Photography Collections Database

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Call Number:

PH-02710

Collection Name:

Walt Whitman Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

, 1823 - 1896, active 1840 - 1890

, 1831 - 1917, active 1850/1859 - 1910/1917

, 1832 - 1911, active 1853 - 1890/1899

Cox, George C. (George Collins), 1851 - 1901 or 1903

DeMorat, Oliver Bourdrias, 1835 - , active 1860/1869 - 1880/1889

Elliott & Fry, active 1865 - 1908

Helga Photo Studio, active 1970 - 1979

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865 - 1936

Malone, Bill, photographer

O’Donovan, William Rudolph, 1844 - 1920, active 1900 - 1909

Pearsall, George Frank Edgar, 1841 - 1927, active 1860/1869 - 1910/1919

Phillips & Taylor

Sarony, Napoleon, 1821 - 1896, active 1850/1859 - 1890/1896

Traubel, Gertrude, 1892 - 1983, active 1900 - 1983

Traubel, Horace, 1858 - 1919

Warren, W. Shaw, active 1860/1869 - 1900/1909

Whitman, Walt, 1819 - 1892

No. of Items:

316 items

Span Dates:

mid-late 19th and early 20th century, undated

Description:

The collection consists of 315 photographs, and one copper printing plate, of and related to the poet Walt Whitman (American, 1819-1892). The majority of the items are portraits of Whitman at various ages. There are also views of places associated with him, as well as several portraits of Horace Traubel and a portrait by Elliott & Fry of Rudyard Kipling, signed and inscribed to "Sitting Fox" (P34).

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

Accession No(s):

982:0034:0034-0038; 997:0105:0061, 0080, 0562-0592; 999:0036:0115-0116; P1-P58; unnumbered; Internal transfers from manuscript collection(s).

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01363

Location(s):

Whitman, W., Lit File Album 1 (unnumbered, was P29)
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Whitman, W., Lit File Album 2 (unnumbered, was P30)
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W-Z Lit File OV Box, Small (P9)
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Lit File Artifacts Box 1 (P21)
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Whitman, W., Lit File Box 1 (P1A-P1E, P2-P4, P5A-P5C, P6, P7A-P7B, P8A-P8B, P10-P11, P12A-P12B, P13, P14A-P14B, P15A-P15B, P16-P20, P22-P23, P24A-P24B, P25-P28, P31-P34, P35A-P35B, P36-P47, P53-P58)
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Whitman, W., Lit File Box 2 (982:0034:0034-0038; 997:0105:0061, 0080, 0562-0592; 999:0036:0115-0116)
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Curatorial permission required Lit. Coll. Glass Negative Box 9 (P32)
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See Also:

Walt Whitman Collection

Walt Whitman Art Collection

100 Whitman Photographs