Peghey Crosson papers

The collection is comprised of about 290 transparencies (primarily Kodachrome but some Ektachrome) mounted as slides, together with a coated metal box containing 150 slots for slides. The transparencies were apparently exposed by Peghey Crosson, who also appears in some of the images. The images represent family and travel photographs from 1949 to 1957 and 1969 (with the undated images likely falling in the same years). About 75 of the photographs were taken in Japan, including many exposed August 27, 1950, from a train in Nagoya, when Crosson (who appears in a few of the images in military uniform) was leaving Japan. None of these photographs depict the U.S. military in Japan, but there are images, at least some taken in Tokyo, of street scenes, buildings, miscellaneous people, a cherry festival, and Mount Fuji; about 16 of the images are unidentified. The other images in the collection, often minimally labeled or unlabeled except for the year, depict the photographer’s family and other travels (to Florida, California and the American West, and a steamship cruise). A very few of them depict New Jersey, chiefly as represented by views of beach scenes in Avalon and river scenes on the Cooper River.