Research Catalog

Title

Kurt Fisher Haitian history collection [graphic].

Author

Fisher, Kurt A., 1908-

Publication

[1808]-1957.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Mevs, Eug.
• Phelps, A.
• Hall.
• Baily.
• Marini.
• Haiti. Office National du Tourisme.

Found In

p1tc Fisher, Kurt, 1908- Kurt Fisher Haitian collection, 1727-1958 (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A92

Description

• 59 items (.3 lin. ft., 1 box); 21 x 26 cm. and smaller.
• 34 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 4 photomechanical prints : halftone, b&w ;
• 4 photomechanical prints : col. ;
• 4 photographic postcards : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 4 carte de visites : b&w ;
• 6 engravings : b&w, one hand-col. ;
• 1 lithograph : b&w ;
• 1 tintype ;
• 1 photocopy : b&w ;

Summary

The Kurt Fisher Haitian History Collection depicts some aspects of Haitian history, covering the time period of the early 1800s and the late 1920s to 1950s.

Subjects

• Gelatin silver prints > 1920-1959
• Statesmen > Haiti
• Déjoie, Louis
• Haiti > Service de l'Enseignement Rural
• Haiti > History > 1934-1986
• Haiti > Politics and government > 1934-1971
• Reproductions
• Scrapbooks > 1930-1939
• Tintypes > 1910-1919
• Heads of state > Haiti
• Photographic postcards > 1920-1929
• Borno, Louis
• Saint-Domingue > Pictorial works
• Toussaint Louverture, 1743?-1803
• Vincent, Sténio
• Group portraits > 1930-1959
• Boyer, Jean Pierre, 1776-1850
• Halftone photomechanical prints
• Pétion, Alexandre, 1770-1818
• Lithographs
• Portrait photographs > 1910-1959
• Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961
• Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806
• Soulouque, Faustin, approximately 1788-1867
• Cartes de visite
• Education, Rural > Haiti
• Engravings > 1800-1819
• Haiti > History > 1804-1844

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1910-1959.
• Group portraits – 1930-1959.
• Scrapbooks – 1930-1939.
• Photographic postcards – 1920-1929.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1920-1959.
• Halftone photomechanical prints.
• Cartes de visite.
• Tintypes – 1910-1919.
• Reproductions.
• Engravings – 1800-1819.
• Lithographs.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs have photographer's blindstamp; some items bear photography agency hand stamp; several photographs are mounted, many on pages bearing typewritten captions; one item is matted; some photographs have captions printed on recto; most engraved and photomechanical prints bear captions on recto; one item bears autograph; two items are duplicates.

Biography (note)

• Kurt Fisher, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1908, is an archaelogist and authority on Haitian history and culture who also served as assistant director of the Bureau of Ethnology in Haiti between 1941 to 1949.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Kurt Fisher Haitian Collection, 1727-1958.

Call Number

Sc Photo Kurt Fisher Haitian History Collection

OCLC

NYPG00-F184

Author

Fisher, Kurt A., 1908- Compiler

Title

Kurt Fisher Haitian history collection [graphic].

Imprint

[1808]-1957.

Biography

Kurt Fisher, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1908, is an archaelogist and authority on Haitian history and culture who also served as assistant director of the Bureau of Ethnology in Haiti between 1941 to 1949.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Kurt Fisher Haitian Collection, 1727-1958.

Local Note

Sc MG 23

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Added Author

Mevs, Eug. Photographer

Phelps, A. Photographer

Hall. Engraver

Baily. Engraver

Marini. Lithographer

Haiti. Office National du Tourisme.

Found In:

p1tc Fisher, Kurt, 1908- Kurt Fisher Haitian collection, 1727-1958 (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A92

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Kurt Fisher Haitian History Collection