Photography Collections Database

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Call Number:

PH-02855

Collection Name:

James F. Drake, Inc. Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

, 1822 - 1908, active 1846 - 1887

, 1824 or 1834 - 1884

, 1880 - 1947, active 1867 - 1947

, active 1880 - 1889

Arents, George, 1875-1960

Barrow, John, 1808-1898

Burroughs, John, 1837 - 1921

Curtius, Ernst, 1814 - 1896

Dickinson Bros. & Foster, active 1870/1879 - 1880/1889

Dickman, J. T. (Joseph Theodore), 1857-1927

Elliott & Fry, active 1865 - 1908

Harte, Bret, 1836 - 1902

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Hoffert, W., active 1880/1889 - 1890/1899

Irving, Henry, 1850-

James F. Drake, Inc., 1911 - 1965

Longfellow, Henry W. (Henry Wadsworth), 1895-1986

Lowell, James Russell, 1819 - 1891

Michelet, Jules, 1798-1874

Mill, Ernst H.

Patti, Adelina, 1843 - 1919

Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860 - 1948

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

Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944

Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834 - 1902

Twain, Mark, 1835 - 1910

Wilson, Francis, 1854 - 1935

No. of Items:

35 items

Span Dates:

circa 1880-1950, undated

Description:

The James F. Drake, Inc. Literary File consists of 35 photographs, including several cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite, and six diacetate or nitrate negatives. The firm of James F. Drake, Inc. was established in 1911 by James Frederick Drake (1863-1933) for the sale of rare books and manuscripts. The bulk of the images in the file are portraits of various people, including John Burroughs, Bret Harte, Henry Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Mark Twain.

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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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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; 957:0002:0001-0027; 957:0029:0001; 997:0105:0420-0425

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01482

Location(s):

James F. Drake, Inc. Lit File
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See Also:

James F. Drake, Inc. Collection