Photograph Album collection, circa 1860

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Summary

Abstract:
This collection, like Picture Collection 99 , contains photographs etc. of both persons and places and is intended as a supplement to other collections in Library Special Collections. It contains both bound and boxed sets of photographs which are too bulky to be located with Picture Collection 99 .
Extent:
301 oversize boxes
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Photograph Album collection (Collection Number 94). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of thousands of photographs, some with descriptions and titled albums. California, Latin America, and the Middle East are well represented. Other subjects include railroad locomotives, photographs of British soldiers in the 1860s, South Africa, French actress Constant Coquelin, Australia, Egypt, Italy, Queen Victoria's 1897 Diamond Jubilee, the Canadian Rockies, Texas oil fields, Mexican Revolution, Mathew Brady photographs of soldiers and civilians, Abraham Lincoln, China, France, photographs of architectural drawings, New Zealand, Fiji, Persia, Scotland, Burma, Athens, Philippines, St. Petersburg, Japan, Hawaii, Sakhalin snow crystals, Dutch East Indies, Hopi Indians, West Indies, Turkey, Vatican sculptures, World War I photographs from France and Belgium, U.S. Navy midshipmen in the 1860s, pictures of people involved in the French Commune of 1871, and photographs of London.

Processing information:

Processed by UCLA Library Special Collections staff.

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Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Photograph albums.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Photograph Album collection (Collection Number 94). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
AskLSC@library.ucla.edu
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