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Thomas L. Taylor
A Guide and Inventory
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INTRODUCTION

THOMAS LOWE TAYLOR, 1938-2009, was a poet, photographer, and publisher whose unique and innovative work was highly regarded among his fellow poets and artists. This collection is a continuation of The Thomas L. Taylor Papers, Spec.rare.cms.97, where a more detailed introduction to his work may be found. This collection consists principally of photographs taken by Taylor. See below for a more detailed account of the organization and nature of the photographs. Further materials may be added in the future, as this guide is a work in progress.



Overview of the Collection:

Repository:Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Identification:Spec.rare.cms.176
Creator:Thomas L. Taylor
Title:Thomas L. Taylor Papers 2001-
Dates:2001-
Quantity:29 manuscript boxes
Description:A collection of Taylor's photographs.




The lack of chronological order between folders is in dialogue with Thomas L. Taylor’s (TLT) style artistically, and the way in which he stored and sent the items. Also, many photographs were undated and unmarked and chronology could not be determined in many instances. Instead the photographs are arranged by theme and common subject matter within each folder, and date whenever it was possible, to create a unified and cohesive set of photographs and information for any viewer of the contents. The black and white photographs were taken earlier on in TLT’s career, and the colored photographs were the subjects of his later work. Many themes become apparent throughout these photographs including close to 1000 different representations of the white mask created for Jan Richardson and came to symbolize the beloved in TLT’s photographs, images of America and its symbology, and TLT’s many landscapes both of nature (many taken at his home on the Pacific coast) and manmade environments. As well, there are photographs of his family and friends, including other poets and artists, and his dog. An artist in many ways, the collection includes several copies of TLT’s different publications of his poetry and prose work. TLT’s use of double exposure to produce an effect in the photographs which he then refers to as doubles.


  • TLT = Thomas L. Taylor
  • b/w = black-and-white
  • cc = carbon copy
  • holog. = holographic (handwritten)
  • ms = manuscript
  • mss = manuscripts
  • nd = no date
  • orig. = original (not a photocopy or other copied form)
  • p. = page
  • pc = photocopy
  • pp. = pages
  • sn = no name
  • ts = typescript

Box and Folder Listing:

Box 9

Folders 1-7:
  1. Photographs.Folder includes several older b/w photographs many of landscapes or candid of people. Taken and developed by TLT.
  2. Photographs.Folder includes b/w mate finished photographs, many of architecture or landscape, and use of double exposure process. Some have a hand placed in foreground of photograph.
  3. Photographs.Folder includes several b/w gloss finished photographs using double exposure process. Many have his hand or a model hand placed into the foreground of the photograph.
  4. Photographs and Postcards.Folder includes several photographs of TLT from many different years of his life. Four postcards for White Light the Lost Vision of Montana by Tom Eagle (TLT), and the original photograph used on the front of the postcard.
  5. Photographs.Folder includes b/w photographs which subject matter is varied but all display specific exposure effects. Folder includes photographs of landscapes, photographs of a still life that are double exposed, photographs that are double exposed with words or numbers overlaying a background image, and a few photographs that are stained with sepia tones. Several photographs are stuck together.
  6. Photographs.Folder includes color and sepia toned photographs that include the process of double exposure of words over a background image.
  7. Photographs.Folder includes photographs that capture different people as the subject including some of TLT and several of people in cars and two of a man riding in a horseback competition, b/w photographs from a pottery exhibit and demonstration, black and whites of landscapes including suburban and natural scenes.




Box 10

Folders 8-17:
  1. Photographs.Folder includes color 4x6 photographs of the American flag double exposed over a background image. Most are dated either July 2007 or September 2007.
  2. Photographs.Folder includes color 5x7 photographs of the American flag double exposed over a background image. Some are dated either April 2003, October 2007, or March 2008.
  3. Photographs and Postcards.Folder includes a postcard for Karen-Ann Shlomberg Windhild’s Windchild Earth Spirit Art. Photographs of the sculpture pictured on the front of the postcard and other photographs of similar artworks.
  4. Photographs.Folder included 5x7 photographs that feature a white mask double exposed over various and diverse background images. Background images include the ocean, garden pots and dirt, as well as people. Pictures of a white mask against a black background. Also, includes a digital print out of a photo index for a roll of film that includes some of the mask photographs.
  5. Photographs.Folder includes 5x7 colored photographs of a snow rural landscape, and 5x7 colored photographs of ocean and beach landscapes that are later used as background images in TLT’s double exposure process.
  6. Photographs.Folder includes 5x7 colored double exposed photographs that utilize the landscape scenes from Folder 12. Some are double exposing the rural snow landscape over the ocean landscape while others are the landscapes as a background for other figures and photographs.
  7. Photographs.Folder includes 5x7 double exposed photographs that are either in b/w or sepia toned. Many include the white mask symbolizing the beloved for TLT, a dog, or a western landscape as the subject matter, and some have one of the ocean landscape photographs from Folder 12 as the background of the double exposure.
  8. Photographs.Folder includes 5x7 colored photographs of rocks and rock formations. Many are double exposed placed one on top of the other, or others have a hand placed in front of the lens during the exposure.
  9. Photographs.Folder includes multiple rolls of film taken in July 2003, September 2003, and December 2003 and July 2004 from which many of the photographs were later part of the double exposure process used by TLT. Includes mostly subject matters of landscapes, trees, or flowers; and some still life photographs and people depicted as well.
  10. Photographs.Folder includes a roll of film taken in September 2002. Photograph subjects include rows of crosses and photographs of TLT, another man, or a hand with the crosses in the background.




Box 11

Folders 18-25:
  1. Photographs.Photographs of TLT and family members. Taken in March 1992 and September 1998.
  2. Photographs.Folder includes 5x7 photographs taken by TLT, but undated, and some later used in the double exposure process.
  3. Negatives.Folder includes 10 different envelopes of negatives that correspond to the photographs in Folders 8 – 19 and Folders 21, 22, and 23.
  4. Photographs.Folder includes 5x7 colored photographs of urban street scenes and other aspects of urban culture. Photographs often include people as subject and most developed through double exposure process.
  5. Photographs.Folder includes a roll of film developed in January 2007 and show the double exposure process with the background often a snow scene, and a second set of 5x7 photographs of nature as the subject matter and show the double exposure process.
  6. Photographs.Folder includes 5x7 colored photographs developed in April, July, and August of 2003 and show the double exposure process used by TLT.
  7. Photographs.Folder includes a manila mailing envelope from TLT that includes colored photographs taken in Santa Barbra between 2000 and 2001.
  8. Photographs.Folder includes two manila mailing envelopes that both contain photographs. One addressed to Tom Taylor contains colored photographs of a bonfire, beach, a rock temple ruin, and snow covered landscape. The other envelope contains pictures of a hand against a black background, and photographs of artwork of a hand.




Box 12

Folders 26-32:
  1. Photographs.Folder includes 3x5 sepia toned photographs developed in 1999. Most are double exposed and show themes and subject of nature. Several photographs are stuck together.
  2. Photographs.Folder includes 3x5 b/w photographs of a hand over a background image, many of the images are numbered on back, all of the images are double exposed, and developed in 2004. Sepia toned photographs of a hand over a rocky background and double exposed, many photographs taken in September 2004 of the previously described photograph framed and hanging on a wall, along with photographs of other pieces of artwork and at the end a few of a building and one human subject.
  3. Photographs.Folder includes undated and unmarked 5x7 b/w photographs of the Crowsnest Pass in southern Alberta near the boarder of Alberta and British Columbia, some include buildings or TLT in the foreground, all double exposed with different images on top.
  4. Photographs, Chapbooks and Postcards.Folder includes photographs inside an envelope from John M. Bennett, and all photographs inside have a single word written across each in black marker. Two chapbooks by John M. Bennett- Soup Flop and Dad Dying Haiku. Several postcards addressed to TLT: one regarding a recent vacation, two from Paul Thaddeus Lambert written in 2005, two written in 2005 signed “your old army buddie”, four blank with different images on the front.
  5. Photographs.Folder includes a group of undated and unmarked photographs together in a rubber band. Most have ocean and beach as subject and theme, several are candid photographs of people.
  6. Photographs.Folder includes colored 4x6 photographs that are undated, with the exception of three dated April 2001, that show one or both of the important subjects of TLT’s a hand or a white mask double exposed over a background image. Most are placed over landscapes or natural images, six show these elements against a black background and the American flag.
  7. Photographs.Folder includes colored photographs taken in January 2005 while TLT and companion on a trip. Many landscapes, either forest or ocean, and some of them driving in the car.




Box 13

Folders 33-44:
  1. Photographs.Folder includes group of 3x5 b/w photographs undated. Most of the subjects are people. Candid and posed photographs of a man performing different activities outside, several candid of a group at a gathering inside, and several posed photographs of different groups of elderly people on benches outside. Four larger photographs taken of different people, each with the person’s name written on the back: Max Caford, Jod “Piscer” Edgerton, Camille Martin, and Joel “What’n it to ya” Daily.
  2. Photographs.Folder includes 3x5 photographs taken in April 2003 that display differences in reflection and light. Photographs were taken through a vent or against a metal surface with different depths, some are double exposed.
  3. Photographs.Folder includes 3x5 colored photographs taken in April 2003 of driftwood, logs, and rocks. The photographs are often double exposed, and some have images used previously as the foreground or background.
  4. Photographs.Folder includes photographs taken of basketball games. Some of the photographs are taken in March 2007 of the NCAA tournament, and others are undated. The photographs are action shots, and double exposed. Several have a grainy quality about them as if taken of a television screen or the jumbo tran at the game. Some are of the crowd and cheerleaders, but most are of the players out on the court.
  5. Photographs.Folder includes both b/w and colored photographs of construction on a house. The photographs are undated, but show various stages of construction and appear to be taken over time.
  6. Photographs.Folder includes a set of photographs that are undated but are marked on the back with the subject matter of the image. Two distinct groups of photographs one of southwestern architecture structures and the other group of flowers taken at different times in the months.
  7. Photographs.Folder includes 3x5 b/w photographs taken of TLT’s family and friends at different times and different environments and includes photographs of TLT: photographs taken outside on a deck of women and their babies, other people at a gathering on the deck; several photographs of a child eating a bowl of cereal; several of his sons; two photographs of a woman sitting by a creek (smaller and older than rest).
  8. Photographs.Folder includes 3x5 b/w photographs of several different still life set-ups; b/w photographs of candles along blinds and then photographs focused on the light in between the blinds; photographs taken of artwork done of a hand; and photographs of other pieces of sculptural artwork.
  9. Photographs.Folder includes small group of 3x5 photographs taken of urban scenes including subway entrance and highway overpass. All have a white boarder around image. Group of larger b/w photographs taken at the beach with a black boarder around the image, and a group without the boarder.
  10. Photographs.Folder includes 3x5 b/w photographs: groups of people around a fountain, walking on the street, and man video taping; architecture of several buildings; several of people in a café and the window of a record shop next door; taken in a park and then of a statue of Abraham Lincoln including one of children climbing on the statue; and several photographs of three other statues. Colored 3x5 close up photographs of a statue of a man on horseback and several others of an urban environment.
  11. Photographs.Folder includes 3x5 undated and unmarked b/w photographs taken of natural landscapes: group of photographs taken at ocean of TLT’s dogs, the landscape, and several of people on the beach including some people on horseback; group of photographs of driftwood; several panoramic photographs of across field to water and of forest along water; and photographs at distance and close up of road after rain.
  12. Photographs.Folder includes group of photographs that are all developed on Kodak paper and low degree of light and dark differentiation; taken of window display and the surrounding buildings, and candid of people gathered in a home.




Box 14

Folders 45-56:
  1. Photographs.Folder includes groups of 3x5 b/w photographs of interior spaces: many photographs capture domestic home; several photographs of living and sleeping space and one of TLT and a woman sitting in the room; two photographs taken of boats through a window; group of photographs taken in a school building; and one photograph of TLT and another man taken in a kitchen.
  2. Photographs.Folder includes several groups of photographs taken of landscapes: several of elk in a fenced space; several of a waterfall in a forest and of the surrounding trees and rock formations; two of snow covered scene; four of huge rock formations; several taken from a car of fields and other of a bridge.
  3. Photographs.Folder includes different groups of b/w 3x5 photographs: an urban environment including of a warehouse and Pepsi truck; several of a house decorated for Halloween; an outdoor theatre; different views of a suburban street; several structures, buildings, and architecture; several candid taken of different groups of people including runners, outside of a convenience store, and a man with his motorcycle.
  4. Photographs.Folder includes 4 wedding photographs taken in Oct. 1987; 3x5 colored photographs of a gathering of people, both candid and posed, taken in Dec. 1998; other colored photographs of TLT’s sons and grandchildren, including one of all the males in the family together; photograph of a clown.
  5. Photographs.Folder includes group of 3x5 photographs taken in October 1995, which include photographs of the foundation construction of a house, several of a sunset, a woman walking on the beach, and various others taken of people on the street or in the home.
  6. Photographs.Folder includes 3x5 colored photographs of landscapes and outdoors. Some taken in TLT’s backyard, others of a forest, and finally a last set of flowers. A group of photographs of TLT’s dog on the beach, and one taken of the beach from inside of TLT”s car.
  7. Photographs.Colored 3x5 photographs taken in September 2004 all double exposed and many use orange and yellow sunset as the first exposure.
  8. Photographs.Folder includes colored 3x5 photographs taken in October 2006 and many double exposed. Of various subject matter including a construction site, the ocean, and foliage; a set of double exposed photographs nd but numbered on back and from the same roll, are of various subject matter including: rocks and foliage.
  9. Photographs.Folder contains colored 3x5 photographs taken on the same roll of film in two distinct settings. First inside TLT’s and most taken of his dog, and secondly outside in a forest or wooded area and of trees, moss, and a waterfall.
  10. Photographs.Folder contains sets of colored 3x5 photographs, two taken in July 1989 of a nondescript house, many taken in December 1989 of various subjects, and two taken of a brown building against a deep blue sky nd.
  11. Photographs.Folder contains two groups of photographs. Both are nd and blank on the back. In the first group many are of pieces of artwork including a bronze statue and white sculptures, as well as photographs of vegetables. The second group of photographs are of a white building with red writing and of a group of girls in costumes in the parking lot.
  12. Photographs.Folder includes a group of photographs that are blank on the back but all of similar lighting and clarity quality. Size is smaller than 3x5 and subject matter ranges from photographs of buildings and bridges to parked semitrucks, and a few of people swimming in a backyard pool. Also, photographs taken in July 1990. All are of diverse subject matter but include a boy riding his bike, two still life photographs that involve candles, and a photograph taken out of a car window on the highway.




Box 15

Folders 57-72:
  1. Photographs.Folder contains photographs taken in October 1995. They are personal photographs of people, several of TLT’s son.
  2. Photographs.Folder contains photographs taken in August 1998 mostly outdoors in the woods and includes two taken of a girl in hiking gear posing.
  3. Photographs.Folder includes 3x5 nd photographs taken in urban spaces: streets, buildings, people, and a park. Also includes photographs taken of orange fence around a yard that had similar paper quality and lighting to other photographs.
  4. Photographs.Folder includes 3x5 photographs of two different categories: of people gathered in an interior space and similarly pets, and photographs that are blurry, too dark, or otherwise unable to be identified and content is unrecognizable.
  5. Photographs.Folder contains 4x6 photographs that utilize double exposure with one expose being of TLT’s mask of the beloved. The mask is often placed by a clay hand that augments the symbolism of the images. Many of the photographs have the mask placed in a box with paper surrounding it, also a photograph of the mask shot over Jan Richardson who gave it to TLT. Finally a group of photographs that incorporate the mask with images of the American flag and other patriotic symbols. Several dated: April, June, and October 2001.
  6. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 photographs that utilize double exposure and the mask of the beloved. Two central themes to the photographs are the mask exposed over or under photographs of people and the mask exposed over or under natural settings such as in the garden or forest. Multiple photographs of the mask exposed with bright red flowers and several with a sunset over the ocean. Several dated April 2001.
  7. Photographs.Folder includes a group of photographs taken in Uruguay. Photographs are of artist Clemente Padín and Padín’s work including his piece Text III-68, phtographs of Padín at an exhibit for his work, and several of a Uruguayan art studio with traditional art.
  8. Photographs.Folder includes seven photographs taken in May 1993, June 1997, and January 1998. Includes two photographs of TLT with an unknown person.
  9. Photographs.Folder contains two sets of 4x6 photographs from June 2001. The photographs are double exposed and many are of a white church that is weathered and rundown. The second set are double exposed mostly of people at an outdoor concert of festival.
  10. Photographs.Folder contains 4x6 photographs taken in June 2002 many are of flowers and most are double exposed.
  11. Photographs.Folder contains 4x6 photographs taken in July 2002 many are double exposed. Includes photographs of TLT and Jan Richardson as well as others of people taken at an outdoor art fair.
  12. Photographs.Folder includes photographs taken in August and November 2002 and negatives for photographs from November. Includes photographs taken of TLT at a poetry reading.
  13. Photographs.Folder includes two 4x6 photographs from August 2003 and photographs from September, October, and December 2004. Includes many photographs of TLT’s dog Nada
  14. Photographs.Folder includes photographs from January 2005 half taken of painted houses for Jan Richardson to use in her sculptures, and the other half of scenery such as a sunset, mountains, and the ocean. One photograph of Jan Richardson outside. Also photographs taken in February 2005 and are of dresser drawers on fire in a yard.
  15. Photographs.Folder includes photographs form November 2005, double exposed of diagrams or text over various background images.
  16. Photographs.Folder includes photographs taken in August 2006, and are mostly of tire tracks, footprints, and animal prints in the sand and a group taken of a broken clay pot. Also 4x6 photographs from September 2006. The subject matter varies greatly but includes some of TLT’s themes of flowers, his dog Nada, and a hand captured in the foreground double exposed.




Box 16

Folders 73-83:
  1. Photographs.Folder includes photographs taken in October, November and December of 2006. Many are of people on the beach and others of plants and other foliage. Others are of TLT’s dog and still life arrangements. Taken in December some are double exposed and are of various buildings, and one set of Nada.
  2. Photographs.Folder includes photographs taken in January and February of 2007 and many show TLT’s double exposure process and technique. Includes a set taken at the beach, and another set taken while crossing a steel bridge.
  3. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 photographs taken in April 2007, many are of TLT’s reoccurring themes including several photographs of flowers that he will use when creating double exposed photographs. Several others are double exposed of beach houses.
  4. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 photographs taken in June, August, and September of 2007. Those taken in June are double exposed of colorful artwork and designs. Most from August and September are of TLT’s grandchildren and family also several taken in and around the space of his home.
  5. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 photographs taken in February 2008. Three are taken of TLT and the include a close up of a white flower, one of TLT’s dog, another taken of the field out of a window, and lastly the reeds growing outside of a house.
  6. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 group of photographs taken of gray and brown stones. All are numbered on the back.
  7. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 bw and sepia toned photographs. Three are taken of a hand in front of a work desk or table. The rest are multiple photographs taken of the same nude woman in different poses and settings. One includes a label that reads “Photo/Art by Harry Burrus.”
  8. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 photographs all from the same roll of film and number on the back. Most are taken of TLT’s house and garden, one of TLT and Jan Richardson kissing, one of Nada, and one taken of a boat dock.
  9. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 photographs that are hand numbered on the back 1-9 but missing numbers 3 and 8. Includes three of TLT on his front porch holding a glass of wine.
  10. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 photographs taken on a road trip. Most are taken out of the car window and include landscapes of fields, hills, mountains, and windmills. Several are taken of Jan Richardson driving, and there are others taken of gas stations and some taken of cloud filled skies.
  11. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 nd photographs taken of people. First group includes children sitting on Jan Richardson’s lap and then eating cereal in a kitchen. Second, several pictures taken at a backyard gathering including ones of TLT and his two sons. Third, photographs taken of TLT on a back deck and one is dated 6/3/05. Fourth, are of TLT’s grandson playing with trucks and a hammer. A group of photographs of a young girl wearing a helmet and posing for the camera. Finally, a photograph of a group of women and written on the back, “Me in front. Trust me- this is a good picture and I only look like that with some TLC and sleep.”




Box 17

Folders 84-94:
  1. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 nd photographs many of which are double exposed. Several of Nada, several of a metal boat turned upside down on land and others taken of foliage. One of TLT’s house and written on the back, “The new porch on the new room- 2004.”
  2. Photographs.Folder includes 5 4x6 photographs of a sculpture. The sculpture is gray and brown and has a hand with the words “HERE” carved underneath. Photograph taken of a painting of people inside and around a red old-fashioned car with an inscription on the back.
  3. Photographs.Folder includes a large group of 4x6 photographs. All are taken on a vacation or road trip of some kind, and many at the beach or of TLT in a hotel room near the beach. All are have nd and are developed on Kodak paper. Some are double exposed with the foreground people laying out or relaxing on the beach and several are taken of foliage and other natural images.
  4. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 photographs with nd of landscapes of trees and rock formations. Two are double exposed with trees in the foreground, and two are taken of purple flowers and double exposed.
  5. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 photographs with nd and mostly taken of TLT, Jan Richardson, or Nada around TLT’s home and in the garden. A second group is taken of a snow covered car in a trailer park.
  6. Photographs.Folder includes 4x6 photographs that are of artwork including that done by Jan Richardson. Several of Jan Richardson at work on her house sculptures, and includes photographs that are double exposed with the make of the beloved in the background. Some photographs are simply of the mask and include in the foreground a hand. Other photographs are double exposed of various colorful tiles and have the mask or hand in the background or foreground.
  7. Photographs.Folder includes several 4x6 photographs of TLT and one of TLT with another man talking on a shell covered beach. Other photographs are of an outline of a hand surrounded by spray paint, and a few of other unidentified people including one taken at a wedding.
  8. Photographs.Folder includes several photographs taken of white flowers later used for double exposed photographs in the foreground. Other photographs that are double exposed, some include the mask of the beloved and many have a sunset over the ocean in the background. Several 4x6 photographs of Nada on the beach, and two photographs in blue tone that are taken of branches rocks.
  9. Photographs.Folder includes miscellaneous photographs. Includes: a small bw photograph of a young bride, a 3x5 photograph folded in half of Jan Richardson, a photograph tkane in spain outside of TLT’s hotel room in January 2004 all is written on the back, a Polaroid of a large tree, several of TLT at various ages and times, a photograph of Ross Priddle in 2004, a 3x5 photograph of Jan Richardson’s house sculptures, a photograph taken in September 2004 of TLT and two other people on his front porch, a photograph that has “Max and Nada” written on the back, a photograph of Max at 20 months, a photograph with “Rainier Beds” written on the back from Jan. 16, 2005, photograph of TLT and granddaughter painting at house in August 2002, and finally a photograph of a group of children with “picking oranges in our backyard Dec 2006” written on the back.
  10. Photographs.Folder includes a roll of film from October 2001 inside of an envelope. All are double exposed and include the mask of the beloved in the foreground.
  11. Photographs, Negatives, Postcards and a Newspaper clipping.Folder includes: several postcards, some blank and others addressed to TLT, two groups of 5x7 photographs that are adhered together, a newspaper clipping about TLT from The Chinook Observer, chapbook titled Grandmother’s Story that has several photographs tucked between the pages, and a set of negatives.




Box 18

Folders 95-97:
  1. Diskettes.Folder includes diskettes some titled and some blank:
    • Corpse of Discovery M. Scott
    • (blue) blank
    • Superprose relimn Horndog
    • Tales From the Bean Zone
    • HD Active Wp50
    • HD Archive Wp50 2
    • 3A
    • 4A
    • 5A
    • anabasis File
    • J
    • Word Files
    • (green) blank
    • It Event
    • anabasis Thomas Lowe Taylor
    • anabasis x4
    • Stuff
    • Automal
  2. Diskettes.Folder includes diskettes some titled and some blank:
    • Latitude
    • 8/00 Light/ Turns
    • Anabasis
    • SEIF9
    • anabasis: front matter and cover
    • (red) blank
    • (yellow) blank
    • anabasis: preserver the furthers
    • (yellow) blank
    • 6B
    • #8/26 3/5/2002 Raw Slans 226-240
    • (crossed out)
    • z.
    • 5B
    • (blue) blank
    • 1B
    • 4B
    • 2B
    • .doc files for the title credits & contents of pages of THE TROUBLE I HAD, also: intro pages pc format disk
    • Bode- The Peel & The Peel Peeled John M. Bennett
  3. Mark Scott Print and Toy Car.Folder includes rolled print by Mark Scott of TLT done in the 90’s, and a red toy car inside a plastic bag labeled STIF.




Box 19

Three copies of each publication listed below:
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe. Kilobyte Magnificat. Oysterville: Anabasis Press, 2001.
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe, ed. The Love Project. Anabasis Project No. 2. Portland: Anabasis Press, 1993.
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe. The One The Same and The Other. Petersburg, Cambridgeshire: Spectacular Diseases, 1993 and Norman: Texture Press, 1993.
  • Freeman, Jesse. New Orleans Dizzy Spit. Oyserville: Anabasis Press, 2000.
  • Eagle, Tom. Pisces: Eagle. Lewiston: Orchard Publishing, 1977.
  • Eagle, Tom. White Light: The Lost Vision of Montana. Oysterville: Anabasis, 2000.
  • Crouse, John. JIMMYS. Oysterville: Anabasis Xtnat Chapbooks, 2003.

Folders 98-102:
  1. Printed Matter- Photographs.Folder includes multiple printed copies of work by TLT. 5 copies of TLT’s work with two hands one covered in newspaper and the other a hand within a hand; 3 copies of a photograph of a path along a coast line; 1 print out of a work that includes the white mask; and other works printed on 8 ½ by 11 in. plain or photography paper. Instructions for “cutting thick stock”, and instructions for using a printer.
  2. Collages and Printed Matter.Folder includes: 2 copies of the cover for Jim Webster’s One is All in 1974; copy of The Research into the Idea of Ouroboros by Robert Scott in 1971 printed on the reverse side of the instructions for “cutting thick stock”; many of TLT’s work printed on 8 ½ by 11 cardstock including collage collaborations between TLT and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, multiple enhanced photographs above a couple lines of prose, and 2 copies of a flier for an exhibition of his photos in 2007 in Long Beach, WA.
  3. Printed Prose and Poetry.Folder includes part of packaging addressed to John M. Bennett. Another folder with heading “Logs and Shorts 95”containing multiple short prose, “Hew manatee” and poetry including “Nukes”, “SPUDS”, and “Humas”; and multiple of TLT’s Daily Logs from 1995.
  4. Collages by TLT.Folder includes 33 collages done by TLT by arranging clippings on cardstock. All picture one erotic or nude female form and then diverse themes and images are represented on each collage. All are initialed, dated ’07, and number on the back.
  5. Collages by TLT.Folder includes: 3 collages done with black marker and magazine clippings on text National Geographic magazine; 10 collages done on cardstock with text, black marker, and magazine clippings; collage on 8 ½ by 11 brown paper of text and magazine clippings; 3 printings of TLT’s artwork of a hand; printed work titled Memory Event Transfer by Thomas Taylor in 1970; and hand written work Beyond Completion: The Erotic, Seen.




Box 20

Folder 103:
  1. Correspondence(Small red box filled with index cards arranged in alphabetical order that was used to help a woman recover her memory after a stroke, was donated by Mark Scott.) Folder includes an email from John M. Bennett to Thomas Taylor in regards to receiving the box of cards used to help teach a woman after a stroke, and a note from TLT that explains the use of the cards.

  • Binder with Photographs.A white binder containing 62 different 8 ½ by 11 in. prints of TLT’s photographs. Most are double exposures that include the white mask of the beloved and / or TLT’s use of a hand in the foreground of the photograph, one taken of TLT. In pocket 3 other photographs and a list of books by Thomas Taylor for the avant2 booktable.




Box 21

Two black binders of 8 1/2 by 11 photographs by TLT.
  • Photographs.Black binder containing 98 photographs by TLT. Many are double exposed with different texts over all different background images including people in candid photographs, and one that has words handwritten by John M. Bennett over the image of a man skateboarding.
  • Photographs.Black binder containing 18 4x6 photographs by TLT printed on 8 ½ by 11 in. paper. All are double exposed with the white mask of the beloved in the foreground over different background images.
  • Slides.Kodak box containing a slide tray with 140 slides with the images of TLT’s photography on them.




Box 22

Folders 104-109:
  1. Photographs.Folder contains group of small b/w photographs taken of people camping, and the negatives for these photographs; several old b/w photographs taken of TLT’s sons as toddlers inside the home; group of 5x7 photographs of words over different backgrounds double exposed; 3 photographs of a red car in front of a stone building; 12 sets of negatives in envelopes.
  2. Chapbooks and Newspaper Clippings.Folder includes newspaper clippings, 1 regarding a reading by TLT, 2 regarding the demolition of an old farm house from 2005, and 1 magazine clipping. 4 chapbooks: Text Sculptures by Andrew Topel; Web of Deceit by John M. Bennett, Jim Leftwich, Thomas Taylor, and Andrew Topel; Top Meat by John M. Bennett; and Duramorph Bolus by Mark Sonnenfeld and Andrew Topel. Packet of small b/w sketches of hands inside a small folder. A CD-ROM titled Niacin Sun. Orange flier of artwork by John M. Bennett and Jesse Freeman. 3x5 negative of an artwork. Printed work with note reading: Cathy’s Foto Jchmmeels Scrawlo 2004. 2 fliers regarding Mark Sonnenfeld and his work.
  3. Chapbooks.Folder includes 2 chapbooks titled Das Maarchen, 1987. 2 price lists for Anabasis in Oysterville, WA from 2000.
  4. Poems at Seventy, 2008 and EDGZ Issue #14.Folder includes Issue #14 of EDGZ: Conversations at the Boarderland from Summer/Fall 2007. In a mailing envelope a copy of FUCK! Vol. 8 No. 3 from March 2005. A printed copy of Poems at Seventy by Tom Taylor in 2008.
  5. CD-ROM Blog Texts and Printed Matter.Folder includes email correspondence between TLT and John M. Bennett in 2008 regarding a performance. Multiple printed copies of TLT’s Series. Manila envelope that contains correspondence from Jim Leftwich to John M. Bennett of a CD-ROM of TLT’s Blog Texts recorded in 2007.
  6. Correspondence.Folder includes8 postcards: 4 blank from Latin America, 1 signed from “Kay”, 1 addressed to Tom and signed “Paul”, 1 from Mexico signed “Boops”, and 1 from the Durban Segnini Gallery; 2 envelopes from The Bank of the Pacific; 2 handwritten notes’ a court document, a letter from Pacific County Assessor, and 1 from Delta House publishing Company; and personal letters from multiple people including John L. Taylor, Beth Thenhaus, and Vincent Ferrini. Order forms, Delta plane ticket stubs, and a disclaimer from Bionutrition.org.




Box 23


  • Photographs.White binder with 70 photographs by TLT in sleeves. All of them focus on the mask of the beloved in the foreground and are doubles diverse backgrounds including people, trees, and a garden. The front of the binder has a photograph with extreme color and the mask in the foreground, and signed by Taylor.
  • Slides.Kodak box containing a slide tray with 140 slides with the images of TLT’s photography on them.




Box 24

Three copies of each publication listed below:
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe. Texture Chapbook #10. “JFK: The Adirondack Diary”. Norman: Texture Press, 1993.
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe. Texture Chapbook #10. “JFK: The Adirondack Diary”. Norman: Texture Press, 1993.
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe. Mandala: for her of the earth’s whole place and name and The One, the Same, and the Other. Charlottesville: anabasis.xtnat books, 2004.

Slides
  • In a box originally containing sheet protectors, slide tray with 140 slides of images of TLT’s photography and work on them.




Box 25

Two copies of each publication listed below:
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe. Horndog. Oysterville: anabasis Press, 2002.
  • Lacook, Lewis. Cling. Oysterville: anabasis, 2000.

Three copies of each publication listed below:
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe. Dialoge with a Mirror. Charlottesville: anabasis xtant chapbooks, 2003.
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe. Prose Elements. Charlottesville: anabasis xtant Books, 2004.
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe. Superprose. Charlottesville: anabasis xtant, 2003.




Box 26

Three copies of each publication listed below:
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe. Kilobyte Magnificat. Oysterville: Anabasis Press, 2001.
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe, ed. The Love Project. Anabasis Project No. 2. Portland: Anabasis Press, 1993.
  • Taylor, Thomas Lowe. The One The Same and The Other. Petersburg, Cambridgeshire: Spectacular Diseases, 1993 and Norman: Texture Press, 1993.
  • Freeman, Jesse. New Orleans Dizzy Spit. Oyserville: Anabasis Press, 2000.
  • Eagle, Tom. Pisces: Eagle. Lewiston: Orchard Publishing, 1977.
  • Eagle, Tom. White Light: The Lost Vision of Montana. Oysterville: Anabasis, 2000.
  • Crouse, John. JIMMYS. Oysterville: Anabasis Xtnat Chapbooks, 2003.




Box 27 (oversized)

Folders 110-111:
  1. Artwork.Folder includes 8.5x11 prints of photography by TLT with poetry underneath, dated 2007.
  2. Artwork.Folder includes a large yello ---w envelope with large prints of TLT’s photography inside. Some include words under the photograph and are dated 2006, others do not and are undated. Also includes two boxes cut up with mailing information on them to Anabasis Press Attn: Thomas L. Taylor and titled Prose Elements. Eventually prints would be used in TLT’s book Prose Elements.




Box 28 (oversized)

Folders 112-114:
  1. Artwork.Folder includes laser cover for Prose Elements by TLT.
  2. Artwork and Correspondence.Folder includes mockup of the manuscript for TLT’s book Dialogue with a Mirror including cover and page numbers. Also email correspondence between John M. Bennett and TLT regarding the shipment of TLT’s work to the Ohio State University Libraries.
  3. Artwork.Folder includes two copies of the mockup manuscript for Prose Elements by TLT includes title page and page numbers on back.




Box 29

Folders 115-124:
  1. Artwork.7 CDs with TLT’s artwork and visual poetry on them; titles of series include “Bigs”, “A Flag Art”, “Girls in Trees”, “Flags”, and “Aztec Daughter”. Ca. 2008.
  2. Artwork.A group of photo collage works by TLT, cut-up photos on heavy grey paper, (late 1990’s?); and a group of photo prints, computer prints, visual poems, original collage, and other material, all by TLT, (ca. 1990’s?).
  3. Photo Collage.Group of 12 original photo collage works by TLT, on heavy paper, and one matted photo print of 2 young men. Ca. 1990’s.
  4. Color Negatives.Group of color print film negatives, by TLT, subjects include stones, hands, masks, faces, etc. Some may be double exposures. Ca. 1990’s.
  5. Photo Works.Group of black-and-white 4X6” photo prints, all double exposures of text with people and other subjects. Ca. 1990’s?
  6. Photographs.Group of mostly 4X6” color photo prints, mostly of dogs, ca. 2004. Also a group of black-and-white photo prints of urban landscapes (buildings, fences, highways, etc.), no date but apparently quite a bit earlier than 2004.
  7. Photographs.Group of black-and-white photo prints of woods, water, boats, a house being built, and other subjects. Ca. 1980’s or 1990’s?
  8. Beach Code Photographs.CS with TLT’s photos of beach sand, August 2006, with email correspondence with John M. Bennett.
  9. Poetry.Two series of poems, first poems titled “moreover” and “bluesmoke”, and email correspondence with John M. Bennett. June 2009.
  10. Blog Texts.CD of TLT “Blog Texts”, recorded 2007.






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