O Henry Selected Stories

[Marziabo Frechette]

MongolianShort Stories, edited by Henry G. Schwarz: My students rightfully complain that they need an anthology of unabridged and representative samples of Mongolian literature. There is at present only one source for such materials, the magazine, Mongolia. Unfortunately, the magazine, like most other periodical publications of its kind, scatters its literary samples across scores of issues. Moreover, it is probably true that this useful magazine is still little known in the United States where I would guess fewer than ten university libraries have complete sets.

To meet my students' legitimate demands, I have selected some twenty-one short stories from the pages of this magazine, and have attempted to edit them into acceptable contemporary American English. I have endeavored as much as it is feasible to make the selection representative of different generations of writers and of different themes.

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Henry Holmes Smith (1909-1986) was an American photographer and prominent educator in photography during the mid-20th century. Smith was born in Illinois, and attended Illinois State Normal University from 1927 to 1932 where he studied art and had an interest in cartoons and illustration. He transferred to the Ohio State University where he graduated in 1933 with a degree in art.

In 1937, after meeting with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Smith began teaching at the New Bauhaus in Chicago, which included courses in photography. Shortly after, Smith spent several years serving in the Pacific during World War II. In 1947, he went on to teach at Indiana University, where he stayed until 1977. Students of Smith include Jerry Uelsmann, Aaron Siskind and Jack Welpott, who are all represented in the archives at the Center for Creative Photography.

Smith made lasting impacts on the field of photographic education. He created one of the first graduate programs in photography as well as a history of photography course. Overall, Smith was devoted to his students and helped advance the fields of photography and photographic education through his teaching and writing.

His own work experimented with progressive photographic techniques, with an emphasis on light and color. He explored techniques such as high-speed flash photography, color photography, abstraction, and non-objective imagery.

Correspondence, writings, research files, activity files, audio tapes, and photographic materials, 1920s-1993, of Henry Holmes Smith (1909-1986), photographer and educator. The bulk of the collection documents his career as an educator at the New Bauhaus School (Chicago, Ill.), his long tenure at Indiana University (Bloomington), his activities as a founding member of the Society for Photographic Education, his relationships with colleagues in the field of photographic education, and his participation in numerous conferences and workshops. Documenting his work as a photographer and critic are manuscripts and revisions of articles, transcripts of lectures, and records of the Photographer's Exhibition Service, a project initiated by Smith to encourage exhibitions and exchanges of information within the photographic community. There is also information on the exhibition and sale of his early paintings, drawings, and cartoons; texts for his short stories and poems; biographical information; and reference files on photography.

Additional materials were received in 1999. These materials have not been fully integrated into the original donation. There are biographical materials, writings, manuscripts, publications, Bauhaus materials, exhibition records, and correspondence.

Initial survey and processing begun by A. Stark, July 1985. Correspondence by photographer was selectively removed from the files, photocopies were made for the archives, and the originals were returned to Smith as per his instructions. Photocopies were stamped to indicate their origin. More complete processing took place in August-September 1988. Mary Anne Redding prepared the new inventory. Finding aid was updated by Alexis Peregoy in 2018.

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