Series: Albums
Note: The albums were photocopied and disassembled. The prints from the album pages are now in folders which have the original page information on them. There are negatives for some of the prints; these are in separate folders. Also available are photocopies of the album pages before the prints were removed.

1928-1930 album prints (black and white)
Note: There are images of members of the Taliesin Fellowship which document their daily activities in Spring Green, Wisconsin, including construction projects, picnics, and agricultural labor. In addition to photographs of the staff, members and associates of the Fellowship are featured throughout the images. Postcards of scenic views at Tower Hill State Park in Spring Green, Wisconsin, are also featured, along with several aerial views of Taliesin.

1932 album prints (black and white)
Note: There are images of Taliesin in Spring Green, including views of Midway Farm, the Romeo and Juliet windmill, and the surrounding landscape. Some of the activities of the Taliesin Fellowship are also documented including the Tea Circle, as are many individuals.

Negatives for prints from the 1928-1930 and 1932 albums

1935 album prints (black and white)
Note: There are views of Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin, including images of the entrance gate, the Romeo and Juliet windmill, the highway bridge over the Wisconsin River, and a stone Buddha on the grounds. Also featured are several images of the Taliesin Fellowship engaged in agricultural labor, Howe's living quarters as an apprentice, several apprentices, and views of the construction of the Herbert Jacobs residence in Madison, Wisconsin. Lastly, there are photographs of Mies van der Rohe touring the Johnson Wax building and the construction site of its administration building, and shots of the construction of Wingspread, Herbert Johnson's home, also in Racine, Wisconsin.

Negatives for prints from the 1935 album

1936-1937 album prints (black and white)
Note: Images of Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin, depicting a number of views of the building and its site, the interior of Hillside Playhouse, images of apprentices undertaking various construction projects, women attempting to install mosquito netting around the Tea Circle, and the celebration of Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday on a terrace at Taliesin. Individual portraits of William Wesley (Wes) Peters and Eugene (Gene) Masselink are included along with photographs of Fred Benedict, Jim Thomson, and John H. Howe on a canoe trip on the Wisconsin River.

Negatives for prints from the 1936-1937 album

1942 album prints, Taliesin West (black and white, and color)
Note: John H. Howe, indicated that the photographs in this album date from 1942. There are images of the Taliesin West compound in Scottsdale, Arizona and including Sun Trap, guestrooms, and quarters for the apprentices. There are photographs of Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin, which include images of Taliesin Fellowship apprentices working in the communal vegetable garden and interior and exterior views of the Hillside Drafting Studio. A number of the images from this album have been reproduced and enlarged, becoming part of the loose photographs of the Taliesin Fellowship Complex in the Howe collection.

Negatives for prints from the 1942 album

1946-1948 album prints (black and white)
Note: Included are snapshots of winter at Taliesin, images of the Dana House in Springfield, Illinois, a couple of images of Frank Lloyd Wright at a drawing board and images of the architecture at Taliesin West and the construction of the Cabaret Theatre at Taliesin West. Also included are images of the landscape around Howe's cottage, interior and exterior views of the Taliesin Fellowship complex and Taliesin in Spring Green, the Tea Circle and of Mr. Wright addressing the apprentices; and images of the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., residence, “Fallingwater,” in Mill Run, Pennsylvania.

Negatives for prints from the 1946-1948 album

Negatives for prints from the 1946-1948 album (continued)

Evanston album prints (black and white)
Note: The album includes images of various homes in several Chicago suburbs, particularly homes of members of the Howe family, and examples of domestic architecture by Walter Burley Griffin and Frank Lloyd Wright including the Edward C. Waller Gates and Stables, the Isabel Roberts Residence, the Chauncey L. Williams Residence, the River Forest Tennis Club, Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in Oak Park, the Nathan G. Moore Residence, the William E. Martin Residence and Pergola, the Rollin Furbeck Residence, Ferdinand Frederick and Emily Tomek Residence, and the Avery Coonley Playhouse and Residence. Also included is an image of the Babson Estate in Riverside, Illinois, designed by architect George Elmslie.

Hacienda album prints (black and white)
Note: Included is a highway map showing the routes traveled by the Taliesin Fellowship on their 1935 journey to Chandler, Arizona, from Spring Green, Wisconsin, and their return trip the following spring and Howe's handwritten itinerary for the journey. The photographs document many Frank Lloyd Wright buildings including the Henry J. Allen Residence in Wichita, Kansas, the Richard Lloyd Jones home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Arizona Biltmore, Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to views of La Hacienda, there are numerous images of the Frank Lloyd Wright and Fellowship apprentices working on the model for Broadacre City. A number of side trips are also documented including a tour of the original Ocatilla camp, a trip to Lake Arrowhead, and an overnight visit to southern California. Howe included a number of postcards and brochures from such tourist sites as the Grand Canyon; Taos, New Mexico; and Mason City, Iowa in the scrapbook. Additionally there are images of Taliesin in Spring Green of the communal vegetable gardens, construction projects at the house, Cedar Point, and portraits of Betty Barnsdall and Olgivanna Wright; interiors of the Playhouse and galleries outside the Drafting Studio; and lastly, photographs of the groundbreaking and construction of the Johnson Wax Administration Building in Racine, Wisconsin.

Negatives for prints from the Hacienda album

Imperial Hotel album prints (mostly black and white)
Note: There are commercial images of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, taken prior to its destruction in 1968. The images document every facet of the building from its exterior facades to details of the dining room, lounge, theatre and individual guestrooms. Also featured are photographs of plans of the hotel and close-ups of the building's impressive stone carving. In addition, the album contains images of the Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in Tokyo. Also included are several views of its noteworthy leaded glass windows.

Mr. and Mrs. Wright album prints (black and white)
Note: Included are images Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Wright engaged in activities, with family, and sitting for portraits, many of which are reproductions of earlier images or were removed from other albums, but a number of them were collected by John H. Howe from other sources. There is a rare photograph of Svetlana Peters with her stepfather, Frank Lloyd Wright, and portraits of Olgivanna Wright and Iovanna Lloyd Wright. Also included are images of Wright working, with clients, friends, and apprentices.

Copy prints and digital prints from the Taliesin Archives album
Note: The original album, housed at the Taliesin Archives, contains images dated 1938-1941 documenting Taliesin West and its construction; postcard views of Arizona, New Mexico, and California; a trip to Mexico; the Hanna House; Ennis House; a cottage in Genoa City, Illinois designed by John Howe; Johnson Wax; Wingspread; and the Taliesin Fellowship Complex.

Photocopies of album pages before disassembly

1928-1930

1932

1935

1936-1937

1942, Taliesin West

1946-1948

Evanston

Imperial Hotel

Mr. and Mrs. Wright

Scrapbook from Taliesin Archives

Hacienda