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Record Detail


Call Number:

PH-02973

Collection Name:

Kenneth Patchen Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Dunkin, Ronald

Kessler, Chester (1925/6 - 1979)

Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972 (1911 - 1972)

Penn, Irving, 1917-2009 (1917 - )

Pope, E. Donnell

Redl, Harry (1926 - )

No. of Items:

153 photographs (1 box)

Span Dates:

1940s-1960s, undated

Description:

The collection consists of 153 photographs of and related to novelist and poet Kenneth Patchen (American, 1911-1972). Included are formal and informal portraits of Patchen and his wife, Miriam, images of their house in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and photographic reproductions of some of his prints and manuscripts. Also included is a snapshot of Patchen with Allen Ginsberg and a small album containing four photographs his home in Connecticut.

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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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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 advance notice and curatorial permission. For additional information, please contact the Curator of Photography.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01322

Location(s):

Lit FIle OV Box Small (957:0144:0001-0002)
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Patchen, K., Lit File Album 1 (957:0145:0001-0004)
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Patchen, K., Lit File Box 1 (P2-P13, P15-P65, P122-P143, P148-P153)
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Curatorial permission required Cold Storage (P66-P121)
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See Also:

Kenneth Patchen Collection: Related manuscript materials can be found in the Kenneth Patchen Collection (MS-03184).


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