Hamilton Wright Jr. photographs
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 76-35
name: label: Creator
content: Wright, Hamilton M., Jr.
label: Names
content: Hamilton Wright Organization
place: label: Place
content: Colorado -- description and travel
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content: New Hampshire -- Description and Travel
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content: Virgin Islands -- Description and Travel
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content: Holland -- Description and Travel
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content: Philippines -- Description and Travel
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content: Korea -- Description and Travel
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content: South Africa -- Description and Travel
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content: Ecuador -- Description and Travel
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content: Lebanon -- Description and Travel
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content: India -- description and travel
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content: Hong Kong -- Description and Travel
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content: Chile -- description and travel
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content: Italy -- description and travel
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content: Egypt -- description and travel
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content: Taiwan -- description and travel
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content: Venezuela -- Description and Travel
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content: Peru -- Description and Travel
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content: Canada -- Description and Travel
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content: Alaska -- description and travel
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content: Haiti -- description and travel
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content: Mexico -- description and travel
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content: Bolivia -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Topic
content: Beaches
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content: Festivals
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content: Pyramids -- Egypt
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content: Tourism
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content: Industries
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content: Markets
creator: label: Creator
content: Wright, Hamilton M., Jr.
culture: label: Culture
content: Zulu (African people)
label: Culture
content: Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
label: Culture
content: Hindus
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content: Nubians (African people)
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content: Hamilton Wright Jr. photographs
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: In 1908, Hamilton Wright Sr. founded the Hamilton Wright Organization, a public relations firm that specialized in making travelog and newsreel film and distributing it to motion picture houses around the world, often on behalf of domestic and foreign governments. Wright's son, Hamilton Wright Jr., managed the company after his father and expanded it's work.  In 1963, a Senate committee criticized the Hamilton Wright Organization for hosting press junkets and distributing its photographs, newsreels, and stories in American news media without reporting its sources.  The Hamilton Wright Organization was closed by Hamilton Wright Jr.'s son in the late 1960s.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4,700 Color slides (circa)
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content: 250 Lantern slides (circa)
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content: 500 Color transparencies (circa)
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content: 7 Color prints (theatrical motion picture one-sheets)
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content: 9 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1923-1925, 1950-1970
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Hamilton Wright began donating parts of the collection in 1975. Final donation was made by Wright's widow, Frances Purdy Wright, and son, Hamilton Wright Jr. in 1987.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.76-35
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Color slides
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content: Lantern slides
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content: Color transparencies
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content: Color prints
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content: Prints
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content: Posters
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Posters
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content: Photographs
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content: Lantern slides
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Partial inventory available in repository
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Hamilton Wright Jr. in Egypt, South Africa, India, Lebanon, Taiwan, the Philippines, Korea, Hong Kong, Holland, Italy, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, Canada, Alaska, Colorado, and New Hampshire. They include images of modern and ancient structures and monuments, artifacts, industries, cities, markets, caves, festivals, beaches, scenery, and sporting events. Most appear to have been made for the Hamilton Wright Organization, an international agency that made films and photographs to support public relations campaigns of foreign governments. Also included are some lantern slides depicting historical sites in Egypt, directed by Hamilton Wright, Sr., and one-sheets for motion picture films produced by the Hamilton Wright Organization. Additional material includes slide narration for a lecture and short news stories relating to the images in the collection.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Films by the Hamilton Wright Organization can be found in the Human Studies Film Archive in HSFA 94.19.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Film and Television Archive at the University of California at Los Angeles holds the motion picture film and related material of the Hamilton Wright Organization.