The Jean R. France Slide Collection, 1970s-2000s
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Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- The Jean R. France Slide Collection
- Dates:
- 1970s-2000s
- Creators:
- Jean France, Society of Architectural Historians France
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 6 linear feet (stacked)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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The Jean R. France Slide Collection. UC Riverside, Department of the History of Art, Visual Resources Collection
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Jean France Slide Collection consists of 12,401 35mm slides (estimate as of 7/16/24). All image content has been identified using France’s box and subheading naming protocol and thus relies upon her identification of sites depicted. Unless otherwise noted, all of the images that make up this collection were photographed by France in her work as an architectural historian and educator. Geographic regions and periods represented include the Arts and Crafts Movement; Frank Lloyd Wright; Midwest Prairie School; California in the early 20th century; modern architecture in general; and from SAH tours of Natchez, Princeton, Newport, Indiana, North Carolina, Albany, Hudson River, America's Heartland, Connecticut River Valley, Long Island, Pasadena, San Francisco, Northwest Mexico. Slide boxes 1-30 encompass 4,739 slides. Slide boxes 31-54 encompass 3,907 slides PART I Total Slides: 8646 PART II: Total Slides 3395
- Biographical / historical:
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Jean R. France (1923-2021) was an architectural historian and former educator of architectural history at the University of Rochester in New York from 1974-2002. Her scholarship concentrated on the 20th century from 1890-1930, with a focus on Claude Bragdon and Harvey Ellis, innovative 20th century architects in Rochester. Additionally, her areas of expertise included the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis Kahn. As a community advocate and preservation consultant in Rochester and greater New York since the 1950s, notable consultations included selecting Louis Kahn to design the First Unitarian Church in the late 1950s and serving as the architectural historian for the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Edward M. Boynton House (1908) in 2010. France was a long time member of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) for 49 years and a frequent participant SAH Study Tours starting in 1965. In 2010 France was named a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians in recognition for a lifetime of achievement in the field. France served on the Board of The Landmark Society of Western New York from 1964 until her death. France received her bachelors and masters degrees in Art History from Oberlin College. Initial processing of this collection was undertaken as part of a NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Program grant. The project was designed to build on a problem identified by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) in 2013, dubbed the Color Film Emergency Project (CFEP). The CFEP emerged from the realization that numerous and valuable 35mm slide collections created and amassed by architects, scholars, preservationists, design practitioners and photographers of the built environment are threatened with loss, neglect, destruction, and environmental damage. The grant was a collaborative effort between the SAH, the University of California, Riverside, and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Acquisition information:
- The collection was gifted to the Society of Architectural Historians from the Jean France Estate Department in August 2021. The collection was transported from the Jean France Estate to the UCR Visual Resource Collection in October 2021 as part of on-going work of NEH-funded grant to advance the Color Film Emergency Project through the development of a processing consortium. The collection is on long-term loan to UCR.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1970s-2000s
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The records of the Jean France Slide Collection are available for research. Access is restricted to materials prepared by the Visual Resources staff and to those image files where permission has been granted by the Society of Architectural Historians. Copies may be requested. No charge exists to obtain copies of the works provided permission has been previously granted.
- Terms of access:
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All property rights and interests, including intellectual property rights, in the physical collection have been transferred to the Society of Architectural Historians. However, the subject content contained in the collection may include rights held by third-parties. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine if additional copyright holders exist and if additional clearances are necessary. Permission to publish is not required. However, permission to publish does not constitute a copyright clearance. The researcher is the sole responsible party for determining further copyright restrictions. The Visual Resource Collection, the Department of the History of Art, the University of California, and the Society of Architectural Historians are not responsible for the misuse of copyrighted material.
- Preferred citation:
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The Jean R. France Slide Collection. UC Riverside, Department of the History of Art, Visual Resources Collection
- Location of this collection:
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900 University AvenueRiverside, CA 92521, US
- Contact:
- (951) 827-2697