Jon Brenneis photograph archive [graphic]. ca. 1946-ca. 1988, bulk ca. 1950-ca. 1985.

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Jon Brenneis photograph archive [graphic]. ca. 1946-ca. 1988, bulk ca. 1950-ca. 1985.

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The Jon Brenneis archive consists of approximately 124,000 photographs spanning his forty-year career as a professional photographer. Based in Berkeley, Calif., Brenneis's worked encompassed the San Francisco Bay Area and ranged across the United States and sometimes internationally. He photographed for Life Magazine in the late 1940s and 1950s, and was a frequent contributor to Time and Fortune magazines. His work ranges from human interest stories to popular culture to politics, but his documentary and promotional work for Bay Area corporations and industries is voluminous and significant. His clients included Chevron and Standard Oil, Crown Zellerbach paper company, Kaiser Industries and Kaiser Permanente, the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, Bank of America, and numerous others. His work documenting science and the high tech industry from the mid-1950s through the 1980s is particularly noteworthy. Major clients included Hewlett-Packard and IBM, but Brenneis also documented scientific work (particularly nuclear physics) at the University of California, Berkeley and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator. Other University of California subjects on both the Berkeley and Davis campuses are also numerous. Brenneis{u2019}s photographs frequently appeared in Scientific American, and this diverse work covered medicine, nuclear physics, lasers, computers, micro-electronics, fiber optics, windmill generators, barn owls, primates, and rice culture in California, among many other topics.

57 boxes (negatives), 14 boxes (photographic prints), 3 oversize boxes (photographic prints), 1 box (transparencies) ; various sizes.

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