Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936
Literary File, Photography Collection
133 items
Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Mary Alice Harper and Mary Foster, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents
The Rudyard Kipling Literary File consists of 133 items (47 loose photographic prints, 37 nitrate negatives, 18 glass negatives, and 31 images in an album). The prints are portraits of Rudyard Kipling (some are art reproductions); candid snapshots of Kipling (on a horse) in India, seated with a group of children, or speaking to a group of adults; views of Kipling's house, and of Rudyard Lake Garage; portraits of Kipling's parents; and snapshots of memorials and/or gravestones for various Kipling family members. Several images and most photographers are unidentified. The nitrate negatives are for snapshots of graves. The Kipling Album contains images of East Sussex, including "Bateman's" (Kipling's home from 1902-1936) and the nearby village of Burwash, as well as Herstmonceux, Beachy Head, and views of Bodiam Castle.
This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
*Items are located at PH:LF:Kipling, R., unless otherwise indicated.
Item List
| Container | Accession / P No. | Description |
| * | P1 | Photographic postcard of Kipling as a young man, standing, leaning against a chair. |
| * | P2 | Photographic postcard of Kipling as a young man, standing, holding cigarette, wearing a straw boater. |
| * | P3A-P3B | 3/4 right profile bust cabinet card portrait of Kipling; P3B is a copy print of P3A. |
| * | P4 | 3/4 left profile bust portrait of Kipling. |
| * | P8 | Photographic collage of Kipling, in a straw boater, standing among a group of Japanese children. |
| * | P10 | Photographic postcards of Kipling on horseback. |
| * | P11 | Photomontage postcard of Kipling on horseback (same image as above) and a woman on horseback beside him. |
| * | P12 | Copy print of an earlier photograph of Kipling in a straw boater seated on the deck of a ship, talking to a group of children. |
| * | P13 | Photographic print of what appears to be Florence MacDonald speaking at the unveiling of a plaque honoring the Rev. George Browne MacDonald (Kipling's maternal grandfather) and his family, mounted on the chapel of the Wesleyan Methodist Church; participants and/or spectators seated in front and to her right, 1938. |
| * | P14 | 3/4 left profile bust portrait of John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard Kipling's father). |
| * | P15-P16 | Copy prints of 2 different portraits of Alice Kipling (Rudyard Kipling's mother) in middle age; both were made from half-tone reproductions of earlier photographs. |
| * | P17 | Photograph of a plaque honoring the Rev. George Browne MacDonald (Kipling's maternal grandfather) and his family, mounted on the chapel of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. |
| * | P18A-P18E | 4 variant snapshots of Kipling's house Bateman's; 1 snapshot of an unidentified man standing in front of the house in which Joseph Kipling was born. |
| * | P19 | Snapshot of Rudyard Lake Garage. |
| * | P20A-P20C | 3 variant snapshots of the gravestone of Rev. Joseph Kipling, paternal grandfather of Rudyard Kipling; an unidentified man appears in P20A, and an unidentified woman appears in P20B. |
| * | P35 | Copy print of an 1876 carte-de-visite portrait by J. Craddock of an unidentified bearded man. |
| * | P36 | Copy print of a full-length portrait of Kipling and his wife Caroline. |
| * | P37 | Copy print of a half-tone reproduction of an earlier photographic bust profile portrait of an unidentified woman. |
| * | P38 | Candid portrait of a little girl (one of Kipling's daughters?) sitting in an armchair. |
| * | P39 | Portrait of an unidentified man and woman in which the man stands behind the woman who is seated. |
| * | P40 | Copy print of a portrait painting by Tamara de Lempicka of a woman reading a book. |
| * | P41 | Copy print of a half-tone reproduction of an earlier half-length profile photographic portrait of an unidentified woman. |
| * | P43 | Copy print of a half-tone reproduction of an earlier photographic bust portrait of an unidentified woman. |
| * | P44 | Copy print of an earlier photographic bust portrait of an unidentified woman. |
| * | P45A-P45B | 2 copy prints of an earlier photographic full-length portrait of an unidentified woman standing next to a table, holding a book. |
| * | P46 | Bust portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a white hat. |
| * | P47 | Full-length portrait of an unidentified woman standing next to a table with her left hand resting on a book. |
| * | P48 | Half-length portrait of a seated unidentified old woman. |
| * | P50 | Snapshot of a church and cemetery, location unknown. |
| * | 997:0079:0058 | Copy print of the title page of an edition of Kipling's Just So Stories with a dedication by the author. |
| * | 997:0105:0627-0628 | 2 snapshots of a mountainside and a mountain village, locations unknown. |
| * | 997:0105:0629-0631 | 3 snapshots, glued to a single page, of various street scenes in the village of Burwash. |
| * | 997:0105:0632-0634 | 3 snapshots of mountain scenery, identified (top to bottom) as: "Near the Cilician Gates Waterfall," "in the heart of the Taurus," and "snow on the Kara Dagh in Summer"; in the bottom picture are a man (Kipling?) and his driver in an early convertible car. |
| PH:LF:Albums:Kipling, R. | 957:0098:0001-0031 | Small gray cardboard "Hawkeye Album" with 30 mounted items (14 photographic prints, 15 photographic postcards, and 1 photomechanical postcard, colored) and 1 photographic postcard laid in; hand lettered label adhered to cover: "R. Kipling. / 'Bateman's' Burwash. / Bodiam Castle. / Hurstmonceux [sic]. / Beachy Head / Sussex"; label adhered to inside of back cover printed "Captain V. Bateson / R.A.M.C." (14 negatives removed to Nitrate Vault.) |
| PH:LF:OV Box, Large | P5 | 3/4 left profile portrait of Kipling. |
| PH:LF:OV Box, Large | P6 | Reproduction of drawing by Sir Philip Burne-Jones of Kipling seated at desk, writing; mounted facsimile signature below photograph. |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P1 | Glass negative for P1. |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P7 | Glass negative of a painting of Kipling (bust 3/4 right profile). |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P8 | Glass copy negative of P8. |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P9 | Glass copy negative of the group of children used for photocollage P8. |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P15-P16 | Glass negatives for P15-P16. |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P35-P37 | Glass negatives for P35-P37. |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P42-P43 | Glass negatives for P42-P43. |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P49 | Glass copy negative of a cabinet card portrait by J. Burke of an unidentified woman (no print available). |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P52 | Glass copy negative of a photographic bust portrait of an unidentified woman (no print available). |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P53 | Glass copy negative of a photographic view of the front of Bateman's (no print available). |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P54 | Glass negative of a view through leafless trees of a river, a village behind, and a castle in the distance (no print available). |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P55 | Glass copy negative of a cabinet card full-length portrait by Bourne & Shepherd of 2 men, one seated and one standing (no print available). |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P56 | Glass copy negative of a carte-de-visite portrait by Lindley & Warren, dated 14 September 1866, of a woman holding a baby on her lap (Kipling and his mother?) (no print available). |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | P57 | Glass negative of a statue of 2 men in top hats, carrying sacks, titled "Chancery Lane" (no print available). |
| NV:LF Boxes | P20A-P20H | 8 variant nitrate negatives of the gravestone of Rev. Joseph Kipling (no prints available). |
| NV:LF Boxes | P21-P23 | 3 variant nitrate negatives of the gravestone of Rev. Joseph Kipling (no prints available). |
| NV:LF Boxes | P24 | 1 nitrate negative of the grave of Joseph Kipling Rowling and his wife Hannah. |
| NV:LF Boxes | P25-P27 | 3 variant nitrate negatives of a group of people, all badly out of focus (no prints available). |
| NV:LF Boxes | P28 | 1 nitrate negative of a woman sitting on a bench next to a World War I memorial (no print available). |
| NV:LF Boxes | P29 | 1 nitrate negative of a countryside church, location unknown (no print available). |
| NV:LF Boxes | P30 | 1 nitrate negative of a stone country house, location unknown (no print available). |
| NV:LF Boxes | P31 | 1 nitrate negative of the facade of Kipling's house, Bateman's. |
| NV:LF Boxes | P32 | 1 nitrate negative of an iron fence (at Bateman's?) (no print available). |
| NV:LF Boxes | P33A-P33B | 2 variant nitrate negatives of the gravestone of Jane Frances Kipling and Ruth Mary Kipling Dryden (no prints available). |
| NV:LF Boxes | P58-P66 | 9 variant nitrate negatives of graves (no prints available). |
| NV:LF Boxes | 957:0098:0003-0004, 0012-0022, 0032 | 14 nitrate negatives removed from album; same accession numbers correspond to photographic prints in album (negative 957:0098:0021 corresponds to prints 957:0098:0021 and 957:0098:0023; no print available for 957:0098:0032). |
Index of Photographers
Bourne & Shepherd--P1
Bray & Son--P17
Commercial Graphic Co.--P13
Elliott & Fry--P3A
Haines, Reginald--P2
(Last modified: 11 February 2008)
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