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Call Number: |
PH-00023 |
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Collection Name: |
Roger Fenton Photography Collection |
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Creator: |
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No. of Items: |
363 items |
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Span Dates: |
1854-1860 |
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Description: |
The collection consists of 363 photographs by Roger Fenton (British, 1819-1869). Select group descriptions follow. |
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Accession No(s): |
964:0351:0001-0256, 0256b, 0257-0272, 0273a, 0274-0311; 964:0352:0001-0012; 964:0353:0001-0008; 964:0419:0001-0021; 964:0477:0001-0005, 0007-0011; 980:0037:0016 |
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Finding Aid URL: |
https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01230 |
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Location(s): |
Flat File (964:0352:0012; 964:0353:0009) Macpherson, R., Box 5 (964:0419:0001-0002, 0019) Macpherson, R., Box 6 (964:0419:0020-0021) Fenton, R. Box 29 (5 empty folio cases) F Box, Medium (964:0477:0005, 0007, 0009-0010) Special permission required 28 osb (Boxes 1-28) |
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See Also: |
Lake Price Album: (964:0581:0013, 0025, 0029, 0060) Photographs of Drawings, etc. in the British Museum: (964:0418:0001-0132) Stereographs Photography Collection: Six stereographs by Fenton are located in the Stereographs Photography Collection (PH-00267). The Photographic Album for the Year 1857: An additional photograph (964:0324:0014) by Fenton is mounted in The Photographic Album for the Year 1857 (PH-00298). Photographic Views in Italy 1859 [and] Hythe School of Musketry 1860: 964:0368:0061-0066 Photographic Art Treasures, or, Nature and Art Illustrated by Art and Nature: 964:0519:0001-0004, 0008, 0010-0012, 0018 Gems of Photographic Art: Photo-Pictures Selected from The Universal Series: 964:0332:0012 Photographs: 964:0491:0002-0009 Helmut and Alison Gernsheim Papers and Photography Collection: Original Fenton correspondence from Crimea and a handwritten notebook (1854-1855) are located in Box 27.3-4 of the Helmut and Alison Gernsheim Papers and Photography Collection (PH-02378). In 1855, many of Fenton's photographs were exhibited at the Gallery of the Water Colour Society in London. A copy of the original 1855 prospectus for a portfolio of the prints, Exhibition of the Photographic Pictures Taken in the Crimea, is located in the Center's library with call number TR 6 G73 L6 F5 HRC-P. In 1856, copies of Fenton's Crimea portfolio and his original glass plate negatives were auctioned at Southgate and Barrett in London. A copy of the original auction catalog is located in the Center's library with call number Z 999 S6 HRC-P. |
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