University of Miami Special Collections
Finding Aid - Bunny Yeager Collection (ASM0671)
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Table of contents
Summary information ...... 3 Scope and content ...... 3 Arrangement ...... 4 Notes ...... 4 Access points ...... 4 Physical condition ...... 4 Series descriptions ...... 4 id387421, Correspondence, ...... 4 id387399, Photographs, ...... 7 id387649, Audio-Visual Materials, ...... 8 id387646, Artifacts, ...... 11 id387397, Newspaper Clippings, ...... 11 id387489, Events, ...... 11
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Summary information
Repository: University of Miami Special Collections Title: Bunny Yeager Collection ID: ASM0671 Date: 1954 - 2015 (date of creation) Physical description: 5.00 linear feet Physical location: ASC Stacks -- Range 19 -- Section A -- Shelf 7 ## 1 Box Physical location: ASC Stacks -- Range 19 -- Section B -- Shelf 3 ## 2 Boxes Physical location: ASC Stacks -- Range 19 -- Section B -- Shelf 1 ## 1 Box Physical location: ASC Stacks -- Range 15 -- Section B -- Shelf 6 ## 7 Boxes Physical location: ASC Stacks -- Range 15 -- Section B -- Shelf 2 ## 2 Boxes Language: English Dates of creation, revision and deletion:
Scope and content
Born Linnea Eleanor Yeager in March 13, 1929, in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, "Bunny" gained international fame as both a model and a photographer. She moved to Miami at a young age and first attracted local interest as a model, winning several pageants and gracing the pages of popular magazines. While she was modeling, she developed a knack for designing and sewing together her own bikinis, and her style became rather prolific in the fashion circuit for many years after. Since creating portfolios was rather expensive while Bunny was trying to break out into the modeling industry, she was motivated to learn photography and took several night classes to hone her abilities and create her own portfolios. She eventually developed her signature method of photography that allowed her to take pictures of models using natural light through the "fill flash" method. Her style helped to reinvent the genre of nude and pin-up photography, taking it from its roots of overt raunchiness and elevating it into an art form that centered around playful sensuality and provocativeness. Her photos have been featured in Playboy, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Esquire and many other big-name magazines, and she was also credited in helping to make Bettie Page into a household name as well as other famous pin-up models such as Lisa Winters. Her career also includes several self-penned books, including such titles as How I Photograph Myself, How to take Figure Photos, Photographing the Female Figure, and How I Photograph Nudes. Bunny Yeager eventually passed away in May 25, 2014 in North Miami, but her legacy as one of the leading pioneers of pin-up photography remains. Her collection captures her eclectic history with an array
University of Miami Special Collections Page 3 ASM0671 Bunny Yeager Collection of scrapbooks, correspondence, ephemera, photographs and clippings, all which illustrate her passion for her work.
Notes
Title notes
Physical condition Items from this collection are kept on-campus and may be requested from the first floor Kislak Center in the Otto G. Richter Library at University of Miami.
Arrangement The intellectual arrangement of this collection was developed by U Grow Fellow Ellen Davies, under the supervision of Manuscripts Librarian, Beatrice Skokan, 2015. The collection is arranged into six series: Correspondence, Photographs, Audio-Visual Materials, Artifacts, Newspaper Clippings, and Events.
Restrictions on access This collection is open for research.
Other notes • Publication status: Published • Description identifier: ArchonInternalCollectionID:1647
Access points
• Fashion -- Florida (subject) • Fashion (subject) • Photography (subject) • Photographers -- United States (subject)
Series descriptions
Series id387421: Correspondence
Publication status:
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Published
File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container id387588 File - Box 1 1 id387589 File - A.S. Barnes 1964-1967 1 1 id387591 File - A.S Barnes & Co. 1963-1968 1 2 id387592 File - Correspondence 1941-1967 1 3 id387593 File - Correspondence 1959 1 4 id387595 File - Enquirer 1958-1967 1 5 id387597 File - Enquirer 1960-1968 1 6 id387598 File - Enquirer 1961-1971 1 7 id387599 File - Escapade Magazine 1957-1965 1 8 id387600 File - Escapade Magazine 1957-1970 1 9 id387601 File - Escapade Magazine 1960-1962 1 10 id387603 File - Fawcett Books 1959-1963 1 11 id387604 File - Fawcett Books 1959-1964 1 12 id387602 File - Fawcett Books 1962-1968 1 13 id387605 File - Fawcett Books "Figure Stady" 1963 1 14 id387607 File - Fawcett Books "How to Draw 1965 1 15 Women " id387608 File - Fawcett and Whitestone 1959-1968 1 16 id387609 File - Fawcett and Whitestone 1957-1967 1 17 id387611 File - Magazine Management Co. 1965-1971 1 18 id387612 File - Modern Man 1954-1962 1 19 id387613 File - Modern Man 1954-1969 1 20 id387614 File - Modern Man 1963-1967 1 21 id387619 File - Modern Man 1963-1971 1 22 id387622 File - Modern Man 1955-1973 1 23 id387625 File - PlayBoy 1954-1958 1 24 id387626 File - PlayBoy 1956-1977 1 25 id387624 File - PlayBoy 1964-1977 1 26 id387627 File - PlayBoy Letters 1954 1 27 id387628 File - PlayBoy Letters 1955 1 28 id387629 File - PlayBoy Letters 1956 1 29 id387640 File - PlayBoy Letters 1957 1 30 id387641 File - PlayBoy Letters 1958 1 31 id387642 File - PlayBoy Letters 1963 1 32 id387643 File - PlayBoy Letters 1964 1 33 id387644 File - PlayBoy Rejections 1965-1984 1 34 id386956 File - Box 2 2 id386961 File - Acting 1992 2 1 id386971 File - Argosy 1964-1967 2 2 id387650 File - Artist and Models Ball 1962 2 3 id387651 File - Bikini Pattern 1968 2 4 id386979 File - Bonnie Carroll 1958 2 5 id386973 File - Bunny Letters Misc. 1965-1967 2 6 id386983 File - Chilton Co. (Book) 1962-1967 2 7 id386984 File - Clyde Magazine 1965-1966 2 8 id386985 File - David Zentner 1965-1966 2 9 id386986 File - DoubleDay 1962-1964 2 10 University of Miami Special Collections Page 5 ASM0671 Bunny Yeager Collection id386988 File - Elysium Inc. (Ed Lange) 1966 2 11 id386989 File - E.P. Datton & Co. Inc. 1962-1964 2 12 id386990 File - Erick Kroll 1986 2 13 id386996 File - Fling 1966 2 14 id386997 File - Ganaway, Albert C. 1965 2 15 id387652 File - Gay Hollidays Flower Show 1964 2 16 id387000 File - Gerrad, Jeanne n.d. 2 17 id387001 File - George Evans Co. 1967 2 18 id387002 File - Gill Hotels 1966-1967 2 19 id387003 File - Gold Coast Publication 1964 2 20 id387004 File - Halsey Raines 1965-1968 2 21 id387005 File - Herb Lipson 1965 2 22 id387006 File - Herb Rau 1964-1968 2 23 id387009 File - How to be an airline Stewardess 1964-1965 2 24 id387010 File - How To Books n.d. 2 25 id387008 File - How I photograph myself 1964 2 26 id387677 File - How I Photograph Myself Book 1964-1965 2 27 id387019 File - Jack Young - Ad Ideas 1966 2 28 id387020 File - Jimmy Maslon 2007 2 29 id387021 File - Joseph Hoover & Sons 1964 2 30 id387022 File - Laura D. J 1959 2 31 id387023 File - Letters Re: Music 1966 2 32 id387679 File - Life Magazine 1965 2 33 id387024 File - List of Photos Send to Photograph 1951-1959 2 34 International Publicity id387025 File - London Daily Mirror 1962-1965 2 35 id387026 File - Loose Files 1965 2 36 id387027 File - Loose Correspondence 1958-2000 2 37 id387028 File - Miami Daily News 1965-1968 2 38 id387680 File - Miami Vice 1985 2 39 id387045 File - Natt Hale 1961 2 40 id387046 File - Notes for Articles-Stories 2 41 id387047 File - Novel Books 1961-1965 2 42 id387684 File - Other Correspondence and 1959-1969 2 43 Ephemera id387049 File - Pageant Magazine 1968 2 44 id387052 File - Parts Pups 1965-1967 2 45 id387053 File - Pinney Roy 1958 2 46 id387055 File - Popular Photography 1965 2 47 id387056 File - Post (Sat. Eve) 1964-1965 2 48 id387685 File - Postcards 1997 2 49 id387058 File - Prentice - Hall 1964 2 50 id387686 File - Press September 24, 2 51 1988 id387057 File - Prison: Lewisburg, PA 1967 2 52 id387059 File - Radiator Specialty Co. 1965-1967 2 53 id387060 File - Ralph Lopatin 2 54 id387061 File - Rapport Lawrence 1957-1966 2 55 id387071 File - Ron Vogel 1965 2 56 id387691 File - Rogue Magazine 1955-1965 2 57 id387688 File - Rogue Magazine 1956-1965 2 58 id387690 File - Rogue Magazine 1956-1970 2 59
University of Miami Special Collections Page 6 ASM0671 Bunny Yeager Collection id387692 File - Rogue Magazine 1960-1961 2 60 id387693 File - Stearn Publications 1963-1971 2 61 id387078 File - Stanley Publications 1965-1966 2 62 id387079 File - Show Business 1957-1965 2 63 id387080 File - Sammy Davis Jr. 1981 2 64 id387081 File - Sepy n.d. 2 65 id387082 File - Sid Priddle TV-Canada 1968 2 66 id387083 File - Sun Era Inc. 1966 2 67 id387084 File - Sun Era Inc. (Stan Sohler) 1966-1967 2 68 id387085 File - Schafer Kermit 1966 2 69 id387086 File - Screen Actors Guild 1964-1967 2 70 id387074 File - Tappan Cookbook Kids 1965 2 71 id387075 File - Terri Steele 1963 2 72 id387076 File - Topper Magazine 1965-1966 2 73 id387077 File - Transworld Feature Syndicate 1963-1964 2 74 id387087 File - U.S. Camera 1965-1967 2 75 id387394 File - Weider Periodicals 1957-1962 2 76 id387395 File - Weider Periodicals 1960-1961 2 77 id387396 File - Windermere Studio Inc. 1964 2 78 Series id387399: Photographs
Publication status: Published
File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container id388745 File - Box 2 2 id388746 File - How To Books 2 25 id388747 File - Prentice-Hall 2 50 id387011 File - Box 3 3 id386963 File - Artist and Models Ball 1960 3 1 id386970 File - Artist and Models Ball 1960 3 2 id386962 File - Artist and Models Ball 1961 3 3 id386964 File - Artist and Models Ball 1962 3 4 id386965 File - Artist and Models Ball n.d. 3 5 id386966 File - Artist and Models Ball n.d. 3 6 id386967 File - Artist and Models Ball n.d. 3 7 id386972 File - Bad in Camera Ad 1967 3 8 id386974 File - Bunny Yeager by "Other 1950 3 9 Photographers" id386975 File - Bunny Yeager by "Other 1950-1956 3 10 Photographers" id386976 File - Bunny Yeager Self-Portrait 1955-1978 3 11 id386977 File - Bunny Yeager Self-Portrait 1955-1979 3 12 id386978 File - Bunny Yeager Self-Portrait 1955-1967 3 13 id387012 File - Box 4 4 id386980 File - Camping Book Lane, Marilyn 1965 4 1 id386987 File - Dr. No 1962 4 2 id387007 File - Howard Hughes 1970 4 3 id387402 File - Maria Letters n.d. 4 4 University of Miami Special Collections Page 7 ASM0671 Bunny Yeager Collection id387029 File - Moira Berro 1998 4 5 id387048 File - Nudist Pics, Joan Rawlings n.d. 4 6 id387013 File - Photos By Bunny Yeager 1950-1962 4 7 id387014 File - Photos By Bunny Yeager 1950-1969 4 8 id387015 File - Photos By Bunny Yeager 1950-2003 4 9 id387017 File - Photos By Bunny Yeager 1954-1967 4 10 id387016 File - Photos By Bunny Yeager 1966 4 11 id387018 File - Photos By Bunny Yeager n.d. 4 12 Series id387649: Audio-Visual Materials
Publication status: Published
File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container id387671 File - Box 7 7 id387662 Item - Betty Page - Lawyer 8/30/93 7 id387668 Item - Bunny and Harry - Comedy Tape n.d. 7 id387663 Item - Bunny and Honey Girls Intro n.d. 7 id387666 Item - Bunny Live n.d. 7 id387669 Item - Bunny Rehersal Fiddieron Roof n.d. 7 id387665 Item - Bunny Yeager - Sample n.d. 7 Comercials id387667 Item - The Cutting Edge of Missions 8/15 7 Flagadist id387670 Item - Untitled n.d. 7 id387664 Item - Untitled n.d. 7 id388636 File - Box 8 8 id388658 Item - Bunny Yeager Singing "Day in, n.d. 8 Day out"- Tape id388652 Item - Bunny Yeager Sings- Tape n.d. 8 id388646 Item - Bunny 1 Song- Tape n.d. 8 id388637 Item - Can't Read- Tape n.d. 8 id388644 Item - Can't Read- Tape n.d. 8 id388645 Item - Can't Read- Tape n.d. 8 id388650 Item - Can't Read- Tape n.d. 8 id388654 Item - Can't Read- Tape n.d. 8 id388653 Item - Can't Read- Weshlem Tape n.d. 8 id388647 Item - Illegible-Tape n.d. 8 id388648 Item - Ilegible- Tape n.d. 8 id388649 Item - Love Me- Tape n.d. 8 id388655 Item - Read Through? Wrong Speed- n.d. 8 Tonemaster Recording Tape id388651 Item - Script Read Through, "Orgy of n.d. 8 Revenge"? Moive id388657 Item - Script Read Through, Wrong n.d. 8 Speed- Tape id388659 Item - 1st Tape Bunny, Can't Read- Tape n.d. 8 id388615 File - Box 9 9
University of Miami Special Collections Page 8 ASM0671 Bunny Yeager Collection id388623 Item - Bud + Bunney Comed- Bunny n.d. 9 Singing id388620 Item - Bunny Edited n.d. 9 id388616 Item - Bunny-Nashville Tape 4/4/1978 9 id388624 Item - Bunny 2 Songs n.d. 9 id388630 Item - Country a Go Go? Ray + Bunny n.d. 9 Yeager id388626 Item - Country Caravan n.d. 9 id388619 Item - Criteria Recording Company n.d. 9 id388618 Item - Illegible-Tape n.d. 9 id388628 Item - Illegible-Tape n.d. 9 id388625 Item - Illegible?-Tape n.d. 9 id388632 Item - Magnetic Recording Tape- n.d. 9 Garbled id388617 Item - Promo for Tape Player n.d. 9 id388631 Item - Ray + Bunny Yeagar Sing + Bud n.d. 9 Irwin Comedy id388622 Item - Scotch Magnetic Tape-Bunny + n.d. 9 Ray Yeager Singing id388621 Item - Scotch Magnetic Tape-Bunny n.d. 9 Singing Acappella id388627 Item - Some Un-Readable Music near n.d. 9 end of Tape id388629 Item - Wrong Speed-Tape n.d. 9 id388660 File - Box 11 11 id388675 Item - At Fountain- Tape December 30, 11 1975 id388663 Item - Bettie Page TST Radio Interview July 31, 1996 11 with Ann Williams id388677 Item - Bunny Demo with George July 12, 1978 11 id388662 Item - Bunny Interviews Lisa Baker May 10, 1996 11 id388665 Item - Bunny Interviews Movie Actor n.d. 11 Vincent for S&S id388666 Item - Bunny Medley- Tape n.d. 11 id388671 Item - Bunny Mix August 1, 1978 11 id388670 Item - Bunny Singing With Goitan 11 id388669 Item - Bunny Yeager on The Tonight n.d. 11 Show id388667 Item - History on temala n.d. 11 id388676 Item - Prison Movies and Caroline in the n.d. 11 Mornin- Tape id388664 Item - Ray Yeager Sings n.d. 11 id388672 Item - Ray Yeager #1 Side n.d. 11 id388673 Item - Sal Lombardo- Tape December 6, 11 1976 id388674 Item - Sal Lombardo, 2-3 mins. n.d. 11 id388668 Item - Untitled Tape December 1, 11 1976 id388682 Item - Untitled Tape November 17, 11 1976 id388683 Item - Untitled Tape November 19, 11 1976
University of Miami Special Collections Page 9 ASM0671 Bunny Yeager Collection id388678 Item - Untitled Tape November 30, 11 1976 id388680 Item - Untitled Tape October 19, 11 1976 id388681 Item - With Client December 7, 11 1976 id388684 File - Box 12 12 id388693 Item - Betty Page Interview May 22, 2015 12 id388688 Item - Bud- Film Directions n.d. 12 id388687 Item - Bud- Tape n.d. 12 id388690 Item - Bunny Medley n.d. 12 id388685 Item - Bunny "Sunny, Never My Love If n.d. 12 U Go Away" id388689 Item - Bunny Yeager on Johnny Carson n.d. 12 Show id388697 Item - Bunny Yeager on Johnny Carson n.d. 12 "Tonite Show" id388700 Item - Church Choir- Tape n.d. 12 id388704 Item - Eileen Redden- Tape n.d. 12 id388694 Item - "God's Rocket Run" n.d. 12 id388698 Item - Holiday Track 1978 12 id388703 Item - Messages Eurgenia- Tape n.d. 12 id388699 Item - Messages- Steve Sullivan n.d. 12 id388701 Item - Mrs. Bunny Yeager- Tape n.d. 12 id388702 Item - Nothing- Tape n.d. 12 id388686 Item - Nye, Ocean Club Tape n.d. 12 id388691 Item - Sal- Tape November 22, 12 1976 id388695 Item - Sal? 2-3 Min only- Tape November 26, 12 1976 id388692 Item - Torn Apart- Buddy Talking with n.d. 12 Someone id388696 Item - Voice Tape- Miss Bunny Yeager n.d. 12 id388705 File - Box 13 13 id388726 Item - A Bunny + Harry Brief n.d. 13 Converstaion id388710 Item - Bettie Page Card Greeting By n.d. 13 Bunny Yeager id388718 Item - Bill grefe Interview August 1985 13 id388725 Item - Bunny & George at Harry's 1978 13 id388723 Item - Bunny Medley- Tape n.d. 13 id388708 Item - Bunny On Carson n.d. 13 id388707 Item - Bunny Yeager Tape n.d. 13 id388711 Item - Get Happy & Makin' Whooper- 1978 13 Tape id388728 Item - Granne & Bunny Bud- Tape n.d. 13 id388724 Item - Happy Birth. New Song By Bunny August 15, 1996 13 id388717 Item - Interview Casting Agents- Tape June 23, 1978 13 id388720 Item - Interview with Pamela Eden September 30, 13 (Singer) 1977 id388715 Item - Movie- Tape n.d. 13 id388712 Item - New Song " I Wanna Make Love n.d. 13 to You"
University of Miami Special Collections Page 10 ASM0671 Bunny Yeager Collection id388727 Item - Paul Newman- Tape March 12, 1984 13 id388714 Item - Shows Thru Glass- Tape n.d. 13 id388713 Item - "Sometimes Ure Just Lucky"- n.d. 13 Tape id388709 Item - Unreadable Tape n.d. 13 id388716 Item - Unreadable- Tape n.d. 13 id388706 Item - Untitled Tape n.d. 13 id388719 Item - Untitled Tape n.d. 13 id388721 Item - Untitled Tape n.d. 13 id388722 Item - Vocalist- Mrs. Bunny Yeager with August 1978 13 Guitar Series id387646: Artifacts
Publication status: Published
File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container id387648 File - Box 5 5 id387659 Item - Blue Original Biniki n.d. 5 id387661 Item - Bottom Neon Pink Bikini n.d. 5 id387660 Item - Red Original Bikini n.d. 5 id387647 File - Box 6 6 id387657 Item - Embroidered neck from Bunny’s 6 Cleopatra costume from A&M Ball id387658 Item - Embroidered top from Bunny's 6 Cleopatra costume from A&M Ball id388633 File - Box 10 10 id388634 Item - Camera 10 Series id387397: Newspaper Clippings
Publication status: Published
File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container id387587 File - Box 2 2 id388740 File - Gill Hotels 1966-1967 2 19 id387676 File - How I Photograph Myself 1964 2 26 id388741 File - How I Photograph Myself 1964-1965 2 27 id388742 File - Miami Vice 2 39 id388743 File - Other Correspondence and 2 43 Ephemera id388744 File - Raport, Lawrence 2 55 Series id387489: Events
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File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container id387696 File - Box 2 2 id387701 File - Artist and Models Ball 2 3 id386998 File - Gay Holidays Flower Show 1964 2 16 id387700 File - Box 3 3 id388748 File - Artists and Models Ball 1960 3 1 id388749 File - Artists and Models Ball 1960 3 2 id388750 File - Artists and Models Ball 1961 3 3 id388751 File - Artists and Models Ball 1962 3 4 id388752 File - Artists and Models Ball 3 5 id388753 File - Artists and Models Ball 3 6 id388754 File - Artists and Models Ball 3 7 File - Box 14 File - Article: "Shooting the Artists and Models Ball" File - Artists and Models Ball 1962 Item - Scrapbook: Artists and Models 1961 Ball
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