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| 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) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 37 items : 35mm color slides | |||||||||||||
| Note: Slides show a pet bird, a woman in a garden, Fanny Ellison with a dog, airplane, beach, house, winter scenes with Ralph Ellison and Fanny Ellison, and boats. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 4 | 1965 | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LC-EL05-348 to 367 (FM -- F size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 20 items : 35mm color slides | |||||||||||||
| Transcribed Note: Riverside Drive | |||||||||||||
| Note: Slides show Fanny Ellison and a child, flowers, buildings, city scenes, the sun, construction, and boats. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 4 | 1965 | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LC-EL05-368 to 402 (FM -- F size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 35 items : 35mm color slides | |||||||||||||
| Transcribed Note: Alaska and Riverside Drive | |||||||||||||
| Note: Slides show a plane, snow scenes, boats, landscapes, Ralph Ellison and a man, Fanny Ellison inside, and interiors of a house. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 5 | 1966 | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LC-EL05-403 to 419 (FM -- F size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 17 items : 35mm color slides | |||||||||||||
| Transcribed Note: Rutgers honorary degree, 1966 | |||||||||||||
| Note: Slides show Ralph Ellison, Fanny Ellison, and the graduation ceremony. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 5 | 1966 | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LC-EL05-420 to 441 (FM -- F size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 22 items : 35mm color slides | |||||||||||||
| Transcribed Note: Dave Larsen's beach and our living room | |||||||||||||
| Note: Slides show Ralph Ellison's art collection, a beach, and Fanny Ellison | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 5 | 1966 | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LC-EL05-442 to 460 (FM -- F size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 19 items : 35mm color slides | |||||||||||||
| Transcribed Note: Some Iowa City | |||||||||||||
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