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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs of Cecil B. DeMille childhood home

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233624565]
Identifier: MSS 2161
Scope and Contents

8 color photographs of childhood home of Cecil B. DeMille and its environs, Pompton, NJ. Negatives accompany the photographs.

Dates: 1996

Cecil B. DeMille letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230343383]
Identifier: MSS 2613
Scope and Contents

12 letters and 1 telegram from DeMille to Lasky, 1 photograph.

Dates: 1942-1956

Cecil B. DeMille photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 146
Scope and Contents

Collection includes 6000 photographs (including oversize), 61 slides in molded case and viewing equipment, two glass plates, and one panoramic photograph. Biographical and personal publicity for DeMille Productions, Paramount Pictures and Famous Lasky Players.

Dates: 1868-1959

Victor Milner collection of photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 79
Scope and Contents

Collection includes photographs of early Hollywood actors and personalities, as well as of the Milner family. Also includes filmstrips of caricatures from the film Land of the Pharos.

Dates: approximately 1920-1979

Victor Milner papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1965
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, a scrapbook, newsclippings, telegrams, certificates, and other items. The materials deal with the motion picture industry in the United States and Milner's career as cinematagrapher. Some of the correspondence is with Cecil B. DeMille, the American motion picture producer. Also includes newspaper coverage of Milner's detention in the Soviet Zone of Germany in 1949.

Dates: 1914-1990

Photograph of The Ten Commandments

 Collection — Oversize-folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232549987]
Identifier: MSS P 736
Scope and Contents

Contains a photograph of the Red Sea scene from Cecil B. DeMille's movie Ten Commandments. Dated 1955.

Dates: 1955

Photographs and negatives of King of kings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2228
Scope and Contents

Includes 905 nitrate negatives and 262 photographic prints of scene stills, publicity, and theater marquees for Cecil B. DeMille's motion picture, King of Kings (1927). Pierce acquired the collection at an unspecified time.

Dates: 1927

Ten Commandments costume continuity book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232550100]
Identifier: MSS 5783
Scope and Contents

Black loose-leaf binder containing 149 8x10 inch black-and-white photographs of costume sketches for The Ten Commandments (1956). The sketches were done by Arnold Friberg, Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, John Jensen, and Ralph Jester. The binder was compiled by Head, who used it to check and maintain costume continuity for the production.

Dates: 1954-1956