UUS_P0577.xml Guide to the Walter Lehrman Beat Generation photograph collection, 1953-1956 Lehrman, (Walter) Lehrman photograph collection, 1953-1956 Finding aid/Register created by Daniel Davis and John Suiter Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives ©2015
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-08-25. Finding aid encoded in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition). May 25, 2008. Template information was updated to reflect Utah Manuscript Association best practices. 2009 Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines. 2025 Revised to enhance description for Series V Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Walter Lehrman Beat Generation photograph collection Lehrman, Walter UUS_P0577 2.5 linear feet 5 boxes 1953-1956 This small but significant collection includes original negatives and photographs of Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Creeley, and friends, made by Walter Lehrman from November 1955 through June 1956. Material in English

Processed in May of 2015

Purchased from Walter Lehrman and John Suiter, 2007-2015.

No online items. Not available through interlibrary loan. Negatives have been removed from this collection and placed in cold storage box 74. Because of their fragility, these negatives are restricted. For "use copies" of the negatives, researchers are directed to the unretouched master digital scans of these negatives.

For other research, low-resolution hard copies for research purposes may be obtained from the Special Collections photograph curator or the Special Collections Department Head, in accordance with specific copying policies of the Walter Lehrman Photograph Collection. Please note: Except where specified, all materials in the Walter Lehrman Photograph Collection are copyrighted and may not be reproduced for publication in any media, including on-line display, without the express written permission of the copyright holder. Photocopies will be supplied for research use only. No digital scans, and no photographs by any kind of camera in the collection are permitted.

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Except where noted, all photographs in the Walter Lehrman Photograph Collection are copyrighted by Walter Lehrman and may not be reproduced in any manner without his express written permission. Requests should first be directed to the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Associate Dean, Special Collections & Archives

Initial Citation: USU_P0577; Walter Lehrman photograph collection; Photograph Collections Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_P0577, USUSCA.

Walter Lehrman was born and raised in the Bronx, the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. During WWII he was in the Army Air Force, a radio operator on a B-29. He was at Okinawa, preparing for the invasion of Japan's home islands, when the war ended.

Back home in New York, he received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Columbia. In 1951, he married Jinny Baker, a Greenwich Village art student and model, and together they moved to Berkeley, where Walter, having been offered a teaching assistantship, took up graduate studies in the University of California English department.

In Berkeley, the Lehrmans became friends with Allen Ginsberg (also at the UC Berkeley English department), Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Jack Kerouac. Walter was on hand for the Six Gallery poetry reading in 1955, and, inspired by the performances of his friends, began photographing them at subsequent events, parties, and impromptu portrait sessions.

In 1956, the Lehrmans left Berkeley for Ohio when Walter took an English instructor's position at the University of Akron. At the same time, Gary Snyder left Berkeley for Japan; Jack Kerouac headed for Desolation Peak; Allen Ginsberg shipped out as a merchant seaman; and Philip Whalen departed for Newport, Oregon. It was the end of "the Dharma Bums" period, but Lehrman had managed to capture several of the main characters on film.

Walter Lehrman taught English at the University of Akron until 1986, retiring as an Associate Professor. During his academic career, his photographs remained in storage, only resurfacing in the 1990s with the resurgence of popular interest in the Beats.

Mr. Lehrman lives in Akron, Ohio, with his daughter, Elizabeth Raptis.

John Suiter is a writer and photographer currently (2015) living in Chicago. He first became acquainted with Walter Lehrman and his work during production on A Jack Kerouac CD-ROMnibus, a 1995 multi-media project which highlighted several of Lehrman's photographs, and on which Suiter was Associate Producer. In 2002, Suiter used Lehrman's portrait of Jack Kerouac, with permission, in his book Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades. In 2009 Suiter became Lehrman's agent and printer. He began having high resolution digital master scans of Lehrman's original negatives made, and created a series of inkjet digital prints of Lehrman's images that were exhibited at USU's Nora Eccles Harrison Museum in 2014.

Of particular note are Lehrman's historic images of Allen Ginsberg reading his famous poem "Howl" at readings in November 1955 in San Francisco and March 1956 in Berkeley. Also of interest are photographs made at the 3-day "Going-Away-to-Japan" party for the poet Gary Snyder in May 1956 when Snyder departed for Kyoto to pursue Zen training. That party is treated fictively in Kerouac's book, The Dharma Bums, and many of Lehrman's portraits are of people who were the life-models for Kerouac's characters.

The Walter Lehrman Collection is in six parts.

The collection also includes unretouched, high-resolution master digital scans of Lehrman's original negatives; a set of retouched, exhibition-grade digital files from the masters; and oversized, exhibition-grade prints of Lehrman's images by photographer John Suiter.

In addition, the collection has audio recordings made by Mr. Lehrman at the Town Hall poetry reading of March 18, 1956 in Berkeley, California, featuring Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, and Kenneth Rexroth.

Part I: Original negatives by Walter Lehrman, exposures made in 1955 and '56. Due to extensive damage to the emulsions, these negatives are in Cold Storage Box 74.

Part II: Silver halide photographs from the original negatives, printed by Walter Lehrman in 1955-'56. These are cropped versions of the full negative frames and appear to be preliminary "work prints."

Part III: Unretouched, exact digital "masters" made from high-resolution scans of the original negatives.

Part IV: Retouched, high-resolution digital files made from the digital masters.

Part V: Inkjet prints made by John Suiter from the retouched digital files in Part IV.

Part VI: Audio recordings made by Walter Lehrman at the Town Hall Theater poetry reading in Berkeley, California, March 18, 1956, (featuring Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure & Kenneth Rexroth).

John Suiter Photography Collection, P0375; Merrill-Cazier Special Collections, Beat Collection. (Many publications feature Lehrman photographs).

Audio recordings.

 Language and Languages Literature California Photographs Beats (Persons)--Photographs. I. WALTER LEHRMAN ORIGINAL 2¼" NEGATIVES .25 linear feet 1 box 1955-1956

All Lehrman negatives are on 2¼" Kodak Safety Film and were shot using a medium-format twin-reflex Rolleicord camera.

 Allen Ginsberg 1955 Allen Ginsberg reading, San Francisco ID#1 1955 November 1 1 Allen Ginsberg speaking at San Francisco State ID#2 1955 November 1 1

Note: ID#2 is bottom image of a 2-frame strip of negative film.

Note: In addition to ID#1 and ID#2, there are 10 additional similar negatives of Allen Ginsberg at San Francisco State, from the same event and from the same roll of film. These similar negatives (no ID#s) have never been scanned.

 Allen Ginsberg in profile, sitting at window at Lehrman's apartment ID#3 1955 Fall 1 1 Town Hall Poetry Reading, Berkeley 1956 March 18

(Historic first reading of "Howl" in three complete parts)

 "Allen Ginsberg at Town Hall" #1, Berkeley ID# 7 1956 March 18 1 2 "Poets on Stage" (Ginsberg, Whalen, McClure, Snyder), Town Hall Theater, Berkeley ID#17 1956 March 18 1 2 Michael McClure, Town Hall, Berkeley ID#18 1956 March 18 1 2 Michael McClure & Gary Snyder, Town Hall, Berkeley ID#19 1956 March 18 1 2 Michael McClure & Gary Snyder, Town Hall, Berkeley ID#20 1956 March 18 1 2 Kenneth Rexroth #2, Town Hall, Berkeley ID#21 1956 March 18 1 2 Gary Snyder #1, Town Hall, Berkeley ID#22 1956 March 18 1 2 Gary Snyder #2, Town Hall, Berkeley ID#23 1956 March 18 1 2 Philip Whalen #1, Town Hall, Berkeley ID#24 1956 March 18 1 2 Philip Whalen #2, Town Hall, Berkeley ID#25 1956 March 18 1 2 Gary Snyder's Going-to-Japan Party, Mill Valley 1956 May 4-6

(Gary Snyder sailed for Kobe, Japan, on May 7)

 Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac, Mill Valley ID#12 1956 1 3

Note: ID#12 is one negative of a 2-frame film strip cut from the film roll. Other image (unscanned) is of homes in Mill Valley.

 Jack Kerouac, Mill Valley #2 ID#14 1956 May 1 3

Note: Also includes a negative of a similar image, but Kerouac is looking down.

 Robert Creeley, Mill Valley ID#26 1956 May 1 3 Gary Snyder, Mill Valley ID#27 1956 May 1 3 Locke McCorkle, Mill Valley ID#31 1956 May 1 3

Note: Gary Snyder lived in a cabin in Locke McCorkle's backyard in Mill Valley for 3 months in early 1956. McCorkle is called "Sean Monahan" in The Dharma Bums.

 Locke McCorkle, Mill Valley #2 ID#32 1956 May 1 3 Valerie McCorkle, Mill Valley ID#33 1956 May 1 3

Note: 1-33a and 1-33b are similar but slightly different versions of 1-33. Valerie McCorkle was Locke McCorkle's wife. Called "Christine McCorkle" in The Dharma Bums.

 Sally 'Shandel' Parks ID#36 1956 May 1 3

Note: Sally Parks was a girlfriend of Gary Snyder's during the mid-1950s. See his poem "Shandel" in Danger on Peaks. Called "Polly Whitmore" in The Dharma Bums.

 John Montgomery, Mill Valley ID#37 1956 May 1 3

Note: John Montgomery was a hiking friend of Gary Snyder's. Called "Henry Morley" in The Dharma Bums.

 Mary Sullivan's Party, Berkeley 1956 May 12 Jack Kerouac, Berkeley, #1 ID#11 1956 May 12 1 4 Kerouac, Orlovsky & Ginsberg, Berkeley ID#13 1956 May 12 1 4 Jack Kerouac, Berkeley, #2 ID#15 1956 May 12 1 4 Jack Kerouac, Berkeley, #3 ID#16 1956 May 12 1 4 Peter Orlovsky, Berkeley, #1 ID#29 1956 May 12 1 4 Peter Orlovsky, Berkeley, #2 ID#30 1956 May 12 1 4 Mary Sullivan and Philip Whalen, Berkeley ID#38 1956 May 12 1 4 Marilyn "Neuri" Arnold, Berkeley 1955, 1956

Note: Marilyn "Neuri" Arnold was a girlfriend of Gary Snyder's. See his poem "For a Far-Out Friend" in his collection Riprap. "Neuri" was called "Psyche" Kerouac's The Dharma Bums.

 Marilyn "Neuri" Arnold, Berkeley, #1 ID#34 1956 1 5

Note: ID#34a-c are unscanned "similars" of ID#34, from the same portrait session and from the same roll of negative film.

 Marilyn "Neuri" Arnold, Berkeley, #2 ID#35 1956 1 5

Note: ID#35a-g are unscanned "similars" of #ID35, from the same portrait session and from the same roll of negative film.

 Miscellaneous 1956 Gary Snyder, Point Reyes ID#28 1956 April 1 6 Unscanned Negatives 1956 Unidentified girl, Mill Valley ID#27a 1956 May 1 7

Note: Probably the daughter of one of the guests at the party.

 Unidentified girl, Mill Valley ID#44 1956 May 1 7

Note: Same girl as in ID#27a

 Philip Whalen, Mill Valley ID#45 1956 May 1 7 II. PRINTS BY WALTER LEHRMAN 1 box, 3 folders 1955-1956

These are silver halide prints processed by Walter Lehrman in 1955 & 1956 in his darkroom in Berkeley. The original negatives for the prints in Folders 1 & 2 have been lost, so these prints are the "masters" for these images. The negatives from which the prints in Folder 3 were made are indicated with ID#s.

 Portraits of Allen Ginsberg 1955-1956 Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley ID#4 1955 Fall 2 1

Note: 3½" x 4¾" silver halide print

 Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley ID#5 1955 Fall 2 1

Note: 5¾" x 7¼" silver halide print.

 Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley ID#6 1955 Fall 2 1

Note: 3½" x 4¾" silver halide print

 Allen Ginsberg Town Hall #2, Berkeley ID#8 1956 March 18 2 1

Note: No Negative

 Allen Ginsberg ("White Shirt Portrait"), Berkeley ID#9 1956 May 12 2 1

Note: 4½" x 6½" silver halide print

 Lehrman Self-Portraits 1953 Walter Lehrman, Self-portrait, Berkeley ID#42 1953 2 2

Note: 7¼" x 10½" Silver halide print, approx. 5" x 7"

 Jinny & Walter Lehrman, Berkeley ID#43 1953 2 2

Note: Silver halide print, approx. 5" x 7"

 Town Hall Poetry Reading, Berkeley 1956 March 18 Kenneth Rexroth #1, Town Hall, Berkeley Item 39 1956 2 3

Note: Cropped version, printed from negative ID#20. Silver halide print, approx. 5" x 7"

 Philip Whalen #1, Town Hall, Berkeley Item 40 1956 2 3

Note: Cropped version, printed from negative ID#24. Silver halide print, approx. 5" x 7"

 Philip Whalen #2, Town Hall, Berkeley Item 41 1956 2 3

Note: Cropped version, printed from negative ID#25. Silver halide print, approx. 5" x 7"

 III. UNRETOUCHED DIGITAL MASTERS 43 tiff files on three dvd disks. 1955-1956

These are TIFF format files from high-resolution scans of Walter Lehrman's original negatives and prints. Fifteen of these (1, 3, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28) were scanned at Jonathan Singer Editions in Boston in 2009, on a very high-resolution CreoScitex flatbed film scanner. All other negatives were "drum scanned" at Print Lab in Chicago in 2013-14, on a Heidelberg Tango XL scanner. Nos. 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 39-43 are print-masters (negatives lost or destroyed) that were scanned on a Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner at Print Lab.

 Unretouched Digital Masters on DVD #1 1955-1956 (15 TIFF files) Allen Ginsberg Reading 1 1955 November 2 4

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#1; Dimensions: 9768 x 9707; File Size: 94.9 MB; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Allen Ginsberg Speaking 2 1955 November 2 4

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#2;Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Allen Ginsberg Profile Master 3 1955 November 2 4

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#3; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley,[aka "Triptych Left"] 4 1955 Fall 2 4

Source: Silver halide print II.4 (ID#4); Dimensions: 4911 × 6102; File Size: 30.1 MB; Scanned: Print Lab, Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner

 Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley 5 1955 Fall 2 4

Source: Silver halide print II.5 (ID#5); Scanned: Print Lab, Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner

 Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley 6 undated 2 4

Source: Silver halide print II.5 (ID#6); Scanned: Print Lab, Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner

 Allen Ginsberg, Town Hall #1 7 undated 2 4

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#7; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Allen Ginsberg, Town Hall #2 8 undated 2 4

Source: Silver halide print II.8 (ID#8); Scanned: Print Lab, Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner

 Allen Ginsberg White Shirt 9 undated 2 4

Source: Silver halide print II.9 (ID#9); Scanned: Print Lab, Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner

 Jack Kerouac Mill Valley 1 10 undated 2 4

Note: Master file for ID#10 was scanned from Walter Lehrman's original negative at a photo lab in Akron, Ohio, and provided to John Suiter by Lehrman in 2002. The negative has since been lost. (No further information available).

 Jack Kerouac Berkeley,1 11 1956 June 2 4

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#11; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac 12 undated 2 4

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#12; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Kerouac Orlovsky Ginsberg 13 undated 2 4

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#13; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Jack Kerouac Mill Valley 2 14 undated 2 4

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#14; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Jack Kerouac Berkeley, 2 15 1956 2 4

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#15; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Unretouched Digital Masters on DVD #2 1956 Jack Kerouac Berkeley, 3 16 1956 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#16; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Poets on Stage (Ginsberg, Whalen, McClure & Snyder) 17 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#17; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Michael McClure Town Hall 18 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#18; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 McClure & Snyder 19 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#19; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Kenneth Rexroth Town Hall, 1 20 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#20; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Kenneth Rexroth Town Hall, 2 21 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#22;Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Gary Snyder Town Hall, 1 22 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#22; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Gary Snyder Town Hall, 2 23 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#23; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Philip Whalen Town Hall, 1 24 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#24; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Philip Whalen Town Hall, 2 25 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#25, Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Robert Creeley Mill Valley, 56 26 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#26; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Gary Snyder Mill Valley, 56 27 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#27; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Gary Snyder Point Reyes 28 1956 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#28; Scanned at: Singer Editions, CreoScitex Eversmart Select scanner

 Peter Orlovsky, 1 29 undated 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#29; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Peter Orlovsky, 2 30 1956 2 5

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#30; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Unretouched Digital Masters on DVD #3 Undated Locke McCorkle, 1 31 undated 2 6

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#31; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Locke McCorkle, 2 32 undated 2 6

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#32;Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Valerie McCorkle 33 undated 2 6

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#33; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Neuri Arnold, 1 34 undated 2 6

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#34; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Neuri Arnold, 2 35 undated 2 6

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#35; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Shandel Parks 36 undated 2 6

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#36; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 John Montgomery 37 undated 2 6

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#37; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Mary Sullivan & Philip Whalen 38 undated 2 6

Source: Original 2¼" film negative ID#38; Scanned at: Print Lab, Heidelberg Tango XL drum scanner

 Rexroth by Walter 39 undated 2 6

Source: Silver halide print II.39 (ID#39); Scanned: Print Lab, Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner

 Whalen 1 by Walter 40 undated 2 6

Source: Silver halide print II.40 (ID#40); Scanned: Print Lab, Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner

 Whalen 2 by Walter 41 undated 2 6

Source: Silver halide print II.41 (ID#41); Scanned: Print Lab, Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner

 Walter Lehrman Self-Portrait 42 undated 2 6

Source: Silver halide print II.42 (ID#42); Scanned: Print Lab, Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner

 Jinny & Walter Lehrman 43 undated 2 6

Source: Silver halide print II.43 (ID#43); Scanned: John Suiter, HP Deskjet flatbed scanner

 IV. RETOUCHED, EXHIBITION-GRADE DIGITAL FILES 1955-1956

From 2009 to 2014, John Suiter made copies of Lehrman's digital masters in Photoshop format and began "imaging" the files—cropping, retouching, adjusting contrast, etc.—in order to create a series of exhibition-grade prints.

"The files I printed from were all retouched to varying degrees. Some required little more than routine elimination of the kind of dust spots and mini-scratches one would expect to find on even "clean" negatives in the darkroom—dust-spot artifacts and small micro-nicks in the film emulsion that one would "spot out" on prints with a triple-zero brush in days past. The extreme high-resolution of the CreoScitex scans brought these imperfections out even more. Some of this clean-up work required many thousands of mouse-clicks. I know there are some of these files that I clicked on more than 10,000 times.

Other changes were more interpretive. I've left some of the more complex Photoshop files in layers for people to track the work, if interested. Some files I worked on slowly, an hour here and there, for weeks…" John Suiter.

The Photoshop folders contain varying numbers of files for each image. Those titled "Final" are the files from which Suiter made the prints in Section V. Other files are titled "v1," "v2," "v3," indicating working versions leading up to the printed file. Some of the files have been left in Photoshop "layers" to show the progression of the changes to the unretouched file or for the convenience of some future printer who may want to make further (or fewer) adjustments to the files. Finally, many of the folders contain text files for interpretive panels to accompany the images.

 Exhibit Grade Digital Files on DVD Disk #1 1955 Allen Ginsberg Reading 1 1955 November (4 files) 2 7

V1, V2, Final & Text

 Allen Ginsberg at SF State Class 2 undated (4 files) 2 7

V1, V2, V3 (Layers), Final

 Allen Ginsberg Profile Berkeley 3 1955 (3 files) 2 7

V1, Final, Text

 Allen Ginsberg Portrait 4 undated (3 files) 2 7

V1, V2, Final

 Allen Ginsberg Portrait 5 undated (2 files) 2 7

V1, Final

 Allen Ginsberg Portrait 6 undated (1 file) 2 7

Final

 Allen Ginsberg Town Hall 7 undated (8 files) 2 7

"Original," "Detail," V1, V2, Final & 3 Text files

 Allen Ginsberg Town Hall, 2 8 undated (1 file) 2 7

Final

 Allen Ginsberg "White Shirt Portrait" 9 undated (2 files) 2 7

V1, Final

 Jack Kerouac Mill Valley, 1 10 undated (4 files) 2 7

V2, V3, Final & Text file. The digital file is the sole property of Merrill-Cazier Library Special Collections & Archives. For reproduction, consult the Curator of Photographs.

 Jack Kerouac Berkeley 11 1956 May (3 files) 2 7

V1, Final, Text

 Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac 12 undated (3 files) 2 7

V1, V2, Final

 Kerouac Orlovsky Ginsberg 13 undated (5 files) 2 7

V1, V2, V3, Final & Text

 Note: Negatives 14, 15, 16 & 21 were never retouched for printing undated 2 7 Poets on Stage (Ginsberg, Whalen, McClure & Snyder) 17 undated (3 files) 2 7

V1, Final & Text

 Michael McClure Town Hall 18 undated (4 files) 2 7

V1, V2, Final & Text

 McClure & Snyder 19 undated (4 files) 2 7

V1, V2, Final & Text

 Rexroth Town Hall, 1 20 undated (3 files) 2 7

V1, Final & Text

 Gary Snyder Town Hall 1 22 undated (2 files) 2 7

Unretouched masters sized and contrast-adjusted to print

 Exhibit Grade Digital Files on DVD Disk #2 14 photoshop folders 1955 Gary Snyder Town Hall, 2 23 undated (3 files) 2 8

V1, Final, Text

 Philip Whalen Town Hall, 1 24 undated (4 files) 2 8

V1, V2, Final, Text

 Philip Whalen Town Hall, 2 25 undated (2 files) 2 8

V1, Final

 Robert Creeley Mill Valley 26 1956 (2 files) 2 8

V1, Final

 Gary Snyder Mill Valley 27 1956 (2 files) 2 8

V1, Final

 Gary Snyder Point Reyes 28 undated 2 8

V1, Final. Note: RESTRICTED until 2020. No photocopies.

 Peter Orlovsky #1 29 undated (3 files) 2 8

V1, Final & Text

 Peter Orlovsky #2 30 undated (2 files) 2 8

V1, Final

 Locke McCorkle Mill Valley 31 1956 (3 files) 2 8

V1, Final & Text

 Note: 32, 35, 36, 37, 38 were never retouched for printing. 39, 40, 41 are cropped versions of 20, 24 & 25 respectively. undated Valerie McCorkle Mill Valley 33 1956 (3 files) 2 8

V1, Final & Text

 Marilyn "Neuri" Arnold Berkeley 34 1956 (3 files) 2 8

V1, Final & Text

 Walter Lehrman Self-Portrait 42 undated (4 files) 2 8

"Self Portrait," Final, Signature & Text

 Jinny & Walter Lehrman 43 undated (1 file) 2 8

Final

 "Ginsberg Triptych." A triptych combining Allen Ginsberg Nos. 4, 5 & 6 undated 2 8

V1, Final

 V. PRINTS OF WALTER LEHRMAN'S IMAGES by JOHN SUITER 1953-1956

Prints collected in two boxes. Box 3 contains 22 17" x 22" prints, mounted on window mat exhibition boards. Box 4 contains 17 prints of varying sizes, some of which have been removed from the John Suiter collection (P0375) in order to consolidate the Walter Lehrman Collection. All are housed in window mat boards or clear plastic sleeves. Prints were all made with Epson inks on Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper, an ink-paper combination that is estimated to remain archivally stable for 100+ years, according to Wilhelm Imaging Research print permanence tests. The prints were all produced on an Epson Stylus 3880 Pro inkjet printer, from PSD format (Photoshop) files.

 Allen Ginsberg, Poetry Center reading, San Francisco 1955 November 3 01

ID#1; Inkjet print; 15" x 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Allen Ginsberg in profile, at Walter Lehrman's Hillegass Avenue apartmen, Berkeley 1955 Fall 3 02

ID#3; Inkjet print; 15" x 15" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Allen Ginsberg Triptych, weeks following Six Gallery reading. Portraits at Lehrman's Hillegasse apartment, Berkeley 1955 Fall 3 03

ID#4-6; Inkjet print; 8¾" x 20" image age on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Allen Ginsberg at Town Hall, Berkeley, 3 views 1956 March 18 3 04-06

ID#7: Inkjet print; 15" x 15¾" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Jack Kerouac, Mill Valley, California 1956 May 3 07

ID#10; Inkjet print; 15" x 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Jack Kerouac, just before leaving for Desolation Peak 1956 May 3 08

ID#11; Inkjet print; 15" 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte; paper

 Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac at Gary Snyder's cabin, Mill Valley 1956 May 3 09

ID#12; Inkjet print; 15" x 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg at a party in Berkeley, landscape view 1956 June 3 10

ID#13; Inkjet print; 15" x 15" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley 1956 June 3 11

ID#13; Inkjet print; 15" x 15" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Ginsberg, Whalen, McClure and Snyder ("Poets on Stage"), Berkeley Town Hall 1956 March 18 3 12

ID#17; Inkjet print; 15" x 15" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Michael McClure reading at Town Hall theater, Berkeley 1956 March 18 3 13

ID#18; Inkjet print; 15" x 15" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Michael McClure and Gary Snyder, Town Hall, Berkeley 1956 March 18 3 14

ID#19; Inkjet print; 15" x 15" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Kenneth Rexroth, Master of Ceremonies, Berkeley Town Hall 1956 March 18 3 15

ID#20; Inkjet print; 15" x 15" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Gary Snyder at Town Hall Theater, (Allen Ginsberg seated), Berkeley 1956 March 18 3 16

ID#22; Inkjet print; 15" x 15 ¼" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Gary Snyder, Town Hall, Berkeley (unretouched) 1956 March 18 3 17

ID#23; Inkjet print; 15" x 15 ¼" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Philip Whalen reading at Berkeley Town Hall 1956 March 3 18-19

ID#24-25; Inkjet print; 15" x 15 ¼" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Gary Snyder at his 3-day Going-Away-to-Japan party, Mill Valley 1956 May 3 20

ID#27; Inkjet print; 15" x 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Gary Snyder at the beach at Point Reyes 1956 April 3 21

ID#28; Inkjet print; 15" x 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 "Peter Orlovsky on Walter and Ginny Lehrman's lawn," Berkeley 1956 3 22

Photographed by Allen Ginsberg. Inkjet print; 12½" x 19" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Walter Lehrman, self-portrait, Berkeley circa 1953 4 01

ID#42; Inkjet print; 7" x 10" image area on 10½" x 12½" matte paper

 Philip Whalen and Jack Kerouac at Gary Snyder's cabin, Mill Valley, "Note Snyder's ice axe on wall in background" 1956 4 02-03

ID#12; Inkjet print; 10" x 10½" image area on 12" x 13½" matte paper. Note: Removed from John Suiter Collection, P0375 10:01 and 10:25

 Jack Kerouac at Marin-An 1956 May 4 04

ID#10 (reverse); Inkjet print; 10" x 10¼" image area on 12" x 12" matte paper. Note: Removed from John Suiter Collection, P0375 10:02

 Allen Ginsberg at a Poetry Center reading in North Beach [California] 1955 November 4 05

ID#2; Inkjet print; 15" x 15" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley 1955 Fall 4 06

ID#4; Inkjet print; 14" x 18" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley 1955 Fall 4 07

ID#5; Inkjet print; 14" x 18" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley 1955 Fall 4 08

ID#6; Inkjet print; 14" x 18" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Allen Ginsberg, Town Hall Theater, Berkeley 1956 March 18 4 09

ID#8; Inkjet print; 13¼" x 19½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Allen Ginsberg ("White shirt portrait"), Berkeley 1956 March 18 4 10

ID#9; Inkjet print; 14 x 19½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Gary Snyder (unretouched), Town Hall, Berkeley 1956 March 18 4 11

ID#22-23; Inkjet print; 15" x 15 ¼" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Robert Creeley at Gary Snyder's Going Away Party, Mill Valley 1956 May 4 12

ID#26; Inkjet print: 15" x 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Peter Orlovsky at a party in Berkeley, facing camera 1956 June 4 13

ID#29; Inkjet print; 15" x 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Peter Orlovsky at a party in Berkeley, looking downward 1956 June 4 14

ID#30; Inkjet print; 15" x 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Locke McCorkle, "Sean Monahan" in The Dharma Bums, Mill Valley 1956 May 4 15

ID#31; Inkjet print; 15" x 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Valerie McCorkle, "Christine" in Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, Mill Valley 1956 May 4 16

ID#33; Inkjet print; 15" x 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Marilyn "Neuri" Arnold, Gary Snyder's "Far-out Friend," Berkeley 1956 4 17

ID#34; Inkjet print; 15" x 15½" image area on 17" x 22" matte paper

 Allen Ginsberg, Town Hall Theater, Berkeley 1956 4 18

ID#8; 5" x 7" print

 Kenneth Rexroth, Master of Ceremonies, Berkeley Town Hall 1956 4 19

ID#20; 5" x 7" print

 Philip Whalen reading at Berkeley Town Hall 1956 4 20

ID# 25; 5" x 7" print

 Allen Ginsberg, Town Hall Theater, Berkeley 1956 4 21

ID#8; 5" x 7" print

 Jack Kerouac, Mill Valley, California 1956 4 22

ID#10; 5" x 7" print

 Philip Whalen reading at Berkeley Town Hall 1956 4 23

ID#18; 5" x 7" print

 Kenneth Rexroth, Master of Ceremonies, Berkeley Town Hall 1956 4 24

ID#20; 5" x 7" print

 Gary Snyder at Town Hall Theater, detail 1956 4 25

ID#22; 5" x 7" print

 Philip Whalen reading at Berkeley Town Hall 1956 4 26

ID#25; 5" x 7" print

 VI. AUDIO AND OTHER MATERIALS 1956 Berkeley Poetry Reading, CD-Disk #1 1956 March 18 5 1

Note: 1992 Digital copy of Lehrman's original 1956 reel-to-ree' recordings

 Berkeley Poetry Reading, CD-Disk #2 11 tracks; 57 mins. (all ginsberg) 1956 March 18 5 2

Note: 1992 Digital copy of Lehrman's original 1956 reel-to-reel recordings

 Berkeley Reading DC Edits" ["DC" = Daniel R. Collins] 15 tracks; 51 minutes undated 5 3

Note: Digital re-masters from the 1994 digital files, produced by Daniel R. Collins of Media, Pennsylvania, for Merrill-Cazier Special Collections & Archives in 2013-14. These are individual audio files excerpted from the 1994 digital copies. The remastered files were presented at "listening stations" at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum in March 2014 in connection with the exhibition, "Nobody Goes Home Sad: Portraits of the Six Gallery Poets, 1956-2000, by Walter Lehrman & John Suiter.

 Playlists for CDs undated 5 4 Complete transcript of poetry reading, including ancillary remarks. Annotated by John Suiter undated 5 5 Correspondence: Daniel R. Collins – John Suiter undated (35 pieces) 5 6

Note: E-mails containing detailed instructions and discussions of sound issues for remasterings of Lehrman's original recordings.

 Document: Descriptive comparison of USU's Lehrman audios with those in other archives and commercially-available versions undated 5 7 Individual portraits of Walter and Jinny Lehrman 1953-1965 5 8

Also includes a print of the photograph of Peter Orlovsky on the Lehrman's front lawn, taken by Allen Ginsberg

 DVD with exhibition grade .psd files undated 5 9 Invitation to Walter Lehrman's memorial service, Proclamation from the City of Berkeley designating March 18, 2016 as Allen Ginsberg's "Howl Day" 2016 5 10 Cardboard case of the "Jack Kerouac ROMnibus," featuring a reverse of the image of Kerouac (ID#10) 4 18