Christopher Fry, 1907-2005
Literary File, Photography Collection
93 items (1 box)
Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Mary Foster and Susan McClellan, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents
The Christopher Fry Literary File consists of 93 photographs, including portraits of Fry and stills from various productions of his plays. An index at the end of this guide lists photographers whose work is featured in this file. Further descriptions of some items are available in a card catalog in the repository.This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
*All items are located at PH:LF:Fry, C.
Item List
| Accession / P No. | Description |
| P1A-P1B | Photographic postcard portrait of Fry at age 2 years, 4 months, April 1910 (P1B is an enlargement of P1A). |
| P2 | Photographic postcard portrait of Fry, with a message to his son handwritten on the verso. |
| P3 | Proof sheet of 4 portraits of Fry standing in a doorway. |
| P4A-P4B | Photographic postcard portrait of Fry at age 14 months, with his father (P4B is an enlargement of P4A). |
| P5A-P5B | Group portrait of 8 children in costume; inscribed on verso of P5A: "Kit in his first play as King Alfred / at Kindergarten Festival / 5 1/2 years / Small boy kneeling by his mother" (P5B is an enlargement of P5A). |
| P6 | Portrait of Fry and his wife Phyllis on a Christmas card inscribed/signed (by Phyllis?): "with love from / Phyl & Christopher." |
| P7 | Snapshot of an unidentified young man. |
| P8A-P8B, P9-P20 | Stills from a production of The Lady's Not for Burning. |
| P21-P27 | Stills from German productions of The Lady's Not for Burning in Frankfurt (P21), Berlin (P22-P25), Munich (P26), and Cologne (P27). |
| P28-P30 | Stills from productions of The Lady's Not for Burning in Stockholm (P28) and Copenhagen (P29-P30). |
| P31-P54 | Stills from productions of Ring Around the Moon (P31-P32), Thor, with Angels (P33), The Dark Is Light Enough (P34-P35), Phoenix Too Frequent (P36-P41), and Sleeping Prisoners (P42-P54). |
| P55-P60 | Stills from a London production of Venus Observed. |
| P61-P73 | Stills from productions of Venus Observed in Germany (P61, P68-P73), Malmo, Sweden (P62), and the Hague, Netherlands (P63-P67). |
| P74-P76 | Photographic postcard views of Shipton-under-Wynchwood. |
| P77-P78 | Views of Bedford Modern School (Fry's alma mater). |
| P79-P86 | Views of The Shaven Crown (an old monastic hostelry), Shipton-under-Wynchwood, including 3 photographic postcards (P79-P81). |
Index of Photographers
Bedfordshire Times--P78
Blau, Tom--P3
Burschhausen, Hanns--P61
Campin, C. Righton--P82-P84
Croner (Berlin, Germany)--P68-P73
Hansen, H. Lund--P29-P30
Hutton, Kurt, 1893-1960--P56-P60
Järlas, Sven--P28
Lemaire, F. L.--P63-P67
McBean, Angus, 1904- --P8A-P8B, P9-P16, P34-P35, P55
Murray, Alec--P31
Packer, Frank, photographer--P74-P76, P79-P81
Particam Pictures--P17-P20
Rogers, Houston--P32, P42-P54
South Wales Evening Post--P33
Steinmetz, Hildegard--P26
Stuckmann (Cologne, Germany)--P27
Vickers, John, photographer--P36-P41
Willott (Berlin, Germany)--P22-P24
(Last modified: 24 September 2007)
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