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120 Medium Format Color Slides, 1957-1986
Call Number: LC-EL06 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: ca. 1,043 photographs : color transparency ; 120 medium format (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 Fanny Ellison's trip to Burma (Myanmar), Ralph Ellison's art collection, beach vacations, their New York City apartment, and house in Plainfield, Massachusetts.
Materials are organized chronologically by slide box or original grouping, with undated slides filed at the end.
BOX 5 FOLDER 1 1957-1963
Call Number: LC-EL06-1 to 11 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 11 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: FE Freighter. Fanny's, August 1957
Note: Slides show passengers, sailors, and cargo boarding a ship as well as seascapes.
BOX 5 FOLDER 1 1963
Call Number: LC-EL06-12 to 22 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 11 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: En route to Namkham Mandalay, Dr. Newhall and children, Ten Shein, ca. August 22, 1963
Note: Slides show Fanny Ellison, Burma (Myanmar) landscape and people.
BOX 5 FOLDER 1 1963
Call Number: LC-EL06-23 to 34 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 12 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Burma FE, August-September 1963
Note: Slides show Fanny Ellison, children, and others (possibly Dr. Joseph F. Newhall) in Burma (Myanmar).
BOX 5 FOLDER 1 1963
Call Number: LC-EL06-35 to 47 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 13 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Namkham, Burma (Myanmar). Pansy Po, Augusta Flowerstar Po, Silver Moon, and Fanny, September 8, 1963
Note: Slides show Burma (Myanmar) landscape and people, temples, wagons, and a medical vehicle.
BOX 5 FOLDER 1 1963
Call Number: LC-EL06-48 to 59 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 12 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Burma by Fanny
Note: Slides show Burma (Myanmar) landscape, people, and buildings.
BOX 5 FOLDER 1 1963
Call Number: LC-EL06-60 to 65 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 6 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Italy
Note: Slides show boats, highways, and the sun over the water. A few slides are marked 1964 and 1965.
BOX 5 FOLDER 1 1963
Call Number: LC-EL06-66 to 71 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 6 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Rome 1965 [1963]
Note: Slides show Ralph Ellison, Fanny Ellison, a dock, and boat.
BOX 5 FOLDER 1 1963
Call Number: LC-EL06-72 to 83 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 12 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Unsuccessful exposures
Note: Slides show a house, children, and plants.
BOX 5 FOLDER 2 1964
Call Number: LC-EL06-84 to 94 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 11 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Riverside Drive
Note: Slides show city life, children, and winter scenes in a park.
BOX 5 FOLDER 2 1964
Call Number: LC-EL06-95 to 105 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 11 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Wilburs, 1964
Note: Slide show Fanny Ellison and others outside with a tiger stuffed animal.
BOX 5 FOLDER 2 1965
Call Number: LC-EL06-106 to 117 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 12 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Green ship, 1965
Note: Slides show boats, waterways, children playing, a dog, and a portrait of Fanny Ellison.
BOX 5 FOLDER 2 1965
Call Number: LC-EL06-118 to 127 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 10 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Riverside play area down below
Note: Slides show boats, waterways, and children playing.
BOX 5 FOLDER 2 1965
Call Number: LC-EL06-128 to 132 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 5 items : 120 medium format color slides
Note: Slides show boats, waterways, and plants.
BOX 5 FOLDER 3 1966
Call Number: LC-EL06-133 to 141 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 9 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: African violets
Note: Slides show African violets and views of trees and the Hudson River.
BOX 5 FOLDER 3 1966
Call Number: LC-EL06-142 to 153 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 12 items : 120 medium format color slides
Note: Slides show Fanny Ellison on a beach, boats, waterways, fire across the river, residences, and a tree.
BOX 5 FOLDER 3 1966
Call Number: LC-EL06-154 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 1 item : 120 medium format color slide
Note: Slide shows a sculpture from Ralph Ellison's art collection.
BOX 5 FOLDER 3 1966
Call Number: LC-EL06-155 to 158 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 4 items : 120 medium format color slides
Note: Slides show children playing outside.
BOX 5 FOLDER 3 1966
Call Number: LC-EL06-159 to 163 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 5 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Nancy Lewis
Note: Slides show boats, waterways, and art.
BOX 5 FOLDER 3 1966
Call Number: LC-EL06-164 to 175 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 12 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Oklahoma City, OK, 1966. John Warren and wife, Los Angeles, Tony Brown and wife, Oklahoma City, Wyatt and Aunt E. Slaughter
Note: Slides show various group portraits of Ralph Ellison, Fanny Ellison, and others as well as cityscapes and a mountain top.
BOX 5 FOLDER 4 1967
Call Number: LC-EL06-176 to 186 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 11 items : 120 medium format color slides
Note: Slides show portraits of Fanny Ellison, interiors of their house including Ralph Ellison's art collection, and various city scenes.
BOX 5 FOLDER 4 1967
Call Number: LC-EL06-187 to 199 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 13 items : 120 medium format color slides
Note: Slides show cityscapes, boats, waterways, and plants.
BOX 5 FOLDER 4 1967
Call Number: LC-EL06-200 to 201 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 2 items : 120 medium format color slides
Note: Slides show group portraits of Fanny Ellison and an unidentified woman.
BOX 5 FOLDER 4 1967
Call Number: LC-EL06-202 to 206 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 5 items : 120 medium format color slides
Note: Slides show Ralph Ellison and his dog.
BOX 5 FOLDER 5 1968
Call Number: LC-EL06-207 to 217 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 11 items : 120 medium format color slides
Transcribed Note: Riverside Dr., Mass.
Note: Slides show Fanny Ellison, cityscapes, indoor plants, fruits, and a spider.
BOX 5 FOLDER 5 1968
Call Number: LC-EL06-218 to 226 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 9 items : 120 medium format color slides
Note: Slides show winter scenes and a church as well as Ralph Ellison's art collection.
BOX 5 FOLDER 5 1968
Call Number: LC-EL06-227 (FM -- AA size)
Extent: 1 item : 120 medium format color slide
Note: Slides show Ralph Ellison's art collection.
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