Call Number:

PH-00108

Collection Name:

Edward Steichen Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

257 photographs

Span Dates:

1922-circa 1945

Description:

The collection consists of 257 prints by Edward Steichen (American, 1879-1973). Included are examples of his fashion and portrait photography done for Conde Nast, as well as photographs taken during World War II while he served as the director of Naval Combat Photography. Select group- and item-level descriptions follow.

959:0005:0001 -- Paul Robeson as “The Emperor Jones”, 1933. Gelatin silver print.

974:0255:0001-0172 -- Gelatin silver prints from Steichen's time with the US Navy during World War II, photographs by other photographers included. Subject matter includes ships, US Marines, and battle scenes. See finding aid for item-level information.

979:0031:0001-0039 -- Uncut, folded photogravure prints (62 images) for Carl Sandburg’s Steichen the Photographer (New York : Harcourt, Brace, copyright 1929), 1945. The Center's library holds three copies of the published work that may be requested using call number q TR 650 S3 HRC-P.

979:0038:0001-0015 -- Mounted gelatin silver prints commissioned for the Limited Editions Club edition of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden.

982:0021:0001-0028 -- Gelatin silver and color prints from Conde Nast. This material was part of the Steichen bequest in the mid-1980s. Titles follow.

982:0021:0001 -- Laughing boxes, 1922;
982:0021:0002 -- Dana Steichen, 1925;
982:0021:0003 -- George Arliss, seated, circa 1925;
982:0021:0004 -- George Arliss, standing, circa 1925;
982:0021:0005 -- Charles Chaplin, 1925;
982:0021:0006 -- M. Chevalier, undated;
982:0021:0007 -- George M. Cohan, 1933;
982:0021:0008 -- Eva Legallienne as “L’Aiglon”, 1934;
982:0021:0009 -- Miriam Hopkins, Hollywood, 1931;
982:0021:0010 -- Adolph Monjou, 1931;
982:0021:0011 -- Ethel Merman in “Girl Crazy”, circa 1930;
982:0021:0012 -- Eugene Meyer, 1932;
982:0021:0013 -- F. Molnar, 1928;
982:0021:0014 -- Dita Parlo & Joseph Schildkraut, c. 1925;
982:0021:0015 -- Eva Von Byrne, 1928;
982:0021:0016 -- [Man and young girl reading a letter];
982:0021:0017 -- Men at Hotel Lobby Desk, circa 1935;
982:0021:0018 -- V.C. Randolph, Greenwich, Conn., 1929;
982:0021:0019 -- Broadway, 1935;
982:0021:0020 -- Clark & McCullough, circa 1935;
982:0021:0021 -- Great God Brown, 1926;
982:0021:0022 -- June Walker, c. 1930;
982:0021:0023 -- What Price Glory, 1924;
982:0021:0024 -- Theresa Duncan;
982:0021:0025 -- Fanny Wickes, 1924;
982:0021:0026 -- Madame Leontovitch, 1931;
982:0021:0027 -- Three Indian Women, circa 1938;
982:0021:0028 -- Women getting off boats, circa 1938.

984:0045:0001 -- Christopher Morley. Gelatin silver print.

Accession No(s):

974:0255:0001-0172; 979:0031:0001-0040; 979:0038:0001-0015; 981:0053:0001; 982:0021:0001-0028; 984:0045:0001

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01193

Location(s):

12 b (Boxes 1-12)
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Flat File (974:0255:0117)
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See Also:

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Literary File Photography Collection: An additional print (996:0016:0059) by Steichen can be found in the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Literary File Photography Collection (PH-02651).

Camera Work: Additional prints by Steichen can be found in various issues of Camera Work (call no. q TR 1 C5 HRC-P).

Camera Work Photography Collection: Additional prints by Steichen can be found in the Camera Work Photography Collection (PH-00092) that consists of loose plates from various issues of the publication.

George Macy Companies, Inc. Art Collection: Additional materials related to the Limited Editions Club edition of Walden, and from which photographs 979:0038:0001-0015 were transferred, are located in the George Macy Companies, Inc. Art Collection (AR-00313).