Robert Underwood Johnson, 1853-1937
Literary File, Photography Collection
381 items (3 boxes)
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 Robert Underwood Johnson Literary File consists of 381 items (301 loose photographs, 77 photographs in 3 albums, 2 nitrate negatives, and 1 tintype). An index at the end of this guide lists identified 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This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
Item List
| Container | Accession / P No. | Description |
| PH:LF:Johnson, R. U., Box 1 | P1, P2A-P2B, P3-P5, P6A-P6B, P7-P34, P35A-P35C, P36A-P36H, P37A-P37F, P38A-P38C, P39A-P39G, P40A-P40B, P41A-P41H, P42A-P42W | Portraits of Robert Underwood Johnson and Pamela Hansford Johnson (P5 is a tintype of Johnson with an unidentified man; P7 is with Dylan Thomas); views of Yosemite Valley. |
| PH:LF:Johnson, R. U., Box 2 | P43-P58, P59A-P59Q, P60-P78, P79A-P79V, P80A-P80Z | Views of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, Calif. (P43-58), Italian street scenes (P60-P78), an American Red Cross (Croce Rossa Americana) ambulance in Italy during World War I (P59A-P59Q), two men (an American and an Italian ambulance driver?) on either side of the open rear doors of an ambulance (P79A-P79V), and ambulance drivers lined up in front of ambulances parked in a row along a building in Italy (P80A-P80Z). |
| PH:LF:Johnson, R. U., Box 3 | P80AA-P80UU, P82A-P82D, P83A-P83E, P84-P104, P106 | Views of ambulance drivers lined up in front of ambulances parked in a row along a building in Italy (P80AA-P80UU), a church and convent in S. Gregorio, Italy (Red Cross building), the upper floor of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, an unidentified child, a campsite with tent, and a mockup of copyright documents. |
| PH:LF:Johnson, R. U., Box 3 | 2004:0036:0001-0054 | Portraits of Johnson and other people, views of various places, and images of a grandfather clock and some chairs. |
| PH:LF:Albums:Johnson, R. U., 1 | [was P81] | Ambulanza Oculistica d'Armata: 'Poeti Americani' (Bologna : Regio Esercito Italiano, Ambulanze Chirurgiche d'Armata, Marzo 1918). Published album containing 17 photographs, which document the "American Poets Ambulances in Italy" aid efforts during World War I. |
| PH:LF:Albums:Johnson, R. U., 2 | [was P105] | Saletta Operatoria per Autocarro 15 Ter ([Italy] : Commissione Allestimento Ambulanza Chirurgiche d'Armata, [1918]). Published album containing 10 photographs; inscribed on first page: "Photographs of the operating-room of the Ambulanza Oculistica dei Poeti Americani going into service on the Italian front on March 15, 1918. / R.U.J. from H.N.G." |
| PH:LF:Albums:Johnson, R. U., 3 | [was P107] | Large, brown album (tied with red, white, and green ribbon) containing 50 photographic prints with handwritten captions (in Italian). |
| NV:LF Boxes | 986:0036:0005-0006 | 2 nitrate negatives, originally accompanied ALS to Frank H. Holden. |
Index of Photographers
Bernabei, Angelo--P104
Black, Joseph, photographer--P43, P102
Champlain Studios--P1
Fiske, George, 1835-1918--P10-P14, P30
Foto Vasari--P100-P101
Huber, Walter Leroy, 1883- --P44-P51
King, George R.--P52-P58
Peter A. Juley & Son--P4
Photopress--P6A-P6B
Strazza (Milan, Italy)--P59B-P59Q, P79B-P79V, P80A-P80TT
Strazza-Fantaguzzi (Milan, Italy)--P59A, P60-P78, P79A, P80UU
Taber (San Francisco, Calif.)--P38B, P39D-P39E, P39G, P41G
Zwiefel, T.--P9
(Last modified: 11 February 2008)
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