– contributed by CCHP graduate student assistant Tori Deming.
Over the past year I’ve been digitizing the Donald Dewsbury still image collection. The collection includes over 4,000 black-and-white photographs and spans four decades. Dewsbury took photographs of psychologists and animal behaviorists at various conference and meetings, including APA and Cheiron.
Most of the projects I’ve worked on have involved reintegrating separated photographs back into their original collections. I processed the Donald Dewsbury still images collection from start to finish and the collection was unique in the sense that I recognized many of the individuals from my time here at CCHP.
Like this guy.
Back in the year 2000 when this photo was taken the CCHP was still AHAP and we were in the basement of an old department store. As a team under David Baker’s leadership we have come a long way!
And thanks to the generosity of this man and his wife we are now the Dr. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, a center which houses the Archives of the History of Psychology, The National Museum of Psychology, and the Institute for Human Science and Culture.
Nicholas A. Cummings (1999, San Francisco, CA)
Here are a few of our current CCHP Board Members. They’re all so happy!
Top (left to right): Florence Denmark (1992, Washington, DC), Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. (1991, San Francisco, CA), Don Freedheim (1992, Brussels, Belgium), Rob Wozniak (1988, Bryn Mawr, PA). Bottom (left to right): Lew Lipsitt (1989, New Orleans, LA), Chris “The Mustache” Green (1993, Toronto, Ontario), and Alexandra Rutherford (1999, Boston, MA)
I remembered Philip Zimbardo from his visit to the CCHP in 2015.
Check out this great tie! Philip Zimbardo (1992, Washington, DC)
Since 2013 the Center has hosted the Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. Distinguished Lecture in the History of Psychology. In 2015 we hosted Elizabeth Loftus and in 2017 we hosted Keith Humphreys.
Don captured Elizabeth in 1994 in Seattle and Keith in 2003 in Toronto.
This year’s lecture is coming up on May 16 and the speaker is Laura Stark from Vanderbilt University. Register here!
The familiar face that was most surprising was F. Robert Treichler. I know him as Dr. T.
F. Robert Treichler (2000, Akron, OH)
I took Dr. T’s History of Psychology course when I was an undergraduate at Kent State University and he introduced me to my love of the subject. He also introduced me to the Center when he brought our class on a field trip in 2013. Seeing his face in this collection was exciting and reminded me of how my journey here all started.
As an amateur photographer myself, one of the things I appreciate most about this collection is how Don Dewsbury was able to capture the emotion of the subjects of his photographs.
These smiles are infectious!
Top (left to right): Karl L. Wuensch (1983, Philadelphia, PA), Marie Lawrence (1988, Clemson, SC), Stanley Schneider (1991, San Francisco, CA). Middle (left to right): Stanley Graham (Washington, DC, 1992), Frank J. Sulloway (1989, Gainesville, FL), Thomas Carlson (1990, Southhampton, MA) Bottom (left to right): Mary S. Erskine (1992, Washington, DC)
The Donald Dewsbury still images collection is a treasure trove and we are so thankful that Don donated his collection to the archives. (We are equally thankful that he identified the subjects of nearly all of the images!)
Go ahead, browse the collection. You may just find yourself among the 4,295 photographs.
Robert W. Matthews (1985, Raleigh, NC)