Call Number:

PH-00270

Collection Name:

W. S. (Walter Scott) Adkins Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

5,568 items

Span Dates:

1890-1955

Description:

The collection consists of 5,568 photographs taken and collected by W. S. (Walter Scott) Adkins (American, 1890-1956). The photographs, which include gelatin silver prints, glass- and film-based negatives and postcards, date from 1890 to 1955. The subjects include: mining in West Texas, including the Chisos Mining Company, Terlingua Quicksilver District, and the Marfa and Mariposa Mining Company; oil fields in Big Spring, Mexia, Van Horn, Spindletop, and High Islands; geological formations, including Barringer Hill, American Lignite (Briquette) Company, and Chaddick’s Mill; and Mexico, including landscapes, aerial photography, Mayan architecture photographed in the vicinity of Mexico City, Chiapas, and Guadalajara; West Texas scenery in the Big Bend region; travel photographs from around the U.S.; Adkins' family; Texas cities, including Austin, San Antonio, Grand Saline, Fort Worth, Waco, Alpine, El Paso, Llano, and Del Rio. Photographers, in addition to Adkins, whose work can be found in the collection include: W. B. (William Battle) Phillips (American, 1857-1918); Ellison Photo Company (American, active circa 1932-late 1980s); Frank Duncan (American, 1878-1970); Jose F. Gandara (American, born Mexico, 1897-1961); Elmer L. Foote (American, 1863-1919); Fabian Bachrach (American, 1917-2010); Knaffl Bros. (American, active 1884-1904); John C. Thain (American, 1868-1950); Herman C. Lippe (American, born Germany, 1888-1946), credited as Lippe Studio; Walter H. Horne (American, 1883-1921); Jordan Photo Company (American, active 1900-1914); and Fred A. Gildersleeve (American, 1880-1958). The photographers for many of the photographs are unidentified. Some of the photographs are included in seven albums, brief descriptions of most of them follow.

Album 1 (formerly HRC-P Album 127) -- 126 photographic prints (including 2 laid in, not mounted) of Mexico, ca. 1920s; printed list, with ms. notations, laid in: American Museum of Natural History. Popular publications.

Album 2 (formerly HRC-P Album 145) -- 150 photographic prints and photographic postcards (including 25 photographic postcards laid in, mounted on separate pages; 2 photographic prints laid in, mounted on separate leaves; 2 unmounted photographic prints laid in; 1 original negative laid in) of Mexico, ca. 1920s to 1939; non-photographic postcard and magazine article also laid in.

Album 3 (formerly HRC-P Album 146) -- 40 photographic prints (including 1 loose, laid in), chiefly of Central Texas snowstorm, January 1944; also two newspaper clippings from 1954.

Album 4 (formerly HRC-P Album 147) -- 124 items (123 photographic prints and 1 photomechanical postcard), chiefly of Central Texas from 1937-1940, but also scenes of Tampico, Mexico in the 1920s, Galveston, Texas, Spindletop, and a couple of photo Christmas cards.

Album 5 (formerly HRC-P Album 242) (974:0017:0001-0089) -- 89 photographic prints of New York (1915-1916) and East Tennessee (summer 1916).

Album 6 (formerly HRC-P Album 243) (974:0019:0001-0039) -- Photographic prints of people and miscellaneous subjects.

Album 7 (formerly HRC-P Album 206) -- Photographs of Mundy, Texas.

Accession No(s):

974:0010:0001-XXXX; 974:0011:0001-0040; 974:0012:0001-XXXX; 974:0013:0001-XXXX; 974:0014:0001-XXXX; 974:0015:0001-XXXX; 974:0016:0001-XXXX; 974:0017:0001-XXXX; 974:0018:0001-XXXX; 974:0019:0001-XXXX; 974:0020:0001-XXXX; 974:0021:0001-XXXX; 974:0022:0001-0008; 974:0023:0001-XXXX; 974:0024:0001-XXXX; 974:0025:0001-XXXX; 974:0026:0001-XXXX

Location(s):

Adkins, W.S., Box 1 (974:0010:0001-XXXX); Box 2 (974:0011:0001-0040)
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Adkins, W.S., Box 3 (974:0024:0001-XXXX; 974:0025:0001-XXXX)
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Adkins, W.S., Box 4 (974:0015:0001-XXXX)
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Adkins, W.S., Box 5
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Adkins, W.S., Box 6 (974:0023:0001-XXXX)
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Adkins, W.S., Box 10a (974:0026:0001-XXXX)
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Adkins, W.S., Box 10b (974:0026:XXXX-XXXX)
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Adkins, W.S., Box 7 (974:0020:0001-XXXX; 974:0021:0001-XXXX)
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Adkins, W.S., Box 8 (974:0012:0001-XXXX)
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Adkins, W.S., Box 9 (974:0014:0001-XXXX)
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Adkins, W.S., Box 11a; Box 11b; Box 12a; Box 12b; Box 13 (safety negatives)
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Adkins, W.S., Box 14a (974:0014:XXXX-XXXX); Box 14b (974:0014:XXXX-XXXX); Box 14c (974:0014:XXXX-XXXX); Box 14d (974:0014:XXXX-XXXX); Box 15 (974:0014:XXXX-XXXX)
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Adkins, W.S., Box 19 (974:0013:0001-XXXX); Box 20 (974:0016:0001-XXXX); Box 21 (974:0018:0001-XXXX); Box 22 (Photos from Album 4)
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Adkins, W.S., Album 1 (1 osb); Album 2; Album 3; Album 4; Album 5 (974:0017:0001-0089); Album 6 (974:0019:0001-0039); Album 7
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Curatorial permission required Shared Box, glass negatives (974:0022:0001-0008)
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