Photography Collection
Photograph of the Paris L'Opera by L.P., ca. 1890s from a collection of photographs depicting European architecture.
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) of Amherst, Massachusetts was an activist for Native American rights, author of Ramona in 1884, and friend of Emily Dickinson.
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Haverford’s fine art photography
collection spans the history of photography and contains approximately
3,000 images created by more than 100 artists from daguerreotypes to digital
images. Some of the outstanding fine art photographers represented in
the collection are: Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene
Atget, Edouard Boubat, John Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Curtis,
Roy DeCarava, Harold Edgerton, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Andre Kertesz,
Dorothea Lange, Jacques Lartigue, Lisette Model, August Sander, Eugene
Smith, James Van DerZee and Carl Van Vechten.
An inventory of the fine
art photography collection is available.
In addition, there are hundreds of photographs of
individuals and groups, many of them Quaker. There are also photographs
of Quaker Meetinghouses, residences and schools.
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