Philadelphia Area Archives

Start Over Form Photographs Year 1974

Photographs from the Papers of Hershel Herzog, 1964-1988 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear feet (1 box; 14 print photographs)
Abstract:: Black and white and color print photographs depicting pharmaceutical chemist Hershel Herzog at professional gatherings and on trips to China.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Photographs from the Papers of Robert G. Parr, 1951-1996 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear feet (1 box; ca. 46 print photographs)
Abstract:: Black and white and color print photographs documenting the personal and professional life of professor and chemist Robert G. Parr and his colleagues.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Photographs from the Papers of Rudolph Pariser, circa 1950-1998 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear feet (1 box; consisting of 10 print photographs)
Abstract:: Photographs from the career of Rudolph Pariser, a research chemist and one of the creators of the Pariser-Parr-Pople Method.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Robert H. Burris Photograph Collection, 1960s-2000 (inclusive) 1960s-1970s (bulk)

Extent:: 1 linear feet (1 box; ca. 138 print photographs; transparencies)
Abstract:: Photographs depicting the colleagues of Robert Harza Burris, a professor of Biochemistry and pioneer in the use of mass spectrometry to study biological nitrogen fixation.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

William A. Lester, Jr. Papers, 1950-2017 (inclusive) 1965-2013 (bulk)

Extent:: 70.0 linear feet (67 record boxes, 1 hollinger box, 2 half hollinger boxes, 1 oversized hollinger box, and 2 cd-rom boxes.)
Abstract:: Correspondence, professional files, manuscripts, printed materials, notebooks, electronic storage materials, audio-visual materials, and photographic materials of African American theoretical chemist and chemistry educator William A. Lester, Jr.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Harvey Finkle photographs, 1968-2019 (inclusive)

Extent:: 58.33 linear feet (137 boxes)
Abstract:: Harvey Finkle (born March 28, 1934) is a self-taught documentary photographer who has documented the social, economic, cultural, and political issues in the city of Philadelphia and across the globe. Finkle's work largely focuses on marginalized communities, including low income and homeless families, homeless veterans, refugees, immigrants, and the disabled, to name only a few. This collection, dating from 1968 to 2019, contains a majority of Finkle's five-decade-long oeuvre, in various formats including prints, contact sheets, negatives, slides, research, interview transcripts, and publications. As a whole, this collection provides documentation of activism in Philadelphia and focuses on social injustices in the city, the country, and the world.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Eric Matusewitch collection of Leonard Bernstein memorabilia, 1938-2019 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8.4 linear feet (15 boxes)
Abstract:: The Eric Matusewitch collection of Leonard Bernstein memorabilia, documents Matusewitch's admiration for the musician, composer, conductor, educator, author and humanitarian Leonard Bernstein. The collection contains articles, clippings, photographs, flyers, brochures, pamphlets, playbills, programs, calendar of events, posters, newspapers, invitations, sheet music, magazines, menus, advertisements, tickets, books, drawings, and scrapbooks of performances by Bernstein or of his work by other people or organizations.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Johan Kugelberg collection of Sun Ra material, 1957-2021 (inclusive) 1960-1990 (bulk)

Extent:: 2.6 linear feet (one legal size document box and two 20 x 24 flat boxes. several poster size prints in a flat file drawer.)
Abstract:: Le Sony'r Ra (1914-1993), known as Sun Ra, was a jazz musician and composer, band leader, and poet known for his avant-garde approach to music, association with Afrofuturism, esoteric beliefs, and the theatrical performances with his band, The Arkestra. This collection contains examples of artwork used for about two dozen of his albums, a series of photographs that offer a good representation of different periods of his life and work, and a set of promotional fliers, poetry, philosophical writings, and ephemera.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

George P. Turner papers, 1927-1988 (inclusive)

Extent:: 16 linear feet (32 boxes)
Abstract:: George P. Turner (1915-2004) was a consultant and business owner who worked to promote development and tourism in Latin America, particularly the Dominican Republic. He owned multiple companies and consulted for both businesses and governments, garnering expertise in the economics and business of Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. This collection consists mainly of Turner's professional working records; however there are also education, military, and personal/family records contained within the material.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Oliver Daniel research collection on Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1905-1995 (inclusive) 1982-1989 (bulk)

Extent:: 15 boxes
Abstract:: Research materials, photographs, and sound recordings for Oliver Daniel's uncompleted biography of orchestral conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, which was later completed by William R. Trotter as Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos (1995). Includes Daniel's correspondence, photocopies of some of Mitropoulos's correspondence, other writers' biographical works on Mitropoulos, oral history interview transcripts, reminiscences, research notes, clippings, programs, reviews, photographs, and sound recordings of interviews, radio programs, and musical works.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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