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Victor Keppler Papers
An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University
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| Creator: | Keppler, Victor. |
| Title: | Victor Keppler Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1926-1966(ca) |
| Quantity: | 16.0 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Papers of the American photographer (1904-1987). |
| Abstract: | Color slides, transparencies, negatives, photographs, contact sheets and working proofs, receipts relating to commercial and travel subjects. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Biographical History
Victor Keppler (1904-1987) was born in New York City on September 30th. He is best known for his commercial photography, which won him numerous awards throughout his career. He worked for several major advertisers, such as General Electric, Corning Glass, and DuPont. He also had photographs and cover art published in the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, and Cosmopolitan, among others. In 1961, he founded the Famous Photographers School in Westport, CT, where he became the director and president until his retirement in 1972. Keppler's artistry was recognized in many awards: Harvard Award (1944), Photographers Hall of Fame Award (1970), and five Gold Medal Awards from the Art Directors Club. Keppler also authored four books, the two most well known being The Eighth Art: A Life of Color Photography (1938), and Victor Keppler: Man and Camera: A Photographic Autobiography (1970).
Keppler was a pioneer in the world of commercial advertising, and made a name for himself as one of the foremost artists in color advertising photography. Using the carbro color process, he mastered techniques drawn from the latest trends in other visual art mediums to make images that were fresh and modern.
Sources:
Contemporary Photographers. First ed. New York, St. Martins Press, 1982.
New York Times, "Victor keppler, Author and Photographer." December 3, 1987.
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Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Victor Keppler Papers consist of various photographic works in different formats, as well as some of the photographer's personal receipts. Much of the material relates to Keppler's work as a commercial photographer, including works done for Hallmark, Campbells, DuPont, Noxzema and Liberty Mutual. Also included are photographs related to Keppler's travels in Italy, Haiti, Canada and elsewhere. Additionally, there are photographs of general topics such as birds, water scenes, and tropical fruit. Among the oversized materials are photographs of famous people and various other clients. Many of the color slides are of travel-related themes, while the other formats (color transparencies, negatives, photographs and proofs) are of a more a varied mix.
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Arrangement of the Collection
The Victor Keppler Papers are arranged into seven categories, Color Slides, Color Transparencies, Negatives, Photographs, Proofs, Receipts and Photographic materials. Items from the first six categories are contained in 13 boxes, while the Photographic materials are located in 15 oversize packages. Subjects in each category are arranged alphabetically.
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Restrictions
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on this material
Use Restrictions
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
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Subject Headings
Persons
Subjects
Genres and Forms
Occupations
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Victor Keppler Papers
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Finding Aid Information
Created by: MK
Date: Feb 6, 1978
Revision history: 04 Sep 2007 - converted to EAD (JPK)
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Inventory
| Color slides | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Antigua (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Birds | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Canada (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Europe (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Flowers | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Girl (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Haiti (7 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Italy | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Japan | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lectures | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Park | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Puerto Rico | ||||||||||
| Box 2, 3 | Seagrams (7 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Seattle | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Statue | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Sunsets | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Timken (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Traffic | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Tropical scenes | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Twilight scenes | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Unknowns (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Color transparencies | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | American Standard | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Armstrong | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Blatz Beer | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Campbells | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Coffee Assoc. | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Corning (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Dana Perfume | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | DuPont | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Electrolux | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Fostoria | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Hallmark (4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Harris-Seybold | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Haiti | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Hiram Walker | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Kennecott Copper | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Lionel | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Mohawk Carpet | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | National City Bank | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Pabst | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Rayonere | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Schaefer | ||||||||||
| Box 6, 7 | Seagrams | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Strawberries | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Union Carbide | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Unknowns (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Water scenes | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | X-mas designs | ||||||||||
| Negatives | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | Airport | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | American Tobacco Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Armstrong | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Baum, Harry | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | B.B.D. & O. (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Bird silhouettes | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Broufman, Charles | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Camera | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Canada (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Cellanese Corp. | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Cemp | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Central Park | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Christmas Carol | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Children | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Clemens | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Community | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Conn Organ (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | DuPont | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Europe | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Eye doctor | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Fairfield | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Farm | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Feen-O-Mint | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Garden | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Grey scale | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Girl (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Hallmark | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Hanes | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Hausman | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Haiti | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Head shots | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Hills | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Ipana (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Italy | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Keppler | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Levy | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Merit Plan | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Millard's house | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Montreal | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Molson's (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Mum | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | National City Bank | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | New York City Transit Authority | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Noodle soup | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Noxzema | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Orlon | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Pagana | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | P.A.L. | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Palmolive - nudes (15 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Paris | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Party | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Portrait | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Reynolds | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Schaefer | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Smith | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Snow scenes | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | South America | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Southern Bell | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Spain | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Switzerland | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Symbols | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Timken | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Trinidad | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Trip III | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Tusary | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Union Carbide | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Unknowns | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Wayne, Judy | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | White Cross | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Winfreys | ||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 11 | Aerial | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Antigua | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Birds | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Cameras | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Canada | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Experimental | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Four roses | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Haiti | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Hallmark | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Italy | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Keppler | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Keppler-Rex (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Liberty Mutual | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Marines | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Merit Plan | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Sea shore | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Still life (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Sunset | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Timken | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Timken - research material (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Proofs | |||||||||||
| Box 11 | Armstrong (4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Antigua (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Birds | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Bradol | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Canada | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Churches | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Conn Organ | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Corning | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Florida | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Florida - Palm Beach | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Haiti (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Hallmark (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Hill insects | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Italy | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Jamaica | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Keppler | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Klemens (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Lagano | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Liberty Mutual | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Long Beach | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Merit Beach | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Miller, Ralph | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Molson's | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Mum | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Newark, NY | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Old Gold | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | P.A.L. | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Palm Restaurant party | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Reynolds, Howie | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Schaefer test | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | Southern Bell | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | St. Thomas | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | Toms River | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | Travel | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | Tropical fruit | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | Unknowns (6 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | Water scenes | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | X-mas tree | ||||||||||
| Receipts | |||||||||||
| Box 13 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Photographic materials - oversize | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Armstrong | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | Assorted clients | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3-8 | Assorted photos | ||||||||||
| Oversize 9 | Famous persons | ||||||||||
| Oversize 10 | Hallmark | ||||||||||
| Oversize 11, 12 | Schaefer Beer | ||||||||||
| Oversize 13 | Southern Bell | ||||||||||
| Oversize 14 | Merit Plan | ||||||||||
| Oversize 15 | Timken Bearings | ||||||||||
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