Personal and Family
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Sidney, George, 1916-2002
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content: George Sidney Collection
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content: George Sidney Collection / Series 1: Photographs, Photographic Negatives, and Slides
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
label: Date
content: 1914-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0867, Subseries 1.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries includes photographs of family, friends, holiday celebrations, and acquaintances entertained at the Sidney home. This series includes personal birthday and holiday photographs.  There are numerous photographs of George Sidney's maternal aunt, Agnes Mooney Dobson, known as "Fuddie", and her son Ned Dobson, including his wife Jean and their children.  This series includes the many photographs Sidney took documenting his art collection. It includes formal family and individual portraits by Strauss-Payton of Kansas City, Missouri, MGM studio photographer, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Gaby of Montreal, Canada and others. Many photographs in this series were taken at the Sidney home, 1140 Tower Road in Beverly Hills and later at 910 Rexford Drive. There are photographs of Iranian protests in Los Angeles from 1978, the 1979 Rose Parade, Elaine Goldsmith's sculpture, and the Sidney family dogs.  There are photographs of art objects, silver, painting, and damage to the house at 1140 Tower Road taken at the time of the Sidney's divorce.  There are photographs documenting paintings associated with Edward G. Robinson and his wife Jane Robinson.  A number of contact sheets have photographic tests on them as well as personal photographs.  The photographs are arranged sequentially according to Sidney's film roll numbers.