Preliminary Guide to the Philip Hanson Hiss Photograph Collection
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© 2003
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Preliminary Guide to the Philip Hanson Hiss Photograph Collection, ca. 1939-early 1940s
Collection number: Bernath Mss 76
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- 01 December 2003
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2003 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Philip Hanson Hiss Photograph Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1939-early 1940s
Collection Number: Bernath Mss 76
Creator:
Hiss (Philip Hanson)
Extent:
.4 linear feet
(1 document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
None.
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permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Philip Hanson Hiss Photograph Collection. Bernath Mss 76. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2003.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains 120+ black/white professional photographs of people and scenes in Aruba, Bali, Bonaire, Curacao, Hawaii,
Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Martin, and Surinam, taken by Philip Hanson Hiss (1910-1988), ca. 1939-early 1940s.
Hiss was a photographer, author, and world traveler who, during World War II, served in the Office of Strategic Service (OSS).
Photos from this collection appear in Hiss' books,
Bali (1941) and
Netherlands America: The Dutch Territories in the West (1943). The images appearing in the books have accompanying captions.
Box
120+ black/white professional photographs of people and scenes in Aruba, Bali, Bonaire, Curacao, Hawaii, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Martin, and Surinam, ca. 1939-early 1940s