Call Number:

PH-02858

Collection Name:

Tennessee Williams Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

2117 items

Span Dates:

circa 1880-1970s

Description:

The Tennessee Williams Literary File consists of 2,117 items, including black-and-white prints, negatives, and contact sheets, color prints and transparencies, two tintypes, and some clippings. The images include portraits of Williams, his father Cornelius Williams, his mother Edwina Dakin, his brother Walter "Dakin" Williams, his sister Rose Isabel Williams, his maternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dakin, and various friends and associates. There are also numerous images of both stage and screen productions of his plays, as indicated by the list below, including photos of the stage productions, film stills, promotional images, portraits of the actors, and photos of the movie sets including the directors and Williams. These prints of stage and film productions include images of many famous actors, including Tallulah Bankhead, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, Vivien Leigh, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Elizabeth Taylor. Prints and negatives are all black-and-white unless otherwise noted. Access prints made by the HRC are available for all negatives without corresponding vintage prints.

Please consult finding aid for more detailed information and to page materials to the Reading and Viewing Room.

Further descriptions of some items may be available in a card catalog in the repository.

This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

Access Restrictions:

Negatives cannot be paged to the Reading and Viewing Room without curatorial permission. For additional information, please contact the Curator of Photography.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00614

Location(s):

Lit File OV Box, Medium (997:0043:0040)
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Lit File OV Box, Small (P38; 984:0022:0001)
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Williams, T., Lit File Album 1 (957:0099:0001-00633)
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Williams, T., Lit File Boxes 1-24
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Curatorial permission required Cold Storage (Vintage nitrate negatives)
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See Also:

Tennessee Williams Art Collection: Associated artworks are located in the Tennessee Williams Art Collection (AR-00299).

Tennessee Williams Collection: Associated manuscript materials, from which these photographs were likely transferred, are located in the Tennessee Williams Collection (MS-04535).