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Title: Alexander Lowry Photographs
Dates: 1989
Collection number: MS 188
Creator:
Lowry, Alexander
Collection Size:
30 photographs
2 flats
2 flats
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This collection consists of black and white photographs taken of downtown Santa Cruz, California, immediately after the 1989
Loma Prieta earthquake and scenes of the University of Califoria, Santa Cruz Campus.
Physical location: Stored in Special Collections & Archives: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Alexander Lowry Photographs. MS 188. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Gift of Alexander Lowry in 1990
Alexander Lowry has been making personal and professional photographs since 1957. During his career he has been a newspaper
photographer and public relations photographer, and for the last 30 years has concentrated on contract work, primarily for
educational and conservation organizations. Photo Researchers, Inc. in New York has represented his stock photography since
1964. He has taught workshops for University of California, Santa Cruz Extension and others since 1974. His photographs have
appeared in more than 500 publications worldwide over a span of five decades. He has exhibited widely in both solo and group
shows, and his prints are in public and private collections.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of twenty four 8x10" black and white photographs taken of the damage to downtown Santa Cruz, California,
after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
At the time of the earthquake, Alexander Lowry and his wife owned and operated a studio in downtown Santa Cruz. He took these
photographs immediately after the earthquake and during the next few days when most of the downtown was off limits to the
general public.
Also included are scenes of the University of California, Santa Cruz campus.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Lowry, Alexander--archives
Photographers--California--Santa Cruz County
Earthquakes--California--Loma Prieta
Photographic Prints--1980-1989
- F868.S25L68 Santa Clara County, a second look; photographic essay, 1965.
- LD781.S4C3 Tutorial project. Photos by Alexander Lowry, with inroduction by Tom Knight, 1968.
- F868.S33L68 Castle Rock: west of skyline. Photographs by Alexander Lowry, text by Deanne Earnshaw, 1973.
- TR 654.L68 10 Critters by Alexander Lowry; afterword by David Brockman, 1978.
- F868.S3I5 In the ocean wind; the Santa Cruz north coast. Cynthia Wayburn and Peter Scott, editors. With an introd. by Peter Beagle. Felton, Calif., Glenwood Publishers, 1974.