Call Number:

PH-02776

Collection Name:

Morris Leopold Ernst Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

114 items

Span Dates:

circa 1910s-1970

Description:

The Morris Leopold Ernst Literary File consists of 114 photographs, the majority of which are portraits of Ernst and his family, which included his wife Margaret "Maggie" Samuels Ernst; their daughter Constance "Connie" Bessie and her children Nicholas "Nick" and Katherine "Kathy" Bessie; their son Roger, his wife Jean, and their children Debbie and David; and their daughter Joan Dauman and her daughter Stephanie "Steffie" Goldstein. Also pictured are associates of Ernst's law firm, Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst (GW&E), including partner Herbert A. Wolff and Ernst's longtime secretary Paula Gross. Others represented in the file include Louis D. Brandeis, Heywood Broun, Arthur J. Brown, Edna Ferber, Malcolm A. Hoffman, Hubert Humphrey, James Joyce, Louis Lochner, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Andrew R. Tyler. There are also a few snapshots of Ernst at his favorite pastime, sailing, and one of Ernst's birthplace in Uniontown, Alabama. An index at the end of this guide lists commercial photographers whose work is featured in this file. This index only includes works which specifically credit a photographer and thus is not an exhaustive list.

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00304

Location(s):

Ernst, M.L., Lit File Album 1 (984:0010:0001-0015)
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Ernst, M.L., Lit File Album 2 (984:0010:0030-0040)
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Lit File OV Box, Large (P30-P32, P37, P39)
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Ernst, M.L., Lit File Box (P1-P23, P25-P28, P33-P36, P38, P40-P42; 984:0010:0016-0020, 0022-0029; 988:0121:0001-0031; 999:0036:0025)
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See Also:

Morris Leopold Ernst Papers