Finding Aid for the Ansel Adams Papers LSC.0696
Finding aid prepared by Yvonne Schroeder, November 1960; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Ansel Adams papers
Creator:
Adams, Ansel
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0696
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1938-1944
Abstract: Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984) was born in San Francisco, California. A photographer and conservationist, he helped to establish
photography as an art form and is known for his detailed, panoramic photos of the American West. The collection consists of
typescripts, correspondence, photographs, proof sheets, and ephemera related to the creation and publication of two of Adams's
books:
Born Free and Equal (1944) and
Sierra Nevada, the John Muir Trail (1938).
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[Identification of item], Ansel Adams Papers (Collection 696). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Ansel Easton Adams was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California; a photographer and conservationist, he helped
to establish photography as an art form and is known for his detailed, panoramic photos of the American West; co-founder,
Group f/64 (1932-34); author of seven portfolios and thirty books, including
Born Free and Equal (1944),
Yosemite (1960), and
Images: 1923-74 (1975); director, Sierra Club, 1934-71; died near Carmel, California, on April 22, 1984.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of typescripts, correspondence, photographs, proof sheets, and ephemera related to the creation and publication
of two of Adams's books:
Born Free and Equal (1944) and
Sierra Nevada, the John Muir Trail (1938). Most of the collection relates to his work for
Born Free and Equal, and it contains photographs and other materials from his visit to the Manzanar War Relocation Center to document the experiences
of interned Japanese Americans. Includes a Manzanar High yearbook and two different copies of the
Manzanar Free Press from 1943 & 1944. Also includes 3 letters from Dorothea Lange.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
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Born Free and Equal (Boxes 1-2).
-
Sierra Nevada - the John Muir Trail (Box 3).
Related Material
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Conservationists -- California -- Archives.
Photographers -- California -- Archives.
Photographs.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Manuscripts for publication
Online resources.
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984--Archives.
Lange, Dorothea--Correspondence.
Manzanar War Relocation Center
Lange, Dorothea
box 1, box 2
Born Free and Equal
Scope and Contents note
[First published by U.S. Camera, New York, 1944]
box 1
2 typescripts.
General Physical Description note: One 37 leaves the other 71 leaves, both with extensive holograph corrections. Boxed in brown cloth slip case.
box 1
3 typescripts (carbon).
General Physical Description note: Varying slightly in pagination, with minor holograph corrections. About 50 leaves each. Together in one envelope.
box 1
Preliminary typescript to text.
General Physical Description note: 118 leaves, in mixed order.
box 1
Proofs of photographs used in book.
General Physical Description note: 23 sheets.
box 1
1 folder of data used in book.
General Physical Description note: 29 leaves of typescript (some carbon) and mimeograph.
box 1
Proof corrections, typescript (carbon).
General Physical Description note: 12 leaves.
box 1
Titles for photographs.
General Physical Description note: 23 leaves.
box 2
Manzanar Relocation Center photographs.
General Physical Description note: Cleared prints, 196 pieces.
box 2
Correspondence regarding photographs used - mostly authorization for their use.
General Physical Description note: 132 pieces.
box 2
Correspondence regarding publication of book.
General Physical Description note: 104 pieces.
General note
Among the 104 pieces are three letters from Dorothea Lange.
box 1
Manzanar High Yearbook
Scope and Contents note
Containing photographs of the Senior play, by Ansel Adams.
box 1
Pictorial Edition of the
Manzanar Free Press, vol.4 no.1,
September 10, 1943.
box 1
Manzanar Free Press, vol.5 no.9,
January 29, 1944.
box 3
Sierra Nevada - The John Muir Trail
box 3
Title page and specifications. Published by the Archetype Press, Berkeley,
1938.
General Physical Description note: In wine-colored, cloth slipcase.