Call Number:

PH-02674

Collection Name:

Maxwell Anderson Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

1,492 items

Span Dates:

Late 19th-early 20th century

Description:

The collection consists of 1,492 items (674 photographs and safety negatives, 818 nitrate negatives, 2 drawings). Identified subjects include Maxwell Anderson and his family (parents, siblings, wives, daughter, aunt, and uncle), Judith Anderson, Robert Anderson, Beth and Wilbur Babb, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Jessie Farhe Beels, Barbara Bel Geddes, Edwin Booth, Alice Brady, Pamela Brown, Bunny Caniff, Ralph Gordon Chambers, Lee J. Cobb, Katharine Cornell, Victor de Palma, Mildred Dunnock, Florence Eldridge, Maurice Evans, Jose Ferrer, Mel Ferrer, Lynn Fontanne, Edwin Forrest, Gertrud Fridh, Ben Gazzara, John Gielgud, Julie Harris, Helen Hayes, Uno Henning, Audrey Hepburn, Pat Hingle, William Inge, Arthur Kennedy, Alfred Lunt, Frederic March, Raymond Massey, Charles Mendick, Arthur Miller, Cameron Mitchell, James Monks, Paul Muni, Alla Nazimova, Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, Eddie O'Shea, Alan Paton, John Patrick, David Pressman, William Prince, Elmer Rice, Martin Ritt, William Saroyan, Bengt Schott, Madeleine Sherwood, Robert E. Sherwood, Lawrence Stallings, Hans Straat, Folke Sundquist, Gunn Wallgren, Olaf Wallgren, Kurt Weill, Orson Welles, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams.

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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

Internal transfer(s) from manuscript collection(s) at the Harry Ransom Center.; P1-P184; 981:0057:0001; 981:0070:0001-0022; 997:0049:0001-0015

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01162

Location(s):

Anderson, M., Lit File Album 1 (P31)
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Anderson, M., Lit File Album 2 (P32)
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Anderson, M., Lit File Album 3 (981:0070:0017-0022)
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Lit File OV Box A, Small (P25-P30)
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Lit File OV Box A-B, Medium (P7B)
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Anderson, M., Lit File Box 1 (P1-P7A, P8-P24, P33-P62M)
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Anderson, M., Lit File Box 2 (P62N-P89B)
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Anderson, M., Lit File Box 3 (P90-P104DD)
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Anderson, M., Lit File Box 4 (P104EE-P104NN, P105C-P135)
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Anderson, M., Lit File Box 5 (P136-P165, P182-P184; 981:0057:0001; 981:0070:0001-0022; 997:0049:0001-0015)
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Special permission required Cold Storage Lit File Boxes (816 unnumbered negatives)
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See Also:

Maxwell Anderson Papers: Associated manuscript materials, from which these photographs were likely transferred, are located in the Maxwell Anderson Collection (MS-00089).