William Dana Reynolds Collection of Great Kanto Earthquake Photographs (Ms.2011.015)
Brown University Library
Box ABrown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION | |
| Acquisition: | The photo album was presented as a gift to Brown University in 2005 by Lee Stewart, granddaughter of William Dana and Vera Reynolds. |
| Custodial history: | The photographic images of the Kanto earthquake had been compiled into an album, and in early 2005, Lee Stewart, granddaughter of Dana and Vera Reynolds, offered her grandparent's photo album as a donation to any institution that would take care of the artifact itself as well as make it as available to scholars. Containing the photographic record of their encounter with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the album includes some of the earliest photographs of the destruction taken by Americans, and consists of over 100 original photographs taken in Yokohama, Kyoto, Shanghai, and Hawaii, as well as many photographs purchased in Japan that document the devastation. |
| Processing information: | The album has been fully dis-bound and individual pages sleeved. |
| ABOUT THE FINDING AID | |
| Author: | Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff. |
| Encoding: | This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013 January 25 |
| Descriptive rules: | Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) |
| Sponsor: | Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. |
