Cambridge Public Library
Olive Pierce Photographs
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Students cheering in school gym
This collection contains an original collection donated by Olive Pierce and an addendum donated posthumously by her family.
The original collection, curated by Olive Pierce, contains photographs, books, moving images, audiocassettes, and ephemera from several projects that Olive Pierce worked on during her 40-year career as a documentary photographer. The photographs include the following:
1. Portraits taken during the 1960s, featuring the environs in and around Vinalhaven in mid-coast Maine.
2. Cambridge City Council Meetings (1970-1972), featuring images of politicians, police, witnesses, experts, and citizen spectators taking part in the city's democratic process during a turbulent time.
3. Portraits of the Jefferson Park Housing Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1973-1975), portraying children and their lives in the project.
4. No Easy Roses (1982-1985) has two components. Pierce took candid photographs of students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin where she worked. She also took headshots to accompany oral histories she recorded of students. These photographs were published in "No Easy Roses: A Look at the Lives of City Teenagers in 1986."
5. Photographs of a fishing community in Waldoboro, Maine (1987-1993), which were later published in "Up River: The Story of a Maine Fishing Community in 1996."
6. Portraits taken of Iraqi children in Baghdad and Basrah in 1999.
All titles and descriptions are written by Pierce on the back of her photographs. Each photograph is taken on black and white film and is either a fiber print or a resin-coated print.
The collection also contains books that Pierce wrote:
1. Pierce, Olive, "No Easy Roses: A Look At the Lives of City Teenagers, Cambridge, Mass, 1986," signed, paperback, Thomas Todd, printer.
2. Pierce, Olive, "No Easy Roses: A Look At the Lives of City Teenagers, Cambridge, Mass, 1986," signed, red cloth hard cover with embossed rose, Thomas Todd, printer.
3. Pierce, Olive, "Out of the Midwest: A Memoir in Four Parts, 1925-1948; Part I: Childhood, 1925-1939," signed, self published , 2014.
4. Pierce, Olive, "Up River: The Story of A Maine Fishing Community," University Press of New England, 1996, signed.
The original collection, curated by Olive Pierce, contains photographs, books, moving images, audiocassettes, and ephemera from several projects that Olive Pierce worked on during her 40-year career as a documentary photographer. The photographs include the following:
1. Portraits taken during the 1960s, featuring the environs in and around Vinalhaven in mid-coast Maine.
2. Cambridge City Council Meetings (1970-1972), featuring images of politicians, police, witnesses, experts, and citizen spectators taking part in the city's democratic process during a turbulent time.
3. Portraits of the Jefferson Park Housing Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1973-1975), portraying children and their lives in the project.
4. No Easy Roses (1982-1985) has two components. Pierce took candid photographs of students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin where she worked. She also took headshots to accompany oral histories she recorded of students. These photographs were published in "No Easy Roses: A Look at the Lives of City Teenagers in 1986."
5. Photographs of a fishing community in Waldoboro, Maine (1987-1993), which were later published in "Up River: The Story of a Maine Fishing Community in 1996."
6. Portraits taken of Iraqi children in Baghdad and Basrah in 1999.
All titles and descriptions are written by Pierce on the back of her photographs. Each photograph is taken on black and white film and is either a fiber print or a resin-coated print.
The collection also contains books that Pierce wrote:
1. Pierce, Olive, "No Easy Roses: A Look At the Lives of City Teenagers, Cambridge, Mass, 1986," signed, paperback, Thomas Todd, printer.
2. Pierce, Olive, "No Easy Roses: A Look At the Lives of City Teenagers, Cambridge, Mass, 1986," signed, red cloth hard cover with embossed rose, Thomas Todd, printer.
3. Pierce, Olive, "Out of the Midwest: A Memoir in Four Parts, 1925-1948; Part I: Childhood, 1925-1939," signed, self published , 2014.
4. Pierce, Olive, "Up River: The Story of A Maine Fishing Community," University Press of New England, 1996, signed.