Katherine Mansfield, 1888-1923
Literary File, Photography Collection
513 items (5 boxes)
Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Susan McClellan, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents
The Katherine Mansfield Literary File consists of 513 items, the bulk of which are images of Mansfield, her husband John Middleton Murry, and other family members, as well as friends and associates, including Dorothy Brett, Marie Laurencin, D.H. and Frieda Lawrence, Lady Ottoline Morrell, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The file also contains views of places in New Zealand, England, France, Italy, and Switzerland that are associated with Mansfield. 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in the repository.This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
Item List
| Container | Accession / P No. | Description |
| PH:LF:Mansfield, K., Box 1 | P1-P6, P8-P9, P12-P33, P36-P38, P40-P68, P72-P92 | Chiefly images of Mansfield, family members, her husband John Middleton Murry, and various other people, including Dorothy Brett, Francis Carco, Marie Laurencin, D. H. and Frieda Lawrence, Lady Ottoline Morrell, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf, as well as places associated with Mansfield in New Zealand, England, France, Italy, and Switzerland. |
| PH:LF:Mansfield, K., Box 2 | 957:0057:0001-0100 | Images of Mansfield in various locations, including her home and schools in New Zealand, Queen's College (London, England), vacations in the Mediterranean, and the home of D. H. Lawrence. |
| PH:LF:Mansfield, K., Box 3 | 957:0057:0101-0148; 980:0109:0001-0002; 980:0165:0001-0040 | Images of Mansfield in various locations, including her home and schools in New Zealand, Queen's College (London, England), vacations in the Mediterranean, and the home of D. H. Lawrence. |
| PH:LF:Mansfield, K., Box 3 | 980:0109:0001-0002 | Images of Mansfield at Queen's College (London, England). |
| PH:LF:Mansfield, K., Box 3 | 980:0165:0001-0040 | Images of or pertaining to Mansfield collected by Ruth Elvish Mantz. |
| PH:LF:Mansfield, K., Box 4 | 980:0165:0041-0130 | Images of or pertaining to Mansfield collected by Ruth Elvish Mantz. |
| PH:LF:Mansfield, K., Box 5 | 980:0165:0131-0206, 0213-0218 | Images of or pertaining to Mansfield collected by Ruth Elvish Mantz. |
| PH:LF:OV Box, Small | 980:0165:0219-0221 | Group portraits of (middle school?) children dressed in costumes for a play or pageant, collected by Ruth Elvish Mantz. |
| PH:OV:053 | [unnumbered] | View of Mansfield's house, with handwritten note on mount verso: "K M's house - Hampstead Heath / taken from rear." Image approx. 16 x 26 cm., printed on paper approx. 32 x 38 cm. Handwritten, upper left of verso: "In this residence - 1918 - 21 / K.M. entertained D.H.L. de la Mare, Kot [?], Conrad Aikan, [illegible], Virginia Woolf, etc. - as 'silent' ed. of Athenaeum." Handwritten, upper right of verso: "East Heath Road - 2 Portland Villas / Now - late 1960's - dedicated with plaque to Katherine Mansfield." Stamped, center of verso: "Enlargement by EKS Eastman Kodak Stores / Nov 18 1936." |
| PH:LF:Albums:Mansfield, K. | 980:0165:0222-0264 | 43 photographic prints; chiefly portraits. |
| FC-01:DR-04 | P70-P71 | Views of Mansfield's gravestone at Protestant Cemetery, Avon-Fontainbleau, France (glass negatives). |
| FC-01:DR-04 | P93-P100 | Images of the place in France where Mansfield died marked with plaques by Les Amis de la Forêt, Le Syndicat d'Initiative, Fontainebleau, June 1939 (glass negatives). |
| FC-01:DR-04 | 980:0165:0207-0212 | Chiefly images of Mansfield's family(?) in New Zealand, collected by Ruth Elvish Mantz (glass negatives). |
| NV:LF Boxes | 957:0057:0148 | Nitrate negative of graphic image (same number assigned to corresponding photographic print). |
Index of Photographers
Agence Photographique Francaise--P92
Alban, Georges--P89
Baker, Ida--P1-P3, 957:0057:0010
Currie, Duncan--P44
Editions Aris--P90
Esparcieux, G.--P67-P68, P72-P78, P86-P88
Jones, J. W., fl. 1920s-1930s--957:0057:0095
Martin Drake Ltd.--P38, P91
(Last modified: 21 June 2007)
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