Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Charles E. Shelton Collection of Photographs of the Southwest,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1865-1961
Collection number: 1313
Creator:
Shelton, Charles E., 1914-2002
Extent:
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Charles E. Shelton (1914-2002) was a newspaper and book publisher in Southern California. He published and edited the
Azusa Herald and the
Glendora Press, published
The Desert Magazine, and founded the weekly
Palm Desert Post. Shelton also established Best West Publications and ran the Southwest Desert Art Gallery in Palm Desert with his wife, Kathleen
Gunn Shelton. The collection contains 91 negatives and 15 prints of the U.S. southwest that Shelton gathered when compiling
his book
Photo album of yesterday's southwest (1961).
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Cynthia Shelton, 2002.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Charles E. Shelton Collection of Photographs of the Southwest (Collection 1313). Department of Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Charles E. Shelton, was a native of Glendora and graduate of Pomona College, and made his career in newspaper and book publishing
in Southern California. After graduating from Pomona College in 1935, he worked for the
Los Angeles Times as a junior sports writer. An R.O.T.C member in college, he was called to duty in 1941. He served through World War II in
the Pacific Theater as a Press Officer for the Army Air Corps. After the war, Shelton published and edited the
Azusa Herald and the
Glendora Press. In the 1960s, he published
The Desert Magazine, founded the weekly
Palm Desert Post, and, with his wife, Kathleen Gunn Shelton, established Best West Publications, publisher of books on southwestern art and
travel. They also ran the Southwest Desert Art Gallery in Palm Desert for a number of years.
Scope and Content
The collection contains 91 negatives and 15 prints of the U.S. southwest that Shelton gathered when compiling his book
Photo album of yesterday's southwest which was published by
Desert Magazine in Palm Desert California in 1961. The images were collected from a variety of libraries, museums and historical societies
in and around the southwest. There is also an unbound proof copy of the book in the collection.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Shelton, Charles E., 1914-2002--Archives.