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Call Number:

PH-00058

Collection Name:

Howard Coster Photography Collection

Creator:

Coster, Howard, 1885-1959 (1885 - 1959)

No. of Items:

29 items

Span Dates:

1920 ca.-1957

Description:

The collection consists of twenty-nine photographs by Howard Coster (British, 1885-1959). Group-level information follows.

964:0923:0001-0004 -- G. K. Chesterton, circa 1928. Gelatin silver prints;
964:0923:0005-0006 -- William Butler Yeats, circa 1920. Gelatin silver prints;
964:0923:0007-0008 -- Henry Moore, circa 1938. Gelatin silver prints;
964:0923:0009-0011 -- Eric Gill, circa 1936. Gelatin silver prints;
964:0923:0012-0013 -- Somerset Maugham, circa 1930. Gelatin silver prints;
964:0923:0014 -- William Walton, circa 1938. Gelatin silver print;
964:0923:0015-0018 -- William Butler Yeats, circa 1920. Gelatin silver prints;
964:0923:0019-0020 -- Augustus John, circa 1930. Gelatin silver prints;
964:0923:0021-0023 -- H. G. Wells, circa 1930. Gelatin silver prints;
964:0923:0024 -- Bertrand Russell. 1956/1957. Gelatin silver print;
964:0923:0025 -- William Butler Yeats, 1920. Gelatin silver print;
964:0923:0026 -- Dr. C. M. Joad, 1930. Gelatin silver print;
964:0923:0027 -- Somerset Maugham, 1930. Gelatin silver print;
964:0923:0028-0029 -- G. K. Chesterton, 1928. Gelatin silver prints.

Accession No(s):

964:0923:0001-0029; Purchase, 1963

Location(s):

C Box, Large (964:0923:0025-0029)
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Coster, H. Box 1 (964:0923:0001-0014)
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Coster, H. Box 2 (964:0923:0015-0024)
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See Also:

Photography Literary Files have Coster photographs of A.A. Milne, Edith Sitwell, and H.M. Tomlinson.