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Call Number: |
PH-00074 |
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Collection Name: |
Fritz Henle Photography Collection |
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Creator: |
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No. of Items: |
1,648 photographs |
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Span Dates: |
circa 1930s-circa 1990s |
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Description: |
The holdings by Fritz Henle (American, 1909-1993) include landscapes, travel views, and images related to the Cities Service project (circa 1953) and general oil industry in Texas and Louisiana, as well as portraits of area residents made in Ceylon, China, Germany, Haiti, Hawaii, India, Japan, the Middle East, and the Virgin Islands, and in Paris, France and New York; nudes; and intimate portraits of Pablo Casals. Approximately 1,435 gelatin silver and 213 color prints. Time period represented early 1930s to present. The collection also includes five museum boxed sets consisting of silver gelatin prints selected and grouped by Henle on particular subjects. The boxed sets are Mexico, U.S.A., India, China, and Nudes. Also included in a maquette from an unrealized project of U.S.A. photographs. Additionally, five audiocassettes, four of which are recordings Henle made with Marta Casals, the cellist's widow. The other is a discussion between Henle and Heini Vogler. |
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Accession No(s): |
979:0025:0001; 979:0035:0001-0047; 979:0036:0001-0015; 979:0037:0001; 980:0016:0001-0016; 980:0038:0001-; 980:0039:0001-; 980:0090:0001-0054; 981:0001:0001-0014; 981:0028:0001-0012; 982:0004:0001-0009; 982:0049:0001-0002; 982:0051:0001-0030; 985:0043:0003; 986:0004:0002-0003; 986:0019:0019-0020; 986:0072:0001; 991:0029:0001-0016; 991:0030:0001-0011; 991:0031:0001-0029; 991:0032:0001; 991:0035:0001-0002 ; 992:0010:0001-0011; 992:0011:0001-0002; 2004:0026:0001-0038; 2004:0005:0001, 2021:0015:0001; 2022:0035:0001; 2022:0035:0001; 2023.0040.0001; 2023.0040.0002; 2024.0099.0001 |
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Location(s): |
Contact Reading and Viewing Room Staff Sound Recordings Flat File (Posters) Flat File (Posters) Flat File (979:0035:0004, 0044-0047: 982:0004:0009) Henle, F., Box 42a-c (Mexico Museum Boxed Set 983:024:0001.0001-0027) 1 osb, Box 51 (Nudes Museum Boxed Set, 2025.0083.0001) 51 osb (Boxes 1-50) Flat File ("Pablo Casals") Flat File (984:0014:0001; 2 unaccessioned prints) Flat File (985:0043:0003; 2 unaccessioned prints) Curatorial permission required (Prints made for HRC exhibition in Henle temp boxes 1-5) Flat File (986:0004:0002-0003; 986:0019:0019-0020; 986:0072:0001; five unaccessioned prints) Flat File (986:0004:0001, 0004; 988:0112:0009; seven unaccessioned prints) Flat File (990:0004:0012-0013; 2004:0005:0001; thirteen unaccessioned prints) Flat File (4 unaccessioned prints) Flat File (19 unaccessioned prints) Flat File (982:0051:0016; 984:0015:0031; 984:0056:0070; 988:0112:0004; 990:0004:0011; 995:0019:0025, 0027; 2004:0026:0015, 0031; eight unaccessioned prints) Flat File (986:0019:0024; 12 unaccessioned prints) Flat File (982:0051:0018; 989:0017:0008; 2004:0026:0018-0019; 2009:0011:0001-0007; seven unaccessioned prints) Flat File (986:0038:0003, 0056a) Henle, F., Box 49 (India Museum Boxed Set, original container) Henle, F., Box 42 (Mexico Museum Boxed Set original container) 48-hour advance notice required Screen Storage (Oversize nude) |
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