urn:taro:utexas.hrc.01201. J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie: An Inventory of His Literary File Photography Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by HRC Staff Harry Ransom Center, 2017 Finding aid encoded by Elizabeth E. Preston, 21 March 2017 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964 J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie Literary Photography Collection 1859-1973 3,900 items (6.4 linear feet) Approximately 3,900 photographs documenting the life of Texas writer, folklorist, and educator, J. Frank Dobie, throughout his life, both alone and with others. Included are portrait of Dobie and his family, and snapshots of various friends and associates, cowboys, and other people. Many of the photographs were taken in Texas, including Paisano Ranch and other Dobie family ranches and residences. English. Photography Collection PH-02683 Acquisition:

Internal transfers from the J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie Papers (MS-01176)

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Scope and Contents

The J. Frank Dobie Literary File consists of approximately 3,900 photographs, many of which are portraits of Dobie throughout his life, both alone and with others. There are also images of his wife, Bertha McKee, other members of the Dobie family, members of the Byler and Dubose families, various friends and associates, cowboys, and other people. In addition, the file contains views of various places in Texas, including Paisano Ranch and other Dobie family ranches and residences. Other states represented in the file include Montana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. There are also numerous views of Mexico, chiefly from Dobie’s travels there, and a few of Cambridge, England.

This collection forms part of the Literary File Photograph Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

Addition materials by and about Dobie can be found at the Harry Ransom Center in the following collections: J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie Papers (MS-01176), the Willie Belle Coker Collection of J. Frank Dobie Personal Effects (PA-00016), and the J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie Art Collection (AR-00067).

Index Terms People Norman-Butler, Belinda, 1908-2008. Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946. Dobie, Bertha McKee, 1890- . Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964. Goodnight, Charles, 1836-1929. Haley, J. Evetts (James Evetts), 1901-1995. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. Lea, Tom, 1907-2001. Marcus, Stanley, 1905-2002. Molina Campos, Florencio, 1891-1959. Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-196. Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926. Saunders, George W. (George Washington), 1854-1933. Subjects Cattle drives. Cowboys. Native Americans. Ranches. Places Cambridge (England). Mexico. New Mexico. Oklahoma. Texas. Document Types Ambrotypes. Glass negatives. Nitrate negatives. Photographic postcards. Photographic prints. Tintypes. Item List Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 1 unaccessioned Portraits of Dobie alone and with others (Hunter-Rose item in Miscellaneous 1940), 1898-1948. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 2 unaccessioned Portraits of Dobie alone and with others, 1949-1958. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 3 unaccessioned Portraits of Dobie alone and with others, 1959-1964. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 4 unaccessioned Portraits of Bertha McKee Dobie alone and with others, chiefly in her later years, but including 2 of her as a toddler and 1 as a young woman; views of the Dobies’ Park Place home, Paisano Ranch, and the Dobie Room at the University of Texas at Austin; photographic reproductions of drawings by Edward Borein (prints and negatives); views of Paisano Ranch with E. J. Rissman and his siblings; portraits of various people, including Jim Ballard, A. B. Blocker, W. W. Burton, George Glenn, John Molder, C. B. Ruggles, Tommy Sheeran, and Marcus Snyder, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 5 unaccessioned Portraits of various members of the Byler, Dobie, and Dubose families, as well as views of various Dobie family residences, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 6 unaccessioned Portraits of various, mostly identified people, including Amanda Burks, Charles Goodnight, J. Evetts Haley, and Stanley Marcus, 1870s-1960s. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 7 unaccessioned Views of various ranches, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 8 unaccessioned Views of various places in Texas, including historic sites and landscapes, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 9 unaccessioned Views of various places in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and other states; views of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge; views of various places in Mexico and scenes of Mexican life, chiefly from Dobie’s travels there, 1920s-1930s. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 10 unaccessioned Views of Mexico and scenes of Mexican life, chiefly from Dobie’s travels there, 1920s-1930s. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 11 unaccessioned Images of various animals, including antelope, buffalo, cattle, coyotes, deer, and horses; cowboys and cowboy life; Native Americans; various group portraits, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 12 unaccessioned Miscellaneous images (from a later acquisition), including portraits of Dobie, his brothers Lee and Elrich, members of the Dubose family, Lyndon Johnson, George W. Saunders, various “cow people,” and others, as well as views of Paisano Ranch and other ranches, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P1, P2A-P2B Photographic reproductions of a painting by Agnes Agatha Robinson of Dobie (1 BW print and 2 color transparencies), undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P3 Portrait of Agnes Agatha Robinson, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P4-P8 Images of a meeting of the Dobie Western Literary Group, including Dobie’s wife, Bertha, and Harry Ransom, October 1973. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P11 Portrait of Dobie as a young man, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P12 Courtroom scene during the Ross and Good cases in Abilene, September 1923. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P14-P15 Portraits of Charles M. Russell, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P16 Portrait of Fred Barton in Miles City, Montana, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P17-P18 Portraits of Fred Barton in Siberia alone on a horse (P17) and with 4 unidentified Cossacks on Mongolian ponies, 1911. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P19 View of a hillside with a group of unidentified horsemen, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P20-P24 Photographic reproductions of drawings and paintings by Charles M. Russell, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P25 Image of Fred Barton’s saddle, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P26-P27 Image of a bronze statue of a cowboy by Charles M. Russell, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P28-P30 Photographic reproduction of 2 poems by Charles M. Russell with (his?) illustrations (P29-P30 are duplicates), undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P31 Photographic reproduction of an illustration depicting Montana cattle brands, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P32 Portrait of R. E. Leahy, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P33-P34 Portrait of an unidentified man and woman looking at each other across a picket fence (duplicate prints, one of which is cut into a circle and the other an oval), undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 P36 Snapshot of Johnnie Craddock on a horse, 1923; inscribed on image recto to Dobie, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 957:0002:0034 Snapshot of J. C. Williams, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 957:0002:0035 Snapshot of the Anchor Hotel, Cambridge, England, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 957:0016:0001 Portrait of Arthur H. Carhart, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0037:0001-0024 Portraits of various cowmen, including trail drivers at a 1924 reunion, 1924. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0077:0001 Portrait of an elderly woman knitting; inscribed on verso: "My father’s / mother" (Dobie's paternal grandmother?), undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0077:0002 Photographic postcard view of Bowers Mansion, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0077:0003 Portrait of an unidentified little girl, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0077:0004 Scene of a group of soldiers in a field, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0077:0005 Image of a statuette of a cowboy on a bucking horse, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0077:0006 Portrait of an unidentified girl, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0077:0007 Portrait of an unidentified man, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0077:0008 Scene of 2 men on horses and other people in an outdoor arena (at an English riding competition?), undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0077:0009 Portrait of an unidentified girl [removed to Conservation Dept. for examination of unknown process], undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0077:0010 Portrait of an unidentified woman, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0077:0011 Portrait of Louis Lenz, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0105:0235 Portrait of Belinda Norman-Butler, Edward (her husband), Christopher and Catherine (their children), and a dog in the garden next to a house (in England?); handwritten note on image verso to Dobie from Belinda, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0105:0498-0499 Snapshots of "Dot" (a young woman) alone (997:0105:0498) and with her boyfriend, "Dick" (997:0105:0499), undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 997:0105:0500 Portrait of C. R. Smith, president of American Airlines, inscribing the first copy of the limited edition of Dobie’s The Longhorns, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 2001:0053:0020 Portrait of Maynard Dixon; signed presentation on lower right image recto to Dobie from Edith Hamlin Dixon, undated. Dobie, J.F., Lit File Box 13 2001:0053:0021-0039 Views of Cambridge University, undated. Lit File OV Box, Small 997:0077:0012 Portrait of Boris Pasternak; mounted on board, with a handwritten note by Dobie beneath image, 1958. Lit File OV Box, Medium unaccessioned Portrait of Elrich Dobie, J. Frank Dobie's brother, undated. Lit File OV Box, Medium unaccessioned Photograph of Tom Lea and J. Frank Dobie in McMurray's Personal Book Shop, undated. Lit File OV Box, Medium unaccessioned Autographed portrait of Ken Maynard, undated. Lit File OV Box, Large 997:0077:0013 Portrait of Dobie in his study, 1954. Lit File OV Box, Large 997:0077:0014 Scene of cowboys at their campsite on the range, undated. Lit File OV Box, Large unaccessioned 2 portraits of J. Frank Dobie, undated. Lit File Cabinet Storage unaccessioned 2 glass negatives of Boris Pasternak, undated. Lit File Cabinet Storage unaccessioned 20 glass negatives of artwork by F. Molina Campos, Tom Lea, and other artists; some signed presentations to Dobie, undated. Lit File Tintypes Box unaccessioned 6 tintypes of unidentified men and women [removed from Box 6], one dated 1842. Lit File Tintypes Box unaccessioned Tintype of two unidentified men [removed from Box 11], undated. Lit File Tintypes Box unaccessioned Tintype of Rufus Byler,[removed from “Cow People Photos”], 1859. Lit File Cased Items Box 2 unaccessioned Tintype of an unidentified man on a horse [removed from "Cow People Photos"]; in partial case, undated. Lit File Tintypes Box unaccessioned Tintype of two unidentified cowboys, 1875 [removed from "Cow People Photos"], undated. Lit File Cased Items Box 2 957:0141:0001 Ambrotype portrait of an unidentified woman, circa 1855. Cold Storage Lit File Box 1 unaccessioned Nitrate negatives, some with corresponding prints in Boxes 1-7. Cold Storage Lit File Box 2 unaccessioned Nitrate negatives, some with corresponding prints in Box 7-9. Cold Storage Lit File Box 3 unaccessioned Nitrate negatives, some with corresponding prints in Box 10-12. Index of Photographers Alexander & Green--997:0077:0008 Albert, A. (Alexandria, La.)--Box 6: Jimmie Moore Anderson, S.--Box 5: Grandma White (J. Frank Dobie’s paternal grandmother) Armstrong, Frank--P4-P8 Barnes, Walter and Sinah Colburn--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie, 1946 Barr--Box 5: J.M. Dobie (J. Frank’s uncle); R.J. Dobie (J. Frank’s father) used in "Some Part of Myself" Barr & Wright--Box 5: J. M. Dobie Bartlett (Clarendon, Tex.)--Box 6: Charles Goodnight Beach--Box 6: Ida Fussellman Billingsley, Bill--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie, 1951 Bingham, Cliff--Box 2: J.Frank Dobie, Jackson, Miss., 1952 Blocker, John R.--Box 12: Branding on Alamo ranch, 1934 Brehme, Hugo (Mexico, D.F.)--Box 10: Mexico-Miscellaneous, 1927 Bradford, Pam--Box 2: J. Frank and Bertha Dobie, 1955 Braun, Jurgen--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie and an Austrian film student, 1952 Byers, Andrew--Box 9: Dodge City, Kansas Cadwell, M.--Box 6: Unidentified photos in Olmos Ranch folder Caldwell, F.--Box 12: Portraits of various men--James E. Tuggle(?) Callaway, A. N. (Brenham, Texas)--Box 5: Byler Family (J. Frank Dobie's maternal relatives); Box 6: Pet Moore Carpenter, Mike--Box 3: J. Frank Dobie, 1964 Casa Blanco--Box 10: Durango, Mexico Castilla, S.--Box 10: Mexico, Miscellaneous-1927 Christianson-Leberman--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie with Bertha and miscellaneous, 1950; J. Frank Dobie alone and with Bertha, 1952; Box 3: J. Frank and Bertha Dobie, 1959 Coldwell, P. C., III--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie giving lecture at Texas Christian University, 1939 Crosse, Ls. Tex--Box 9: Kit Carson River D. A. Warlick & Son--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie, 1917 (folders included) de Planque, Louis (Corpus Christi, Tex.)--Box 6: Ida Fussellman; Unidentified photos from Olmos Ranch folder Dedrick’s Studio--Box 8: Columbus, Texas Delfraisse--Box 5: Byler Family (J. Frank Dobie's maternal relatives) Douglas K. McLean Co.--Box 12: Indian pottery Douglass, Neal--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie speaking at fraternity, Austin, 1940; J. Frank and Bertha Dobie with Kate Engle, 1945; Box 2: J. Frank Dobie with Crozier and Hamer, Davenport Ranch, Winter 1953-1954; Box 3: Photographic reproductions of painting of J. Frank Dobie by A. A. Robinson, 1961 Drow (San Antonio, Tex.)--Box 11: Coyotes Dykeman, C. H.--Box 3: J. Frank Dobie, 702 Park Place, Austin, Texas, 1959 (letter included) Evans Studio--Box 3: J. Frank Dobie-Shingle Check Signing, 1961 (notes included) Flanagan, Sue--997:0077:0011 Frashers Foto (Pomona, Calif.)--Box 8: Fort Ewell, etc. Garcia Studio (Laredo, Tex.)--Box 5: Ed Dubose; Box 6: Mary Bennett Gilhousen--Box 5: Charlie Dubose Gillette, Guy (Yonkers, N.Y.)--Box 3: J. Frank Dobie-702 Park Place, Austin, Texas, 1959 (letter included); J. Frank Dobie at 702 Park Place, Austin, Texas, 1964 (contact sheets); Box 12: J. Frank Dobie under the elm, 1959 Glover, A. D.--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie, 1943 Groce, Mr. and Mrs.--Box 12: Medal of Freedom and funeral flowers Guin, J. B.--Box 5: Ella Byler Dobie (J. Frank Dobie’s mother) Hamilton (Laredo, Tex.)--Box 5: Tom Dubose family Hargrove--P13 Harrison, Grady, Jr.--Box 5: (R. J.) Dobie Ranch House; Box 8: First Business Building in Beeville, Fort Ramirez Marker Harrison Photography--Box 5: (R. J.) Dobie Ranch House Hartsook--Box 5: Catherine Irene Dobie (8 months old); Box 12: Elrich Dobie Harvey, George--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie signing television contract, and J. Frank Dobie and unidentified man, both December 18, 1952 Henderson, Esther--2001:0053:0020 Hess, H. A.--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie, Cherry Springs, February 16, 1956 Hillyer, H. B. (Austin, Tex.), and W. W. Williams (Houston, Texas)--Box 6: Bennie Dix Holbrook--Box 5: Ella Byler Dobie (J. Frank Dobie’s mother) Hooper, Jack W.--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie, 702 Park Place, Austin, Texas, 1939 Hopkins--Box 9: Mexico trip, April-May 1923, 1937; Box 10: Mexico-Miscellaneous, 1927 Howard, Jack--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie, 1960 (letters included) Hudson, Wilson--Box 3: J. Frank Dobie with Archer Taylor, 1959 Jensen--Box 6: Miscellaneous people Jesse, M. T.--Box 6: Unidentified photos from Olmos Ranch folder Joffe (New York, N.Y.)--Box 12: J. Frank Dobie in his study, 1952 Johnston, Dolores--Box 4: Paisano, 1959, 1965 Jorns (Kerrville, Tex.)--Box 11: Texas Rangers Knopf, Alfred A.--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie, 1941 Kowert, Art--Box 3: J. Frank Dobie, 1963, with Salinas at ranch, and with Fred Gleson Leach & Hanna (Cherokee, Tex.)--Box 6: Miscellaneous People Lewis, Richard I.--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie, 1948 Lippe Studio--Box 11: Coyotes; Box 12: Views of various places (2 of 2) McKenzie, Joseph--P3 Malone, Bill (Austin, Tex.)--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie, 1946; Box 3: J. Frank and Bertha Dobie, 1959; J. Frank Dobie, 702 Park Place, Austin, Texas, September 26, 1960; J. Frank Dobie's boots, 1960; Box 4: Mrs. Bertha McKee Dobie, Various functions; Box 12: J. Frank Dobie, 1962; LF OV Box, Large: 997:0077:0013 Maxwell, Ross A.--Box 8: Big Bend Mazzulla, Fred M. (Denver, Colorado)--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie, Denver, October 1952; J. Frank Dobie, July 1954; J. Frank Dobie, Arthur Woodward, Leland Case, July 1954; Box 11: The Westerners-Denver, Colorado, July, 1954 McMeans, David--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie, Corpus Christi Writers Roundup, June 1953 Melendez--Box 9: Mexico ("Miscellaneous pictures … sent to Charles Banks Wilson") Montague, Samuel A.--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie, Acapulco, Mexico, 1951 Moore’s Studio (Coleman, Tex.)--Box 6: Miscellaneous People Morris, Thelma--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie, Southwest Writers Conference, June 1951 Noel Bros.--997:0077:0010 Orr, W. D.--Box 6: Charles Goodnight Payne, Elwood M.--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie at Radio Station TSN, 1940 Peter Pan Studio--Box 5: Children of Pat Dobie, 1957, 1960 Photographic Service, University of California--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie miscellaneous, 1954 (note included) Powell--Box 5: Mr. and Mrs. James Mays Dobie (Uncle Jim and Aunt Ida) Prior Brothers (Providence, R.I.)--Box 6: Albert Lee Morrison Raboy, E.--Box 5: Charlie Dubose Rice & Bliss (Warren, Ohio)--Box 6: Unidentified photos from Olmos Ranch folder Rice, Louis (Victoria, Texas)--Box 5: Byler Family (J. Frank Dobie's maternal kin); Box 6: Unidentified photos from Olmos Ranch folder) Ritchie, R. O.--Box 12: J. Frank Dobie and 4 unidentified men, February, 1949 Rocky Mountain Photo Company, Denver--Box 11: Animals, Miscellaneous--"Burned steer" Rust Studio (Beeville, Tex.)--Box 5: Martha Dobie; Fannie Dobie (sister of J. Frank); Ella Byler Dobie (family snapshots) Sanborn--Box 8: Miscellaneous scenery in Texas and New Mexico Seiders, F. Wilbur--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie on Waller Creek, Spring 1941 Seymour, Jim--Box 12: Bust of J. Frank Dobie Smith, H. G. (Boston, Mass.)--Box 6: Unidentified photos from Olmos Ranch folder Smith, Victor J.--Box 12: Views of various places (2 of 2)--Alpine, Texas Smithers, W. D.--Box 10: "An old Mexican" Snow, Robert--Box 6: Jaguar hunt Specht, Jack--Box 11: "Vaquero rides out of brush" Stein--Box 5: R. J. Dobie (J. Frank Dobie’s father) Steinle--Box 12: Portraits of various men--"Old trail drivers at San Antonio" Stewart, B. Anthony--2001:0053:0021-0039 Stoughton, Cecil--Box 3: President Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry Truman, J. F. D., Tom Vail taken at the White House, Washington D.C., April 2, 1964 Stovall Studio--Box 9: Dodge City, Kansas Studebaker--Box 5: Charlie Dubose; Judge Dubose Studio Grand (Fort Worth, Tex.)--Box 6: Will Waddell Studtman Photo Service--Box 2: J. Frank Dobie, 1953, miscellaneous; J. Frank Dobie with Captain Molesworth-June 16, 1954 (note included) Swartz, D. H. (Columbus, Tex.)--Box 6: Aggre[illegible], Flatonia, Texas Tauch & Pannewitz--Box 5: Byler Family (J. Frank Dobie's maternal kin) Taylor Studio--Box 6: Miscellaneous people; Box 8: Miscellaneous scenery in Texas and New Mexico; Box 9: Dover, Oklahoma, July 1925; Box 13: 997:0037:0002, 0004-0008, 0010 Thain, J. C.--Box 8: Grand Canyon of Texas Tolbert, Raymond A.--Box 1: J. Frank Dobie, 1909-1911,"The Mumps" Udel Bros.--997:0077:0010