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Emma Nelson Baker photographs [graphic] : relating to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, her career, and personal life.
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Title:

Emma Nelson Baker photographs: relating to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, her career, and personal life

Creator/Contributor:

Baker, Emma Nelson., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Swadley, W. W., (William W.)

Creator/Contributor:

Cardinell-Vincent Co

Abstract:

Photographic archive of Emma Nelson Baker, in large part reflective of her role in helping to organize the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco in 1915. Vols. 1-2: photograph albums documenting the planning and building of the PPIE from the exhibition's earliest stages, depicting meetings, ceremonies, surveying, construction, landscaping and grounds, artwork, sculpture, exibits, directors, officials, staff, and other events and individuals related to the PPIE. Among those pictured are PPIE President Charles C. Moore and Vice-Presidents William H. Crocker, R.B. Hale, Isaias W. Hellman, Jr., M.H. De Young, Leon Sloss, James Rolph; Exposition stunt pilot Art Smith; U.S. President William Howard Taft; and Exposition sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder. Also includes personal negatives and 1 box of personal and family photographs.

Date:

ca. 1870-ca. 1940 (issued)

Subject:

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Baker, Emma Nelson -- Portraits
Moore, Charles C. (Charles Caldwell) -- 1868-1932 -- Portraits
Crocker, William H. (William Henry) -- Portraits
Hellman, Isaias W. (Isaias William) -- 1871-1920 -- Portraits
De Young, M. H. (Michael Harry) -- 1849-1925 -- Portraits
Rolph, James -- 1869-1934 -- Portraits
Taft, William H. (William Howard) -- 1857-1930 -- Pictorial works
Calder, Alexander Stirling -- 1870-1945 -- Pictorial works
Smith, Art -- 1890-1926 -- Pictorial works
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.); -- Pictorial works
Businesswomen -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
Exhibitions -- Design and construction -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
Secretaries -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs

Note:

Collected by Emma Nelson Baker. Albums compiled and annotated by Baker. Baker's inscription inside front cover, vol. 1: Chronological pictorial history of the inception and construction of the Panama Pacific International Exposition, held at San Francisco, California from February 20th 1915 to December 4th, 1915. Emma Nelson Baker, Secretary Executive Committee, [Secretary] Board of Directors, [Secretary] Executive Committee, PPIE.
Title and date supplied by cataloger.
Includes photographs by official PPIE photographers W.W. Swadley and Cardinell-Vincent Co.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
Emma Nelson Baker was the Recording Secretary to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Executive Committee and the personal secretary to PPIE President Charles C. Moore.

Type:

graphic
Photograph albums.

Physical Description:

graphic
photonegative
photoprint
2 albums and 1 box (ca. 1,000 photographic prints) and 1 box (ca. 100 negtives) : b&w ; various sizes.

Language:

English

Origin:

Various places

Copyright Note:

COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.