Photography Collections Database

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Call Number:

PH-02692

Collection Name:

W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham Literary File Photograph Collection

Creator:

Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (1922 - )

Bown, Jane (1925 - 2014)

Dieuzaide, Jean, 1921- (1921 - 2003)

Dover Street Studios

Foulsham & Banfield

Gerson, Mark, 1921- (1921 - )

Greenhaus, Ben

Lyons, Islay, 1922-1993 (1922 - )

MacDonald, Pirie, 1867-1942 (1867 - 1942)

Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 (1874 - 1965)

Nolan, Herbert K.

Quinn, Edward ( - d. 1997)

Rotary Photographic Co. Ltd.

Vaccaro, Tony, 1922- (1922 - )

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 (1880 - 1964)

Wide World Photos, Inc.

No. of Items:

229 items

Span Dates:

1870s-1965

Description:

The collection consists of 229 items related to the novelist, playwright, and short story author W. Somerset Maugham (English, 1874-1965), most of which depict him throughout his life, both alone and with various people. Also included are interior and exterior views of his home.

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01501

Location(s):

Maugham, W.S., Lit File Album 1 (957:0090:0001-0008)
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L-M Lit File OV Box, Small (P130A-P130C)
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Maugham, W.S., Lit File Box 1 (P1-P8, P9A-P9D, P10-P25, P26A-P26B, P27, P28A-P28B, P29-P34)
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Maugham, W.S., Lit File Box 2 (P35-P62, P62A, P63-P100, P101A-P101E, P102-P116)
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Maugham, W.S., Lit File Box 3 (P117-P121, P122A-P122B, P123-P126, P127A-P127E, P128-P129, P131-P148, P149A-P149C, P150-P152, P153A-P153C, P154, P155A-P155B, P156, P157A-P157C, P159A-P159C, P160-P188, P194; 980:0104:0001; 980:0105:0001)
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Lit File Flat File (P189-P193)
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See Also:

W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham Collection: Associated manuscript materials, from which these photographs were likely transferred, are located in the W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham Collection (MS-02725).