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Photographs of Harry Charles Bauer, 1942-1967

Overview of the Collection

Title
Photographs of Harry Charles Bauer
Dates
1942-1967 (inclusive)
Quantity
39 photographic prints (1 box) ; sizes vary
Collection Number
PH0599
Summary
Photographs of University of Washington Libraries director Harry C. Bauer.
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is open to the public.

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Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

Harry C. Bauer was born in St. Louis, Mo., on July 22, 1902. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Washington University, and graduated from the St. Louis Library School in 1931. During World War II, he was a combat intelligence officer for the United States Air Force and earned a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Air Medal. Bauer was the assistant library director at the University of Washington from 1945 to 1947 and director of the library from 1947 to 1959. He then served as a professor of library science until 1967. Bauer retired from the Army Reserves as a colonel and was a Mason, a Shriner, and a member of the American Legion and Kiwanis Club.

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Content Description

The collection consists of photographs relating to the life and career of Harry C. Bauer. The main portion of the collection covers his library career, and another series documents his military career. The third series focuses on Bauer with members of the Kiwanis Club.

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Administrative Information

Processing Note

Processed by Jill M. Dalager, 2002.

The collection was originally housed in the repository's Portrait File.

Related Materials

The Harry Charles Bauer Papers are also available in the repository as manuscripts Accession no. 874-1 and 874-3 through 874-6. Some of these photographs may have come from those accessions.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • Library Career

    • Description: Portrait of Harry C. Bauer
      Keith Grady (photographer)
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Folder 1, Item 1
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Portraits of Harry C. Bauer
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 1, Item 2-6
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in office
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Folder 2, Item 7
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in office
      Harold Countryman (photographer)
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Folder 2, Item 8
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer and Stull Holt
      Dates: circa 1954
      Container: Folder 2, Item 9
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Portraits of Harry C. Bauer
      James O. Sneddon (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 2, Item 10-11
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer with Donn Shaw and Dean E.H. Lauer
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 2, Item 12
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in library with Jaswandt Singh Anand and Kenneth Sam Allen
      The Seattle Times (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 2, Item 13
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer standing outdoors
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 2, Item 14-16
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in library stacks with piles of unshelved books
      James O. Sneddon (photographer)
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Folder 2, Item 17
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in library with Patricia Campbell, Jane Salisbury, and Albert Salisbury
      E.F. Marten (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 3, Item 18
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in library office with Mr. Maschmedt and Edwin Adams
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Folder 3, Item 19-20
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in library office with Edwin Adams
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Folder 3, Item 21
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in office with J. Ronald Todd, Jane Salisbury, George Savage, Patricia Campbell, and Albert Salisbury
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Folder 3, Item 22
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in office with J. Ronald Todd, Jane Salisbury, George Savage, and Patricia Campbell
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Folder 3, Item 23
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Bookmobile of the British Book Centre visit to the University of Washington

      Left to right: Harry C. Bauer, Robert T. Kenyon, Lois V. Sperline, B. Ruth Jeffries.

      Dates: April 13, 1950
      Container: Folder 3, Item 24
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer and Lulu Fairbanks look at E.A. Hegg photograph albums
      James O. Sneddon (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 3, Item 25
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in library with Phillip Padelford and Mrs. F.M. Padelford with a display about a Padelford family donation
      James O. Sneddon (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 3, Item 26-27
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in group portrait at a meeting

      First row seated, left to right: president Charles J. Armstrong, Father A.A. Lemieux, Dean F. A. Gilfillan, Mrs. Mary Tschudia, Ethelyn Toner, Dean Katherine Roy, Dean Luther A. Richman, Dr. H.C. Cheever, Dean Linus J. Carleton.

      Standing left to right: Dr. Robert E. McConnell, Assistant Dean Martin Duke, S.L. Crowley, Harry Bauer, Dr. Melvin W. Green, William G. Loomis, Clifford Rowe, Dr. S.P. Swenson, Professor Arthur B. Stillman, Professor Myron E. Krueger.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 3, Item 28a
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: J. Ronald Todd, Ruth W. Ault, and David E. Griffith looking at photo albums at Washington State University library
      James O. Sneddon (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 3, Item 28b
      Location: Library Career
    • Description: Ruth W. Ault and David E. Griffith looking at photo albums at Washington State University library
      James O. Sneddon (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 3, Item 28c
      Location: Library Career

  • Military Career

    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in military uniform
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 4, Item 29
      Location: Military Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in office
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Folder 4, Item 30
      Location: Military Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer in the cockpit of a plane
      United States Navy (photographer)
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Folder 4, Item 31
      Location: Military Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer with a group of men (probably at a reunion) in front of an Air Force plane, McClellan Air Force Base, Wash.
      United States Air Force (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 4, Item 32
      Location: Military Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer shaking hands with military personnel
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 4, Item 33
      Location: Military Career
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer with Colonel G.B. Goodrich, Harold E. Wessman, and Lieutenant Colonel Herbert T. Condon at an Army weapons display, Fort Lewis, Washington
      United States Army (photographer)
      Dates: July 25, 1962
      Container: Folder 4, Item 34
      Location: Military Career

  • Kiwanis International

    • Description: Group portrait of Kiwanis District Organization conference in Portland, Oregon
      Dates: November 17-18, 1951
      Container: Folder 5, Item 35
      Location: Kiwanis International
    • Description: Group portrait of Pacific Northwest Kiwanis district board of trustees meeting in Tacoma, Washington
      Dates: February 13-14, 1954
      Container: Folder 5, Item 36
      Location: Kiwanis International
    • Description: Harry C. Bauer speaking at Kiwanis Club meeting
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Folder 5, Item 37
      Location: Kiwanis International


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