Finding Aid to the Anne Brigman Photographs (1905-1930) SFP 146
Finding aid composed by Christina Moretta
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
2022
Title: Anne Brigman Photographs
Date (inclusive): 1905-1930
Identifier/Call Number: SFP 146
Creator:
Brigman, Anne, 1869-1950
Physical Description:
1 folder with seven gelatin silver photographic prints and one linoleum-block print
(1 folder)
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-4567
info@sfpl.org
Abstract: The collection contains seven gelatin silver photographic prints and one linoleum-block print by photographer Anne Brigman
dated between 1913 and 1930.
Physical Location: The collection is stored on site.
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in
English
.
The collection is available for use during Photo Desk hours.
All requests for permission to publish from photographs must be submitted in writing to the Photo Curator. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
[Identification of item], Anne Brigman Photographs (SFP 146), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Two gifts from Bob Durden. 1985 and 1994. No known provenance before 1985.
The Spirit of the Waters photograph was removed from frame.
Anne Wardrope Nott Brigman was born in 1869 on Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands to Mary Ellen and Samuel Nott. The family
moved to northern California in 1885. In 1894 Anne married sea captain Martin Brigman in San Francisco and the couple settled
in Oakland. The couple eventually separated in 1910. In 1901 Brigman began making photographs and joined the California Camera
Club. Her early works were reproduced in Camera Craft magazine. In 1902 Brigman exhibited works in the Second San Francisco
Photographic Salon. She was among the original members of the Photo-Secession movement and her photography was reproduced
in Camera Work. Brigman continued to participate in exhibitions until the 1930s. In 1929 she moved from Oakland to Long Beach.
At that point, Brigman began working with printmaking and producing linoleum-block prints. Anne Wardrope Nott Brigman died
in 1950 in Eagle Rock, California.
The collection contains seven gelatin silver photographic prints and one linoleum-block print by photographer Anne Brigman
dated between 1913 and 1930. Two of the photographs were also printed in Songs of a Pagan (1949). Most of the prints are signed
and a few have inscribed notes. Also included in the collection is a photogravure of the illustrated plate by Adelaide Hanscom
for the 1905 Dodge Publishing Company's publication of The Rubayyat Of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald. Anne Brigman was
a model for the plate.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photography, Artistic
Photographic prints -- 1910-1920.
Photographic prints -- 1920-1930.
Brigman, Anne, 1869-1950.
Photography - 20th century