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Grosvenor collection of Alexander Graham Bell photographs
- Title: [Grosvenor collection of Alexander Graham Bell photographs]
- Other Title:
Alexander Graham Bell photograph collection
Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell family
Bell photograph collection - Creator(s): Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966, collector
- Date Created/Published: [ca. 1850-ca.1965, bulk 1850-1930]
- Medium: ca. 28,000 photographs.
- Summary: The photographs of Alexander Graham Bell and his family, activities, and scientific investigations consist of daguerreotypes and other cased images, photographs, glass negatives, and photograph albums. Included are professional portraits of several generations of the Bell, Fairchild, Grosvernor, and other families, and photographs by family members. Snapshots and family scenes taken during travels in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia and at homes in Washington, D.C., New York, New Hampshire, Nova Scotia, and Scotland are included as are photographs relating to Bell's experimental work with deafness and "Visible Speech," the invention of the telephone, genetics and sheep breeding, experimental kites and aviation, and the hydrofoil. (Source: Washingtoniana Guide)
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
Publication may be restricted. For information see "Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection ..."(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/142_bell.html)
- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Arrangement: Photographic prints are organized in groups called LOTs, based on format and subject matter, and have records in the online catalog. The daguerreotypes are in the DAG series, with individual catalog records. The negatives are glass and nitrate, housed in series with the prefix code LC-G9.
- Collection title devised by Library staff.
- Special Collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980, no. 26
- Washingtoniana : photographs : collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress / Kathleen Collins. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1989, pp. 100-101.
- Published in: Brannan, Beverly W., and Patricia T. Thompson, "Alexander Grham Bell: A Photograph Album," Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 34 (April 1977): 73-96, reprinted in A Century of Photographs, 1846-1946, Selected from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Washington: Library of Congress, 1980).
- Gilbert Grosvenor (1875-1966) became assistant editor of National Geographic Magazine in 1899 and shortly thereafter was appointed Director, National Geographic Society. He married Elsie May Bell, daughter of Alexander Bell, in 1900. Grosvenor served as President of the Society from 1920-1954.
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) is noted for his work with the telephone, the deaf, aeronautics, marine engineering, and other areas of scientific research.
- Cite as the Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Alexander Graham Bell Photographs, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.
- Related material is in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Alexander Graham Bell Family papers, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000011
- Prior to the donation to the Library by the Bell family heirs, the collection was on deposit at the National Geographic Society where they were organized and maintained in a special location called the Bell Room.
- Transfer; Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (Alexander Graham Bell family papers); 1975.
- Digitized images of some items, along with corresponding identifying information, are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/mdbquery.html
- DCRM(G) example for GIHC no. 31 - coll.
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- Part of: Bell, Alexander Graham, Alexander Graham Bell family papers
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- Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/142_bell.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 28,000 photographs.
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- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 28,000 photographs.
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