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Alson Skinner Clark papers, 1870-1971, bulk 1890-1940

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Series 8: Photographs , circa 1885-1935
1.6 Linear feet
Boxes 6, 8, 9

Found here are personal photographs of the artist, his friends and family, his Pasadena home and Palm Springs studio circa 1930, and his travels in Mexico and the American West. There is also a set of five cabinet cards of theatre portraits and the Treasure Island set that Clark designed for the Pasadena Playhouse. Photographs of artwork consist mostly of Clark's paintings but also include reproduced engravings of California circa 1850 (filed in Photographs of Artwork, The West) and Alfred Maurer's portraits.
Negatives from the artist's personal albums contain mostly travel images of Rochefort (circa 1907), Quebec/New York (circa 1908), and the American West (circa 1919), and are accompanied by indices. Glass plate negatives document the artist's family, artwork, and Southern California landscapes. These images can be seen in the contact sheets enclosed in this series. Oversized photographs include eight "California Club" portrait paintings, two images of a mural for Polytechnic Elementary School in Pasadena, and one photograph of a screen painted for Dalzell Wilson's home in Pasadena.
Glass plate negatives have been scanned.
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Alson Skinner Clark, circa 1915-1918
6
4
Friends and Family, circa 1910s-1930s
6
5
Home and Studio, circa 1930
6
6
Theatre Cabinet Cards, circa 1885-1900
6
7
Travel, circa 1915-1930
6
8
Treasure Island Set Design, circa 1926
6
9
Photographs of Artwork by Alfred Maurer, 1925
6
10
Photographs of Artwork, California, 1920s
6
11
Photographs of Artwork, Chicago, Quebec, New York, 1904-1906
6
12
Photographs of Artwork, Circle Theatre, circa 1926
6
13
Photographs of Artwork, European Paintings, 1904-1912
6
14-15
Photographs of Artwork, Figure Paintings and Still Lifes, 1904-1934
6
16
Photographs of Artwork, Landscape Paintings, circa 1910-1925
6
17-20
Photographs of Artwork, Mexico, circa 1920-1935
6
21-25
Photographs of Artwork, Miscellaneous, 1900s-1920s
6
26
Photographs of Artwork, Panama, circa 1913
6
27-28
Photographs of Artwork, Pasadena First Trust and Savings Bank, 1928-1929
6
29
Photographs of Artwork, Spain, 1909-1910
6
30-31
Photographs of Artwork, The West, circa 1920-1930
6
32
Film Negatives, Album A (Rochefort), circa 1907
6
33
Film Negatives, Album B (Quebec), circa 1908
6
34
Film Negatives, Album C (The West), 1919
6
35
Film Negatives, Album Indices, circa 1907-1919
6
36
Film Negatives, Miscellaneous, circa 1910-1935
6
37
Contact Sheets of Glass Plate Negatives, circa 1920-1930
6
38-39
Oversized Photographs of Artwork, circa 1920-1933
8
2
Glass Plate Negatives, circa 1920-1930
see copy prints in Box 6, Folders 38-39
9

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