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Call Number:

PH-02774

Collection Name:

Dylan Thomas Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Adler, Bunny

Brinnan, J. M.

British Broadcasting Corporation

British Travel and Holiday Association

British Travel Association

Camera Press

Deakin, John, 1912-1972 (1912 - 1972)

F. Frith & Co.

Friedman-Abeles

Glass, Douglas, 1901-1978 (1901 - 1978)

Hackett, G. D.

Harvard-Jones, Beti

Herrmann, Frank

Johnson, Pamela Hansford, 1912-1981 (1912 - )

Kemsley Picture Service

Keystone Press Agency

Levy, Marie

March, Christina

Marnier, Brigit

McBean, Angus (1904 - 1990)

McKenna, Rosalie Thorne (1918 - )

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

Radio Times Hulton Picture Library

South Wales Evening Post

Summers, Nora, 1892-1948 (1892 - 1948)

Sunday Times (London, England)

Thomas, Dylan (1914 - 1953)

Thomas, Jack, active 1910s-1950s

Times (London, England) (1785 - )

Watkins, Vernon Phillips, 1906-1967 (1906 - 1967)

Williams, Oscar, 1900-1964 (1900 - 1964)

No. of Items:

279 items

Span Dates:

circa 1910s-1950s

Description:

The collection consists of 279 images of, by, and related to the poet and author Dylan Thomas (Welsh, 1914-1953). Included are portraits of Thomas, his wife Caitlin Macnamara, their children Llewelyn, Aeronwy, and Colm, Thomas' mother Florence, and other family members, as well as friends and associates. There are also photographic reproductions of sketches by Thomas, scenes from a production of Under Milkwood, and views of places in Wales associated with Thomas, including Laugharne, where Thomas moved with his family in 1938.

Further descriptions of some items may be available in a card catalog in the repository. An index of photographers featured in the collection can be found in the finding aid for the collection.

This collection forms a part of the Literary Files Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

Accession No(s):

983:0021:0001-0005 -- Purchase, 1983 (R 10017); P1-P110 -- Internal transfers, likely from the Dylan Thomas Collection (MS-04203); P1-P110; 983:0021:0001-0050, 0052-0065

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01528

Location(s):

Lit File OV Box, Small (P17B)
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Lit File OV Box, Medium (P11, P19B)
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Thomas, D., Lit File Box 1 (P1-P10, P12-P17A, P18-P19A, P20-P49)
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Thomas, D., Lit File Box 2 (P50A-P88)
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Thomas, D., Lit File Box 3 (P89-P110; 983:0021:0001-0050, 0052-0065)
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Curatorial permission required Cold Storage Lit File Boxes (Negatives and transparencies)
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Item(s):

Title	Photo postcard of Dylan Thomas as a small child (seated), with mother and sister
Date	nd
Accession Number	5036268

Title	Photo of young Dylan Thomas with drink, nd.
Accession Number	5036270

Artist/Maker	Watkins, Vernon
Title	Photo of Dylan and Caitlin Thomas playing croquet at Pennard.
Date	nd
Accession Number	5036274

Title	Photograph of Dylan and Caitlin Thomas in boat.
Date	nd
Accession Number	5036275

Title	Photo of Dylan Thomas, Caitlin Thomas, Florence Thomas, and children.
Date	nd
Accession Number	5036276

Title	Photo of the Boat House at Laugharne
Accession Number	5036281

Title	Photo of Dylan Thomas at BBC microphone
Accession Number	5036282

Title	Photo of Under Milk Wood Rehearsal, nd
Accession Number	5036287

Title	Photo of Dylan Thomas seated at bar, nd
Accession Number	5036290

Artist/Maker	Thomas, Dylan
Title	Sketch of Edith Sitwell, nd
Accession Number	5036291

Artist/Maker	unidentified photographer
Title	Photo of Pamela Hansford Johnson seated at typewriter, 1936
Date	1936
Accession Number	5036292

Artist/Maker	Thomas, Dylan
Title	Sketch, "A Man After Money", nd
Accession Number	5036293

Artist/Maker	unidentified photographer
Title	Photo of Dylan Thomas and Pearl Kazin, 1951
Date	1951
Accession Number	5036295

Artist/Maker	Thomas, Dylan
Title	Sketch "To whiskey from Dylan 1945"
Date	1945
Accession Number	5036296

Artist/Maker	Thomas, Dylan
Title	Sketch of man at bar, nd
Accession Number	5036297

Artist/Maker	Deakin, John
Title	Photo of Dylan Thomas at Laugharne graveyard, waist-deep in the vines. 1953?
Accession Number	5036300

Artist/Maker	Adler, Bunny
Title	[Dylan Thomas at the White Horse Tavern, New York City]
Date	1952?
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	image: 19.1 x 19 cm; 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in; sheet: 25.3 x 20.5 cm; 10 x 8 1/10 in
Accession Number	957:0175:0029

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See Also:

Dylan Thomas Collection

Dylan Thomas Art Collection