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Call Number:

PH-02886

Collection Name:

Edgar Lee Masters Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

, 1848 - 1893, active 1869 - 1889

, 1869 - 1942, active 1897 - 1942

Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.), 1922 - , active 1930/1939 - 1940/1949

Anderson, Tennessee Mitchell, 1874-1929

Associated Press, 1846 -

Bachrach, Fabian, 1917 - 2010

Black, Stuart, active 1920/1929 - 1930/1939

Flaccus, Kimball, 1911 - 1972

Lindsay, Vachel, 1879 - 1931

Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868 or 1869 - 1950

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880 - 1956

Moffett Studio, active 1910 - 1920

Smith & Morton (Kansas City, Mo.)

No. of Items:

1,075 items (7 boxes)

Description:

The collection consists of approximately 1,075 items, including portraits of Edgar Lee Masters throughout his life, both alone and with others, as well as portraits of his wives Helen Jenkins and Ellen Coyne, mistresses Tennessee Mitchell and Lillian Wilson, parents, siblings, children, grandchildren, and other family members. There are also portraits of various other people and views of houses and places pertaining to Masters, including Petersburg and Lewistown, Ill.

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Accession No(s):

957:0043:0001-0340; 982:0013:0001-0011; 982:0020:0001-0170; 983:0062:0001; 988:0033:0009; 997:0108:0001-0020

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01500

Location(s):

Masters, E.L., Lit File Album 1 (982:0020:0001-0170)
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Masters, E.L., Lit File Box 1 (P1-P70)
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See Also:

Edgar Lee Masters Collection: Associated manuscript materials, from which these photographs were likely transferred, are located in the Edgar Lee Masters Collection (MS-02710).