Finding Aid for the Ansel Adams Papers LSC.0696
Finding aid prepared by Yvonne Schroeder, November 1960; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Ansel Adams papers
Creator:
Adams, Ansel
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0696
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1938-1944
Abstract: Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984) was born in San Francisco, California. A photographer and conservationist, he helped to establish
photography as an art form and is known for his detailed, panoramic photos of the American West. The collection consists of
typescripts, correspondence, photographs, proof sheets, and ephemera related to the creation and publication of two of Adams's
books:
Born Free and Equal (1944) and
Sierra Nevada, the John Muir Trail (1938).
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[Identification of item], Ansel Adams Papers (Collection 696). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
994621373606533
Ansel Easton Adams was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California; a photographer and conservationist, he helped
to establish photography as an art form and is known for his detailed, panoramic photos of the American West; co-founder,
Group f/64 (1932-34); author of seven portfolios and thirty books, including
Born Free and Equal (1944),
Yosemite (1960), and
Images: 1923-74 (1975); director, Sierra Club, 1934-71; died near Carmel, California, on April 22, 1984.
Collection consists of typescripts, correspondence, photographs, proof sheets, and ephemera related to the creation and publication
of two of Adams's books:
Born Free and Equal (1944) and
Sierra Nevada, the John Muir Trail (1938). Most of the collection relates to his work for
Born Free and Equal, and it contains photographs and other materials from his visit to the Manzanar War Relocation Center to document the experiences
of interned Japanese Americans. Includes a Manzanar High yearbook and two different copies of the
Manzanar Free Press from 1943 & 1944. Also includes 3 letters from Dorothea Lange.
Arranged in the following series:
- Born Free and Equal (Boxes 1-2).
- Sierra Nevada - the John Muir Trail (Box 3).
Japanese American Research Project Collection of Material about Japanese in the United States (Collection 2010) . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
Manzanar War Relocation Center Records (Collection 122) . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Conservationists -- California -- Archives.
Photographers -- California -- Archives.
Photographs.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Manuscripts for publication
Online resources.
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984--Archives.
Lange, Dorothea--Correspondence.
Manzanar War Relocation Center
Lange, Dorothea
box 1, box 2
box 1
box 1
box 1
box 1
box 2
box 2
box 2
box 1
Ephemera about Manzanar.
box 1
box 1
Pictorial Edition of the Manzanar Free Press, vol.4 no.1, September 10, 1943.
box 1
Manzanar Free Press, vol.5 no.9, January 29, 1944.
box 3
Sierra Nevada - The John Muir Trail