Dorothy Reynolds photograph collection, circa 1930's-1970's

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Summary

Abstract:
This collections consists of two document boxes filled with 363 black and white photographs, color slides, and essays documenting Dorothy Reynolds' travels in South and Central America. Her images illuminate the colonial and traditional architecture, and the cultural and religious lives of locals in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. The photographs taken and described by Reynolds are undated, but appear to be from around the late 1930's - 1940's. Reynolds was a Bay Area based photographer and writer, as her San Francisco address is listed on many of the captioned photographs.
Extent:
0.834 linear feet (2 document boxes)
Language:
and The collection is predominantly in English with some materials in Spanish.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Dorothy Reynold's photograph collection, CEMA 172. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

This collections consists of two document boxes filled with 363 black and white photographs, color slides, and essays documenting Dorothy Reynold's travels in South and Central America. Reynolds' photographs illuminate the cultural and religious lives of locals in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. She also depicts scenery of colonial and traditional architecture throughout the numerous areas she traveled.

The slides in this collection include 57 images dating around the 1970s of the Mexican American Engineering Society Symposium conference held at the Hilton Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Reynolds' essays elaborate on the context of her older photographs, listing details of her pilgrimage from Managua, Nicaragua, the market life in Guatemalan villages, and the ancient ruins in Mexico.

Reynolds published for the Pan American Union: America's division. In July 1941, her article "Rockets, Flutes and Marching Saints" was published in the Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Vol 75. No.7. The article has been digitized and can be found online through Archive.org at the following link:

https://archive.org/details/bulletinofpaname7541pana

Acquisition information:
Source and dates of material are unknown.
Processing information:

Processed by Mari Khasmanyan, Husna Sayedi, and Sylvia Baldwin, 2016.

Arrangement:

The original order of the collection has been retained.

Physical location:
Boxes 1-2 at Vault 1: Aisle 56: Column 2
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Dorothy Reynold's photograph collection, CEMA 172. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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