Fred Frater Photographs of the Amish
name: label: Creator
content: Frater, Fred
place: label: Place
content: Intercourse (Pa.)
label: Place
content: Pennsylvania
topic: label: Topic
content: Amish -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County
label: Topic
content: Auctions
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Fred S. Frater in 2009.
creator: label: Creator
content: Frater, Fred
setName: label: See more items in
content: Fred Frater Photographs of the Amish
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Fred S. Frater studied photography at the Clarence H. White School of Photography and worked as a photographer at Lukens Steel Mill for nearly 40 years. He was drafted during World War II serving as a glider trooper and military photographer between 1943 and 1946. His photographs are in the collections of The Hagley Museum and Library, The Library of Congress, George Eastman House Museum and The United States Holocaust Museum. Frater resides in Exton, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.15 Cubic feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1947-1950
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1147
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The Collection is arranged into two series.

Series 1, Negatives,

Series 2, Photographs
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Nicholas Beyelia, intern, August 2011 supervised by Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film -- 1940-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1940-1950
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The twenty-eight photographs and corresponding negatives in this collection were taken by photographer Fred S. Frater in Intercourse, Pennsylvania sometime between 1947 and 1950. They document a day-long auction of furniture, farm equipment and household goods that took place during the winter or early spring season. They depict an outdoor setting and, while some Amish women are shown, the photographs feature primarily Amish men and boys.

The negatives are in a two frame strip of 120, black and white film stock.

The photographs measure 5"x5" and were developed on Fugicolor Crystal Archive Paper. Although taken around 1947, the photographs in this collection were not developed until March 14, 2008.