Summary

Creator:

Fish, Azel Hull

Abstract:

The chief component consists of roughly 2000 lantern slides used by college professor Azel Hull Fish in lectures about the history of California, the Panama-Pacific Exposition, Plymouth Colony, the settling of the American West, social and economic development of the U.S., works of art, and other historical and philosophical subjects. The slides are arranged by subject group. Additional materials consist of photographs, some loose, but most mounted in photograph albums. Some of these were souvenir albums with views of California and other Western states by commercial photographers. Also included are some pamphlets, chiefly lecture texts, and a slide projector.

Extent:

9 Linear Feet
6 boxes
approximately 2300 items

Language:

Materials in English

Collection ID:

RL.10193

Background

Scope and Content:

The chief component consists of a large collection of lantern slides used by college professor Azel Hull Fish in lectures about the history of California, the Panama-Pacific Exposition, Plymouth Colony, the settling of the American West, social and economic development of the U.S., works of art, and other historical and philosophical subjects. The slides are arranged by subject group and number roughly 2000. Additional materials consist of photographs, some loose, but most mounted in photograph albums. Some of these were souvenir albums with views of California and other Western states by commercial photographers. Also included are some pamphlets, chiefly lecture texts, and a slide projector.

Biographical / Historical:

Azel Hull Fish was appointed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Nyack, NY, in 1911. He was also a college professor during the 1930s at Tusculum College in Tennessee. He and his wife, Alice Graham, had one son. In the 1930s he moved to New Jersey, where he was headmaster of a school. He died on March 31, 1949, in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He and his wife are buried in San Rafael, California. Many of his relatives were based in Carpinteria, California, and he lived in California for a time as a youth, and traveled there for visits later on in life.

Acquisition Information:

The Azel Hull Fish lantern slide lecture sets and photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 1991 and 1993.

Processing information:

Processed by Duke Libraries staff. Collection has been given core-level processing; materials are in their original order as received.

Accession(s) represented in this collection guide: 1991-0163 and 1993-0200.

Arrangement:

Materials are in order as received; slides are grouped roughly by lecture topic.

Rules or Conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:

Agriculture -- California
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915: San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works.
Railroads -- California -- Photographs

Formats:

Black-and-white photographs
Color photographs
Lantern slides
Photograph albums
Souvenir albums

Places:

California -- History -- 1850-1950
California -- Photographs
United States -- History -- Study and teaching
West (U.S.) -- History -- Study and teaching
West (U.S.) -- Photographs