Photographers

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Collection of photographs and negatives taken by Nelson Cooke while attending Connecticut State College (Class of 1939).

Abstract The collection contains the creative photographic work of Roger Crossgrove, primarily made between 1976 and the early 2000s. The work is almost exclusively male nude photography and includes: black-and-white and color photographic materials; original negatives and vintage prints; 35mm negatives and mounted slides; work and exhibition prints (matted and unmatted); and artists' materials and artifacts. A number of the photographs were made using a pen light source, which Crossgrove used to...

Abstract Mary Wood Forman was born on 17 November 1918 in Mussoorie, India, where her parents served as Presbyterian missionaries. Her family moved in 1923 to Columbus, Ohio. Forman graduated from Ohio State University in 1940 and received a Masters degree in Social Work from Western Reserve University in 1944. After several years abroad and in New York City, Forman moved to Hartford, CT in 1956. It was here that she developed her interest in photography. She traveled to Europe and the American West,...

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The Charles B. Gunn Collection consists of papers produced by and about Gunn, as well as materials he collected of historical information about the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, Penn Central, Amtrak, and Conrail. The collection includes photographs taken by Gunn when he served as official photographer for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, in the mid-1950s.

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Photographs, slides and negatives primarily of South Africa and the anti-apartheid movement. Some supporting material on photo cooperatives and the shooting death of Abdul Shariff, one of the photographers represented in the collection.

Abstract Born in Greenfiled, Massachusetts on 30 May 1912, James Shepard Klar received his landscape architecture degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1934, and worked at different posts in state government throughout his career. When Klar retired in 1945, he was director of the state's Bureau of Program Development, where he was in charge of state assistance programs for local planning, urban renewal, and housing. In 1975, Klar received a grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts...

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Thirteen large photographs of Cambodian and Vietnamese people. The individuals in the photographs have all been affected by the Vietnam War in some way. In addition to the Vietnam War, some of the individuals in the photographs from Cambodia were also affected by the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot.

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Artist and art professor Juan Sanchez lectured (2015-0002/AC17), but unfortunately no date is associated with his presentation.

Abstract Edwin Way Teale, Connecticut-based naturalist, was the author of thirty-two books. His papers include field notes and drafts for each of his books, early childhood writings, professional writings for magazines, newspapers and book reviews, correspondence- both personal and professional, personal and family documents, scrapbooks, and memorabilia, as well as his photographs (prints, negatives, and transparencies) and his personal library. There is also one box of original John Burroughs...

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The collection contains memoranda, papers, reports and a few photographs collected by Solomon Wollman, photographer for the University of Connecticut (1951-).