WAUBauerHarryCPHColl599.xmlGuide to the Photographs of Harry Charles Bauer 1942-1967 1942-1967Bauer (Harry Charles) Photographs ofFunding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries© 2002 (Last modified: 11/27/2017)
Seattle, WA 98195
Finding aid written in English.Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard).University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH0599Photographs of Harry Charles Bauer1942-196739 photographic prints (1 box) ; sizes varyCollection materials are in English.Photographs of University of Washington Libraries director Harry C. Bauer.

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.

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.

Collection is open to the public.

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Processed by Jill M. Dalager, 2002.

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

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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Library Career11Portrait of Harry C. Bauer1946Keith Grady12-6Portraits of Harry C. Bauerundated27Harry C. Bauer in office195128Harry C. Bauer in office1952Harold Countryman29Harry C. Bauer and Stull Holtcirca 1954210-11Portraits of Harry C. BauerundatedJames O. Sneddon 212Harry C. Bauer with Donn Shaw and Dean E.H. Lauerundated213Harry C. Bauer in library with Jaswandt Singh Anand and Kenneth Sam AllenundatedThe Seattle Times214-16Harry C. Bauer standing outdoorsundated217Harry C. Bauer in library stacks with piles of unshelved books1958James O. Sneddon318Harry C. Bauer in library with Patricia Campbell, Jane Salisbury, and Albert SalisburyundatedE.F. Marten319-20Harry C. Bauer in library office with Mr. Maschmedt and Edwin Adams1950321Harry C. Bauer in library office with Edwin Adams1950322Harry C. Bauer in office with J. Ronald Todd, Jane Salisbury, George Savage, Patricia Campbell, and Albert Salisbury1950323Harry C. Bauer in office with J. Ronald Todd, Jane Salisbury, George Savage, and Patricia Campbell1950324Bookmobile of the British Book Centre visit to the University of WashingtonApril 13, 1950

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

325Harry C. Bauer and Lulu Fairbanks look at E.A. Hegg photograph albumsundatedJames O. Sneddon 326-27Harry C. Bauer in library with Phillip Padelford and Mrs. F.M. Padelford with a display about a Padelford family donationundatedJames O. Sneddon328aHarry C. Bauer in group portrait at a meetingundated

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.

328bJ. Ronald Todd, Ruth W. Ault, and David E. Griffith looking at photo albums at Washington State University libraryundatedJames O. Sneddon328cRuth W. Ault and David E. Griffith looking at photo albums at Washington State University libraryundatedJames O. SneddonMilitary Career429Harry C. Bauer in military uniformundated430Harry C. Bauer in office1942 431Harry C. Bauer in the cockpit of a plane1955United States Navy432Harry C. Bauer with a group of men (probably at a reunion) in front of an Air Force plane, McClellan Air Force Base, Wash.undatedUnited States Air Force433Harry C. Bauer shaking hands with military personnelundated434Harry C. Bauer with Colonel G.B. Goodrich, Harold E. Wessman, and Lieutenant Colonel Herbert T. Condon at an Army weapons display, Fort Lewis, WashingtonJuly 25, 1962United States ArmyKiwanis International535Group portrait of Kiwanis District Organization conference in Portland, OregonNovember 17-18, 1951536Group portrait of Pacific Northwest Kiwanis district board of trustees meeting in Tacoma, WashingtonFebruary 13-14, 1954537Harry C. Bauer speaking at Kiwanis Club meeting1961