
1972-1973
box 53, folder 1-2
Barbara Morgan Photomontage
1980-1981
box 201, folder 1-2, box 241, folder 1
Martha Graham book - early model with loose photographic prints
circa 1930s, undated
box 53, folder 3-9
Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances In Photographs - correspondence, publicity, reviews
1941-1947
box 53, folder 10-16, box 208, folder 4
Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances In Photographs - revised edition
1963-1981
box 436, folder 2
Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances In Photographs - loose sketch
circa 1930s-1940s
box 202, folder 1-3, box 203, folder 1-4, box 204, folder 1-4
Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances In Photographs - book boards
circa 1930s-1940s
box 205, folder 1-3, box 206, folder 1-5
Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances In Photographs - boards and notes
circa 1930s-1940s
box 207, folder 1-3, box 208, folder 1-3
Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances In Photographs - 1968(?) 3rd edition boards & BBM notes
1930s-1980s
box 54, folder 1-8, box 55, folder 1, box 440, folder 1-2
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp - correspondence, book jackets, publicity, reviews
1944-1991
box 56, folder 9-10, box 209, folder 1-3
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp - first editions
1951
Scope and Content
The items consist of five hardbound first editions: two in orange cloth and three in blue cloth. One has a dust jacket, two
have been inscribed by Barbara Morgan to others, and one has been inscribed by others at a book release party for Morgan.
box 385, folder 7
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp - photographic prints (large)
circa 1930s-1950s, undated
box 323, folder 3-4, 14-23, box 364, folder 14
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp - photographic prints (medium)
circa 1930s-1950s, undated
Scope and Contents
Box 364. 1945. Girl Playing Recorder. 16x20 print.
box 55, folder 1-13, box 56, folder 1-3, 5-6
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp - photographic prints (small)
circa 1930s-1950s
box 56, folder 8
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp - photographic prints by Willard
circa 1930s
box 56, folder 4, box 436, folder 3, box 341, folder 1-10, box 353, folder 1-10
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp - New York Public Library Reading Room photographic prints
circa 1944-1948
box 210
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp - Kodak show mounted photographic prints
1940s-1950s
Scope and Content
Photographs mounted on thick, painted wooden circles and squares.
box 313, box 314
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp - contact sheet books
circa 1930s-1950s
box 56, folder 7, box 608, folder 1
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp - negatives
circa 1950s
box 607, folder 1
Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp - contact prints and negatives
1930s-1950s
box 57, folder 1-16
Marie James project - typescript
1947
box 58, folder 1-4
Marie James project - introduction, notes
1947
box 58, folder 5
Marie James project - table of contents
1997
box 58, folder 6-11
Marie James project - photocopy of typescript
1997
box 58, folder 12
Marie James project - obituary and personal
1979
box 58, folder 13
Marie James project - photographic prints
circa 1947
box 58, folder 14
Marie James project - wire recordings
circa 1947
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email spec-coll@library.ucla.edu.
Subseries 4.3: Buddhism materials
circa 1955-1976
Scope and Content
This subseries contains materials related to Barbara Morgan's work on Buddhism, especially on D.T. (Daisetsu Teitaro) Suzuki
and the spread of Zen in the West.
For additional portraits, see Series 9: Barbara Morgan photographic material, Subseries 9.6: People and Animals (including
Strobe Series).
box 61, folder 2, box 188, folder 8
box 61, folder 3
Suzuki-related correspondence
1956-1974
box 61, folder 4
Suzuki and Alan Watts
1957-1966
box 61, folder 6
Kalmuk Tibetan Buddhist Colony (Freewood, New Jersey) - photographic prints
circa 1955
box 61, folder 7-8
Misc. Tibetan, Suzuki, and others - photographic prints
circa 1955, undated
box 61, folder 9
Misc. Tibetan, Suzuki, and others - contact prints
circa 1955
box 608
Misc. Tibetan, Suzuki, and others - negatives
circa 1955
Scope and Contents
Box 608 includes color and black and white negatives of Kalmuk Buddhists in Freewood Acres, New Jersey. Wesley Needham-Dilowa
Hutktu-Wanjo. February 27, 1955.
Subseries 4.4:
Prestini's Art in Wood project materials
1945-1989
Scope and Content
This subseries contains correspondence, publicity, photographic prints, and negatives related to
Prestini's Art in Wood, a collaborative project between Barbara Morgan and the sculptor James Prestini, featuring Morgan's photographs of Prestini's
wooden bowls. Copies of the finished book are also included.
Prestini and Morgan were friends and corresponded for many years, with Prestini sending Morgan philosophical commentary about
current events in addition to letters. See also Subseries 2:1: Personal Correspondence.
box 59, folder 1-4
Correspondence and publicity
1945-1989
box 59, folder 5-7
Dummy editions and first editions
1950
box 323, folder 2, box 437, folder 1
Photographic prints (medium)
circa 1948-1950
box 60, folder 4-7
Photographic prints (small)
circa 1949-1950
box 59, folder 8-9, box 60, folder 1-3
Subseries 4.5: Sarah Lawrence College photographic work
1955-1957
Scope and Content
This subseries contains material related to Barbara Morgan's Sarah Lawrence College photographic work, including images for
the College catalog of campus buildings, classes, students, and professors; images from a student trip to Canada; and of Martha
Graham dancing on campus in 1937.
For additional portraits of people, see Subseries 9.6: People and Animals (including Strobe Series).
box 344, folder 4, box 437, folder 2-5
Photographic prints (medium) - campus life, people, and Canada trip
circa 1954-1956
box 336, folder 7-9
Photographic prints (medium) - Martha Graham
1937, undated
Scope and Contents
Box 336. 1935-1938, undated. Black and white prints, 8 x 10 and larger, printed on 11 x 14 photographic paper, unmounted.
20 folders (20 prints), including Martha Graham: with Erick Hawkins at Bennington (non-dance on grass, sky background), Graham
solo at Sarah Lawrence, and in Deep Song and Ekstasis (torso); Hawkins in American Document; Graham and Group in American
Provincials, Deaths and Entrances. Also includes experimental double exposure dance prints.
8 x 10 prints, mounted, include Graham: Deaths and Entrances, and Tamiris-Nagrin in When the Saints.
box 211, folder 10-15, box 212, folder 1-32, box 213, folder 1-19
Photographic prints (small) - campus life, people, and Canada trip
1955-1956
box 211, folder 7
Photographic prints (small) - Martha Graham
1937, undated
box 213, folder 20, box 315
Contact sheet books
1955-1956
box 435, box 536, box 561
Cut film - negatives and contact prints
1937, 1955-1956
Scope and Contents
Box 435. 1938-1957. 4 x 5 negatives and contact prints of Sarah Lawrence College photographic work, including fencing, buildings,
jazz musician Martin Gornley, Doris Riker, and students in various venues and activities. This box also includes negatives
and contact prints of Martha Graham, May O'Donnell and others at the 1938 World's Fair, and Hanya Holm at Bennington College.
Box 536. Undated. Contains negatives and contact prints of Sarah Lawrence College, and other subjects.
Box 561. 1955-1957. Contains negatives of Sarah Lawrence College. Corresponds with contact prints in Box 435.
box 214, folder 1, box 608, folder 2
Roll film - negatives and contact sheets
circa 1955
Subseries 4.6: Other projects
1936-2008
Scope and Content
This subseries contains documentation of other projects Morgan took on, as well as some posthumous uses of her work, including
photography for other schools, various dance-related projects, dance reconstructions, and her occasional book design work,
such as for the
World of Albert Schweitzer and a collaboration between Morgan, Martha Graham, and William Carlos Williams for the portrait
War Theme.
box 61, folder 1
Anais Observed, Robert Snyder
1974
box 63, folder 5
Calendar -
To the Dance
1988
box 63, folder 6
Cards and postcards
1940s-1990s
box 216, folder 1-2, box 188, folder 9
Clarkville School - photographic prints
1949
box 216, folder 3
Clarkville School - contact prints
1949
box 61, folder 10
Conquest of Civilization - jacket photomontage
1938
box 216, folder 4-5, box 437, folder 6
Dalton School - photographic prints
circa 1941
box 216, folder 6
Dalton School - image lists with digitized thumbnails
undated
box 216, folder 7, box 437, folder 7
Dalton School - "Children M+D L+D" photographic prints
circa 1940s-1950s
box 607, folder 2
Dalton School - contact prints and negatives
circa 1930s-1950s
box 63, folder 7
Dance reconstruction - Accelerated Motion
2005
box 63, folder 8
Dance reconstruction - Brooklyn Academy of Music
1994
box 63, folder 9
Dance reconstructions
1960s-1990s
box 429, folder 5
Deba Patnaik book - negatives and contact prints
1930s-1940s, 1990s, undated
1930s-1940s
box 61, folder 11, box 62, folder 1
"DP Book" (Deba Patnaik) - photographic prints and contact prints
1930s-1940s, undated
box 62, folder 4
Edgemont High School - negatives and contact sheets
1957
box 62, folder 3
Ginn Reading Program - children's book
1981
box 216, folder 8, box 430, folder 3-5, box 437, folder 8
Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund - photographic prints, contact sheets, and negatives
circa 1956, 1958
box 62, folder 5
Louis Horst and the American Dance - with Ernestine Stodelle
1964
box 62, folder 6-7
Other Ernestine Stodelle projects
1990-1995
box 62, folder 2
Doris Humphrey centennial
1995
box 62, folder 8
Phillips Exeter Academy
1936
box 216, folder 10
Diego Rivera, New Workers School, 1933 - photographic prints
undated
box 62, folder 9-11
Smith College - correspondence and publications
1959-1960
box 211, folder 1
Smith College - photographic prints and contact prints
1959-1960
box 211, folder 2-3
Technique of Martha Graham, Alice Halpern
1994
box 211, folder 4
To Lighten My House, Alastair Reid
1953
box 211, folder 5
To Lighten My House, Alastair Reid - photographic prints and acetate negatives
circa 1953
box 211, folder 6
War Theme - William Carlos Williams and Martha Graham
1944-2008
box 63, folder 1
Women's Photography Journal
1976
box 63, folder 2-4
World of Albert Schweitzer
1954-1955
box 607, folder 3
Unidentified negatives (Barbara Morgan)
Subseries 4.7: Book and project ideas
1930s-1970s
Scope and Content
This subseries includes plans for photography books or projects, and other writings and ideas for photographic work. The folder
contents range from official proposals directed to publishing companies to research material and annotations. This material
somewhat overlaps with Series 5: Barbara Morgan writings, Subseries 5:3: Unpublished writings.
box 64, folder 1
Book - Child's Thoughts
1952
box 64, folder 2
Book - City Theme
circa 1937
box 64, folder 4
Book - Modern Dance (with Charles Woodford)
1975
box 64, folder 5
Book - Papago Indians
1952
box 64, folder 7
Book - Signs of Manhattan
1957
box 64, folder 8
Book - Tibetan Mudras
1954-1964
box 64, folder 9
Book - United Nations
1954
box 65, folder 1
Book themes, quotes, research data
1969
box 65, folder 2-7
Writing and photography ideas
1940s-1950s
Series 5: Barbara Morgan writings
1917-1980s
Scope and Content
The Barbara Morgan writings series ranges from published articles to notes and annotations about art, photography, and other
subjects. It also includes her draft of the unpublished photography work
Dynamics of Composition, personal journals, and "Think Books," in which Morgan recorded her thoughts and philosophies about art, religion, and other
subjects.
Subseries 5.1: Published articles
1927-1970s
Scope and Content
This subseries includes drafts, notes, and final copies of Morgan's published articles on photographic philosophy and technique.
box 66, folder 1
"Abstraction in Photography" -
Encyclopedia of Photography
1962
box 66, folder 2
"Advancing Photography as a Fine Art" -
Encyclopedia of Photography
1962
box 66, folder 3
"The Art of Photography"
1949
box 66, folder 4
"The Art of Photography in Trends Today"
circa 1950
box 66, folder 5-6
"Aspects of Photographic Interpretation" -
General Semantics Bulletin
1965
box 66, folder 7
"Birth and Proliferation of the Photographic Image" -
Aperture
1962
box 66, folder 8-10
"Dance Photography" -
Complete Photographer, Encyclopedia of Photography, U.S. Camera
1940-1965
box 66, folder 11
"Dynamics of Composition" -
Leica Manual
circa 1970s
box 66, folder 12-13
"Esthetics of Photography" -
Complete Photographer, Encyclopedia of Photography
1942, 1962
box 66, folder 14
"Is Black and White Better than Color?" -
Modern Photography
1952
box 66, folder 15-16
"Juxtapositions in Photography" -
Complete Photographer, Encyclopedia of Photography
1942, 1962
box 66, folder 17
"Kinetic Design in Photography" -
Aperture
1953
box 66, folder 18
"The Meaning of Modernism in Art" -
Artland
1927
box 66, folder 19
"Modern Dance" -
Popular Photography
1945
box 67, folder 1
"My Creative Experience With Photomontage" -
IMAGE Journal
1971
box 67, folder 2
"Photographer's Ego Vs An Anonymous Medium" -
Spectrum Magazine
1956
box 67, folder 3
"Photographing Martha Graham"
1972
box 67, folder 4
"Photographing the Dance" -
Graphic Graflex
1947
box 67, folder 5
"Photography, The Youngest Visual Art" -
Magazine of Art
1942
box 67, folder 6-8
"Photomontage" -
The Complete Photographer, Encyclopedia of Photography, Miniature Camera Works
1938-1962
box 67, folder 9
"Russell Lee, Photographer" -
Retrospective Exhibition Catalog
1965
box 67, folder 10
"The Scope of Action Photography" -
The Complete Photographer
1941
box 67, folder 11
"The Theme Show: A Contemporary Exhibition Technique" -
Aperture
1955
box 67, folder 12
Book review:
Under the Sun by Lyons, Lebrott, Chappell -
Aperture
1961
Subseries 5.2: Dynamics of Composition
1960s-1970s
Scope and Content
This subseries includes drafts and notes for Morgan's unpublished book
Dynamics of Composition, which she spent years compiling. It also includes photographs of Morgan at work on the project, and her organizational systems.
box 68, folder 1-9
Outline, Introduction, Preface; Chapters 2-6
1970s
box 69, folder 1-7
Chapters 6-7, 10-13
1970s
box 70, folder 1-7
Chapters 14-16; notes and research materials
1970s
box 71, folder 1-13, box 440, folder 4
Notes, format and design notes, photographic prints
1960s-1970s
box 72, folder 1-4
Photographic prints - dance, pig family, Gerald Heard, Prestini, Barbara working
1970s
Subseries 5.3: Unpublished writings
1920s-1980s
Scope and Content
This subseries contains Morgan's writings on a variety of subjects, as well as some poetry, short stories, and a musical composition.
Folder contents range from fairly complete essays or commentary to collections of notes, abstract thoughts, and occasionally
sketches or diagrams. The notes folders also contain newspaper clippings and other supplemental material she collected.
box 72, folder 6-26
Photography-related: aesthetics, lighting, photomontage
1950s-1970s
box 73, folder 1-12
Photography-related: philosophies, photographer's thoughts
1940s
box 73, folder 13-14
Miscellaneous writings
1920s-1970s
box 73, folder 18
Demon's Dynasty - cat story
circa 1940s
box 74, folder 1, box 215, folder 1
Humanhood: Animals to People
circa 1950s-1970s
Scope and Content
Box 215, Folder 1 portfolio contains artwork #5017
box 74, folder 4
Motherhood and creativity
circa 1920s-1930s
box 74, folder 5
Musical compositions
1945
box 74, folder 8
Painting - ideas, titles
1956
box 74, folder 9
Poetry - Gasoline Poems
1979
box 74, folder 10
Quotable quotes
circa 1960s-1970s
box 74, folder 11
Recollections of Charles Lummis
1976
box 74, folder 12
Words and word games played with grandchildren
1968-1980
box 75, folder 1-24
Notes - photography, media, archaeology, symbols, religion, philosophy
1940-1960
box 76, folder 1-23
Notes - evolution, aggression, youth, sex, man-made world, ideas
1940s-1960s
box 77, folder 1-3
Notes - ecology, cosmic order, science
circa 1940s-1960s
Subseries 5.4: Journals and Think Books
1917-1980
Scope and Content
Personal journals kept by Morgan throughout her life, spanning over sixty years from youth to old age. In the 1950s, she began
recording her thought processes more formally in notebooks she called Think Books, which encompass her philosophies on life,
art, politics, and other subjects. The books are dated and include both handwritten and typed pages, and some sketches and
diagrams.
Series 6: Barbara Morgan UCLA student and teaching career
1919-2002
1919-1930
Administrative/Biographical History
Morgan was a student at UCLA from 1919-1923, when the campus was named the Southern Branch of the University of California.
There she studied art and was influenced by Arthur Wesley Dow's principles of art synthesis and composition which focus on
simple linear forms, the Japanese design concept of notan, and color. She also served as writer, managing editor, and editor
of
Dark and Light Magazine, published by the Arthur Wesley Dow Association, UCLA Art Department. After graduating from UCLA, Morgan taught at San Fernando
High School in 1924, and then joined the faculty of the UCLA Art Department, where she taught Design, Landscape, and Woodcut
from 1925-1930.
Scope and Content
This series contains material related to Barbara Morgan's activities as a student, teacher, and artist during and in between
her enrollment and employment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Material from Morgan's time as a student
include a yearbook, school assignments, class notes, and sketches, as well as alumni material. Material from her UCLA teaching
years include correspondence, photographs, class schedules, teaching materials, work by her students, administrative documents,
and her resignation letter. There are also materials from arts associations and societies in which she was active during her
time at UCLA. Also included are clippings, photographs and correspondence that document her teaching at San Fernando High
School. For other works of art created by Morgan during this period and during her childhood, see Series 10: Barbara Morgan
drawings, paintings, and prints.
The UCLA photographic material contains prints of the campus under construction; Barbara Morgan; her students; and the art
faculty (including Bessie Ella Hazen, Louise Pinkney Sooy, Annita Delano, Beryl K. Smith, Helen Howell, and Nellie H. Gere
as indicated by the initials written on the verso of contact sheet prints). Most of the photographs bear Barbara Morgan's
stamp on the verso. Also included are photographs taken in Morro Bay featuring UCLA alumni and physical education faculty
Bertha Wardell. Wardell was a dancer and frequent subject of Edward Weston, inspired to pose for him after seeing an exhibition
of his photographs at UCLA that Morgan helped curate.
box 82, folder 5, box 196, folder 2
Arts associations and societies
1921-1927
box 83, folder 1-2
Dark and Light, Vols. 1-8
1923-1930
box 83, folder 3-7
Teaching materials and notes
1924-1930
box 196, folder 1
Block Prints (book of student woodcut prints)
1930
box 84, folder 1-2, box 195, folder 1-6
Photographic prints
circa 1925-1930
Scope and Contents
Box 195 contains photographic prints taken by Barbara Morgan of Royce Hall under construction, UCLA students, and Art Department
faculty. Folder 6 also contains prints of dancer Bertha Wardell at Morro Bay taken by Irene Palmer.
box 608, folder 3
Negatives
circa 1925-1930
box 84, folder 3
Scrapbook - "Midnight Mystery Stories"
circa 1920s
box 84, folder 4
Alumni material
1944-1983
box 84, folder 5
Research conducted by Donald and Lloyd Morgan
1989-2002
box 84, folder 6, box 188, folder 6
San Fernando High School teaching material
1924
Series 7: Barbara Morgan professional activities
1930s-2002
Scope and Content
Material related to other aspects of Morgan's career, including teaching, lectures, workshops, and her involvement in professional
organizations. Most of these activities were photography related, though she also taught general art classes at the Edgemont
Adult School in Scarsdale, New York.
Subseries 7.1: Lectures and workshops
1938-1985
1960-1980
Scope and Content
Material related to Morgan's lectures, classes, workshops, seminars, and other presentations between the late 1930s and mid-1980s.
Her course and lecture notes chiefly comprise this subseries, but also present are publicity materials, reviews, correspondence,
presentation slides and artwork lists, travel itineraries and receipts, lecture source materials, and copies of speeches and
lectures.
Some items are related to presentations Morgan gave in conjunction with exhibitions of her artwork (see Series 1: Barbara
Morgan exhibition materials), such as talks at the Dulin Gallery of Art, Northwestern University, and Port Washington Public
Library, which stemmed from her participation in the
Recollections: Ten Women of Photography group exhibition. In addition to her exhibition-related presentations, she also gave slide lectures, participated in panel
discussions at conferences, and taught classes across the country on a wide range of subjects. She also taught at several
workshops organized by Ansel Adams, including his 1971 Yosemite Workshop in Photography and a 1983 workshop through the Friends
of Photography. Several of Morgan's lectures over the years focused on "dynamics of composition," a photography concept which
was also the subject of an unrealized book project she worked on later in life (see Subseries 5:2: Dynamics of Composition).
box 85, folder 1
92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association
1943
box 85, folder 2
American Dance Guild
1974, 1976
box 85, folder 3
American Society of Magazine Photographers
1947
box 85, folder 5
Association of Heliographers
1965
box 85, folder 12
Connecticut College American Dance Festival
1970
box 85, folder 14
Cooper Union Forum
1972-1973
box 85, folder 15
Duke University
1978-1980
box 85, folder 16
Dublin Gallery of Art
1979-1980
box 85, folder 17
Friends of Photography
1973
box 86, folder 1-2
Friends of Photography
1976-1977
box 86, folder 3
George Eastman House
1964
box 86, folder 4
Hampshire College
1984-1985
box 86, folder 5
Harvard University/Radcliffe College
1982
box 86, folder 6
Hudson River Museum
1973-1975
box 86, folder 7-10
Institute of General Semantics
1963-1982
box 86, folder 11
International Center of Photography
1978-1979
box 86, folder 13-14
Manhattanville College
1976
box 87, folder 1-2
Marquette University
1974-1975
box 87, folder 3
Mary Manning Walsh Home
1978
box 87, folder 4
Museum of Modern Art
1946
box 87, folder 6
New England School of Photography
1977
box 87, folder 7
New Orleans Museum of Art
1974-1975
box 87, folder 9
Northwestern University
1981-1982
box 87, folder 10
Photographic Historical Society
1970
box 87, folder 10
Port Washington Public Library
1980
box 87, folder 12
Purdue University
1978-1979
box 87, folder 14
Regional Educational Services Concept Through Unified Effort (RESCUE)
1968
box 87, folder 15
Rhode Island School of Design
1975
box 87, folder 16
Rochester Institute of Technology
1979
box 87, folder 18-19
Sarah Lawrence College
1973
box 87, folder 20-22
Scarsdale Woman's Club
1962-1967
box 88, folder 1
Society for Photographic Education
1978-1979
box 88, folder 2
Southern Connecticut State College
1979
box 88, folder 3-4
State University of New York at Purchase
1977
box 88, folder 5
University of California, Los Angeles
circa 1965
box 88, folder 6
University of California Extension, Santa Cruz
1976
box 88, folder 7
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1977-1978
box 88, folder 8
University of Wisconsin Extension
1975
box 88, folder 9
Westchester Art Society
1963
box 88, folder 10
Women's Interart Center
1975
box 88, folder 11-12
Yonkers Art Association
1965, 1973
box 88, folder 13-14
Yosemite Workshop in Photography
1971, 1974
box 88, folder 15
Lectures and Workshops
1938-1942
box 88, folder 16
Lectures and Workshops
1965-1981
box 88, folder 17
Lecture notes - Dynamics of Composition
1965, 1971
box 88, folder 18
Lecture materials
circa 1966
Subseries 7.2: Edgemont Adult School
1960
Scope and Content
This subseries contains documents related to Morgan's ten-session course "Analysis of Art" at the Edgemont Adult School (Scarsdale,
New York) in 1960. The materials are primarily lecture notes but also include correspondence, course descriptions, class rosters,
publicity, and research materials that she used during the preparation of her classes. The research materials consist of newspaper
and magazine clippings, postcards, images of artwork, pamphlets, and other documents organized by subject.
box 89, folder 1-7, box 90, folder 1-5
box 90, folder 6-10, box 91, folder 1-24, box 92, folder 1-36
Subseries 7.3: Black Mountain College
1940s-2002
Biographical / Historical
The Black Mountain College was an experimental school in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Faculty and students included Anni
and Josef Albers, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Ruth Asawa, Merce Cunningham,
and Paul Goodman. Founded on John Dewey's principles of education, the College was nontraditional in its structure and educational
philosophies. Art department head Josef Albers and his wife Anni Albers played an influential role in bringing an interdisciplinary
approach to the college that they had practiced during their time at the German Bauhaus School. Morgan was first contacted
by Josef Albers to exhibit her photography at the College, for which she showed (for the first time) her dance photographs
together with her more experimental photomontage work. Morgan was later asked to teach photography in the 1944 Summer Art
Institute.
Scope and Content
This subseries includes Morgan's teaching materials and notes, as well as correspondence with Josef Albers regarding her exhibition
and classes at the College, and an oral history with Morgan regarding her time there. Also included are gelatin silver photographic
prints containing images taken by Morgan while at the College. Images include students and faculty of the Summer Art Institute
and Summer Music Institute and feature Josef and Anni Albers, J.B. Neumann, James Prestini, Fritz Cohen, Heinrich Jalowetz,
Rudolf Kolisch and Barbara Morgan.
box 93, folder 1
Teaching materials and notes
circa 1940s
box 93, folder 6
Oral history -
The Arts at Black Mountain College
circa 1970s
box 344, folder 1, box 355, folder 1-2
Photographic prints (medium)
1944, undated
box 93, folder 4-5
Photographic prints (small)
1944
Subseries 7.4: Photo League
1936-1975
Biographical / Historical
The Photo League was established in 1936 as an offshoot of the Film and Photo League and drew in photographers, such as Berenice
Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Paul Strand and Morgan to serve on their advisory board. The organization was concerned with
documenting working-class life, in addition to nourishing the growth of photographers through classes, lectures and publications.
The Photo League was named as a communist subversive organization by Attorney-General Tom C. Clark in 1947, which ultimately
led to the group's dissolution. Morgan resigned from the Photo League in 1949, citing family responsibilities as keeping her
from membership duties.
Scope and Content
Materials include notes and meeting minutes, clippings, workshop and meeting fliers, several issues of
Photo Notes, the official publication of the Photo League, correspondence between Morgan and the Photo League regarding her support of
the organization, as well as correspondence between the Photo League and the attorney general regarding the accusations brought
against the Photo League as a subversive organization. Also included is the project
Speaking Likeness by Photo League member Beaumont Newhall, as well as material related to Photo League member and executive secretary Angela
Calomiris, who was revealed to be an FBI informant within the Communist Party USA.
box 93, folder 7
Speaking Likeness by Beaumont Newhall
circa 1930s-1940s
box 93, folder 8
Notes and meeting minutes
1936-1949
box 93, folder 10
Newsletters and press releases
1940-1949
Subseries 7.5: American Artists' Congress
1930s-1998
Scope and Content
Material related to the Morgans' involvement in the American Artists' Congress (AAC). The AAC was formed in 1935 through momentum
brought forth by the Popular Front, a coalition born out of the Communist party that brought socialists, liberals, and moderate
parties together to fight against Fascism. As an organization of visual artists, the AAC mobilized to protect their cultural
freedom and economic livelihood, as well as to advocate for peace, democracy and social progress. The AAC sought to achieve
their mission through symposia, publications and special exhibitions.
Subseries includes exhibition catalogs and membership documentation such as meeting notes, committee reports and correspondence.
Also represented are photographic prints of the Artists' Congress exhibition committee meeting and the exhibition reception
for the first annual AAC membership exhibition at Rockefeller Center in 1937. Also included are images of Barbara and Willard
Morgan, as well as artist Eitaro Ishigaki. This series of images contains nitrate 35 mm negatives, as well as a contact sheet
created in 1998. Another series of images taken at a town hall meeting for the AAC includes images of artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
Photographs of other AAC members such as Manuel Komroff are also represented.
All photographic prints are gelatin silver prints and are a combination of vintage fiber-based prints presumably made circa
1930s and resin-coated prints created posthumously in the late 1990s. The resin-coated prints contain images represented elsewhere
in the series that were previously printed by Morgan, as well as images without corresponding vintage prints. Prints created
posthumously can be identified by the Morgan family's "Willard and Barbara Morgan Archives" stamp on the print verso.
box 94, folder 1
Photographic prints - Lucile Blanch
circa 1930s
box 94, folder 2
Photographic prints - Peter Blume
circa 1930s
box 94, folder 3
Photographic prints - AAC members
circa 1930s-1940s
box 94, folder 10
Photographic prints - Town Hall meeting
1937-1998
box 419
Photographic prints
undated
Scope and Content
These 4 x 5 prints were originally housed in a box labeled "sm. print file," that also included prints of other subjects:
Southwestern United States, family photographs, Barnes Foundation, and unidentified works of art. No negatives are present.
The divider cards date the images, but the prints are likely printed later.
box 94, folder 4
First American Artists Congress - New York City Town Hall publication
1936
box 94, folder 6
Membership information, notes, and activities
1936-1937
box 94, folder 7
Photographic exhibition committee
1936-1937
box 94, folder 8
Exhibition committee meeting and exhibition, includes photographs
1937-1998
box 94, folder 9
Exhibition catalogs
1937-1938
Series 8: Barbara Morgan personal and biographical materials
1938-2004
Scope and Content
This series contains personal items that belonged to Morgan and biographical materials related to her life and work. The series
primarily documents Morgan's adult life and career as a photographer, but materials from her childhood have also been included.
Biographical materials include documents Morgan wrote about her own life, such as personal statements, chronologies of her
life events, dictation transcripts, and information collected for her curriculum vitae, as well as pieces written by others,
which include draft and published versions of articles and interviews, outlines for various book projects, oral histories,
interviews, and student papers and theses. Obituaries, sympathy letters, and tribute speeches are also included. Some folders
contain publicity materials, photographs, and correspondence from writing projects or events that focused on Morgan.
Personal materials include schoolwork and yearbooks from Pomona High School, documentation of awards or honors Morgan received
over the course of her lifetime, including an honorary degree from Marquette University and a Lifetime Achievement Award from
the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and items related to celebratory events in her life, such as her ninetieth
birthday. Calendars, Rolodexes, and datebooks kept by Morgan are also included.
Subseries 8.1: Articles, interviews, oral histories
1941-2004
Scope and Content
Articles, student papers and theses, interviews, oral histories, and other written projects focusing on Morgan's life and
work. Included in the subseries is a detailed oral history by the University of California, Los Angeles in 1976, and another
by Columbia University in 1979, which documents Morgan's involvement in the Bennington Summer School of the Dance. Draft and
published versions of written documents, correspondence and publicity materials related to writing projects are also included
in this subseries.
box 95, folder 2
American Women in the Arts - film
1874-1976
box 95, folder 6
CBS Sunday Morning - interview transcript
1981
box 95, folder 11
Dils, Ann - papers and project
1985, 1992-1999
box 95, folder 12
Freese, Joan - projects
1992
box 95, folder 13
Gorrill, Maggy - thesis
1971
box 95, folder 14
Hoy, Nancy Jody - interview
1989
box 95, folder 15
Hussey, Tom - masters thesis proposal
1991
box 95, folder 17
Knappe, Brett - thesis
2008
box 95, folder 18
Loyola University of Chicago -
Annals of Our Glass House video series
1982
box 95, folder 19
Maslow, Sophie and Lisa Baskin - interview
1982
box 95, folder 20
McCausland, Elizabeth - articles
1941-1942
box 96, folder 2
Patnaik, Deba - book project
circa 1992
box 96, folder 4
Progresso Fotografico
1978
box 96, folder 5
Psychology of Creative and Gifted Women - book project
1972-1976
box 96, folder 6
Recollections - interview with Margaretta Mitchell
circa 1979
box 96, folder 7
Ross, Dene - thesis
1978-1979
box 96, folder 8
Saturday Review of the Arts
1972
box 96, folder 9
Stocktower, Laura - interview
1982
box 96, folder 10
Stodelle, Ernestine - articles
circa 1990-1992
box 97, folder 6
Visions and Images: American Photographers on Photography
1982
box 97, folder 7
Wille, Alicia - book project
1975-1978
box 97, folder 8
WNYC -
The Changing World of Women with Phyllis Sanders
1972-1973
box 97, folder 9
Women of Vision: Photographic Statements by Twenty Women Photographers
1982
box 97, folder 10
Women, Photography, and the Art Establishment: How Far Have We Come - symposium address
1990-1992
box 97, folder 11
WQXR -
The World of Dance With Frances Mason
1994, 2001, 2004
box 97, folder 13
Unpublished interviews and related documents
1980-1982
box 97, folder 14
Dictation transcripts
1928, 1972
box 98, folder 1-4
Oral history - UCLA
1971-1990
box 98, folder 5
Oral history - UCLA: notes and preparation
circa 1970s
box 98, folder 6
Oral history - UCLA: Annita Delano
1976
box 98, folder 7
Oral history - University of Wisconsin
1975
box 99, folder 1
Oral History - Arts at Black Mountain College
1972
box 99, folder 2
Oral history - Columbia University
1979, 1982
box 99, folder 3
Oral history - New York Public Library
1985
Subseries 8.2: Biographical writing
1961-1996
Scope and Content
Morgan's autobiographical writings, including drafts and final copies of personal statements and chronologies.
box 101, folder 1
Biographical reference books
1968-1973, 1996
box 101, folder 2-3
Biography material
circa 1970s
box 101, folder 4
Biography material - childhood influences
1978
box 101, folder 5
Biography material - for CV
circa 1960-1980
box 101, folder 6
Biography material - southwest overflow/exploring
circa 1961
box 101, folder 7
Biographical info to send
circa 1980
box 101, folder 8
Biography - chronology master list for updates
1979
box 101, folder 9
Personal biographical background for photographic record
circa 1960s
box 127, folder 2
Chronology - new edition
1971
box 127, folder 3
Personal biographical statements
1975
Subseries 8.3: Personal materials
1938-1999
Scope and Content
Personal items and documentation of Morgan's major life events and achievements, including awards, her schoolwork and yearbooks
from Pomona High School; travel ephemera, and obituaries and tributes.
box 127, folder 4
90th birthday celebration - invitation and planning
1990
box 127, folder 5
Awards - 38th Annual Capezio Dance Award
1989
box 127, folder 6
Awards - American Society of Magazine Photographers Lifetime Achievement
1987
box 127, folder 7
Awards - Dinner for Martha Graham, White House
1976
box 128, folder 1
Awards - First International Photographic Exhibition
1938
box 128, folder 2
Awards - Marquette University Honorary Degree
1977-1978
box 128, folder 3
Awards - Park West Camera Club
1987
box 128, folder 4
Awards - Photographic InSight Foundation
1991
box 128, folder 5
Awards - Society of Photographic Education
1979
box 128, folder 6
Awards - Town of Greenburgh, New York: Barbara Morgan Day
1984
box 128, folder 7
Awards - UCLA Alumni Association Golden Bruin Award
1981
box 128, folder 8
Awards - Women's Caucus for Art Honor Award
1986
box 128, folder 9, box 188, folder 2
box 149, folder 1
High school friends - photographs
1916
box 149, folder 2
Passports and Identifications
1950s-1970s
box 149, folder 3
Poetry written for Barbara Morgan
1950-1982
box 149, folder 4
Pomona High School papers
1917-1919
box 149, folder 5-8
Pomona High School yearbooks
1914-1920
box 149, folder 9
Teaching credentials
1923
box 149, folder 10
Travel - Europe: itinerary
1954
box 149, folder 11-14
Travel - Europe: Spain, Italy, Greece, France, England
1959
box 150, folder 1-4
Travel - Europe: Crete, Lascaux
1959
box 217
Travel - Europe: photographs (slides)
1959
box 150, folder 5-7
Travel - Mexico, South America
circa 1966
box 129, folder 2
Tribute - speeches and transcripts
1992
box 129, folder 3
Tribute - invitation, planning, guest book
1992
box 188, folder 1
Tribute - message and photograph of Barbara
1992
box 129, folder 4-7
Sympathy letters
1992-1993
box 149, folder 15
Vital documents
1930s-1990s
Subseries 8.4: Calendars and telephone directories
1940s-1980s
Scope and Content
Calendars and phone books kept by Morgan over the years, containing appointments and contacts related to her personal and
professional life.
box 131, folder 1-7
Telephone directories
1940s-1970s
box 132, box 133, box 134
Rolodex A-Z; name and subject cards; quotes
1970s-1980s
Series 9: Barbara Morgan photographic material
1920s-2000s
Scope and Content
This series contains all formats of Barbara Morgan's art photography from raw negatives to finished, exhibition-ready prints.
Negatives are acetate film (cut film and roll film), many of which are integrated with contacts and are unprocessed. Photographic
prints are vintage and later prints (many undated), and unmounted as well as mounted and/or matted. They include contact prints
and contact sheets; small prints used for publicity, reproduction, and other purposes (up to 8 x 10 format); medium finished
prints (up to 16 x 20 format); and large finished prints (over 16 x 20 format). For her photography projects, such as for
her photography books and photography done for college campuses and other schools, see Series 4: Barbara Morgan photographic
projects.
Most of the negatives are numbered corresponding to systems created by Morgan or by others during her lifetime. Negative numbers
are written on many of the photographic prints and contact prints. (See Morgan's photo date books in Box 44, Folder 9 and
Box 45, Folders 1-2, which correlate her subjects with negative and print numbers.) Some prints are signed, stamped, or have
labels crediting Barbara Morgan.
Many unmounted prints have notations on the back, such as numbers or the lowercase and uppercase letters A or NA. The numbers
generally refer to Morgan publication page numbers and the prints with an A or NA indicate whether or not they were printed
archivally, and were likely printed during Barbara's lifetime. When Morgan started printing archivally using Ansel Adams'
method (see Subseries 3.2: "Permanence" files), she marked everything done prior to the official "archival" printing method.
Prints on glossy or single weight paper are likely work prints or for reproduction or publicity purposes (especially among
the small prints).
The last section of this series (Negatives and contact prints, 1920s-1970s, undated) contains the bulk of the Morgans' files
of integrated contact prints and negatives (5 x 7 and 4 x 5 formats).
Subseries 9.1: City photography
1930s, undated
Scope and Content
This subseries contains photographic material depicting New York City, its buildings, people, stores, and streets. May include
photographs by Willard Morgan (See also Series 18: Collaborative work, Subseries 18.2: New York and other locations).
box 324, folder 9-18, box 325, folder 6-27, box 355, folder 3-5, box 382, folder 6-10
Photographic prints (medium)
circa 1930s
box 240, folder 10
Photographic prints (small) and contact prints
circa 1930s, undated
Subseries 9.2: Dance photography
1920s-1990s, undated
1930s-1940s
Scope and Content
This subseries contains Morgan's dance photography: images she took of Martha Graham and her dancers in the 1930s and 1940s,
as well as other dancers from the same period. Dancers represented in photographic prints include (solo and with others):
Valerie Bettis, Si Lan Chen, Merce Cunningham, Asadata Dafora and Lolita, Jane Dudley, Erick Hawkins, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey,
Louise Kloepper, José Limón, Sophie Maslow, Daniel Nagrin, May O'Donnell, Pearl Primus, Anna Sokolow, Helen Tamiris, Marian
Van Tuyl, and Charles Weidman. Additional dancers are represented in contact prints and negatives.
box 243, folder 4, box 244, folder 11, box 338, folder 1-2, box 345, folder 3-7, box 346, folder 3-7, box 348, folder 5-10, box 368, folder 10, box 372, folder 7-10, box 385, folder 1-4, box 386, folder 1-3, box 390, folder 1-7, box 391, folder 1-7, box 392, folder 1-4, box 393, folder 1-4, box 394, folder 1-2, box 395, folder 1-3, box 396, folder 1-2
Faces of Modern Dance exhibition - photographic prints
1920s-1990s
1930s-1940s
Scope and Content
These prints represent most of the pieces exhibited in the 2004 Marquette University exhibition
Faces of Modern Dance, plus some additional dance prints that were on the preliminary exhibit list. Many retain their museum window mats and are
numbered corresponding to the exhibition checklist.
See the catalog and exhibition-related materials in Box 5, Folder 14 and Box 153, Folder 4 (Series 1: Barbara Morgan exhibition
materials--Marquette University,
Faces of Modern Dance: Barbara Morgan Photographs, 2004.
Boxes 243-244 - Small prints (up to 8 x 10 format)
Boxes 338-372 - Medium prints (up to 16 x 20 format)
Boxes 385-396 - Large prints (over 16 x 20 format)
The numbered prints are located in the following boxes--exhibit checklist numbers shown in ( ):
Box 338
Willard Morgan Tossing Cats (strobe), 1942.
Harold Eagleton Speed Light-Dancing Cats. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 12 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. (13)
Valerie Bettis,
Solo, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 15 1/4 x 19 in. (30)
Box 345
José Limón,
Mexican Suite, 1944-1945. Gelatin silver print. Vintage. 8 x 10 in. (7, 8)
Louise Kloepper,
All Bennington, 1938. Gelatin silver print. Vintage. 8 x 10 in. (56, 57)
Hanya Holm, (seated), 1938. Gelatin silver print. Printed 1980s. 9 x 6 in. (78)
Box 346
José Limón.
Mexican Suite, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Signed. 8 x 10 in. (9)
José Limón Playing With Cat, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Signed. 8 x 10 in. (11)
José Limón and May O'Donnell. Gelatin silver print. 8-1/4 x 5-7/8 in. (12?)
Self, snapshot. Gelatin silver print. 4 x 6 in. (14)
Merce Cunningham & Jean Erdman, 1942. Gelatin silver print. Printed later. 8 x 10 in. (45)
Box 348
José Limón.
Mexican Suite, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Signed. 8 x 10 in. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Louis Horst with Dachshund & Dancer (on bicycle), Bennington College, 1939. Gelatin silver print. Printed 1973. Signed. 8 x 10 in. (10)
Box 368
Erick Hawkins (?),
All, (3 pieces). 1942. Gelatin silver prints. Vintage Contacts. 4 x 5 in. (22, 23 24)
Box 372
Doris Humphrey,
Inquest, (3 pieces sleeved), 1944. Gelatin silver prints. Vintage Contacts. 4 x 5 in. (16, 17, 18)
Doris Humphrey, Shakers, (3 pieces). 1938. Gelatin silver prints. Vintage Contacts. 4 x 5 in. (19, 20, 21)
Box 385
Anna Sokolow,
I Had a Garden, 1940. Gelatin silver print. Estate print. 11 x 13-1/2 in. (36)
Humphrey Group,
Two Dancers Leaping, (neg. 526). Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 9-1/2 x 13 in. (39)
Jane Dudley,
Cante Flamenco, 1942. Gelatin silver print. Vintage. 13-1/2 x 10-1/4 in. (59)
Doris Humphrey,
With My Red Fires, 1938. Gelatin silver print. Mounted estate print, embossed. 9 x 9-1/2 in. (66)
Box 386
Marian Van Tyl Group,
Out of One Happening, (neg. 5306), 1944. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 10-3/9 x 13-1/2 in. (38)
Merce Cunningham & Pearl Lang, 1942. Gelatin silver print. Signed. Printed later. 15 x 13 in. (46)
Charles Weidman,
Traditions, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Signed, estate print. 13-1/2"x 16 in. (69)
Box 390
Charles Weidman,
Atavisms (Bargain Counter), (ribbons), 1938. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 15-1/2 x 19-1/2 in. (40)
Doris Humphrey & Weidman,
Square Dance for Moderns (facing front), 1938. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 18-1/2 x 15-1/4 in. (42)
Doris Humphrey & Weidman,
Square Dance for Moderns (facing back), 1938. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 18-1/2 x 15-1/4 in. (43)
Charles Weidman,
On My Mother's Side, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed, mounted. 13-1/2 x 18-1/2 in. (70)
Charles Weidman,
Daddy Was a Fireman, (with Ray Hamilton), 1944. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 19-3/4 x 15-1/4 in. (71)
Doris Humphrey,
Shaker, (Bea Seckler and group), 1938. Gelatin silver print. Signed, printed 1960s-70s. 15-1/4 x 19 1/4 in. (72)
Doris Humphrey,
With My Red Fires, (seated), 1938. Gelatin silver print. Vintage. 15-1/2 x 19-1/2 in. (77)
Box 391
José Limón, Peon,
Mexican Suite, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Signed, mounted. Printed 1960s–70s. 15 x 19-1/4 in. (37)
Merce Cunningham,
Root of the Unfocus (2), 1944. Gelatin silver print. Signed, printed 1960s-70s. 19-1/2 x 15-5/8 in. (50)
Louise Kloepper,
All Bennington, 1938. Gelatin silver print. Vintage. 8 x 10 in. (51, 52, 53)
Valerie Bettis,
The Desperate Heart. (Double exposure, kick to back), 1944. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 15-3/8 x 19-1/8 in. (65)
Daniel Nagrin, (double exposure), 1944. Gelatin silver print. Signed, printed 1960s-70s. 19-3/4 x 15-1/2 in. (74)
Daniel Nagrin, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 19-3/4 x 15-1/2 in. (75)
Sophie Maslow & Bill Bales,
Sweet Betsy From Pike, 1938. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, singed, mounted. 19 x 15-1/2 in. (76)
Box 392
Valerie Bettis,
The Desperate Heart, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, wavy edges, signed. 19-1/2" x 15-1/3". (29)
Valerie Bettis,
The Desperate Heart, (kick to front), 1944. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 20" x 15-1/2". (61)
Valerie Bettis,
The Desperate Heart, (white dress, back of feet), 1944. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 15-3/4" x 20". (62)
Valerie Bettis,
The Desperate Heart, (high kick, face not seen), 1944. Gelatin silver print. Signed, later printing. 19-1/2" x 16". (64)
Box 393
Cunningham/Graham/Hawkins,
El Penitente, 1942. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 18-1/2 x 14-1/2 in. (15)
Martha Graham,
American Document, (trio) (double exposure), 1938. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed, mounted. 15 x 19-1/8 in. (31)
Merce Cunningham,
El Penitente ("Christus"), 1940. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed, mounted for repro. 18-1/4 x 14-3/4 in. (44)
Martha Graham & Erick Hawkins,
Every Soul Is a Circus, 1940. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 19-1/2 x 15-1/4 in. (47)
Martha Graham,
Letter to the World, (kick), 1940. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed, mounted. (67)
Martha Graham,
American Document, (trio) (double exposure), 1938. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed, unmounted. 15 x 19-1/8 in. (81)
Box 394
Erick Hawkins,
El Penitente (Solo "El Flagellante"), 1940. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 19-1/4 x 15-1/8 in. (32)
Doris Humphrey,
Shakers (group), 1938. Gelatin silver print. Signed, x-large mount. 19-1/2 x 15-1/2 in. (68)
Box 395
Merce Cunningham,
Totem Ancestor, 1942 (2). Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 15-1/4 x 19-1/2 in. (34)
Jane Dudley,
Cante Flamenco, 1942. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed, on large mount. 19-1/4 x 15-1/2 in. (60)
Jane Dudley,
Leap #1, (in leotard). Gelatin silver print. Vintage. 10-1/4 x 12-1/2 in. (79)
Jane Dudley,
Leap #2, (in leotard). Gelatin silver print. Vintage. 10-1/4 x 12-1/2 in. (80)
Box 396
Anna Sokolow,
I Had a Garden, (black shawl), 1940. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 14-1/2 x 19-1/2 in. (35)
Valerie Bettis,
Prairie Born, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Vintage, signed. 19-1/2 x 16 in. (41)
The print numbers from the exhibition not present in this collection are: 25-26, 33, 48, 49, 73.
Merce Cunningham,
Totem Ancestor, 1942. (25, 26, and 33)
Pearl Primus,
Rock Daniel, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Vintage-toned print, signed, mounted, printed later. 17 x 15 in. (48, 49)
Helen Tamiris & Daniel Nagrin,
Untitled, 1944. Gelatin silver print. Signed, printed 1960s-1970s. 19-3/4 x 15-1/2 in. (73)
box 386, folder 4-9, box 388, folder 1-2, box 393, folder 5-7
Martha Graham - photographic prints (large)
Scope and Content
Large prints of the following dances:
American Document (Boxes 388 and 393)
Ekstasis (Box 386)
Every Soul is a Circus (Box 393)
Frontier (Box 386)
Letter to the World (Boxes 386 and 393)
El Penitente (Box 388)
box 336, folder 1-2, 10-20, box 337, folder 1-20, box 342, folder 1-9, box 345, folder 8-9, box 346, folder 8-9, box 355, folder 10-16, box 356, folder 1-5, 8-11, box 357, folder 13-16, box 358, folder 1-6, 16-17, box 359, folder 13-16, box 360, folder 1-6, box 361, folder 1-13, box 363, folder 1-14, box 364, folder 15-17, box 366, folder 8-13, box 367, folder 1-12, box 369, folder 1-4, box 371, folder 7-12, box 373, folder 1-16, box 375, folder 1-2, box 376, folder 1-7, box 379, folder 1-7, box 380, folder 1-3, box 382, folder 1-5, box 441, folder 1-14, box 442, folder 13-16, box 443, folder 12-16
Martha Graham - photographic prints (medium)
Scope and Content
Medium prints of the following dances:
Box 336 (A-Ek). Unmounted 11 x 14 format prints and three smaller mounted prints, including
American Document,
American Provincials, Bennington 1938,
Deaths and Entrances,
Deep Song,
Ekstasis, Tamiris and Nagrin in
When the Saints Go Marching In, and Sarah Lawrence 1937. Unmounted 11 x 14 format prints.
Box 345 (A,D). Prints, various sizes, matted to 14 x 18 inches. Includes
American Document, Hawkins and Graham; and
Deaths and Entrances, photomontage, with large image of Graham at top and and smaller images of Graham Group dancing in three pairs.
Box 360 (A-C)
Box 364 (A,C)
Box 366 (D)
Box 367 (D,Ek)
Box 369 (D)
Box 373 (L,P,W)
Box 376 (Am)
Box 382 (Am)
Box 443 (D,Ek)
Box 337 (Ev-W)
Box 342 (E-P)
Box 346 (L). Graham in
Letter to the World (Graham on white bench leaning back in splits, right arm above head). Undated. Signed on reverse of mount. 15 x 13-7/8 in.;
Letter to the World (Ancestress). 8 x 10 in. Undated.
Box 355 (P-S)
Box 356 (F,L,P)
Box 357 (Ev)
Box 358 (F,Le)
Box 359 (Ek)
Box 361 (L,P,S)
Box 363 (Ev,Pe)
Box 364 (F)
Box 366 (Pr)
Box 367 (Pe)
Box 371 (F,L)
Box 373 (A,D,E)
Box 375 (L)
Box 379 (L)
Box 380 (La)
Box 442 (Le)
Box 441: Graham Technique
Boxes 356 and 373: Unidentified
Box 360. 1935-1937, undated. 16 x 20 prints including
American provincials (4 folders),
Celebration (2 folders), and
Trajectory.
Box 364. 1935-1938. 16 x 20 prints including
American Document,
Celebration, and
Frontier.
box 241, folder 7-11, box 242, folder 1-13, box 290, box 291, box 292, box 293, box 294, box 295, box 296, box 297, box 304, box 305, box 433, box 434, box 435
Martha Graham - photographic prints (small) and contact prints
1930s-1940s, undated
Scope and Content
Boxes 241 and 242 include 8 x 10 prints of Martha Graham, solo, Graham Group, and Graham dancers.
Boxes 290-297, 304-305, and 433 contain 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham, solo, Graham Group, and Graham dancers.
Boxes 434 and 435 include both contact prints and negatives of Martha Graham, solo, Graham Group and Graham dancers.
Box 241. 1935-1940, undated. 8 x 10 and smaller prints of Martha Graham and Graham Group in American Document, American Provincials,
Deaths and Entrances, Deep Song, and Every Soul is a Circus. Also includes vintage (1930s-1940s) 8 x 10 and contact prints,
as well as one folder of 8 x 10 reproduction prints (1990s) of Graham technique demonstrated by Merce Cunningham, Ethel Butler,
Jean Erdman, and Nina Caiserman. Also includes a print of Jane Dudley, Sophie Maslow, and Frieda Flier in Celebration, and
Martha Graham in Chronicle.
Box 242. 1935-1941, undated. 8 x 10 prints of Martha Graham in Frontier, Harlequinade, Immediate Tragedy, Imperial Gesture,
Lamentation, Letter to the World, El Penitente, Primitive Canticles (including commentary), Primitive Mysteries (8 x 10 and
smaller proof prints), Punch and Judy, Satyric Festival, and War Theme.
Most of the photographs in boxes 241 and 242 are of Graham solos, but some also include Graham Group, including Primitive
Mysteries, and Graham with Erick Hawkins and Merce Cunningham in Letter to the World, El Penitente and Every Soul is a Circus.
Box 290. 1938-1939. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and demonstrations of the work American
Document choreographed by Martha Graham in the Graham Studio NYC and at Bennington College. Also includes non-dance photographs
of Graham and Eric Hawkins at Bennington College, and Erick Hawkins Striding Figure, 1939.
Box 291. 1935-1945. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works
choreographed by Martha Graham including American Document, American Provincials, Chronicle, Columbiad (Graham solo), Deaths
and Entrances. Dancers include Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Sophie Maslow, Frieda Flier, Jean Erdman, Jane Dudley, and other
dancers in the Martha Graham Company.
Box 292. 1934-1945. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works
choreographed by Martha Graham including Deaths and Entrances, Deep Song, Ekstasis, El Penitente, and Every Soul is a Circus.
Dancers include Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Merce Cunningham and other dancers in the Martha Graham Company.
Box 293. 1935-1940. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works
choreographed by Martha Graham including every Soul is a Circus and Frontier. Most of the photographs in this box depict dancers
Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins and Merce Cunningham. Some photographs also include other Graham dancers. Also includes some
contact prints with image dimensions 2-3/8 x 2-5/8 in. (60mm x 70mm).
Box 294. 1935-1940. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins in rehearsals and studio photography sessions
for works choreographed by Martha Graham including Frontier, Harlequinade, Imperial Gesture, Immediate Tragedy, Lamentation,
and Letter to the World. Most of the photographs in this box are of Martha Graham alone. Letter to the World photographs also
include Erick Hawkins.
Box 295. 1931-1941. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works
choreographed by Martha Graham including Letter to the World, Primitive Canticles, Primitive Mysteries, and Punch and Judy.
Dancers included are Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Merce Cunningham, with some ensemble photographs of Martha Graham and Group.
Box 296. circa 1894-1941. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for
works choreographed by Martha Graham including Punch and Judy (dancers Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Jean Erdman, Jane Dudley
and Ethel Butler), Sarabande, Satyric Festival, and War Theme; 1935 portraits of Martha Graham; Graham technique demonstrated
by Graham dancers Dorothy Bird, May O'Donnell, Ethel Butler, and Nina Caiserman. Also includes early photographs of Martha
Graham not taken by Barbara Morgan--baby, early dancer (in St. Denis costumes) and family; and photographs of Martha Graham's
signature.
Box 297. circa 1938, undated. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham dancers (Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman, some group, and
some unidentified Graham dancers) demonstrating Graham technique; and Martha Graham with Erick Hawkins. Also includes 2"x3"
prints of Martha Graham in unidentified dance.
Box 304. 1938-1944, undated. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers Anna Sokolow in Slaughter of the Innocents; Helen Tamiris; Daniel
Nagrin in When the Saints Come Marching In; Marian van Tuyl; Charles Weidman in Lynchtown / Atavisions, Daddy Was a Fireman,
Love Heart Remembers, On My Mother's Side, Opus 51, Race of Life, Traditions, and Weidman with Katherine Litz in Happy Hypocrite;
Doris Humphrey in Inquest; and photomontage of Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Erick Hawkins and Merce Cunningham.
Box 305. 1933-1944, undated. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers including Si Lan Chen; Pearl Lang; Barbara Livingston and Frances
Sunstein; Charles Weidman in Traditions, Daddy Was a Fireman, Love, and Race of Life; Hanya Holm Improvisation; Jean Erdman
in Forever and Sunsmell (music by John Cage text by e.e. cummings), and The Transformation of Medusa; Erdman and Merce Cunningham
in Credo in Us; Helen Tamaris; Weidman in Lynchtown; Katherine Boland, Merce Cunningham in Root of the Unfocus, Totem Ancestor,
and with Pearl Lang (Look) and photomontage; José Limón in Mexican Suite, Cowboy Song (photomontage), Chaconne; Valerie Bettis
in Desperate Heart; Doris Humphrey in Shakers, Inquest, Matriarch With My Red Fires, to the Dance, Passacaglia, with Weidman
in Square Dance for Moderns; Jane Dudley in Swing Your Lady, Molly Pitcher, Short Story, Harmonica Breakdown, and Cante Flamenco;
Lolita, partner of Asadata Dafora; and Pearl Primus in Rock Daniel.
Box 305 also includes Graham dance contact prints including Graham technique demonstrated by Merce Cunningham and by Ethel
Butler; Graham in Sarabande, El Penitente, Ekstasis, Imperial Gesture, Every Soul is a Circus, Letter to the World, American
Episode, Indian Episode, Punch and Judy, Harlequinade, Lamentation, Primitive Mysteries, and Deep Song; with Cunningham and
Hawkins in Deaths and Entrances, with Hawkins in Puritan Love Duet; and Graham in black dress with organdy collar.
Box 305 also includes dancers at Bennington College in 1938: Hanya Holm, Louise Kloepper in Statement of Dissent, Martha Graham
and Group, Graham casual backstage, Graham and students candid, candid other, Graham technique outdoors, Erick Hawkins, Weidman
and Humphrey, Harvey Kerr, Ethel Butler directing Graham rehearsal, Houseley, Francis Hawkins, Ray Green, Marion Van Tyle,
Louise Kloepper, Bill Bales and Weidman, Ralph Gilbert, Sophie Maslow in Dust Bowl and Mountain Shout, and Maslow, Bales and
Dudley in Bach Suite. Also includes musicians Louis Horst, Norman and Ruth Lloyd, stage designer Arch Lanterer, and critic
John Martin.
Box 305 also includes birch trees, Skull with Dancer (photomontage), and Beaumont Newhall and Willard Morgan lifting Ansel
Adams in studio party, 1942.
Box 433. 1938, undated. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers Martha Graham and Group and Hanya Holm and Hanya Holm Dance Company
at Bennington College, 1938. Graham dances include World's Fair Preview (Graham and other dancers), Graham rehearsal World's
Fair 1938, and O'Donnell on Roof. Hanya Holm dances included Want Ads, Trend (Solo), Trend (ensemble), and Rehearsal Bennington
1938. Other dancers include Folk Dancers, Music Preview, Gretle Whalen, Olin Downs, and rehearsal.
Box 434. 1935-1939, undated. 4 x 5 negatives and contact prints of Bennington College Festival of Modern Dance. Dancers and
dances included are Martha Graham technique outdoors; Martha Graham and Group in Frontier, Lamentation, Every Soul is a Circus,
Primitive Mysteries, Deep Song, American Document: Puritan Love Duet with Erick Hawkins, Declaration, Emancipation Episode,
Letter to the World, El Penitente; Hanya Holm: Improvisation, Want Ads, Work and Play, and in rehearsals including Sophie
Maslow, Jane Dudley and Valerie Bettis; Marian Van Tyl Campbell: solo and group in Out of One Happening; Louise Kloepper solo
and with group in Earth Saga; Eleanor King and group in Folk Suite and Ode to Freedom.
Box 435. 1938-1957. 4 x 5 negatives and contact prints of Martha Graham and Group, May O'Donnell and other dancers, musicians
and New York political figures at the 1938 World's Fair, Bennington College, and Sarah Lawrence College photographic work.
Bennington College dancers also include Hanya Holm in Trend, Want Ads, and Improvisation; Sarah Lawrence College includes
fencing, buildings, jazz musician Martin Gornley, Doris Riker, and students in various venues and activities.
For additional Graham dance images, including dancers Erick Hawkins, Merce Cunningham, and other Graham Group dancers, see
Other dancers - photographic prints (small) and contact prints (Subseries 9.2)
box 315
Martha Graham - contact sheet books
1937
Scope and Content
This box contains proof books of images taken of Martha Graham and her dancers in various locations (including Sarah Lawrence
College). Photographs are credited to Julian Bryan and Willard Morgan, as well as Barbara Morgan.
box 434, box 435, box 454, box 455, box 456, box 457, box 458, box 459, box 549, box 550, box 551, box 552, box 554, box 556, box 558, box 562, box 563, box 595, box 607, box 608
Martha Graham - negatives
1930s-1940s
Scope and Contents
Boxes 434 and 435 contain both negatives and contact prints of Martha Graham and Group.
Boxes 454, 455, 456, 457, 458, 459, 562 and 563 contain 4 x 5 negatives of Martha Graham and Group.
Boxes 549, 550, 551, 552, 554, 556, and 558 contain 5 x 7 negatives of Martha Graham and Group, 1930s.
Box 558 also includes 35mm transparencies of Graham and Group, including 35mm color transparencies of Martha Graham and Erick
Hawkins at Bennington.
For detailed descriptions of these boxes, including names of dances and dancers, see:
Subseries 9.8 Cut film (4 x 5 format and smaller) negatives and contact prints, 1920s-1970s, undated; and
Subseries 9.8 Cut film (5 x 7 format and smaller) negatives and contact prints, 1920s-1970s, undated
Box 595 contains large negatives of
Letter to the World (Kick), color negatives of Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins, and negatives and transparencies of art works by Barbara Morgan.
Boxes 607 and 608 are a mix of series, including folders containing negatives of Martha Graham and Group.
Box 608 includes 8 x 10 prints and master negatives of Martha Graham, solo and Group, in
Letter to the World (Kick and Swirl),
American Document,
Frontier,
Every Soul is a Circus, and
Deep Song. Also includes 8 x 10 negatives of experimental photography, photomontages and rayograms, including some Graham dance double
exposure.
box 241, folder 2-6, box 296, box 297, box 305, box 434
Martha Graham technique - photographic prints (small) and contact prints
1930s-1940s, 1990s, undated
Scope and Content
Box 241. 1930s-1940s. Vintage (1930s-1940s) 8 x 10 and contact prints, as well as one folder of 8 x 10 reproduction prints
(1990s) of Graham technique demonstrated by Merce Cunningham, Ethel Butler, Jean Erdman, and Nina Caiserman. Also includes
8 x 10 and smaller prints of Martha Graham and Graham Group in
American Document,
American Provincials,
Deaths and Entrances,
Deep Song, and
Every Soul is a Circus; and a print of Jane Dudley, Sophie Maslow, and Frieda Flier in
Celebration, and Martha Graham in
Chronicle.
Box 296. circa 1894-1941. Includes 4 x 5 contact prints of Graham technique demonstrated by Graham dancers Dorothy Bird, May
O'Donnell, Ethel Butler, and Nina Caiserman.
Box 297. circa 1938, undated. 4 Includes 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham dancers (Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman, some
group, and some unidentified Graham dancers) demonstrating Graham technique.
Box 305 includes Graham dance contact prints including Graham technique demonstrated by Merce Cunningham and by Ethel Butler,
and Graham technique outdoors at Bennington College.
Box 434. 1935-1939, undated. Includes 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham technique outdoors at Bennington College.
box 458, box 459, box 562
Martha Graham technique - negatives
circa 1930s-1940s
Scope and Contents
Box 458. 1935-1942. Includes 4 x 5 negatives of Martha Graham technique demonstrated by Dorothy Bird, May O'Donnell and Ethel
Bird at Bennington College in the summer of 1938.
Box 459. 1942. Includes 4 x 5 negatives of Martha Graham technique demonstrated by Ethel Butler, Nina Fonarof (corrected by
Anna Halpern to be Nina Caiserman), Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman, and group. This box also contains unidentified and unnumbered
negatives, possibly including Letter to the World and Columbiad.
Box 562. 1938-1939. Includes negatives of Martha Graham and Group at World's Fair 1938 including rehearsals, Graham solo,
May O'Donnell, Graham technique demonstrations. Negatives in this box correspond with contact prints in Boxes 434 and 435.
box 383, folder 2, box 388, folder 3-4, box 392, folder 5-6, box 448, folder 2-5
Other dancers - photographic prints (large)
Scope and Content
Box 383 contains
Rehearsal Nightmare (dance photomontage).
Box 388 contains Bettis and O'Donnell prints.
Box 392 contains Bettis.
Box 448, Folders 2-5 contain 8 x 10 format prints of Humphrey-Weidman dance images matted on large foamcore boards.
box 332, folder 5-12, box 333, folder 5-24, box 334, folder 5-23, box 335, folder 5-23, box 336, folder 3, box 342, folder 10, box 354, folder 1-16, box 355, folder 6-7, box 356, folder 12-15, box 359, folder 1-10, box 361, folder 14-15, box 362, folder 1-7, 14-15, box 365, folder 1-11, box 366, folder 1-7, box 368, folder 1-9, 11-16, box 369, folder 5-15, box 371, folder 1-5, 13, box 372, folder 1-6, 11-12, box 374, folder 1-13, box 375, folder 3-13, box 377, folder 1-7, box 378, folder 1-5, box 380, folder 4-8, box 381, folder 1-8
Other dancers - photographic prints (medium)
Scope and Content
Medium-sized prints of dancers are located as follows:
Bettis - Boxes 332, 355, 365, 368, 374.
Chen - Boxes 365, 368.
Cunningham (some with Lang) - Boxes 332-333, 359, 365, 368-369.
Dafora - Boxes 333, 369, 371.
Dudley - Boxes 371.
Hawkins - Boxes 333, 371.
Holm - Boxes 333-334, 372.
Humphrey and/or Weidman - Boxes 334-335, 361-362, 366, 369, 371-372, 374-375, 377-378, 380-381.
Kloepper - Box 369.
Limón (some with O'Donnell) - Boxes 34, 354, 356, 359, 365, 372.
Maslow with Bales - Boxes 335, 372.
Primus - Boxes 335, 342, 354, 369, 374.
Sokolow - Boxes 335, 374.
Tamiris with Nagrin - Boxes 336, 374.
box 243, folder 1-3, 5-11, box 244, folder 1-10, 12-13, box 245, folder 1-13, box 607, folder 7
Other dancers - photographic prints (small) and contact prints
1930s-1940s, undated
Scope and Content
Martha Graham files in this subseries also include images of "other dancers" who danced with Martha Graham Group.
Most photographic prints in these files are gelatin silver.
Scope and Contents
Box 243. 1930s-1940s. 8 x 10 prints. Dancers include Valerie Bettis, Miriam Blecker, Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman, Jane Dudley,
Erick Hawkins, Hanya Holm and Group in
Work and Play,
Dance Sonata at Bennington 1938 and
Trend, 1937-1938. Also includes some double exposure/experimental dance photographs, and a color print of Erick Hawkins in
Yankee Bluebritches.
Box 244. 1930s-1940s, undated. Prints (8 x 10 and smaller), 35mm contact sheets, and proof prints. Includes Hanya Holm and
Group, and with Louis Horst, children, goat and dogs at Bennington; Doris Humphrey and Humphrey-Weidman Company in
Passacaglia,
Shakers,
Square Dance for Moderns,
To the Dance,
With My Red Fires; Louise Kloepper; José Limón, solo and with May O'Donnell; and Sophie Maslow, solo and with Bill Bales in
Sweet Betsy from Pike. Also includes contact sheets of Louis Horst and Hanya Holm Group demonstration at 92nd Street Y (YMCA), New York, and 5
x 7 contact print of Doris Humphrey in
Exhibition Piece.
Box 245. 1930s-1940s, 1940s-1970s, undated. Prints (8 x 10 and smaller) of dancers Anna Sokolow; Helen Tamiris and Daniel
Nagrin; Charles Weidman in
Atavisms--Bargain Counter,
Lynchtown,
Daddy Was a Fireman,
On My Mother's Side,
Race of Life,
Opus 51 at Bennington,
Happy Hypocrite with Katie Litz,
Traditions with José Limón and William Archibald; Humphrey-Weidman Company in
Inquest, and
Theme and Variation; Doris Humphrey in
Inquest; Weidman in
Race of Life. This box also includes prints with elements for rayogram, experimental and light photography.
Box 607, folder 7. Undated. 5 x 7 contact prints. José Limón and Doris Humphrey.
box 460, box 461, box 462, box 463, box 464, box 465, box 563, box 607, folder 5, box 608, folder 7
Other dancers - negatives
1930s-1940s
Scope and Contents
Box 460. circa 1938-1944. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including Thelma Babbitz; Bill Bales
in Green Mountain Boy and Adios; Valerie Bettis in Broadway Speedlite, Prairie Born, The Desperate Heart and untitled; Al
Bezar (see Asadata Dafora); Miriam Blecher; Katherine Bolland; Si Lan Chen in Dances for China, West Indian Jamaica and untitled;
and Merce Cunningham in Totem Ancestor.
Box 461. 1942-1944, undated. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including Merce Cunningham in
Root of an Unfocus, Totem Ancestor, Look with Pearl Lang, and untitled; Asadata Dafora solo and with partner Lolita and drummer
Norman; Jane Dudley in Cante Flamenco, Harmonica Breakdown, Molly Pitcher, New World a Comin', Short Story, and Swing Your
Lady; and Sophie Maslow and Jane Dudley in Caprichio. Also includes Douglas Morgan with drummer Norman and experimental and
double exposure dance photographs.
Box 462. 1942-1944, undated. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including Jean Erdman with Merce
Cunningham in Credo in US: Suburban Idyll and other dances; Jean Erdman in Sun Smell, and The Transformation of Medusa; Nelle
Fisher in Ballet Fishnet, Spring, and tests with Thelma Babbitz; Frieda Flier; Erick Hawkins in Geometries, Liberty Tree,
Mozart Gigue, Opening Dance, Pilgrim's Progress, Trail Breaker, Trickster Coyote, Yankee Blue Britches, and Yankee Doodle;
Hanya Holm solo in Work and Play, Holm--goat--Horst--Bennington, Holm Dance of Introduction; Doris Humphrey and group in Exhibition
Piece, Inquest (including Charles Weidman and Ray Hamilton), and To The Dance. Also includes Erick Hawkins negative sleeves
marked bird, fist, portraits, and Erick Hawkins and Pogo.
Box 463. 1938, undated. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including Doris Humphrey and group
in Inquest, Passacaglia, Shakers (including Bea Seckler leap), Square Dance for Moderns Waltz (solo and with Charles Weidman),
To the Dance (solo, double exposure and group), and With My Red Fires; Eleanor King (solo and group) at Bennington, including
Ode to Freedom; Louise Kloepper in Romantic Theme; Pearl Lang, José Limón in Sarabande for the Dead and Viva (Danza de la
Muerta), Mexican Suite (Danzas Mexicanas, Conquistador, Indian, Peon, Revolutionario, Cowboy Song, Bach Chaconne, and José
Limón with May O'Donnell, and José Limón with cat in Barbara Morgan's studio.
box 464. 1938-1944, undated. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including José Limón in Bach
Chaconne; Barbara Livingstone; Barbara Livingstone and Frances Sunstein; Sophie Maslow in Bach Suite with Jane Dudley and
Bill bales, Dust Bowl, Mountain Shout, Folksay--Old Smokey and Sweet Betsy from Pike with Bill Bales; Majorie Guthrie Mazia
in Ballet Satiric and Modern Satiric; Daniel Nagrin in There's No Hidin' Place; Barbara Mettler in Alarm; May O'Donnell in
Cornerstone, and on roof World's Fair 1938; Pearl Primus in Rock Daniel and Speak To Me of Rivers; Anna Sokolow in Ballad,
Case History, and The Exile / I Had a Garden.
Box 465. Undated. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including Anna Sokolow in photo studio photography
and in Facade, and Slaughter of the Innocent; Helen Tamiris; Helen Ramiris and Daniel Nagrin; Marian Van Tuyl in Out of One
Happening; Charles Weidman and group in Atavisms--Lynchtown and Bargain Counter, Daddy Was a Fireman, Happy Hypocrite with
Katherine Litz, Love-Heart Remembers, On My Mother's Side, Opus 51, Race of Life, and Traditions.
Box 563. 1935-1938. Negatives of portraits of Hanya Holm, Louis Horst, Bill Bales and Charles Weidman, Ethel Butler, John
Martin and others at Bennington. This box also includes Graham, Hawkins and Graham Group at Bennington; casuals, rehearsals
and demonstrations in NYC studio; and early portraits of Martha Graham: Immediate Tragedy, organdy collar dress, kimono, rope
trim dress, abstract background.
Subseries 9.3: Experimental photography
1940s-1970s, undated
1940s-1950s
Scope and Content
This subseries contains Morgan's experimental photographic material: light drawings, photomontage, photograms, rayograms,
and other experimental photography, as well as photographic components she used for creating some of this work.
box 384, folder 2-4, box 387, folder 1-9
Light Drawings - photographic prints (large)
box 327, folder 18-23, box 343, folder 1, box 351, folder 6-8, box 357, folder 1-6, box 370, folder 1-13, box 377, folder 8-13
Light Drawings - photographic prints (medium)
box 383, folder 7, box 384, folder 7-11, box 389, folder 1, 4-10
Photomontage - photographic prints (large)
box 327, folder 3-17, box 329, folder 19-21, 23-27, box 343, folder 4-5, box 345, folder 1, box 347, folder 7-12, box 349, folder 3-4, box 350, folder 1-12, box 359, folder 11-12, box 362, folder 8-13, box 364, folder 1-13, box 370, folder 14-17, box 375, folder 14-17, box 377, folder 14, box 379, folder 8, box 380, folder 9-15, box 381, folder 9-15, box 442, folder 1-12, box 443, folder 1-11
Photomontage - photographic prints (medium)
Scope and Contents
Box 345. Undated.
City Shell, 12 x 15-3/4 in. Signed on the back.
Box 364. 1938-1980. 16 x 20 format prints including
City Shell (2 folders),
City Sound (3 folders),
City Street,
Finale,
Fossil in Formation (2 folders),
Frolic in the Lab,
Hearst Over the People, and
Hullabaloo.
box 383, folder 5-6, box 384, folder 5-6, box 389, folder 2-3
Other experimental photography - photographic prints (large)
box 328, folder 3-23, box 329, folder 17-18, box 330, folder 15-26, box 340, folder 2, box 345, folder 10-12, box 346, folder 2, 10-12, box 347, folder 4-6, 13, box 349, folder 1, box 351, folder 1-2, box 355, folder 8-9, box 358, folder 18, box 360, folder 7-15, box 382, folder 11-15
Other experimental photography - photographic prints (medium)
Scope and Contents
Box 345. 1945-1976, undated. Prints, various sizes, matted to 14 x 18 in.
Box 346. 1945, 1971, undated. Prints, various sizes, matted to 14 x 18 in. Photogram, 1945. Signed on reverse of print (unmatted).
Studio Window with Vibrations, undated.
Planetary Duet I, Motion series, 1971.
Motion Series II, 1970, printed 1971.
Box 360. 16 x 20 format prints of photograms including
Ghosts of Amaryllis,
Haiku,
Inner Stratas (2 folders),
Light Waves,
Opacities,
Planet on Fire,
Solar Memory, and
Trajectory.
box 245, folder 14-16, box 246, folder 1-18, box 247, folder 1-3, box 607, folder 8, box 608, folder 8-18
Experimental photographic prints (small), negatives, contact prints, and compositional elements
1940s-1970s, undated
Scope and Contents
Box 608 includes 8 x 10 negatives of experimental, light, photomontage and rayograms.
Subseries 9.4: Junkyard photography
1940s-1950s, undated
Scope and Content
This subseries contains material for Morgan's series of photographs taken in an auto junkyard. She used some of these images
in her experimental photography (see Subseries 9.3: Experimental).
box 385, folder 8-10, box 388, folder 5-8
Photographic prints (large)
box 329, folder 4-16, 22, box 344, folder 2-3, box 347, folder 3, box 351, folder 3-5, 10, box 356, folder 6-7, box 376, folder 8-14
Photographic prints (medium)
box 247, folder 4
Photographic prints (small) and contact prints
1940s-1950s, undated
Subseries 9.5: Nature photography
1940s-1970s, undated
1940s-1950s
Scope and Content
This subseries contains Morgan's photographic material depicting nature, such as plants and landscapes. She used some of these
images in her experimental photography (see Subseries 9.3: Experimental).
box 383, folder 1, 3-4, box 385, folder 5-6, box 388, folder 9-10, box 392, folder 7
Photographic prints (large)
circa 1940s-1970s
box 324, folder 1-8, 19, box 342, folder 11, box 343, folder 2-3, box 344, folder 5-6, box 346, folder 1, box 349, folder 2, box 351, folder 9, box 352, folder 1-12, box 357, folder 7-10, box 378, folder 6-12, box 379, folder 9-14
Photographic prints (medium)
circa 1940s-1970s, undated
box 247, folder 5-6
Photographic prints (small) and contact prints
1940s-1970s, undated
Subseries 9.6: People and Animals photography (including Strobe Series)
1930s-1950s, undated
Scope and Content
This subseries contains photographic material for Morgan's images of people and animals, including portraits and her 1940s
series using a strobe or speedlite.
box 384, folder 1
Photographic prints (large)
1930s-1950s
box 323, folder 1, 5-13, box 338, folder 3-4, 9-11, box 340, folder 1, box 343, folder 6-11, box 345, folder 2, box 347, folder 1-2, box 349, folder 5, 7-8, box 351, folder 11, box 357, folder 11-12, box 358, folder 7-15, box 361, folder 16, box 362, folder 16-17, box 363, folder 15-16, box 365, folder 15-16, box 436, folder 4-5, box 443, folder 17
Photographic prints (medium)
1930s-1950s, undated
box 247, folder 7-21, box 248, folder 1-11, box 607, box 608
Photographic prints (small), negatives, and contact prints
1930s-1950s, undated
Scope and Contents
Box 608, folder 20 contains one 8 x 10 negative photographic portrait of Berenice Abbott.
box 230, folder 1-7, box 231, folder 1-9, box 232, folder 1-10, box 233, folder 1-10, box 234, folder 1-7, box 235, folder 1-12, box 236, folder 1-14, box 237, folder 1-10, box 238, folder 1-13, box 239, folder 1-16, box 240, folder 1-9
Subseries 9.7: Reproduction files
circa 1920s-2000s
1990s-2000s
Scope and Content
These files contain reproduction and reference prints from most of the categories of Morgan's photography work. They were
created and used by Morgan's daughter-in-law, Lilianne DeCock Morgan, for handling pre-digital reproduction or other publicity
requests from publishers for approximately twenty years following Morgan's death. Most are later (non-vintage) prints on glossy
as well as matte paper, but present are also some contact prints, vintage prints, and earlier mounted reproduction prints
with cropping marks and instructions in Morgan's handwriting. Print quantity and image content in each file varies depending
upon researchers' interests over time. Some prints were returned to the archive after use.
Also includes material regarding an early project or concept, "Machine Age."
Subseries 9.8: Negatives and contact prints
1920s-1970s, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes negatives and contact prints related to all of Barbara Morgan's creative and personal photographic works. There are
also negatives and contact prints of photographs taken by both Barbara and Willard Morgan, including their collaborative projects,
such as the Barnes Foundation and other art documentation; their travels in the Southwest and family trips; and friends and
family, including genealogical photography. Also included are negatives and contact prints of photographs by Willard Morgan
of Los Angeles architecture; E. Leitz and Leica projects; photographs of Barbara and Willard taken by each other and by other
photographers, including Ansel Adams; and copy photographs of other photographers' works, including Edward Weston.
Files of negatives, contact prints and sheets are also located within series and subseries related to particular works and
projects throughout the collection. For detailed descriptions of negatives and contact prints related to Bennington College,
Sarah Lawrence, and other projects, see Series 4: Barbara Morgan photographic projects.
Negatives and contact prints of Martha Graham and other dancers are described in detail in files under Subseries 9.2: Dance
photography.
box 422, folder 6, box 423, folder 1-6, box 424, folder 1-5, box 425, folder 1-6, box 426, folder 1-5, box 427, folder 1-5, box 428, folder 1-6, box 429, folder 1-4, box 430, folder 1-2, box 537, box 545, folder 1-8, box 546, folder 1-5, box 547, folder 1-4, box 548, folder 1-5, box 549, folder 1-6, box 550, folder 1-7, box 551, folder 1-6, box 552, folder 1-5, box 553, folder 1-5, box 554, folder 1-4, box 555, folder 1-4, box 556, folder 1-7, box 558, folder 1-21, box 559, box 560
Cut film (5 x 7 format and smaller) - negatives and contact prints
1920s-1970s, undated
Scope and Contents
Box 422. circa 1920s-1950s, undated. 6 folders of negatives and contact prints by Barbara and Willard Morgan. Includes trips
to the Southwest, and notes re Papago 1954. Also includes photographs of Barbara and Willard, pets and children.
Box 423. circa 1920s-1940s, undated. 6 folders of contact prints including Paul Doering; Beaumont and Nancy Newhall; Ansel
Adams; children and Treetops; Ed Powell; Joseph Campbell; Hittite; Helen Morgan; Ruth (pregnant, nude) and Bill Mitchell;
Kay Lauterer (pregnant, nude); Barbara and Willard Morgan family and children: Lexington Ave, Barbara in her studio NYC, Scarsdale;
Experimental light and Rayograms; Nature: trees, corn leaf; Photomontage elements: city, nature, body parts; C. Sheeler and
beech tree; Macy's window; and Dance including Martha Graham American Provincials, José Limón, Erick Hawkins, May O'Donnell
photomontage at World's Fair, Celebration postcard, Weidman, Frank Bauman.
Box 424. 1937, undated. 5 folders of 5 x 7 prints and contact prints, and smaller contact prints, including Martha Graham
(solo and group) in Sarabande, Harlequinade, Celebration (different than Sixteen Dances), American Document (similar to Sixteen
Dances), Primitive Mysteries, Chronicle, Frontier, Deaths and Entrances, Deep Song and Immediate Tragedy; Graham programs
and Indian drum photographs in Sixteen Dances, a Graham music score; copy photographs by Barbara Morgan of early Martha Graham:
baby, young woman portrait in black looking down, and Graham in Ruth St. Denis company: Tocsin, Fragilite, East Indian Poem,
Javanese dance and unidentified (photographs by White Studio, Soichi Sunami, Ray Hulf, and unidentified); copy photographs
of Graham Group in Indian Dance and Snake Dance; Barbara Morgan exhibit La Danza Moderna Norte Americana at MOMA 1945; Willard
Morgan architecture and other photographs; Southwest: postcard of Barbara Morgan cooking at Canyon de Chelly campsite; and
Halloween Scarsdale Window Painting 1937.
Box 425. Undated. 6 folders of 5 x 7 contact prints and negatives, including experimental and photomontage elements: body
close-ups, city, light drawings/other "light": Sun moment, Dawn moment, Tree light, Samadhi (original negative); Macy's window;
Junkyard Series/Tin can; Nature - plants/trees: Amaryllis, begonia, cactus, corn, Funkia, Sumach, plants in window, thorn,
walnut (macro) Funkia leaf (solarized) birch trees, fog 1941, Charles Sheeler and beech tree, trees in snow, other trees;
ice on window, snow weeds, snow shadows, snow fence, snow scapes. Also includes Martha Graham in Sarabande, Morgan family
members: Willard Morgan, Helen Morgan, Douglas Morgan, Bill Mitchell, Lloyd's Head, and Willard and Barbara Morgan house in
Scarsdale, New Jersey.
Box 426. Undated. 5 folders of 5 x 7 and smaller contact prints, including components of photomontage: Fossil, Spring on Madison
Square; Portraits, family and friends: James Austin, Beaumont Newhall, Willard and Ansel Adams in studio, Berenice Abbott,
Dr. Suzuki, Louis Horst, Shell; Summer's Children; New York; sand painting; experimental light; nature; Dance: Merce Cunningham
Totem Ancestor; Hanya Holm in Dance of Introduction; Doris Humphrey in Exhibition Piece; Anna Sokolow and group in Facade;
Charles Weidman in On My Mother's Side; Weidman, José Limón and Billy Archibald in Traditions; Nelle Fisher; Graham and Group;
Pearl Primus; Martha Graham solos in Deep Song, American Provincials, American Document: Indian Ancestor, and Emancipation;
and with Erick Hawkins in American Document Puritan Duet ; photographs of objects and Frontier musical score shown in Sixteen
Dances. This box also includes non-dance contact prints including fossil and other nature elements for experimental photography,
New York City photographs, and portraits of Berenice Abbott and Louis Horst.
Box 427. 1938-1939, undated. 5 x 7 contact prints including Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins solo and together in American
Document: Now, Indian Ancestors, Every Soul is a Circus; Graham solos in War Theme, Columbiad, Ekstatis, Lamentation, Letter
to the World (Kick), and Graham on bench; and other Graham with Hawkins; Graham Group in Deaths and Entrances, Every Soul
is a Circus, Primitive Mysteries, and Graham dancers Nelle Fisher, Freida Flier and Marjorie Mazia in Modern Satiric.
Box 428. 1937-1939, undated. 4 folders of 5 x 7 contact prints and 2 folders of 4 x 5 contact prints and smaller. 5 x 7 contact
prints include Graham, Hawkins and Cunningham in Every Soul is a Circus, and Puritan Love Duet; Graham solo in Letter to the
World (Swirl), Columbiad, American Document Indian Solo, Sarabande, and Immediate Tragedy (1937); Hawkins solo in American
Document, and Hawkins with Douglas Morgan and others in studio shots for fun; May O'Donnell 1939 World's Fair photomontage;
Charles Weidman and group in Traditions and unidentified dance; Hanya Holm in Dance of Introduction, Louis Horst at piano
with dancers. Nature and Plants images: plants in windows Scarsdale, New York; plants copy camera (parts); Nature-animals:
cats, toad, frog, chickens, feather, moth, rock formations, honeycomb, ocean wave breaking, odds and ends, Doug and the toad
prince, stone metate, and stone walls; Photomontage/photogram components and experimental light; Portraits, family and friends:
Berenice Abbott, Samuel Barber, John Butler, Cowdrey-Johnston 1947, Virginia Creed, Otto Doering, Lewis Hine, baby Lightgarn,
Edward Powell, James Prestini, Adrian Siegal, and M. Werner. 4"x6" contact prints include New York City people and places:
Madison Square Park, boats and wharves, shop and other signs, crowds, Coney Island, people on sidewalks, moving cars, goats,
horses by river Canada 1937, trees, snow and ice, and turtle. Also includes sketches and notes by Barbara Morgan for processing,
cropping and printing photographs, and a color photograph of Barbara Morgan, ca 1980s standing in front of framed photograph
(on auction) of Graham with flower and Hawkins (rear) in Every Soul is a Circus, and a photograph by Willard Morgan 1929 of
a cabin in Northern California.
Box 429. 1938, undated. 5 folders of 5 x 7 and smaller contact prints, including Dance: Martha Graham solo in Deep Song, Satyric
Festival, Ekstatis, Indian Ancestor solo, Graham with Erick Hawkins in Every Soul is a Circus and Puritan Love Duet, and Graham
with Merce Cunningham in Every Soul is a Circus. Also Cunningham solo, Eric Hawkins solo, Hanya Holm in Want Ads, Bill Bales
and Sophie Maslow, José Limón, Doris Humphrey solo in With My Red Fires and with group in Square Dance for Moderns, Humphrey-Weidman
group in Shakers, Anna Sokolow and group in Façade, negatives and contacts set aside for Deba Patnaik for his book Icons of
Dance, and Pogo Morgan in mask and costume, jumping. Also includes Friends and family: Coca, Gilbert, Herc and Barbara, photographic
portraits of Barbara Morgan and Beaumont Newhall, and Elsa Schmid; Architecture: Barnsdall details, garage-rubble, gutters,
highway, New York City building and street signs, shop fronts, nightclubs, theaters, wrecked buildings; Nature: leaves, trees,
corn stalks, Hittite; and People: Treetops and children. Also includes radiation, Darkroom of Lee Parsons New Rochelle, and
European posters.
Box 430. Undated. 5 folders of copy negatives, contact prints, and contact sheets. 2 folders of copy negatives of photographic
prints and photomontages by John Heartfield - subject: WWII, Hitler, and Third Reich; 2 folders containing negative strips
(removed) and prints of the Fresh Air Fund project, 1958; and 1 folder of 8 x 10 contact sheet proofs of the Fresh Air Fund
project photographs.
Box 537. Undated. Primarily negatives and some contact prints by Barbara and Willard Morgan. Includes Barnes Foundation, Southwest
Museum, Chief Standing Bear, Scranton Pennsylvania lace mill, J.C. Matson piloting Stearman airplane, California Plains and
Southwest: Trampas New Mexico, Arizona, Penetente, Grand Canyon. Also includes Kim Weber: Freudmeman Home and Lovich Dress
Display Room in Los Angeles; J.R. Davidson: Hi-Hat Restaurant, Satyr Book Shop, Schillings Flowers, Hite-Bilicke Office, Presman;
and Willard Morgan: Inter-American Visual Library proposal and letters, early Leica photographs, and Barth + Contax. Also
includes photographs by Edward Weston.
Box 545. Circa 1920s-1954, undated. Negatives of photographs by Barbara Morgan and Willard Morgan. Includes Grand Canyon,
Mono Lake, Willard with Leica, Canyon de Chelly, Rito de los Frijoles, New Mexico, Katchina, Penitente Country, Rainbow Bridge
and hiking to it, Barbara working in Southwest Museum, sand paintings, Snag Lake, Zuni paintings, Yoly Boly, Papago 1954,
Prestini Column, NYC at night. Includes 1928 photograph by Willard Morgan of Barbara Morgan, sitting on a ledge, secured with
rope, and with a large artists' tablet on her lap, painting the Grand Canyon.
Box 546. Undated. 5 folders of negatives including X-ray skull, Prestini portrait, New York City photographs: Chrysler building,
streets, etc., trees, Lucy Doering speedlight, Hittite, Helen Morgan, pregnant--Ruth Mitchell and Kay Lauterer, Morgan family
New York City and Scarsdale. Some dividers are without associated negatives, including Nancy Beaumont, Ansel Adams, and Joseph
Campbell.
Box 547. 1938-1975, undated. 4 folders of negatives including the Morgan home Scarsdale and family: cat Boots, Willard (Herk),
Doug and animals, Barbara, Doug and Pogo archery, and horse barn. Also includes photomontage components, photograms, rayograms
and light drawings.
Box 548. 1933-1945, undated. 5 folders of negatives including photomontage components, photograms, light drawings, and Europa
Magazine cover; Barbara Morgan photomontage lecture text; Barnes Foundation art works: Peruvian, Incan, Matisse mural; Barbara
Morgan MOMA exhibition La Danza Moderna; and copy negatives of photographs by Moholy-Nagy and Edgerton.
Box 549. 1926-1952, undated. 6 folders of negatives including photomontages: Miss America, loyalist poster, What Are You Doing
to Prevent This?; Barbara Morgan 1952 Summers Children exhibit at New York Public Library; photo techniques by Edgerton and
Muybridge; Willard Morgan copy negatives; baseball; early Martha Graham and family including East Indian Poem, Javanese dance,
Tocsin, and copy negatives of Indian Snake Dance, Young Martha Graham dancer. Also includes photographs of Mayan art.
Box 550. 1933-1947, undated. 7 folders of negatives including Body close-ups: fist, knee, foot; New York City: Madison Square
from Morgan Studio 1939 and other city photographs; Friends and family: portraits of Douglas and Willard Morgan including
Doug's Head, Helen Morgan and Murray Elliott, pregnant Ruth Mitchell and Bill Mitchell, Dance: Martha Graham in Sarabande,
Letter to the World (Swirl) and with Erick Hawkins; Light drawings including original Samadhi negatives; Junkyard series;
Nature: corn, plants and trees including Charles Sheeler and beech tree, ice and snow.
Box 551. 1939-1946, undated. 6 folders of negatives including snow and ice; Morgan house and barn in Scarsdale; Photomontage
components; Edward Weston shell; Dance: Merce Cunningham totem Ancestor copy negative; Doris Humphrey in Exhibition Piece,
Hanya Holm in Dance of Introduction; Anna Sokolow and Group in Facade; Charles Weidman, José Limón and Billy Archibald in
On My Mother's Side and Traditions; 1939 Martha Graham dance props, instruments, programs and musical scores for Deep Song
and Primitive Mysteries; Graham solos in American Document--Emancipation and Indian Ancestor, and with Erick Hawkins in Puritan
Love Duet; and Louis Horst at piano.
Box 552. 1935-1940. 5 folders of negatives including Graham in Columbiad, Deaths and Entrances, Ekstasis solo and with Erick
Hawkins in studio photographs, American Document, Letter to the World, and Every Soul is a Circus; Graham Group in Primitive
Mysteries, and Graham Group dancers Nelle Fisher, Frieda Flier, and Marjorie Mazie.
Box 553. 1936-1947, undated. 5 folders of negatives including plants in windows; Nature: animals and other--chicken, frog,
cats, feather, lunar moth, rock formations, honeycomb, Doug and the Toad Prince; Photomontage and photogram components; Portraits
and people: Berenice Abbott, Samuel Barber, John Butler, Mary Isabelle Cowdrey-Johnston 1947, Virginia Creed, Otto Doering,
Lewis Hine, baby Lightgarn, Edward Powell, James Prestini, Adrian Siegal, M. Werner; Lake Treetops at night; science objects
copy camera; Alpine quartz crystal; stone walls and gardens; and Madison Square from 1939 Morgan studio.
Box 554. 1932-1942, undated. 4 folders of negatives including color negatives of Graham, Humphrey and Hawkins; Hittite sculpture;
corn; children, probably Camp Treetops; Barbara Morgan in turban; Beaumont Newhall; copies of letters from visual directors;
copies of paintings by Annita Delano and of students work from Delano-Morgan classes at UCLA; darkroom photographs; reproductions
of articles about Barbara Morgan exhibitions 1934 and 1939; Dorothy Lawton recommendation for grant; James Leonard and Lee
Parsons Davis, and Philippine Penitente Islands (photographs by Willard Morgan?); and unidentified.
Box 555. circa 1920s. 4 folders of negatives including Adobe House and Brick Making Imperial Valley, Burbank Firemen and Archery,
Boy Scouts, Reproductions from Books, Braille, Barbara works, La Brea Tar Pits, Dolls, Dog sled pictures.
Box 556. undated. 3 folders of 5 x 7 negatives including World War II and Nazi subjects by John Heartfield and photomontage
by Alfredo Valente.
Box 558. circa 1925-1938, undated. 35mm and 4 x 5 negatives from multiple series, and 4 x 5 and 8 x 10 copy negatives from
repro files. Includes dance photographs of Martha Graham and Group 1938 in Indian American Document, Bennington: Graham and
Hawkins, Louis Horst, and Primitive Mysteries. Also includes negatives of Barbara Morgan exhibitions and copy negatives of
photographs shown in exhibitions, 35mm negatives of Sabro Hasagawa, copy negatives of Barbara Morgan experimental and dance
photographs, copy negatives of Edward Weston photographs, and copies of Otis Art Institute students' works.
Box 559. 1954, 1965, undated. 35mm and larger negative strips of Morgan family: Lloyd, Janet, very young Nils, Caitlin, Lael,
Adele and Eric, pond construction, Franklin Falls, waterskiing, graduations, fishing; and Papago Reservation 1954 Arizona.
Also includes Mesa Verde. Some of the negatives in this box correspond with prints in Box 154.
Box 560. 1940-1945, undated. Negatives, various sizes. Barbara Morgan La Danza Moderna exhibit at MOMA 1940 or 1945, Camp
Fresh Air, Camps Anita and Bliss, Pioneer-Sketch. Also includes negatives of (political) cartoon sent to Willard Morgan. Camp
photographs correspond to prints in Box 430.
box 290, box 291, box 292, box 293, box 294, box 295, box 296, box 297, box 298, box 299, box 300, box 301, box 302, box 303, box 304, box 305, box 433, box 434, box 435, box 454, box 455, box 456, box 457, box 458, box 459, box 460, box 461, box 462, box 463, box 464, box 465, box 529, box 530, box 531, box 532, box 533, box 534, box 535, box 536, box 538, box 539, box 540, box 541, box 542, box 543, box 544, box 556, box 557, box 561, box 562, box 563
Cut film (4 x 5 format and smaller) - negatives and contact prints
1920s-1970s, undated
Scope and Contents
Box 290. 1938-1939. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and demonstrations of the work American
Document choreographed by Martha Graham in the Graham Studio NYC and at Bennington College. Also includes non-dance photographs
of Graham and Eric Hawkins at Bennington College, and Erick Hawkins Striding Figure, 1939.
Box 291. 1935-1945. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works
choreographed by Martha Graham including American Document, American Provincials, Chronicle, Columbiad (Graham solo), Deaths
and Entrances. Dancers include Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Sophie Maslow, Frieda Flier, Jean Erdman, Jane Dudley, and other
dancers in the Martha Graham Company.
Box 292. 1934-1945. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works
choreographed by Martha Graham including Deaths and Entrances, Deep Song, Ekstasis, El Penitente, and Every Soul is a Circus.
Dancers include Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Merce Cunningham and other dancers in the Martha Graham Company.
Box 293. 1935-1940. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works
choreographed by Martha Graham including every Soul is a Circus and Frontier. Most of the photographs in this box depict dancers
Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins and Merce Cunningham. Some photographs also include other Graham dancers. Also includes some
contact prints with image dimensions 2-3/8" x 2-5/8" (60mm x 70mm).
Box 294. 1935-1940. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins in rehearsals and studio photography sessions
for works choreographed by Martha Graham including Frontier, Harlequinade, Imperial Gesture, Immediate Tragedy, Lamentation,
and Letter to the World. Most of the photographs in this box are of Martha Graham alone. Letter to the World photographs also
include Erick Hawkins.
Box 295. 1931-1941. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works
choreographed by Martha Graham including Letter to the World, Primitive Canticles, Primitive Mysteries, and Punch and Judy.
Dancers included are Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Merce Cunningham, with some ensemble photographs of Martha Graham and Group.
Box 296. circa 1894-1941. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for
works choreographed by Martha Graham including Punch and Judy (dancers Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Jean Erdman, Jane Dudley
and Ethel Butler), Sarabande, Satyric Festival, and War Theme; 1935 portraits of Martha Graham; Graham technique demonstrated
by Graham dancers Dorothy Bird, May O'Donnell, Ethel Butler, and Nina Caiserman. Also includes early photographs of Martha
Graham not taken by Barbara Morgan--baby, early dancer (in St. Denis costumes) and family; and photographs of Martha Graham's
signature.
Box 297. circa 1938, undated. 4 x 5 contact prints of Martha Graham dancers (Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman, some group, and
some unidentified Graham dancers) demonstrating Graham technique; and Martha Graham with Erick Hawkins. Also includes 2"x3"
prints of Martha Graham in unidentified dance.
Box 298. circa 1938-1944. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers Thelma Babbitz, Bill Bales in Green Mountain Boy and Adios, Valerie
Bettis in Prairie Born, Desperate Heart, Al Bezar, Miriam Blecher, Katherine Bolland, Si Lan Chen, Merce Cunningham in Totem
Ancestor.
Box 299. circa 1941-1944, undated. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers Asadata Dafora; Merce Cunningham in Root of the Unfocused;
Cunningham and Pearl Lang in Look; Jane Dudley in Cante Flamenco, Harmonica Breakdown, Ballad of Molly Pitcher, New World
a Comin', Short Story, and Swing Your Lady; Dudley and Sophie Maslow in Capricio and Evacuation; and Jane Dudley in Harmonica
Breakdown.
Box 300. Undated. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman, Jean Campbell, and Frieda Flier. Also includes
Jane Dudley in Harmonica Breakdown, Ballad of Molly Pitcher, A New World A Comin', Short Story, and Swing Your Lady; and Erick
Hawkins in Bird, Geometics, Liberty Tree, Mozart Gigue, Opening Dance, Pilgrim's Progress, Trail Breaker, Trickster Coyote,
and Yankee Bluebritches.
Box 301. circa 1938-1944. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers Erick Hawkins in Yankee Doodle; Hanya Holm and Company; Doris Humphrey
in Exhibition Piece, To the Dance, Inquest, Passacaglia, Shakers, Square Dance for Moderns, and With My Red Fires. Also includes
Charles Weidman, Ray Hamilton, and Holm ensemble, and Erick Hawkins and Pogo.
Box 302. circa 1935-1944. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers Hanya Holm in To the Dance; Holm and Charles Weidman in Country
Dance; Doris Humphrey in With My Red Fires; Eleanor King and group at Bennington in 1938; Pearl Lang; José Limón in Sarabande
for the Dead, Viva, Mexican Suite, Cowboy Song, Bach Chaconne; Limón with May O'Donnell; and Limón with cat in Barbara Morgan's
studio; Barbara Livingstone; Francis Sunstein; Sophie Maslow in Dust Bowl, Mountain Shout, Folksay, and with Jane Dudley and
Bill Bales in Bach Suite.
Box 303. Undated. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers Sophie Maslow in Mountain Shout, Folksay (Old Smokey), and Pike with Bill
Bales; Marjorie Mazia (Greenblatt Guthrie) in Ballet Satiric and Modern Satiric; Barbara Mettler; Daniel Nagrin in There's
No Hidin' Place; May O'Donnell in Cornerstone and other solo; Pearl Primus in Rock Daniel and Speak To Me of Rivers; Anna
Sokolow in Ballad, Cast History, The Exile / I Had a Garden, Facade, Slaughter of the Innocents, and studio portraits.
Box 304. 1938-1944, undated. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers Anna Sokolow in Slaughter of the Innocents; Helen Tamiris; Daniel
Nagrin in When the Saints Come Marching In; Marian van Tuyl; Charles Weidman in Lynchtown / Atavisions, Daddy Was a Fireman,
Love Heart Remembers, On My Mother's Side, Opus 51, Race of Life, Traditions, and Weidman with Katherine Litz in Happy Hypocrite;
Doris Humphrey in Inquest; and photomontage of Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Erick Hawkins and Merce Cunningham.
Box 305. 1933-1944, undated. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers including Si Lan Chen; Pearl Lang; Barbara Livingston and Frances
Sunstein; Charles Weidman in Traditions, Daddy Was a Fireman, Love, and Race of Life; Hanya Holm Improvisation; Jean Erdman
in Forever and Sunsmell (music by John Cage text by e.e. cummings), and The Transformation of Medusa; Erdman and Merce Cunningham
in Credo in Us; Helen Tamaris; Weidman in Lynchtown; Katherine Boland, Merce Cunningham in Root of the Unfocus, Totem Ancestor,
and with Pearl Lang (Look) and photomontage; José Limón in Mexican Suite, Cowboy Song (photomontage), Chaconne; Valerie Bettis
in Desperate Heart; Doris Humphrey in Shakers, Inquest, Matriarch With My Red Fires, to the Dance, Passacaglia, with Weidman
in Square Dance for Moderns; Jane Dudley in Swing Your Lady, Molly Pitcher, Short Story, Harmonica Breakdown, and Cante Flamenco;
Lolita, partner of Asadata Dafora; and Pearl Primus in Rock Daniel.
Box 305 also includes Graham dance contact prints including Graham technique demonstrated by Merce Cunningham and by Ethel
Butler; Graham in Sarabande, El Penitente, Ekstasis, Imperial Gesture, Every Soul is a Circus, Letter to the World, American
Episode, Indian Episode, Punch and Judy, Harlequinade, Lamentation, Primitive Mysteries, and Deep Song; with Cunningham and
Hawkins in Deaths and Entrances, with Hawkins in Puritan Love Duet; and Graham in black dress with organdy collar.
Box 305 also includes dancers at Bennington College in 1938: Hanya Holm, Louise Kloepper in Statement of Dissent, Martha Graham
and Group, Graham casual backstage, Graham and students candid, candid other, Graham technique outdoors, Erick Hawkins, Weidman
and Humphrey, Harvey Kerr, Ethel Butler directing Graham rehearsal, Houseley, Francis Hawkins, Ray Green, Marion Van Tyle,
Louise Kloepper, Bill Bales and Weidman, Ralph Gilbert, Sophie Maslow in Dust Bowl and Mountain Shout, and Maslow, Bales and
Dudley in Bach Suite. Also includes musicians Louis Horst, Norman and Ruth Lloyd, stage designer Arch Lanterer, and critic
John Martin.
Box 305 also includes birch trees, Skull with Dancer (photomontage), and Beaumont Newhall and Willard Morgan lifting Ansel
Adams in studio party, 1942.
Box 433. 1938, undated. 4 x 5 contact prints of dancers Martha Graham and Group and Hanya Holm and Hanya Holm Dance Company
at Bennington College, 1938. Graham dances include World's Fair Preview (Graham and other dancers), Graham rehearsal World's
Fair 1938, and O'Donnell on Roof. Hanya Holm dances included Want Ads, Trend (Solo), Trend (ensemble), and Rehearsal Bennington
1938. Other dancers include Folk Dancers, Music Preview, Gretle Whalen, Olin Downs, and rehearsal.
Box 434. 1935-1939, undated. Negatives and contact prints of Bennington College Festival of Modern Dance. Dancers and dances
included are Martha Graham technique outdoors; Martha Graham and Group in Frontier, Lamentation, Every Soul is a Circus, Primitive
Mysteries, Deep Song, American Document: Puritan Love Duet with Erick Hawkins, Declaration, Emancipation Episode, Letter to
the World, El Penitente; Hanya Holm: Improvisation, Want Ads, Work and Play, and in rehearsals including Sophie Maslow, Jane
Dudley and Valerie Bettis; Marian Van Tyl Campbell: solo and group in Out of One Happening; Louise Kloepper solo and with
group in Earth Saga; Eleanor King and group in Folk Suite and Ode to Freedom.
Box 435. 1938-1957. 4 x 5 negatives and contact prints of Martha Graham and Group, May O'Donnell and other dancers, musicians
and New York political figures at the 1938 World's Fair, Bennington College, and Sarah Lawrence College photographic work.
Bennington College dancers also include Hanya Holm in Trend, Want Ads, and Improvisation; Sarah Lawrence College includes
fencing, buildings, jazz musician Martin Gornley, Doris Riker, and students in various venues and activities.
Box 454. 1935-1939. 4 x 5 negatives of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for the work
American Document choreographed by Martha Graham primarily dated 1938 and 1939 including the dances Puritan Love Duet with
Erick Hawkins; Emancipation Episode (solo and duet); group demonstration/rehearsal of American Document and casuals afterward
at Graham Studio NYC, including dancers Martha Graham, Sophie Maslow, Freida Flier, and Marjoie Mazia, with casuals and dressing
room photographs additionally including Housley, Louis Horst and Erick Hawkins; at Bennington College summer 1938: American
Document--Crossfire; Indian Episode; Declaration with Erick Hawkins, May O'Donnell and group; Erick Hawkins solos in Song
of Songs and One Man, and Puritan Episode; and Three Women including dancers Sophie Maslow, Frieda Flier, Jane Dudley and
Jane Erdman. Also includes American Provincials dated 1935--Act of Piety, Act of Judgement; and Celebration with dancers Jane
Dudley, Sophie Maslow and Frieda Flier dated 1937.
Box 455. 1914-1940. 4 x 5 negatives of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works choreographed
by Martha Graham primarily dated 1938 and 1939 including the dances Chronicle, Spectre (Red Skirt) 1914, Steps in the Street,
Prelude to Action, Columbiad (solo), Deaths and Entrances, Deep Song, Ekstasis, and El Penitente. Dancers noted on negative
sleeves include Martha Graham, Graham Group, May O'Donnell, Erick Hawkins, Pearl Lang, and Merce Cunningham.
Box 456. 1935-1940. 4 x 5 negatives of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works choreographed
by Martha Graham including the dances El Penitente, Every Soul Is a Circus, and Frontier. Dancers noted on negative sleeves
include Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman, Nelle Fisher, Sophie Maslow, Ethel Butler, Frieda Flier,
and Marjorie Mazia.
Box 457. 1935-1940. 4 x 5 negatives of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works choreographed
by Martha Graham including the dances Harlequinade, Imperial Gesture, Immediate Tragedy, Lamentation, Letter to the World,
and Primitive Canticles. Dancers noted on negative sleeves include Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins. This box also includes
double exposure prints of Martha Graham in Lamentation, and both Kick and Swirl in Letter to the World.
Box 458. 1935-1942. 4 x 5 negatives of Martha Graham and Group in rehearsals and studio photography sessions for works choreographed
by Martha Graham including the dances Primitive Mysteries--Hymn to the Virgin, Crucifixus, and Hosanna, Punch and Judy, Sarabande,
Satyric Festival, War Theme, and Martha Graham technique demonstrated by Dorothy Bird, May O'Donnell and Ethel Bird at Bennington
College in the summer of 1938. Dancers noted on negative sleeves include Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Group trio, Jean Erdman,
Jane Dudley, and Ethel Butler. This box also includes portraits of Martha Graham wearing a striped dress and Martha Graham's
signature.
Box 459. 1942. This box contains 4 x 5 negatives of Martha Graham technique demonstrated by Ethel Butler, Nina Fonarof (corrected
by Anna Halpern to be Nina Caiserman), Merce Cunningham, Jean Erdman, and group. This box also contains unidentified and unnumbered
negatives, possibly including Letter to the World and Columbiad.
Box 460. circa 1938-1944. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including Thelma Babbitz; Bill Bales
in Green Mountain Boy and Adios; Valerie Bettis in Broadway Speedlite, Prairie Born, The Desperate Heart and untitled; Al
Bezar (see Asadata Dafora); Miriam Blecher; Katherine Bolland; Si Lan Chen in Dances for China, West Indian Jamaica and untitled;
and Merce Cunningham in Totem Ancestor.
Box 461. 1942-1944, undated. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including Merce Cunningham in
Root of an Unfocus, Totem Ancestor, Look with Pearl Lang, and untitled; Asadata Dafora solo and with partner Lolita and drummer
Norman; Jane Dudley in Cante Flamenco, Harmonica Breakdown, Molly Pitcher, New World a Comin', Short Story, and Swing Your
Lady; and Sophie Maslow and Jane Dudley in Caprichio. Also includes Douglas Morgan with drummer Norman and experimental and
double exposure dance photographs.
Box 462. 1942-1944, undated. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including Jean Erdman with Merce
Cunningham in Credo in Us: Suburban Idyll and other dances; Jean Erdman in Sun Smell, and The Transformation of Medusa; Nelle
Fisher in Ballet Fishnet, Spring, and tests with Thelma Babbitz; Frieda Flier; Erick Hawkins in Geometries, Liberty Tree,
Mozart Gigue, Opening Dance, Pilgrim's Progress, Trail Breaker, Trickster Coyote, Yankee Blue Britches, and Yankee Doodle;
Hanya Holm solo in Work and Play, Holm--goat--Horst--Bennington, Holm Dance of Introduction; Doris Humphrey and group in Exhibition
Piece, Inquest (including Charles Weidman and Ray Hamilton), and To The Dance. Also includes Erick Hawkins negative sleeves
marked bird, fist, portraits, and Erick Hawkins and Pogo.
Box 463. 1938, undated. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including Doris Humphrey and group
in Inquest, Passacaglia, Shakers (including Bea Seckler leap), Square Dance for Moderns Waltz (solo and with Charles Weidman),
To the Dance (solo, double exposure and group), and With My Red Fires; Eleanor King (solo and group) at Bennington, including
Ode to Freedom; Louise Kloepper in Romantic Theme; Pearl Lang, José Limón in Sarabande for the Dead and Viva (Danza de la
Muerta), Mexican Suite (Danzas Mexicanas, Conquistador, Indian, Peon, Revolutionario, Cowboy Song, Bach Chaconne, and José
Limón with May O'Donnell, and José Limón with cat in Barbara Morgan's studio.
box 464. 1938-1944, undated. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including José Limón in Bach
Chaconne; Barbara Livingstone; Barbara Livingstone and Frances Sunstein; Sophie Maslow in Bach Suite with Jane Dudley and
Bill Bales, Dust Bowl, Mountain Shout, Folksay--Old Smokey and Sweet Betsy from Pike with Bill Bales; Majorie Guthrie Mazia
in Ballet Satiric and Modern Satiric; Daniel Nagrin in There's No Hidin' Place; Barbara Mettler in Alarm; May O'Donnell in
Cornerstone, and on roof World's Fair 1938; Pearl Primus in Rock Daniel and Speak To Me of Rivers; Anna Sokolow in Ballad,
Case History, and The Exile / I Had a Garden.
Box 465. Undated. 4 x 5 negatives of dancers in rehearsals and studio photography including Anna Sokolow in photo studio photography
and in Facade, and Slaughter of the Innocent; Helen Tamiris; Helen Tamiris and Daniel Nagrin; Marian Van Tuyl in Out of One
Happening; Charles Weidman and group in Atavisms: Lynchtown and Bargain Counter, Daddy Was a Fireman, Happy Hypocrite with
Katherine Litz, Love-Heart Remembers, On My Mother's Side, Opus 51, Race of Life, and Traditions.
Box 529. 1939-1948. Negatives and contact prints of children, including Douglas and Lloyd Morgan, other children, and animals,
at Camp Treetops.
Box 530. 1938-1948, undated. Negatives and contact prints of children, including Douglas and Lloyd Morgan, other children,
and animals, at Camp Treetops.
Box 531. 1939-1948. Negatives and contact prints of children in various activities at Camp Treetops, including Douglas and
Lloyd Morgan. Also includes negatives and contact prints of photographs by Barbara Morgan including New York: Madison Square
Peace Meeting, car rhythms, street scenes, and Germany Surrenders by Willard Morgan; Experimental works by Barbara Morgan:
photomontage, light drawings, rayograms, photomontages, combinations and double images, including Opacities, Search for Another
Planet, Artificial Life From the Lab, Junkyard Series, Nuclear Fossilization, Wild Bee Honeycomb Skyscraper, City Shell, Pure
Energy and Neurotic Man, Leaf Floating in City, Corn Tassel Through Cracked Window, Corn Stalk, and Eric Hawkins in Hullabaloo.
Box 532. 1938-1942, undated. Negatives and contact prints of people and portraits by Barbara Morgan, including Willard, Douglas
and Lloyd Morgan, Ansel Adams, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, B and M Garage Man, Charlotte Brooks, Van Wyck Brooks, Samuel Barber,
Lucille Blanche, Joanie Bruhlman, Peter and Kay Bunker, John Butler, Virginia Branscombe, Joseph Campbell, Virginia Creed,
the Doering family, the Serra family. Also includes photographs of Barbara Morgan by Willard Morgan, and some photographed
by Charlotte Brooks. Also includes nature photography by Barbara Morgan: Cornstalk, Amaryllis, Sun moment, Pregnant, and Trees
in Fog; Exhibits, Publicity and Lectures by the Morgans, clouds, cats, and Halloran Hospital.
Box 533. 1941-1948, undated. Negatives and contact prints of Dalton School, North Country School, Bees, and Chicken Movie.
Box 534. Undated. Negatives and contact prints of Chicken Movie and Chicken-General.
Box 535. 1937-1939, undated. Negatives and contact prints of Barbara Morgan photographs of New York City and Nature: snow,
ice, trees, turtle.
Box 536. Undated. Negatives and contact prints indexed as Lenscraft Studios, Look, Light-Design, Light-Texture, Lettering,
Marble quarry Rutland Vermont, Montage--prepared parts, Component files--feet, hands, spinning glass ball, New Haven monuments
towers, Nature--cats, goats, frog, Treetops Goat-Rabbit dialogue, plants, Ice--melting snow and mud, Shells, Snow, Trees,
and People--beach scene, children, Merce Cunningham, Mrs. Sheridan elderly lady, pregnant women--Debbie Preston, Ruth Mitchell,
and Kay Lauterer, Marnie Thomas--Sarah Lawrence College, Science, New Mexico, Vermont, Railroad Station Vermont, Willie's
family, Southwest--Mesa Verde, Indian dancers and other Indians, water at lake edge, and drift log.
Box 538. 1937-1948, undated. Negatives and contact prints of portraits and people: Maria Ouspenskaya, Elodie Douter Osborn,
Head Mistress of Dalton School Helen Parkhurst, Poet Alastair Reid, accordion teacher Cliff Scholl, Annita Shibley, Phillip
Stapp; and children and activities at Camp Treetops.
Box 539. 1930-1954, undated. Negatives and contact prints of portraits and people: Otto and Paul Doering, Duffy, Sabro Hasagawa,
Carlos Dyer, Gerald Heard, Louis Horst, Marie James, Millie Korling, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Le Corbusier, Thelma Paddock Hope, Lichtgarn
baby, Diana McElroy (Lloyd's girlfriend), Swami Nikhilananda, Maria Ouspenskaya.
Box 540. 1940-1948, undated. Negatives and contact prints of Camp Treetops and Dalton School.
Box 541. 1941, undated. Negatives and contact prints of Dalton School.
Box 542. 1937-1939, undated. Negatives and contact prints of portraits and people: Malcolm Werner, Willie, Rosa, Willie's
Family, Blanche Valentine, Black Mountain College 1944 Summer Institute including Josef and Anni Albers, Edward and Gretel
Lowinsky, Edward Steuermann, Marcel Dick, Rudolph Kolisch, Mark Brunswick, Roger Sessions, Nilolai and Joanna Graudan, Trude
Straus, Heinrich and Johanna Jalowetz, Lotte Leonard, Fritz Cohen, Lorna Freedman, Elsa Kahl, Hazel Harris, John Reiss, J.B.
Neumann, Suzette Hamill, James Prestini, Bobby Dreier, Ruth O'Neill, and Charles Forberg; Artist's Congress 1937. Also includes
Beach, Canada, Chickens (roosters), Children, Churches, Houses and Housing, and multiple categories within City: New York,
Madison Square, architectural details, construction steel, crowds and clusters, parades, elevated railways, and traffic.
Box 543. 1937-1946, undated. Negatives and contact prints of Morgan family: Douglas, Barbara, Willard, Helen and others; Peter
Blume, Henry Lester, Lou Smith, Doug and Pricilla Perry. Also includes Morgan Christmas, birthday party, and other.
Box 544. 1939-1957, undated. Negatives and contact prints of Morgan home and family: Douglas, Lloyd, cat, kittens, rabbit,
Chicken Movie, Barbara Morgan portraits, children's birthday party. Also includes Weber House, Peter Neumann, U.S. Department
Sonic Boom Damage, Lloyd and Douglas printing press 1944, Old Century Printing Museum 1957, and The Rilands.
Box 556. 1935-1945. Folders 1 and 2 contain 4 x 5 negatives of Dance: Martha Graham technique (group); Martha Graham in Lamentation,
and Frontier; Erick Hawkins in Liberty Tree, Trail Breaker, Yankee Blue Britches; Charles Weidman in Lynchtown (Atavisms),
Traditions (solo, double exposure); experimental, light and photograms; Treetops; Marie James; and unidentified. Also includes
cover design for book titled Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographic Sequences, by Barbara Morgan.
Folder 1 includes note: Negatives and contacts that Deba Patnaik set aside for his book(s) / Icons of Dance.
Folder 2 also includes original negatives of Martha Graham in Deep Song (some double exposure) in Frontier, and one color
negative of Graham; Hanya Holm solo and Group in Trend; Morgan house, Lloyd, and Barbara with son, and bulldozer and embryo
by other photographers.
Box 557. 1920s-1960s, undated. Strip film negatives, various formats. Also includes 4 x 5 negatives and smaller. Family photographs
and unidentified. Includes photographs by both Barbara and Willard of family 1920s-1940s, and photographs of family by others:
Morgan home by John Hugelmeyer 1940s, California trip Eager's party 1940s, Morgan home Snohomish 1965, pheasant shooting,
Eldridge wedding, Barbara Morgan by Elsa Neumann and other; photographs by and of Willard Morgan by Ansel Adams and other;
Willard photographs of Coast Guard, L.A. airport, Frank Lloyd Wright, UCLA. Also includes 8 x 10 negative: Pomona Morgans
1918 under Oak tree taken with self timer built by Willard.
Box 561. 1955-1957. Negatives of Sarah Lawrence College. Corresponds with contact prints in Box 435.
Box 562. 1938-1939, Negatives of Bennington College summer 1938 including Hanya Holm: Work and Play, Trend, Dance of Introduction,
Exodus, Improvisation, Metropolitan Daily Want Ads; Eleanor King: Ode to Freedom; Louise Kloepper: Statement of Dissent, Earth
Saga and Unfinished dance; Marian Van Tyl: Out of One Happening; Martha Graham and Group at World's Fair 1938 including rehearsals,
Graham solo, May O'Donnell, Graham technique demonstrations; and World's Fair personalities. Corresponds with contact prints
in Boxes 434 and 435.
Box 563. 1935-1938. Negatives of early portraits of Martha Graham: Immediate Tragedy, organdy collar dress, kimono, rope trim
dress, abstract background. Graham and group casuals, rehearsals and demonstrations in studio, NYC; Bennington College Graham,
Hawkins and Group: American Document, casuals and portraits of Hanya Holm, Louis Horst, Bill Bales and Charles Weidman, Ethel
Butler, John Martin and others.
box 430, box 431, folder 1-46, box 556, box 557, box 564, box 565, box 566, box 567, box 568, box 569
Roll film - negatives and contact sheets
1960s, undated
Scope and Content
Primarily contact sheets of 35mm roll film of a variety of subjects by Barbara and Willard Morgan, others, or unattributed.
Series 10: Barbara Morgan drawings, paintings, and prints
circa 1900s-1960s
Scope and Content
This series contains Morgan's works of art on paper and canvas: collages, designs, drawings, paintings, prints, sketches,
and mixed media. Drawing media include charcoal, ink, pastel, and pencil. Paintings are executed in gouache and watercolor.
Prints include woodcuts and monoprints. (for wood blocks, see Box 219 in Series 21: Artifacts).
This material dates from Morgan's childhood to the 1960s, and includes work she created while traveling, while an art student,
and throughout her life. (For other art student and teaching materials, see Series 6: Barbara Morgan UCLA student and teaching
career.)
Individual works are loose as well as bound, and many are numbered on the verso. (For the corresponding numbered list of titles
and dates of works, see Box 218, Folder 14 in Series 1: Barbara Morgan exhibition materials.)
box 397, folder 2-5, 7, box 398, folder 2, box 399, folder 12-14, 17, box 400, folder 1-10, 15-22, box 401, folder 1-2, 5-9, 18, 23, box 402, folder 2, 4, 9-11, box 403, folder 12, 15-16, box 404, folder 5-8, 10-17, box 406, folder 1-12, box 408, folder 1, box 445, folder 3-6, box 446, folder 1-4, 7, box 447, folder 1
Subseries 10.1: Drawings
circa 1900s-1960s
box 397, folder 6, 8-10, box 398, folder 1, box 399, folder 1-11, 15, 18, 20, box 400, folder 11, box 401, folder 3-4, 10-17, 19-22, box 402, folder 1, 3, 5-8, 13-14, box 403, folder 2-5, 11, 13, 17, box 405, folder 1-10, box 407, folder 4-12, box 408, folder 2-9, box 409, folder 2-4, box 445, folder 1-2, 7-10, box 446, folder 5-6, 8-9, box 447, folder 2
Subseries 10.2: Paintings
circa 1900s-1960s
box 196, folder 3, box 398, folder 3, box 399, folder 16, 19, box 400, folder 12-14, box 402, folder 12, 15, box 403, folder 1, 6-10, 14, box 404, folder 1-4, 9, box 407, folder 1-3, box 409, folder 1, box 444, folder 1-15, box 447, folder 3
Subseries 10.3: Prints
circa 1900s-1960s
box 397, folder 1, box 398, folder 4
Subseries 10.4: Other media
circa 1900s-1960s
Series 11: Barbara Morgan subject files
1930s-2000s
Scope and Content
This series contains reference material collected by Morgan, including books, catalogs, journals, clippings, flyers, and ephemera.
Art and photography material is primarily related to galleries and institutions; dance material is related to individual dancers,
including Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Pearl Primus, and José Limón.
Other subject files consist of clippings, ephemera, and published material on history, culture, philosophy, and politics.
The majority of this material is from the 1960s-1970s, reflecting Morgan's interests and projects during that period. This
series also includes Morgan's notes and correspondence regarding her research.
box 136, box 137, box 138
box 142, box 143
Indians (Native Americans)
1960s-1970s
box 144
Archaeology, anthropology
1960s-1970s
box 145
Tibet, other countries
1960s-1970s
box 146, box 147, box 148
Politics, philosophy
undated
box 190, box 191, box 192
Series 12: Willard Morgan photography career
1922-1994
1930-1967
Scope and Content
This series contains material related to Willard Morgan's career as a professional photographer, including his employment
at E. Leitz, Inc. and Leica Camera (1930-1936),
Life magazine (1936-1938), MoMA (1943-1944), and
Look magazine (1944-1945). The series also includes material related to lectures and presentations Morgan gave on the subject
of photography; records of his involvement in photography exhibitions; and his participation in professional photography organizations
and conferences, including the Circle of Confusion photography group. Other documents include correspondence, receipts, reference
materials, business letterhead, and notes.
See also Series 17: Willard Morgan working files, 1930s-1960s.
Subseries 12.1: E. Leitz, Inc. and Leica Camera
1928-1994
Scope and Content
This subseries contains documentation of Willard Morgan's employment by E. Leitz, Inc., where he served as manager of the
Leica Sales Promotions, and Photo-Optical departments from 1930-1936. Included are correspondence, lecture materials, newsletters,
equipment catalogs, instruction manuals, product photographs, and exhibition catalogs primarily related to Morgan's work with
the Leica product line.
box 102, folder 1
Correspondence
1930-1937, 1962-1964
box 102, folder 2
Edward A. Hill correspondence
1950
box 102, folder 3
Leica demonstration and lecture materials
1930-1931
box 102, folder 4
Leica product photographs
circa 1932
box 220, folder 1-5, box 221, folder 1-2
box 220, folder 6
Leica Fotografie magazines
1953
box 220, folder 7
Leica promotional material
circa 1990s
box 221, folder 3
Zone System publications
1956-1968
box 221, folder 4
Various manuals
1952-1960
box 221, folder 5
Morgan instruction manuals
1959
box 102, folder 5
Leitz and Leica product catalogs
1930-1937
box 102, folder 6
Leica Dealers' Bulletin
1932-1935
box 102, folder 7
Leica Photography newsletter
1932-1933
box 102, folder 8
Leica Photography magazines
1939-1954
box 103, folder 1
Leica technical information
1933
box 103, folder 2
Leica publication publicity
1932-1935
box 103, folder 3
Leica dealer catalog
1966
box 103, folder 4
Translation from
Die Geschicte der Kleinbildkamera bis zur Leica
1960
box 103, folder 5-8, box 182, folder 6
Leica exhibition catalogs
1936-1937, 1994
box 607, folder 10
Photographs by Willard Morgan
Scope and Contents
Box 607, folder 10 includes a 1937 print of Alfred Eisenstaedt with his Leica cameras, an 8 x 10 print of a dirigible with
Nazi insignia, and a photograph of a "Stamp Out Fascism" poster.
Box 607, folder 13 includes a negative of designers John Weber and Eleanor LeMaire and negatives of swimmers.
Subseries 12.2: MoMA
1939-1989
Scope and Content
This subseries relates to Willard Morgan's employment as MoMA's first Director of the Department of Photography and the Photography
Center. It includes correspondence, meeting minutes, and reports from the Advisory Committee on Photography; Morgan's 1943
personal work journal; photographs of Willard and Barbara at the Museum; and publicity related to MoMA and its Photography
Center.
box 104, folder 2
Advisory Committee on Photography
1943-1945
box 104, folder 3
Journal and photographs
1943-1944
box 104, folder 4
Photography Center publicity
1943, 1989
box 104, folder 5
American Snapshot exhibition
1944
box 104, folder 6, box 607, folder 11
Exhibition publicity
1939-1963
Subseries 12.3: Photography exhibitions
1938-1993
Scope and Content
This subseries contains material relating to Willard Morgan's involvement in various photographic exhibitions, primarily the
First International Photographic Exposition, held in 1938, which included the first exhibition of Farm Security Administration
(FSA) photographs. Materials consist of participation badges, invitations, notes, travel documents, stock certificates, photographs,
press releases, rules and regulations, publicity, exhibition lists, and correspondence. Letters from Roy E. Stryker, Chief
of the Historical Section of the Division of Information under the United States Department of Agriculture, make up the bulk
of the correspondence. Also included are materials from the Fifth International Salon of the Pictorial Photographers of America
and the 1936 U.S. Camera Photography Exhibition.
box 104, folder 7
First International Photographic Exposition - planning and participation documentation
1938
box 104, folder 8
First International Photographic Exposition - photographs and publicity
1938
box 104, folder 9-10
First International Photographic Exposition - FSA exhibition correspondence
1938-1941, 1962-1965, 1993
box 104, folder 11
Fifth International Salon of the Pictorial Photographers of America
1938
box 104, folder 12
U.S. Camera photography exhibition
1936
Subseries 12.4: Photography lectures
1932-1947
Scope and Content
This subseries contains material relating to Willard Morgan's non-Leica lectures between 1932 and 1947. Materials include
correspondence; lecture notes, notecards and drafts; biographical sketches; travel documents; conference proceedings; reference
materials, including newspaper clippings and articles; lecture publicity, such as press releases and newspaper advertisements;
and response letters from his lectures at the Eighth International Salon of Nature Photography, the 10th and 17th annual conventions
of the Master Photo Finishers of America, and other meetings.
box 105, folder 1
Eighth International Salon of Nature Photography
1946
box 105, folder 2
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
1945-1946
box 105, folder 3
Camera Club New York
1945
box 105, folder 4
Master Photo Finishers of America conference presentations
1932, 1939
box 105, folder 5
Other lecture materials
1939-1947
box 105, folder 6
Lecture notes and reference materials
1937-1947
Subseries 12.5: Circle of Confusion
1936, 1945-1968
Scope and Content
This subseries contains correspondence, membership lists, negatives, and photographs related to the Circle of Confusion professional
photography group.
box 105, folder 7
Correspondence and membership lists
1945-1968
box 105, folder 8-10, box 607, folder 12
Photographic prints and negatives
circa 1936
Subseries 12.6: Other photography career materials
1922-1978
Scope and Content
This subseries primarily contains correspondence, memos, reports, photographs, newsletters, and notecards related to WIllard
Morgan's employment at
Life magazine and
Look magazine. There is also other professional correspondence, membership and meeting attendance documentation, notes, receipts,
letterhead, and reference materials from Morgan's career as a photographer. Also included are plans, correspondence, and photographs
related to a 1962 Farm Security Administration reunion party hosted by the Morgans at their home (see also Subseries 19.4:
Family photographic material, circa 1850s-1990s).
box 106, folder 1
Life magazine
1937-1939, 1978
box 106, folder 3
Photography correspondence
1945-1967
box 106, folder 4
Eastman Kodak correspondence and reference materials
1922-1967
box 106, folder 5
Photographic professional organization materials
1934-1935, 1965-1967
box 106, folder 6
Receipts, notes, reference materials
1938-1966
box 106, folder 7
Business letterhead
circa 1920s, 1950s
box 106, folder 8
Second National Training Conference of the National Defense Executive Reserve
1960
box 216, folder 9
Farm Security Administration party - plans, correspondence, photographs
1962
Scope and Content
Party photographer: Pancho Tremaine.
box 608, folder 21
Farm Security Administration party - negatives
1962
Series 13: Willard Morgan writings and published materials
1901-1950
1926-1947
Scope and Content
Willard Morgan was involved in a variety of writing and publishing projects over the course of his career, although the majority
of his writing concerned photography-related subjects. One of his largest projects was editing
The Complete Photographer, an encyclopedic serial publication published by the National Educational Alliance, between 1941 and 1944. Other writings
include personal inventions, encyclopedia entries, and a series of articles titled
What Every Salesman Should Know, written for
Photographic Retailing.
Willard Morgan writings and published materials are also found in Series 14: Willard Morgan architecture photography and projects;
Series 18: Collaborative work; and Series 20: Publishing company materials.
Subseries 13.1:
The Complete Photographer
1901-1944
1941-1944
Scope and Content
This subseries contains material related to Willard Morgan's encyclopedic publication,
The Complete Photographer. Materials include advertisements, correspondence, reference materials, and bound and individual issues. See also Series
17: Willard Morgan working files for additional material generated from and used in this publication.
box 107, folder 1
Advertisements
circa 1941
box 107, folder 3
Index of photographs and articles
1941-1943
box 107, folder 4
National Aeronautics Council test mailings
circa 1941
box 107, folder 5
Sample advertising materials
circa 1941
box 107, folder 6-7, box 108, folder 1-3, box 109, folder 1-3, box 110, folder 1
box 110, folder 2-6, box 222, folder 1-7, box 223, folder 1-7, box 224, folder 1-6
Individual issues
1941-1944
box 112, folder 7
Camera Journalism with the Miniature Camera
1936
box 111, folder 1-6, box 112, folder 1-6, box 225, folder 1-5
Photo-Miniature magazine
1901-1932
Subseries 13.2: Other written and published materials
1926-1950
1940-1947
Scope and Content
This subseries contains other materials authored by Willard Morgan, such as his work on the
Ten Eventful Years article he wrote for the
Encyclopedia Britannica, schematics and summaries of Willard's personal inventions, booklets he published through the National Educational Alliance,
a series of articles titled
What Every Salesman Should Know, which he wrote for
Photographic Retailing, and other published and unpublished materials.
box 113, folder 1
Encyclopedia Britannica correspondence and article drafts
1946-1947
box 113, folder 2
Encyclopedia Britannica reference materials
1933-1946
box 113, folder 4-6
National Educational Alliance, Inc. instruction manuals
1941-1947
box 113, folder 7, box 409, folder 6, box 439, folder 4
Published photography articles
1929-1950
box 113, folder 8
What Every Salesman Should Know
1939-1940
box 113, folder 9
Other published articles
1927-1929
box 113, folder 10
Unpublished articles
1926, 1940-1945
Series 14: Willard Morgan architectural photography and projects
1925-2010
1925-1930
Scope and Content
This series contains Willard Morgan's photographic and written work regarding architecture. Materials include correspondence,
photographic prints, negatives, architectural sketches and plans, drafts and published articles, press releases, books, and
notes.
Starting in the mid-1920s, Morgan began photographing buildings in the Los Angeles area. Many of his images depict structures
designed by Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright. He eventually developed a close and long-lasting friendship with Neutra
and the two united on several collaborative projects, including Neutra's book,
Richard Neutra on Building: Mystery and Realities of the Site, published by Morgan & Morgan (See Series 20: Publishing company materials). Morgan also had a professional relationship
with Frank Lloyd Wright, photographing his work in Los Angeles and Chicago. He photographed works of other architects in Los
Angeles, including Alexander Brandner, Irving Gill, Julius Ralph Davidson, and Rudolph Schindler.
Morgan's prints, negatives, and published articles related to drive-in markets are also included in the series. Toward the
end of the 1920s, Morgan became interested in drive-in markets, which were a relatively new concept at the time. Similar to
modern-day strip malls, they allowed shoppers to conveniently park their cars near the stores.
Subseries 14.1: Richard Neutra
1925-2010
1925-1930
Scope and Content
This subseries includes a large number of Willard Morgan's prints and negatives of Richard Neutra's work in Southern California,
such as the Jardinette Apartments, Lovell Physical Culture Center, and Lovell Health House. Also included is correspondence
between the Morgans and Neutras, original Neutra drawings, articles written by and about Neutra, and articles written by Willard
Morgan.
See also Box 273 for contact prints of Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright works; and Boxes 282 and 283 for lantern slides
of Neutra, Sullivan and Wright works.
Boxes 114, 115 and 116 contain negatives and prints of Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright works.
box 114, folder 1
Barnsdall House wading pool
circa 1925
box 114, folder 2
Conrad Buff House garage
circa 1925
box 114, folder 3
Jardinette Apartments
circa 1928
box 114, folder 4
Lovell Health House - architectural plans and sketches
1926-1928
box 114, folder 5
Lovell Health House - construction photographs
circa 1927
box 114, folder 6
Lovell Health House - exterior photographs
circa 1929
box 114, folder 7
Lovell Health House - interior photographs
circa 1930
box 115, folder 1
Lovell Health House - Willard Morgan correspondence and written materials
1928-1930, 2010
box 115, folder 2
Lovell Physical Culture Center
circa 1927
box 115, folder 3
Architectural plans and drawings
1929-1944
box 115, folder 4
Furniture and lighting
circa 1925
box 115, folder 5
Photographs and images of Richard Neutra
circa 1930
box 115, folder 6
Photographs from
Wie Baut Amerika?
circa 1927
box 115, folder 7
Written materials about the Neutras
1944-1999
box 115, folder 8
Written materials by Richard Neutra
1927-1951
box 115, folder 9
Modern architecture book project
circa 1925
Subseries 14.2: Frank Lloyd Wright
1930-1994
Scope and Content
This subseries contains negatives and prints of Frank Lloyd Wright's Aline Barnsdall Hollyhock House, Samuel Freeman House,
Unity Temple, and other structures; photographs of Wright's John Sowden House; and correspondence, photography catalogs, and
written materials about Wright's architecture.
For contact prints of Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright works, see Box 273.
For lantern slides of Neutra, Sullivan and Wright works, see Boxes 282 and 283.
Boxes 114, 115 and 116 contain negatives and prints of Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright works.
box 116, folder 1, box 189, folder 1
Aline Barnsdall Hollyhock House
circa 1931
box 116, folder 2
Arthur Heurtley House
circa 1930
box 116, folder 3
Frederick C. Robie House
circa 1930
box 116, folder 4
Samuel Freeman House
circa 1930
box 116, folder 7
Lloyd Wright - John Sowden House
circa 1927
box 116, folder 9
Inquiries and information about photographs
1940, 1990-1994
Subseries 14.3: Louis Sullivan
circa 1930
Scope and Content
This subseries contains prints, negatives, and inventory lists of Willard Morgan's photography of the Louis Sullivan-designed
Wainwright Building and Wainwright Tomb, both located in St. Louis, Missouri.
box 116, folder 10
Wainwright Building
circa 1930
box 116, folder 11
Wainwright Tomb
circa 1930
box 116, folder 12
Lists of architectural works and related photographs
circa 1930
Subseries 14.4: Los Angeles architecture
1926-1929
Scope and Content
This subseries contains prints and negatives of Willard Morgan's photography of architectural structures in Los Angeles, including
the Bullocks Wilshire, James Oviatt, and Title Insurance buildings. This subseries also includes images depicting the work
of architects Alexander Brandner, Irving Gill, Julius Ralph Davidson, and Rudolph Schindler.
box 117, folder 1
Alexander Brandner - Luther Burbank Middle School
circa 1926
box 117, folder 2
Bullocks Wilshire building
circa 1929
box 117, folder 3
Industrial buildings and landscapes
circa 1925
box 117, folder 5
James Oviatt building
circa 1928
box 117, folder 6, box 409, folder 5
Julius Ralph Davidson - Wilshire Boulevard shops
circa 1929-1930
box 117, folder 7
Rudolph Schindler - Lovell Beach House
circa 1926
box 117, folder 8
Title Insurance building
circa 1928
Subseries 14.5: Drive-in markets
1928-1930
Scope and Content
This subseries includes Willard Morgan's prints, negatives, and published articles related to Los Angeles-area drive-in markets,
including photographs of Richard Neutra sketches for storefronts. The markets photographed include the Mesa Vernon, Palm,
El Adobe, Sunset-Western, Fountain, LA Motor In, Beverly-La Brea Motor In, La Cesta, and Mandarin stores in Los Angeles.
box 117, folder 9
Mesa Vernon Market
circa 1928
box 117, folder 11
Other drive-in markets
circa 1928
box 117, folder 12
Unidentified drive-in markets
circa 1928
box 117, folder 13
Richard Neutra architectural sketches
circa 1929
box 117, folder 14
Chain Store Review articles
1928-1930
box 117, folder 15
Tiles and Tile Work articles
1929-1930
Subseries 14.6: Other architectural materials
1925-1945
Scope and Content
This subseries contains a community planning guide published by the Public Administration Service, and photographic prints
and negatives of unidentified buildings.
box 117, folder 16
Action for Cities: a Guide for Community Planning
1945
box 117, folder 17, box 607, folder 13
Unidentified architecture photographs
circa 1925
Series 15: Willard Morgan typography files
circa 1860s-1983
Scope and Contents
This series relates to Willard Morgan's interest and involvement with typography and contains correspondence, photographs,
publications, printing examples, and type specimens. Some folders are named for the printer, collector, client, or artist
to which the materials in the file relate, and include typography samples, Christmas cards, business papers, event posters,
inventories, instruction manuals, and other publications. This series also includes original works created by printers such
as Joseph Low, William M. Cheney, Clarence P. Hornung, and Fridolf Johnson.
There are also materials related to the Junketeers, a typography group in which Willard and Barbara Morgan participated: travel
itineraries and materials from site visits, works by Junketeer members, material related to Willard's position as group treasurer,
photographs and negatives of Junketeer members and outings, clippings, and correspondence.
Folders labeled "Old Type" refer to nineteenth-century typefaces and contain related catalogs, clippings, work samples and
correspondence with printers, clients, fellow collectors, and advertisers. Clients such as Hurley-Jones Co., the State Fair
of Texas, and John Wagner and Sons contacted Willard to commission work using his nineteenth-century typefaces. In one letter
with Wagner and Sons, Willard encloses Barbara's design suggestions, evidencing her involvement in the business.
Correspondence is with type collectors, printers, dealers, and clients, and also regards the Morgan type collection following
Willard's death. The Morgan Press Type Font Collection, assembled by Willard Morgan, is now stewarded by the Smithsonian National
Museum of American History.
See also Series 20: Publishing company materials.
box 123, folder 4
Cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite
circa 1880s-1890s
box 123, folder 5
Carroll, John S.
circa 1950s-1960s
box 123, folder 7
Cheney, William M. (Rounce and Coffin Club)
circa 1950s
box 123, folder 8
Chute, Charlton F.
circa 1950s-1960s
box 123, folder 9
Connell, Martin
circa 1950s-1960s
box 123, folder 10
Derby, Ralph F.
1950-1965
box 123, folder 12
Desert Rat Scrapbook publication
circa 1950s-1960s
box 123, folder 12
Eckman, Dr. James
1959-1967
box 123, folder 13
French, George
circa 1860s-1960s
box 124, folder 2
Harnish, Herb -
The Collector, stereo view cameras
1953-1956
box 124, folder 4
Hornung, Clarence P.
1949
box 124, folder 5
Ye Occasional Idler no. 23 and John J. Corell
circa 1950s
box 124, folder 6
Johnson, Fridolf and Mermaid Press
1956-1964
box 124, folder 8
Junketeers - correspondence
1955-1958
box 124, folder 9
Junketeers - organizational material
1954-1956
box 125, folder 1
Junketeers - photographs and negatives
circa 1950s
box 189, folder 3
Leonardo the Florentine, print by Rachel Annand Taylor
circa 1920s
box 125, folder 2
Low, Joseph
circa 1950s-1960s
box 125, folder 3
Morgan Printing Museum negatives
circa 1950s-1960s
box 125, folder 4
Morgan type collection
circa 1970s-1981
box 126, folder 1-4
Old type correspondence
1948-1967
box 125, folder 6
Old type correspondence - ad queries
1953
box 125, folder 7
Old type correspondence - invoices, proofs sold, and repro proofs
1947-1956
box 125, folder 8
Old type jobs and correspondence - John Wagner and Sons, Inc.
1951-1954
box 125, folder 9
Old type - mailing list and correspondence
1952-1954
box 125, folder 10
Old type and samples - prospects to send proof agencies and magazines
1949-1957
box 125, folder 14
Smithsonian Institution Catalog -
The Fat and the Lean: American Wood Type in the 19th Century
1983
box 126, folder 5
State Fair of Texas job
1953
box 126, folder 6
The Territorial Enterprise newspaper
1954
box 126, folder 7
Type collectors - list of names
1948-1951
box 126, folder 8
Type for sale and cuts
1953-1954
box 126, folder 9
Type trips - New Jersey and Pennsylvania
1949-1956
box 126, folder 10
Typesetting samples - Roe type
1960
box 449, folder 1-11, box 450, folder 1-10, box 451, folder 1-11, box 452, folder 1-7
Additional typography files
circa 1940s-1960s
Series 16: Willard Morgan personal and biographical materials
1907-2000
1914-1968
Scope and Content
This series contains personal items belonging to Willard Morgan, documentation of his life and death, and various written
materials about him and his career.
box 118, folder 1-5
Subseries 16.1: Diaries
1914-1947
Scope and Content
Willard Morgan recorded daily activities in journals throughout his life. His earlier diaries document his teenage and high
school years. Later diaries document activities related to his photography career.
For Morgan's diary during his MoMA employment, see Box 104 (Series 12: Willard Morgan Photography Career, Subseries 12.2:
MoMA).
Subseries 16.2: Personal materials
1907-1968
Scope and Content
This subseries contains material from Willard Morgan's youth, including yearbooks and other documents from Pomona High School
and Pomona College, a photo album he made as a child, and his autograph collection. Later materials include identification
cards, passports, address books, and travel ephemera.
This subseries also includes chronologies of Morgan's career and material related to the illness that led to his death in
1967. It also includes material regarding his memorial services, obituaries, sympathy letters, and estate-related documents
and correspondence regarding the Willard D. Morgan Papers.
box 119, folder 2
Autograph collection
1916-1944
box 439, folder 5
Certificates
1938, undated
box 119, folder 3
Chronologies
1943, 1963-1967
box 189, folder 5
Eagle Scout certificate
1919
box 119, folder 4
Elementary school work
circa 1907
box 119, folder 5
Identification cards
1939-1966
box 119, folder 7
Illness - medical notes
1967
box 119, folder 8
Inquiries about acquiring Willard Morgan papers
1968
box 119, folder 9
Lawnmower correspondence and product information
1965-1967
box 119, folder 10
Licenses and passports
1923-1966
box 119, folder 12
National Cyclopedia of American Biography
1967-1968
box 121, folder 3-5
Notebooks and address books
circa 1930s-1950s
box 120, folder 2
Photograph album
circa 1911
box 120, folder 3
Pilgrim Congregational Church
1957, 1967
box 120, folder 5
Pomona College memorial for Willard Morgan
1968, 1973
box 120, folder 6-7
Pomona College yearbooks
1922, 1924
box 189, folder 4, box 120, folder 8
Pomona High School certificates and diploma
1919
box 120, folder 9
Sympathy letters
1967-1968
box 120, folder 10, box 121, folder 1
Travel ephemera - Europe
1966
Scope and Content
Willard likely acquired this material during his trip with his brother, Gilbert Morgan, to Europe for the 1966 Photokina trade
fair in Cologne, Germany, during which they also visited Switzerland, England, and Wales. For other material from this trip
(including photographic prints and slides), see Box 313, Folder 4, and Box 322 (Series 19: Family materials, Subseries 19.4:
Family photographs).
box 119, folder 13
Vital documents
1930s-1940s
box 121, folder 2
Willard Morgan estate
1967-1968
Subseries 16.3: Articles, interviews, and projects
1937-2000
Scope and Content
This subseries contains written material and projects about Willard Morgan's life and career. The bulk relates to Rochester
Institute of Technology (RIT) graduate student Jennifer Steensma's MFA project for her museum studies program in the early
1990s. Other materials include interview transcripts, correspondence, biographical information, articles, and newspaper clippings.
box 122, folder 1
Interview for Time, Inc.
1956
box 122, folder 2
Manuel Komroff projects
1969
box 122, folder 3
Written materials about Willard Morgan
1937-1994
box 122, folder 4
Jennifer Steensma research - Center for Creative Photography correspondence
1941-1947
box 122, folder 5
Jennifer Steensma research - correspondence
1989-1991
box 122, folder 6
Jennifer Steensma research - MFA thesis sections
circa 1992
box 122, folder 7
Jennifer Steensma research -
Willard D. Morgan Archive MFA thesis
1992
box 122, folder 8
Jennifer Steensma research - lecture publicity and photographs
1989-2000
box 466, folder 1-8, box 467, folder 1-9, box 468, folder 1-9, box 469, folder 1-13, box 470, folder 1-26, box 471, folder 1-17, box 472, folder 1-12, box 473, folder 1-17, box 474, folder 1-10, box 475, folder 1-38, box 476, folder 1-17, box 477, folder 1-13, box 478, folder 1-15, box 479, folder 1-15, box 480, folder 1-15, box 481, folder 1-14, box 482, folder 1-18, box 483, folder 1-20, box 484, folder 1-32, box 485, folder 1-15, box 486, folder 1-23, box 487, folder 1-8, box 488, folder 1-10, box 489, folder 1-12, box 490, folder 1-14, box 491, folder 1-10, box 492, folder 1-13, box 493, folder 1-16, box 494, folder 1-13, box 495, box 1-18, box 496, folder 1-13, box 497, folder 1-16, box 498, folder 1-15, box 499, folder 1-22, box 500, folder 1-18, box 501, folder 1-26, box 502, folder 1-21, box 503, folder 1-24, box 504, folder 1-26, box 505, folder 1-29, box 506, folder 1-14, box 507, folder 1-10, box 508, folder 1-19, box 509, folder 1-33, box 510, folder 1-19, 511, folder 1-29, box 512, folder 1-23, box 513, folder 1-19, box 514, folder 1-7, box 515, folder 1-22, box 516, folder 1-10, box 517, folder 1-25, box 518, folder 1-12, box 519, folder 1-14, box 520, folder 1-12, box 521, folder 1-9, box 522, folder 1-12, box 523, folder 1-9, box 524, folder 1-7, box 525, folder 1-14, box 526, folder 1-27, box 527, folder 1-19, box 528, folder 1-7, box 570, folder 1-25, box 571, folder 1-24, box 572, folder 1-7, box 573, folder 1-20, box 574, folder 1-10, box 575, folder 1-3, box 576, folder 1-7, box 577, folder 1-5, box 578, folder 1-7, box 579, folder 1-7, box 580, folder 1-12, box 581, folder 1-12, box 582, folder 1-7, box 583, folder 1-10, box 584, folder 1-21, box 585, folder 1-14, box 586, folder 1-10, box 587, folder 1-23, box 588, folder 1-19, box 589, folder 1-15, box 590, folder 1-12, box 591, folder 1-13, box 592, folder 1-6, box 593, folder 1-12, box 594, folder 1-7, box 597, folder 1-8, box 598, folder 1-13, box 599, folder 1-7, box 600, folder 1-6, box 606, box 605, folder 1-7
Series 17: Willard Morgan working files
1930s-1960s
Scope Content
This series consists of Willard Morgan's working files related to his photography career and projects. Included are subject
files, correspondence, manuscripts, lecture materials, photographs, magazines and other printed material on photographic techniques
and equipment. The bulk of the files contain Morgan's manuscripts and photographs on photographic processing, troubleshooting,
lighting, developing, styles, composition, and camera equipment written for
The Complete Photographer, An Encyclopedia of Photography.
Working files also contain promotional and informational materials related to Morgan's photographic equipment inventions,
teaching materials, photography clubs and professional organizations, instructional manuals and other publications. Additionally,
the files contain correspondence, reviews, catalogs, and manuals for Leica, E. Leitz, Zeiss, Graphlex, and Ansco camera companies.
Many files contain articles and instructional materials from Kodak's Editorial Service Bureau and Camera Club Photographic
Service. Some files contain articles collected from photographic magazines including
Camera Craft,
Amateur Photographer, and
Everyday Photographic Magazine. Files relating to photographing particular subjects like animals, weather, fashion, natural settings, and specific geographical
locations are also present.
Some files have correspondence and other material from Morgan's work as editor of
Life and
Look magazines.
See also Series 12: Willard Morgan photography career, and Subseries 16.3 Articles, interviews, and projects about Willard
Morgan related to Jennifer Steensma's RIT MFA thesis, research, correspondence and publicity.
The following boxes contain the legacy RIT files referenced in Jennifer Steensma's RIT MFA thesis.
Box 466: 14.12, 13.36A, 13.36B, 13.39, 14.3, 14.4, 14.7, and 14.10.
Box 467: 14.13 - 14.17, 15.2 - 15.4, and 15.13
Box 468: 5.59, 5.62, 5.37A, 6.93, 6.96, 6.96B, 6.96C, 8.4, and 8.6.
Box 469: 5.68, 5.69A, 5.69B, 5.70 - 5.72, 5.73B, 5.74A, 5.74B, and 5.75 - 5.78.
Box 470: 5.79 - 5.85, 5.87A, 5.87B, 5.88 - 5.94, 6.1 - 6.5, 6.94, 6.95, 6.96A, 6.96D, and 8.1
Box 471: 8.2, 8.3A, 8.3B, 8.5, 8.7, 8.8, ?, 13.36C, 13.37, 14.1, 14.2, 14.6, 14.8, 14.9, 14.18, 15.5, and 15.12
Box 472: 6.56, 6.30, 6.40, 6.62, 6.63, 6.73, 6.74, 13.38, 14.5B, 15.9, and 15.10
Box 473: 6.89B, 6.91, 14.5A, 15.1, 15.6 - 15.8, 5.58, 5.60, 5.61, and 5.64 - 5.67
Box 474: 6.27, 6.28A, 6.29, 6.31 - 6.35, 6.37, and 6.38
Box 475: 6.39, 6.41 - 6.55, 6.57, 6.58 - 6.61, 6.64 - 6.72, 6.75 - 6.81, and 6.89A
Box 476: 6.84, 6.87, 6.88, 13.1, 13.7 - 13.9, 13.2B, 13.11A, 13.11B, 13.12A, 13.13 - 13.16, 13.18, and 13.19
Box 477: 13.4 - 13.6, 13.10, 13.17, 13.21, 13.22, 13.25, 13.31B, 13.31C, 13.31D, 29.1, and 29.6
Box 478: 13.20, 13.23, 13.26 - 13.30, 13. 31A, 13.32 - 13.34, 14.11, 29.2, and 29.3A
Box 479: 29.7A, 29.7C, 6.81, 13.2, 13.3, 6.23, 29.17, 19.52, 20.3, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7, 20.8, and 20.9
Box 480: 29.3B, 29.4, 29.5, 29.7B, 6.6 - 6.12, 6.13A, 6.13B, and 6.14A
Box 481: 6.14B, 6.14C, 6.15 - 6.19, 16.20, 16.21, and 6.22 - 6.26
Box 482: 29.8A, 29.8B, 29.9 - 29.16, and 29.18 - 29.25
Box 483: 29.26 - 29.45
Box 484: 29.46 - 29.57, 29.60, and 19.32- 19.50
Box 485: 20.11, 20.12, 20.15, 20.22B, 20.23A, 12.1, 12.5 - 12.7, 12.10, 12.14, 12.17, 12.19, 12.22, and 12.23
Box 486: 19.51, 19.53 - 19.66, 20.1, 20.2, 20.4, 20.10, 20.13, 20.14, and 20.16
Box 487: 20.17B, 20.17C, 20.18A, 20.18B, 20.19A, 20.19B, 20.20A, and 20.20B
Box 488: 20.21, 20.22A, 20.23B, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.8, 20.24, 12.9, and 12.11
Box 489: 12.26 - 12.28, 12.30, 12.32, 12.33, 12.37, 12.38, 12.40, 11.1A, 11.1B, and 11.2
Box 490: 12.12, 12.13, 12.15, 12.16, 12.18, 12.20, 12.24, 12.25, 12.29, 12.31, 12.32, 12.39, 11.4, and 11.8
Box 491: 11.3, 11.5 - 11.7, 11.9, 11.10, 11.12, 11.13, 11.16, 11.19
Box 492: 11.21, 11.22, 11.25, 11.26, 11.28, 11.30, 11.32, 11.36, 11.37, 11.39, 11.40A, 11.40B, and 11.41A
Box 493: 11.11, 11.14, 11.15, 11.17, 11.18, 11.20, 11.23, 11.24, 11.27, 11.29, 11.31, 11.33 - 11.35, 11.38, and 11.42
Box 494: 11.41B, 17.17 - 17.23, 17.25, 17.27, 17.29 - 17.31
Box 495: 17.16, 17.24, 17.26, 17.28, 17.32 - 17.34, 17.36, 17.37, 17.39, 17.40, 17.43, 17.44, 18.1 - 18.3, 18.4A, 18.4B, and
18.5
Box 496: 17.35, 17.38, 17.41, 17.42, 2.92, 18.11B, 18.12B, 2.37, 2.46, 2.49, 2.69, and 18.39
Box 497: 18.6 - 18.10, 1.11A, 18.12A, 18.13, 18.14, 18.16, and 18.18 - 18.22
Box 498: 18.64, 19.1, 19.4, 19.8, 19.10, 19.12, 19.16, 4.32, 4.35, 4.44, 4.47, 4.49, 4.53A, 4.81, and 9.1
Box 499: 2.33 - 2.36, 2.39 - 2.45, 2.47, 2.48, 2.50, 2.51, 2.52A, 2.52B, and 2.53 - 2.57
Box 500: 2.58 - 2.68, 2.70 - 2.73, 2.75, 2.76, and 2.87
Box 501: 2.88. 2.90, 2.91, 2.93, 41.1 - 41.3, 41.3A, 41.4 - 41.10, 4.19, 4.20, 18.24 - 18.30, and 32
Box 502: 18.33 - 18.38, and 18.41 - 18.55
Box 503: 18.56 - 18.63, 18.66, 18.67, 18.65, 18.68 - 18.77, and 18.79
Box 504: 19.31, 4.26 - 4.31, 4.33, 4.34, 4.36 - 4.43, 4.45, 4.46, 4.48, 4.50 - 4.52, 4.53B, 4.54, and 4.55
Box 505: 18.80 - 18.83, 19.2, 19.3, 19.5 - 19.7, 19.9, 19.11, 19.13 - 19.15, 19.17 - 19.25, 19.26A, 19.26B,and 19.27- 19.30
Box 506: 4.56 - 4.59, 4.60A, 40.6B, 4.60C, 4.61 - 4.65, 4.66A, and 4.66B
Box 507: 9.1C, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4A, 9.4B, 9.5, 9.6A, 9.6B, 9.6C, and 9.6D
Box 508: 9.9, 25.16, 25.5 - 25.7, 25.14, 25.21, 25.27, 25.39A, 25.41 - 25.43, 25.46, 25.49, 23.6
Box 509: 4.67 - 4.80, 4.82 - 4.99, and 9.1B
Box 510: 9.7,9.8, and 9.10 - 9.25
Box 513: 25.3, 25.4, 25.9, 23.5, 23.7, 23.9, and 23.10
Box 514: 23.8, 23.11, 23.14, 24.1A, 24.1B, 24.1C, and 24.8
Box 515: 23.12, 23.13, 23.15 - 23.17, 24.2 - 24.7, 24.9, and 24.11 - 24.20
Box 516: 24.21A, 24.21B, 24.22 - 24.26, 24.27A, 24.29, 24.31
Box 517: 24.32A, 24.32B, 16.25, 16.27, 16.29, 16.30, 16.32, 16.35, 16.37, 16.38, 16.40, 16.42 - 6.45, 16.47, 16.48, 16.57,
16.60, 16.62, 17.2, 17.11, 17.12, 17.15, and 21.1A
Box 518: 24.10, 24.27B, 24.28, 16.21, 16.22, 16.24, 16.26, 16.28, 16.31, 16.34, 16.36, 16.39, 16.41
Box 519: 16.41, 16.46, 16.49 - 16.52, 16.54 - 16.56, 16.58, 16.59, 16.61, 16.63, and 17.1
Box 520: 17.3 - 17.10, 17.13, 17.14, 21.7, and 21.8
Box 521: 21.15, 22.3, 22.5, 22.7, 23.4, 1.3A, 1.3B, and 1.4
Box 522: 21.1B, 21.2 - 21.6, 21.9 - 21.11, 21.13, 21.14, 22.4
Box 523: 23.2A, 23.2B, 23.3, 23.4, 1.1, 1.2, 1.5B, 1.6, and 1.7
Box 524: 1.4, 1.5, 1.15 - 1.17, 1.20, and 1.23
Box 525: 1.8 - 1.14, 1.18, 1.19, 1.21, 1.22, 1.24, 1.25, 1.29
Box 526: 1.32, 1.46, 1.48, 1.50, 1.51, 1.53, 1.54, 1.56, 2.1 - 2.3, 2.5 - 2.14, 2.16 - 2.21
Box 527: 1.26 - 1.28, 1.30, 1.31, 1.33 - 1.45, 1.47
Box 528: 1.49, 1.52, 1.55, 1.57A, 1.57B, 1.57C, and 1.58
Box 570: 3.56 - 3.81
Box 571: 2.15, 2.22 - 2.32, 3.44 - 3.55
Box 572: 4.1A, 4.1B, 4.2A, 4.2B, 4.3A, 4.3B, 4.4
Box 573: 4.5 - 4.18, 4.21 - 4.25
Box 574: 27.11, 27.12, 27.13, 27.15, 27.19, 27.20, 27.21
Box 575: 27.22 - 27.24
Box 576: 30.1 - 30.5, 30.6A, 30.6B
Box 577: 30.6C, 30.6D, 30.6E, 30.7A, 30.7B
Box 578: 30.8, 30.9A, 30.9B, 30.9C, 31.1A, 31.2
Box 579: 34.1, 34.2, 34.3A, 34.3B, 35.1, 35.2, 35.3
Box 580: 35.4, 36.1, 36.2 - 36.7, 37.1, 37.2, 38.1, 38.2
Box 581: 39.1, 39.2, 42.2 - 42.5, 43.1, 43.2, 44.1 - 44.4
Box 582: 3.1 - 3.6
Box 583: 3.6 - 3.15
Box 584: 3.15 - 3.35
Box 585: 3.36 - 3.43, 31.3 - 31.8
Box 586: 31.9, 31.10, 31.11, 31.13, 31.14
Box 587: 33.1, 33.2, 32.5, 15.14 - 15.22, 15.24 - 15.27
Box 588: 15.28 - 15.36, 15.38, 15.39, 16.1 - 16.3, 16.5 - 16.9
Box 589: 16.10 - 16.20, 10.1 - 10.4
Box 590: 10.5, 10.6, 10.8 - 10.17
Box 591: 10.18 - 10.30
Box 592: 10.31 - 10.34
Box 593: 6.83, 6.85, 6.90, 6.92, 8.9 - 8.15
Box 594: 8.16 - 8.21
Box 597: 11.7, 22.6, 24.30, 25.15, 25.17, 25.32 - 25.34
Box 598: 25.1, 25.11, 25.19, 25.22, 25.23 - 25.25, 25.28, 25.31, 25.35, 25.37, 25.38, 25.40
Box 599: 25.2, 25.12, 25.13, 25.20, 13.35, 25.48, 25.10
Box 600: 25.18, 25.39B, 25.44, 25.45, 25.47, 25.50
Box 605: TB 157, 18.81, 24.30, 41.10, 41.8, 41.6, 41.3, 18.81
Box 606: contains glass slides
Other Finding Aids
Series 18: Collaborative work
1920s-2000s
Scope and Content
This series contains photographic material, writings, and other items related to Barbara and Willard Morgan's collaborative
work. Early in their marriage the couple traveled throughout the Southwestern United States and Mexico documenting their experiences
through photographs, sketches, and writings. When they moved to New York in 1930, they documented what they witnessed there,
such as May Day parades and protests. Later, in the mid 1930s, they were hired to photograph the Barnes Foundation art collection
in Merion, Pennsylvania. They also documented other art collections, lectured and sold lantern slide reproductions for educational
purposes.
While some photographs in this series are signed or have obvious authorship, others from this period are more ambiguous. Some
material in this series is not explicitly attributed to the Morgans and some is credited to others.
Subseries 18.1: Photography of Southwestern United States and Mexico
1920s-1930s, 1954, 1965, undated
Scope and Content
This subseries contains photographic material, writings, and travel diaries documenting Barbara and Willard Morgan's trips
throughout the Southwestern United States and Mexico. They photographed parks, monuments, artifacts, and the Indigenous peoples
of the region, including the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation. The locations in which they photographed include Canyon de Chelly
and the Grand Canyon in Arizona; Bodie, Mono Lake and Los Angeles in California; Bandelier and Trampas in New Mexico; and
Bryce Canyon and the Rainbow Bridge in Utah. The photographs were taken by the Morgans, sometimes with unclear attribution.
Writings include drafts and published versions of articles Willard Morgan wrote for various magazines and a project the Morgans
pitched to establish a visual library of Mexico.
box 325, folder 1-5, box 326, folder 2-7, box 327, folder 1-2, box 328, folder 1-2, box 329, folder 1-3, box 330, folder 1-5, box 331, folder 1-3, box 338, folder 5-6, box 339, folder 1-15, box 342, folder 12, box 344, folder 7-8, box 347, folder 14-16, box 349, folder 9-11, box 363, folder 17-18, box 436, folder 6-9
Photographic prints (medium)
1925-1929, undated
box 154, folder 1-16, box 155, folder 1-14, box 156, folder 1-11, box 607, folder 15
Photographic prints (small)
1925-1929, 1954, 1965, undated
Scope and Content
This material includes prints (8 x 10 and smaller). Some corresponding negatives can be found in Box 559.
Most of the images were taken in the 1920s, but there is also material from a 1954 trip to the Tohono O'odham Nation (Papago).
Box 422, Folder 3 includes Barbara Morgan's notes for this trip. There are also images from a 1965 flight to Los Angeles and
visits to UCLA and the Barnsdall House. Many of these images are numbered but are not attributed.
box 419
Photographic prints (small)
undated
Scope and Content
Southwest images make up the bulk of these prints (4 x 5 format). This box also includes images of other subjects: American
Artists' Congress, family photographs, Barnes Foundation, and unidentified works of art. No negatives are present. Other California
images included here are color slides in an undated box labeled "Calif. flight."
box 313
Contact sheet books
circa 1920s-1930s
box 420, folder 1-5, box 421, folder 1-5, box 422, folder 1-5, box 432, folder 1-11, box 607, folder 14
Contact prints and negatives
1920s, undated
box 410, folder 1
Photograph indexes and lists
1928-1931
box 410, folder 2
Travel diary - Arizona and New Mexico
1928
box 410, folder 3
Travel diary - Los Angeles to Paradise, California
1926
box 410, folder 4
Travel diary - Los Angeles to Yolla Bolly, California
1927
box 410, folder 5
Inter-American Visual Library project
1929-1930
box 410, folder 6
Southwest Experiences project
1968
box 436, folder 10-11
Writings by Willard Morgan
1928-1930
Subseries 18.2: Photography of New York City and other locations and subjects
circa 1920s-1930s
Scope and Content
This subseries contains photographic material from Barbara and Willard Morgan's early life and work in New York City and other
locations. The photographs of New York City depict May Day, Washington Square Park, and other streets, signage, and city sights.
There is also material for a photomural the Morgans made for the Manhattan office of the Scranton Lace Company. Other subjects
include Chicago, the Philippines, athletics, aviation, and people such as William Jennings Bryan and Luther Burbank. Most
of the photographs are credited to Willard Morgan, but some materials (such as a group of photographs of Europe) have unknown
attribution.
box 409, folder 7-8
Photographic prints (large)
circa 1930
box 326, folder 1, 8-22
Photographic prints (medium)
circa 1930
box 411, folder 1-10
Photographic prints (small) and contact prints
circa 1910s-1930s
box 313
Contact sheet books
1930s-1940s
box 214, folder 2-4
Roll film - negatives and contact sheets
1930s
Subseries 18.3: Barnes Foundation and other art documentation
1920s-2006
1920s-1930s
Processing Information
Text and catalog numbers on the original enclosures and dividers were transferred onto preservation-standard sleeves and dividers.
There is also information on the verso of prints, as well as in the corresponding catalog lists originally composed by the
Morgans (see Box 255, folders 4-5).
Scope and Content
This subseries includes correspondence, notes, catalogs, lantern slides, negatives, and various formats of photographic prints
from Barbara and Willard Morgan's business, Morgan Photographs, in which they made photographic reproductions of works of
art for scholars, researchers, and educational purposes. The Morgans first began photographing works of art in the mid-1920s
during their travels in the Southwestern United States, documenting paintings, sculptures, crafts, and architecture. In the
early 1930s, they were hired to document the Barnes Foundation collection in Merion, Pennsylvania. The bulk of the material
in this subseries relates to this project, but the subseries also includes photographic documentation of works of art from
other public and private collections, such as MoMA, the Chicago Art Institute, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Phillips
Collection, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Barnes photographs include images of Albert Barnes with his collection, the
exterior of the Foundation, and the interior, which show how some of the collection was displayed at the time. The collection
has since been removed from its original location. The Barnes material also contains correspondence with Dr. Barnes, including
letters that reveal Barnes' relationships with and opinions of other art institutions, and detail his research and art acquisitions.
The Morgans' photographs of paintings in this subseries include works by Paul Cezanne, Giorgio de Chirico, El Greco, Paul
Klee, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Vincent Van Gogh, as well as
unattributed paintings organized by country of origin, including paintings from China, France, Italy, and Japan. Their photographs
of sculptures include works labeled as originating from the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabun Pahouin, Guinea, and Sudan. This subseries
also includes the Morgans' photographs of architecture, ceramics, graphic arts, metalwork, tapestries, and textiles. (Box
255, Folders 4-5 contain inventories of these images with corresponding catalog numbers.)
Arrangement
All 8 x 10 and smaller photographic prints are organized in accordance with the Morgans' original organizational structure,
which can be viewed in their catalogs housed in Box 255, Folders 4-5.
box 255, folder 1-3
Correspondence and financial documents
1930-2006
box 255, folder 4-5
Catalog lists
circa 1930s
box 255, folder 7, box 256, folder 1
Publicity material
1932-1935
box 256, folder 2
Dissertation by Christa J. Clarke dissertation:
Defining Taste: Albert Barnes and the Promotion of African Art in the United States During the 1920s
1998
box 256, folder 3
Thesis proposal by Tom Hussey:
The Barnes Collection in Lantern Slides Photographed by Willard and Barbara Morgan
1991
Scope and Contents
This item has been inscribed by Barnes to the Morgans and includes Barbara Morgan's notes.
box 256, folder 4
The Art of Henri Matisse by Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia
1933
Scope and Content
This item has been inscribed by Barnes to the Morgans and includes Barbara Morgan's notes.
box 275, folder 2-4
Photographic prints (mounted)
circa 1930s
box 275, folder 1
Photographic prints (11 x 14 format)
circa 1930s
box 257, folder 1-7, box 258, folder 1-5, box 259, folder 1-5, box 260, folder 1-6, box 261, folder 1-8, box 262, folder 1-5, box 263, folder 1-6, box 264, folder 1-6, box 265, folder 1-7, box 266, folder 1-4, 8-11, box 267, folder 1-7, box 268, folder 1-6, box 269, folder 1-4, box 270, folder 1-6, box 607, folder 16
Photographic prints (8 x 10 format)
circa 1930s
box 266, folder 5-7
Photographic prints (8 x 10 format) - Barnes Foundation exterior and interior
circa 1930s
box 271, box 272, box 607, folder 17
Photographic prints (5 x 7 format)
circa 1930s
box 419
Photographic prints (small)
undated
Scope and Content
Some of these prints (4 x 5 format) are unidentified images of works of art. Also includes Southwestern United States, American
Artists' Congress, and family photographs.
box 273, box 274
Contact prints
circa 1930s
Scope and Contents
Box 273 contains contact prints of the Barnes Collection.
This box also includes contact prints of works by architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra.
For negatives and prints of Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright works, see also Boxes 114, 115 and 116 (Series 14: Willard
Morgan architectural photography and projects, Subseries 14.1 Richard Neutra, and Subseries 14.2: Frank Lloyd Wright.)
box 276, box 277, box 278, box 279, box 280, box 281, box 282, box 283
Lantern slides
circa 1930s
Scope and Contents
Box 276 contains lantern slides of the Barnes Foundation building, interior and exterior, and art works in the Barnes Collection
including Braque, Chinese, Chirico, Corot, Courbet, and Cezanne.
Box 277 contains lantern slides of the Barnes Collection of works by Cezanne.
Box 278 contains lantern slides of the Barnes Collection of works by Cezanne.
Box 279 contains lantern slides of the Barnes Collection of works by Cezanne, Degas, El Greco, Goya, Japanese, Laurencin,
Lurcat, Matisse, and Modigliani.
Box 280 contains lantern slides of the Barnes Collection of works by Modigliani, Pascin, Picasso, and Renoir.
Box 281 contains lantern slides of the Barnes Collection of works by Renoir, Rosseau, Rouault, Sienese, Soutine, Swabian,
Tintoretto, Toulouse-Lautrec, Tyroll, Utrillo, and Van Gogh.
Box 282 contains lantern slides of the Barnes collection of works by Van Gogh, Veronese, Sculpture I-S, Ivory Coast, Kong
Empire, Mudighani, Ogoue, and Sudan. Also includes architectural lantern slides of Grain Elevator, Neutra, Sullivan, and Wright.
Box 283 contains lantern slides indexed by Morgan Photography as Wright, Abbott, John Heartfield, Herbert Matter, and Nadar.
Also includes photographic montages and journal covers by various and unidentified photographers, as well as unidentified
group photographs and one with Willard Morgan.
box 284, box 285, box 286, box 287, box 288, box 289
Lantern slides integrated with contact prints
circa 1930s
Scope and Contents
Box 284 contains lantern slides and contact prints of Barnes and other art documentation indexed by Morgan Photography as
Bodi Bank, Tyuonyi (N.M.), Trampas Doorway, Trampas church, Trampas architecture, Early Nasca Textiles, Tiahuanaco tapestry,
Peruvian textiles, Greek pottery, Peruvian pottery, Island Titicaca silver, Oaxaca, Mexico jade, Maya jade, Maya greenstone,
Goya, Goya Dr., and El Greco.
Box 285 contains lantern slides and contact prints of Barnes and other art documentation indexed by Morgan Photography as
El Greco, Ming, Laurencin, Matisse, Picasso, and Renoir.
Box 286 contains lantern slides and contact prints of Barnes and other art documentation indexed by Morgan Photography as
Renoir; Rouault; Pueblo Indian pottery; Santo, New Mexico; Bulto, New Mexico; Navajo blanket B.F.; Navajo necklace B.F; Cezanne;
Cezanne Peaches; Cezanne watercolor Man Seated.
Box 287 contains lantern slides and contact prints of Barnes and other art documentation indexed by Morgan Photography as
Cezanne, Cezanne-Vollard, Cezanne Man With Skull, Cezanne Man Undressing, Cezanne Bathers, Chinese.
Box 288 contains lantern slides and contact prints of Barnes and other art documentation indexed by Morgan Photography as
Carved Marble, Pre-Columbian sculpture, Onyx mask, Sculpture, Zuni, Zuni painting, Zuni altar painting, and Pueblo Indian.
Box 289 contains lantern slides and contact prints of Barnes and other art documentation indexed by Morgan Photography as
Matisse, Matisse mural, Modigliani, Monet, Orozco mural, Pascin, Picasso.
Subseries 18.4: Work by others and unidentified material
Scope and Content
This subseries contains photographs and reproductions of works by others, as well as unidentified material.
box 196, folder 6
Photomontage periodicals - U.S.S.R. and Brazil
1936, 1938
box 340, folder 5-7, box 344, folder 9-13, box 367, folder 13-17, box 371, folder 14, box 374, folder 14-17, box 437, folder 9, box 438, folder 1-5, box 439, folder 1-3, box 607, folder 19
Photographic prints (medium)
undated
Scope and Content
These files cover a wide range of photographic subjects and dates.
The prints in Box 439 were originally housed in a box labeled "Action shots for Photo. Encyclo. WDM". (See original box cover
in Folder 1).
box 412, folder 1
Photographic prints (small) and contact prints
1920s-1930s
box 313
Contact sheet books
circa 1930s-1940s
box 218, folder 1, box 321
box 607, folder 4
Unidentified photographic and paper material
undated
Series 19: Family materials
circa 1850s-1990s
1920s-1940s
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials are available for access. All requests to access audiovisual materials
must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Scope and Content
This series contains correspondence, genealogy, photography, film, and other materials related to the family life of Barbara
and Willard Morgan, their sons Lloyd and Douglas, and other relatives.
Subseries 19.1: Barbara and Willard Morgan and family
1919-1990s
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIO MATERIALS: Audio materials are not currently available for access and will require further processing
and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email AskLSC@library.ucla.edu.
Scope and Content
This subseries contains material related to Barbara and Willard Morgan, their sons Douglas and Lloyd, and their family life.
It includes extensive correspondence between Barbara and Willard throughout their courtship years and after their marriage.
Also included are childhood letters and juvenilia by Lloyd ("Pogo") and Douglas ("Chili"); correspondence from relatives;
wedding documents; and photographic material and plans for the family house in Scarsdale, New York. Photographic material
featuring the house can be found in Subseries 19.4: Family photographs.
box 157, folder 1-4, box 158, folder 1-4, box 159, folder 1-5, 8-10, box 160, folder 1-5, box 161, folder 1-2
Correspondence between Barbara and Willard
1919-1960s
Scope and Contents
The personal correspondence exchanged between the Morgans from the 1920s comprise over 750 letters illustrative of their relationship's
development, personal artistic foundations, and life in Southern California.
Box 157. BBM-WF=DM 1919-1923.
Box 158. BBM-WDM August 1924-July 1925.
Box 159. BBM-WDM 1920s-1960s; BBM to WDM and family 1940s, WDM-BBM 1919-1921.
Box 160. WDM-BBM 1922-1925
Box 161. WDM-BBM 1928-1960s, undated; WDM-BBM and children; corespondene with Barbara and Willard's mothers. Also includes
correspondence between Willard Morgan and others 120s-1940s, Morgan wedding documentation, and documentation about the Scarsdale
house including architectural specifications, photographs and reprint of
Architectural Record & House Beautiful insert.
box 159, folder 6-7
Correspondence - Barbara to family
1940s-1980s
box 161, folder 3
Correspondence - Willard to family
1952-1953
box 161, folder 4-7
Correspondence - Barbara and Willard from Mary Cowdery Johnson
1925-1948
box 161, folder 8
Correspondence - Willard from other family
1920s-1940s
box 161, folder 9
Correspondence - Barbara and Willard from Marie Morgan
1930s-1940s
box 161, folder 10
Barbara and Willard - wedding documents
1925
box 161, folder 11, box 607, folder 21
Scarsdale house
1941- circa 1992
box 162, folder 1
Letters after birth of Douglas Morgan
1932
box 162, folder 2
Letters after birth of Lloyd Morgan
1935
Willard - advice to children (audiocassette)
circa 1960s
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIO MATERIALS: Audio materials are not currently available for access and will require further processing
and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email AskLSC@library.ucla.edu.
box 162, folder 3, box 163, folder 1
Douglas and Lloyd - childhood correspondence
1930s-1950s
box 163, folder 2
Douglas and Lloyd - progress reports from camp and school
1936-1942
box 163, folder 3, box 188, folder 5
Douglas and Lloyd - original stories and drawings
1936-1942
box 163, folder 4
Douglas and Lloyd - school work samples
1941-1943
box 163, folder 5
Douglas and Lloyd -
The Fresh Egg
1945-1946
box 163, folder 6
Douglas - scrapbook and other work
1930s-1940s
box 163, folder 7
Douglas and Maureen Morgan
1950s-1970s
box 163, folder 8
Lloyd - family
1940s-1990s
box 163, folder 9
Liliane de Cock Morgan
1972
Subseries 19.2: Genealogy and other family
1890s-1980s
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIO MATERIALS: Audio materials are not currently available for access and will require further processing
and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email AskLSC@library.ucla.edu.
Scope and Content
This subseries contains correspondence, genealogy material, and other documents related to the families of Barbara and Willard
Morgan, primarily collected by Barbara Morgan. She reached out to family members on both sides and compiled extensive information
about the Morgan family, as well as her mother's family, the Cowderys. There is also considerable correspondence from Barbara
Morgan's sister, Margaret Rutzebeck, and niece Diana Tillion, as well as Willard Morgan's siblings Donald, Henry, and Helen,
and various other relatives.
box 164, folder 1-12
A-E
1920s-1980s
Scope and Content
Material related to Louise Bunger, Buschmann Family, Marian Campbell, Tad Cody, Benjamin Coe, Cowdery family, and Eyekamp
family.
box 165, folder 1-11, box 607, folder 22
E-M
1890s-1995
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIO MATERIALS: Audio materials are not currently available for access and will require further processing
and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email AskLSC@library.ucla.edu.
Scope and Content
Material related to the Eyekamp family, George W. French, Johnson family, Mary Cowdery Johnson, Ingrid and Arthur Kellogg,
Ruth Morgan Mitchell, Donald Morgan, Gilbert and Nancy Morgan, Helen Morgan, and Henry Morgan. The Henry Morgan folder includes
World War II-era photographs and Donald Morgan material includes an audiocassette of his memorial service.
box 166, folder 1-10
M-T
1907-1970s
Scope and Content
Material related to Kenneth and Dorothy Morgan, Morgan family, Morgan grandchildren, Jennifer Morgan, Nellie Preston, Edna
Pudy, Margaret Rutzebeck, Rutzebeck and Steinberger families, and Diana Tillion.
box 167, folder 1-4
T-W
1930s-1980s
Scope and Content
Material related to Diana Tillion, Nancy Wells, and other relatives.
Subseries 19.3: Morgan Camera Shop
1930s-1965
Scope and Content
This subseries contains correspondence, newsletters, and photographic material related to the Morgan Camera Shop located on
Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, which was owned and operated by Willard Morgan's brother Gilbert Morgan from 1934
until the early 2000s.
box 167, folder 6, box 607, folder 23
Photographic prints and negatives
1930s-1940s
box 167, folder 7-8
Gilbert Morgan - correspondence and business records
1930s-1940s
Subseries 19.4: Family photographic material
circa 1850s-1990s
Scope and Content
This subseries includes family photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, photographs of the immediate
Morgan family, as well as photographs of Barbara and Willard Morgan throughout the span of their lives.
The nineteenth-century photographs are primarily of Barbara's family, including images from the Cowdery, Johnson, Brooks,
Laudrith and Preston families (mostly on Barbara's mother's side), and are largely professional studio portraits, taken in
Kansas and Iowa. Included are photographs of Barbara's mother's cousin, Mary Cowdery Millikiu, whose watercolor paintings
inspired Barbara to become an artist. There is also a small selection of photographs from Willard's side of the family. A
portion of the early photographs are unidentified, but include photography studio locations. A mounted albumen print of the
San Fernando Mission in Los Angeles taken by J.B. Blanchard is also among the early photographs.
Photographs of Barbara Morgan range from the 1900s to the 1980s and include photographs of her taken by Willard, as well as
photographers Berenice Abbott, Raimondo Borea, Charlotte Brooks, Dan Budnik, Molly Malone Cook, Liliane de Cock, Robert Disraeli,
Laura Gilpin, Lotte Jacobi, Torkel Korling, Margaretta K. Mitchell, Nancy Newhall, Louise Rosskam, and Claire Yaffa. Photographs
of Willard Morgan range from the 1900s to the 1960s and include photographs of him taken by Barbara, as well as photographers
Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Harold Harvey, Carl Mydans, and Beaumont Newhall.
There are photographs of the immediate family throughout their lives, including during trips and Scarsdale house parties.
Some of the house parties include one in 1969 for Ansel Adams and a Farm Security Administration photographers reunion. In
addition to images taken by the Morgans or their friends, some are taken by Peter Stackpole and John Hugelmeyer. Also included
in this subseries are images of Willard's birthplace of Snohomish, Washington taken in 1965.
The following family members are featured in the photographs: Nellie Preston (daughter of Mary and Tom Cowdery, granddaughter
of Mary Amanda Preston Cowdery), Phocion Cowdery (Barbara's uncle), Mary Isabel Cowdery Johnson (Barbara's mother), Melancthon
Cowdery (Barbara's grandfather), Elijah Coe (Barbara's great great grandfather, Preston B. Cowdery, Mabel Cowdery, Edna Cowdery
(daughter of Preston and Mabel Cowdery), Charlie Cowdery, Mary Amanda Preston Cowdery (Barbara's great grandmother), Charles
Cowdery (Barbara's uncle), James and Sophronia Cowdery, Lester Cowdery (Barbara's great uncle), Laura and Louise Cowdery,
Rose Cowdery, and Martha Brooks Cowdery.
For many more family and Morgan home photographs, see Subseries 9.8: Negatives and contact prints, 1920s-1970s, undated.
Arrangement
Boxes 308-314 contain small prints (up to 8 x 10 format).
Boxes 325-327, 329-332, 336, 338, 340, 343, 348, 349, and 365 contain medium prints (up to 16 x 20).
box 306, folder 2
Casterline
circa 1890s-1900s
box 306, folder 3-8, box 311, folder 8
Cowdery
circa 1850s-1930s
box 307, folder 1
Haskell
circa 1930s-1960s
Scope and Content
See also materials and photographs for
Summer's Children (Series 4: Barbara Morgan photographic projects, Subseries 4.2: Books).
box 307, folder 2-4
Johnson
circa 1870s-1930s
box 307, folder 5
Laudrith
circa 1900s-1910s
box 307, folder 7-11, box 308, folder 1-5, 7-12, box 309, folder 1-2, 4-6, box 324, folder 20-24, box 330, folder 6-8, 11-14, box 332, folder 13-22, box 338, folder 7-8, 15, box 340, folder 3-4, box 419, box 437, folder 10
Morgan - photographic prints
circa 1880s-1990s
Scope and Content
Boxes 307-309 contain small prints (up to 8 x 10, including supports).
Boxes 324, 330, 332, 338, 340, 419, and 437 contain medium prints (up to 16 x 20 format, including supports).
Boxes 308 and 324 contain images of the Morgan's home in Scarsdale, New York. (See also Box 161, Folder 11.)
box 308, folder 8, box 309, folder 3, box 318, folder 1-2, box 319, folder 1-2, box 320, box 322
Morgan - slides
circa 1940s-1980s
box 313
Morgan - contact sheet books
circa 1930s-1940s
box 214, folder 5, box 557
Morgan - roll film: negatives and contact sheets
circa 1930s
Scope and Contents
Box 557. 1920s-1960s, undated. Strip film negatives, various formats. Also includes 4 x 5 negatives and smaller. Family photographs
and unidentified. Includes photographs by both Barbara and Willard of family 1920s-1940s, and photographs of family by others:
Morgan home by John Hugelmeyer 1940s, California trip Eager's party 1940s, Morgan home Snohomish 1965, pheasant shooting,
Eldridge wedding, Barbara Morgan by Elsa Neumann and other; photographs by and of Willard Morgan by Ansel Adams and other;
Willard Morgan photographs of Coast Guard, L.A. airport, Frank Lloyd Wright, UCLA. Also includes 8 x 10 negative: Morgans
in Pomona, 1918, under Oak tree taken with self timer built by Willard.
Box 607 includes negatives of Speedlite Portrait Photos of Willard Morgan 1941.
For many more family and Morgan home photographs, see Subseries 9.8: Negatives and contact prints, 1920s-1970s, undated.
box 309, folder 7-11, box 310, folder 1-5, box 331, folder 17-21, box 332, folder 3-4, box 333, folder 1-4, box 334, box 335, folder 1-4, box 338, folder 12-14, box 343, folder 12-13, box 348, folder 1-2, box 349, folder 12-16, box 365, folder 12-14
Morgan - Barbara
circa 1900s-1990s
Scope and Content
Included are portraits and candid images of Barbara Morgan, as well as photographs of her at work.
Boxes 309-310 contain small prints (up to 8 x 10, including supports).
Boxes 331-335, 338, 343, 348-349, and 365 contain medium prints (up to 16 x 20 format, including supports).
See also Series 18: Collaborative work, Subseries 18.1: Photography of Southwestern United States and Mexico
box 310, folder 6-10, box 311, folder 1-5, box 331, folder 4-16, 22-23, box 332, folder 1-2, box 343, folder 14-16, box 349, folder 17
Morgan - Willard
1900s-1960s
Scope and Content
Boxes 310-311 contain small prints (up to 8 x 10, including supports).
Boxes 331-332, 343, and 349 contain medium prints (up to 16 x 20 format, including supports).
Photographs of Willard by Barbara from her Strobe Series can be found in Subseries 9.6. See also Subseries 18.1.
Box 311, Folder 4 contains photographic prints from Willard's trip with his brother, Gilbert Morgan, to Europe for the 1966
Photokina trade fair in Cologne, Germany, during which they also visited Switzerland, England, and Wales.
Slides from this trip are located in Box 322.
Ephemera from this trip is located in Box 120, Folder 10, and Box 121, Folder 1 (Subseries 16.2).
box 311, folder 6-7
Preston
circa 1880s-1910s
box 311, folder 10-11, box 312, folder 1-9
Unidentified
circa 1850s-1940s
Subseries 19.5:
Growing Americans (Chicken Movie)
1940s
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This subseries contains processed audiovisual materials. All requests to access audiovisual
materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Scope and Content
This subseries contains documentation, photographic materials, and a film reel for
Growing Americans (known to the family as "Chicken Movie"), a United States government short film showing the Morgan family raising chickens
at their Scarsdale home. According to the documentation, the 1944 film was made as part of a food production propaganda program.
It was directed by Paramount Studios' Gene Martel and produced by the Agricultural Film Unit of the Coordinator of Inter-American
Affairs for release in South America with narration in Spanish and Portuguese. Still images in the film are credited to Barbara
Morgan.
Growing Americans 16 mm film reel
circa 1940s
Language of Material: The audio of the film is in Spanish.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
box 412, folder 2-5
Photographic prints (small)
1942
Series 20: Publishing company materials
1920s-1990s
Scope and Content
Material in this series relates to the Morgan family's involvement in the publishing industry. Willard Morgan became involved
with publishing in the 1930s and founded the publishing company Morgan & Lester with his partner Henry M. Lester. They published
photography texts such as Ansel Adams'
Basic Photo Series as well as the
Leica Manual and
Graphic Graflex Photography. In 1956, Willard bought out Lester and then he and Barbara partnered in the business, renaming it Morgan & Morgan. Morgan
& Morgan published photography texts such as
Photo Lab Index and Minor White's
Zone System Manual as well as later editions of Ansel Adams'
Basic Photo Series and the
Leica Manual. The company also published some of Barbara Morgan's monographs (see also Series 4: Barbara Morgan photographic projects)
as well as books of architectural photography, such as
Mystery and Realities of the Site (see also Subseries 14.1: Richard Neutra). The Morgans' sons, Douglas and Lloyd, later became involved with the business,
as well as with Morgan Press, which specialized in producing publications using Willard's typography collection and machinery.
Subseries 20.1: Ansel Adams materials
1940-1989
Scope and Content
Materials in this subseries include correspondence, promotional material, and business records relating to Ansel Adams' relationship
with Barbara and Willard Morgan, as well as their sons, Douglas and Lloyd Morgan. The Morgans collaborated with Adams on various
publishing projects including
Exposure Record and
The Polaroid Manual.
This subseries also includes professional material related to Adams' career, including exhibition fliers, print order forms,
lecture notes, clippings, and material relating to his workshops. Correspondence includes letters written between Adams and
the Morgans, as well as letters written to and from Willard representing Morgan & Morgan and Morgan & Lester, regarding the
Adams books Willard was involved in publishing. Correspondence between Adams' daughter, Anne Adams, and Douglas Morgan is
also present.
Additionally, this subseries includes material related to Adams'
Basic Photo Series, a series of five books published between 1948 and 1956 that aimed to introduce basic principles of photography. Materials
relating to these books include correspondence, galley proofs (some in multiple copies with edits), and publications.
box 170, folder 5
Publication draft material
circa 1940s-1970s
box 170, folder 6
Writing
circa 1940s-1970s
box 170, folder 7
Photographic prints
circa 1940s-1960s
box 170, folder 8, box 171, folder 1
box 171, folder 2
Business records
1951-1975
box 171, folder 3
Clippings and publicity
1960-1989
box 171, folder 4
Professional material
circa 1960s-1970s
box 171, folder 5
Workshop material
1960-1971
box 171, folder 6
Publishing agreements
circa 1970s
box 171, folder 7
Exposure Record - 1947 edition
1947
box 171, folder 8
Polaroid Manual
1963-1964
box 171, folder 9
Basic Photo Series - draft material
circa 1940s-1950s
box 172, folder 1
Basic Photo Series - clippings
1952-1958
box 172, folder 2
Basic Photo Series: The Print, Natural Light Photography
1952-1966
box 172, folder 3
Basic Photo Series: Natural Light Photography - book jackets
1952
box 172, folder 4-6, box 173, folder 1-6
Basic Photo Series: Natural Light Photography - galley proofs
1952, 1956
box 174, folder 1
Basic Photo Series: The Print - galley proof
1957
box 174, folder 2
Basic Photo Series: The Negative
1962-1964
box 175, folder 1-3, box 176, folder 1-3
Camera and Lens - galley proofs
1971
Subseries 20.2:
Mystery and Realities of the Site by Richard Neutra
1930-1970
Scope and Content
This subseries includes material related to
Mystery and Realities of the Site, authored by Richard Neutra and published by Morgan & Morgan in 1951. Materials include correspondence, photographs, publicity
material, publication draft material, financial records, and final versions of the publication.
Correspondence between the Morgans and Neutras primarily concerns the publication and distribution of the book, but also includes
personal letters documenting various trips taken by Richard and Dione Neutra, and updates on other projects undertaken by
the Morgans or Neutras. This subseries also contains correspondence, financial records, and proof material from vendors, such
as the fine art printing firm Beck Engravers. Also included are approximately fifty photographic prints of Neutra structures
attributed to Julius Shulman, the photographer for
Mysteries and Realities of the Site.
Other material relating to the publication include draft material such as drawings and storyboards by Richard Neutra for the
design of the book's interior; photographs for the final draft and related notes; a copy of the final dust jacket with storyboards
drawn by Neutra; and documentation of the planning and creation of the book jacket, including a sketch of the proposed design,
copies of elements used to create a mockup, drafts of text for the cover, printed copies of the final version, one acetate
negative, and photographic prints of the cover.
box 174, folder 3, box 189, folder 6
Book jacket design
1950-1951
box 177, folder 1
First edition copies
1951
Photographic prints by Julius Shulman
circa 1950
box 177, folder 2-3, box 189, folder 7-8
box 177, folder 5
Sketches and storyboards
circa 1950
Subseries 20.3: Business records
1920s-1990s
Scope and Content
Material in this subseries includes correspondence, documents concerning publication copyrights, legal contracts, financial
reports, clippings, business records, publicity, work samples, and catalogs related to the Morgans' involvement with the publishing
industry. Included are materials from the different businesses in which Willard, Barbara, Douglas, and Lloyd Morgan founded
and/or were involved, such as Morgan & Lester, Morgan & Morgan, and Morgan Press. (Related material is also located in Series
15: Willard Morgan typography files.)
box 177, folder 8
Business material
circa 1960s-1990s
box 177, folder 6-7
Business records
1947-1981
box 178, folder 1
Contact cards
circa 1960s
box 178, folder 2-3
Copyright documents
1935-1994
box 178, folder 4-6
Correspondence
circa 1950s-1970s
box 178, folder 7
Correspondence - Morgan Christmas cards
circa 1920s-1980s
box 179, folder 1-3
Morgan Archive - materials and publications
circa 1990s
box 179, folder 4
Morgan & Morgan - catalogs
1951-1989
box 179, folder 5
Morgan & Morgan Photo Game - research material, project notes
circa 1940s
box 179, folder 6
Morgan Press - catalogs
circa 1960s
box 179, folder 7
Newhall, Nancy and Beaumont - correspondence and notes
1942-1990
box 180, folder 1
Photographic prints
circa 1960s
box 180, folder 2
Photographic prints - unidentified
circa 1950s-1990s
box 180, folder 3
Publication and print-related exhibitions, events, collection catalogs, ephemera
circa 1960s
box 180, folder 4-6
Publicity and clippings
1940s-1970s
box 180, folder 7
Supplementary material
circa 1960s-1970s
box 180, folder 8
Work samples
circa 1950s-1990s
Subseries 20.4: Publications
1928-1989
Scope and Content
Material in this subseries includes correspondence, draft material, galley proofs, photographs, notes, and research material
relating to books published by Morgan & Morgan, Morgan & Lester, and Morgan Press. Published versions of books, including
Graphic Graflex,
Stereo Realist Manual, the
Leica Manual,
Photo-Lab-Index, and
Miniature Camera Work are represented in this subseries. Some publications are inscribed by the Morgans while others contain multiple editions.
This subseries also contains correspondence and notes related to unpublished works and publication ideas. Some related material
is located in Series 12: Willard Morgan photography career.
box 184, folder 3
Block, Lou - correspondence, photographs
1961
box 184, folder 4
Correct Exposure in Photography - first edition
1944
box 189, folder 9-10
Freedomland - issues, publicity
1960-1964
box 181, folder 1-7
Graphic Graflex - notes, publishing material, correspondence, photographs
1954-1970s
box 184, folder 8
Lange, Dorothea - correspondence
1973
box 182, folder 1-5
Leica Manual - supplementary booklets, editions, publication material, research material
1928-1960s
box 183, folder 1
Leica Manual - business records and correspondence
1956
box 185, box 186
Photo Lab Index
1943-1989
box 184, folder 5
Photo Lab Index - drafts and publicity
circa 1960s
box 184, folder 6
To Lighten My House by Alastair Reid - correspondence, drafts, business records
1953-1965
box 183, folder 2-12
White, Minor publications - business records, correspondence, drafts, proofs, research material
1950s-1970s
Scope and Content
Materials related to the
Zone System Manual,
Exposure to the Zone System,
The Way of Photography, and
Care of Photographs.
box 184, folder 1-2
White, Minor -
Visualization Manual - proofs and correspondence
1971-1975
box 184, folder 9
Publication ideas - notes, correspondence, clippings
circa 1930s-1970s
box 184, folder 10
Publication ideas - Spiegel, Motoko Ikeda: correspondence, clippings, research
circa 1960s-1970s
box 187, box 226, box 227, box 228, box 229
Published volumes
1940s-1970s
Scope and Content
An incomplete set of the following titles: Ansel Adams'
Basic Photo series and
Polaroid Manual, Minor White's
Zone System Manual, plus
Foundry Type,
Graphic Graflex Photography,
Illustrated Catalog of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs,
Leica Manual,
Miniature Camera Work,
Photo Dictionary,
Photo Quiz,
Stereo Realist Manual, and
TV and Film Production Data Book.
box 184, folder 7
Unidentified publications
circa 1950s
Series 21: Artifacts and audiovisual materials
1920s-1980s
Scope and Content
Artifacts include two Leica cameras with cases, one Zeiss camera with case, one Exakta camera with case, and two Graphlex
cameras. Film holders, film canisters, and various other photography tools are also present. Audiovisual materials include
film, video, and audio.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIO and AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audio and audiovisual materials are not currently available for access
and will require further processing and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email AskLSC@library.ucla.edu.
box 196, folder 4, box 215, folder 2, box 396, folder 3
Barbara Morgan art portfolios (emptied)
1930, undated
box 249, folder 1-3, box 250, folder 1-2, box 251, folder 1-4, box 252, folder 1-2, box 253, folder 1-2, box 254, folder 1-3
Barbara Morgan wood blocks
circa 1920s-1930s
Scope and Content
Wood blocks made and used by Barbara Morgan to make prints related to Series 10: Barbara Morgan drawings, paintings, and prints,
circa 1900s-1960s, Subseries 10.3: Prints, circa 1900s-1960s. Some carved on both sides.
Also includes two small wood blocks with metal plates and no artist attribution.
box 219
Copyright rubber stamps with metal holder
1930s-1980s
box 416, box 417, box 418, box 453
Camera equipment and photography tools
circa 1920s-1950s
Scope and Content
Includes Barbara and Willard Morgan's cameras and related photography accessories:
Box 416: Zeiss Ikon camera (brown leather case, broken strap); Exakta VX Ihagee Dresden camera; black Ernest Leitz Elmar 1:3.5
F=50mm with lens cap (no case); Leica B. R. P. Ernst Leitz Wetslav no. 328718 Summtar f=5cm 1:2 no.505419 (brown leather case,
no strap); and Leitz Wetxlar black camera case.
Box 417: Graflex Sisto Gum Camera, Super Graphic Graflex 45 with handbook.
Box 418: Metal camera carrying case; two Graflex film holders; twenty-one Graflex film holders (4 x 5); Graflex Sisto Gum
Camera; one Model 2 Graphic film pack adapter; and two Graflex holders.
Box 453: Bulbs, spools, lenses, booklets, and other tools.
box 413, folder 1, box 414, folder 1-6, box 415, folder 1-2
Stereo Realist viewer, glass slides, and supplies
circa 1950s
Scope and Content
These glass slide materials relate to the book published by Morgan & Lester in 1954,
Stereo Realist Manual. In addition to the red button Stereo Realist viewer, these materials also include a single slide viewer labeled with Barbara
Morgan's name.
box 199, box 200, box 596
Audiovisual materials
Scope and Contents
Box 199: 8 VHS, 8 U-Matics, 4 DVDs, and 4 audio tapes.
Box 200: 27 audiocassettes, 13 VHS, 2 audio tapes, 2 wire recordings, and 1 U-Matic
Box 596: 8 lacquer disc(s)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIO and AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audio and audiovisual materials are not currently available for access
and will require further processing and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email AskLSC@library.ucla.edu.
