Summary Information

Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Archives and Manuscripts: Paul Vanderbilt's Subject Files
Inclusive Dates: 1951-1971

Creator:

• State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Archives and Manuscripts

Call Number: Series 2489

Quantity: 3.8 cubic feet (10 archives boxes and 2 card boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Classified subject files, mainly 1954-1965, and other administrative materials of Paul Vanderbilt (1905-1992), the first curator of the Historical Society's Iconographic Collection, including correspondence, memoranda, reports and writings, reference material, product samples, photographic tests, notes, and reference materials pertaining to the organization of the section, its operation, and the cataloging, exhibit, and promotion of its collections. Prominent correspondents include Ansel Adams, Roy Stryker, George Talbot, and Franklin Wallick, as well as Historical Society administrators Leslie J. Fishel Jr., J.W. Jenkins, Clifford Lord, and Don McNeil. Numerous films and photographs created by Vanderbilt as head of Iconography are separately catalogued in the Visual Materials Section.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser02489