Wallace Kirkland Papers and Photographs, 1908-1977

Contents List

Container Title
MCHC78-136
Series: Papers
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   1-7
Ethel Kirkland, 1915-1917
Box   2
Folder   1-6
Ethel Kirkland (continued), 1917-1928
Box   3
Folder   1-9
Ethel Kirkland (continued), 1929-1960
Box   4
Folder   1
Ethel Kirkland (continued), undated
Box   4
Folder   2
Don Kirkland, 1933-1958
Box   4
Folder   3
Frank and Elsie Fay, 1939-1951, undated
Box   4
Folder   4
Judy Kirkland, 1932-1958
Box   4
Folder   5
Wallace Kirkland Jr., 1924-1942
Box   4
Folder   6
Wallace Kirkland Jr. from Mary Glenn Kirkland, 1943
Box   4
Folder   7
Wallace Kirkland Sr. from Ethel, 1940-1945, 1958, undated
Box   4
Folder   8
Wallace Kirkland Sr., incoming, 1939-1968
Box   4
Folder   9
Wallace Kirkland Sr., outgoing, 1939-1967
Box   5
Folder   1
Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, 1952
Box   5
Folder   2
Business, travel, and work-related items, 1940-1958
Box   5
Folder   3-4
Christmas cards, 1943-1954, undated
Box   5
Folder   5
Certificates, 1923 and 1966
Box   5
Folder   6
Daybooks, 1953-1955
Box   5
Folder   7
Don Kirkland school items, 1937-1949, undated
Box   5
Folder   8
Guest book, 1971-1977
Box   6
Folder   1
India trip, 1940
Box   6
Folder   2
Lima, Peru trip, 1938
Box   6
Folder   3
Manuscripts and writings: Jamaica, undated
Box   6
Folder   4
Manuscripts, writings, and speeches, 1941-1967, undated
Box   6
Folder   5
Miscellaneous personal items, 1918-1953, undated
Box   6
Folder   6
News clippings, 1946-1967
Box   6
Folder   7
Permission letters for models, 1954-1959
Box   6
Folder   8
Photography: business and personal documents, undated
Box   6
Folder   9
Publications, 1947-1952
Box   6
Folder   10
Receipts and personal records, 1920-1956
Box   6
Folder   11
"To a God Unknown" film adaptation, undated
Box   6
Folder   12
Wallace Kirkland Jr. medical notes, 1949-1950
Box   6
Folder   13
Wallace Kirkland Sr. school notes, 1916
Box   7
YMCA College yearbooks, 1917, 1921-1922, 1924
Box   8-9
Miscellaneous publications, 1939-1975
Box   10
Photographic catalogues, circa 1908-1914
Box   11
Folder   1-6
School catalogues, 1933-1937, undated
Box   12
Folder   1
Articles and publications, 1938-1969
Box   12
Folder   2
Awards and certificates, 1919-1939
Box   12
Folder   3
Congratulations, lectures, and honors, 1938-1966, undated
Box   12
Folder   4
Life India story, 1942
Box   12
Folder   5
Life joke covers, 1939-1955
Box   12
Folder   6
Life magazine stories, 1937-1968
Box   12
Folder   7
Sketches, undated
PH 6053
Series: Photographs
Family
Box   1
Prints: 138; negatives: 14
Box   2
Negatives: 382; transparencies: 34
Box   3
Negatives: 2,675
Box   4
Life job numbers - negatives: 1,741
Box   5
Robert Rauschenberg - prints: 46; negatives: 27
Box   6
Australia - prints: 66 prints; negatives: 1,079
India
Box   7
Prints: 113; negatives: 1,079
Box   8
Prints: 172; transparencies: 97; drawings: 1
Box   9
Prints: 363
Box   10
Prints: 692
Box   11
Otters - prints: 643; negatives: 1,535
Miscellaneous identified images
Box   12
Prints: 499
Scope and Content Note: Early prints collage
Pan-Am Clipper
Peru
Kid shots
Card board toys
Sears Roebuck cover shots
Jean Chappel
Milwaukee Zoological Dinner
New Zealand
Slash pine
Peru Society Dancers
Canoe cruise
Guatemala and Panama
Pumpkin Queen (festival)
Loon
Guaymas
Dog sled
Haiti
Mexico 100
La Follette
Life - Parties: Miscellaneous New York
Life - Glider story
Gaspe - Canada?
Log rolling
Clouds
Shrew
Oaxaca
Pantheon Books
Navajo, Indians
Children's school in Peru
Box   13
Prints: 606
Scope and Content Note: Dragonflies Insects
Kirkland?
People (unidentified)
Kittens
Flowers
Turtles
Skulls
Paintings
Animals
French Lick Springs Hotel
Woman's skull
Sculpture (6)
Yoga
Mannequin
Cypress Knee
[Prints from] Negatives discarded due to deterioration
Sparrows in flight
Sparrows
Cree Indians
Sand Painting
Coyote hunt
Insects
Southwest Indians
Huddiestons and Louis Armstrong
Small boy playing
Friends
College students
Kirk and self portraits
Box   14
Prints: 507; negatives: 1, transparencies: 8
Scope and Content Note: Photographs by Tom?
Family
Mozambique
Driftwood and sculptures
Trees
Lobsters
Sea creatures
Ant lion
Puff ball
Goblet
Water
Baby barn owl
Birds
Mexico
Hood scarlet crab
Snails on driftwood
Snaked
Butterflies
Flowers
Patty, set II
Admiral Leahy, General Girraud, General Marshall with President Roosevelt
Fish
St. Louis farmer
Mayor LaGuardia
Bees
Pan-American conference
Henry A. Wallace
[Errol] Flynn
Mrs. Henry Luce
Everett Dirksen
Personalities
Rapho-Guillaumette, African photos - collection grubworms for food and more
Children
Policeman
Drawings
Box   15
Prints: 440; negatives: 22; transparencies: 1
Scope and Content Note: Hull House
Nudes and Myer's Rum
Kirkland in hammock
Kirkland in the snow
Kirkland and a gorilla
Chopping down a tree
Dinners
Man and woman
Kirkland at the beach
Sunshine Springs water circus
Camping and canoeing
Kirkland and apples
"Berry" card
Frog
Greeting cards
Airplanes
Close up of camera and microscope
Kirkland with wife and Christmas decorations
Utopia
Canoeing in Washington, D.C.
Birds, fish bees
Strobe flash photographs, possibly Milli
Cash Street, Panama
Army Phase, Sixth Inter-Service Photography Contest
#281 C1
#8960
Miscellaneous
#8152
Don's wedding
#0A 41704
Door County, Wisconsin - Trout Boil
Cypress Knee
Black Swallowtail Butterfly and Golden Silk Spider
Beach
Shells
Water Scorpion
Frogs
Caterpillar of Sphinx - Moth
Fireflies
Foxes
Crayfish
Barnacles
Eggs
Dragonfly close-up
Bees
Box   16
Prints: 557
Scope and Content Note: Cypress Knees
Stroke
Nature
Birds
Bees
Moose
Still life
Animals
Raising fox pups
Nature - sand dunes, waste, orchid
Nature
Kids on the beach
Milk weed
Fish and insects
Box   17
Prints: 495
Scope and Content Note: Girls canoe trip
Guatemala (old)
Canoe trip (old)
Trail-ride, 1946
Making corncob pipes
Flowers
Panorama
Rock sculptures
Children
Military - Installations and Panama
Mexican/Guatemalan
Nature - scenery, more birds, etc.
Dragon flies
Miscellaneous - Mommies, nature art, other oddities
Curtis Farms (4x5)
Curtis Farms (120 mm)
Curtis Farms (35 mm)
Unidentified images
Box   18
Prints: 433
Scope and Content Note: Includes jobs/job numbers:
#C3-R1
#4057, R1-R4
#4057, C1-C4
#4057, O1-O2
#3958, C1-C2
#3958, R3-R4
#43699, C1-C5
#43699, R1-R5
#4271, R1-R2
#4271, C1-C4
#4350, R1-R5
Tame Badger Story, C1-C3, R4-R7
#41567, C1-C10
#41567, C11-C20
#41567, C21-C32
#41567, R1-R9
#41567, R10-R20
#43762
#44081
#45688
#4350, P1
#4381, R1
#4350, C1-C3
#4381, C1-C7
#4381, C8-C16
Box   19
Prints: 670; negatives: 8
Box   20
Prints: 540, transparencies: 4, drawings: 3
Box   21
Prints: 540
Box   22
Prints: 508, negatives: 99
Scope and Content Note: #4229, C1-C9
#0A 22454
4139, C1
5-1-5-5
4-2-5-14
Contact sheets
#3953, R1-R3
#3957, R6
#286, R9
Contact sheets
Errol Flynn
Contact sheets
Northern Air Animal contacts
Prairie Dog contacts
Fl 5743
Miscellaneous prints
4-3-4-12
#4618
#08
#59
#787, R3
#787, C3
#787, 4x5 contact prints
Miscellaneous prints
Identified images
Box   23
Negatives: 1,715
Scope and Content Note: Kauffman's Party
Sparrows
Kirk and Michigan Man
Rattlesnake Bill
Jean Chappell
Julie 1961
Elsa
Life party
Deatz - 1959
Bill Cassil, U.S. Navy
Maria Strobe
Havana
Tom and trout
Vacation Pin Cer Creek
Rudolph Penn
Ernie Brant - Party
Helen Douglas
Sailing - MacNeil
Moffett
Raining Lake, 1936
Mr. and Mrs. Watson
Frank Fay House?
General Football, 1936
Allis Chalmers Farmer Picnic
National College Playground
Ducks - Cuba Island
Indians, Chicago Fair - Century of Progress
Box   24
Negatives: 1,317
Scope and Content Note: Red Cross shoes
Iowa farm
Bird dogs - Grand Junction team
Nahma
Container Corporation Clothes
Life retreat
Homing pigeons
Judy's wedding
Box   25
Prints: 5; negatives: 950; transparencies: 28
Scope and Content Note: Casey James
Canadian Rockies vacation
Kirk and Dels
Flowers
Animals, insects
Insects, animals (2)
Indian trading post
Mrs. Hulls - Old Social Workers
Montego Bay - Jamaica - Identified
Montego Bay - Jamaica - Unidentified
Montego Bay - Jamaica - Identification sleeves
Unidentified images
Box   26
Prints: 42; negatives: 1,090; transparencies: 41
Box   27
Prints: 74; negatives: 2,493; transparencies: 26
Box   28
Prints: 25; negatives: 157; transparencies: 626
Box   29
Prints: 36; negatives: 75; transparencies: 573
Scope and Content Note: Safari culls
Disneyland
Mexico
Canoe, etc.
Fred Smith (Box 19)
Negatives (Box 19)
Wisconsin sculptures, "Fred Smith" (Box 19), transparencies
Wisconsin sculptures, "Fred Smith" (Box 19), prints
Identified images
Box   30
Prints: 574; negatives: 55
Box   31
Prints: 204; negatives: 1,363; transparencies: 14
Box   32
Negatives: 1,332
Box   33
Negatives: 762
Box   34
Prints: 1; negatives: 1,054
Box   35
Prints: 36; negatives: 911; transparency: 1
Box   36
Prints: 34; negatives: 800; transparency: 1
Unidentified and identified images
Box   37
Negatives: 3.234
Box   38
Prints: 6; negatives: 2,926; transparencies: 3
Identified negatives
Box   39
Negatives: 810
Box   40
Negatives: 776
Box   41
Negatives: 111
Box   42
Negatives: 92
Box   43
Negatives: 45 [GLASS]
Box   44
Prints: 2; negatives: 12
Note: Flowers
Box   45
Negatives: 161
Note: Moles and flowers [heavily curled]
Box   46
Negatives: uncounted
Note: [heavily curled]
Identified lantern slides
Physical Description: Glass 
Box   47
Transparencies: 106
Note: Wisconsin, Duluth, Gothic
Box   48
Transparencies: 81
Note: California, Santa Fe, Cheyenne Canyons
Box   49
Transparencies: 90
Note: Colorado
Box   50
Transparencies: 92
Note: Colorado
Box   51
Transparencies: 93
Note: Colorado, Glenwood Canyon
Box   52
Transparencies: 79
Note: Switzerland
Box   53
Transparences: 72
Note: Europe, China
Box   47
Transparencies: 106
Note: Wisconsin, Duluth, Gothic
Box   48
Transparencies: 81
Note: California, Santa Fe, Cheyenne Canyons
Box   49
Transparencies: 90
Note: Colorado
Box   50
Transparencies: 92
Note: Colorado
Box   51
Transparencies: 93
Note: Colorado, Glenwood Canyon
Box   52
Transparencies: 79
Note: Switzerland
Box   53
Transparences: 72
Note: Europe, China
Unidentified lantern slides
Physical Description: Glass 
Box   54
Transparencies: 68
Box   55
Transparencies: 74
Box   56
Transparencies: 83
Identified and unidentified images
Box   57
Albums (4) containing: photographs: 994; drawings: 2; ephemera: 2
Box   58
Photographs: 139
Note: Superior-Quetico Canoe Cruise
Box   59
Photographs: 153; negatives: 52
Scope and Content Note: Male preferences for female figure types, bowling, hollyhocks, Bluehill farm, belly dancer (Maria Davies?), Chicago parades and street scenes, evangelist with trombone, birth at Cedar Falls hospital, canoeing, corncob pipe manufacturing, buffalo herd [Description from earlier box list]
Box   60
Photographs: 204
Scope and Content Note: Sculpture by Edouard Chassainy (1940), miscellaneous enlargements, WWII military, women and babies, stewardess school, theater at Champaign-Urbana, female lifeguards, flash and mannequin gags, band in warehouse (or whorehouse?), sand sculpture contest in Chicago, Chicago lakefront boat trip, Olympic tryouts (1948), GIs with duck [Description from earlier box list]
Box   61
Photographs: 214
Scope and Content Note: Cornfield in Illinois (incl. seed corn), misc. farm scenes, watermellons [sic] in Illinois, farm horses and mules, peach orchard, lambs, 1953 turkey festival incl. queen, tomatoes, dairy farm, men at work on farms, tractors and other mechanical farm equipment, fruits and vegetables from the field to the vegetable stand, hogs, chickens, a poor farmer [Description from earlier box list]
Box   62
Photographs: 238
Scope and Content Note: Farm scenes (dairy, corn, chickens, farm families, aerial views, all 1940s, some X3s made), cartoonist Milton Caniff makes drawing of actress ? Copper Calhoon, fishing in north (Alaska?), lambs at Disney ? farm in Indiana, artificial insemination of cows, short horn cattle and woman riding zebra, Dirksen at 1950 state fair, misc. women mostly clothed, portraits of unidentified women, fashion shots of women in furs and hats, showgirls, gorilla suit and mannequins [Description from earlier box list]
Box   63
Photographs: 27
Mounted images
Box   64
Photographs: 43
Box   65
Photographs: 42
Box   66
Photographs: 16
Note: Mexico
Box   67
Photographs: 183
Box   68
Photographs: 200; drawings: 1
Box   69
Photographs: 239
Box   70
Photographs: 164; drawings: 6
Box   71
Photographs: 297
Box   72
Photographs: 204
Box   73
Photographs: 161; drawings: 8
Box   74
Photographs: 132
Box   75
Photographs: 102
Box   76
Photographs: 115
Box   77
Photographs: 175
Box   78
Photographs: 34
Box   79
Oversize photographs: uncounted
Nudes
Box   80
Photographs: 459
Box   81
Photographs: 378
Box   82
Photographs: 159
Box   83
Negatives: uncounted
Box   84
Photographs: 165; negatives: 242; transparencies: 31
Box   85
Photographs: 3; negatives: 927
Box   86
Photographs: 75
Box   87
Photographs: 28
Note: In hammock
Box   88
Photographs: 161
Box   89
Photographs: 60
Box   90
Photographs: 249
Box   91
Photographs: 111
Box   92
Photographs: 89
Note: In hammock
Nude Mobiles
Box   93
Photographs: uncounted
Unidentified images
Box   94
Photographs: uncounted; negatives: uncounted
Box   95
Photographs: uncounted; negatives: uncounted