BOX 15 - P: Photography

BOX #15:

Photography: William F. Cone: a hand written list of captions for Cone photographs, some with dates (1892-1922); a notebook regarding photographs taken for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company of NJ, with the number, date, location, lens used, and "remarks" (1905-1916); a notebook with numbered caption list of negatives of the Firemen's Insurance Building (1909); a photograph of Cone and his wife(?); 3 books of cancelled checks with notes (1897-1901); Cone's lease for an office in the Firemen's Insurance Company Building (1895-1896); constitution and by-laws of the Professional Photographers' Association of New Jersey (1912; NJ Tercentenary Photographic Competition, honorable mention ribbon for Cone's photograph "Baby Milk Distribution" (1964); and a reprint of a biographical article, "Will Cone's Plate Camera: A Window into History," by John T. Cunningham (1966); William F. Cone Material: correspondence, primarily from various Newark businesses, requesting Cone's services as a photographer, and often listing very specific shots (1901-1914); a letter from Cone to the Essex County Parks Commission re: his rights to negatives of photographs taken for the Parks Commission belong to Cone (1901); minutes of a meeting of the Professional Photographers' Association (1914); business cards, contracts, bills, etc.

Miscellaneous: biographical sketch of New Jersey photographer Jimmy Richardson; overview and container list of the William H. Broadwell Photograph Collection (ca. 1980s) at Rutgers Special Collections; Essex County Parks Department, minutes of a meeting to organize a day-long "photo-documentary" project (1987); 2 certificates related to Harry C. Dorer; and a letter from A. Harry Moore to Harry Dorer regarding his photos (1936); Photograph of Health Class by J. Eickenbush (ca. 1930, from Schaumburg Township District Library); "Across the Brink" by John Matturi (2022).