Ansel Adams' Portfolio Four papers 1987.

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Ansel Adams' Portfolio Four papers 1987.

A keepsake including photocopied letters to sons Leonard and David, ca. 1978, and Virginia Adams, 1984, all concerning the relationship of Ansel Adams and Russell Varian and the resulting portfolio created in 1963 by Adams to benefit Castle Rock State Park and honor Russel Varian.

1 folder.

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Ginzton, Edward L. (Edward Leonard), 1915-1998

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Co-founder of Varian Associates and a pioneer in microwave tube technology and linear accelerator development. As a graduate student at Stanford during the 1930's, Ginzton joined Russell and Sigurd Varian and physics professors William W. Hansen and David L. Webster to develop the klystron tube, an integral part of radar and the linear accelerator concept. After working on radar systems during World War II, Ginzton returned to Stanford in 1946 as a professor of applied physics. He joined Hansen ...

Varian, Russell Harrison, 1898-1959

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Inventor of the Klystron and co-founder of Varian Associates. From the description of Notebook, 1898-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500204 Biography Russsell and Sigurd Varian were co-inventors, with William W. Hansen, of the klystron and rhumbatron and co-founders of Varian Associates. Educated at Stanford University, physicist and inventor Russell Varian began his career with Philo Farnsworth on early televisio...

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984

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Ansel Adams, American photographer, was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was tutored privately at home where he studied piano, San Francisco, from 1914 to 1927, then studied photography with the photofinisher Frank Dittman, in San Francisco, in 1916 and 1917. He married Virginia Best in 1928, and had two children, Michael and Anne. Adams began his career as a photographer, 1927, and worked as a commercial photographer, from 1930 to 1960. He was a photography correspond...