Only last week we learned about the never seen before Rolling Stones Images found on a flea market and now there are Ansel Adams prints found sitting in a box at UC Berkeley Library.
The San Francisco Chronicle writes that dance professor Catherine Cole made the discovery after following a trail of documents:“I kept seeing the name Ansel Adams and thought ‘what the heck is he doing all over the UC archives,’ ” says Cole, who followed this lead to the Bancroft Library, where 605 signed fine prints by Adams sat in a box, among the university’s rare collections. [...] “This is an extraordinary resource that has been buried like a time capsule,” says Cole, 49, who discovered the prints while doing independent research on the California Master Plan for Higher Education. (via PetaPixel)
Did you start diving into your boxes on the attic already? Again, who knows what’s sitting waiting there to be unearthed. … and what about all the virtual boxes we have?
Happy diving!
Ute Sonnenberg for www.rohoyachui.com
October 23, 2012 at 10:55 pm
What a find! Thanks for alerting us to it. The Bancroft Library does hold some treasures!
October 24, 2012 at 7:40 am
Only a pleasure. As I understood the photos are on show at the moment.