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Jimmie goes West : July 1947.
- Title
- Jimmie goes West : July 1947.
- Author
- Moore, Paul A.
- Publication
- [United States], 1947.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Picture | Permit needed | Berg Coll Moore, P J56 1947 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Description
- 1 album (83 photoprints) : silver gelatin; 13 x 21 cm. (photoprints measure 12 x 17.7 cm.)
- Summary
- This album contains 83 professionally-composed views of the western U.S. including Yellowstone Park, the Grand Canyon, and the Painted Desert; it also includes many informal scenes in non-tourist areas, most with Moore's wife and son (Jimmie, ca. 5 years old) as subjects. Other photographs feature his mother, "Moogie," and in one instance, Paul Moore.
- Alternative Title
- Jimmy goes West
- Subjects
- Painted Desert (Ariz.) > Pictorial works
- West (U.S.) > Pictorial works
- Petrified Forest National Park (Ariz.) > Pictorial works
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) > Pictorial works
- Yellowstone National Park > Pictorial works
- Carlsbad Caverns (N.M.) > Pictorial works
- Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah) > Pictorial works
- Flagstaff (Ariz.) > Pictorial works
- Arapaho Indians > Pictorial works
- Rocky Mountain National Park (Colo.) > Pictorial works
- Kansas > Pictorial works
- Lakota Indians > Pictorial works
- Navajo children > Pictorial works
- Pikes Peak (Colo.) > Pictorial works
- Note
- Cover title.
- Attribution to Moore from dealer description.
- Photographs are bound in a handmade photo album, each print backed with linen on which a caption is typed, on linen hinges perfect-bound into black paper covered boards, horizontally oriented, with title gold stamped on front cover.
- "Our trip to the West began July 1, 1947 and ended July 25th, 1947. Traveling 6,000 miles through 14 States."--Verso of first photograph.
- This road trip coincides with Jack Kerouac's first cross-country journey and depicts locales that he describes in his journals and in his novel On the Road.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Paul A. Moore (b. 1914) was the first staff photographer hired by the Tennessee Department of Conservation, in 1937, to document and promote the projects of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He remained the Department's chief photographer until his retirement in the 1980s; in the intervening years he produced and published thousands of photographs, many of which are now held in the collections of the State Library of Tennessee and the archives of The University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll Moore, P J56 1947
- OCLC
- 778703792
- Author
- Moore, Paul A. Photographer
- Title
- Jimmie goes West : July 1947.
- Imprint
- [United States], 1947.
- Access
- Restricted access; request permission from holding division.
- Biography
- Paul A. Moore (b. 1914) was the first staff photographer hired by the Tennessee Department of Conservation, in 1937, to document and promote the projects of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He remained the Department's chief photographer until his retirement in the 1980s; in the intervening years he produced and published thousands of photographs, many of which are now held in the collections of the State Library of Tennessee and the archives of The University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll Moore, P J56 1947