The Clements Library is pleased to announce new resources now available to researchers, both related to the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography.
The acquisition of this collection was made possible by David B. Walters, who wished to honor Harold L. Walters, University of Michigan class of 1947, Engineering, and Marilyn S. Walters, University of Michigan class of 1950, LSA. Subsequent donations to the collection have also been made by David Tinder himself, his friends, and family members.
Online Finding Aids
The Clements Library Graphics Division has started a project to convert its finding aids to Encoded Archival Description (EAD). To use the new finding aids, visit the Graphics Division Finding Aids site.
The new finding aids describe portions of the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography, a landmark collection that contains examples of virtually every photograph format in use in the Great Lakes States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes de visite, cabinet photographs, tintypes, stereographs, real-photo postcards, and mounted and un-mounted paper prints. When fully available, the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography at the Clements Library will contain approximately 100,000 images. The collection is only partially open for research at this time.
Directory of Early Michigan Photographers
By David V. Tinder, edited by Clayton A. Lewis (Clements Library, 2013).
2850 pages. Available as a free download (pdf).
The Directory of Early Michigan Photographers, compiled over several decades, identifies virtually every known commercial and significant amateur photographer that worked in the state of Michigan from the first known appearances in the 1840s into the early twentieth century. The author, David V. Tinder, is recognized as the top authority on early Michigan photography. With over 8,000 records, the Directory stands as an unsurpassed resource for historians, collectors, curators, archivists, genealogists, and anyone interested in the early history of photography in the United States.