Donald Ryder Dickey personal photo album, ca. 1921-1926 [picture].

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Donald Ryder Dickey personal photo album, ca. 1921-1926 [picture].

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The collection consists of one photo album, black leatherette, with 138 mounted and 3 loose black and white photographs. The first half of the album has 61 photographs taken by Donald R. Dickey and his team on his honeymoon in Maine and New Brunswick, showing: the group in the field with stop action film equipment; with a camouflaged camera in a canoe; busy in and around the camp cabin; deer and moose caught in stop action; landscape views; and Mr. and Mrs. Dickey around the camp. The second half of the album contains 79 images of the Dickey home on Rosemont Ave., Pasadena, California. They show many aspects of the house's exterior, interior views of a number of rooms, and document the gradual development of the beautiful and extensive gardens. Loose within the album was also an advertisement for The Farnham Nelson Co., Roslindale, Massachusetts, with a photograph titled "A Wild Deer Photographed at Night by Donald R. Dickey".

1 album ([38] leaves) containing 140 photographic prints ; 39 x 28 cm.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7446218

University of California, Los Angeles

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Dickey, Donald R. (Donald Ryder), 1887-1932

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Donald Ryder Dickey (1887-1932) was an adventurous, pioneer wildlife photographer as well as an ornithologist and mammalogist. He was well known in his time for: his photographs (both still and moving) of birds and mammals; his lectures on wildlife; and eventually, for his substantial specimen collection of birds and mammals. Drawn to outdoor life in his childhood and youth, he considered this nothing more than a hobby until he experienced a serious heart attack in his senior year at Yale and wa...