Finding aid created by: Amy S. Doherty
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Oct 2021 | One item added; stylistic changes (EMB) |
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Creator: | Peterich, Gerda. |
Title: | Gerda Peterich Papers |
Dates: | 1920-1990 |
Size: | 23 linear feet |
Abstract: | Photographs and negatives, writings, printed matter, and other material relating to Gerda Peterich's career as a photographer of dance and architecture as well as art history lecturer and Photographic Archives director at Syracuse University |
Language: | English |
Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
Gerda Peterich (1906-1974) was a lecturer in art history and director of the Photographic Archives at Syracuse University from 1964 to 1968. During her career she was a photographer of dances and dancers and a staff photographer for Dance Magazine. She was an associate in research at the George Eastman House and was well known as a photographer of architecture, especially cobblestone structures.
Gerda Anna Margarete Peterich was born in Munich, Germany, on March 9, 1906. Her mother was a pianist, and her father was a sculptor and professor of fine arts. She had three brothers and a sister, all gifted artistically. The family moved to Italy soon after Peterich was born, seeking a more liberal atmosphere for the children. Peterich's schooling took place in Germany where she studied at the Odenwaldschule from 1919 to 1922. She studied piano with Lili Kroeber-Asche at the State Conservatory of Music in Stuttgart from 1930 to 1933. Despite her early interest in music, an injury to her shoulder prevented her from pursuing a musical career.
In 1936, Peterich went to the island of Hiddensee to think through her interests in gardening, architecture, and photography and to decide on her life's work. She returned from her week of contemplation and announced that photography was where she would place her major efforts. From the summer of 1937 through the winter of 1939 she studied photography at the Photographische Lehranstalt des Lette-Vereins in Berlin and passed the state examination cum laude. While in Berlin Peterich met and married Dr. Kurt Robert Mattusch, Economic Counsellor for the U.S. State Department at the American Consulate General.
In August 1939, Peterich and her lifelong friend Elisabeth (Lilly) Hoffmann sailed for America on the next to last ship to leave Germany before World War II. Shortly thereafter, Peterich and her husband separated.
Faced with the task of earning a living in an unfamiliar environment, Peterich established a photographic studio at 332 West 50th Street in New York, where she specialized in portraiture and dance. She also taught for two and a half years at The School of Modern Photography. During the period from 1940 through 1946 Peterich made a name for herself as a photographer of dance and dancers and became a staff photographer for Dance Magazine. Among her subjects were Jose Limon, Martha Graham, Pearl Primas, Jane Dudley, Ruth St. Denis, Jerome Robbins, Bambi Lynn, Pearl Lang, and Hanya Holm. Peterich's aim was "the interpretation of the dancer's personality, the dancer's personal style, or a special dance." In 1950, she resumed photographing dancers, but primarily with ballet, while her earlier work was with modern dancers. While on the staff of Dance Magazine she also worked freelance, doing magazine, commercial and portrait photography.
In 1946, Peterich accepted a position as visiting lecturer at Ohio University where she also attended school. On August 7, 1948, she was awarded a BFA from Ohio. During this period she became head of the department of photography.
In 1950, Peterich moved to Rochester, New York, and began working towards her master's degree in fine arts at the University of Rochester, concentrating on the history of architecture and the history of photography. The MA degree she received on June 7, 1957, was the first in the history of photography as an art form to be granted in the United States. Her thesis, "The Calotype in France and its Use in Architectural Documentation," combined her lifelong interests in architecture and photography.
While pursuing her master's degree Peterich worked a variety of jobs. She again freelanced as a photographer and documented the architecture of the Utica area for Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. In the summer of 1958, she co-chaired a four-day tour of the Geneva/Rochester/Finger Lakes area and the Corning Glass Works with Harley McKee, an architectural historian and professor at Syracuse University. Peterich also became an Associate in Research at the George Eastman House, where she designed at least two traveling exhibitions, one on the history of photography and the other on nineteenth-century architectural photographs. Peterich was also a staff writer for Image, the Eastman House journal, and wrote a lead article about the architectural exhibition in 1958.
While studying for her master's degree, Peterich began researching and photographing cobblestone architecture. In 1955 she created a circulating photograph exhibit, "Cobblestone Architecture of Upstate New York," and presented a paper to the Central New York chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, which was subsequently published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (vol. 15, no. 2). She continued to photograph cobblestone architecture for the rest of her life. In 1978, Syracuse University Press posthumously published her book, Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State. It notes, "Gerda Peterich's photographs are the soul of this book...Brought up in an artistic environment, she learned the special qualities of stone while watching her father at work in his studio and on long walks with him through the countryside."
In 1957, the George Eastman House gave Peterich a retrospective show, entitled, "Twenty Years of Photography." The show, which included portraits and images of dance, clouds, water, wildflowers, cobblestone architecture and churches of Utica, New York, also appeared at the Siembah Gallery in Boston in 1961.
During her New York City days Peterich shared an apartment with her childhood friend, Lilly Hoffmann, who became a weaver of great distinction. In 1950, Hoffman purchased a house in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, and in 1959, Peterich moved there to once again share a home with her friend. In a 1959 Christmas letter she wrote, "...everything was planning for New Hampshire. Through many years I spent my vacations there with my good friend Lilly Hoffmann. I was beginning to grow roots here - it was what I had waited for. And now I am here, loving it, happy, leading the creative life which is happiness. As I write to you I sit in my studio which last year still was Lilly's barn, looking out of my big window over our grounds which terminate in a granite stone wall, pine trees beyond. There are tufts of snow on the ground and the sky is brilliantly blue."
After moving to New Hampshire Peterich lectured on fine arts at the New England College in Henniker. She began work towards a Ph.D. in Fine Arts at Boston University in the summer of 1961 and attended a seminar in American Architecture at Harvard University in the summer of 1962. She was on leave in 1963-64 with a stipend to work on her Ph.D.
In a March 14, 1964, memorandum to Frank Piskor, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Syracuse University, Laurence Schmeckebier, Dean of the School of Art, wrote, "While in Baltimore I also met Gerda Peterich, a distinguished artist and photographer,...she is German born and educated with a good historical and scholarly background." On May 11th, Peterich received a telegram offering her the position of lecturer in art history at Syracuse University. Scheduled to teach one course on the history of art and one on the history of photography, she was also to be director of the Photographic Archives at the University. She accepted the position and was in Syracuse by September.
Shortly after her arrival an exhibit of Peterich's work went on display at the Lowe Art Gallery at the University. The exhibit grew out of a project commissioned by the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, to document the Victorian architecture of the city and to awaken public awareness of the significance of its buildings.
Peterich also worked on a project documenting the architecture of Merrimack and Hillsborough counties in New Hampshire. The project was completed in 1965, and the negatives were deposited at the Library of Congress as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Gerda Peterich taught at Syracuse University until June 1968. She then returned to the New Hampshire she loved and remained there until her death in July 1974.
The Gerda Peterich Papers are primarily visual in nature and comprised mostly of photographic prints, negatives, and transparencies. Of particular interest are the photographs and negatives of dancers in New York City from 1940-1946 and 1950. This was an active period in modern dance, and Peterich photographed most of the notable dancers of the time. The collection also includes printed material, writings, notes, correspondence, and memorabilia. The collection is arranged into four series:
Personal papers consist of biographical materials about Peterich, her personal photographs and transparencies, notes, memorabilia, and other papers. The photographs and transparencies in this series showcase Peterich's interest in historic architecture and nature.
Prints and negatives contains photographic prints and negatives taken by Peterich. This series includes Peterich's photographs and portraits of dancers and dance troupes who were active at that time.
Subject files consist of clippings, correspondence, notes, writings, and other materials related to Peterich's work, as both a photographer and professor. This series also contains materials related to exhibitions of Peterich's photographs.
Additions includes materials related to Peterich's involvement with the Cobblestone Society and other historic architecture interest groups.
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries and all relevant rights holders
before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this
collection.
Slideshows of Peterich's photographs may be viewed at the Syracuse University Archives' online exhibition, "Dancing on Cobblestones: The Photography of Gerda Peterich".
Additionally, the University Archives holds clippings and portrait files on Gerda Peterich.
Names
Peterich, Gerda.
Syracuse University.
Subjects
Architectural photography.
Dance.
Nature photography.
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
Higher education.
Photographers.
Types of Material
Black-and-white negatives.
Black-and-white photographs.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Masters theses.
Photographic transparencies.
Programs (documents)
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Gerda Peterich Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Lilly Hoffmann in 1979, the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, in 1992, Dick Case in 2008, and Richard LeRoy in 2021.
Processing Information
Partially processed. Most materials were placed in acid-free housing.
The bulk of the collection is arranged by and in order of donation. Boxes 3 through 29, from the George Eastman House, were already divided into Prints and negatives and Subject files. Lilly Hoffman's gift as well as some of the oversize packages were formed into the Personal papers series. The Addition series was created to accommodate additional donations.
Personal papers
Prints and negatives
Subject files
Additions
Personal papers | |||||||||||
Box 1 | Biographical material | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Drawings | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Lecture notes - great sculptors | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Memorabilia | ||||||||||
Package 9 | Memorabilia - wooden studio sign oversize | ||||||||||
Package 9 | Memorabilia - award plaque: Professional Photographers of America, Inc. National Award oversize | ||||||||||
Package 9 | Memorabilia - rubber stamps - name and address, etc. oversize | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Miscellaneous material | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Notes from lecture | ||||||||||
Photographs | |||||||||||
Box 1 | Architecture - barns, Orleans County, New York 1972 October | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Architecture - Chalet Schell, Northfield, Massachusetts, Historical American Buildings Survey | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Architecture - interiors | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Architecture - Manchester City Hall; Manchester Mills; Sandwich Church; Walpole, New Hampshire | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Architecture - unidentified churches, Danvers, Massachusetts; Durham, New Hampshire | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Architecture - Utica, New York 1950-1956 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Architecture - Wright, Frank Lloyd House?, Manchester, New York | ||||||||||
Package 1 | Arts Council of Greater Concord calendar 1972 oversize | ||||||||||
Box 2 | By others | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Cape Ann, Rockport, Massachusetts summer 1945 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Central Park, New York City 1940-1943 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Children's Home, Athens, Ohio | ||||||||||
Package 1 | Cobblestone architecture of the Rochester area oversize album | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Dancers | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Events - eighteenth annual fair of the League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts 1951 July 31-August 5 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Events - wochenmarkt in revel 1938 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Flowers and plants | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Kleine reportage aus dem froschteish circa 1938 album | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Landscapes - a portfolio of three prints | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Landscapes - landscapes, seascapes and skyscapes | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Manchester Historic Association - barns, Orleans County | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Manchester Historic Association - exterior | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Manchester Historic Association - first automobile | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Manchester Historic Association - H.W. Herrick repros. and others | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Manchester Historic Association - interiors | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Manchester Historic Association - Jewish community | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Manchester Historic Association - labels | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Manchester Historic Association - museum objects, still life | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Manchester Historic Association - people, groups, historic objects | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Manchester Historic Association - quilts | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Manchester Historic Association - scenic, maps | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Michigan | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
Package 3 | Miscellaneous oversize | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Objects - chests and tables | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Objects - League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, miscellaneous crafts | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Objects - Richard Hooke's wood sculpture | ||||||||||
Package 1 | Odenwaldschule oversize album | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Ohio miscellany | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Ohio, exposure/development set | ||||||||||
Package 1 | Optische mappe 1937 oversize album | ||||||||||
Package 6 | [Portfolio] - New York City produce market circa 1920 oversize | ||||||||||
Package 2 | Portfolio of prints oversize | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Portraits - Carter children, Christina and Perry | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Portraits - Carter children, John, Stephen, Elizabeth, Julie B., Robin | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Portraits - miscellaneous (2 folders) | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Portraits - miscellaneous Europe | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Portraits - Segal, Evelyn | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Students? of Gerda Peterich - James E. Durrell, Jr. | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Student work | ||||||||||
Package 5 | Student work [of Gerda Peterich] - "Papiervergleich 1937" oversize | ||||||||||
Package 4 | Student work [of Gerda Peterich] - [portfolio] "Le paysagede cagnes sur mer" circa 1937-1939 oversize | ||||||||||
Package 5 | Student work [of Gerda Peterich] - tools oversize | ||||||||||
Package 5 | Student work [of Gerda Peterich] - vegetables oversize | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - architecture, miscellaneous | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - Cape Cod 1972 October, 1973 September | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - fall 1968 October | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - fall and winter, Hopkinton, New Hampshire | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - flowers in bloom 1972 February-May, 1973 September | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - garden, springtime 1972 May | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - Germany 1968 September | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - Gloucester, Eleanor 1967 August | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - Jasper 1967 August, 1968 March - Peterich's dog | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - Lewisberg, Pennsylvania, Mennonite farm | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - medium format | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - miscellaneous 1971-1972 - waterfall, trees, landscapes, sunsets | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - Pennsylvania, general views, mountain laurel 1970 July | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - Pennsylvania, grasses, grain, flowers, rock, forest 1970 July, 1972 October | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - Pennsylvania, market, museum village, barns, country buildings 1970 July | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - Prince Edward Island 1967 July-August | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - "Slides of my own work, including dancers" | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Transparencies - water, ice 1968 March, 1968 October | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Washington Market, New York [City] 1940 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Printed materials | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Thesis - "The calotype in France and its use in architectural documentation" 1956 - reproduction |
Prints and negatives | |||||||||||
Box 3 | Animals | ||||||||||
Architecture | |||||||||||
Box 3 | Frank Lloyd Wright House, Kalil Home | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Frank Lloyd Wright House, Zimmerman Home | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Interiors, museum and church | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Maine | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Manchester, New Hampshire (2 folders) | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Manchester, New Hampshire - numbered series | ||||||||||
Box 3 | New England [either Maine or Vermont] Wedding Cake House, Greek revival church | ||||||||||
Box 3 | New Hampshire | ||||||||||
Box 3 | New Hampshire, Merrimack and Hillsborough counties 1964 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | New York State (2 folders) | ||||||||||
Box 4 | New York State, Rochester, 32 Oliver Street and portr...? C.W.A. - Charlotte Allen book 1 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | New York State, "Trip with Bill" 1969-1970 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | New York State, unidentified building - possibly 32 Oliver St | ||||||||||
Box 4 | New York State, Utica, secular and domestic | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Octagon buildings | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Unidentified | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Vermont | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Boat series, North Germany?, Lloyd?, Bremen circa 1937 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Broom story | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Brunswick, Maine and vicinity | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Clouds (2 folders) | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Commercial negatives | ||||||||||
Dance | |||||||||||
Box 5 | Acuna, Maria Teresa | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Alonso, Alicia | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Amaya, Carmen | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Bales, William | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Ballet international: Carol Percy, Dick Beard, Mary Jane Shae, Viola Essen, Mary Jeanne 1944-1945 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Ballet Russe | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Ballet theater | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Barbara Mettler Dance Group: Marcia Eastman, Cora Miller, Willis Ward, Will Carbo, Barbara Mettler | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Baronova, Irina | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Belova, Valentine [Valentina?] | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Bettis, Valerie 1943 June, undated | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Bocchino, Matthew 1941 November 12 | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Bolender, Todd | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Boris, Ruthanna | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Celli, Vincenzo | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Chaffee, George - photograph, figurine of a female ballet dancer | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Chase | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Chochem, Corinne and Fania | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Collins, Janet | ||||||||||
Box 5 | Cunningham, Merce 1952 June 15 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Dance magazine (2 folders) | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Dehn, Mura | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Delakova, Katya and Fred Berk | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Desca, Eva 1945 November 12 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | The Digetanos | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Dolin, Anton | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Draper, Paul 1942 April 7 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Dudley, Jane | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Dudley, Jane, "Harmonica breakdown," untitled, 35 MM contacts 1943 February 18 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Erdman, Jean 1944 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Erdman, Jean, Dance magazine 1950 March | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Erdman, Jean, Dance magazine 1957 | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Espenak, Liljan 1941 June, undated | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Fonaroff, Nina | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Gae, Nadine | ||||||||||
Box 6 | Gobez, Aaron | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Goth, Trudy and Henry Schwarze | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Goutineau, Felicitas? | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Graff | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Graham, Martha, Dance magazine 1957 | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Gregory, Robin | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Griffith and Wayne | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Haakon, Paul and Patricia Bowman | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Hamilton, Peter | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Hanya Holm Dancers | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Hawkins, Erick | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Hawkins, Erick and Pearl Lang 1943 February 26 | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Holm, Hanya 1942 November 17 | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Holm, Hanya | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Humphrey, Doris; "Inquest" with group, solo | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Hutchinson, Ann 1946 May | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Irwin, Zane | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Kaye, Nora | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Kitchell, Iva | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Koesun, Ruth Ann | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Koner, Pauline - includes "It ain't necessarily so" | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Lang, Pearl | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Lenese, Lillian | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Limon, Jose | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Limon trio; Beatrice Seckler, Dorothy Bird and Jose Limon | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Lippincott, Gertrude 1946 January, undated | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Littlefield, Dorothie | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Lloyd, Paula | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Lynn, Bambi | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Main, Joseph? | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Marchaut, Claud | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Marchowsky, Marie | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Maslow. Sophie | ||||||||||
Box 10 | McCord? | ||||||||||
Box 8 | La Meri | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Miscellaneous dancers and people | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Moylan, Mary Ellen | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Nagrin, Daniel | ||||||||||
Box 8 | Northrop, Welland and Nelle Fisher | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Osato, Sono | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Osgood, Betty | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Pers, Ulla? | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Primus, Pearl | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Primus, Pearl, Dance magazine 1957 | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Rey, Frederico and [partner?] | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Robbins, Jerome - dance observer | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Roberts, Joan | ||||||||||
Box 9 | Rotov, Alex circa 1941 | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Schurman, Nona circa 1944-1949 | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Shae, Mary Jane | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Shawn, Ted and Ruth St. Denis | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Slavenska, Mia and Erika Thimey | ||||||||||
Box 10 | St. Denis, Ruth, Dance magazine 1957 | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Stuart, Muriel, School of American Ballet, New York City 1943 November | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Svetlova, Marina | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Sweeney, Paul 1943 October | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Tamiris, Helen 1944 February | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Terry, Mary Allen | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Unidentified dancers | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Vance, Norma | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Victor, Eric | ||||||||||
Box 7 | Von Grona | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Wade, Ruthella | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Weber | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Weidman, Charles | ||||||||||
Box 10 | White, Patricia 1944 November | ||||||||||
Box 10 | Youskevitch, Igor | ||||||||||
Box 11 | The Earth, soil, sand | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Estonia, Lithuania | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Ferns | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Flowers I, Europe, wild and garden | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Flowers II, American, wild | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Flowers III, American, wild | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Flowers IV, American, garden | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Flowers V, miscellaneous, leaves, patterns, branches, etc. | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Flowers, wild | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Flowers, wild, trees, branches | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Fog, White Mountains | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Folly Cove Designers, "The making of a block print," Gloucester, Massachusetts 1948, 1960 - subject 'Virginia Lee Burton (Demetrios)' negatives | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Folly Cove Designers, "The making of a block print," Gloucester, Massachusetts 1948 prints | ||||||||||
Box 11 | France | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Germany, Berlin environments, Hiddeusee, Bavaria, etc | ||||||||||
Box 11 | Germany and the trip over, clouds, some trees | ||||||||||
Box 12 | Gloucester, Massachusetts: rocks, water | ||||||||||
Box 12 | Grasses | ||||||||||
Box 12 | Harvest glass plates | ||||||||||
Box 12 | "Hay making" New Hampshire | ||||||||||
Box 12 | Holland | ||||||||||
Large prints | |||||||||||
Package 8 | Clouds 18" X 24" oversize | ||||||||||
Package 8 | Dance series - Jane Dudley - 2 panels, 8 prints on each oversize | ||||||||||
Package 8 | Dance series - Pauline Koner - 2 panels, 8 prints on each oversize | ||||||||||
Package 8 | Pearl Primus group 38 1/2" X 31 1/2" oversize | ||||||||||
Package 8 | Portrait of a woman 18" X 24" oversize | ||||||||||
Package 8 | Water 18" X 24" oversize | ||||||||||
Box 12 | Letchworth Park | ||||||||||
Box 12 | Michigan | ||||||||||
Box 12 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
Box 12 | Net story | ||||||||||
Box 12 | New Hampshire: clouds, rocks, trees, etc. | ||||||||||
Box 12 | Ohio | ||||||||||
Box 13 | Painting and sculpture at the Currier Gallery of Art - loose negatives | ||||||||||
Box 12 | Painting and sculpture at the Currier Gallery of Art, permanent collection 1973 | ||||||||||
Box 12 | Pipe story, "Sweetest smoke of all" story and photographs by Edith Sauer and Gerda Peterich about the Corn Cob Pipe Works, Boonville, Missouri | ||||||||||
Box 14 | Portraits - children | ||||||||||
Box 14 | Portraits - commercial 1960-1968 | ||||||||||
Box 14 | Portraits - men | ||||||||||
Box 14 | Portraits - women | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Postcards | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Prince Edward Island | ||||||||||
Prints | |||||||||||
Box 26 | Cobblestone architecture oversize | ||||||||||
Box 22 | Commercial work oversize | ||||||||||
Box 27 | Drawings by Peterich oversize | ||||||||||
Box 27 | Mounted prints, various subjects, by Peterich and others oversize | ||||||||||
Box 28 | Mounted prints, various subjects oversize | ||||||||||
Box 29 | Mounted prints, various subjects oversize | ||||||||||
Box 24 | Ohio University - portraits - by Peterich and students oversize | ||||||||||
Box 23 | Ohio University - portraits oversize | ||||||||||
Box 25 | Various subjects oversize | ||||||||||
Box 27 | Watercolor by Ada Baylorson oversize | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Skyways - story | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Snow | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Stone - rocks | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Stone walls and fences | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Student work glass plates | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Student work, Berlin - portrait of a child glass plate | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Student work, Berlin - spider web glass plate | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Texture | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Travel on the "Europe" | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Tree bark and trees | ||||||||||
Box 15 | USA - Cape Anne, Massachusetts I | ||||||||||
Box 15 | USA - Cape Anne, Massachusetts II | ||||||||||
Box 15 | USA - Maine | ||||||||||
Box 15 | USA - New Hampshire | ||||||||||
Box 15 | USA - New York greater New York | ||||||||||
Box 15 | USA - New York parks | ||||||||||
Box 15 | USA - New York the face of the city 1939 November | ||||||||||
Box 15 | Water |
Subject files | |||||||||||
Box 16 | Architecture bibliographies | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Architecture, research file | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Articles, "Folly Cove" in Modern miss spring 1948 | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Biographical material | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Biographical material, certificates and awards | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Book proposal, "Young American dancers" 1951 | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Central New York Architectural Historians | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Christmas card illustration undated | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Clippings | ||||||||||
Box 16 | College grades and correspondence | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Concert programs, dance 1946-1949, undated | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Conference, "Invitational teaching conference at the George Eastman House, 1962" | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Correspondence 1946-1974, undated | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Course outlines, bibliographies, Syracuse University 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Dance pictures published - dancer's pamphlets | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Dance pictures published - New York papers | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Dance pictures published - various magazines 1943-1950, 1972, undated | ||||||||||
Exhibitions | |||||||||||
Box 16 | 19th century architectural photographs 1959 | ||||||||||
Box 16 | "Architecture of Manchester, 1840-1900" 1963-1964 | ||||||||||
Box 16 | "Architecture of Manchester, 1840-1900" clippings 1963-1964 | ||||||||||
Package 7 | Captions oversize | ||||||||||
Box 16 | Churches of Utica and vicinity 1956 | ||||||||||
Box 18 | Churches of Utica, New York, and vicinity 1956 loose mounted prints | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Cobblestone architecture 1953-1961, undated | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Dance | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Dance portraits 1949 | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Eleanor Walker, Amherst, New Hampshire | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Frank Lloyd Wright | ||||||||||
Box 17 | General | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Gerda Peterich photographs | ||||||||||
Box 17 | The history of photography | ||||||||||
Box 17 | New York mills | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Retrospective | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Sky and water photographs | ||||||||||
Package 7 | Vegetables oversize | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Letters of recommendation 1949-1956 | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Manchester architecture, research file | ||||||||||
Box 17 | New England College, Henniker, New Hampshire 1959-1967 | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Photographs published - other than dance | ||||||||||
Publicity | |||||||||||
Box 19 | Colosseum show 1959 | ||||||||||
Box 19 | Dance | ||||||||||
Box 19 | General 1957-1960, undated | ||||||||||
Box 19 | New England College | ||||||||||
Box 19 | New Hampshire 1959-1964 | ||||||||||
Box 19 | New Hampshire 1968 | ||||||||||
Box 17 | New York 1940-1948 | ||||||||||
Box 17 | New York, Rochester 1949-1959 | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Ohio 1946-1949 | ||||||||||
Box 17 | Retrospective 1957 | ||||||||||
Box 19 | Syracuse 1964-1968 | ||||||||||
Box 19 | Teaching | ||||||||||
Box 19 | Rochester Antiquarian [Society] | ||||||||||
Box 19 | Society for Photographic Education | ||||||||||
Notes | |||||||||||
Box 19 | Course notes, "Architecture worth saving," Harley J. McKee, seminars on American culture, N.Y.S. Historical Association, Cooperstown, New York 1964 | ||||||||||
Box 19 | Lecture notes - history of photography 1964-1966 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
Box 19 | Lecture notes - "Photography - its development as a fine art," Ohio University 1954 May 5 | ||||||||||
Box 19 | Lecture notes - various lectures 1961-1972, undated | ||||||||||
Box 19 | Notes on architecture | ||||||||||
Box 20 | Notes on photography | ||||||||||
Box 20 | Research notes - architecture | ||||||||||
Box 20 | Research notes - master's thesis | ||||||||||
Box 20 | Research notes - portraiture | ||||||||||
Box 20 | Research notes - Southworth and Hawes 1954-1958 | ||||||||||
Writings | |||||||||||
Box 20 | "The architectural photographs in the collection of George Eastman House," [Society of Architectural Historians?] 1958 February 1 - presentation | ||||||||||
Box 20 | "Architectural photography" undated - typescript (30 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 20 | "Brief summary of problems of dance photography" undated - typescript (3 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 20 | "The calotype in France and its use in architectural documentation," master's thesis, University of Rochester, supervised by Carl K. Hersey and Beaumont Newhall 1956 - typescript with corrections and comments | ||||||||||
Box 20 | "The City Hall of Manchester, New Hampshire" undated - typescript (13 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 20 | "Clouds for the photographer" undated - typescript (8 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 20 | "French calotypes: architecture and views" undated - typescript (14 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 20 | "GWW" [George Washington Wilson] | ||||||||||
Box 20 | "Manchester on the Merrimack: a showcase of nineteenth century town planning and architecture" undated - typescript (7 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 20 | "Nineteenth century architectural photographs" undated - original typescript with comments (25 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 20 | "Nineteenth century architectural photographs" undated - revised typescript (33 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 21 | Notes, photo history bibliography undated | ||||||||||
Box 21 | "Outline for an exhibition on the history of photography from the beginning to the present," submitted on September 22, 1955 - typescript (8 pages) (2 copies) | ||||||||||
Box 21 | "Outline for the three phases of portraiture: personality - posing - presentation" undated - typescript (25 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 21 | "Photography of and at the great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851" undated - typescript (17 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 21 | Review of manuscript, "Stieglitz" by Dorothy Norman | ||||||||||
Box 21 | Review of "The many-sided Mr. Nadar" by Pierre Schneider, 25th art news annual undated - typescript (6 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 21 | "Some aspects in representing movement in a static medium" 1955 February 1 - {with emphasis on dance photography} lecture before the Pictorial Photographers of America | ||||||||||
Box 21 | ["This is the age of visual communication"] - typescript (10 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 21 | Untitled undated - typescript (3 pages) | ||||||||||
Writings by others | |||||||||||
Box 21 | "A few remarks on the advent in France, in 1839, of the first practical realization of photography..." by J. Boichard 1964 November 27-28 | ||||||||||
Box 21 | "Photography and the suspense of time" by Beaumont Newhall, the Frederick W. Brehm Memorial Lecture, Geh 1954 October 22 - mimeograph (23 pages) | ||||||||||
Box 21 | "Zur frage: bewegung im photo" by Dr. Arnold Fanch undated |
Additions | |||||||||||
Box 30 | Cobblestone architecture clippings 1964-1990 | ||||||||||
The Cobblestone Society (Childs, New York) | |||||||||||
Box 30 | Cobblestone tour booklets 1961-1964 | ||||||||||
Box 30 | Cobblestone tour booklets 1965-1969 - 1968 issue contains Peterich photograph | ||||||||||
Box 30 | Cobblestone tour booklets 1970-1980 | ||||||||||
Box 30 | Various printed materials | ||||||||||
Box 30 | Gateways to cobblestone houses of Yates County 1968 | ||||||||||
Box 30 | Peterich, Gerda, "Cobblestone architecture of Upstate New York," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, volume XV, issue 2 undated |