Call Number:

PH-00414

Collection Name:

Nick Mersfelder Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

728 items

Span Dates:

1910s-1920s

Description:

The collection is comprised of 728 glass negatives made by photographer Nick Mersfelder (American, 1858-1939) of Fort Davis, Texas, during the 1910s and 1920s. Subjects include: Nick Mersfelder, his house, and his friends; Fort Davis, primarily the military fort; Fort Davis residents, houses, the school, and the ground breaking for the new court house; images of people at ranches, church groups, school groups, funerals, agricultural scenes, family and church outings, children, and of Finley’s Cowboys outfit; camping, fishing and hunting trips; scenes and scenery in the Big Bend region of Texas; portraits of individuals and families; and a group of unclassified scenes. Numbers are based on Mersfelder’s original negative numbers. Contact prints made from the negatives are available for viewing. Also available are the original negative sleeves for each negative which contain captions and other descriptive information.

Accession No(s):

Gift of Mildred Bloys Nored, 2015 (15-05-031-G)

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01153

Location(s):

Mersfelder, N., Box 1 (Access prints for negatives 1-556)
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Mersfelder, N., Box 2 (Access prints for 601-1117)
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Mersfelder, N., Box 3 (Negative sleeves for 1-343)
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Mersfelder, N., Box 4 (Negative sleeves for 401-?)
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Mersfelder, N., Box 5 (Negative sleeves for ?-1117)
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Curatorial permission requiredGlass negatives
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