Articles, photographs, tear, and miscellaneous of Ruth Alexander Nichols and May Ellis Nichols, ca. 1903-1980s

The Select Works series provides examples which exemplify the achievements in the professional careers of both Ruth Alexander Nichols and May Ellis Nichols. Many magazine covers, featured photographic essays, and other examples of Ruth Nichols’s professional photography are included. A catalogue of available prints by Ruth Alexander Nichols exists in multiple copies within the series. Also included are large-format prints of her work, and of particular note are the thirty-three included “Carbro” prints. Many more negatives and prints, including duplicates and similar shots, as well as unpublished or less-widely circulated images, are included in the photographic series (Series 13).

In addition, Ruth Alexander Nichols and her mother-in-law, May Ellis Nichols, collaborated as writer and photographer on several published articles included in this series. May Ellis Nichols published a good number of essays and articles on traveling abroad, as well as stories, in a variety of publications; here, the bulk of these are compiled in a single volume called Some Leaves from my Note-Books. More examples and additional copies of her writings are included in Series 11.