Call Number:

PH-02703

Collection Name:

Edward Gordon Craig Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

136 photographs

Span Dates:

Circa 1890s-1950s

Description:

The collection consists of 136 photographs of and related to Edward Gordon Craig (British, 1872-1966). The majority of the photographs are portraits of various people, including Craig throughout his life, Ellen Terry (his mother), E. W. Godwin (his father), Elena Meo, Edward and Nelly Craig (his children with Meo), Max Beerbohm, Isadora Duncan, Lord Howard de Walden, Henry Irving, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Constantin Stanislavsky. There are also views of Craig's residences in Italy and France and of the Arena Goldoni in Florence, Italy, which Craig used for his theater school. Some of the photographs are copy prints apparently associated with the biography of Craig written by his son Edward Carrick.

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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

957:0028:0001-0136; Internal transfer from the Edward Gordon Craig Collection (MS-00960), date unknown.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00737

Location(s):

Craig, E.G., Lit File Box 1 (957:0028:0001-0083)
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Craig, E.G., Lit File Box 2 (957:0028:0084-0116)
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Special permission required (Glass negatives 957:0028:0126-0136)
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Special permission required Cold Storage Lit File Boxes (Negatives 957:0028:0117-0125)
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See Also:

Edward Gordon Craig Collection