Eugene Walter, 1921-
Literary File, Photography Collection
77 items
Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Susan McClellan, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents
The Eugene Walter Literary File consists of 77 items, the majority of which depict Princess Marguerite Caetani (née Chapin), founder of the multinational literary journal Botteghe Oscure, and her family. 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in the repository.This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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 LF:Walter, E.
Item List
| Accession / P No. | Description |
| P1A-P1B | Images of Walter, Marguerite Caetani, and Donna E. Quaranta at Ninfa; P1A dated 1957 on verso. |
| P2, P3A-P3B, P4A-P4B, P5, P6A-P6F, P7, P8A-P8B, P9, P10A-P10F | Portraits of Marguerite Caetani in various places, including Paris (P2, P3A-P3B), Ninfa (P5, P6A-P6F, P7), and Rome (P8A-P8B, P9), circa 1900-circa 1957. |
| P11 | Portrait of Marguerite Caetani and her daughter Lelia at Villa Romaine, Versailles, circa 1913. |
| P12A-P12B | Images of Marguerite Caetani and her daughter Lelia at Ninfa. |
| P13 | Portrait of Marguerite Caetani and her husband Roffredo in Oberengadiner, Switzerland. |
| P14A-P14B | Portraits of Lelia with her parents Marguerite and Roffredo on her wedding day. |
| P15A-P15B, P16A-P16B | Images of Marguerite Caetani with unidentified people at Sils-Maria, Oberengadiner, Switzerland, circa 1902-circa 1904. |
| P17 | Images of Marguerite Caetani with a dog at Ninfa (contact print of 3 frames of 35mm film). |
| P18A-P18D | Portraits of Marguerite Caetani with a dog in Switzerland; "after the war" inscribed on verso of P18D. |
| P19 | Portrait of Lelia as a girl with her father Roffredo Caetani and a dog at Villa Romaine, Versailles, circa 1920s. |
| P20A-P20C | Portraits of Camillo Caetani (Marguerite Caetani's son) as a young man. |
| P21 | Portrait of three men identified as the "Princes Caetani" on verso. |
| P22A-P22B, P23 | Portraits of Lelia Caetani as a young woman. |
| P24, P25A-P25B, P26-P27 | Portraits of Lelia Caetani, her husband Hubert Howard, her father Roffredo Caetani, and an unidentified boy on her wedding day. |
| P28A-P28B | Images of Cornelia Van A. Chapin, Marguerite Caetani's half sister, at work as a sculptor at the Vincennes Zoo, Paris, 1936 (P28A), and in New York(?) (P28B). |
| P29 | Image of the violinist Gioconda di Vita at Ninfa. |
| P30A-P30C | Views of and from the roof terrace of the Palazzo Caetani in Rome. |
| P31A-P31N | Views of Ninfa, some including Marguerite Caetani and others; P31M dated 1946 on verso. |
| P32A-P32C | Images of three sculptures (frog, bear, and turtle) by Cornelia Van A. Chapin. |
| 2002:0018:0001 | Image of Marguerite Chapin with an unidentified man (same image as P15B); inscribed on verso: "just before / or during W.W.I. / at Sils-Maria, / Oberengadiner, / Switzerland." |
| 2002:0018:0002 | Portrait of Marguerite Caetani. |
Index of Photographers
Bosio, Gastone--P1A-P1B, P31N
Eisenstaedt, Alfred--P28B, P32A, P32C
Foto Vasari--P31M
Poplin, Maurice--P28A
Senigallia, Elaine--P8A-P8B, P9
Sprague, Jane--P6A-P6F, P7
(Last modified: 27 June 2007)
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