Bibframe Work
TitleToni Frissell photograph collectionOther Titles (e.g. Variant)Toni Frissell collectionFrissell photograph collectionTypeStill ImageCollectionSubjectPhotographic prints--1930-1970 (GMGPC)Negatives--1930-1970 (GMGPC)Slides--Color--1940-1970 (GMGPC)SummaryThe 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).Authorized Access PointFrissell, Toni, 1907-1988 Toni Frissell photograph collectionCollection ArrangementCollection Organization: Organized into four series: 1. Negatives and transparencies (slides), 2. contact sheets, 3. photographic prints, and 4. various items.Collection Organization: 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.Collection Organization: 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.Collection Organization: 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])