Harry Warnecke New York News Sunday Coloroto Magazines
name: label: Publisher
content: New York News
label: Photographer
content: Warnecke, Harry, 1900-1984
label: Donor
content: Warnecke, Elsie
title: label: Topic
content: New York News Sunday Coloroto Magazine
topic: label: Topic
content: Color photography -- 1940-1970
label: Topic
content: Celebrities -- 1940-1970
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Elsie Warnecke, 1996.
creator: label: Publisher
content: New York News
label: Photographer
content: Warnecke, Harry, 1900-1984
label: Donor
content: Warnecke, Elsie
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content: Harry Warnecke New York News Sunday Coloroto Magazines
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Harry Warnecke was a photographer for the New York Daily News beginning in the 1940s through the 1960s.  He has been called a pioneer of color photography.1  The following is based on an article in Smithsonian Magazine by Diane Bolz:

Harry Warnecke used a special "one-shot" camera that he built himself.  He created carefully crafted portraits of the popular and the powerful.  Through a system of mirrors, the one-shot [camera] exposed three black-and-white negatives simultaneously, each through a separate colored filter (red, blue and yellow [green]).  These "color separations" could then be transferred to rotogravure plates or used to sensitize sheets of colored tissue that, when bonded together on white paper, formed a color carbro print.2 

Sources

1 Smithsonian Institution. 2000. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/marsahll/warmar.htm (July 23, 2003).

2 Bolz, Diane M. "Harry Warnecke's Pioneering Color." Originally published in the February 1995 Smithsonian Magazine. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues95/feb95/contd_feb95.html (July 23, 2003)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942-1969.
custodhist: label: Ownership and Custodial History
content: These partial copies of magazines and tearsheets were collected by Harry Warnecke. His widow, Mrs. Elsie Warnecke, donated photographs and magazines to the National Portrait Gallery, which transferred the magazines to the Archives Center in 1996.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0664
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Tear sheets
label: Type
content: Rotogravure
label: Type
content: Periodicals
label: Type
content: Photomechanical prints
label: Type
content: Magazines (periodicals)
label: Type
content: Reproductions
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 1 series.
Arranged chronologically.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David Haberstich, undated.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Tear sheets -- 1940-1970
label: Genre/Form
content: Rotogravure
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals -- 1940-1970
label: Genre/Form
content: Photomechanical prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Magazines (periodicals) -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Reproductions
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Approx. 765 issues of the New York News Sunday Coloroto supplement (partial copies), containing reproductions of color photographs by Warnecke and others. Most of the cover illustrations depict motion picture and television stars. Most, but apparently not all, of the issues contain reproductions of Warnecke's work.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Archival Materials
content: Original color photographs by Warnecke are in the National Portrait Gallery photography collection.