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Call Number:

PH-02994

Collection Name:

Grant Richards Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

, active 1860/1869 - 1912

Atelier Reutlinger, 1850 - , active 1850 - 1930/1939

Bourquin y Kohlman, active 1930 - 1939

Clarke, Frederic Colburn, active 1890/1899 - 1900/1909

Dunne, Finley Peter (creator of Mr. Dooley), 1867 - 1936

Eddowes Bros., active 1900 - 1999

Elliott & Fry, active 1865 - 1908

Foto Maipú, active 1930 - 1939

Hollyer, Frederick, 1837 - 1933, active 1860/1869 - 1913

Juley, Peter A., 1862 - 1937, active 1896 - 1937

Kahane, Jack, 1887-1939

Knopf, Alfred A., 1892 - 1984

Kollerutoda, Izenes

La Marche, Bernard, active 1880/1889 - 1890/1899

London Stereoscopic Company, 1854 - 1922, active 1854 - 1922

Mérode, Cléo de, 1875-1966

Masefield, John, 1878 - 1967

Merrick, Leonard, 1864 - 1939

Owen, Walter, 1884 - 1953

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 1863 - 1944

Richards, Grant, 1872 - 1948

Roberts, Lynette, 1909 - 1995

Vance, Louis Joseph, 1879-1933

Whiting, Mina

Whitlock Bros., active 1900 - 1999

Wolfgang, W., active 1890/1899 - 1900/1909

Woolsey, Gamel

Wykeham Studios, active 1930 - 1939

No. of Items:

103 items (2 boxes)

Span Dates:

1892-1940, undated

Description:

The collection consists of 103 items related to Grant Richards, about half of which are portraits of various people, including Finley Peter Dunne, Alfred Knopf, John Lane, John Masefield, Leonard Merrick, Walter Owen, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Lynette Roberts, Elizabeth Robins, Rachel Annand Taylor, Louis Joseph Vance, and Gamel Woolsey. Some of these portraits are inscribed to Richards. The majority of the remaining images were used by Baron Albert Kaas and Fedor von Lazarovics in illustrating their book Bolshevism In Hungary: The Béla Kun Period, which was published by Richards' firm.

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This collection forms a part of the Literary Files Photography Collection is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images by, collected by, of, and/or related to those entities.

Accession No(s):

Internal transfer from the Grant Richards Collection (MS-03515); P1-P12, P13A-P13B, P14A-P14C, P15A-P15B, P16A-P16C, P17-P26, P27A-P27B, P28A-P28C, P29-P31, P32A-P32E, P33, P34A-P34B, P35, P36, P37A-P37F, P38-P56, P57A-P57B, P58A-P58B, P59A-P59B, P60A-P60C, P61, P62A-P62B, P63A-P63B, P64A-P64D, P65A-P65B, P66, P67A-P67B, P68-P72

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01388

Location(s):

Richards, G., Lit File Box 1 (P1-P20)
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Richards, G., Lit File Box 2 (P21-P72)
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See Also:

Grant Richards Collection: Related manuscript materials from which this material was removed can be found in the Grant Richards Collection (MS-03515).