Glendora Historical Society Collection of B.D. Jackson Photographs and Negatives [graphic], 1893-1951, (bulk 1920s-1930s)

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Glendora Historical Society Collection of B.D. Jackson Photographs and Negatives [graphic], 1893-1951, (bulk 1920s-1930s)

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The Glendora Historical Society of B.D. Jackson Photographs and Negatives consists of 1202 black-and-white and color photographs (including postcards, stereographs, mounted photographs, and photograph albums) and 202 black-and-white and color negatives created by B.D. Jackson and/or collected by Jackson, his wife Cora, and his stepdaugher Ruth, 1893-1951 (bulk 1920s-1930s). The collection provides a broad overview of the growth of many of the San Gabriel Valley's suburban communities as well as a survey of many notable landscapes of California and the American West. It also gives an overview of Jackson's career as a commercial, landscape, and scenic view photographer, and contains family photographs. The collection supplements and complements the B.D. Jackson Collection of Negatives and Photographs (photCL 332). Many of the negatives in the Jackson Collection exist in print form in the Glendora Collection, and many of the images in the Glendora Collection round out series in the Jackson Collection.

7 boxes (6.23 linear ft.)

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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