Photographs and Moving Images
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Meiere, M. Hildreth, d. 1961
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content: Hildreth Meière papers
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content: 5.8 Linear Feet (Boxes 12-13, 16, 20-27, FC 17, FC 114-127)
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content: 0.029 Gigabytes (ER04)
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content: circa 1915-1966
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.meiemari, Series 7
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content: Archival materials
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content: Glass plate copy negatives and lantern slides in this series are housed separately.

See also Series 5, Travel Records, for a very large series of slides and motion picture film, which includes images of mosaics, architecture, and international fairs. Additional photographs are also found in Series 1, Biographical Material, in the Dunns' research on Meière's Century of Progress Murals from the Chicago World's Fair of 1933-1934.
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content: Digital copies of all the films in this series are available for research use. Duplicate projection film prints of 1939 New York World's Fair films and the film of the Municipal Center Frieze are also available for loan. Glass plate negatives have been digitized.
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content: Photographs and digital photographs and moving images include personal photographs and home movies of Meière, family, and associates, and photographs and motion picture film of artworks by Meière and others. In addition to printed and digital photographs, negatives, slides, and transparencies, this series contains 311 lantern slides, 201 glass negatives, 8 original film reels, and duplicates of those film reels on 8 film reels and 2 videocassettes (HDCAM).

Personal photographs include numerous portraits of Meière throughout her life, from her time in school to her time in the U. S. Navy during WWI, and  later portraits taken by Peter A. Juley and Sons and Berenice Abbott. Other personal photographs are found with childhood friend Katherine Harvey in costume, as well as autographed theatrical photographs of actresses Marjorie Patterson and Margaret Anglin by Sarony and Charles Frohman. A motion picture film contains home movies shot in 1926 and 1940 in New York City on one film reel. Family slides of homes and family members are also found, along with photographs of Meière with personal and professional associates, including formal group photos of annual New York City Arts Commission dinners, Meière accepting her honorary doctorate at Manhattanville College, and Meière riding camels in Egypt.

Photographed artworks by Meière include snapshots of sketches for some of her earliest commissions from 1924, lantern slides and copy negatives of later commissions, lantern slides and glass negatives of a series of drawings Meière made of the 1934 performance of the passion play in Oberammergau, Germany, as well as murals in Oberammergau, motion picture film of Meière's and other artists' murals and sculptures at the 1939 New York World's Fair on 3 film reels, and motion picture film of the Municipal Center Frieze in Washington, DC on 1 film reel. Triptychs created by Meière during WWII, mainly for the Citizen's committee for the Army and Navy, are documented in a film documentary, "The Making of a Triptych," on 2 film reels, and in 25 color lantern slides and color transparencies. Numerous photographs of various commissions by Meière are also found.

Photographed artworks by others include a bust of Meière by James Drummond Herbert, slides of the Brussels Fair of 1958, slides of cave paintings in Italy, France, and Lebanon; a set of slides of Flemish paintings, and a large set of glass copy negatives and lantern slides of murals in Norway, possibly taken during Meière's 1932 trip to Scandinavia. A reel of film shot at the Paris Fair of 1937 is also found.