WAUFairbanksHaroldEthnoPH2017_010.xml Guide to the Harold W. Fairbanks Ethnographic Photograph Collection approximately 1900-1929 Fairbanks (Harold W.) Ethnographic Photograph Collection Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2017 (Last modified: 1/31/2020)
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections PH2017-010 Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman), 1860-1952 Harold W. Fairbanks Ethnographic Photograph Collection approximately 1900-1929 0.32 cubic feet (2 boxes) Collection materials are in English. Ethnographic photographs of islands in the Pacific and other locations taken or collected by Harold W. Fairbanks, an expert on the geology and geography of the Pacific Coast

Harold W. Fairbanks (1860-1952) was an expert on the geology and geography of the Pacific Coast. He was born in Conewango, New York on August 29, 1860 and attended the University of Michigan, graduating in 1890. He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 1896. He wrote over 40 articles relating to geology and geography. He published Stories of Our Mother Earth, a book which is both a nature study and a physical geography of California. He was also a photographer, recording the physical landscape as part of his work in geology and geography. In about 1895, he embarked on a project to make photographs as illustrations for his study of physical geography. After ten years he had produced about 4,000 negatives covering the major regions in California along with some out of state areas as far north as Vancouver Island and as far east as Nebraska. He used his photographs to make lantern slides to accompany his lectures. He also used them in his books, Stories of 1899 and Practical Physiography, and other publications.

Ethnographic photographs of the Cook Islands, Bali, Papua, Philippines, Hawaii, New Zealand, and other locations.

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Donor: Lawrence G. Miller, October 14, 2011.

Items from Harold W. Fairbanks photographs ( 2018121001) have been merged with this accession.

 Material Described Separately:

Harold W. Fairbanks Photographs (Accession No. PH2017-008)

Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington) Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman), 1860-1952--Archives Cook Islands--Population--Photographs Bali Island (Indonesia)--Population--Photographs Papua New Guinea--Population--Photographs Ethnology--Sources Photographs--Specimens Photographs Anthropology Photographs

 

1 Photographs 2 Lantern Slides