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Call Number:

PH-02686

Collection Name:

Ernest Hemingway Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Abbott Bros.

Arnold (Photographer in Oak Park, Illinois)

Foto Mantel

Hemingway, Ernest (1899 - 1961)

Luck, Constantin

Man Ray, 1890-1976 (1890 - 1976)

Monfort Studios

Walinger

No. of Items:

1500 items

Span Dates:

1896-1956

Description:

The Ernest Hemingway Literary File consists of over 1500 images, chiefly of Ernest’s childhood and family members (siblings, parents, grandparents, and siblings’ spouses and children), and of his parents’ travels in the United States and Cuba. Formats include cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, matted and unmatted formal portraits, snapshots, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, glass negatives and positive transparencies, and a nitrate negative. Most of the snapshots were made by Ernest’s father, Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway.

Accession No(s):

Internal transfer(s) from manuscript collection(s) at the Harry Ransom Center.; P1A-P1C, P3-P24, P25A-P25B, P26, P27A-P27B, P34-P64 (957:0041:0001); 975:0089:0001-0039; 997:0043:0012; unaccessioned items

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01234

Location(s):

G-K Lit File OV Box, Medium (P16, P23)
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G-H Lit File OV Box, Large (P24)
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Curatorial permission required 1 osb, Literary Files Cased Items Box 3 (975:0089:0001-0008, 0010-0039; 997:0043:0012)
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Hemingway, E., Lit File Boxes 1-5
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Hemingway, E., Lit File Boxes 6-8
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Curatorial permission required Lit File Cabinet Storage (glass negative)
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Curatorial permission required Lit File Cabinet Storage (glass positive)
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Curatorial permission required Cold Storage Lit File Boxes (1 nitrate negative)
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Item(s):

Title	[Family Portrait with Ernest Hemingway as a Baby]
Date	1900-1901
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Accession Number	1024838

Artist/Maker	unidentified photographer
Title	[Charles Hancock]
Date	circa 1860-1880s
Medium	Tintype in case
Accession Number	975:0089:0013

Artist/Maker	unidentified photographer
Title	[Alexander Hancock]
Date	ca. 1840s-1860s
Medium	Daguerreotypes
Dimensions	11 x 8.4 cm; 4 3/10 x 3 3/10 in
Accession Number	997:0043:0012

Artist/Maker	unidentified photographer
Title	[Ernest Hemingway and His Siblings Marcelline, Ursula, Madelaine "Sunny", Carol, and Leicester]
Date	1915 October 1
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Accession Number	P12

Artist/Maker	Man Ray, 1890-1976 (1890 - 1976)
Title	[Hadley Richardson Hemingway]
Date	likely 1920s
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Accession Number	P24

Artist/Maker	unidentified photographer
Title	[Ernest Hemingway in Uniform]
Date	1917-1918
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Accession Number	P3

Artist/Maker	unidentified photographer
Title	[Ernest Hemingway in Uniform]
Date	1917-1918, rephotographed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print (copy print)
Accession Number	P5

Artist/Maker	unidentified photographer
Title	[Ernest Hemingway on the Lap of His Mother, Grace Hall Hemingway]
Date	1900
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Accession Number	P9

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See Also:

Ernest Hemingway Collection

Ernest Hemingway Art Collection