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Record Detail

Call Number:

PH-02686

Collection Name:

Ernest Hemingway Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Abbott Bros.

Arnold (Photographer in Oak Park, Illinois)

Foto Mantel

Hemingway, Ernest (1899 - 1961)

Luck, Constantin

Man Ray, 1890-1976 (1890 - 1976)

Monfort Studios

Walinger

No. of Items:

1500 items

Span Dates:

1896-1956

Description:

The Ernest Hemingway Literary File consists of over 1500 images, chiefly of Ernest’s childhood and family members (siblings, parents, grandparents, and siblings’ spouses and children), and of his parents’ travels in the United States and Cuba. Formats include cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, matted and unmatted formal portraits, snapshots, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, glass negatives and positive transparencies, and a nitrate negative. Most of the snapshots were made by Ernest’s father, Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway.

Access Restrictions:

Curatorial permission, plus advance notice, is required to access the negatives and glass plate positive in this collection. To make an appointment, please contact Reading and Viewing Room staff.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01234

Location(s):

Lit File Cased Items Box 3 (daguerreotypes and tintypes 975:0089:0001-0039; 997:0043:0012)
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G-K Lit File OV Box, Medium (P16, P23)
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G-H Lit File OV Box, Large (P24)
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Hemingway, E., Lit File Boxes 1-5
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Hemingway, E., Lit File Boxes 6-8
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Curatorial permission required Lit File Cabinet Storage (glass negative)
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Curatorial permission required Lit File Cabinet Storage (glass positive)
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Curatorial permission required Cold Storage Lit File Boxes (1 nitrate negative)
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Item(s):

1024838 -- . [Family Portrait with Ernest Hemingway as a Baby], 1900-1901. Gelatin silver print, .

975:0089:0013 -- unidentified photographer. [Charles Hancock], circa 1860-1880s. Tintype in case, .

997:0043:0012 -- unidentified photographer. [Alexander Hancock], ca. 1840s-1860s. Daguerreotypes, 11 x 8.4 cm ; 4 3/10 x 3 3/10 in .

P12 -- unidentified photographer. [Ernest Hemingway and His Siblings Marcelline, Ursula, Madelaine "Sunny", Carol, and Leicester], 1915 October 1. Gelatin silver print, .

P24 -- Man Ray, 1890-1976 (1890 - 1976). [Hadley Richardson Hemingway], likely 1920s. Gelatin silver print, .

P3 -- unidentified photographer. [Ernest Hemingway in Uniform], 1917-1918. Gelatin silver print, .

P5 -- Hemingway, Ernest (1899 - 1961); unidentified photographer. [Ernest Hemingway in Uniform], 1917-1918, rephotographed later. Gelatin silver print (copy print), .

P9 -- unidentified photographer. [Ernest Hemingway on the Lap of His Mother, Grace Hall Hemingway], 1900. Gelatin silver print, .

See Also:

Ernest Hemingway Collection

Ernest Hemingway Art Collection

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