Inventory of the Pictorial miscellany collection

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Title: Pictorial miscellany collection
Date (inclusive): circa 1900-1991
Collection Number: XX773
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 1 manuscript box, 14 envelopes (0.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Photographs depicting miscellaneous or unidentified scenes. Includes photographs of various United Nations officials and activities, and of atomic weapons testing.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Pictorial miscellany collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Scope and Content of the Collection

Photographs depicting miscellaneous or unidentified scenes. Includes photographs of various United Nations officials and activities, and of atomic weapons testing.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pictorial works
Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Pictorial works
Latin America -- Pictorial works
United Nations

envelope A

2 prints depicting American Relief Administration activities in Russia; 3 prints of an unidentified U.S. (?) cemetery, with a monument; 1 print of Nancy A. Dyar and 1 print of Nessa L. Wilk, both supervisors of Teacher Education, U.C., Berkeley

envelope B

1 print of Elliot V. Fry; 2 prints of Japanese officers, one being Tomosaburo Kato 1915

envelope m*C

1 print depicting an African art work; 1 print of a North Vietnamese (?) military cemetery, 1960's; 1 studio portrait of an unidentified officer taken in Washington, D.C.

box 1

6 glass mounted transparencies depicting scenes of World War II (?)

envelope mD

14 prints depicting atomic weapon testing

envelope mE

6 prints of Montefiore and 1 print of Kadlunga Station, in Australia

envelope F

1 print of Mazatlan, Mexico; 1 print of Guatemala City, 1 print of the Panama Canal

envelope G

1 print of Dag Hammarskjold, which was used for commencement publicity at Stanford 1955

envelope H

1 print depicting Special Services Officers dining with violinist Yehudi Menuhin, somewhere in England

envelope I

1 print of Cyrus H. Street, editor and publisher of The United Nations in Berkeley, California 1908-1911

envelope J

1 print of depicting scenes of the founding ceremonies of the United Nations in San Francisco 1945.

Scope and Contents note

35mm contact prints, all in one.
envelope K

96 prints depicting United Nations officials and activities 1950-1953

envelope L

Prints depicting United Nations officials and activities (continued) 1950-1953

envelope M

Five color prints of Chilean war murals during 1989 election; 6 prints of a Communist youth construction brigade; 2 prints of mass meetings in Chile, ca. early 1970s; and 7 color prints of the Sons of Gwalia mine, Australia 1991

envelope mN

1 print of unidentified man; 1 print of a daughter of Manuel Noriega; 1 print of an unidentified ship undated

envelope O

3 prints of a Spanish Republican delegation in Mexico 1936