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Call Number:

PH-00156

Collection Name:

Colonel Mark T. Muller Photography Collection

Creator:

Harris & Ewing

No. of Items:

1519 items

Span Dates:

1850s-circa 1940

Description:

The collection consists of approximately 1,519 items, which date from the 1850s to circa 1940 collected by Colonel Mark T. Muller. A box list follows.

Box 1 -- Unidentified daguerreotype and tintype portraits;
Box 2 -- Unidentified portraits of various formats including cartes-de-visite, stereos, and cabinet cards; also includes some outdoor scenes;
Box 3 -- Mostly 8x10 and 16x20 prints of various landscapes, architecture, and occupations;
Box 4 -- Unidentified portraits and an empty album;
Box 5 -- Various portraits and outdoor scenes, also various modes of transportation and five prints made on fabric;
Boxes 6-8 -- Three boxes of cabinet card portraits, filed by the city in which the portrait was made;
Boxes 9-10 -- Two additional boxes of cabinet cards filed by state in which the portrait was made;
Box 11 -- Thirty stereo views of misc. landscapes, architecture, and travel;
Boxes 12-14 -- Three boxes containing approximately 300 cabinet cards (Boxes 12 and 13 are arranged by state and box 14 is arranged by the name of the photographer);
Small H Box -- Two portraits by Harris & Ewing. Titles follows:
985:0027:0163 -- Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the USA, 1913-1921;
985:0027:0164 -- Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the USA, 1929-1933.

Accession No(s):

976:0011:0000; 980:0009:0001-0011; 985:0025:0001-0820; 985:0026:0001-0524; 985:0027:0001-0164; 985:0027:0001-0164 -- Gift, 1985 (G 2449)

Location(s):

H Box, Medium (985:0027:0163-0164)
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Muller, M.T., Box 4 (985:0027:0001-0113)
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11 b (Muller Boxes 1-3, 5-9, 12-14)
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1 ncb (985:0025:0714-0820)
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Curatorial permission required 2 osb, Non-Gernsheim Tintypes (Boxes 3-4)
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See Also:

Harris & Ewing Photography Collection