Bobbie Hanvey photographic archives

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Bobbie Hanvey photographic archives

1970-2012

https://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/MS2001-039

Photographs by twentieth-century Northern Irish photographer Bobbie Hanvey documenting people and life in Northern Ireland during and after the Troubles. Materials include black-and-white negatives, color negatives, color transparencies, digital photographs, and some photoprints. Glassine sleeves, which originally held the photographs and were annotated by Hanvey, were retained as well.

7 linear feet

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Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11655259

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Hanvey, Bobbie, 1945-

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Bobbie Hanvey was born on October 31, 1945 in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland to Johnny and Mary (Donnelly) Hanvey. Johnny was from Doran's Rock, near Saintfield in County Down, and Mary was from Colebrooke Cross in Fermanagh. Johnny was a lumberjack in rural Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s who took photographs of both the men and machines at work. Johnny bought Bobbie a tape recorder as a child, and Bobbie would use his father's camera to photograph the neighbors and record the...