Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Will Connell Slides
- Dates:
- 1926-1952
- Abstract:
- This collection contains 408 color slides from Will Connell, photographer. Photographs include primarily landscape and architectural images from the United States and Germany.
- Extent:
- 408 color slides Photographic Slides 23 slide sheets, 6 folders
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
-
Selection of Will Connell Slides, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Will Connell Slides Collection contains 408 color slides taken by Will Connell, which were donated by his son, Will Connell, to the California Museum of Photography. This collection contains a wide variety of architectural and landscape photographs, taken in either the United States or Germany. Many of the slides were taken in Alaska and California. The slides from Germany emphasize the architecture of Rotenburg, Frankfurt and Munich. The collection reveals the geography and architecture of these places in the 20th century.
- Biographical / historical:
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Connell began his professional career in the late 1920s in California. Publications employing Connell include: Allyear Club, Touring Topics (later Westways), Better Homes and Gardens, Colliers, Weekly Cosmopolitan, Country Gentlemen, Life, Successful Farming, Sunset, Time, U.S. Camera, Woman's Day, Woman's Home Companion, and Vogue. He belonged to a circle which Kevin Starr proclaimed as the "urban bohemian intelligentsia." Will Connell captured California during a time of growth and prosperity. Will Connell's career was that of artist, teacher, technician and entrepreneur.
- Acquisition information:
- The slides were donated by Will Connell, Will Connell's son.
- Arrangement:
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The slides are arranged by location in one box, contained in six folders: 1. Alaska, 2 and 3. California, 4. New Mexico, 5. New York, 6. Germany.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Negatives
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-04-01 17:53:09 UTC .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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All items in the collection are available for on-site viewing by appointment.
- Terms of access:
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Use of images in publication is subject to the approval of Will Connell's descendants, who the museum will contact on author's behalf.
- Preferred citation:
-
Selection of Will Connell Slides, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside.
- Location of this collection:
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3824 Main StreetRiverside, CA 92501, US
- Contact:
- (951) 827-5303