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Fuller, Esther Torosian [Photographs from the Esther Torosian Fuller and Fenner Fuller papers].
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[Photographs from the Esther Torosian Fuller and Fenner Fuller papers]Creator/Contributor:
Fuller, Esther Torosian, creator, creator.Abstract:
Chiefly snapshots of Esther and Fenner Fuller's everyday leisure activities and events associated with their involvement in
the museum and art communities of the East Bay. Locations depicted include Fuller homes in Oakland and Fresno; Mills College;
and the Oakland Museum of California. Includes a small number of studio portraits of the Fullers. Also includes photographs
depicting Esther's sculpture and other artworks, and the sculpture of Beniamino Bufano. Also includes family photographs of
previous generations of Torosian and Fuller families, some of whom were located in Fresno and Turlock (Torosian), and Attleboro,
Massachusetts (Fuller). Includes a small number of photographs depicting Beniamino Bufano, Louis Siegriest and Darius Milhaud,
and a photograph of Fenner Fuller's restaurant. Includes a halftone printing plate of a portrait of Esther Fuller by Johan
Hagemeyer. Individuals depicted in cased photographs are unidentified.
Date:
1860 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caArmenian Americans -- California -- Oakland -- Photographs
Armenian American artists -- California -- Photographs
Women art patrons -- California -- Oakland -- Photographs
Américains d'origine arménienne -- Californie -- Oakland -- Photographies
Femmes mécènes -- Californie -- Oakland -- Photographies
Armenian American artists
Armenian Americans
Women art patrons
California
California -- Oakland
Oakland Museum -- Pictorial works
Mills College -- Pictorial works
Mills College.
Oakland Museum.
Fuller, Esther Torosian -- Archives
Fuller, Esther Torosian -- Pictorial works
Fuller, Fenner -- 1902-1964 -- Pictorial works
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Numerous photographers, most unidentified.
Box of cased photographs includes 3 daguerreotpyes, 1 ambrotype and 1 tintype.
Includes 9 nitrate negatives, for most of which print copies are present.
Box containing printing plate and small framed portraits stored in Historical Objects Miscellany as BANC PIC 19xx.031:213--OBJ.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
CASED PHOTOGRAPHS RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
NITRATE NEGATIVES CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
Transferred from the Esther Torosian Fuller and Fenner Fuller papers (BANC MSS 2015/205).
Gift ; Of James Nielse and Nancy Jean Thompson ; 2015.
Esther Torosian Fuller (November 5, 1902-October 10,1980), also known as Esther Fenner Fuller, was an accomplished Armenian-American
painter, ceramic artist, and a well-known patron of the arts in Oakland, California, particularly of the Oakland Art Museum.
She served on the Oakland Library and Museum Commission for six years from 1957 to 1963. Her husband, Fenner Fuller (January
13, 1902-April 30, 1964), owned Fenner Fuller's, a restaurant located in the Lake Merritt area of Oakland that also served
as an informal art gallery.
Preferred citation: Photographs from the Esther Torosian Fuller and Fenner Fuller papers, BANC PIC 2016.058, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicArchives.
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Daguerreotypes.
Ambrotypes.
Tintypes.
Nitrate negatives.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 700 photographs in 3 boxes and 2 oversize folders : chiefly gelatin silver prints and color prints ; 27 x 32
cm or smaller
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Box containing printing plate and small framed portraits stored in Historical Objects Miscellany as BANC PIC 19xx.031:213--OBJ.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
CASED PHOTOGRAPHS RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
NITRATE NEGATIVES CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.