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Title: Adelbert Bartlett papers
Date (inclusive): 1977
Collection number: 1300
Creator:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Extent:
48 boxes (24 linear ft.)
21 oversize boxes
Abstract: Adelbert Bartlett was a commercial photographer based in Santa Monica, California, and the director of the Near East Relief
Fund in Los Angeles. The collection contains photographs, negatives, periodicals, scrapbooks, and memorabilia relating to
Bartlett's life as a commercial photographer and to his involvement with the Near East Relief Fund.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Selected digitized images from this collection.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. 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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
- Gift of Carolyn Bartlett Farnham, 1981-85.
- Gift of Richards K. Farnham, 1985-86.
[Identification of item], Adelbert Bartlett papers (Collection Number 1300). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E.
Young Research Library, UCLA.
Adelbert Bartlett was born in 1887; became a commercial photographer based in Santa Monica, California; his photographs of
the Southern California lifestyle were widely published in the U.S. and abroad; director, Near East Relief Fund regional headquarters
news bureau in Los Angeles; worked for the Fund in Greece, Palestine, and Syria; died in 1966.
Collection contains photographs, negatives, periodicals, scrapbooks, and memorabilia relating to Bartlett's life as a commercial
photographer and to his involvement with the Near East Relief Fund.
Arranged in the following series:
- Photographs of the Near East.
- Photographs of California and the U.S.
- Photographs of Europe.
- Ephemera and memorabilia.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966--Archives.
Near East Relief (Organization).
Photographers--California, Southern--Archival resources.
Commercial photography--Specimens.
Photographs.