Lester B. Bridaham collection of photographs of Mexico. 19--.

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Lester B. Bridaham collection of photographs of Mexico. 19--.

This collection documents the people, landscape, arts and crafts of Mexico in photographs taken by Lester Bridaham and his wife, Dorothy Bridaham. Many of the photographs are mounted in albums and are captioned. Bridaham's photographs (together with associated contact prints and negatives) are supplemented with a small number of commercial prints and postcards. The collection also contains notebooks (field notes), clippings, and other ephemeral material (some mounted in scrapbooks).

1,099 photographic prints : b&w ; 28 x 36 cm. or smaller.ca. 4,250 negatives ; 6 x 6 cm. or smaller.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8221059

Getty Research Institute

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Bridaham, Dorothy

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Bridaham, Lester Burbank

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Artist. From the description of Oral history 12 July, 1979 [sound recording]. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 39167521 Born and raised in Denver, Colorado. Graduated from MIT. Trained at Harvard in Museum Administration. Served as secretary for the board of directors at the Chicago Art Institute (1945). Executive director at the Louisiana State Museum (1954-1956). Director of Chicago Historical Society (1956). Operated Lester B. Bridaham and Company, a fine arts...