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Mason Weymouth photograph archive [graphic].
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Title:

Mason Weymouth photograph archive

Creator/Contributor:

Weymouth, Mason., creator

Abstract:

Approximately 20,000 photographic images. Subjects include: San Francisco Bay Area views, hotels & residences (architectural photography), Yosemite, family photos, Spanish mission buildings, Berkeley Calif. police, lighthouses, views in Utah and Oregon, etc. Includes work for articles in numerous magazines and other publications, including Sunset, Better Homes and Gardens, Collier's, the New York Times, and many others.

Date:

1937-1959, bulk 1945-1959 (issued)

Subject:

Architecture -- California -- Photographs
California -- Pictorial works

Note:

Prints and contact prints are an incomplete run and not representative of every negative on file. Item numbers lacking among the contact prints may be present as negatives.
NEGATIVES, TRANSPARENCIES, and SLIDES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the Reference Inquiry form.
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
San Francisco Bay Area freelance commercial photographer and photojournalist. Brother-in-law of columnist Herb Caen. Died in 1959 at age 44.
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Type:

graphic

Physical Description:

graphic
16 boxes and 3 oversize boxes (chiefly photographic prints, some documentation), 34 boxes (negatives and color transparencies), 2 boxes (slides), 1 carton (text: publications, tear sheets, etc.) : some color ; various sizes.

Language:

English

Identifier:

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Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

NEGATIVES, TRANSPARENCIES, and SLIDES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the Reference Inquiry form.
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.

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