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Guide to the Branson DeCou Archive, 1920-1941

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Collection Contents

Series 1 Photograph Albums 1920-1941

Physical Description: 47 albums

Scope and Content Note

The first series contains the photograph albums. The black and white photographs found in the albums do not necessarily correspond with the lantern slides.

Arrangement

The material is listed in a donor order, following loose geographic divisions. The box numbers reflect the album numbers; Albums 1-8,46 Africa and Asia, Albums 8-32,47 Europe, Albums 29-34,36-42,44-45 North America, Albums 35,41-43 South America, Albums 44-45 Australasia

Box 1

Africa, California, Canada

Box 2

Algeria, Tunisia

Box 3

Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco

Box 4

Java, Singapore, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Mombassa (Kenya), Zanzibar, Tanganyika, Republic of South Africa, Natal

Box 5

Zululand (Natal), Bechuanaland (Botswana), Rhodesia, South Africa, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, West Indies, Martinique

Box 6

Hawaiian Islands, Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia

Box 7

Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Bali, Java

Box 8

Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Italy, Japan, China, Philippines, India, Austria, Central Europe

Box 9

Ireland, S. S. Normandie (ocean liner)

Box 10

England, Scotland, Wales

Box 11

England, Holland, Germany, Belgium, France

Box 12

Switzerland, Germany (Rhine), Belgium, Holland, England, Ireland

Box 13

France, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark

Box 14

France, Russia, Finland, Denmark, England

Box 15

Norway, Sweden, Denmark

Box 16

Iceland, Norway, Sweden

Box 17

Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France

Box 18

Belgium, Holland

Box 19

Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, Monaco

Box 20

Italy, Austria, Germany, France

Box 21

Italy

Box 22

Italy, England

Box 23

France, Switzerland, Italy

Box 24

Madeira, Morocco, Portugal, France, England, Holland, Denmark, Sweden

Box 25

Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria

Box 26

Madeira, Spain, Italy, Capri, Sicily, Israel, Egypt, Rhodes (Aegean Sea), Turkey

Box 27

Syria, Israel, Egypt, Italy

Box 28

Spain, Morocco, Algiers, Carthage, Tunisia, Italy, Sicily, Yugoslavia

Box 29

Turkey, Russia, Greece, Bermuda, Canada (Quebec), California, Arizona, New Mexico

Box 30

Sweden, Russia, Denmark, France, West Indies, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba

Box 31

New Mexico, California, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Madeira, Portugal, Spain, France, New England

Box 32

Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, New Mexico, Madeira, Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Denmark

Box 33

Alaska, Canada

Box 34

Canada, Wyoming, California, Montana, Washington, Oregon

Box 35

Mexico

Box 36

California

Box 37

California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming

Box 38

Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Utah, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado

Box 39

Bahamas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, California, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Idaho

Box 40

California, Alaska

Box 41

California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Florida, West Indies, Curacao, Haiti, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Antigua, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico,

Box 42

Peru, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, California, Arizona, Mexico

Box 43

Panama, Colombia, Equador, Peru

Box 44

Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Java

Box 45

Hawaiian Islands

Box 46

Unbound photo album containing Thailand, Cambodia, Japan.

Box 47

Unbound photo album containing Europe, architecture, sculpture, painting.

Series 2 Notebooks and Travelogues 1920-1941

Physical Description: 2 boxes

Scope and Content Note

This second series contains notebooks and travelogues covering the North American, Asian, and European countries. Most books accompany programs, pamphlets, and flyers on various lectures.

Arrangement

Material is arranged virtually in an alphabetic order.

Box 48-49

British Columbia and the Selkirks

Box 48-49

Canadian Rockies, v.1

Box 48-49

Canadian Rockies 1942

Box 48-49

China and Korea

Box 48-49

Egypt, Living Pageant of the Nile

Box 48-49

Granada and Alhambra (Spain), and France, notes

Box 48-49

Glorious Switzerland: The Spell of Lake Geneva

Box 48-49

Glorious Switzerland and Danzig and Zoppot, notes

Box 48-49

India

Box 48-49

Leningrad and Moscow

Box 48-49

Magnificent Iceland and Norway

Box 48-49

Mediterranean

Box 48-49

Our American Wonderland Series: Colorado

Box 48-49

Our American Wonderland Series: The Pacific Northwest and Glacier National Park

Box 48-49

Our Romantic California and our Pacific Coast

Box 48-49

Springtime Motoring in California

Box 48-49

Venice and Northern Italy

Box 48-49

West Indies

Box 48-49

Yellowstone Park

Series 3 Lantern Slides 1921-40

Physical Description: 8,000 items

Scope and Content Note

This series contains 3 1/4"-4" hand-tinted glass slides. The material is housed in the University Library's Visual Resource Collection. The Italian glass slides were the first set of images available online through a generous grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation in 1999. The funding enabled the preservation and digitization of close to 1,500 images depicting Italian urban and rural landscape between the time of the Great Wars. Since then the University Library has digitized the California, German, Russian and Irish glass slides.

Arrangement

The collection is first arranged by geographic divisions then alphabetically by country.

Africa

Asia

Europe

Germany

Note

Note: Images available for viewing at http://library.ucsc.edu/slides/decou/

Ireland

Note

Note: In process

Italy

Note

Note: Images available for viewing at http://library.ucsc.edu/slides/decou/

Russia

Note

Note: In process

Americas

California

Note

Note: Images available for viewing at http://library.ucsc.edu/slides/decou/

Cuba

Note

Note: In process

Mexico

Note

Note: In process

Oceans

South Pacific

Australasia

Series 4 Photographs 1921-40

Physical Description: 1 photo box

Scope and Content Note

This series consists oversized black and white photographs. Details to follow as archive is proceessed.

Arrangement

Arranged geographically into eight sections; China, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Cambodia, Chile, Morocco, Capri

Series 5 Negatives 1921-40

Physical Description: 19 boxes

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of lantern slide negatives.

Arrangement

The negatives are arranged geographically.

Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Germany, Alaska

Passion Play 1931

Series 6 Resource Material 1921-40

Physical Description: 1 box

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of books and old magazines on various countries, such as Ireland of the Welcome by D. L. Kelleher, and Ireland: a guidebook. More details to follow as the archive is processed.

Series 7 Artifacts 1921-40

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of two slide viewing projectors and a slide carrying case. The items are currently stored in the Visual Resource Collection room.

Collection Contents

Photograph Albums

Notebooks and Travelogues

Lantern Slides

Photographs

Negatives

Resource Material

Artifacts

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