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BANC PIC 1986.006
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Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Gertrude Anthony photographs
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1986.006
Physical Description:
: approximately 300 photographs
in 4 boxes (approximately 260 photographic prints in 1 box and 215
negatives in 3 boxes), 215 digital images
Date (bulk): approximately 1900-1960, bulk
1919-1922
Abstract: Chiefly photographs from Gertrude
Anthony's time (1919-1922?) as a teacher in Armenia, Greece, and Turkey.
Physical Location: Many Bancroft
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Language of Material:
English.
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Photographic prints are open for research. NITRATE NEGATIVES are CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS. Use online digital images only.
Chiefly photographs from Gertrude Anthony's time (1919-1922?) as a teacher in Armenia,
Greece, and Turkey, or on a return trip circa 1929. Many Armenian orphans pictured, as well
as teachers and staff at schools or orphanages. Some views from a trip to Egypt are present.
Includes some family snapshots, chiefly in Berkeley and the Altadena area of Southern
California.
[Identification of item], Gertrude Anthony photographs, BANC PIC 1986.006, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Preliminary processing by Bancroft Library staff in 2006-2007. Nitrate negatives
digitized in 2023.
Received with the A. Gertrude Anthony papers, 1906-1968 (BANC MSS 2002/207 cz)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Frances Avik in 1985.
A. Gertrude Anthony was a native of Berkeley, Calif. who taught science at the Berkeley
High School. From 1919 to 1922 she went to Armenia and Turkey as a teacher for the American
Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (Near East Relief). She returned to help Armenian
orphans in Athens, Greece in 1929.
Arranged by apparent subject, as determined by library staff.
Negatives were received by the library in disarray, and chiefly unidentified. Some
envelopes from photographic labs were present, but it was not clear that the negatives
contained in them were originally related, and the envelopes provided no identification
clues. Some of these envelopes bear number codes that sometimes are also written on the
edges of negatives, but these negatives were distributed in different envelopes or
files.
Library staff have attempted logical groupings of negatives based upon apparent
similarities in subject matter, also taking into consideration similarities in film format
and film stock, and condition. (Similarities in discoloration between separated negatives
may indicate they were originally shot and developed at the same time.) Exhaustive
comparison of all of the criteria for possible comparison was not undertaken, and original
associations have not been fully recreated. Some images may have inadvertently been placed
next to unrelated images, and separated from closely related ones. Furthermore, sorting and
description of negatives were done based on the negative image, often with no prints or
scans available. Identifications are, therefore, tentative.