Finding aid to WOODY GUTHRIE PHOTOGRAPHS

1905-1992 (Bulk 1935-1971)
 551 images;  items

Scope and content: Images of Woody Guthrie, including publicity portraits, in performance or studios, informal shots including images  with family, friends and other musicians and celebrities; Woody Guthrie "on the road," in the merchant marine and Army, and in the hospital.   Other images include family and friends, events in honor of Woody Guthrie, and places and objects
associated with Woody Guthrie.

Arrangement note: The photographs are arranged first into Photo-1: photographs including Woody Guthrie, Photo-2: photographs that do not include Woody Guthrie.  Within these groups the photographs are divided into series on various subjects, such as "Performance" or "Family and friends" Within these series, the arrangement is roughly chronological.   Each photographic print has a box and item number written on it in pencil.

    Photo-1    Boxes 1-4         Subseries 1-11
    Photo-2    Boxes 5-8         Subseries 1-6

    Oversize    Box 9

Oversize materials include both Photo-1 and Photo-2 materials.  Within the oversize box there are two numeric arrangements: those images that duplicate images found elsewhere, and images only in oversize.  Images that duplicate other images are numbered and arranged using the box and item number from the regular size images.  Images that are only found in oversize are
numbered Box 9, and given a sequential item number.

Items in the flat file, which are matted and too large to be stored elsewhere, are arranged in the same fashion.

Negatives are arranged by the box and item numbers of the photographic print from which they are made.

Subsequent additions to the collections are to be made at the end of the box which contains the appropriate series, and receive the next sequential accession number. 

    Statistics

Photo-1: There are 201 images in the Photo-1 series, and of these, 90 have negatives.   There are 362 prints.

Photo-2: There are 396 images in the Photo-2 series, and of these, 41 have negatives.  There are 543 prints.  There are 25 slides, some of which duplicate materials, and some of which are unique.

Totals: 595 images, 882 prints, 125 negatives and 25 slides.