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Contributing Institution:
California Museum of Photography
Title: Will Connell Slides
Identifier/Call Number: 2013.0013
Physical Description:
408 color slides Photographic Slides
23 slide sheets, 6 folders
Date (inclusive): 1926-1952
Abstract: This collection contains 408 color slides from Will Connell, photographer. Photographs include primarily landscape and architectural
images from the United States and Germany.
Language of Material: English
All items in the collection are available for on-site viewing by appointment.
Use of images in publication is subject to the approval of Will Connell's descendants, who the museum will contact on author's
behalf.
The slides were donated by Will Connell, Will Connell's son.
Selection of Will Connell Slides, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside.
The Will Connell Slides Collection contains 408 color slides taken by Will Connell, which were donated by his son, Will Connell,
to the California Museum of Photography. This collection contains a wide variety of architectural and landscape photographs,
taken in either the United States or Germany. Many of the slides were taken in Alaska and California. The slides from Germany
emphasize the architecture of Rotenburg, Frankfurt and Munich. The collection reveals the geography and architecture of these
places in the 20th century.
Biographical/Administrative History
Connell began his professional career in the late 1920s in California. Publications employing Connell include: Allyear Club,
Touring Topics (later Westways), Better Homes and Gardens, Colliers, Weekly Cosmopolitan, Country Gentlemen, Life, Successful
Farming, Sunset, Time, U.S. Camera, Woman's Day, Woman's Home Companion, and Vogue. He belonged to a circle which Kevin Starr
proclaimed as the "urban bohemian intelligentsia." Will Connell captured California during a time of growth and prosperity.
Will Connell's career was that of artist, teacher, technician and entrepreneur.
The slides are arranged by location in one box, contained in six folders: 1. Alaska, 2 and 3. California, 4. New Mexico, 5.
New York, 6. Germany.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Negatives