Ansel Adams (68 page)

Sierra Club Board of Directors Meeting
, c. 1960s (from left: Ansel, Richard Leonard, David Brower, Edgar Wayburn, and unknown woman). Unknown photographer

Ansel and Me in Yosemite
, 1980. Photograph by Tom Zito

Moonrise’s 40th Birthday Party
, 1981 (from left: me, Ansel, and Jim). Unknown photographer

Ansel Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Jimmy Carter, the White House
, 1980.

Ansel Meeting with President Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles
, 1983. Photograph by Mike Evans

Ansel Adams
,
cover of
Time
magazine
, September 3, 1979. Photograph by David Hume Kennerly

Ansel Printing
The Tetons and the Snake River
in his Darkroom, Carmel Highlands
, 1983. Photograph by Jim Alinder

Ansel in His Darkroom, Carmel Highlands
, 1981. Photograph by Jim Alinder

Since 1902 in 1982
, Mike and Jeanne’s house, Fresno, 1982. Photograph by Jim Alinder

Ansel and His Half Dome 80th Birthday Cake
, 1982. Photograph by Jim Alinder

Ansel Adams, February 1984
. Photograph by Jim Alinder

Notes

Throughout the Notes section, the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, is abbreviated as CCP.

1. SAN FRANCISCO

 
1
       Nellie Mulcare had been hired as Ansel’s nurse on June 17, 1902, at a salary of twenty-five dollars a month. Nancy Newhall, Notes about Adams Family History, CCP.

 
2
       Gladys Hansen and Emmet Condon,
Denial of Disaster
(San Francisco: Cameron and Company, 1989), 13.

 
3
       Gordon B. Oakeshott, “San Andreas Fault in the California Coast Ranges Province,” in Edgar H. Bailey, ed.,
Geology of Northern California
(San Francisco: California Division of Mines and Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 190, 1966), 361.

 
4
       Hansen and Condon,
Denial of Disaster
, 13–15.

 
5
       Notice by the Board of Public Works that the Adamses’ chimney had passed inspection, July 9, 1906, CCP.

 
6
       Ansel Adams, interview on the history of West Clay Park, 1974, tape recording. Collection of Sue Meyer.

 
7
       Nancy Newhall,
The Eloquent Light
(Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1980), 25–26.

 
8
       Ibid.

 
9
       William Bronson,
The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned
(San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1986), 89.

 
10
       Ansel Adams with Mary Street Alinder,
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985), 9.

 
11
       Telegram sent by C. H. Adams from Green River, Wyoming, to Charles E. Bray in Carson City, Nevada, April 22, 1906, 5:05
p.m.
, CCP; telegram sent by C. H. Adams from Reno, Nevada, to Charles E. Bray in Carson City, Nevada, April 22, 1906, 8:01
p.m.
, CCP; note sent by J. M. McCormack on behalf of Charles E. Bray to C. H. Adams, April 23, 1906, CCP.

 
12
       C. H. Adams’s pass through the lines in San Francisco, by order of the governor of California, April 23, 1906, CCP. Eventually the house was moved farther back on the land, on a new foundation. Ansel Adams interview.