Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hammersley, Frederick, 1919-2009
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content: Frederick Hammersley papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10.8 Linear Feet (Box 18-23, 29-31, 38-44)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1860s-2007
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hammfred, Series 11
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Materials are arranged by document type and subject matter.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been partially digitized.  Negatives, slides, and many photographs of works of art have not been digitized. Only samples of Anna and Harold Hammersley's albums from circa 1900-1940, circa 1921, and 1930s-1940s, and Susie Hammersley Stone's two albums, have been digitized.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Fourteen photo albums and loose photographs depict Hammersley, his friends and family, travels to Europe and throughout the United States, exhibitions, and works of art. Hammersley was an amateur photographer and most of the exhibition and artwork images were taken by him and are identified and dated. There is also an extensive set of photos  organized by Hammersley into shoeboxes and photo boxes. These photographs have been left in their original order.  

Seven of the fourteen photo albums were created by Anna and Harold Hammersley, which include photos of friends, family, landscapes, and city scenes. The other six photo albums were created by Frederick Hammersley and include photos from his time in school, in the army, his travel, his cats, and his family, friends, and artwork. There is also one album of negatives. 

An extensive collection of slides, largely produced by Hammersley, document his own artwork as well as work by others used as teaching aids, as well as source material and travel photography are part of a later addition.

Duplicate photographs likely exist. As a photographer, Hammersley experimented with contrast and sizing which resulted in many copies of the same photograph. When found, duplicates within the shoebox and photoboxes organized by Hammersley were returned. These same images, however, may appear elsewhere in the series.