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Call Number:
MSS 7
Creator:
Hitzberger, Ruth M.
Title(s):
Clare Leighton working on Grist Milling (6 of 6)
Date:
[between 1949 and 1953]
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series V: Photographs
Part of Collection:
1, folder 43
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Bart T. Tiernan LLB 1968 and Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Hamway. Ten of the Wedgwood plates are the gift of Judith and Norman Zlotsky, Yale Class of 1953.
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Scope and Content:
Depicts Clare Leighton peeling a freshly printed page from the woodblock for Grist Milling. Landscape orientation. Leighton's face is half-hidden in shadow, only the left side discernible. Verso: numbered "2" in pencil; red ink stamp reading: "Photography by / Ruth M. Hitzberger / Church Hill Road / <geogname>Washington Depot, Conn.</geogname> / Wash. 2687."
Physical Description:
1 photograph : b&w print
Genre:
Photographs, Pictorial works, Queen's ware, Graphite drawings, Letters, and Wood engravings
Subject Terms:
Agriculture
Atlantic cod fishing
Cranberry industry
Grain
Ice industry
Lobster industry
Logging
Maple sugar industry
Marble industry and trade
Milling
Shipbuilding
Tobacco farms
Whaling
Wood-engraving
Associated People/Groups:
Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989
Finding Aid Title:
Clare Leighton collection
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/6617
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/6617?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1