Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965
setName: label: See more items in
content: Elizabeth McCausland papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 32-36, OV 37)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1905-1950
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mccaeliz, Series 13
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Files are arranged in alphabetical order. Photographs can also be found amongst research and writing files.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety, except for duplicates and negatives.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Series consists of photographs of artists and works of art, photographs as art, and prints from photography exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art collected by McCausland in the course of her wide-ranging research and writing activities. Of particular note amongst the photographs as art are those taken by Berenice Abbott from 1935 to 1938 as part of a WPA project to document the city and published as a book, Changing New York (1939), with commentary by McCausland. Of particular note amongst the photographs of artist are ones of Isamu Noguchi working on his "News" plaque for the Associated Press Building at Rockefeller Center circa 1938-1940. Also found are some photographs of McCausland, including one with Gertrude Stein taken in 1934 (the original of which is missing).

Included in many of the photograph files are copy prints and negatives made by the Archives.