19th c. Japanese hand-tinted albumen print of Miyajima Temple
Silver gelatin print after an original Rayograph, May Ray
Magic Lantern glass slide, Manufacture of artillery shells - Milling turns and caps
Hand-tinted quarter-plate daguerreotype, Levi Hill, Portrait of a Woman
Silver gelatin print, Lewis Hine, Belgrade Serbia, Beggar - Newsgirl
The Rare Books & Manuscripts Library's (RBML) Photograph Collections are rich in variety, quality and number. Below are some of the resources for learning more about these holdings. If you have questions or would like assistance, please contact a curator.
The Photograph Collections database is no longer available online. The individual collections it contained may be searched using the following inventories. Please note that, depending on your browser, your computer may download the Excel files rather than open the spreadsheet automatically:
- Berenice Abbott WPA photographs of Changing New York
- Fratelli Alinari art and architecture views
- Harry Callahan dye transfer prints
- Camera Work inventory of photographs included in every volume
- Columbus Pictorialists
- Harold Edgerton retrospective (from an exhibit held at OSU)
- Susan and Guy Elliott collection
- Farm Security Administration (FSA) mounted prints
- Arthur Fellig (Weegee)
- Guy B. Hetrick glass negatives
- Lewis Wickes Hine in post World War I Eastern Europe (reproduced in Digital Collections)
- Barbara Morgan dance photographs
- Anne Noggle portraits and self portraits (from an exhibit held at OSU)
- Ohio News Photographers Association Award Winners
(1993 Winners - documented via slides; for more recent winners see the ONPA web site) - Ohio Oil Company, 1896, glass negatives
- Peru - Government Sponsored Photographic Documents 1947-1974 - UNICEF, ILO, etc.
- Floyd and Marion Rinhart Collection, cased photos only
- Aaron Siskind portfolio; selections from “Harlem Document” and “The Most Crowded Block”
- John Henry Tobias - Fairfield County historical photographs
Inventories of newer acquisitions may be found by searching the term "photograph" under the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library in the Special Collections Registry.
Some photo holdings are reproduced and described in our PastPerfect database (available on-site):
- stereographs (some, but not all of the Rinhart Collection stereo views)
- D.C. Morrill photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
- selected photographs from the Louis Bromfield Papers
- Lori Shepard Collection of nineteenth-century Japanese tinted albumen prints
Photo holdings reproduced in the Knowledge Bank (the Library's institutional repository):
- Paul-Henri and Erika Bourguignon Haiti Photographs - mid 20th century
- Paul-Henri and Erika Bourguignon Peru Photographs - mid 20th century
Brief descriptions in the Library catalog:
- Christian Barthelmess
- Perry Borchers
- Walt Craig
- Man Ray, Champs délicieux : album de photographies
- William T. Vollmann portfolios, The Feminine and Insurgents & Kin
Other large collections:
- John W. Bennett Papers - includes a large number of photographs taken during the Allied Occupation of Japan after WWII. Selections may be viewed in a preserved online exhibit
- Early twentieth-century glass plate negatives by OSU students
- "Graflex Sees the War" World War II prints
- Jerry Uelsmann experimental works (darkroom demonstrations at OSU)
- William T. Vollmann photographic archives, 1980s-2007