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Keen-eyed student spots O. Winston Link negatives

Students who work in Special Collections are extremely important to the work we do -- sine qua non, you might say.  They help us in a myriad of ways; one of them is the conservation of Haverford's historical photographs.  This year, Kaitlin Franks, a sophomore, is working on this project.  We were discussing the placement in the collection of a positive print from the 1950s depicting a person by the skating shed at the Duck Pond, apparently talking to visitors.  On the back was the familiar stamp of the well-known photographer O. Winston Link who was on Haverford's campus in the 1950s, taking a number of pictures.  Later, when Kaitlin started working on a group of negatives, she found the same image and many more and quickly realized the connection.  It was a treasure trove of OWL images.

Posted by Diana Franzusoff Peterson at December 14, 2006 11:45 AM

Photographs of Philippine peoples

Among the countless objects of interest in Special Collections is a set of some 80 photographs of Philippine peoples taken in the early 20th century by a professional photographer. Though unstated, the photographer may have been Charles Martin, a prominent government photographer of that period. The photographs form part of the large manuscript collection of Howard and Anna Brinton (Coll. no. 1189, box 50), and were most likely brought to the U.S. by Anna Brinton's uncle, Alvin J. Cox who traveled to the Philippines in 1917 as Director in the Bureau of Science in the Department of  Agriculture.  The photographs are of people in the  mountainous region of northern Luzon, Philippines, as well of Muslim people from the Lanao region in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Anyone interested in seeing these photographs is welcome to do so in Special Collections.

Posted by Diana Franzusoff Peterson at December 14, 2006 10:54 AM