urn:taro:utexas.cah.00542 A Guide to the Carol Spencer Mitchell Photographic Archive The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Austin, Texas
February 2007 February 2007Encoded in XMetal 3 by Evan Hocker according to instructions in TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. Finding aid written inEnglish. Descriptive Summary Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Spencer Mitchell, Carol Carol Spencer Mitchell Photographic Archive 1975-2007 9 ft. Materials are in English. Carol Spencer Mitchell's photographs chronicle important world events from the 1970s to the 1990s, including the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip, historic meetings between world leaders, the sea jacking of the Achille Lauro, and profiles of dignitaries such as Yassar Arafat, Anwar Sadat, and King Hussein of Jordan. Scope and Contents

Collection spans the career of photojournalist Carol Spencer Mitchell and her extensive coverage of world events from the 1970s through the 1990s. Her photographic work is captured in 46 notebook binders of slides as well as other small caches of slides and contact sheets. Included are related papers and documentation.

Collection also includes the detailed research papers of Ellen Spencer Susman. These papers represent Susman's research for a book on Carol Spencer Mitchell.

 Biographical Note

Carol Spencer Mitchell began her career in photojournalism in 1975 in the United States, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. She moved to Jerusalem in 1984 as a member of the foreign press corps and spent the next decade covering the Middle East and North Africa. Her photographs have appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek, both of which she worked for extensively. She also traveled on special assignment for U.S. News & World Report, Look, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and numerous European publications.

The diary she created became the basis of her book, Danger Pay. Carol Spencer’s writing and photographs chronicle the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip before, during, and after the Intifada, historic meetings between world leaders, the sea jacking of the Achille Lauro, and profiles of dignitaries such as Yassar Arafat, Anwar Sadat, and King Hussein of Jordan. She passed away in 2004 at age 50.

 Preferred Citation

Carol Spencer Mitchell Photographic Archive, 1975-2007, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Carol Spencer Mitchell Photographic Archive 4La15 Numbered binder books containing sheets of slides and related material: 4La15 Book 1: Guyana, May 1977 4La15 Book 2: Andrew Young/Caribbean: Guyana, Trinidad, Santo Domingo, Haiti, August 1977 4La15 Book 3: Andrew Young/New York City [at home, United Nations, with Coretta King, with African leaders, etc.], August-September 1977 4La15 Book 4: Prime Minister Begin/Israel, April-May 1978 4La15 Book 5: Chinese visit to Washington, 1979 4La15 Book 6: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, 1978-1979 4La15 Book 7: President Sadat: Egypt, 1978-1979 4La15 Book 8: Pope John Paul II in U.S.A. and Philadelphia, October 1979 4La16 Book 9: Color Portfolio, late 1970s-early 1980s 4La16 Book 10: Shah of Iran's sister, 1979 4La16 Book 11: Carol: Personal pick miscellaneous portfolio (pre-Mid-East), early 1980s 4La16 Book 12: West Bank: Gaza and Golan Heights (Book 1), May 1982 4La16 Book 13: West Bank: Gaza and Golan Heights (Book 2), May 1982 4La16 Book 14: Libya (Book 1), April 1984 4La16 Book 15: Libya (Book 2), April 1984 4La16 Book 16: Best of Arafat, 1984-1986 4La16 Book 17: Hussein rejects (mostly 50th birthday), November 1985 4La17 Book 18: Achille Lauro hijacking, October 1985 4La17 Book 19: King Hussein (seconds), 1985-1986 4La17 Book 20: Lebanon Pal Refugee Camps, January-February 1986 4La17 Book 21: Lebanon: PLO training camps for children, February 1986 4La17 Book 22: Lebanon: PLO fighters (Beirut and Sidon), February 1986 4La17 Book 23: Lebanon: PLO fighters, 1986 4La17 Book 24: Sudan and Egypt, March-April 1986 4La17 Book 25: Sudan: Assorted, March-April 1986 4La17 Book 26: VP George Bush and Schultz, 1986 4La17 Book 27: West Bank and Gaza Strip, mid 1980s 4La18 Book 28: King Hussein pictures, 1985-1989 4La18 Book 29: Israel and Prime Minister Shamir, 1986-1988 4La18 Book 30: Face of Jordan (best of Jordan), 1989, 1990 4La18 Book 31: Israel miscellaneous, 1986-1992 4La18 Book 32: Benjamin Netanyahu and his daughter, October 1988 4La18 Book 33: Israel slides, 1988-1989 4La18 Book 34: Jordan: first and second selects: Aqaba, 1989 4La18 Book 35: Jordan: first and second selects: Amman, Jerash, Hijaz Railroad, Save the Children rug display, 1989 4La19 Book 36: Jordan: first and second selects: Dead Sea, landscapes, Mt. Nebo/Madaba, mosaics, 1989 4La19 Book 37: Jordan: first and second selects: Wadi Rum, desert landscapes, Bedouin, tourists, 1989, 1990 4La19 Book 38: Jordan: first and second selects: Petra, 1989 4La19 Book 39: Petra slides/portfolio, 1989 4La19 Book 40: Jordan: first and second selects: Bedouin/Petra, flute boy, Bedouin bread making, rug weaving, Save the Children rug display, 1989 4La19 Book 41: Jordan: first and second selects: fashion, dance troupe, Arabian horses, 1989 4La19 Book 42: Faisal Hussein, 1991 4La20 Book 43: Jordan: Israel peace treaty signing, October 1994 4La20 Book 44: Prime Minister Thatcher in Israel, undated 4La20 Book 45: U.N. disarmament session, undated 4La20 Book 46: Miscellaneous slides 4La20 Book of water damaged slides 4La21 Additional envelopes of slides and contact sheets: 4La21 Bush in Jordan, 1986 4La21 Libya 4La21 Sudan 4La21 Achille Lauro 4La21 TWA hostages 4La21 Palestinian training camps 4La21 Bush trip to Egypt, 1986 4La21 Arafat/Hassan 4La22 Research files for Ellen Spencer Susman's book and lectures 4La23 Research files for Ellen Spencer Susman's book and lectures 4La24 Additional envelopes of slides: 4La24 Inside Terror 4La24 Ship hostages in Cairo/PLO funeral 4La24 Libya background 4La24 Notebook containing detailed handwritten inventory of slides in books 1-46 4La24 Additional folder of slides and negatives provided by donor [AR 2007-037]