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CEMA 172
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Title: Dorothy Reynolds photograph collection
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 172
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.834 linear feet
(2 document boxes)
Date: circa 1930's-1970's
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.
The collection is open for research.
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.
Processed by Mari Khasmanyan, Husna Sayedi, and Sylvia Baldwin, 2016.
Source and dates of material are unknown.
[Identification of Item], Dorothy Reynold's photograph collection, CEMA 172. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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
The original order of the collection has been retained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Reynolds, Dorothy
Black-and-white photographs
Folk dancing, Mexican
Guatemala
Guatemala--Pictorial works
Mexico
Mexico--Pictorial works
Nicaragua--Pictorial works
Photographers
Photographers--United States
Photographs
Photojournalism
Pyramids--Mexico
Pátzcuaro, Lake (Mexico)--Pictorial works
Travel photography