Collection Summary
Mackenzie, Compton, 1883-1972
Compton Mackenzie Literary File Photography
Collection
Circa 1855-1947
Photography Collection PH-02854
2615 items
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
The Compton Mackenzie Literary File
Photography Collection consists of 2,615 items, mostly portraits and photographs of
Mackenzie and his family.
English
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 2,615 items, the majority of which are
contained in 16 albums. Albums 1-8 contain chiefly portraits, almost all of which are
cabinet cards or cartes de visite, while Album 9 contains views of Egypt. Albums 10-15
depict Mackenzie, his wife Faith Stone, and others in various places from circa 1903 to
circa 1932. Finally, Album 16 contains studio portraits of Mackenzie and a panoramic group
portrait of a banquet in his honor signed by each guest. There are also numerous portraits
of Mackenzie throughout his life among the loose prints, as well as portraits of family
members and views of various places. An index at the end of this guide lists some of the
photographers whose work is featured in this collection. Further descriptions of some items are
available in a card catalog in the repository.
This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection, which is
comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary
figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
Acquisition:
Internal transfers
Access:
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Index Terms
People
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966.
Mackenzie, Compton, 1883-1972.
Hofbauer, Imre.
Subjects
Capri Island (Italy)--Pictorial works.
Egypt--Pictorial works.
Photography of art.
Travel photography--20th century--Pictorial
works.
Document Types
Albumen prints.
Ambrotypes.
Cartes de visite.
Ceramic photographs.
Drawings.
Engravings.
Photographic postcards.
Photographic prints.
Photogravures.
Preferred Citation
Compton Mackenzie Literary File Photography Collection (Photography Collection PH-02854).
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
Processed by:
HRC Staff
Related Material
The Harry Ransom Center holds additional Compton Mackenzie material in the manuscripts, art, and personal effects
collections.
Container List
Compton Mackenzie Literary File Photography Collection, circa 1855-1947
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 1
P1-P23
Portraits of Mackenzie as Phidippides in Aristophanes’ The Clouds (P1-P10),
as Gratiano in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (P11-P13), as the Duke of Milan in
Shakespeare’s Two Gentleman of Verona (P14-P21), and as a character whose name is
illegible (P22), all for the Oxford University Dramatic Society; portrait of a
middle-aged man (Mackenzie?) in (18th century?) costume (P23).
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 2
[unnumbered]
Chiefly portraits of Mackenzie, both alone and with others, including nine
variant portraits by Alvin Langdon Coburn (folder 2.11); 111 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 3.1-3.7
[unnumbered]
Portraits of Mackenzie, both alone and with others, including a plate from
Alvin Langdon Coburn's More Men of Mark; 67 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 3.8
[unnumbered]
Views of Holiday Haunt, most of which include a man (Harry Gall?) with two
dogs and a cat; 8 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 3.9
[unnumbered]
Portraits of Mackenzie talking to the Asian Club; 9 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 3.10-3.14
[unnumbered]
Portraits of members of the Bateman family, including Mackenzie’s mother
Virginia; 28 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 4
[unnumbered]
Portraits of Mackenzie’s wife Faith Stone and other members of Mackenzie’s
family, including his mother Virginia Bateman and father Edward Compton, his aunts
Ellen, Isabel, and Kate Bateman and Kate and Fay Compton, his brother Frank, and his
sisters Viola and Katie; 93 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 5.1-5.3
[unnumbered]
Views of various places including Italy, Greece, North Africa, and India,
from Mackenzie’s travels; 124 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 5.4
[unnumbered]
Views of three residences (in England or Scotland?) and images of
Mackenzie’s mother and several unidentified women, including five nuns; 11 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 5.5
[unnumbered]
Photographic reproductions of war-related art by Imre Hofbauer; 33 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 5.6
[unnumbered]
Views of war cemeteries in Italy and Greece; 36 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 6
[unnumbered]
Chiefly portraits of various people; 83 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 7.1-7.14
[unnumbered]
Views of Capri, Jethou, and other places; 81 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 7.15
[unnumbered]
Views (5 hand-tinted engravings and 1 photomechanical print) of places in
England, including Cothelstone House, Wells Palace, and Dundry Tower in Somersetshire;
6 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 7.16
[unnumbered]
View of the altar of a Gothic church and a photographic reproduction of a
17th century Italian painting of a young woman; 2 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 7.17
[unnumbered]
Photographic reproduction of a drawing of a young woman (likeness of
Mackenzie’s mother?) selling newspapers.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 7.18
[unnumbered]
Individual portraits of Mackenzie’s parents in costume, printed on one
sheet.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 7.19
[unnumbered]
Group portrait of Mackenzie’s parents and brother Frank (as a baby) with
Alice Burton, all in costume.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 7.20
[unnumbered]
Individual portraits of two women, one signed Adelaide Neilson and the other
Auriol(?); 2 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 8
[unnumbered]
Cabinet card holders and original envelopes.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 9.1-9.7
[unnumbered]
Portraits (chiefly cabinet cards) of various people, including members of
Mackenzie’s family; 112 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 9.8-9.9
[unnumbered]
Postcards depicting France, Greece, Poland, and other places; 64 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 10.1-10.9
[unnumbered]
Images (chiefly portraits) removed from frames; 10 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 10.10
[unnumbered]
Portraits of Mackenzie’s father Edward Compton and paternal grandparents
(?); 13 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 10.11
[unnumbered]
Portraits of Mackenzie’s mother Virginia Bateman, her sister Isabel, and
other Bateman family members; 3 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 10.12
[unnumbered]
Portrait of Mackenzie’s brother Frank Compton.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 10.13-10.23
[unnumbered]
Portraits of Mackenzie; 18 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 10.24-10.25
[unnumbered]
Group portraits with Mackenzie, including original envelopes with
handwritten notes; 2 items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. Box 10.26-10.27
988:0035:0001-0010, 997:0105:0238
Materials withdrawn from books in the Compton Mackenzie Collection; 11
items.
PH:LF: Mackenzie, C. OV Box 1
957:0034:0001-0008
Three portraits of Mackenzie, a group portrait with Mackenzie, a portrait of
Mackenzie’s wife Faith Stone with her father, three portraits in a booklet of Mackenzie’s brother
Frank Compton in character, a portrait of Mackenzie’s aunt Kate Bateman (Mrs. Crowe)
with his great grandfather Joseph Cowell (Whitshed / real name), and a portrait of a
middle-aged man with illegible signature, dated 23 December 1931; 10 items.
PH:LF OV Box, Medium
957:0034:0009
Portrait (photogravure) of Mackenzie’s aunt Kate Josephine Bateman.
PH:LF: OV Box 2
957:0034:00010-0021
Seven portraits of Mackenzie, two group portraits with Mackenzie, an
interior and an exterior view of Mackenzie’s residence at 31 Drummond Place, and a
portrait of the Maharaja of Nepal dated 1947; 12 items.
PH:LF: OV Box 3
957:0034:0022
One portrait of an unidentified young man gazing upward, matted in white and in an oval wooden frame; 1 item.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 1
958:0023:0074 assigned to entire
album
16 cabinet cards and 59 cartes de visite in an album designed for these
formats; 75 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 2
[unnumbered]
27 cartes de visite and 4 cabinet cards in an album designed for these formats,
plus 6 loose cabinet cards housed separately; chiefly studio portraits but also views
of various places and art reproductions; 37 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 3
[unnumbered]
Album including cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and miniatures, dated 1873 in an
inscription on the first page; 128 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 4
[unnumbered]
174 cartes de visite and 8 cabinet cards in an album designed for these
formats; 182 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 5
[unnumbered]
Cartes de visite in folding album designed for this format; 12 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 6
[unnumbered]
15 cartes de visite; 1 portrait partially hand-tinted; Bateman family
pictures inscribed on verso of front free endpaper; 16 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 7
[unnumbered]
Album including 22 cabinet cards and 51 cartes de visite; presented to
Edward Compton (Compton Mackenzie's father) by his brother Percy, Birmingham, 9
December 1876; 73 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 8
[unnumbered]
Album including photographic prints, 2 cartes de visite; chiefly portraits;
handwritten captions for 6 items; 25 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 9
958:0023:0221 assigned to entire
album
Album including photographic prints of views of Egypt; handwritten captions
for all; 17 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 10
[was P24]
Album including various formats (photographic prints, black-and-white snapshots, 1
halftone color postcard, 6 drawings) depicting Mackenzie and others in England (mainly
Burford) circa 1903-1907 and Italy (?) circa 1916; most with handwritten captions; also
several newspaper clippings and theater programs; 1 item almost completely torn out
(not counted); 169 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 11
[was P25]
Album including various formats (photographic prints, black-and-white snapshots, 1
photogravure, 1 halftone print, 1 pencil sketch) depicting Mackenzie, his wife and
others, mainly in Capri but also in other places, circa 1914-1924; most with
handwritten captions; also 1 telegram; 1 item cut out of a page and 1 leaf torn out;
321 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 12
[unnumbered]
Album including various formats (177 black-and-white snapshots, 1 panoramic photograph, 1
photographic postcard, 2 drawings) depicting Mackenzie and others on the Isle of Herm
(in the Channel Islands), 1920-1923; several blank spaces where items had apparently
once been pasted in; 181 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 13
[was P26]
Album including photographic prints depicting Mackenzie and others in the
Channel Islands (Herm and Jethou) and Scotland, circa 1926-1928; 133 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 14
[was P27]
Album including various formats (photographic prints, black-and-white snapshots, 1 sketch
in color pencil) depicting visits by Mackenzie and his wife to the Channel Isles
(Jethou), the Shiant Islands, and Capri circa 1925-1930; handwritten captions for most
items; also 1 newspaper clipping; 2 items almost completely torn out (not counted) and
1 page partially cut out; 138 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 15
[unnumbered]
Album including various formats (photographic prints, black-and-white snapshots, 3
photographic postcards, 1 photomechanical postcard) depicting Mackenzie and others in
Scotland (Barra in the Western Isles, and Glasgow) circa 1920s and Poland circa 1932;
handwritten captions for only a few items; 91 items.
PH:LF: Albums: Mackenzie, C., 16
[unnumbered]
Portfolio of photographic prints; studio portraits of Mackenzie and 1
panoramic group portrait of a banquet in his honor signed by each guest; 14 items.
Lit File Cased Items Box 4
957:0024:0001-0013
Cased portraits (photoceramics, ambrotypes, hand-colored albumen prints)
containing mostly posed studio portraits of various men and women, circa 1855 to 1910;
13 items.
FC 01.04
957:0034:0023
Portrait of a young (French army?) officer in uniform, inscribed to
Mackenzie, 19 July 1917 (framed photographic print adhered to glass).
NV:LF
[unnumbered]
Views of a beach; 13 nitrate negatives.
Index of Photographers
- Bayfield, W. G.--957:0024:0006
- Bellingard, P. (Pierre), flourished circa 1890s--957:0024:0011
- Boxell & Co.--957:0024:0006
- Brinkley, John R.--10.21
- Chancellor, flourished circa 1890s--957:0024:0011; 10.10
- Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966--2.11, 3.3
- Cooper, A. C.--10.6
- Copperfield (London, England)--10.11
- Coster, Howard, 1885-1959--10.5, 10.16
- Cowen, George B.--10.10
- Elliott & Fry--10.10, Small OV Box
- Faulkner, Robert, 1823-1890--957:0024:0001-0003
- Foto Vaquero--10.23
- H. P. Robinson & Son--10.10
- Harrods Studio--10.19
- Henry Dixon & Son--10.10
- Hickling, Dorothy--10.15
- Hills & Saunders--P1-P22, 10.7
- Instead, Howard--10.20
- Kaye, Vernon--10.10
- Kelley, E., photographer--10.10
- L. P. E.--10.18
- Langfier--10.10
- Lawson & Co.--Small OV Box
- Lerner (Cordoba, Spain)--10.15, Small OV Box
- Naudin, C., flourished 1870s--957:0024:0006
- North, Peter, photographer--10.16
- Paterson, Andrew, photographer--10.17
- Rosher, Charles, 1885-1974--Small OV Box