Porter Garnett and Edna Foote Garnett family photographs and portraits [graphic]. ca. 1875-ca. 1930, bulk ca. 1915-1930.

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Porter Garnett and Edna Foote Garnett family photographs and portraits [graphic]. ca. 1875-ca. 1930, bulk ca. 1915-1930.

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Chiefly studio portraits, including several of Porter Garnett by Arnold Genthe, and one by Dorothea Lange. Also portraits of his wife Edna Foote Garnett, her sister Elvira Foote, artist Ruth Reeves, and a snapshot with Garnett, George Sterling, and Jack London. Also present are two photographic copies of drawn portraits inscribed by Witter Bynner ("Hal"). One of these is a profile of Bynner by Kahlil Gibran, and the other a portrait by Bynner. An albumen card photograph (by Bradley & Rulofson) of an architect's drawing of a proposed San Francisco home for Louis Garnett, and a copy photograph picturing the mid-19th century homes of the Garnett and Coe families is also present.

17 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.

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Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965

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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), American documentary photographer and photojournalist, was born Dorothea Margarette Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey. She worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. From the description of Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582293 In the spring of 1942, Dorothea Lange was hired by the War Relocation Authority to document the movement of Japanese-Americans during relo...

Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951

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Porter Garnett, a native of San Francisco, was prominent in West Coast literary activities and in fine printing. He co-founded "The Lark" with Gelett Burgess, was a dramatic and literary critic, an assistant curator at The Bancroft Library (1907-12), and founder of the Laboratory Press while professor of graphic arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1922-35). Garnett was also an active member of the Bohemian Club. From the description of Two minor miracles, or, So help(ed) me...

Foote, Elvira

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Reeves, Ruth, 1892-1966

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Designer and textile designer; New York, N.Y. Served as head of the poster division of the New York City Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s. Studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., the San Francisco School of Design, and the Art Students League of New York. Taught at the School of Painting and Sculpture at Columbia Univ. and the Cooper Union Art School. Died Dec. 23, 1966, at age 74. From the description of Ru...

Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942

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German-born American photographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to [Isadora Duncan], [1915 or later]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 501196416 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to [Isadora Duncan], Tuesday [ca. 1915]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 501196335 Photographer and pioneer in dance photography. From the description of Correspondence and writings, 1928-1942. (New York Public Library). Worl...

Garnett, Edna Foote

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Bradley & Rulofson

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Garnett, Louis A. (Louis Anacharsis), 1821-1901

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Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968

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American poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Berkeley, California, to Frank Deering, 1919 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131470 Poet. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881; graduated from Harvard University. Began writing poetry full-time in 1908. Moved to Santa Fe where he died in 1968. From the description of Witter Bynner papers, 1917-1943. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 35920677 American poet and sc...