Raised from the Ashes: Cardinell-Vincent Company Photographs of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition
FAIN: PW-234709-16
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94704-5940)
Elaine C. Tennant (Project Director: July 2015 to March 2021)
Arrangement, description, and rehousing of 2,000 glass plate negatives, 105 panoramic film negatives, and 6,700 photographic prints documenting the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco, and digitization of 2,100 images.
This project will arrange, house, and describe the 2,000 glass negatives and 6,700 photographic prints of the Edward Rogers collection of Cardinell-Vincent Company and Panama Pacific International Exhibition (PPIE) photographs. The Rogers collection, in private hands until Fall 2014, has been called "truly the finest trove of PPIE images" in existence. It originated with the Cardinell-Vincent, the official photographers of the exposition, and is the largest known vestige of their archive. However its media types, physical condition, and lack of arrangement make research access impossible without a major archival processing and digitization project.
Associated Products
Finding Aid to the Edward A. Rogers collection of Cardinell-Vincent Company and Panama-Pacific International Exposition photographs circa 1914-1925 (Web Resource)Title: Finding Aid to the Edward A. Rogers collection of Cardinell-Vincent Company and Panama-Pacific International Exposition photographs circa 1914-1925
Author: Lori Hines and James Eason
Abstract: The Edward A. Rogers collection is the largest known vestige of the archive of the Cardinell-Vincent Company, the official photographers of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. It comprises approximately 6,700 photographic prints housed in albums, 2,166 glass negatives, 124 film negatives, and 115 panoramic film negatives. The great majority of images document the exposition throughout its 1915 run, but some commercial photographs taken by Cardinell-Vincent date from the decade after the fair. During the construction period in 1913 and 1914 the exposition's photographic contract was held by H.S. Crocker & Co., and a significant number of their images are present.
Year: 2018
Primary URL:
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/k6kk9kft/