New York City, Washington D.C., Las Vegas, Arizona, and New Mexico prints

Prints taken on at least three separate trips to the United States, circa 1970s, circa 1994 to 1995, and 2003 to 2004. Photographs mainly taken by Les Cleveland with some possibly taken by Mary Cleveland. Also, a small number of prints taken in Australia.

Mary Cleveland is pictured in an American city [San Francisco?] in the 1970s in front of various marquees including one reading "Exotic Lady Wrestlers". Photographs from New York City in circa 1994 show Manhattan street scenes, CD and record stall at Union Square, signs advertising "The Who's Tommy", Central Park (by the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir), front desk staff and the cafeteria at the Whitney Museum (Upper East Side), the subway system (escalators, inside carriages), and an interior at the Metropolitan Museum showing the European sculpture court.

Washington D. C. photographs include the plane "Galloping Gertie" as well as other scenes at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, a car accident at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (with unidentified people watching on), unidentified homeless people, and scenes at an ice-cream parlour and a bookshop. A set of photographs show both the inside and outside the National Gallery of Art with the interior scenes showing gallery spaces and exhibits at the time of the exhibition 'The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein'. Mary Cleveland appears in a number of these images. Scenes outside show the inauguration parade of Mayor Marion Barry. The parade features the Ballou High School Marching Knights and other marching bands, Miss D.C. USA, stilt walkers and others on foot in traditional African dress with some people playing a variety of instruments, a group performing a dragon dance, and youth from Ward 5.

Las Vegas photographs are taken circa 1995 and feature casinos and street scenes. One set of photographs show the Auto Collections Vintage Car Museum at The Linq hotel-casino in Las Vegas, another shows a stage performance by the Rockettes, and a third shows the interior of and patrons gambling at The Excalibur Hotel and Casino.

Prints also include scenes at a fast food restaurant Dunkin' Donuts, a Fred Harvey Travel Store, and a model of the body of Jesus Christ with stigmata, likely taken in either Arizona or Las Vegas.

Photographs from Arizona include the Gold King Mine Museum and Ghost Town in Jerome. New Mexico prints feature scenes from the Fiesta of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Tortugas. These photographs capture performances by local people and include elements such as costume, dance, musical instruments, and numerous images of the Virgin Mary.

Australian image(s) show a Myer department store including people queuing outside.

Original photo wallets have been retained with prints.

Prints from Las Vegas dated as 1995 from exhibition print of image 'Elvis Slept Here' at PAColl-D-1519. "Exotic Lady Wrestlers" image likley San Francisco as identified by donor on negative strip at 35mm-109314.

Title supplied by Library.

Arrangement: Box one of two.

Quantity: 143 b&w original photographic print(s). 21 colour original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Physical Description: Silver gelatin and dye coupler prints, photo wallets

Transfers: Negatives now held at 35mm-108434 to 35mm-108443..

Processing information: Negatives originally stored with these prints and print wallets separated to facilitate appropriate storage.