Photograph album "Daguerreotypes Album" dated January 20, 1955, Type 40 series Digital

One of the memoranda has a subject: "Polaroid copy stand." Adams writes about testing the Highlander camera, and Professional Panchromatic and Pola Pan film. Significantly, he describes testing the 4x5 material for the first time, as well as the transparency material. Beaumont Newhall was visiting Adams for part of this month, and Adams writes about Newhall's enthusiasm for Polaroid. The test photographs include portraits of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall on what appears to be a photography expedition. Adams also mentions Charles Sheeler's interest in the Pathfinder camera. A folder titled "Report on lithographic reproduction" contains a series of offset lithographic reproductions made by the Charles R. Wood Associates for the San Francisco Museum of Art. Also included is a small brochure with a reproduction of a photo Adams had made for the museum. He also mentions a commercial project he is doing at a tannery in Santa Cruz, and several of the test photographs are taken within the tannery. Additional subjects of the black and white test photographs and negatives include a mother and child, a cemetery, the Church Bolinas California, Pirkle Jones, and daguerreotypes.