Joseph Esherick, 1914-1998


Joe, at his Carey House

In addition to UC's official tribute to Joe Esherick, In Memoriam, the following bears testimony as well: 

Joe loved to travel, and he had a fine eye for architectural photography. He quietly supported the Architecture Visual Resources Library (aka the slide library), both as the Chairman who controlled the Departmental purse strings (1979-1982), and also as a lifelong user of and contributor to its collection. While on the faculty, Joe made regular gifts of his beautifully composed and thoroughly documented 35mm travel slides to the AVRL collection. After he retired from UC, he made a considerable commitment of time organizing, weeding, and documenting his remaining travel slides. He completed his notes to this second large gift to AVRL on December 18, 1997, exactly one year before his death.

Today, approximately 1,000 of these slides have been cataloged and digitized and added to the AVRL circulating collection, and are searchable on SPIRO. The remainder of these slides are housed in six archival volumes in alphabetical order by country name. Each volume has a copy of Joe's notes and the most recent inventory of his collection, showing which slides are in SPIRO and which have not yet been cataloged and digitized.

Norma Esherick donated funds in Joe's memory to AVRL to support the cataloging of this second bequest of his slides. Access to these images would not have been possible without her generous contribution.

Joe Esherick's Travel Slides, 1962-1979

Search by Countries Visited:

Australia, 1968
      Austria, 1962. Not cataloged yet
Canada, 1967, 1969, 1975. Not all cataloged
China, 1975
Egypt, 1965
England, 1962
      Germany, 1962. Not cataloged yet
      Hong Kong & Macao, 1965. Not cataloged yet
India, 1965
Italy, c. 1965
Japan, 1965
      Poland, 1965. Not cataloged yet
Polynesia, 1968
Russia, 1965
Spain, 1962
Thailand, 1965
Uzbekistan, 1965
U.S.A. , various dates

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