Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)

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Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)

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Title: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)
Other Title: Architecture and interior design for 20th century America, photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955.
Related Names:
   Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971 , photographer
   Schleisner, William H. (William Herman), 1912-1962 , photographer
   Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. , photographer
Date Created/Published: 1896-1970, bulk 1935-1955.
Medium: ca. 28,350 negatives : safety film, some nitrate ; 5 x 7 in. (13 x 18 cm.) or smaller.
ca. 300 transparencies : film, color ; 8 x 10 in. (21 x 26 cm.) or smaller.
11 albums of photographic or photomechanical prints : gelatin silver, some cyanotype, some color ; 16.5 x 14 in. (42 x 35 cm.) or smaller.
ca. 275 photographic prints : b&w, gelatin silver ; 17 x 14 in. (43 x 36 cm.) or smaller.
Summary: Architectural photographs, often made on commission for architects, designers, and commercial businesses, record important design achievements. Interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures, primarily in the northeastern United States and Florida. Also, documentation of the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York. Work by Gottscho before the establishment of the firm Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. includes views of New York City and the surrounding area and images of family and friends.
Reproduction Number: ---
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Access Advisory: Due to safety regulations, nitrate negatives can't be served to the public. For unprocessed portion of the collection: Please allow fourteen days advance notice to view materials. To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html Negatives, transparencies, and unprocessed photographic prints not served for regular reference use.
Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4840 USA
Notes:
- Arrangement: Organized into three series (negatives, transparencies, and prints) with many subseries; Arrangement: Negatives and transparencies are arranged in eight subseries: LC-G602 (86 5x7 color transparencies); LC-G603 (1 4x5 color transparency); LC-G604 (1 8x10 color transparency); LC-G605 (216 2x2 color slides); LC-G612 (ca. 16,400 5x7 b&w film acetate neg.); LC-G613 (ca. 11,500 4x5 b&w film acetate neg.); LC-G622 (55 5x7 b&w film nitrate neg.); LC-G623 (88 4x5 b&w film nitrate neg.). Arrangement within each series is chronological by job number. Albums arranged by subject or chronologically (LOTs 12400-12405, 12818-12822). Photographic prints of Washington, D.C., area arranged by original negative numbers (LOT 12036). There are also 40 master prints (LOT 12823).
- Collection title devised.
- Collection span dates correspond to Gottscho's early photographs (1896) until near the end of his life (1970); the bulk dates correspond to the firm's most active years (1935-1955).
- Photographic prints are from original negatives.
- Original jackets for film items with job titles, item numbers, item titles, dates, and information about exposures and lens sizes are in PR 12 CN 165.
- Multi-volume negative registers (1916-1971) provide job titles, item numbers, item titles, and dates for negatives at the Library of Congress and in other repositories. A one-volume index lists clients before Sept. 1930. These volumes are in P&P Supplementary Archives.
- Additional Gottscho-Schleisner negatives held by the Avery Library, the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Public Library, and Mrs. Doris Schleisner.
- Washingtoniana : photographs : collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress / Kathleen Collins. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1989, p. 99.
- Digitized images of all items in the collection and their associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/gottschoquery.html
- Digitized images are also available through the Library of Congress American Memory Web site produced in 1996 and called : Architecture and interior design for 20th century America, photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gschtml/gotthome.html
- Gift and purchase; Mrs. Doris Schleisner; 1979-1989; (DLC/PP-1979:R01, 1979:R02, 1982:R01, 1982:220, 1983:R01, 1984:234-236, 1984:285, 1984:411-424, 1988:251, 1989:039).
- Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. consisted of two partners, Samuel H. Gottscho (1875-1971) and William H. Schleisner (1912-1962). The firm was active from 1935 until Schleisner's death in 1962. Most of the work from before 1945 is by Gottscho. Most work from the period 1945-1960 is by Schleisner. The collection also includes work by Gottscho before the establishment of the firm and work done after Schleisner's death.
- A set of catalog records describing each item is available through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. See http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lcoa1.about
- Original negatives sleeves stored under PR 12 CN 762.
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Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Reproduction Number: ---
Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: ca. 28,350 negatives : safety film, some nitrate ; 5 x 7 in. (13 x 18 cm.) or smaller.
ca. 300 transparencies : film, color ; 8 x 10 in. (21 x 26 cm.) or smaller.
11 albums of photographic or photomechanical prints : gelatin silver, some cyanotype, some color ; 16.5 x 14 in. (42 x 35 cm.) or smaller.
ca. 275 photographic prints : b&w, gelatin silver ; 17 x 14 in. (43 x 36 cm.) or smaller.

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Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: ca. 28,350 negatives : safety film, some nitrate ; 5 x 7 in. (13 x 18 cm.) or smaller.
ca. 300 transparencies : film, color ; 8 x 10 in. (21 x 26 cm.) or smaller.
11 albums of photographic or photomechanical prints : gelatin silver, some cyanotype, some color ; 16.5 x 14 in. (42 x 35 cm.) or smaller.
ca. 275 photographic prints : b&w, gelatin silver ; 17 x 14 in. (43 x 36 cm.) or smaller.
Access Advisory: Due to safety regulations, nitrate negatives can't be served to the public. For unprocessed portion of the collection: Please allow fourteen days advance notice to view materials. To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html Negatives, transparencies, and unprocessed photographic prints not served for regular reference use.

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