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Faculty Papers: Gerda Peterich

Gerda Peterich Scope and Content Notes:

Researchers interested in the Gerda Peterich Papers should specify the Box or Package Number when contacting the Syracuse University Archives. Please mention the collection's Record Group (13) and Accession Number (632) in any correspondence with the Archives.

Box 1 [#V2610]

Biographical Material
Drawings
Lecture Notes--Great Sculptors
Memorabilia
Miscellaneous Material
Notes From Lecture

Photographs
Albums

Kleine Reportage Aus Dem Froschteish, Ca. 1938
Architecture
Barns, Orleans County, New York Oct 1972
Chaelet Schell, Northfield, Massachusetts,
Historical American Buildings Survey
Interiors
Manchester City Hall, Manchester Mills, Sandwich Church,
Walpole, New Hampshire
Unidentified Churches, Danvers, Massachusetts, Durham, New Hampshire
Utica, New York 1950-1956
Wright, Frank Lloyd House?, Manchester, New York
Cape Ann, Rockport, Massachusetts, Summer 1945
Central Park, New York City, 1940-1943
Children's Home, Athens, Ohio
Dancers
Events
Eighteenth Annual Fair Of The League Of New Hampshire
Arts And Crafts. 31 Jul - 5 Aug 1951
Wochenmarkt In Revel, 1938
Flowers and Plants
Landscapes
A Portfolio of Three Prints
Landscapes, Seascapes and Skyscapes
Manchester Historic Association
Exterior
First Automobile
H.W. Herrick Repros. And Others
Interiors
Museum Objects, Still Life
People, Groups, Historic Objects
Quilts
Scenic, Maps
Barns, Orleans County
Jewish Community
Labels
Michigan
Miscellaneous
Objects
Chests And Tables
League Of New Hampshire Arts And Crafts, Miscellaneous Crafts
Richard Hooke's Wood Sculpture
Ohio Miscellany
Ohio, Exposure/Development Set

Box 2 [#V2611]

Photographs
Portraits

Carter Children, Christina And Perry
Carter Children, John, Stephen, Elizabeth, Julie B., Robin
Miscellaneous {2 Groups}
Miscellaneous Europe
Segal, Evelyn
Student Work
Students? Of Gerda Peterich
James E. Durrell, Jr.
Transparencies
Architecture, Miscellaneous
Cape Cod, Oct 1972, Sep 1973
Fall, Oct 1968
Fall And Winter, Hopkinton, New Hampshire
Flowers In Bloom, Feb, May 1972, Sep 1973
Garden, Springtime, May 1972
Germany, Sep 1968
Gloucester, Eleanor, Aug 1967
Jasper [Gerda's Dog], Aug 1967, Mar 1968
Lewisberg, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Farm
Medium Format
Miscellaneous {Waterfall, Trees, Landscapes, Sunsets} 1971, 1972
Pennsylvania, General Views, Mountain Laurel, Jul 1970
Pennsylvania, Grasses, Grain, Flowers, Rock, Forest, Jul 1970, Oct 1972
Pennsylvania, Market, Museum Village, Barns, Country Buildings, Jul 1970
Prince Edward Island, Jul-Aug 1967
"Slides Of My Own Work, Including Dancers"
Water, Ice, Mar 1968, Oct 1968
Washington Market, New York [City], 1940
By Others
Printed Materials
Thesis
"The Calotype In France And Its Use In Architectural Documentation" 1956, Repro

Box 3 [#V16721]

Prints & Negatives
Animals
Architecture

Maine
Manchester, NH
Manchester, NH [Numbered Series]
Manchester, NH
Frank Lloyd Wright House, Kalil Home
Frank Lloyd Wright House, Zimmerman Home
New England [Either Maine Or Vermont] Wedding Cake House,Greek Revival Church
New Hampshire
New Hampshire, Merrimack & Hillsborough Counties, 1964

Box 4 [#V16722]

Prints & Negatives
Architecture

Interiors, Museum & Church
New York State [2 Folders]
New York State "Trip With Bill", 1969/1970
New York State, Rochester, 32 Oliver Street & Portr...? C.W.A. [Charlotte Allen Book 1]
New York State, Unidentified Building [Possibly 32 Oliver St]
New York State, Utica, Secular & Domestic
Octagon Buildings
Unidentified
Vermont
Boat Series, North Germany?, Lloyd?, Bremen, Ca 1937
Broom Story
Brunswick, Maine & Vicinity
Clouds [2 Folders]
Commercial Negatives

Box 5 [#V16723]

Prints & Negatives
Dance

Carmen Amaya
Maria Theresa Acuna? [Spanish Dancer]
Alicia Alonso
William Bales
Ballet International: Carol Percy, Dick Beard, Mary Jane Shae, Viola Essen, Mary Jeanne, 1944/1945
Ballet Russe
Ballet Theater
Irina Baronova
Valentine [Valentina?] Belova
Valerie Bettis, June 1943 & N.D.
Matthew Bocchino, November 12, 1941
Todd Bolender
Ruthanna Boris
Corinne & Fania Chochem
George Chaffee [Photograph, Figurine Of A Female Ballet Dancer]
Vincenzo Celli
Chase
Janet Collins
Merce Cunningham, June 15, 1952

Box 6 [#V16724]

Prints & Negatives
Dance

Dance Magazine [2 Folders]
Katya Delakova & Fred Berk
Mura Dehn
Eva Desca, November 12, 1945
The Digetanos
Anton Dolin
Paul Draper, April 7, 1942
Jane Dudley,"Harmonica Breakdown", Untitled, 35 MM Contacts February 18, 1943
Jane Dudley
Jean Erdman, 1944
Jean Erdman, Dance Magazine
March 1950
1957
Liljan Espenak, June 1941, N.D.
Nina Fonaroff
Nadine Gae
Aaron Gobez

Box 7 [#V16725]

Prints & Negatives
Dance

Felicitas Goutineau?
Martha Graham, Dance Magazine, 1957
Griffith & Wayne
Trudy Goth & Henry Schwarze
Graff
Robin Gregory
Van Grona
Paul Haakon, Patricia Bowman
Peter Hamilton
Erick Hawkins
Erick Hawkins & Pearl Lang, February 26, 1943
Hanya Holm, November 17, 1942
Hanya Holm
Hanya Holm Dancers
Ann Hutchinson, May 1946
Doris Humphrey; "Inquest" With Group, Solo
Zane Irwin

Box 8 [#V16726]

Prints & Negatives
Dance

Nora Kaye
Iva Kitchell
Ruth Ann Koesun
Pauline Koner [Includes "It Ain't Necessarily So"]
La Meri
Lillian Lenese
Pearl Lang
Welland Northrop & Nelle Fisher
Jose Limon
Limon Trio; Beatrice Seckler, Dorothy Bird & Jose Limon
Gertrude Lippincott, January 1946, N.D.
Dorothie Littlefield
Paula Lloyd
Bambi Lynn

Box 9 [#V16727]

Prints & Negatives
Dance

Joseph Main?
Claud Marchaut
Marie Marchowsky
Sophie Maslow
Barbara Mettler Dance Group: Marcia Eastman, Cora Miller, Willis Ward, Will Carbo, Barbara Mettler
Mary Ellen Moylan
Deniel Nagrin
Sono Osato
Betty Osgood
Ulla Pers?
Pearl Primus
Pearl Primus, Dance Magazine, 1957
Federico Rey & [Partner?]
Jerome Robbins [Dance Observer]
Joan Roberts
Alex Rotov, ca. 1941

Box 10 [#V16728]

Prints & Negatives
Dance

Mccord?
Ruth St. Denis, Dance Magazine, 1957
Nona Schurman, Ca. 1944-1949
Mary Jane Shae
Ted Shawn & Ruth St. Denis
Mia Slavenska, Erika Thimey
Muriel Stuart, School of American Ballet, NYC, November, 1943
Marina Svetlova
Paul Sweeney, October, 1943
Helen Tamiris, February, 1944
Mary Allen Terry
Norma Vance
Eric Victor
Ruthella Wade
Weber
Charles Weidman
Patricia White, November, 1944
Igor Youskevitch
Miscellaneous Dancers & People
Unidentified Dancers

Box 11 [#V16729]

Prints & Negatives
The Earth, Soil, Sand
Estonia, Lithuania
Ferns
Flowers I, Europe, Wild & Garden
Flowers II, American, Wild
Flowers III, American, Wild
Flowers IV, American, Garden
Flowers V, Miscellaneous, Leaves, Patterns, Branches etc.
Flowers, Wild
Flowers, Wild, Trees, Branches
Fog, White Mountains
Folly Cove Designers, "The Making of a Block Print", Gloucester,MA

Negatives, 1948, 1960 [subject 'Virginia Lee Burton (Demetrios)']
Prints, 1948
France
Germany, Berlin Environments, Hiddeusee, Bavaria, etc.
Germany and The Trip Over, Clouds, Some Trees

Box 12 [#V16730]

Prints & Negatives
Gloucester, MA: Rocks, Water
Grasses
Harvest [Glass Plates]
"Hay Making" New Hampshire
Holland
Letchworth Park
Michigan
Miscellaneous
Net Story
New Hampshire: Clouds, Rocks, Trees, etc.
Ohio
Painting & Sculpture at the Currier Gallelry of Art, Permanent Collection, 1973

Pipe Story, "Sweetest Smoke Of All" Story & Photographs by Edith Sauer & Gerda Peterich About The Corn Cob Pipe Works, Boonville, Missouri

Box 13 [#V16731]

Prints & Negatives
Painting & Sculpture At The Currier Gallery Of Art

Box 14 [#V16732]

Prints & Negatives
Portraits

Children
Commercial, 1960-1968
Men
Women

Box 15 [#V16733]

Prints & Negatives
Postcards
Prince Edward Island
Skyways [Story]
Snow
Stone [Rocks]
Stone Walls And Fences
Student Work [Glass Plates]
Student Work, Berlin [Portrait Of A Child, Glass Plate]
Student Work, Berlin [Spider Web, Glass Plate]
Texture
Travel On The "Europe"
Tree Bark And Trees
USA
Cape Anne, Mass I
Cape Anne, Mass II
Maine
New Hampshire
N.Y. The Face Of The City, November 1939
N.Y. Greater New York
N.Y. Parks
Water

Box 16 [#V16734]

Subject Files
Architecture Bibliographies
Architecture, Research File
Articles, "Folly Cove" In Modern Miss, Spring 1948
Biographical Material
Biographical Material, Certificates & Awards
Book Proposal, "Young American Dancers" 1951
Central New York Architectural Historians
Clippings
College Grades And Correspondence
Concert Programs, Dance, 1946-1949, N.D.

Conference, "International Teaching Conference At The George, Eastmen House, 1962"
Correspondence, N.D., 1946-1974
Course Outlines, Bibliographies, S.U. 1965-1966
Dance Pictures Published
Dancer's Pamphlets
New York Papers
Various Magazines, 1943-1950, 1972, N.D.
Exhibitions
Architecture Of Manchester, 1840-1900, Clippings, 1963-1964
Architecture Of Manchester, 1840-1900, 1963-1964
Churches Of Utica & Vicinity, 1956 [See Box 18]
Cobblestone Architecture, 1953-1961, N.D.

Box 17 [#V16735]

Subject Files
Exhibitions

Dance
Dance Portraits, 1949
Eleanor Walker, Amherst, Nh
Frank Lloyd Wright
General [Various Texts]
Gerda Peterich Photographs
The History of Photography
New York Mills
19th Century Architectural Photographs, 1959
Retrospective
Sky and Water Photographs
Letters of Recommendation, 1949-1956
Manchester Architecture, Research File
New England College, Henniker, NH, 1959-1967
Photographs Published [other than dance]
Publicity
New York, Rochester, 1949-1959
Retrospective, 1957
Ohio, 1946-1949
New York, 1940-1948

Box 18 [#V16736]

Subject Files
Exhibitions

Churches of Utica, NY, and vicinity, 1956

Box 19 [#V16737]

Subject Files
Publicity

Dance
General, 1957-1960, N.D.
New Hampshire, 1959-1964
New Hampshire, 1968
New England College
Colosseum Show, 1959
Syracuse, 1964-1968
Teaching
Rochester Antiquarian League [Society]
Society For Photographic Education
Notes
Course Notes, "Architecture Worth Saving" Harley J. Mckee, Seminars on American Culture, N.Y.S. Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY, 1964
Lecture Notes
"History of Photography, 1964/65"
"History of Photography, 1965/66"
"Photography - Its Development as a Fine Art" Ohio University, May 5, 1954
Various Lectures, 1961-1972, N.D.
Notes on Architecture

Box 20 [#V16738]

Subject Files
Notes

Research Notes, Architecture
Research Notes, Master's Thesis
Portriature
Southworth & Hawes, 1954-1958
Writings
"The Architectural Photographs In The Collection Of George Eastman House" February 1, 1958 [Society Of Architectural Historians?] Presentation
"Architectural Photography" Tsc, 30 Pages, N.D.
"Brief Summary Of Problems Of Dance Photography", Tsc, 3 Pages, N.D.
" The Calotype In France and its use in Architectural Documentation" Master's Thesis, University Of Rochester, 1956, Supervised By Carl K. Hersey And Beaumont Newhall,
Ts With Corrections And Comments
"The City Hall Of Manchester, New Hampshire", Ts, 13 Pages, N.D.
"Clouds For The Photographer", Ts, 8 Pages, N.D.
"French Calotypes: Architecture And Views", Tsc, 14 Pages, N.D.
"GWW"[George Washington Wilson]
"Manchester On The Merrimack: A Showcase Of Nineteenth Century Town Planning And Architecture" Ts, 7 Pages, N.D.
"Nineteenth Century Architectural Photographs" Tsc Rev, 25 Pages, Ts, 33 Pages, N.D.

Box 21 [#V16739]

Subject Files
Writings

"Outline For An Exhibition On The History Of Photography From The Beginning To The Present" Submitted On September 22, 1955, Ts And Tsc [2 Copies] 8 Pages
"Outline For The Three Phases Of Portraiture: Personality - Posing - Presentation" Tsc, 25 Pages, N.D.
"Photography Of And At The Great Exhibition Of The Works Of Industry Of All Nations, 1851" Tsc, [17 Pages] N.D.
Review Of Manuscript, "Stieglitz" By Dorothy Norman
Review Of, "The Many-Sided Mr. Nadar" By Pierre Schneider, 25th Art News Annual, Ts, 6 Pages, N.D.
"Some Aspects In Representing Movement In A Static Medium" {With Emphasis On Dance Photography} Lecture Before The Pictorial Photographers Of America, February 1, 1955
Tsc, 10 Pages,["This Is The Age Of Visual Communication"]
Ts, 3 Pages, N.D.
Notes, Photo History Bibliography, N.D.
Writings By Others
"A Few Remarks On The Advent In France, In 1839, Of The First Practical Realization Of Photography..." By J. Boichard, November 27-28, 1964
"Photography And The Suspense Of Time" By Beaumont Newhall, The Frederick W. Brehm Memorial Lecture, Geh, October 22, 1954, 23 Pages, Mimeo.
"Zur Frage: Bewegung Im Photo" By Dr. Arnold Fanch, N.D.

Box 22 [Oversize] [#V16746]

Prints & Negatives
Prints

Commercial Work

Box 23 [Oversize] [#V16747]

Prints & Negatives
Prints

Ohio Univeristy
Portraits

Box 24 [Oversize] [#V16748]

Prints & Negatives
Prints

Ohio Univeristy
Portraits [by Peterich and Students]

Box 25 [Oversize] [#V16749]

Prints & Negatives
Prints

Various Subjects

Box 26 [Oversize] [#V16750]

Prints & Negatives
Prints

Cobblestone Architecture

Box 27 [Oversize] [#V16751]

Prints & Negatives
Prints

Drawings By Peterich
Watercolor By Ada Baylorson
Mounted Prints, Various Subjects, By Peterich & Others

Box 28 [Oversize] [#V16752]

Prints & Negatives
Prints

Mounted Prints, Various Subjects

Box 29 [Oversize] [#V16808]

Oversize Package 1 [#V2613]

Albums

Optische Mappe 1937
Cobblestone Architecture Of The Rochester Area
Odenwaldschule
Arts Council Of Greater Concord 1972 Calendar

Oversize Package 2 [#V2612]

Portfolio Of Prints

Oversize Package 3 [#V2614]

Prints, Miscellaneous

Oversize Package 4 [#V16740]

Student Work [Of Gerda Peterich]

[Portfolio] "Le Paysagede Cagnes Sur Mer" ca. 1937-1939

Oversize Package 5 [#V16741]

Student Work [Of Gerda Peterich]

Tools
Vegetables
"Papiervergleich 1937"

Oversize Package 6 [#V16742]

[Portfolio]
New York City Produce Market Ca. 1920

Oversize Package 7 [#V16743]

Exhibitions

Captions

Oversize Package 8 [#V16744]

Large Prints

Pearl Primus Group 38 1/2" X 31 1/2"
Portrait Of A Woman 18" X 24"
Clouds 18" By 24"
Water 18" X 24"
Dance Series
Jane Dudley, 2 Panels, 8 Prints on each
Pauline Koner, 2 Panels, 8 Prints on each

Oversize Package 9 [#V16745]

Memorabilia

Wooden Studio Sign
Award Plaque: Professional Photographers Of America, Inc. National Award
Rubber Stamps [Name & Address, Etc.]

The following materials have been added to this collection since it was processed.

Materials related to The Cobblestone Society, donated by Dick Case, 14 January 2008, which include at least one photograph taken by Gerda Peterich.

Box 30 [#V31075]

Peterich, Gerda, Cobblestone Architecture of Upstate New York (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XV, 2 (n.d.)

The Cobblestone Society (Childs, NY)
Brochure/Membership Application
Publications
The Cobblestone Church at Childs, New York
Folio - Preservation & Restoration of Cobblestone Architecture
Cobblestone Tour Booklets
June 10, 1961 (2) (First Annual)
June 1, 1963 (2)
June 6, 1964 (2)
June 12, 1965 (2)
June 11, 1966 (2)
June 10, 1967 (2)
June 15, 1968 (contains Peterich photograph)
June 7, 1969 (2)
June 6, 1970
June 12, 1971 (2)
June 10, 1972 (2)
June 2, 1973
June 1, 1974 (2)
June 7, 1975 (2)
June 5, 1976
June 3, 1978
June 9, 1979
June 7, 1980

Other:

Gateways to Cobblestone Houses of Yates County, 1968
New York State Education, April 1967 (cover only - showing photograph of Cobblestone Schoolhouse, Childs, NY)
Newspaper articles
"Long-forgotten art form preserved in Childs" Syracuse Herald-American, July 8, 1990
"The Cobblestone House" Cicero recorder, Cicero, NY, May 7, 1970
"Cobblestone Walls-Earmarks of History" Medina Daily Journal-Register, Feb., 21, 1964