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Woodbridge Bingham photograph collection [graphic].
BANC PIC 1991.048--PICLOCALBANC PIC 1987.054--BLOCALBANC PIC 1988.045LOCAL
Collection Overview

Title:

Woodbridge Bingham photograph collection

Creator/Contributor:

Bingham, Woodbridge., creator

Abstract:

Views document trips to East Asia, including Hawaii, Borneo, Singapore, Bali, Java, Malasia, Japan, Cambodia, and India. Includes leisure, sightseeing, street scenes, native people, transportation, and art.
Includes Bingham family pictures and a 1950 trip to Europe.
2016 additions include a series of drawings by Woodbridge Bingham from the 1950s and 1960s (AX), and a Bingham family photograph album with travel and leisure scenes from the 1910s and 1920s (ALB).

Date:

ca. 1890-1965 (issued)

Subject:

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Bingham, Woodbridge -- Pictorial works
East Asia -- Pictorial works
Europe -- Pictorial works

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographs collected by Woodbridge Bingham; some taken by him.
UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NITRATE NEGATIVES (NNEG): CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
Woodbridge Bingham (1901-1986) began his teaching career at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1937, and in 1949 he founded the Institute of East Asiatic Studies, for which he served as a director until 1957. He became an emeritus professor in 1969, although he remained active as a Faculty Fellow until 1977. Woodbridge's father, Hiram Bingham (1875-1956), a noted explorer and politician, discovered the Incan ruins at Macchu Picchu in 1911, and served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut.

Type:

graphic
Postcards.
Photograph albums.

Physical Description:

graphic
photoprint
2 photographic prints, 1 reproduction of drawing, ca. 15 drawings and 1 album (ca. 140 photographic prints)
1 carton (photographic prints)
1 carton, 1 album, and 10 oversize items (ca. 2500 photographic prints, negatives, postcards, & prints) : some color ; various sizes

Language:

English

Identifier:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/unprocessed-collections-form
BANC PIC 1991.048--PICLOCAL
BANC PIC 1987.054--BLOCAL
BANC PIC 1988.045LOCAL

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NITRATE NEGATIVES (NNEG): CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.

Related Item:

Woodbridge Bingham papers : Bingham, Woodbridge.
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