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Toni Frissell photograph collection
- Title: Toni Frissell photograph collection
- Other Title:
Toni Frissell collection
Frissell photograph collection - Creator(s): Frissell, Toni, 1907-1988, photographer
- Date Created/Published: 1930-1969.
- Medium:
whole collection 445,150 items.
340,000 negatives : safety and nitrate film, b&w ; 35mm, 120 medium format (roll film).
53,250 photographs : color film transparencies ; 35mm, 120 medium format (roll film), (slide format)
23,200 photographic prints (contact sheets)
25,700 photographs : gelatin silver prints ; 36 x 46 cm or smaller.
ca. 3,000 items ; various sizes. - Summary: The photographs document a wide range of subjects captured for publication, clients, and personal use. Examples include: children, fashion, families, leisure activities such as eating and drinking, members of American and British upper classes, well-known personalities, sports, and World War II. Frissell's own selection of about 1,800 of her best and most representative photographs have been processed for use (LOT 12452).
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
Publication restricted for some images. For more information, see "Toni Frissell Collection,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/070_fris.html)
- Access Advisory: Collection is open for research. Negatives are not served. Due to safety regulations, nitrate negatives can't be served to the public. The bulk of the nitrate negatives requires additional offsite processing. Please consult with reference librarians for information about negatives from pre-1955 jobs.
- 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: Organized into four series: 1. Negatives and transparencies (slides), 2. contact sheets, 3. photographic prints, and 4. various items.
- Arrangement: Negatives and color transparencies are arranged into two filing series: LC-F905 (includes all sizes such as 35mm, 120mm color transparencies) and LC-F9 (includes all sizes such as 35mm, 120mm b&w negatives). The LC-F905 series have library-assigned sequential numbers and the LC-F9 series are organized chronologically by year, month, roll, and frame range.
- Arrangement: Contact sheets are arranged into one filing series: FRISSELL. The series is organized chronologically by job and year (Job 19XX). Jobs were created based on Frissell's original group housing and log book information.
- Arrangement: Photographic prints and various items are arranged into 25 LOTs: LOT 12432 (British military officers Sir John Dill and Sir Alan Brooke, Washington, D.C.), LOT 12433 (Washington, D.C.), LOT 12434 (Portraits of Stuart Symington, Washington, D.C.), LOT 12435 (Brazilian Embassy ball, Washington, D.C.), LOT 12436 (American National Red Cross chairman Norman Davis, Washington, D.C.), LOT 12437 (Oveta Culp Hobby inspecting WAACs at Fort Meade, Maryland, and Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C.), LOT 12438 (Gail Whitney and her mother, Mrs. Josiah Marvel, Washington, D.C.), LOT 12439 (Garfinckel's advertisements for Vogue magazine, Washington, D.C. region), LOT 12440 (Garfinckel's advertisements for Vogue, Washington, D.C.), LOT 12446 (Eleanor Roosevelt on goodwill tour in Great Britain during World War II), LOT 12447 (332nd Fighter Group at air base in southern Italy), LOT 12452 (Book boards: Toni Frissell's selection of her best and most representative photographs), LOT 12457 (Civilian life in bombed London, England), LOT 12458: (8th Air Force headquarters operations room during World War II), LOT 12459 (World War II American generals serving in the European theater), LOT 13753 (King Ranch photographs), LOT 15412 (Toni Frissell Photographic Prints 1939 to 1970), LOT 15413 ([King Ranch prints]), LOT 15414 ([Photographs of 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin]), LOT 15415 ([Photographs and related material from the traveling exhibit "Toni Frissell: Photographs - A Number of Things"]), LOT 15416 ([Personal and family photographs by Toni Frissell]), LOT 15417 ([Ephemera from the Toni Frissell photograph collection]), LOT 15418 ([Color photographs of children, families and landscapes]), LOT 15419 ([Portrait and landscape photographs]), and LOT 15420 ([Scrapbook of South America]).
- Some of the color film in the Frissell Collection exhibits signs of deterioration or color shifting. The digital images presented in the collection are a reasonable reproduction of the color tones of the original film. No restoration or correction was applied to improve the depicted scene.
- Portions of Frissell Collection formerly had the Library call number PR 06 CN 651, PR 06 CN 668.
- Washingtoniana : photographs : collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress / Kathleen Collins. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1989, pp. 92-93.
- Cite as the Toni Frissell photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.
- Digitized images of some items, along with corresponding identifying information, are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, at: http://loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/
- Gift; Toni Frissell; 1970, 1971; (PR 13 CN 1971:R04)
- Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1971; (DLC/PP-1971:R04)
- Toni Frissell (1907-1988) began her career as a photojournalist and fashion photographer. She demonstrated versatility as a staff photographer for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Sports Illustrated and in her publication of several photographically illustrated books, ranging from A Child's Garden of Verses (1944) to The King Ranch, 1939-1944 (1975). Frissell is perhaps best known for her pioneering fashion photography and her informal portraits of the famous and powerful in the United States and Europe, including Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, and John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy. She is noted for taking fashion photography out of the studio into the outdoors, thus placing an accent on the active woman. She is also known for the imaginative angles, both physical and metaphorical, from which she covered her subjects.
- Published in: Toni Frissell, Photographs, 1933-1967. New York: Doubleday, in association with the Library of Congress, 1994.
- Format:
- Collections:
- Part of: Frissell, Toni, 1907-1988. Toni Frissell papers
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Guide Records
The Library of Congress generally does not own rights to material in its collections and, therefore, cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. For further rights information, see "Rights Information" below and the Rights and Restrictions Information page ( https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/rights.html ).
- Rights Advisory: Publication restricted for some images. For more information, see "Toni Frissell Collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/070_fris.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium:
whole collection 445,150 items.
340,000 negatives : safety and nitrate film, b&w ; 35mm, 120 medium format (roll film).
53,250 photographs : color film transparencies ; 35mm, 120 medium format (roll film), (slide format)
23,200 photographic prints (contact sheets)
25,700 photographs : gelatin silver prints ; 36 x 46 cm or smaller.
ca. 3,000 items ; various sizes.
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- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium:
whole collection 445,150 items.
340,000 negatives : safety and nitrate film, b&w ; 35mm, 120 medium format (roll film).
53,250 photographs : color film transparencies ; 35mm, 120 medium format (roll film), (slide format)
23,200 photographic prints (contact sheets)
25,700 photographs : gelatin silver prints ; 36 x 46 cm or smaller.
ca. 3,000 items ; various sizes. - Access Advisory: Collection is open for research. Negatives are not served. Due to safety regulations, nitrate negatives can't be served to the public. The bulk of the nitrate negatives requires additional offsite processing. Please consult with reference librarians for information about negatives from pre-1955 jobs.
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