Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
[Lois Lenski photograph collection].
Collection Number:
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
[Lois Lenski photograph collection]Creator/Contributor:
Lenski, Lois, 1893-1974, creator, creator.Abstract:
Snapshots, professional photographs, and copy photographs related to research for several of Lenski's regional children's
books, as well as some Lenski and Covey family photographs. The collection includes one album of biographical photographs
such as portraits, family portraits, and views of family homes (the earliest of which are copy photographs), as well as three
albums, presumably assembled and captioned by Lenski, around specific book projects. These picture children and communities
that provide background material for her books. An album labeled "Cotton in My Sack" shows cotton picking, children at work,
and rural town life around Blytheville, Arkansas in 1947; "San Francisco Boy" depicts Chinese American children at play and
in school groups and library book clubs in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1954-1955; album labeled "To Be a Logger" contains
photographs of children, forest and logging scenes taken in Tiller, Oregon in 1967. Several folders contain snapshots mounted
on pages in the manner of the albums, and contain photographs related to three short stories published in 1962 as "We live
in the Southwest.". These views relate to "Ghost-Town Boy" (town views of Jerome, Arizona and views of ghost towns), "A Knife
for Tomaso" (views of Truchas and Chimayo, New Mexico and Latino children), and "The Turquoise necklace" (Navaho life at Cameron,
Arizona.).
Date:
1947 (issued)Subject:
n-us-az -- n-us-nm -- n-us-orChildren's literature
Children -- Photographs
Chinese American children -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Ghost towns -- Arizona -- Photographs
Logging -- Oregon -- Photographs
Child labor -- Photographs
Cotton picking -- Arkansas -- Photographs
Navajo Indians -- Arizona -- Cameron -- Photographs
Hispanic Americans -- New Mexico -- Photographs
Women authors -- Photographs
Truchas (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
Villes fantômes -- Arizona -- Photographies
Forêts -- Exploitation -- Oregon -- Photographies
Enfants -- Travail -- Photographies
Coton -- Récolte -- Arkansas -- Photographies
Américains d'origine latino-américaine -- Nouveau-Mexique -- Photographies
Écrivaines -- Photographies
Child labor
Children
Children's literature
Chinese American children
Cotton picking
Ghost towns
Hispanic Americans
Logging
Navajo Indians
Women authors
Chimayo (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
Arizona
Arizona -- Cameron
Arkansas
California -- San Francisco
New Mexico
New Mexico -- Chimayo
Oregon
Lenski, Lois -- 1893-1974 -- Pictorial works
Lenski, Lois -- 1893-1974
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 250 photographs in 1 box : gelatin silver prints ; prints 21 x 26 cm or smaller.
Language:
English
Origin:
United StatesCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.