-
Archivision Digital Research Library holds over 105,000 photographs of architecture, archaeological sites and items, works of art, parks and gardens from all over the globe and all time periods. The library is curated by Scott Gilchrist, a professional photographer and trained architect, who continues to add new content. These photographs are browsable on JSTOR.
-
Art History Course Images are uploaded regularly and images for courses currently number over 25,000. These images cover a range of artistic media, cultures, and geographical locations to support the teaching needs of the ARHA faculty. The images’ extensive subject matter reflects the breadth and depth of the program’s course offerings. These images are discoverable by searching for course number in JSTOR or by browsing the institutional collection.
-
Arthur C. Wright Collection is a collection that includes 355 photographic slides of sites and artifacts from China taken in the 1970s. Arthur F. Wright (1913-1976) was a historian and sinologist who taught at Yale University from 1959-1976. As China began to reopen toward the end of the Cultural Revolution, Wright traveled to the country and photographed historical sites and artifacts. These photographs depict museums, religious shrines, palaces, and factories. The slides were donated by Arthur Wright’s son, Jonathan Wright. A selection of slides have been digitized and are available to the Wesleyan community on JSTOR.
-
Edward A. Teitelman Collection is a collection of nearly 300 slides depicting significant American and British architecture. Dr. Edward A. Teitelman (1937-2010) was a psychiatrist and amateur architectural historian based in Camden, New Jersey. He was active in historic preservation efforts in Camden and published an architectural guide to Philadelphia in 1974. He photographed architecture for most of his life and distributed slides of his images to multiple institutions over the years. The University of Pennsylvania and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia both have collections of Teitelman slides. The Wesleyan University Slide Library acquired slides from Edward Teitelman in two sets around 1980 and 1981 at the request of former Wesleyan Professor Eve Blau (circa 1978-1983). The digitized images are available to members of the Wesleyan community through JSTOR.
-
Oliver Radford Collection is a collection of 561 slides taken around 1985-1986 depicting architecture from Spain, East and West Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. Oliver Radford was a graduate student in architecture at Harvard University who allowed the Wesleyan University Slide Library to make duplicates of original photography he made during a trip across Europe. Now an architect in Cambridge, MA, Radford's photographs provide unique Cold War-era views of many sites important to scholars of European architecture. Seen together, the slides provide a fascinating illustration of one graduate student's trip to study architectural design in situ. More than 300 digitized examples are available online to Wesleyan community members on JSTOR.
-
Peter A. Mark Collection is a collection of more than 250 35mm slides of West African art, architecture, and material culture. Peter Mark is an Emeritus Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University where he taught from 1986-2018. The slides were photographed, collected, or requested by Peter Mark to use as illustrative materials in his courses at Wesleyan. The digitized images are available to the Wesleyan community on JSTOR.
-
Saint-Jean-des-Vignes Collection is a collection of 229 slide photographs of excavations, architecture, plans, and artifacts from the medieval monastery site of St. Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, France. These slides were contributed to the Wesleyan University Slide Library by Clark Maines, Emeritus Professor of Art History at Wesleyan. Maines has been involved in archaeological projects at St. Jean-des-Vignes since 1982, including partnering with Professor Sheila Bonde of Brown University to produce the online digital humanities publication "MonArch: Monastic Archaeology." Maines and Bonde have also written multiple books and articles on the St. Jean-des-Vignes site. The digitized photographs are available online to the Wesleyan community on JSTOR.
-
Seymour-Paoletti Photograph Collection is a collection of over 3,000 rare, printed photographs depicting Italian Renaissance sculpture created by multiple 19th and 20th century Italian photographic studios. These include photographs by Fratelli Alinari, Edizioni Brogi Firenze, and various other commercial studios. The photographs were collected beginning in the 1950s by Charles Seymour Jr. (1912-1978), a professor of art history at Yale University who specialized in Italian Renaissance sculpture. The collection was later given to John T. Paoletti, then a student of Seymour’s and now an emeritus professor of art history at Wesleyan. Professor Paoletti added to the collection significantly and used the photographs for many research projects throughout his career.
-
Stephen L. Dyson Collection is a collection of over 600 slides donated by Stephen Dyson, many of which were used as illustrative material in archaeology and Classics courses at Wesleyan. Professor Stephen L. Dyson was a faculty member in the Classics program at Wesleyan from 1963-1991 and director of the Wesleyan Museum from 1970-1977. He was an active archaeologist and conducted digs in Connecticut and abroad. Throughout 1973-1978, he gifted sets of slides related to Greco-Roman, Pre-Columbian, and Egyptian archaeology. He has published widely on the subject of classical archaeology. Many of the images in the collection were taken by Dyson, while others were collected or made from secondary sources by Dyson throughout his years of teaching, working on archaeological sites, research, and visiting museums. The digitized images are availabe to members of the Wesleyan community through JSTOR.
-
Susan Thorne Collection is a collection of 66 slides depicting modern French architecture by Le Corbusier and Tony Garnier. The photographs were taken by Susan Thorne, a Wesleyan alumni of 1980, who donated the materials to the Wesleyan University Slide Library in 1985 while in graduate school at Columbia University. Thorne was a student assistant in the slide library during her time at Wesleyan. The digitized images are available on JSTOR.