A Guide to the Elmer Harvey Bone Photographs

Finding aid prepared by Dept. Staff

University of Florida Smathers Libraries - Special and Area Studies Collections
March 2005

Descriptive Summary
	Creator:	Bone, Elmer Harvey, 1885-1976
	Title:	Elmer Harvey Bone Photographs
	Dates:	1902-1965
	Abstract:	Prints and negatives of people, places and events in Wellsburg, West Virginia, central Florida, and the University of Florida.
	Extent:	2 Linear feet. 1,030 images.
	Identification:	Ms Coll. 38
	Language(s):	English
		Items from this collection have been digitized and are available online in the UF Digital Collections. For more information please see the note below.

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Biographical/Historical Note

Elmer Harvey Bone was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio on January 15, 1885. When he was two years of age his family moved to Wellsburg, West Virginia. Mr. Bone was 16 years old when he was graduated from high school. He had acquired an early interest in photography and at 17 years of age had his own photography studio in a small building his father built for him. While in Wellsburg he also worked as a freelance photographer and submitted photos to both the Pittsburg and Cleveland newspapers.

Prior to 1925 Bone moved to Eustis, Florida, and then, in 1925, moved to Gainesville. There, he worked in the partnership of Van Sickel and Bone. Bone later opened his own studio. Bone was an active photographer for most of his long life. He "retired" when he was eighty-three years old but continued to photograph events in Gainesville such as the annual University of Florida Homecoming Parade. He died at age ninety on March 13, 1976.

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Scope and Content

The E.H. Bone Collection is composed of black and white prints and negatives of various sizes. The negatives include glass plate negatives, and both cellulose nitrate and acetate negatives. The prints include contact as well as regular prints. Most of the glass negatives are of subjects either in Wellsburg, West Virginia or in the immediate vicinity. These include portraits, landscape views, people in landscape settings, businesses, and a flooded town. E.H. Bone documented Gainesville and surrounding areas as well as the University of Florida in the many photographs he took.

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Access or Use Restrictions

Access

The collection is open for research.

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Related or Separated Material

Additional Bone photographs are located at the Matheson Museum, Gainesville, Florida.

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Administrative Information

Alternative Format Available

Digital reproductions of photos are available online via the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC). Please read the Permissions for Use statement for information on copyright, fair use, and use of UFDC digital objects.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Elmer Harvey Bone Photographs, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

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Selected Subjects and Access Terms

Alachua County (Fla.) -- Photographs.
Gainesville (Fla.) -- Photographs.
Holland, Spessard L. (Spessard Lindsey), 1892-1971.
Political campaigns -- Florida -- Photographs.
University of Florida -- Photographs.
Warren, Fuller, 1905-1973.
Wellsburg (W. Va.) -- Photographs.

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