Collection Summary
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
James Joyce Literary File Photography
Collection
1900s-1970
Photography Collection PH-02784
1 box (.42 linear feet)
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
A collection of 83 photographic prints,
many of which are copy prints, of and related to the Irish novelist and poet James Joyce
(1882–1941).
English
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 83 photographic prints, many of which are copy prints, of and
related to the Irish novelist and poet James Joyce (1882–1941). The photographs range in
date from circa 1900 to 1966 or later.
Acquisition:
Internal transfers from manuscript collections, and purchase, 1984 (R 8048).
Access:
Open for research. Please note: Negatives cannot be accessed without curatorial approval.
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Index Terms
People
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Joyce, Lucia, 1907-1982.
Joyce, Nora Barnacle, 1884-1951.
Subjects
Authors, Irish.
Families.
Document Types
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portrait photographs.
Reproductive prints.
Other Names
Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991.
Man Ray, 1890-1976.
Preferred Citation
James Joyce Literary File Photography Collection (PH-02784). Harry
Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
Processed by:
Mary Foster and Susan McClellan, 2006
Related Material
Materials by Joyce can be found in the James Joyce Collection (MS-02232), and additional
portraits of him can be found in the James Joyce Art Collection (AR-00337).
Container List
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0001
James Joyce (copy print),
1904.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0002
Italo Svevo [Ettore Schmitz] (copy print),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0003
James Joyce, seated, playing guitar (copy print),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0004
Postcard portrait of James Joyce,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0005
James Joyce in Trieste (copy print),
circa 1912.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0006
James Joyce in Zurich (copy print),
circa 1917.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0007
3/4 left profile portrait of James Joyce looking down,
1926.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0008
Portrait of James Joyce looking down, with left eye-patch on,
1926.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0009
3/4 right profile portrait of James Joyce with left eye-patch on and his
right hand behind his head,
1926.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0010-0011
James Joyce sitting in a field, hands over ears (2 copy prints; 957:0032:0011
was mounted on board, but adhesive has yielded),
circa 1920s.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0012
Portrait of James Joyce (copy print),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0013-0015
Left profile portrait of James Joyce (3 copies, sepia-toned),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0016
James Joyce reading with a magnifying glass (copy print?),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0017-0023
Seven variant portraits of James Joyce sitting in a chair (contact prints),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0024
Studio portrait of James Joyce in fedora, seated, holding a cane,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0025
Photograph of a 1918 painting of James Joyce by Frank Budgen,
1918 or later.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0026
Portrait of James Joyce "from a photograph taken when he was finishing
Ulysses" (copy print),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0027
Photograph of Sean O'Sullivan’s 1935 drawing of James Joyce,
1935 or later.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0030
Photograph of Cesar Abin’s 1932 caricature of James Joyce,
1932 or later.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0031-0032
Photograph of a caricature of James Joyce with handwritten notation in Greek
(2 copy prints),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0033
Photograph of Milton Hebald’s 1966 sculpture of James Joyce seated,
1966 or later.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0034
Photograph of a Frank Budgen oil painting of James Joyce, "owned by Charles
Feinberg, Detroit",
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0035
Photograph of three Frank Budgen paintings of James and Nora Joyce mounted in
a single frame,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0036
"James and Nora Joyce on their way to be married in London" (copy print),
1931 July 4, printed later.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0037
"Four generations of Joyces. James with his son George and grandson Stephen
beneath the portrait of Joyce’s father by Tuohy" (copy print; original and negative
are located in the Carlton Lake Literary File Photography Collection),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0038-0039
James Joyce and his family in Paris (2 copies: 957:0032:0038 is a vintage,
sepia-toned print with handwritten copyright instructions on verso; 957:0032:0039 is a
copy print),
1924.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0040
James Joyce with Sylvia Beach in her bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in
Paris,
1922.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0042
James Stephens, John Sullivan, and James Joyce sitting on a sofa,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0043
Group portrait of James Joyce (back row, second from left), while a student
at University College, Dublin, with: Rev. O’Neill, J. M. O’Sullivan, R. J. Kinahan,
James Clandillon, Patrick Semple, George Clancy, Rev. E. Hogan, Prof. Edouard Cadic,
Rev. James Darlington, Felix Hackett, Seumas O’Kelly, Michael Lennon, and C. P.
Curran,
circa 1900.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0044-0045
Two variant portraits of James Joyce sitting in a chair, with Paul Leon
(contact prints),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0047
Stanislaus Joyce in Trieste (copy print),
circa 1905, printed later.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0048
Helen Koster Joyce with two dogs; handwritten presentations on print recto
and verso from Helen to "Elsa",
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0049
Helen Koster Joyce (and others), standing by a horse drawn carriage;
handwritten presentations on print recto and verso from Helen to "Elsa",
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0050
Portrait of Dr. John Francis Byrne,
1903.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0051
Cabinet card portrait of George Clancy, J. F. Byrne, and James Joyce,
circa 1900.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0052
James Joyce sitting in a field, with hat and cane nearby and his right hand
over his right ear (similar to 957:0032:0010-0011),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0053
James Joyce nodding off on a beach,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0054
James and Nora Joyce with an older man and younger woman (possibly Lucia)
standing arm in arm; typed caption slip with print,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0055
Portrait of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington,
circa 1900?.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0056
Nora and Giorgio Joyce sitting at a table outside,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0057
Nora and two other women, one possibly Lucia, sitting in chairs on the beach
(Nora in foreground),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0058
Lucia Joyce sitting at a table, resting her head on her right hand,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0059
Lucia Joyce sitting in grass, wearing a hat that partially obscures her face,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0060
Young women and child at play on beach; one woman may be Nora Joyce,
circa 1920s.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0061
Nora Joyce with two other women standing arm in arm on an esplanade, beach
tents visible at left and buildings at right,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0062
Group portrait of Vincent Clarke, J. M. O’Sullivan, Felix Hackett, Hugh
Kennedy, Charles McGarry, Thomas Kettle, Joseph [illegible], and C. P. Curran,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0063
Group portrait of C. McGarry, F. Sheehy-Skeffington, Farrelly (?) or
Merriman, and Jim O’Toole,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0064-0065
Portrait of Richard Ellman (2 copies, both of which may be copy photos;
957:0032:0065 is an enlargement),
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0066
Group portrait, inscribed on verso: "University College, Dublin",
circa 1900.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0067-0069
Views of an exhibition at Cornell University,
1959 April 15.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0070-0074
Views of an exhibition in Paris,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0075-0076
Images of James Joyce’s grave,
1948.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0077-0079
Views of No. 7 Eccles Street, Dublin,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0082
Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and John Quinn,
1923 November.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0083
Portrait of James Joyce; signed presentation from him to Richard Wallace,
Paris, 12 Jan. 1921 [sic, 1922],
1922.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0032:0084-0086
Three photographic reproductions of final page proofs with the author’s
autograph corrections, emendations, and additions, and signed notes by James Joyce and
Sylvia Beach,
undated.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
957:0068:0001
Portrait of James Joyce in Zurich,
1938.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
981:0047:0001
Half figure portrait of James Joyce, seated, with hands folded in lap,
1926 or 1928.
Joyce, J., Lit File Box
981:0047:0002
Half figure, 3/4 right profile portrait of James Joyce,
undated.
Index of Photographers
- Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991--957:0032:0007-0009; 981:0047:0001
- Cornell University. Photo Science Studios--957:0032:0067-0069
- Druzinsky, Dorothy Siegal--957:0032:0064-0065
- Foley, E. F.-- 957:0032:0055
- Foto Frugoni--957:0032:0033
- Furich, W. Pliyen--957:0032:0004
- Giedion-Welcker, Carola--957:0068:0001
- Helga Photo Studio--957:0032:0035
- Man Ray, 1890-1976 --957:0032:0083
- Manning Bros.-- 957:0032:0034
- Martinie, Henri, 1897-1965--957:0032:0013-0015
- Maywald, Willy, 1907-1985--957:0032:0070-0074
- Moore, W. G., 1847-1932--957:0032:0051
- New York Times Company--957:0032:0042
- Slocum, John J.-- 957:0032:0075-0076
- Wide World Photo, Inc.-- 957:0032:0038-0039