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Title: Nixon Presidential Photograph Collection
Dates: 1969-1972
Collection number: Mss 248
Collection Size:
1.5 linear feet
(5 oversize boxes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Mounted prints taken by official White House photographers; given to Mrs. [?] Firestone, mother of Brooks Firestone, and prominent
Republican supporter.
Physical location: Annex 2.
Languages:
English
None. Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.
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.
Nixon Presidential Photograph Collection. Mss 248. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Gift of Brooks Firestone, via UCSB History Department, 2007.
This collection, donated by Brooks Firestone, is comprised of official White House photographic prints, primarily taken by
Ollie Atkins, the Official White House Photographer during the Nixon administration. The collection includes over 50 large
format prints with matching descriptions, as well as two medium size photograph collections focusing on his daughter Tricia's
wedding at the White House Rose Garden in June 1971 and on Nixon's trip to China in February of 1972 in which he met Chairman
Mao Zedong and other Chinese officials.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Atkins, Oliver F., 1916-1977
Original prints, slides, and negatives of Ollie Atkins' photographs are located in the Special Collections & Archives Department
at George Mason University: Many of the prints in this collection have been digitized by GMU and are available here:
http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/ollie1.html .
Researchers looking for information and additional photographs about President Nixon may want to contact the Nixon Presidential
Library and Museum:
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/ .