Call Number:

PH-02636

Collection Name:

Thomas James Wise Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

163 items

Span Dates:

1910s-1930s

Description:

The collection consists of 163 items by and related to the English book collector and biographer Thomas James Wise (British, 1859-1937). Included are portraits of Wise and various other people, such as Joseph Conrad, Harry Buxton Forman, Herbert E. Gorfin, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hardy, Clement King Shorter, and James Patterson Smart. There are also negatives of correspondence to and from Wise and of articles on literary forgeries from the Symington Collection at Rutgers University, and lantern slides of frontispieces and portraits.

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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

982:0019:0001-0148

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01149

Location(s):

R-Z Lit File OV Box, Large (982:0019:0006-0007, 0023)
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Wise, T.J., Lit File Box
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Curatorial permission required (Glass negatives 982:0019:0015, 0025, 0038, 0041-0042, 0056-0063) (Lantern slides 982:0019:0108-0118, 0121-0140)
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Curatorial permission required (Nitrate negatives 982:0019:0008-0011)
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Curatorial permission required (Acetate negatives 982:0019:0029, 0040, 0049-0051, 0064-0107)
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See Also:

Thomas James Wise Art Collection

Thomas James Wise Collection