Photography Collections Database

Record Detail

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Call Number:

PH-02855

Collection Name:

James F. Drake, Inc. Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Bogardus, A. (Abraham) (1822 - 1908)

Dickinson Bros. & Foster

Elliott & Fry

Hoffert, W., fl. ca. 1880s-1890s

James F. Drake, Inc. (1911 - 1965)

Mill, Ernst H.

Pach Brothers

Parker, Charles

Sarony, Napoleon (1821 - 1896)

Warren, George Kendall (1824 - 1884)

No. of Items:

35 items

Span Dates:

circa 1880-1950, undated

Description:

The James F. Drake, Inc. Literary File consists of 35 photographs, including several cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite, and six diacetate or nitrate negatives. The firm of James F. Drake, Inc. was established in 1911 by James Frederick Drake (1863-1933) for the sale of rare books and manuscripts. The bulk of the images in the file are portraits of various people, including John Burroughs, Bret Harte, Henry Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Mark Twain.

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Further descriptions of some items may be available in a card catalog in the repository.

This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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=01482

Location(s):

James F. Drake, Inc. Lit File
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See Also:

James F. Drake, Inc. Collection