Photographs, 1933-1993.

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Photographs, 1933-1993.

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Photographs and negatives of the Long Beach earthquake, 1933, Woody Guthrie, Fred Ross, and the Shafter farm labor camp, 1941, a Los Angeles labor demonstration, 1945, the Hollywood strike, 1945, and many informal and formal photographs from the Yosemite camera workshops with Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, 1941-42. Included is a 24-page typescript, "The Queen of Montgomery Street, " by her husband, John M. Weatherwax.

3 linear ft. (2 manuscript and 1 print box)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7561980

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Emigrating from Tsarist Russia with her parents in 1913 to escape persecution and the conscription act, Seema graduated from high school and began studying science courses in Leeds, England. A few years after her father's death, her mother took the three daughters to Boston to join relatives, and Seema became involved in photography. She moved to Southern California in 1929, lived in Tahiti in 1931, 32 for a year and back to Southern California where she joined the film and photo league in 1934....