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There are more than five million objects in the Harry Ransom Center's Photography Collection. Many records contain legacy descriptions. A review and update of our records is ongoing.

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Call Number:

PH-02667

Collection Name:

Rupert Croft-Cooke Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Croft-Cooke, Rupert, 1903-1979 (1903-06-20 - 1979-06-10)

Levson, Leon, 1883-1968 (1883 - 1968)

Reprograph Studios

No. of Items:

9 items

Span Dates:

circa 1940-circa 1970

Description:

The collection consists of items withdrawn from the Rupert Croft-Cooke Papers (MS-00988) and from books in the Ransom Center library. Item-level information follows.

957:0129:0001 -- Leon Levson (South African, born in Lithuania, 1883-1968), photographer. Formal portrait of Nicholas Monsarrat, circa 1940. Gelatin silver print;
957:0129:0002 -- Unidentified photographer. Nicholas Monsarrat on his ship during World War II, between 1940 and 1946. Gelatin silver print;
957:0129:0003 -- Unidentified photographer. Photograph of Croft-Cooke's handwritten notation on front free endpaper of a copy of the first American edition of Same Way Home, 1940 or later;
997:0105:0412 -- Unidentified photographer. Snapshot of Croft-Cooke flanked by two women, 1950s?. Chromogenic color print;
997:0105:0413-0414 -- Unidentified photographer. 'Souvenir of Cap Spartel,' snapshots of Croft-Cooke with unidentified woman, 1968. Gelatin silver prints;
997:0105:0415 -- Reprographic Studio, photographer. Formal portrait of Croft-Cooke, 1940?. Gelatin silver print;
997:0105:0416 -- Unidentified photographer. Snapshot of Croft-Cooke, May 1969. Chromogenic color print;
997:0105:0417 -- Unidentified photographer. Fourteen frames of color 35mm film.

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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

957:0129:0001-0003 -- Internal transfers from the Rupert Croft-Cooke Papers (MS-00988). 997:0105:0412-0417 -- Removed from book(s) in the Harry Ransom Center library.; 957:0129:0001-0003; 997:0105:0412-0417

Location(s):

Corl-Czz Box (957:0129:0001-0003; 997:0105:0412-0417)
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