Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason
Photographic Negatives, 1899-1937

Concord Free Public Library — Special Collections

RELATED MATERIALS

AT THE CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY:

Robbins Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives of Images of Concord, Mass., 1899-1937. 706 photonegatives. Purchased from Roland Robbins in 1954. Arranged, described, cataloged on-line, and microfilmed through a 1997 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. The finding aid for the collection is available on the CFPL Special Collections webpage (www.concordnet.org)

"Thoreau's Country." An orginal slide lecture (consisting of 92 hand-colored glass lantern slides) purchased from Herbert W. Gleason in 1936.

Two sets of albums of Concord and Thoreau-related Gleason prints, mounted on guards and captioned by the photographer. 12 volumes in total. One set purchased from Gleason in 1922, one set purchased (accessioned?) in 1938.

Gleason Papers (consisting of notes, correspondence, and other materials). A small collection, as yet uncataloged.

Several miscellaneous collections of Gleason prints.

Printed materials containing images by Gleason or information about Gleason. For example: the 1906 Manuscript and Walden editions of Thoreau's writings; Through the Year with Thoreau (1917); Thoreau Country (Sierra Club, 1975); George Crossette, The Western Wilderness of North America (1972); William F. Robinson, A Certain Slant of Light: The First Hundred Years of New England Photography (1980).


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