Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Lehman, Adele Lewisohn, 1882-1965
| title | Helen Lehman Buttenwieser Papers, 1909-1990 (inclusive), 1968-1990 (bulk). | repository | Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute |
| description | These papers partially document HLB's life between 1968 and 1990, with both professional and, especially, personal papers. They yield no information about her parents, and very little about her siblings, education, friendship with Alger Hiss, or legal cases. There is, however, some family correspondence as well as material about HLB's philanthropic interests. The most interesting correspondence is between HLB and Helen Suzman, South African liberal, Member of Parliament, and co-founder of the Progressive Party. Two letters from publisher Alfred A. Knopf deal with abortions for poor women and the state of the union (U.S.A.). The HLB papers have been divided into two series: Series I, Personal and biographical (#1-15f), includes a curriculum vitae, entries in law directories, a lengthy interview with HLB, some writings and speeches, photographs, clippings, information about two HLB oral histories, and some documentation of her involvement with the Legal Aid Society, as well as related correspondence. Series II, Correspondence (#16-56), is divided into two sections: correspondence grouped by individual or subject, and arranged chronologically within each category; and general correspondence arranged chronologically. The bulk of the correspondence is between HLB and family, friends, and colleagues; it includes congratulatory letters, thank-yous, invitations, acknowledgements of political contributions, and charitable solicitations. An Index of Selected Correspondents follows the inventory. In most cases HLB's responses were clipped or stapled to letters she received; they were left in that order by the processor. Undated letters filed among dated ones were left where they were found. Biographical Note: Helen (Lehman) Buttenwieser, lawyer, civil libertarian, children's rights advocate, social worker, and philanthropist, was born on October 8, 1905, in New York City. She was the second of three daughters of Adele (Lewisohn) and Arthur Lehman (AL), members of two of the leading German-Jewish families in the city. ALL's father, Adolph Lewisohn, made a fortune in copper and the shipping of mining products, and was a leader in prison reform. AL's father, Mayer Lehman, was a founder of the New York Cotton Exchange, a partner in Lehman Brothers bank, and the father of three prominent sons: AL, a banker; Herbert, elected governor of New York and later to the U.S. Senate; and Irving, chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals. After attending Horace Mann School in the city, HLB entered Connecticut College for Women (now Connecticut College) in 1923. Mathematics was her favorite subject, but she was neither challenged by nor interested in the rest of the curriculum and left during her junior year to accompany her parents on a trip around the world. Upon her return she went to work at the Hudson Guild in Hell's Kitchen, a poor, immigrant neighborhood on Manhattan's West Side. |
| extent | 2 file boxes, 1 folio folder, 1 folio+ folder |
| formats | Personal Papers Correspondence |
| access | Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use. |
| record link | http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00005 |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| finding aid | Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00005 Unpublished finding aid; most Schlesinger Library finding aids are also available in the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (Chadwyck-Healey, 1984-). |
| acquisition information | The papers of Helen L. Buttenwieser were given to the Schlesinger Library in July 1990 by her heirs via her son and executor, Lawrence B. Buttenwieser. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:58 |
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| title | Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection [Part 1], 1932-1975 | repository | DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University |
| description | The Richie Collection is arranged into eight series by subject and size. In naming the boxes and series, Richie’s wording for subjects has often been included along with other terminology for clarification. Series 1 mostly consists of smaller black and white photographic prints: 4 x 5, 5 x 7, 8 x 10, and 11 x 14-inches. In the higher negative number series, there are also some color transparencies and color negatives. Series 2 consists of black and white contact prints mounted on client job cards. The client job cards are arranged by negative number and have contact prints mounted on board with information regarding the company for whom Richie was making the photographs, location and date. Series 3 contains color slides and transparencies, both 35mm and 2 ¼ by 2 ¼-inch, and 8 x 10” negatives. See also series 6 for different color formats. Series 4 consists of manuscripts including some correspondence, client release forms, magazine clippings, personal photographs of Richie, and a scrapbook entitled, Eyes on Richie. Series 5 contains oversized prints. Series 6 is made up of negatives and color transparencies. The negative sleeves often have important information about the client, location and date the negatives were made. Most of the negatives are black and white 4 x 5-inch, but there are substantial numbers of 5 x 7, and some 35mm and 2 ¼ by 2 ¼-inch. In the 1940s, Richie used a "K" after negative numbers to reference Kodachrome color transparencies. The "E" after later negative numbers stands for color Ektachrome film. Series 7 consists of motion picture film reels in various formats. Series 8 is a listing of Richie’s clients mainly taken from his index cards arranged alphabetically by client giving the date, and location of work. Biographical Note: Robert Yarnall Richie was born on July 20, 1908 to Quaker parents, Elisha Roberts Richie and Anna Sweltser Wood in Moorestown, New Jersey. Photography was a hobby for Richie when he was a boy. He developed an interest in flying and got his pilot’s license in 1928. Although he knew little about it, he started his professional career in 1932 at the age of 23 with aerial photography, which was at the time something of a novelty. Initially, pay was relatively low for his photographs, but Richie’s work soon became in demand, and by 1938, he was called, "…one of the foremost industrial photographers in the world." From the beginning, Richie was creative in his approach to business. During the early 1930s, many of the wealthy spent winters at their Palm Beach, Florida estates and summers at their million dollar mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. Richie spoke to the editor of Town & Country magazine about commissioning a piece called the "Landed Gentry from the Air." It was a good opportunity for the enterprising young photographer to get the start he was looking for. Richie soon recognized that profit in photography came from repeat business. He also decided to diversify, particularly into advertising and industrial photography. Richie initially used an aerial camera with 5 x 7-inch roll film and sometimes a smaller format camera using 120, 116 or 616 film. Later, he acquired a Linhof 4 x 5-inch view camera with several lenses of different focal lengths – sometimes 165 to 275 pounds of equipment to carry on assignments. One of his earliest commercial clients was Corning Glass Works. Life magazine reviewed his work in 1940, "Never a news photographer, his keen interest in industry which he believes offers the greatest field for human-interest and dramatic photography, keeps him traveling from one end of the country to another." Richie produced his first film in 1939 while in Colombia on an assignment for Fortune magazine. He produced over 300 films during his lifetime. Richie continued to develop a career in making commercial stills and motion pictures. In 1941, he purchased a Culver Cadet monoplane enabling him to cover projects world-wide. During World War II, at 36 years old, Richie was considered too old to join the military. He remained busy, however, as US industry boomed. He often worked for Fortune, Life, Scientific American, The American Magazine, Time, National Geographic and other magazines, in addition to illustrating annual reports for Fortune 500 companies including General Motors, U.S. Steel, Gulf Oil, Phelps Dodge, and Dresser Industries among many others. Richie further branched out into shooting oil production images in such areas as Texas, Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico, and Saudi Arabia. Richie expressed a preference for oil work, "There’s drama in steel, but there’s more romance in oil," he said, "oil has so many different angles to it as an industry. Oil really has a story to tell in pictures." As a pioneer in the field, he excelled in making artistic views of corporate industrial subjects in a mid-century modernist style. Richie often took unusual angle shots creating dramatic photographs of what could have been mundane subjects. Richie was married three times and had six children. Robert Yarnall Richie never retired and passed away in 1984 at age 76. Preferred Citation Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. |
| extent | 101 boxes of photographic prints (approx. 10,000), 2 boxes of color slides and transparencies, 9 cabinets of negatives (approx. 95,500), 42 boxes of motion picture film, 3 boxes (2 linear feet) of manuscripts and photographic equipment |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Manuscript |
| access | Collection is open for research use. |
| record source | http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00166/smu-00166.html |
| finding aid | In the repository and on the repository's website. |
| acquisition information | Purchase, DeGolyer Foundation, 1976. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:16 |
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