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Series 1: Glassware 1013745

Box 1

Bottles used for "Empty Bottle" photographs [FRAGILE] 1013521

Box 2

Bottles used for "Empty Bottle" photographs [FRAGILE] 1013523

Series 2: Photographs 1013747

Scope and Contents

All items are framed; one framed photograph per box.

Box 3

"Calla Lilly" 1013525

Box 4

"Ivy Leaf" 1013527

Box 5

"Maple Leaf" 1013529

Box 6

"Venus Pencils" 1013531

Box 7

"Cross Section Smilax Root" 1013533

Box 8

"Triangle Palm Cross Sections" 1013535

Box 9

"Ivy Leaf (hearts)" 1013537

Box 10

"Nasturium Leaf" 1013539

Box 11

"Nest" 1013541

Box 12

"Leaf Embryo" 1013543

Box 13

"Hope it's not serious..." 1013547

Box 14

"One is of the Spirit..." 1013549

Box 15, Item 1

Egypt: color portrait of Susannah Hays taken by Matt Phillips in the Sultan Hannan Masque, 1992 1013933

Box 15, Item 2

Egypt: Pots (black/white print) 1013935

Box 15, Item 3

Egypt: Ladder (black/white print) 1013937

Box 15, Item 4

Egypt: Girl, Man, and Donkey (black/white print) 1013939

Box 15, Item 5

Egypt: Bread for Sale (black/white print) 1013941

Box 15, Item 6

Egypt: Mohamed Ali Mosque (black/white print) 1013943

Box 15, Item 7

Egypt: Sugarcane (black/white print) 1013945

Box 15, Item 8

Egypt: Meeting at the Market (black/white print) 1013947

Box 16

"Fallen Sky" (1 of 2) 1013553

Box 17

"Fallen Sky" (2 of 2) 1013555

Box 18

"Seed Leaf" 1013557

Box 19

"Cy Twombly" 1013559

Box 20

Pinhole Views of the San Francisco Arts Institute (1 of 6) 1013561

Box 21

Pinhole Views of the San Francisco Arts Institute (2 of 6) 1013563

Box 22

Pinhole Views of the San Francisco Arts Institute (3 of 6) 1013565

Box 23

Pinhole Views of the San Francisco Arts Institute (4 of 6) 1013567

Box 24

Pinhole Views of the San Francisco Arts Institute (5 of 6) 1013569

Box 25

Pinhole Views of the San Francisco Arts Institute (6 of 6) 1013571

Box 26

"Street Shadow" 1013693

Box 27

"Street Forest" 1013695

Box 28

"Map of Changes" 1013697

Box 39

"Empty Bottle #1" 1013719

Box 30

"Empty Bottle #3" (Bernard Cells) 1013701

Box 38

"Empty Bottle #5" 1013717

Box 33

"Empty Bottle #6" 1013707

Box 32

"Empty Bottle #7" 1013705

Box 34

"Empty Bottle #9" 1013709

Box 36

"Empty Bottle #10" (Pepsi Pair) 1013713

Box 31

"Empty Bottle #11" 1013703

Box 29

"Empty Bottle #12" 1013699

Box 37

"Empty Bottle #13" 1013715

Box 35

"Empty Bottle #14" 1013711

Box 53

"Empty Bottle #15" (Balkite) 1013923

Box 40

"Eclipse" 1013721

Box 41

"Topographic" 1013723

Box 42

"Tree/House" 1013725

Box 43

"Tree Outside My Window" 1013727

Box 44

"Arcata" 1013729

Box 45

"Skeletal Leaves - Lace" (1 of 6) 1013731

Box 46

"Skeletal Leaves" (2 of 6) 1013733

Box 47

"Skeletal Leaves - Forest Map" (3 of 6) 1013735

Box 48

"Skeletal Leaves" (4 of 6) 1013737

Box 49

"Skeletal Leaves - Eucalyptus" (5 of 6) 1013739

Box 50

"Skeletal Leaves - Aspen" (6 of 6) 1013741

frame 54

"Skeletal Leaves - Iris print" 1013925

frame 55

Egypt: Pots (framed) 1013927

frame 56

One Sun - One Apple - One Day 1013929

Series 3: Archival Material 1013749

Scope and Contents

This series includes: 8 EGYPT gelatin silver prints -- 1 journal, related to EGYPT --7 SKELLETAL LEAVES prints (6 Vandyke prints, 1 Iris print) -- 1 ONE SUN, ONE APPLE, ONE DAY, framed -- 3 P.O.P. microscope images -- 11 EMPTY BOTTLE SERIES gelatin silver prints -- 1 SEED LEAF gelatin silver photogram -- 2 FALLEN SKY gelatin silver prints -- 6 P.O.P. prints -- 6 EVERYDAY CONSTELLATIONS gelatin silver prints -- 6 PINHOLE VIEWS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE pinhole light drawings -- 3 BETWEEN CEDAR AND VINE gelatin silver prints -- 2 digital images.

Box 51

Unbound volume: collection of sheets of text pages from "Egypt" (used when exhibiting the book under glass) 1013743

Box 52, folder 1

"Between Cedar and Vine": original fragments 1013753

Box 52, folder 2

"Between Cedar and Vine": original fragments 1013755

Box 52, folder 3

"Between Cedar and Vine": original fragments 1013757

Box 52, folder 4

"Between Cedar and Vine": original publication 1013759

Box 52, folder 5

"Egypt": journal 1013761

Box 52, folder 6

"Egypt": journal (Timeless World) 1013763

Box 52, folder 7

Susannah Hays: early portrait ("portrait of a young artist -- an alter ego at the time") 1013765

Series 4: Accession 2011-143 1694543

Item 1

Skeletal leaves : silver-sun prints (2), unframed, 1998 1694545

Item 2

Oak leaf : cyanotype, framed, 1998 1694547

Item 3

Vietnamese girl : gelatin silver print, matted, 1986 1694549

Item 4

One sun - one apple - one day (2 sheets, 14 x 140"), unframed 1694551

Box 1-2

Series 5: Accession 2012-068 2396978

Scope and Contents

The 2012 accession (2 manuscript boxes), includes material from Hays' project, "Science imagined," and exhibition of artists' books held in October, 1996 at the Berkeley Art Center. It also includes 2 audiocassettes of Helen and Newton Harrison: "Meditations on the Sacramento River, the Delta and Bays of San Francisco," 1977, and "Ecological artists: the ecological argument on process, a case for ecosystems as a viable art form," undated (box 2, folder 12).

Box 54

Series 6: 2014 Accessions (accn 2014-061, accn 2014-062, accn 2014-063, accn 2014-064) "Pigment Prints" 2396979

Scope and Contents

The materials consist of four archival pigment prints in one flat box: "Bloodline" taken in Copper Flat, Nevada, 2014; "Nature's writing desk" taken in Osterheide Wald, Germany, 2013; "The Penitente Morada" taken in Abiquiu, New Mexico, 2014; and "Cathedral Forest" taken in Einemhof Forest, Germany, 2013.

Series 7: 2016 Accessions (accn 2016-021, accn 2016-044, accn 2016-148, accn 2016-187, accn 2016-236) 2013-2016

Scope and Contents

The 2016 accessions include prints from the "Mirror Landscape" series, "Invisible Cosmos" series as well as prints of: urns from the Aquileia Archaeological Museum; Santa Rosa de Lima in Rio Chama Abiquiu, New Mexico; leaves and plants; San Francisco Art Institute; and vessels; trees; and other materials from nature.

Subseries A : Prints from Hays' "Mirror Landscape" series 2013

Box Accn 2016-021 Flat Box 4

Mirror Landscape 1

Box Accn 2016-021 Flat Box 2

Mirror Landscape 2

Box Accn 2016-021 Flat Box 3

Mirror Landscape 3

Box Accn 2016-148 Flat Box 1

Mirror Landscape 4

Box Accn 2016-044 Flat Box 2

Mirror Landscape 5

Box Accn 2016-044 Flat Box 1

Mirror Landscape 9

Box Accn 2016-021 Flat Box 1

Mirror Landscape 7

Subseries B: Accession 2016-187 1998-2014

Box Accn 2016-187 Flat Box 1, folder 1

Ink Pot, 1999, and Vessel, 1998

Box Accn 2016-187 Flat Box 1, folder 2

4 photogram studies 1998

Box Accn 2016-187 Flat Box 1, folder 3

Pinhole San Francisco Art Institute 2002

Box Accn 2016-187 Flat Box 1, folder 4

Santa Rosa de Lima 2014

Box Accn 2016-187 Flat Box 1, folder 5

Aquileia Archeological Museum 2013

Subseries C: Accession 2016-236

Box Accn 2016-236 Flat Box 1, folder 1

Concrete ball 2014

Box Accn 2016-236 Flat Box 1, folder 1

Isola Madonna del Monte 2013

Box Accn 2016-236 Flat Box 1, folder 2

Three olive trees 2013

Box Accn 2016-236 Flat Box 1, folder 2

Bones 2 2013

Box Accn 2016-236 Flat Box 1, folder 3

Rock 2013

Box Accn 2016-236 Flat Box 1, folder 3

Skeletal tree 2013

Box Accn 2016-236 Flat Box 1, folder 4

Leaning olive tree 2013

Box Accn 2016-236 Flat Box 1, folder 4

Bones 2013

Series 8: 2018 Accessions (accn 2018-022, accn 2018-254) 2016

Box Accn 2018-022 Flat Box 1

Moon house 2016

Physical Description: 5 item(s)

Scope and Contents

Moon house, 2016, Cedar Mesa, Utah (Bears Ears area); edition 1/15; archival pigment prints on museo silver rag, 17 x 22 inches.

Box Accn 2018-022 Flat Box 1

Birthing mother 2016

Scope and Contents

Birthing mother, 2016, Rock Canyon, AZ, edition 1/15; archival pigment on museo silver rag, 17 x 22 inches.

map-folder 55 Accession 2018-254

Moon house, 2 prints 2016

Physical Description: 0.4 Linear Feet

Series 9: Accession 2019-233

Box 1

Mappa Mundi, framed with optium 2003

Box 1, folder 1-3

Sky Leaves 1; Sky Leaves 2; Sky Leaves 3; 3 gelatin silver prints 1998

Series 10: 2019 Accessions (accn 2019-373, accn 2019-374, accn 2019-420)

Box 56, folder 1

Mesa Verde, door spruce tree house 2016-04-01

Box 56, folder 1

Mesa Verde, interior spruce tree house, [no. 1 and no. 2] 2016-04-01

Box 56, folder 2

Mesa Verde, interior spruce tree house, [no. 3 and no. 4] 2016-04-01

Box 56, folder 2

Mesa Verde, walking [tree house] 2016-04-01

Box 56, folder 2

Mesa Verde, walking to spruce tree house 2016-04-01

Box 56, folder 3

Chaco interior "golden door" 2016-04-01

Box 56, folder 3

Chaco interior (5 prints) 2016-04-01

Box 56, folder 4

Chaco exterior (5 prints) 2016-04-01

Box 56, folder 5-6

Woodland trail, from the Assisi forest series, no 1-10 of series of 10 archival prints 2018

Series 11: Accession 2023-169

Box 57

7 prints of the Bisti Badlands/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area 2023

Series 12. Accession 2023-272

Box 58

"Flowering cosmos" 2021

Collection Contents

Series 1: Glassware

Series 2: Photographs

Series 3: Archival Material

Series 4: Accession 2011-143

Series 5: Accession 2012-068

Series 6: 2014 Accessions (accn 2014-061, accn 2014-062, accn 2014-063, accn 2014-064) "Pigment Prints"

Series 7: 2016 Accessions (accn 2016-021, accn 2016-044, accn 2016-148, accn 2016-187, accn 2016-236)

Subseries A : Prints from Hays' "Mirror Landscape" series

Subseries B: Accession 2016-187

Subseries C: Accession 2016-236

Series 8: 2018 Accessions (accn 2018-022, accn 2018-254)

Series 9: Accession 2019-233

Series 10: 2019 Accessions (accn 2019-373, accn 2019-374, accn 2019-420)

Series 11: Accession 2023-169

Series 12. Accession 2023-272