Photographic Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Tremaine, Emily Hall, 1908-1987
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content: Emily Hall Tremaine papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.8 Linear Feet (Boxes 8, 10-11)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1890-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.trememil, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Materials are arranged by subject. Photos of artwork in the Tremaine collection were removed from two albums and their original order, alphabetically by artists and by alphanumeric codes, was maintained.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been digitized in entirety with the exception of blank versos of photographs and duplicates.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographic material includes portraits of Tremaine's parents, and of Tremaine as a child, with her sister, as a young woman, and in wedding photographs with her first husband, Maximilian von Romberg. There are photos of the Hall family home in Butte, Montana, photographs of the Brunninghausen home and estate designed for Emily and Maximilian von Rombergs by Santa Barbara architect Lutah Maria Riggs, and photographs of the von Rombergs with friends including Clark Gable, Ruth and Walter Pidgeon, and Jeanne and Juan Reynal. There is also a folder of circa 1990 contact sheets and copies of negatives from photographs of friends and activities taken by Maximilian von Romberg in the 1930s.

One folder includes photos of the von Rombergs working on the society magazine Aperitif. 


There are three photos of Emily Hall Tremaine taken after her marriage to Burton Tremaine, negatives of their Madison, Connecticut home and their New York apartment taken by Adam Bartos, and photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright's proposed designs for a resort at Meteor Crater, Arizona, commissioned by Burton Tremaine.

Also found are photos of works of art in the Tremaine collection from two photograph albums. The bulk of the photographs are annotated with artist name, title of work, medium, size, and an alphanumeric identifier.