Stephen Deutch Photograph Collection, part 1, 1930-1979
Descriptive Inventory for the Collection at
the
By Maureen O'Brien Will, 1985
© Copyright 2006,
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Title: Stephen Deutch photograph collection, part
1
Inclusive dates: ca.
1930-1979
Main entry: Deutch, Stephen
Accession number: 1980.0058
Extent:
Call #: 1980.0058 PPL
20 boxes of photographic prints
Storage: Box Lot (20 11 x 14 in.
boxes).
Restriction: Credit photographer.
Summary: Includes the photographs
of Stephen Deutch, a Chicago-based commercial photographer. Photographs show
commercial models, portraits, and some photodocumentary scenes in
Description of some related material: Also search under a later accession, Stephen Deutch photograph
collection, part 2 (1989.0152) and “Pista : the many
faces of Stephen Deutch,” a film by his daughter Katherine Deutch Tatlock (1989.0232).
Provenance statement: Gift of
Stephen Deutch, 1980 (1980.58)
Storage designation:
Box lot: 20 11 x 14 in. boxes.
List of online catalog headings:
The following headings were
placed in the online catalog:
Guthrie, Woody.
Horne,
Leadbelly.
Robinson, Jackie.
Terkel, Studs, 1912-
African Americans
Photographers--
Chicago (
Silver gelatin prints.
Container list of box/folder numbers and titles:
Amon, Jack
Apeco Company President
Axelrod, Richard
Barr, Dr. C.H. (Abbott Lab)
Beech, Keyes
Beier, Herbert at Bauhaus
Bohrod, Aaron
Breunig, (president of Victor Duplicating)
Breunig, John (painter)
Brorby, Mel
Buchen Company executives
Carlson, Edward (Chairman of United
Airlines) (2)
Columbia Broadcasting System broadcasters
Cone,
Cordesman, Harry
Cummings, Nathan
Daily, Maggie
Daily News Staff
Daley, Mayor Richard
Dick, A.B. Company (engineer)
Dimitri, (
Douglas, (Daily News staff)
Evans, Sullivan (3)
Farmer's Union President
Felier, Joe
Field, Marshall III
Fine Arts Quartet
Freeman, (Chairman First National Bank)
Fromm, Erica
Fuehrmeyer, John
Garroway, Dave Goldblatt Brothers (4)
Gourfain, Ed
Guldahl,
Hannon, Jack
Harris,
Harper, Paul
Hartman, Gabby
Hubachek, Frank Brooks
Jarman, Franklin (5)
Jarvis (Chairman Swift & Co.
Johnson, John
Kner, Albert
Kraft, J.L.
Kupcinet, Irv
Lawless, Dr. (6)
Lewis, Hal
Libby Food, president of
Livingston, (First National Bank)
Logan, Mrs. Frank
Lyon, Leonard? (
Lundgren, Eric
Marathon Paper Company (President)
Maremont, Arnold
Marsh, (President,
Merriam, Robert
McCormick, (President, Household Finance)
Poore, Taylor
Randall, Clarence
Rayberger, Gus
Russell, Rosalind
Schooler, Lee
Schwartz, Carl
Schwartz, Kay
Schwartz,
Sextin, John
Shriver, Eunice & Sargent
Siskin, Rabbi
Spectorsky,
St. Louis Post Dispatch, publisher 1969
Stracke, Win
Suba, Susan
Wood, Arthur (8)
Wausu Daily Record Herald, publisher
Wells, Gary
Unidentified: Lawyers, labor leaders,
business executives, Chicago Sun
staff, cast of play (either Life With Father or The Man Who Came to
Dinner),
Folders:
1 Entertainers and Sports Figures:
Baker, Josephine
Bennett, Motta
Ellington, Duke
Horne,
Jackson, Mahalia
Louis, Joe
Robinson, Jackie
2 A series of photographs made for the
Chicago Sun Times, 1950s,
documenting people who make the Sun Times and people who read the Sun
Times. A "Make & Read" series.
3 Skid Row photographs--people, places, and activities on
Clark, Wells
and Rush streets.
4 Weisman, Al and family
Helen (Deutch's assistant)
United
Unidentified portraits of models, artists,
skiers
5 Contact Sheers:
American
Gymnasts, 1938
Lundgren, Eric
Panda at
Assorted contact prints of city scenes,
nudes, people, children,
musicians, etc. ca. 1930s-1950s.
1 Art Institute--photographs of objects in
the collections
2 School of the Art Institute--classroom activities
3 Art Institute--candid photographs of
visitors
4
Harris,
Mabley, Jack
Zwecker, Peggy
Snider, Arthur
Walters, Stuffy
5 Photographs of the Chicago Seven and friends, 1970. Photographed at the
Avery,
Davis, Rennie
Dellinger, Dave
Dellinger, Michelle
Dellinger, Tasha
Hathaway, Susan
Hayden, Tom
Hoffman, Abby
Hoffman, Anita
Kunstler, William (defense lawyer)
Langer,
Rubin, Jerry
Rubin, Nancy
Schultz, Suzy
Terkel, Studs
Weills, Anne
Unidentified
6 University of
7 University of
Coch, Dr.
Compton, Dr.
Fermi, Enrico
Hogness, Dr. Thorpin
Maude or Mande, Dr.
Unidentified individuals connected with
nuclear research
1 Abbot Lab, 1940s-1950s
American Meat Institute, 1940s
2
Borg Company, 1970s
Container Corporation, 1940s-1960s
Cummins Company,
3 Inland Steel
NELCO (Chemical factory), 1940s
4 Papermaking factories--UARCO, A.B. Dick, 1940s 1970s
Santa Fe Railroad yard,
5
Assorted individual photos of identified
companies
1 Buchen Advertising Company, executives and staff, 1960
2 Board of Education--illustrations for 1937 annual report
3 Leo Burnett Advertising, 1950s and 1960s
Container Corporation Designs, 1950s and
1960s
First National Bank Advertisements, 1960
Marshall Field & Co. PR and Advertising
Photos, 1940s-1960s
Continental Bank interiors, 1940s
Assorted action ads, 1950s (human interest,
family scenes, games, classroom, etc)
2 Fashion, 1940s
3 Health Care and Hospitals, 1950s-1960s
4 Hands as dominant motif in ads, 1940s
5 Humorous ads, 1950s
6 Product close-ups
7 "A Day in the Life of a Woman"
taken for a pharmaceutical company
8 Miscellaneous ads for clients such as Bell Telephone, Rand
McNally,
mimeograph machines, etc.
1 Action ads, including Deutch's first
Commercial assignment for Abbott
Labs in 1937.
2 Beer and cosmetic ads
3 Children in advertisements
4 Englander Mattress ads, 1951
5 Miscellaneous ads
1 Algren, Nelson--candid shots and 1970
wedding
2 Social Service Agencies: Infant Welfare
Society; Little Brothers of the
Poor; Mother's Milk Station; Provident
Hospital; and the Visiting Nurses
Society.
3 Stephen Deutch family and friends
4 Experimental photographs of crushed metal
5 Political events involving the following:
Aaron Bohrod
Dr. Rudolph Ganz
Paul Robeson
Win Stracke
Studs Terkel
Josh White
Vera Zorina
6 Poor Clare's Order (convent life)
7 World War II Home Front photos
(recruitment at
industry, etc.)
8 Miscellaneous--sculptures of
and photos of pianist's hands
1 Architecture
2 Entertainment: Music and Dance
Bolshoi Ballet
Goodman Theater rehearsal
Kungsholm Puppets
Opera
3 Neighborhood views:
Near North Side
Division & Milwaukee
Old Orchard Art Fair
Siebens Brewery
4 Parades
5 Northwestern University
6 Catalog photos taken for Genesco Corp., 1972
7 Miscellaneous photographs
1 Sports:
Billiards
Racing
Horseback riding
2 Zoo
3 Transportation
4 Miscellaneous
5 Miscellaneous
1
Union Station
Museum of Science & Industry
Art Institute Steps
Sedgwick & Damen
Near South &
3 Unidentified Neighborhood Individuals
4 Miscellaneous
5 Miscellaneous
1 Storefront churches, religious advisors, religious themes
2 Apartments, hotels, rented rooms
3 People incorporated into doorways and windows
4 Rundown buildings
5 Barber shops, beauty parlors, clothing and shoe stores
6 Miscellaneous
1 Food stores
2 Restaurants and bars
3 Assorted retail shops: Book stores, used
furniture
4 Assorted retail shops
5 Assorted retail shops
1 Sitters, I
2 Sitters, II
3 Sociable sitters, I
4 Sociable sitters, II
1 Solitary sitters, I
2 Solitary sitters, II
1
2
3
4
For correspondence associated with this project see Box 19 Folder 8
1 "Hygeia"
2 "Industrial Photography"
3 "Popular Photography"
4 "Art Photography"
5 "The National Photographer"
6 Sunday Magazine articles
7 "Girl Beautiful"
8 "Ecole d'Art"
9 "Girl Parade"
10 Professional photography magazines--miscellaneous nudes
11 Photography magazines miscellaneous
1 "Ebony" 1947, 1949
2 "Ebony" 1951-52
3 "Tan Confessions" 1950-51
4 Humorous magazines
5 Magazine covers
6 Printed advertisements
7 Advertising catalogs
1 Catalogs and brochures with photographs by Deutch
2 Chicago Sun Times Beauty Contest catalogs
3 Professional correspondence, 1930s (xerox
copy)
4 Professional correspondence, 1940s (xerox
copy)
5 Professional correspondence, 1950s,
(xerox copy)
6 Professional correspondence, 1960s (xerox
copy)
7 Professional correspondence, 1970s (xerox
copy)
8 Correspondence concerning the newspaper series "The
Twilight World" 1965
(xerox copy)
9 Reprint of the series "The Twilight World"
10 Deutch biographical information (xerox copy)
11 Newspaper articles on Deutch and by Deutch (xerox copy)
12 Newspaper clippings on beauty contests judged by Deutch,
1940s-1950s