Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
Mathias Oppersdorff Adirondack Faces Photograph Collection |
Collection |
Mathias Oppersdorff Adirondack Faces Collection |
Object Name |
Photograph Collection |
Scope & Content |
From 1986 to 1987 the Adirondack Museum commissioned Mathias Oppersdorff to photograph a selection of Adirondack residents. About 75 people in the Adirondack Park and the surrounding region were photographed in their familiar environments showcasing them at home, work, and outside doing various activities. This assignment resulted in a 1989 traveling exhibition sponsored by the Museum titled Adirondack Faces, and a 1991 publication of the same title. |
Call Number |
P072789-P075542 |
Catalog Number |
2010.028.0001-0595 |
Creator |
Oppersdorff, Mathias T., 1935-2010 |
Other Creators |
Project commissioned by Adirondack Museum. |
Date |
between 1986 and 1987 |
Year Range from |
1986 |
Year Range to |
1987 |
Dates of Creation |
1986-1987 |
Extent of Description |
533 photographs: gelatin silver prints; black and white |
Admin/Biographical History |
Mathias Oppersdorff was a professional photographer. His work appeared in Gourmet Magazine, GEO Magazine, Natural History, Diversion, Nikon World, Popular Photography, Conde Nast Traveler and others. |
Notes |
Collection title devised by cataloger based on photographer's name and the name of the project. Part of: Living with Wilderness: Enhancing Access to the AM Historic Photograph Collection (Council on Library and Information Resources Grant, 2015-2017) |
People |
Allen, Daisy Mavis Dalaba Allen, Earl Bibby, William B. Boyce, Debby Brown, Robert E. Burke, Fredolin Cameron, Jim Conversano, Judy Mancuso Corsale, Michael Cross, Katie Desormo, Maitland G. Dicob, Paul Edmonds, Adrian Farb, Nathan Farrell, Gregory Farrell, Catherine Ferry, Hamilton Flanders, Ernest Fountain, George Gates, Arthur Harvey, Beecher Hill, Joseph Tenderfoot Hodgson, Gary Kashiwa, Henry Kaufmann, Ted Kibler, Victor Fountain, 1919-2013 LaPrairie, Ernest B. LaTour, James A. Lawrence, Richard W., Jr. Loncar, Matthew Maroun, Emanuel McDonald, Ada Morcy, Edith Newell, Nora J. Newell, Pauline Owen, Frank Peck, James Glenn Pfendler, Arthur Pinard, Michael S. Regetz, William J. Riley, James W. Runyon, Linda Savage, Arthur V. Schmidt, William J. Schwarzer, Chester H. Smith, Bill Smith, Constance B. Smith, Jack L. Stewart, Richard Stocklosa, Ben Sturtevant, Linda Sullivan, Thomas F. Brown, Avis Cohen, Richard Coughlin, "Big" John Cunningham, Pat Darrah, Charlie Hathaway, Carl Helms, Herb Hornbeck, Peter Lewis, Paul Marino, John Nicholl, Randy Pratt, Lawrence G. Sr. Safford, Doug Schweikert, Frederick Scofield, Mark Stocklosa, Tom Thibado, Kenneth White, Edward E. Woodward, Ben Aery, Paul Rogers, Arthur Rogers, Leona O'Gorman, Francis Garner, Dale Lee Bosco, Bob Oppersdorff, Mathias T. |
Subjects |
Photographs Contact sheets Logging Quilting Gardening Beekeeping Camping Children Boating Boats Photographers Teepees Firearms Stores & shops Guideboats Lakes & ponds Hunting Men Women Portrait photographs Religion Preachers Farming Boat building Restaurants Railroad employees Knitting Historians Carpenters Native Americans Musicians Guides Grocers Fishing Homesteading Lawyers Basket making Monks Wood carvings Boathouses Chefs Airplanes Rescue workers Railroad snowplow locomotives Trapping Bartenders Rustic furniture Postmasters Flea markets Hardware stores Divining rods Dogs |
Copyrights |
Fair use copy permitted for research, study, or investigational purposes citing the Adirondack Museum. Any other use requires written permission. Cite as: Mathias Oppersdorff Adirondack Faces Photograph Collection, Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY |
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Related Publications |
Adirondack Faces - Photographs by Mathias Oppersdorff Text by Alice Wolf Gilborn Foreword by Adam Hochschild The Adirondack Museum / Syracuse University Press 1991 |