Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977
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content: Gertrude Abercrombie papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet (Boxes 5-7; OV 8)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1880-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.abergert, Series 11
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Photographs are arranged into 5 subseries:

Subseries 1: Art Work, 1978, undated

Subseries 2: People, circa 1880-1976, undated

Subseries 3: Places, 1958-1971, undated

Subseries 4: Miscellaneous Subjects, 1931-1961, undated

Subseries 5: Negatives, Slides, and Transparencies, 1963, undated
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs are of art work, people, places, and miscellaneous subjects; negatives, slides, and transparencies are included in this series, too.

Photographs of art include the work of Gertrude Abercrombie, Karl Priebe, and Charles Sebree. 

People pictured are Gertrude Abercrombie and family, including her parents, Richard I. Livingston, Dinah Livingston, and Frank Sandiford. There are also 19th and early 20th century photographs of ancestors. Among the images of friends are: Ivan le Lorraine Albright, Arnold Blanch, Dudley Huppler, Doris Lee, Karl Priebe, and Richard Purdy. Photographs of jazz artists include: Louis Armstrong, George Davis, Erroll Garner, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Orlando, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughn, and the Modern Jazz Quartet. Of particular note the portraits of Gertrude Abercrombie and Dizzy Gillespie by Carl Van Vechten. 

Among the photographs of places are interior views of Gertrude Abercrombie's home and studio, unidentified landscapes, travel pictures of San Francisco and commercially produced stereopticon slides of other locations. Miscellaneous subjects are automobiles, cats, exhibition installations, and a still life setup.