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Estate of Carl Mydans Photography Collection http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5779r6dp No online items Guide to the Estate of Carl Mydans Photography Collection Mattie Taormina Department of Special Collections Green Library Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/ © 2008 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved. Guide to the Estate of Carl MSS PHOTO 243 1 Mydans Photography Collection Guide to the Estate of Carl Mydans Photography Collection Collection number: MSS PHOTO 243 Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, California Processed by: Mattie Taormina Date Completed: July, 2007 Encoded by: Bill O'Hanlon © 2008 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Estate of Carl Mydans Photography collection Dates: 1935-1968 Collection number: MSS PHOTO 243 Creator: Mydans, Carl Collection Size: 2 linear feet (3 flat boxes) Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. Abstract: The collection consists of photographs Carl Mydans created while working for Life and Time magazines. The collection is arranged alphabetically by the location where the photographs were taken. Exceptions are the folders of General Douglas MacArthur photographs (Box 3 Folder 1) and the portraits of political leaders of various countries (Box 2 Folders 5-6) Original image identification letter and number given to each photograph by Mydans have been retained, as has the original title of photograph when given. Folder headings were created by combining information on the back of the photograph with an inventory created by the Mydans estate. When a date is noted on the photograph, it has been included in this guide. Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English Access Collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 24 hours in advance of intended use. Publication Rights Copyright in the photographs created by Carl Mydans is held by Time Inc./Life Magazine. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the Head of Special Collections before publishing quotations or duplicating images from materials in the collection. Preferred Citation Estate of Carl Mydans Photography collection, MSS PHOTO 243. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Acquisition Information Accession number: 2005-126 After the death of Carl Mydans his estate divided his photographs among several research institutions and museums. These institutions include Yale University, Duke University, The Harry Ransom Center, Library of Congress, and J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, etc. The part of the collection that Carl Mydans' daughter, Shelley Mydans Griffing donated to Stanford University in June 2005, contains 89 photographs. Biography / Administrative History A graduate of Boston University's school of journalism, Carl Mydans joined Life Magazine as a staff photographer in 1936. His work over the years sent him overseas where he covered events in Britain, Sweden, Finland, Italy, France, China, and the Philippines. In 1941, the Japanese captured and held Carl and his wife, Shelley, in Manila for almost one year and then transferred them to Shanghai, China. They finally returned home in 1943 after being repatriated in a prisoner-of-war Guide to the Estate of Carl MSS PHOTO 243 2 Mydans Photography Collection exchange. After his capture and release, Mydans covered the war in Europe, specifically the battles of Italy at Cassino, Rome and Florence and the American-Free French invasion of southern France in August, 1944. The following year saw him back in the Philippines covering General MacArthur's landing, and in 1948, he covered the earthquake in Fukui, Japan. Mydans would photograph General MacArthur's forces again during the Korean War. The photographs Mydans took from this time earned him U.S. Camera Magazine's Gold Achievement Award. Carl Mydans died on August 16, 2004 at his home in Larchmont, New York. His wife, whom he married in 1938, died in 2002. Scope and Content of Collection The collection consists of photographs Carl Mydans created while working for Life and Time magazines. The collection is arranged alphabetically by the location where the photographs were taken. Exceptions are the folders of General Douglas MacArthur photographs (Box 3 Folder 1) and the portraits of political leaders of various countries (Box 2 Folders 5-6) Original image identification letter and number given to each photograph by Mydans have been retained, as has the original title of photograph when given. Folder headings were created by combining information on the back of the photograph with an inventory created by the Mydans estate. When a date is noted on the photograph, it has been included in this guide. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Chiang, Kai-shek,|d1887-1975|xPhotograph. Chou, En-lai,|d1898-1976|xPhotograph.|?UNAUTHORIZED Churchill, Winston,|cSir,|d1874-1965|xPhotograph. De Valera, Eamonn,|d1882-1975|xPhotograph. Gandhi, Indira,|d1917-1942|xPhotograph.|?UNAUTHORIZED Gable, Clark,|d1901-1960|xPhotograph. Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich,|d1894-1971|xPhotograph. Lombard, Carole,|d1908-1942|xPhotograph. MacArthur, Douglas,|d1880-1964|xPhotograph. Mann, Thomas,|d1875-1955|xPhotograph. Minami,|eGeneral|xPhotograph. 600Mossadegh, Mohammed|xPhotograph. Mydans, Carl|xPhotograph. Mydans, Shelley Smith|xPhotograph. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich,|d1899-1977|xPhotograph. Nehru, Jawaharlal,|d1889-1964|xPhotograph. Pound, Ezra,|d1885-1972|xPhotograph. Photography, Artistic. Photojournalism. War correspondents, American|xPhotographs.|?UNAUTHORIZED Flat Box 1, Folder Cambodia 1 Scope and Content Note Tree roots that have grown over doorway, n.d. (AK4) Two people sitting on a large tree root, n.d.(AK5) Ankor Wat, 1950: two people walking out of temple. (AK7) Ankor Wat, 1950: man walking in ruins. (AK8) Guide to the Estate of Carl MSS PHOTO 243 3 Mydans Photography Collection Container List Flat Box 1, Folder China, 1941 2 Scope and Content Note Village Main Street-Lung Chuan-I. (CH60) China Hat Seller Lung Chuan-I. (CH57) Village Street with Temple Bell Lung Chuan-I. (CH45) Three amazed men at village table at Lung Chuan-I: foreign Devils, especially with cameras, are objects of suspicion to Chinese villagers in Szechwan. (CH36) Yellow River Fort Siam region. (CH17) Chungking: Generalissimo Chaing Kai-shek and Madame Chaing using ivory chopsticks. (CH6) Tea room scene Lung Chuan-I. (CH040) Flat Box 1, Folder China 3 Scope and Content Note Japanese prisoners of war in China, 1941. (CH225) China war, 1949: after the war between the Nationalists and Communists, I passed through a village near Pengpu. I found only this old woman mourning in the ruins. (CH240) Japanese bombing of Chungking, China, 1941. (CH303) Chungking, 1941: conscripts of the Chinese National Army walk through Chungking on a labor detail. (CH304) Chungking, 1941: exhausted Chinese laborers sleep in a teahouse. (CH307) Hong Kong Shanghai, n.d: junk boat at dock. (SH11) Hong Kong Shanghai, n.d: woman standing on junk boat. (SH12) Shanghai, n.d: people on junk boat. (SH10) Flat Box 1, Folder Egypt, 1953 4 Scope and Content Note Egypt-Desert: two camels walking through vast desert. (VA14) British in Egypt. (VA18) Flat Box 1, Folder England 5 Scope and Content Note Working in the 18" seam British coal miners, 1952. (B53) Coal miners in Britain, 1952. (B99) Rector church at Warleggan, England, 1943. (B92) Princess Margaret arrives in London, 1955. (B091) Coal miners at pub, 1952. (B098) Flat Box 1, Folder France 6 Scope and Content Note Collaborationist, Marseille, France, August 1944. (F14) Near Verdun after German breakthrough at Sedare, May 1940. (F03) With French tank brigade near Verdun after German breakthrough at Sedare, June 1940. (F06) Flat Box 1, Folder Germany 7 Scope and Content Note Lindberg, Germany, 1954: woman planting potatoes in field. (G151) Guide to the Estate of Carl MSS PHOTO 243 4 Mydans Photography Collection Container List Flat Box 2, Folder Italy, 1940 1 Scope and Content Note Minister's meeting, Rome, Fascist Italy, June. (I32) Fascist Italy-Rome, June. (I22) Flat Box 2, Folder Japan 2 Scope and Content Note Earthquake, Fukui, Japan, 1948: a man carrying his dead wife whispers "too late" to his son, holding his mother's hand, won't hear. (J53) Earthquake, Fukui, Japan, 1948: a fire raced through the ruins, survivors fled along streets that cracked open under their feet. (J54) Japan, 1949: planes in formation. (J26) Surrendering the sword to the 4 th U.S. Marines at the Kurihama Navel Base, Japan, 1945. (J15) Mikomoto in Japan, September 1947. (J22) Japan's first post-war vehicle, Hiroshima, 1947. (J29) American rice at Kobe, Japan, 1949: unloading rice at Kobe provided by the U.S.-relief rice for starving Japan is unloaded from a ship in Kobe Harbor during the American Occupation. (J45) Earthquake, Fukui, Japan, 1948. (J36) Bucket carrier on the road from Kamakura to Kuginama, Sugamo Bay, August 29, 1949. (J24) Flat Box 2, Folder Korea 3 Scope and Content Note Korean refugee mother and child in Korea fleeing from Seoul, 1951: a Korean mother carrying her baby and worldly goods flees the fighting around Seoul. (K12) South Korea uprising, 1948: mutinous soldiers of the South Korean Army taken prisoner after the aborted uprising. (K4) Flat Box 2, Folder Philippines 4 Scope and Content Note American and Filipino guerillas join forces in attack on Japanese, Northern Luzon, 1945. (PH25) Fight for Manila, 1945: soldiers carrying bodies. (PH08) Shelling of walled city, Manila, 1945. (PH16) Filipino scouts on way to Sunday mass, Manila, 1941 with Shelley. (Shelley Mydans)(PH18) Street fighting, Manila, 1945. (PH22) Corregidor, 1941. (PH13) Guide to the Estate of Carl MSS PHOTO 243 5 Mydans Photography Collection Container List Flat Box 2, Folder Portraits 5 Scope and Content Note Fascist propaganda minister of Rome Pavolini, 1940: under a portrait of Mussolini.
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