Tony Hillerman Photograph Collection
Scope and Content
This collection contains formal and informal photographs of author Tony Hillerman and others, along with places, southwest landscapes, and events, from the late 1920s to approximately 2000. The majority of the photographs of Hillerman are anonymous, with the notable exception of Series 4, photographed by Barney Hillerman, and a few author portraits stamped with photographer or studio information. Many of the personal photographs have been published in biographies of Hillerman. Contact sheets present positive prints of most of the 35mm slides, transparencies, and negatives. Further, the slides and negatives are generally also represented as photographic prints.
The collection is arranged into 6 series.
Series 1 is the original accession, photographic material separated from the Papers.
Series 2 contains photographs of Hillerman in individual and group settings.
Series 3 contains places and landscapes.
Series 4 is a series of Hillerman Country landscapes.
Series 5 are 35mm slide positives and 3x4 negative and positive transparencies.
Series 6 includes oversize items.
Dates
- Creation: 1928-2000
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1950s-1995
Creator
- Hillerman, Tony, 1925-2008 (Person)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
Biography
Tony Hillerman, writer and teacher, was born May 27, 1925 in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma. He grew up in this rural community, joined the army when the United Stated entered World War II, and served two years in Europe. He returned to Oklahoma and received a BA from the University of Oklahoma in 1946.
He worked as a newspaper reporter in Texas and Oklahoma, and in New Mexico from 1952 until 1962, when he came to the University of New Mexico as a graduate student in English. Hillerman received his MA in 1966 and became a professor of journalism, serving as department chair 1967-74. He retired from teaching in 1986.
Hillerman continued writing until his death, October 26, 2008, in Albuquerque, New Mexico of pulmonary failure.
Extent
2 linear feet/508 items (206 photographic prints, 218 slides, 69 transparencies, 11 negatives, 3 posters, 1 map)
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Abstract
Collection contains formal and informal photographs of author Tony Hillerman and others, along with places, southwest landscapes, from the late 1920s to approximately 2000.
Physical Location
B2. 3 boxes shelved by Pictorial Number; Oversized folder located in Pictorial large drawers.
Separated Material
Photographs separated from the Tony Hillerman Papers.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Authors, American -- New Mexico -- 20th Century
- Erosion -- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Fishing -- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Four Corners Region -- Pictorial works
- Journalists -- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Landscapes -- Arizona -- Pictorial works
- Landscapes -- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Roads -- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Tony Hillerman Photograph Collection, 1928-2000
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Pictorial Collections Staff
- Date
- © 2007, 2016
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
cswrref@unm.edu