Kuehne, John Matthias, 1872-1960
John Matthias Kuehne photograph collection, 1894-1950.
Kuehne's photographic work includes many images of the University of Texas campus, Austin, and Central Texas. Among his autochromes are perhaps the earliest color views of UT. Trips to Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks and the Orient are well-documented. The collection also contains Kuehne's 1949/1950 photography course guide. Subjects include: professors of physicsSimpson Leroy Brown, John Matthias Kuehne and Thomas Ulvan Taylor, as well as the University of Texas Department of Physics and McDonald Observatory.
John Matthias Kuehne (1872-1960) was a Physics professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1909 to 1951. He was a pioneer in researching the relationship between magnetism and electricity, helped found the McDonald Observatory, and taught the first photography class at UT in 1908.
Brown, Simpson Leroy, 1881-
Kuehne, John Matthias, 1872-1960
Taylor, T. U. (Thomas Ulvan), 1858-1941
McDonald Observatory
University of Texas at Austin. Dept. of Physics.
AIP-ICOS
University of Texas at Austin. Center for American History. University Archives. Austin, TX 78713, USA