Eugene Field, 1850-1895
Literary File, Photography Collection
24 items
Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Susan McClellan and Mary Foster, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents
The Eugene Field literary file consists of 24 pictures, most of which are portraits of Field. An index at the end of this guide lists photographers whose work is featured in this file. Further descriptions of some items are available in a card catalog in the repository.This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
*All items are located at PH:LF:Field, E.
Item List
| Accession / P No. | Description |
| P1A-P1B | Reproduction of an engraving of Field with his signature (P1A) and an original engraving of the same image inscribed in pencil: "Collin Shackelford, / with Eugene Field's love. / April 4, 1891" (P1B). |
| P2 | Photogravure of Field with his facsimile signature (plate removed from a book). |
| P3 | Vignetted engraving by S. Hollyer of Field, with Hollyer's engraved signature and Field's facsimile signature. |
| P4 | Halftone print of a photographic portrait of Field. |
| P5A-P5B | Portrait of Field (2 albumen prints; P5B signed by Field, March 1892). |
| P6 | Etching by W. H. W. Bicknell of Field. |
| P8, P9A-P9B, P10-P11 | 5 variant albumen print portraits of Field apparently from the same sitting (P8 with Field's signed presentation to Joaquin Miller, 17 January 1894). |
| P12A-P12B | 2 variant portraits of Field in formal attire (printed on P12B: "c1894 S.L. Stein"). |
| P13 | Portrait of Field as an older man with 3 unidentified children. |
| P15 | Tintype of Field and E. V. Comstock (his brother-in-law), 1871; in paper mat with inscription on verso. |
| P16 | Photographic print of a young child's face cut out and pasted on a halftone print of an unidentified toddler's body; inscribed on verso: "Tody[?] / 1894 for Mamma." |
| P17 | Copy print of a halftone print of a photographic portrait of Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus as a young man and facsimile inscription. |
| P18 | Portrait of "George[?] T[illegible]" (a middle-aged, bald, bearded man in a suit). |
| P19 | Portrait of Ernest McGaffey standing in a field and holding a rifle, with his signature, his inscription to Field, and his poem "I fear no power a woman wields" handwritten on verso, June 1893. |
| P20 | Memorial engraving (of Field?). [missing] |
| P21 | Photograph of Field's gravestone, which reads "Eugene Field / 1850-1895 / The Children's Poet." |
| P22 | Photogravure portrait of an elderly man; signed below image: "Bruce[?] Rogers" (subject or photographer?). |
Index of Photographers
Jones & Lotz--P8
Stein, S. L. (Simon L.), 1854-1922--P12B, P18
(Last modified: 24 September 2007)
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