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Call Number:

PH-02717

Collection Name:

Walter Willard "Spud" Johnson Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

, 1895 - 1965, active 1914 - 1963

Anderson, Clinton Presba, 1895-1975

Benrimo, Dorothy

Benrimo, Tom, 1887-1958

Blair, Don, 1905 - 2000, active 1940/1949 -

Boussum, Charles W.

Brett, Dorothy, 1883 - 1977

Bynner, Witter, 1881 - 1968

Caplin, Harvey, 1914 - 1984

Cerdá, J., active 1960 - 1969

Chavez, Dennis, 1888-1962

Collier, John, Jr., 1913 - 1992, active 1935 -

Connell, Will, 1898 - 1961, active 1910/1919 - 1950/1959

Crews, Judson, 1917 - 2010

Crews, Mildred Tolbert, active 1950 - 1975

Dasburg, Andrew, 1887 - 1979

Gillmore, Inez Haynes, 1873-1970

Johnson, Walter Willard, 1897 - 1968

Kissel, Elénore

Knee, Ernest, 1907 - 1982, active 1930/1939 - 1940/1949

Kutchin, Lucius, 1901-1936

Larrinaga, Mario

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885 - 1930

Lawrence, Frieda, 1879 - 1956

Lewis, Earl V., active 1910 - 1919

Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879 - 1962

Peter A. Juley & Son, active 1896/1919 - 1975

Porter, Eliot, 1901 - 1990, active 1930 - 1990

Sackett, Verne, 1913 - 1997, active 1947 -

Scott, Ned, 1907 - 1964, active 1928 - 1948

Sedillo, Juan A. A. (Juan Antonio Abad), 1902-

Shaffer Studios, active 1950 - 1959

Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1901-1979

Stone, Idella Purnell, 1901 - 1982

Sylls, Alan, active 1930 - 1939

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880 - 1964, active 1932 - 1964

Williams, Bill

Wyeth, W. M., active 1920 - 1929

No. of Items:

1619 items

Span Dates:

20th century

Description:

The collection consists of 1,619 items (1,369 photographic prints and safety negatives, and 250 nitrate negatives). Images include portraits and snapshots of Johnson both alone and with many of his friends and associates, some of whom are unidentified.

Additional images pertaining to Johnson can be found in the Literary Files of: Dorothy Brett, Witter Bynner, Robinson Jeffers, D.H. Lawrence, Haniel Long, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Eliot Porter, and Adlai E. Stevenson.

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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

P1-P904

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01485

Location(s):

Lit File OV Box, Small (P1-P8, P18, P169)
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Lit File OV Box, Medium (P10, P11, P12, P15, P16)
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LIt File OV Box, Large (P14, P19, P20)
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Johnson, W.W., Lit File Boxes 1-15
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Johnson, W.W., Lit File Boxes 1-3
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See Also:

Walter Willard "Spud" Johnson Papers

Walter Willard "Spud" Johnson Art Collection

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