WAUChristianStaub6629.xml Guide to the Christian Staub photographs Christian Staub photographs Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries 2025

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-07-25. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. June 2025 Albert Lee updated number of slides from 19 to 18 Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Christian Staub photographs Staub, Christian, 1918-2004 6629 1 vertical file 5 oversize photographs, 18 slides 1960s Photographs of Swiss American commercial and fine arts photographer who taught at the University of Washington English .

Christian Staub (1918-2004) was a Swiss photographer and painter who taught photography and architecture at the University of Washington. He studied under Hans Finsler, a leader in the new objectivity movement, and then worked in freelancing and advertising. He published a book of photographs on the circus and another one on village life in Switzerland. He taught at the Bauhaus school in Germany and the National Design Institute in Ahmedabad, India, before joining the UW faculty in 1967.

- The Seattle Times, "Christian Staub, renowned artist, dies at 85," archive.seattletimes.com (accessed June 18, 2025)

Separated out from the Steven J. Bernstein papers, 2025.

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Black and white candid photographs of people in Seattle

Steven J. Bernstein papers (MSS Coll 5244)

Seattle University Archives/Faculty Papers Photographs Fine Arts Photographs 1960s 6629-001 OSVF 0252

5 oversize photographs

Slides 1960s 6629-001 OSVF 0252

18 slides