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Posters Collected by Ralph Ellison and Family, 1974-1994
Call Number: LOT 15606 (OSE)
Extent: ca. 7 items : chiefly posters.
The Ellison family collected items, including posters and a matted photograph collage tribute to Ralph Ellison.
BOX 1 Brown University Ralph Ellison Festival
Call Number: LOT 15606, no. 1 (OSE)
Extent: 1 item : black and white photographic poster.
BOX 1 Portrait of Ralph Ellison
Call Number: LOT 15606, no. 2 (OSE)
Extent: 1 item : color photograph mounted on board.
BOX 1 Tribute to Ralph Ellison, May 26, 1994
Call Number: LOT 15606, no. 3 (OSE)
Extent: 1 item : mounted photo collage containing 18 color photographs.
Note: Photographers includes Jill Krementz.
BOX 1 Fifteen Years in the Orchard: Hampshire College, October 11 to 13, 1985
Call Number: LOT 15606, no. 4 (OSE)
Extent: 1 item : color poster.
BOX 1 The Modern Library: 75 Years of Classic Publishing
Call Number: LOT 15606, no. 5 (OSE)
Extent: 1 item : black and white poster.
BOX 1 National Gallery of Art: The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent exhibit, January 25 to May 17, 1987
Call Number: LOT 15606, no. 6 (OSE)
Extent: 1 item : color poster.
BOX 1 James Willis Gallery: Jack Zajac Exhibit, October 8 to November 30, 1974
Call Number: LOT 15606, no. 7 to 7a (OSE)
Extent: 1 item : color poster and reception invitation.
35mm Color Slides, 1956-1986
Call Number: LC-EL05 (FM -- F size)
Extent: ca. 4,113 photographs : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format)
Slides show Ralph Ellison, his wife Fanny Ellison, family, friends, associates, and events, including daily life, informal settings, cityscapes, and landscapes. Some images include beach vacations, graduations, their New York City apartment, and house in Plainfield, Massachusetts.
Materials are organized chronologically by slide box or original grouping, with undated and commercially produced slides filed at the end.
BOX 1 FOLDER 1 1956
Call Number: LC-EL05-1 to 14 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 14 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: At Parks with Kep & Marie, Oct. 1956, 105
Note: Slides show Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks, and others with a blue Corvette sports car at Gordon Parks' house as well as pumpkins and industry along the river.
BOX 1 FOLDER 1 1957
Call Number: LC-EL05-15 to 39 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 25 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: Italy, Japan, NY
Note: Slides show Rome, near Ostia Beach, and other locations in Italy.
BOX 1 FOLDER 1 1957
Call Number: LC-EL05-40 to 49 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 10 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: Italy, Japan, NY
Note: Slides show landscapes, a parade, skiing, and children primarily in Italy.
BOX 1 FOLDER 1 1957
Call Number: LC-EL05-50 to 65 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 16 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: Italy, Japan, NY
Note: Slides show Japanese buildings and pagodas.
BOX 1 FOLDER 1 1957
Call Number: LC-EL05-66 to 69 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 4 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: Italy / Japan
Note: Slides primarily show boating and swimming in Italy.
BOX 1 FOLDER 1 1957
Call Number: LC-EL05-70 to 73 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 4 items : 35mm color slides
Note: Slides show cars, cityscape, birds, and United Nations flags at Rockefeller Center Plaza.
BOX 1 FOLDER 1 1957
Call Number: LC-EL05-74 to 93 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 20 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: Japan
Note: Slides actually show a concert, likely the Newport Jazz Festival.
BOX 1 FOLDER 1 1958
Call Number: LC-EL05-94 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 1 item : 35mm color slide
Note: Slide shows a river scene.
BOX 1 FOLDER 1 1962
Call Number: LC-EL05-95 to 100 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 6 items : 35mm color slides
Note: Slides show rural roads, an airplane, flowers, and pumpkins.
BOX 1 FOLDER 2 1963
Call Number: LC-EL05-101 to 103 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 3 items : 35mm color slides
Note: Slides show flowers.
BOX 1 FOLDER 2 1963
Call Number: LC-EL05-104 to 119 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 16 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: July 1963
Note: Slides show buildings, winter scenes, boats, city life, and Fanny Ellison.
BOX 1 FOLDER 2 1963
Call Number: LC-EL05-120 to 124 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 5 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: July 1963
Note: Slides show city scenes, Fanny Ellison, and buildings.
BOX 1 FOLDER 2 1963
Call Number: LC-EL05-125 to 141 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 17 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: July 1963
Note: Slides show buildings, Fanny Ellison, and rural countryside likely in Europe.
BOX 1 FOLDER 2 1963
Call Number: LC-EL05-142 to 175 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 34 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: September 1963
Note: Slides show buildings, art collection, a dog, boats likely while traveling, and a man and child walking.
BOX 1 FOLDER 2 1963
Call Number: LC-EL05-176 to 210 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 35 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: Albert Erskine, Dead H [?] Conference
Note: Slides show a family, an estate house and grounds, flowers, boats, a smoking car, Fanny Ellison in a robe, Ralph Ellison's art collection, Albert Erskine Jr. and family, and a sculpture.
BOX 1 FOLDER 3 1964
Call Number: LC-EL05-211 to 248 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 38 items : 35mm color slides
Transcribed Note: January 1964
Note: Slides show a sculpture, boat watching and boats, a park, city buildings, flowers, a pet bird, rural buildings, art collection, and Albert Erskine Jr and his wife.
BOX 1 FOLDER 3 1964
Call Number: LC-EL05-249 to 269 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 21 items : 35mm color slides
Note: Slides show people, branches, birds, boats, railroad tracks, and city streets.
BOX 1 FOLDER 3 1964
Call Number: LC-EL05-270 to 287 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 18 items : 35mm color slides
Note: Slides show flowers, Ralph Ellison, Herbert Ellison and family, city scenes, and architecture.
BOX 1 FOLDER 3 1964
Call Number: LC-EL05-288 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 1 item : 35mm color slide
Note: Slide shows art.
BOX 1 FOLDER 3 1964
Call Number: LC-EL05-289 to 310 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 22 items : 35mm color slides
Note: Slides show Ralph Ellison and Fanny Ellison on a porch, family cookout, branches, and boats and ships.
BOX 1 FOLDER 4 1965
Call Number: LC-EL05-311 to 347 (FM -- F size)
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