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Contributing Institution:
California Museum of Photography
Title: Barbara Singley Collection
Identifier/Call Number: 1987.0030
Physical Description:
1 box
Box contains 144 stereographs
Date (inclusive): 1870-1963
Abstract: The collection contains the personal stereograph collection of Barbara Singley Hitchcock, granddaughter of B.L. Singley, founder
of the Keystone View Company. This collection notably contains a few stereo views of the Singley Family.
Language of Material:
English
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The Barbara Singley Collection consists of 144 stereo views that Mrs. Barbara Singley Hitchcock personally collected. Within
this collection there are thirty-six stereo views from other stereograph companies, twenty-five stereo views of WWI, and twenty-one
stereo views of the Singley Family.
Barbara Singley Hitchcock is daughter of Lloyd Singley, son of the late B.L. Singley, who, in 1892, founded the Keystone View
Company in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Barbara Singley married Mr. Lawrence Sill Hitchcock in 1947 and published a cookbook in
1993, titled "Casserole Cooking."
No original order had been maintained during processing.
Currently arranged within six sections:
(1) Keystone Buff Cards - Arranged by Negative Number
(2) Keystone "Story" Cards - Arranged by Negative Number
(3) Keystone Gray Cards - Arranged by Negative Number
(4) WWI Series 1-36 - Arranged by Negative Number
(5) Other Stereograph Company Series
(6) Family of B.L. Singley
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated by Barbara Singley Hitchcock (Mrs. Lawrence S. Hitchcock), granddaughter of B.L. Singley in 1987.
Copyright has been assigned to the UCR/California Museum of Photography. All requests for permission to publish reproductions
from photographs or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Collections.
Barbara Singley Collection, Gift of Barbara Singley Hitchcock, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California,
Riverside
Collection is open for research, by appointment.
Processed by Enid Ocegueda, August 2015