Alice Corbin Henderson, 1881-1949
Literary File, Photography Collection
199 items (1 box)
Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Mary Foster and Susan McClellan, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents
The Alice Corbin Henderson Literary File consists of 199 photographs (188 photographic prints, 4 tintypes, 1 glass negative, and 6 nitrate negatives), many of which are portraits of Henderson, members of her family, and various friends and associates, including Harriet Tilden Brainerd, Witter Bynner, Robert Hunt, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Carl Sandburg. An index at the end of this guide lists photographers whose work is featured in this file.This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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:Henderson, A.C., Box, unless otherwise indicated.
Item List
| Container | Accession / P No. | Description |
| * | 988:0119:0001-0010 | Portraits of Henderson, circa 1885-1900. |
| * | 988:0119:0011-0014 | Portraits of Lula Carradine Corbin (Henderson's mother). |
| * | 988:0119:0015 | Tintype of Henderson at about age 10. |
| * | 988:0119:0016 | Tintype of Rosa Dunham, 1892. |
| * | 988:0119:0017-0034 | Portrait proofs of Henderson; accompanied by an envelope with Ansel Adams' return address, postmarked 1929. |
| * | 988:0119:0035-0043 | Portraits of Kate Brockenbrough and Sallie Ball, Rev. Beverly Carradine, J. G. Alinne(?), Margaret Corbin, Jack Richardson, and Alice Mallory Richardson (Henderson's relatives). |
| * | 988:0119:0044-0049 | Photographs of Henderson's cousins at Lake Bluff and Cobb's Island; the ruins of St. Johns; the Church of Virginia Beach; Alice and Samuel Richardson. |
| * | 988:0119:0050-0054 | Portraits of Alice and Samuel Richardson. |
| * | 988:0119:0055 | Invitation to the 20th Wedding Anniversary party of Samuel H. Richardson and Alice W. Mallory on a rectangular porcelain plate with a photographic portrait of them adhered to it; accompanied by a non-photographic invitation for their 15th Wedding Anniversary. |
| * | 988:0119:0056-0058 | Portraits of Harriet Tilden Brainerd (Mrs. William Vaughn Moody). |
| * | 988:0119:0059 | Tintype of Harriet Tilden Brainerd (Mrs. William Vaughn Moody) and two unidentified men. |
| * | 988:0119:0060 | Tintype of Harriet Tilden Brainerd (Mrs. William Vaughn Moody). |
| * | 988:0119:0062-0063 | Cartes-de-visite of Mary Brockenbrough and Charles O'Connor Mallory (Henderson's cousins) as young children. |
| * | 988:0119:0064-0067 | Snapshots of unidentified people (988:0119:0067 is a cyanotype); accompanied by an envelope inscribed: "Could be Sherrill, Rudolphe --?" |
| * | 988:0119:0068 | Group portrait at Lake Bluff. |
| * | 988:0119:0069-0073 | Snapshots including Henderson and others. |
| * | 988:0119:0074-0077 | Snapshots of Carl Sandburg in Santa Fe, N.M., 1921 and 1922. |
| * | 988:0119:0078-0080 | Small snapshots of Erwin Furman, Glenway Wescott, and Hardin Masters. |
| * | 988:0119:0082 | Photographic Christmas card from Natalie, Nancy, Letitia and Alice [Evans] at El Cuervo Ranch; accompanied by an envelope addressed to Mrs. F. M. Corbin, Kansas City, Mo., postmarked Santa Fe, N.M., 1933. |
| * | 988:0119:0083 | Photograph of Henderson posing with Tesuque Indians, Santa Fe, N.M. |
| * | 988:0119:0084-0088 | Portraits of Carl Sandburg. |
| * | 988:0119:0092 | Photographs of Carl Sandburg posing for his bust sculpture with the sculptor (Jo Davidson) at work, 1939; one original print (signed presentation from Davidson to Henderson) and three copies. |
| * | 988:0119:0096-0100 | Portraits of Witter Bynner and Robert Hunt. |
| * | 988:0119:0101-0107 | Photographic prints of "Davidson's Heads" (four images of a bust sculpture of Henderson[?], two of a bust sculpture of John Evans, and one of Evans and Jo Davidson posing with Evans' bust sculpture); from nitrate negatives (see 988:0119:0108-0112). |
| * | 988:0119:0113-0118 | Portraits of Henderson, circa 1890-1920. |
| * | 988:0119:0119-0128 | Nine portrait proofs of Henderson from two different sittings and one of an unidentified man (William P. Henderson?). Also, an unrelated newspaper clipping on Brown Lung and cotton dust in textile mills, with a handwritten notation to Alice (Corbin Henderson?) from Robert (Hunt?). |
| * | 988:0119:0129-0140 | Snapshots of a picnic, including men, children, and an elderly woman. |
| * | 988:0119:0141-0147 | Miscellaneous unidentified snapshots. |
| * | 988:0119:0148-0151 | Photographic postcards of the Arizona Biltmore hotel in Phoenix, and one group portrait (unidentified location; subjects partially identified on verso: "Surgeon Gen. Blue, Sir John Jordan, Congressman Porter, Mrs. Hamilton Wright, CHB, and E.L. Neville"). |
| * | 988:0119:0152-0170 | Snapshots of the Arizona Biltmore hotel in Phoenix, some kind of trail ride or stage coach re-enactment, and an unidentified young man with a horse. |
| * | 988:0119:0171-0190 | Copy prints of Mabel Dodge Luhan's family photographs (parents Charles and Mrs. Ganson, first husband Karl Evans, second husband Edward S. Dodge, son John Ganson Evans, and the Dodges' villa in Florence, Italy); inscriptions transcribed to verso of copy prints (most attributed to "MFGA"). |
| * | 988:0119:0191-0196 | Mabel Dodge Luhan's family photographs (Mrs. Ganson, John Evans, and Mabel Ganson); accompanied by a handwritten transcription of a poem by Arthur Guiterman and a typed letter, signed, and dated 1957, from Samuel R. Campbell, regarding the disposition of Mrs. Edgar L. Rossin's photographs. |
| * | 988:0119:0197-0203 | Exterior and interior views of the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Evans, Buffalo, N.Y. |
| * | 997:0079:0001 | Photographic postcard of a girl (Alice C. Henderson?) posing with a cat. |
| * | 998:0018:0001 | View of the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe, N.M. |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | 988:0119:0061 | Glass negative of Harriet Tilden Brainerd (Mrs. William Vaughn Moody). |
| NV:LF Boxes | 988:0119:0081 | Nitrate negative; accompanied by envelope with return address of Valentine Photographs, Taos, N.M., with handwritten note in first hand: "Mable House / Negative"; and "Spud Johnson" written in second hand. |
| NV:LF Boxes | 988:0119:0108-0112 | Nitrate negatives of "Davidson's Heads" (see 988:0119:0101-0107 for contact prints). |
Index of Photographers
Abbott, R. R., 1847-1888--988:0119:0058
Adams, Ansel, 1902- --988:0119:0017-0034
Alland, Alexander--988:0119:0092
Brand, E. L. (Edwin L.)--988:0119:0041
Buehrmann, Elizabeth, 1886-1962--988:0119:0088, 0118
Farsari & Co.--988:0119:0038
Fenn, Albert--988:0119:0083
Genelli Studio--988:0119:0001
Godfrey, William, fl. ca. 1890s--988:0119:0010
Hall, photographer--988:0119:0191
Hare, commercial photographer--988:0119:0101-0112, 0197-0203
Harrison (Chicago, Ill.)--988:0119:0002, 0113-0114
Harrison (Far Rockaway, N.Y.)--997:0079:0001
Larrabee, W. F. (William F.), b. 1841--988:0119:0045
Mosher, C. D. (Charles Delevan), 1829-1897--988:0119:0042-0043
Norman, Henry C., 1850-1913--988:0119:0037
Platz, Max--988:0119:0056
Richmond Photograph Co.--988:0119:0062
Scholten, J. A. (John A.), 1829-1886--988:0119:0011-0013, 0040, 0050-0051, 0053-0054
Sipprell, Francis J. (Francis James), 1878-1958--988:0119:0194
Smith, R. C., photographer--988:0119:0097
Taylor, J. H., photographer--988:0119:0084-0085
Thomson, D. P., fl. ca. 1870s-1880s--988:0119:0039
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964--988:0119:0098-0100
Walter's Art Gallery (Norfolk, Va.)--988:0119:0063
Weber, photographer--988:0119:0192-0193
Wolcott, Frank, photographer--988:0119:0117
(Last modified: 9 November 2007)
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