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[Sierra Club collection of Cedric Wright photographs.]
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[Sierra Club collection of Cedric Wright photographs.]Sierra Club collection
Creator/Contributor:
Wright, Cedric, 1889-1959, creator, photographer.Abstract:
Nature photography, wilderness views, Sierra Club "High Trips", and other backpacking and hiking groups, chiefly in the Sierra
Nevada mountains of California. PIC boxes 1-3: xerox copies of prints retained by the Sierra Club, numbered to correspond
with matching negatives in the Bancroft collection. Corresponding photographer's notes (PIC box 8) provide technical details
on equipment, exposure times, and notes on printing for some views. -- PIC boxes 4-7: prints 8x10 inches or smaller from Sierra
Club "High Trips", for the years 1945, 1951, 1952, 1955, and several from 1953. Most are unidentified, but bear numbers. No
listings identify these numbers, and the numbers do not correspond to numbers assigned to negatives. Some typescripts are
present in which Wright lists his prices and provides some commentary for Sierra Club members wishing to purchase prints.
-- B boxes 1-7: large format prints, mostly mounted, of Sierra Club trips, Sierra Nevada scenery, and nature studies. Prints
are in sets that date from 1934, 1945, 1947, 1949, and 1950. A few prints are in a set with various dates from 1940, 1945,
1948, 1951, and 1953. Others are undated. These prints had been distributed among various boxes but were reunited as sets
by library staff based upon physical evidence of mounts, size, and style of markings. Most are unidentified.
11 photographs by Howard Laws of the Sierra Club trip in Sequoia National Park, 1963, on 11 x 14 inch mounts. These views,
taken after Cedric Wright's death, were erroneously accessioned as part of the Wright collection, but may have been received
from the Sierra Club at the same time. (Shelved as BANC PIC 1971.036--AX.)
Date:
approximately 1930-1959 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caCamping -- California -- Photographs
Hiking -- California -- Photographs
Outdoor recreation -- California -- Photographs
Wilderness areas -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs
Camping -- Californie -- Photographies
Loisirs de plein air -- Californie -- Photographies
Camping
Hiking
Outdoor recreation
Wilderness areas
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works
Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
California
United States -- Sierra Nevada
West United States
Sierra Club -- Pictorial works
Sierra Club.
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Contact prints of the negatives in this collection were retained by the San Francisco Chapter of the Sierra Club. Xerox copies
were provided to Bancroft Library (PIC boxes 1-3) and serve as a guide to the corresponding negative files.
Some prints were previously shelved as part of BANC PIC 1977.066, Photographs from the Cedric Wright papers, and were united
here with related images with identical mounts, notations, or signature styles. It is unknown whether these separations of
like materials occurred at the Sierra Club, while in the custody of Wright or Ansel Adams, or upon transfer to Bancroft Library.
More material related by subject matter remains in the Photographs from the Cedric Wright papers.
ANEG boxes 1-5 (safety negatives): RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft
Reference via the Reference Inquiry form.
NNEG boxes: NITRATE NEGATIVES CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
From the Sierra Club collection, with likely additions from the Cedric Wright papers given by Ansel Adams via the Sierra Club
in 1976 and 1977 (BANC MSS 77/124 c) .
Container list available in the library.
Outline of negative file contents by Peter Browning available, entitled: Cedric Wright contact prints and negatives: outline
for numerical and categorical lists. (pf F856.S45 B84 1983).
Born George Cedric Wright on 13 April 1889 in Alameda, Calif., Wright was a violinist, photographer, active Sierra Club member,
and close friend and associate of Ansel Adams. During the Second World War he was a technical photographer at Berkeley's Radiation
Laboratory, but he is known for his nature photography and Sierra Nevada landscapes. The Sierra Club published Cedric Wright:
words of the earth, posthumously, in 1960.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:
photoprint
copies of photographic prints in 3 boxes.
approximately 500 photographs in 3 boxes and approximately 300 photographs in 7 oversize boxes.
approximately 1,250 nitrate film negatives in 9 boxes and approximately 1,550 safety film negatives in 5 boxes.
manuscript note cards in 1 box.
Language:
English
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Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
ANEG boxes 1-5 (safety negatives): RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft
Reference via the Reference Inquiry form.
NNEG boxes: NITRATE NEGATIVES CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.