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Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives, 1899-1937 Concord Free Public Library — Special Collections |
Series XVI – Miscellaneous, 1900-1928
Series XVI is organized into six subseries: Botanicals and Gardens, Animals (wild and domestic), Natural Features, Landscapes, People, and Speed Tests. Subseries are arranged by date. Botanicals include flowers (Potentilla tridentata, Spiraea salicifolia, and Trientalis borealis), plants (Rattlesnake Plaintain and Pitcher Plant), trees (Beech, Japan Cherry, and Elm) and fungi (russula, toadstool, and hygrophorus). Animals include wildlife (alligators, bear, birds, and fish) and domestic (cows and pigs). Natural Features include three images of a pine stick, elaborately etched by worms (used as a Thoreau illustration). Twenty-two unidentified landscape views include: a field of cornstalks, a country road and bridge, an 18th century house, snow-covered mountains, and heavy surf on rocks.
Portraits of people include: Stephen T. Mather holding a mountain lion cub, Mrs. Herbert W. Gleason (Lulie), Mrs. L.D. Rounds (Mrs. Gleason's mother), and several unidentified individuals including a woman playing a violin, and a bearded man feeding pigeons. Speed Tests consists of three images taken by Gleason in 1900 of "Pickering's Speed Tester for testing photographic shutters" (test sheet tacked to a wall). Gleason photographed the test sheet using two different shutters: an Eastman shutter 4 x 5 and a Voigtlander Collinear Imperial Shutter.