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Record Detail


Call Number:

PH-02886

Collection Name:

Edgar Lee Masters Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (1922 - )

Associated Press

Bachrach, Fabian (1917 - 2010)

Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton) (1848 - 1893)

Black, Stuart

Flaccus, Kimball (1911 - 1972)

Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 (1869 - 1942)

Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 (1869 - 1950)

Moffett Studio

Smith & Morton (Kansas City, Mo.)

No. of Items:

1,075 items (7 boxes)

Description:

The collection consists of approximately 1,075 items, including portraits of Edgar Lee Masters throughout his life, both alone and with others, as well as portraits of his wives Helen Jenkins and Ellen Coyne, mistresses Tennessee Mitchell and Lillian Wilson, parents, siblings, children, grandchildren, and other family members. There are also portraits of various other people and views of houses and places pertaining to Masters, including Petersburg and Lewistown, Ill.

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Access Restrictions:

Negatives cannot be paged to the Reading and Viewing Room without curatorial permission. For additional information, please contact the Curator of Photography.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01500

Location(s):

Masters, E.L., Lit File Album 1 (982:0020:0001-0170)
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Masters, E.L., Lit File Box 1 (P1-P70)
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See Also:

Edgar Lee Masters Collection: Associated manuscript materials, from which these photographs were likely transferred, are located in the Edgar Lee Masters Collection (MS-02710).


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