Edward Dahlberg, 1900-1977
Literary File, Photography Collection
36 items
Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Susan McClellan and Mary Foster, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents
The Edward Dahlberg Literary File consists of 36 photographs, including several portraits of Dahlberg. 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in the repository.This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
*Items are located at PH:LF:Dahlberg, E., unless otherwise indicated.
Item List
| Container | Accession / P No. | Description |
| * | P1 | Copy print of a circa 1940 photographic portrait by Berenice Abbott of Dahlberg (same image as 985:0009:0010; with 8"x10" copy negative). |
| * | P2 | Copy print of an annotated page from a yearbook(?) of a group portrait of the 1917 class of the Jewish Orphan Asylum, Cleveland, Ohio (with 8"x10" copy negative). |
| * | P3 | Copy print of an exterior view of Dahlberg's apartment building on McGee Street, Kansas City, Missouri (with 8"x10" copy negative). |
| * | P5A-P5I | 9 informal portraits of Dahlberg, 1967-1968. |
| * | P7 | Dahlberg and "Julia" (Lawlor, his last wife?) seated at a dinner table, 1968. |
| * | P8 | Dahlberg, "Julia" (Lawlor, his last wife?), and an unidentified woman at a party, 1968 (taken on the same occasion as P9). |
| * | P9 | Dahlberg and "Herbert" at a party, 1968 (taken on the same occasion as P8). |
| * | P10 | Photographic reproduction of a list of 38 names with dates entitled "Greetings from Chicago" (with 8"x10" copy negative). |
| * | P12 | Microfilm (negative image) of the front page of the New York Times from Sunday, 9 April 1933. |
| * | P13A-P13B | Images of stacks of manuscripts used as illustrations for Harold Billings' A Bibliography of Edward Dahlberg. |
| * | 985:0009:0001 | Copy print of a 1932 photographic portrait by Johan Hagemeyer of Dahlberg in Carmel, California. |
| * | 985:0009:0002 | Photographic print identified by inscription on verso as: "Rome Hieroglyph 1963: / Homage to Edward Dahlberg / Aaron Siskind." |
| * | 985:0009:0003 | View of the Germicide Barber Shop; mounted, with signed presentation on mount verso to "Jonathan" from "Gene" [i.e. Eugene Meatyard]. |
| * | 985:0009:0004 | Photograph of 3 children playing in a rubble-strewn, vacant lot. |
| * | 985:0009:0005 | Portrait of Dahlberg, 1968 (enlargement of P5E). |
| * | 985:0009:0006 | View of the Jewish Orphan Asylum, Cleveland, Ohio. |
| * | 985:0009:0007 | Group portrait of the 1917 class of the Jewish Orphan Asylum, Cleveland, Ohio (cropped version of P2). |
| * | 985:0009:0008 | Exterior view of Dahlberg's apartment building on McGee St., Kansas City, Missouri (same image as P3). |
| * | 985:0009:0009 | Photograph of a bust sculpture by Aubrey Schwartz of Dahlberg. |
| * | 985:0009:0010 | Copy print of a circa 1940 photographic portrait by Berenice Abbott of Dahlberg (same image as P1). |
| * | 985:0009:0011 | Photo collage with signed presentation to Dahlberg from Nicholas Dean, 15 September 1961. |
| * | 997:0105:0230 | Snapshot of Dahlberg, removed from the author's copy of Because I Was Flesh. |
| PH:LF:OV Box, Large | 985:0009:0012 | View of an industrial facility on a canal; inscribed below image: "Chi. LA #82"; signed: "Art Sinsabaugh '64"; mounted on board, with tissue cover sheet indicating cropping and page numbering; handwritten on mount verso: "To Jonathan / for Dahlberg / May he learn to understand photography." |
Index of Photographers
Cato, Bob--985:0009:0009
Dean, Nicholas--985:0009:0011
Gotfryd, Bernard--P5A-P5I, P7, possibly P8-P9, 985:0009:0005
Kalisher, Simpson--985:0009:0004
Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972--985:0009:0003
Sinsabaugh, Art, 1924- --985:0009:0012
Siskind, Aaron--985:0009:0002
(Last modified: 13 July 2007)
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