John Steinbeck, 1902-1968
Literary File, Photography Collection
68 items (1 box)
Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Susan McClellan, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents
The John Steinbeck Literary File consists of 68 photographic prints, including portraits of Steinbeck alone, with his third wife Elaine in various places, and at the 1962 Nobel Prize festivities in Sweden. There are also movie stills from productions based on Steinbeck's works, including East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath. 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in the repository.This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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:Steinbeck, J., Box.
Item List
| Accession / P No. | Description |
| P1 | Photographic reproduction of a painting of Steinbeck by Stjernstrom. |
| P3 | Image of Steinbeck in Rome, 1954. |
| P4 | Image of Steinbeck in Florence, 1957. |
| P5-P7 | Images of Steinbeck in Poland, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, 1963. |
| P8 | Publicity photograph of Steinbeck, 1965. |
| P9 | Portrait of Steinbeck. |
| P11A-P11C | Photographic reproductions of a bronze bust of Steinbeck. |
| P12 | Image of Steinbeck at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1963. |
| P13-P14 | Images of Steinbeck in Poland, 1963. |
| P15 | Image of Steinbeck with an officer on board a ship, 1957. |
| P16-P17 | Images of Steinbeck with Elaine and others in Venice. |
| P18-P22 | Images of Steinbeck with Elaine and others in the Soviet Union, Poland, Germany, and Finland, 1963. |
| P23 | Image of Steinbeck with Elaine walking into a banquet hall, 1963. |
| P24 | Image of Steinbeck with Elaine at a dinner in Bangkok, 1967. |
| P25 | Image of Steinbeck with Elaine and Elia Kazan and his wife at the East of Eden premiere, 1955. |
| P26-P29 | Images of Steinbeck with various people at the Nobel Prize festivities in Stockholm, Sweden, 1962. |
| P30-P32 | Images of Steinbeck with various authors, 1963. |
| P33-P34 | Images of Steinbeck at formal dinners in the Soviet Union, 1947. |
| P35-P39 | Images of Steinbeck with unidentified people in Poland, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, 1963. |
| P40 | Image of Steinbeck with an unidentified man in the Soviet Union, 1947. |
| P41 | Image of Steinbeck with an unidentified man outside of a house in Northern Ireland, 1952. |
| P43A-P43B | Images of cakes made to look like Italian editions of Steinbeck's works, 1954. |
| P44A-P44R | Movie stills from productions based on Steinbeck's works, including The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Viva Zapata! , 1939-1955. |
| P45 | Image of Elaine Steinbeck. |
| P46A-P46B | Images of Nelson Valjean, author of John Steinbeck. |
| P47A-P47C | Images of Nelson Valjean with Adrian Goldstone, Maurice Dunbar, and Norman Carlson. |
| P48 | Image of Elaine Steinbeck and Steinbeck's literary editor Elizabeth R. Otis, 1976. |
Index of Photographers
Ball State University--P48
Baracz, Piotr--P5, P13, P37-P38
Drankowski, Tadeusz--P35
Dunbar, Maurice, 1928- --P45, P46A-P46B, P47A, P47C
Farabola, G.--P4
Foto Ferruzzi--P16-P17
Frissell, Toni, 1907-1988--P9
Keleti, Eva, 1931- --P6, P36
Ksiazek, Wieslaw--P14
Marchiori (Florence, Italy)--P4, P43A
MCA Inc.--P44C
Pressebild Schubert--P12, P21, P32
Saarinen (Helsinki, Finland)--P23
Svenskt Pressfoto--P26, P28
Text & Bilder--P29
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation--P44A-P44B, P44F-P44J, P44L-P44M, P44P, P44R
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)--P44K, P44Q
(Last modified: 18 June 2007)
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