Photography Collections Database

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Call Number:

PH-02690

Collection Name:

R. G. (Robert Guy) Howarth Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Cape Argus (Cape Town, South Africa)

Clarke, J. Palmer

Howarth, R. G. (Robert Guy), 1906-1974 (1906 - 1974)

Wilson, George Washington (1823 - 1893)

No. of Items:

280 items

Span Dates:

1906-1974

Description:

The R. G. (Robert Guy) Howarth Literary File consists of 275 photographs (8 photographic prints, 192 negatives, and 80 lantern slides). An index at the end of this guide lists photographers whose work is featured in this file.

The lantern slides were originally described in two separate series, "Shakespeare’s Theatre, Elizabethan England" (P26-P65) and "Shakespeare’s Theatre, Elizabethan and Modern England" (P66-P105). The series titles were taken from notes accompanying the the original housings, which were two black boxes designed to hold lantern slides. The boxes were labeled "Shakespeare I" and "Shakespeare II / Colour photogr." The images are chiefly reproductions of book illustrations or typescript, with a few being photographs from life, so noted. Most of the slides have labels with identification and/or original slide numbers, while a few which have no labels at all; quoted titles were devised from slide content (text).

Please consult finding aid for more detailed information and to page materials to the Reading and Viewing Room. 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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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):

957:0161:0001-0013; P9-P105; Internal transfers

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01199

Location(s):

Lit File OV Box, Small (957:0161:0004-0007)
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Hex-Hoz Lit File Box (957:0161:0001-0003, 0012; P9-P25)
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Curatorial permission required Cabinet Storage (glass negatives 957:0161:0008-0011, 0013)
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See Also:

R. G. (Robert Guy) Howarth Papers