Call Number:

PH-02686

Collection Name:

Ernest Hemingway Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

1500 items

Span Dates:

1896-1956

Description:

The Ernest Hemingway Literary File consists of over 1500 images, chiefly of Ernest’s childhood and family members (siblings, parents, grandparents, and siblings’ spouses and children), and of his parents’ travels in the United States and Cuba. Formats include cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, matted and unmatted formal portraits, snapshots, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, glass negatives and positive transparencies, and a nitrate negative. Most of the snapshots were made by Ernest’s father, Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway.

Access Restrictions:

Curatorial permission, plus advance notice, is required to access the negatives and glass plate positive in this collection. To make an appointment, please contact Reading and Viewing Room staff.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01234

Location(s):

Lit File Cased Items Box 3 (daguerreotypes and tintypes 975:0089:0001-0039; 997:0043:0012)
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G-K Lit File OV Box, Medium (P16, P23)
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G-H Lit File OV Box, Large (P24)
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Hemingway, E., Lit File Boxes 1-5
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Hemingway, E., Lit File Boxes 6-8
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Curatorial permission required Lit File Cabinet Storage (glass negative)
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Curatorial permission required Lit File Cabinet Storage (glass positive)
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Curatorial permission required Cold Storage Lit File Boxes (1 nitrate negative)
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See Also:

Ernest Hemingway Collection

Ernest Hemingway Art Collection