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Photo, Print, Drawing Photographs of furniture

About this Item

Title

  • Photographs of furniture

Summary

  • Photographs created and used to document and advertise furniture designed by the Eames Office and manufactured by Herman Miller. Images show chairs: molded plywood, plastic and wire chairs, stacking chairs, La Fonda chair, lounge chair and ottoman, intermediate desk chair, tandem sling seating, and the chaise; children's furniture; the aluminum group; the Time-Life group; the Eames Contract Storage (ECS) system for dormitories; tables; sofas; experimental furniture; furniture parts; people using furniture in studio set-ups and in schools, airports, and homes; workers at the Herman Miller factory, California; graphic designs for advertising and furniture labels; and for the cover of "Progressive Architecture" magazine. Also includes a few images of non-Eames furniture.

Names

  • Office of Charles and Ray Eames, designer
  • Office of Charles and Ray Eames, photographer
  • Braun, Ernest, photographer
  • Davidson, Bruce, 1933-, photographer
  • Herman Miller, Inc.

Created / Published

  • ca. 1940-1968.

Headings

  • -  Herman Miller, Inc.--Facilities--California--1940-1970
  • -  Eames furniture--1940-1970
  • -  Eames chairs--1940-1970
  • -  Aluminum group (Eames furniture)--1940-1970
  • -  Eames contract storage (Furniture)--1940-1970
  • -  Eames lounge chair and ottoman--1940-1970
  • -  Eames tandem sling seating--1940-1970
  • -  Time-Life chair--1940-1970
  • -  Furniture industry--California--1940-1970
  • -  Advertisements--1940-1970
  • -  Graphic design--1940-1970

Format Headings

  • Contact sheets--1940-1970.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1940-1970.

Genre

  • Gelatin silver prints--1940-1970
  • Contact sheets--1940-1970

Notes

  • -  Finding aid available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Most of the photographs were taken by Charles Eames, Ray Eames, or other Eames Office staff members, including Don Albinson; other photographers include Ernest Braun, Bruce Davidson, Tom Fenton, Marvin Rand, Rooks Photo, and Edward M. Schwartz.
  • -  Some items have crop marks and notations.
  • -  Some project information from Neuhart's Eames design: the work of the office of Charles and Ray Eames, 1989.
  • -  Eames office inventory location: Drawer 3.E.27, 3.E.28, and 3.E.30.
  • -  Negative numbers for images may be obtained or verified by consulting contact sheets for Eames furniture that were processed as LOTs 13170, 13171, 13177-13180, 13182, 13187, 13189, and 13190.
  • -  Forms part of the collection known as the "Work of Charles and Ray Eames."
  • -  Bequest; Ray Eames; 1989; (DLC/PP-1989:150).

Medium

  • 201 photographic prints : b&w and a few color ; 20 x 24 in. or smaller + 5 p. text.
  • 14 contact sheets : b&w ; 20 x 24 in. or smaller.
  • 2 items : photomechanical print ; 14 x 19 in. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13383 (H) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Work of Charles and Ray Eames (Library of Congress)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 00650069

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, Designer, and Inc Herman Miller, Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, Ernest Braun, and Bruce Davidson, photographer. Photographs of Furniture. California, ca. 1940. to 1968. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/00650069/.

APA citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, D. & Herman Miller, I., Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, Braun, E. & Davidson, B., photographer. (ca. 1940) Photographs of Furniture. California, ca. 1940. to 1968. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/00650069/.

MLA citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, Designer, and Inc Herman Miller, photographers by Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, Ernest Braun, and Bruce Davidson. Photographs of Furniture. to 1968. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/00650069/>.