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Fred Iltis collection of photographs of Mexico and other subjects.
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Title:
Fred Iltis collection of photographs of Mexico and other subjectsCreator/Contributor:
Iltis, Fred, 1923-2008, creatorAbstract:
Chiefly includes that portion of Iltis' photograph archive pertaining to his visits to Mexico where he documented the indigenous
and poor inhabitants of various locations, including Michoacán and the Distrito Federal (Mexico City). Includes portraits,
still lifes, street views, and scenes of everyday life depicting people, dwellings, agriculture, markets, ceremonies, and
manual and animal labor, among other subjects. With the exception of a small number of slides depicting insects related to
malaria in Mexico, there is little if any apparent relation of this collection to Iltis' academic career in entomology. Also
includes a small number of slides taken during a 1969 visit to Czechoslovakia, including such locations as Prague, Telč, Tábor,
Terezín and Kladno, as well as the island of Silba. Additions of 2012 include slides, negatives and prints depicting various
subjects, such as Mexico, Iltis' entomology research topics, and various locations in California; as well as notes on photography.
Date:
ca. 1969-ca. 1980 (issued)Subject:
n-mx--- -- n-us-ca -- e-cs---Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo -- Photographs
Poor -- Mexico -- Photographs
Insects -- Photographs
Entomology -- Research
Pauvres -- Mexique -- Photographies
Insectes -- Photographies
Entomology -- Research
Indians of Mexico
Insects
Poor
Mexico -- Pictorial works
Distrito Federal (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
California -- Pictorial works
Czechoslovakia -- Pictorial works
California
Czechoslovakia
Mexico
Mexico -- Mexico City
Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo
Iltis, Fred -- 1923-2008 -- Archives
Note:
Photographed and collected by Wilfred Iltis.
Title devised by cataloger.
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Gift ; Of the Wildred Iltis Trust ; 2010.
Additions : gift of Fred Iltis Trust ; 2012.
Container list available in library.
Wilfred Gregor "Fred" Iltis was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1923. His family immigrated to the United States in 1939.
Fred served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He later received his PhD. in entomology at the University of California,
Davis and taught at San Jose State University until his retirement in 1988. He was also a photographer, documenting such subjects
as the Civil Rights movement, student protests against the Vietnam War, the labor struggle of chicano agricultural workers,
and indigenous communities in Mexico. Fred Iltis died in 2008.
Type:
graphicArchives.
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits-Mexico.
Slides, color.
Physical Description:
photoprint
slide
9 boxes, 1 oversize box and 3 oversize folders (ca. 3,600 negatives, ca. 540 photographic prints, ca. 1,800 slides) and ca.
100 negatives : b&w ; 46 x 40 cm or smaller.
Language:
English
Origin:
MexicoCopyright Note:
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.