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Call Number:

PH-02780

Collection Name:

Ezra Pound Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Benington, Walter (1872 - )

Coburn, Alvin Langdon (1882 - 1966)

Foto Mangini

Kenner, Hugh (1923 - 2003)

Mullins, Eustace, 1923-2010 (1923 - )

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 (1885 - 1972)

Tate Gallery

United States. Army

Wide World Photos, Inc.

No. of Items:

89 photographs

Span Dates:

circa 1900s-1965

Description:

The collection consists of 89 black-and-white and color photographs of poet Ezra Pound (American, 1885-1972), as a young man and during middle age, and photographs of his family members and friends. Those represented include his wife Dorothy Pound (née Shakespear) and her mother, his mistress Olga Rudge, sculptor Hugh Oloff de Wet, friend Marcella Spann Booth, as well as writers Richard Aldington, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, John Quinn, and William Butler Yeats. Scenes include: a gathering at C. W. Gatter's home in Wyncote, Pennsylvania; views of Cheltenham Military Academy in Pennsylvania; views of Pound's neighborhood in Kensington Church Walk in London, England; and various places in Italy, including Pound's 80th birthday celebration in Rapallo, and views of the internment cell where he was held in Pisa.

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This collection forms a part of the Literary Files Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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

968:0003:0001-0022; 980:0106:0001; 983:0073:0004; 997:0032:0001-0022, 0024, 0026-0041, 0044-0058, 0060; 2007:0004:0001-0010

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00638

Location(s):

Lit File OV Box, Small (980:0106:0001; 997:0032:0018)
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Pound, E., Lit File Box (968:0003:0001-0022; 983:0073:0004; 997:0032:0001-0017, 0019-0022, 0024, 0026-0041, 0044-0058, 0060; 2007:0004:0001-0010)
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Item(s):
Artist/Maker Kenner, Hugh (1923 - 2003)
Title [Ezra Pound at Sant’ Ambrogio, March 24, 1965]
Date 24 March 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20.5 x 25.7 cm; 8 1/10 x 10 1/10 in
Accession
Number		 967:0061:0001
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound and Mrs. T. D. Horton seated at table at C. W. Gatter home, June 27, 1958]
Date 27 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 6.1 x 8.8 cm; 2 2/5 x 3 1/2 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0001
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound and Mrs. T. D. Horton [seated at table] at C. W. Gatter home, June 27, 1958 [color]
Date 27 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 20.1 x 25.2 cm; 7 9/10 x 9 9/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0002
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound and Mrs. T. D. Horton [seated at table] at C. W. Gatter home, June 27, 1958 [black-and-white]
Date 27 June 1958
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 25.2 x 20.5 cm; 9 9/10 x 8 1/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0003
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound and Mrs. T. D. Horton [seated] at C. W. Gatter home, June 27, 1958 [color]
Date 27 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 20.4 x 25.3 cm; 8 x 10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0004
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound and Mrs. T. D. Horton [seated] at C. W. Gatter home, June 27, 1958 [black-and-white]
Date 27 June 1958
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20 x 25.2 cm; 7 9/10 x 9 9/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0005
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Dorothy Pound seated at a table at C. W. Gatter home, June 27, 1958]
Date 27 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 6.1 x 8.8 cm; 2 2/5 x 3 1/2 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0006
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Dorothy Pound seated at a table at C. W. Gatter home, June 27, 1958]
Date 27 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 20 x 25.2 cm; 7 9/10 x 9 9/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0007
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound [reclining on sofa] in front parlor of C. W. Gatter home answering questions, June 27, 1958
Date 27 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 20 x 25.2 cm; 7 9/10 x 9 9/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0008
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound [seated at table] at C. W. Gatter Home, June 28, 1958 Wyncote, Pa
Date 28 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 20 x 25.2 cm; 7 9/10 x 9 9/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0009
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound and Marcella Spann walking in garden at C. W. Gatter home, June 28, 1958]
Date 28 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 6.2 x 8.8 cm; 2 2/5 x 3 1/2 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0010
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound [and Marcella Spann] walking in Garden at C. W. Gatter home, June 28, 1958 [color]
Date 28 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 20.1 x 25.2 cm; 7 9/10 x 9 9/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0011
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound walking in Garden (with Marcella Spann) at C. W. Gatter home, June 28, 1958 [black-and-white]
Date 28 June 1958
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20.2 x 25.3 cm; 8 x 10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0012
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound leaving Wyncote, Pa. for the last time, June 28, 1958]
Date 28 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 6 x 8.8 cm; 2 2/5 x 3 1/2 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0013
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound in Purple shirt. Leaving Wyncote, Pa. for the last time, June 28, 1958 [color]
Date 28 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 20.2 x 25.7 cm; 8 x 10 1/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0014
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound leaving Wyncote, Pa. for the last time, June 28, 1958 [black-and-white]
Date 28 June 1958
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20.4 x 25.3 cm; 8 x 10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0015
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound asleep in chair]
Date 27 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 8.8 x 6.2 cm; 3 1/2 x 2 2/5 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0016
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound asleep in chair]
Date 27 June 1958
Medium Dye coupler print
Dimensions 24.3 x 19.6 cm; 9 3/5 x 7 7/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0017
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Scene at Cheltenham Military Academy [symphony/band]
Date 1890s?
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20.5 x 25.7 cm; 8 1/10 x 10 1/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0018
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Scene at Cheltenham Military Academy [drum and bugle corps].
Date 1890s?
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20.5 x 25.7 cm; 8 1/10 x 10 1/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0019
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Scene at Cheltenham Military Academy [simulated battle].
Date circa 1897-1900
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 19.7 x 24.8 cm; 7 4/5 x 9 4/5 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0020
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Scene at Cheltenham Military Academy [cadets and officer]
Date circa 1897-1900
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20.2 x 25.2 cm; 8 x 9 9/10 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0021
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Calvary Presbyterian Church, Wyncote, Pa]
Date undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20.5 x 12.7 cm; 8 1/10 x 5 in
Accession
Number		 968:0051:0022
Artist/Maker Benington, Walter (1872 - )
Title [Ezra Pound]
Date 1911
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 30.3 x 23.4 cm; 11 9/10 x 9 1/5 in
Accession
Number		 980:0106:0001
Artist/Maker Foto Mangini
Title [Mario Gulio]
Date 1955
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 10.8 x 7.8 cm; 4 3/10 x 3 1/10 in
Accession
Number		 983:0073:0004
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound at Hamilton College]
Date 1905
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20.4 x 12.9 cm; 8 x 5 1/10 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0001
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound at Hamilton College]
Date 1905
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20.4 x 11.7 cm; 8 x 4 3/5 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0002
Artist/Maker Coburn, Alvin Langdon (1882 - 1966)
Title [Ezra Pound]
Date undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 24.9 x 20.1 cm; 9 4/5 x 7 9/10 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0003
Artist/Maker Coburn, Alvin Langdon (1882 - 1966)
Title [Ezra Pound]
Date undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 15.5 x 12.4 cm; 6 1/10 x 4 9/10 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0004
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound]
Date 1916
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 7.6 x 5.5 cm; 3 x 2 1/5 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0005
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound]
Date 1916
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 15.6 x 11 cm; 6 1/10 x 4 3/10 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0006
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 15.6 x 11 cm; 6 1/10 x 4 3/10 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0007
Artist/Maker Wide World Photos, Inc.
Title American Expatriate after Arrest
Date 12 May 1945
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 25.8 x 20.3 cm; 10 1/5 x 8 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0008
Artist/Maker Wide World Photos, Inc.
Title [Ezra Pound]
Date 18 November 1945
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 23 x 17.8 cm; 9 1/10 x 7 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0009
Artist/Maker Wide World Photos, Inc.
Title [Ezra Pound in Italy]
Date circa 1942
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 25.3 x 20.5 cm; 10 x 8 1/10 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0010
Artist/Maker Wide World Photos, Inc.
Title Ezra Pound back in Italy
Date 9 July 1958
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 25.3 x 20.3 cm; 10 x 8 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0011
Artist/Maker Wide World Photos, Inc.
Title [Ezra Pound, 1958]
Date 1958
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 22.7 x 17.8 cm; 8 9/10 x 7 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0012
Artist/Maker Wide World Photos, Inc.
Title [Ezra Pound, 1958]
Date 18 April 1958
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 22.7 x 17.8 cm; 8 9/10 x 7 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0013
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound, advanced in years]
Date circa 1958
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20 x 12.5 cm; 7 9/10 x 4 9/10 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0014
Artist/Maker Mullins, Eustace, 1923-2010 (1923 - )
Title Ezra Pound by Mullens [sic Mullins]
Date 1958-1960s
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 25.2 x 20.4 cm; 9 9/10 x 8 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0015
Artist/Maker Wide World Photos, Inc.
Title Ezra Pound
Date 30 July 1963
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 20.3 x 25.2 cm; 8 x 9 9/10 in
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0016
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Dinner at Newbuildings, January 18, 1914]
Date 18? January 1914
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0017
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Dinner at Newbuildings, January 18, 1914]
Date 18? January 1914
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0018
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [A Pride of Poets]
Date 18? January 1914
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0019
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Dinner at Newbuildings, January 18, 1914]
Date 18? January 1914
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0020
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and John Quinn. November 1923]
Date 1923
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0021
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and John Quinn. November 1923]
Date 1923
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0022
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats in Rapallo]
Date February? 1928
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0023
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra and Dorothy Pound aboard the Liner, Cristoforo Columbo en route to Italy]
Date 9 July 1958
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0026
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra] Pound at the home of Rep[resentative] Burdick
Date 29 April 1958
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0027
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound at the home of Representative Burdick]
Date 29 April 1958
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0028
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound + Oloff de Wet]
Date 30 October 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0029
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound and Oloff de Wet]
Date 30 October 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0030
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Photos of Ezra Pound & Olaf[f] DeWet [sic]- on Pound’s 80th Birthday
Date 30 October 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0031
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound talking to Oloff de Wet[,] 1965
Date 30 October 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0032
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound discussing a sketch with Oloff de Wet, 1965]
Date 30 October 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0033
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound with Oloff de Wet, 1965]
Date 30 October 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0034
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Ezra Pound in Rayollo [sic]
Date 30 October 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0035
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Sketch of Pound’s Head]
Date 30 October 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0036
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound with finished bust]
Date 30 October 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0037
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Study of Pound’s Hands]
Date 30 October 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0038
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound and Olga Rudge]
Date 30 October 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0039
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Bust of Ezra Pound by Oloff de Wet]
Date 1965
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0040
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Unidentified man]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0041
Artist/Maker Tate Gallery
Title [Drawing of Ezra Pound by Wyndham Lewis]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0044
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound, death mask by Nancy Cox McCormack]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0045
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound, from a "death mask" by Nancy Cox McCormack]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0046
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Mary Moore]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0047
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Artwork depicting Ezra Pound]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0048
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Dorothy Pound and her mother Olivia Shakespear]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0049
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Drawing of Mrs. Mary Moore Cross]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0050
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Painting of Ezra Pound]
Date Undated
Medium Dye coupler print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0051
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Painting of Ezra Pound]
Date Undated
Medium Dye coupler print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0052
Artist/Maker United States. Army
Title [Holding cells at the Disciplinary Training Center, Pisa]
Date circa 1945
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0053
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Drawing of D.T.C. Holding Cell - "Security Cage," Pisa, Italy, 1945]
Date circa 1945
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0054
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana Building, Rome]
Date 1940s
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0055
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound’s London apartment]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0056
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Kensington Church Walk]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0057
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Kensington Church Walk]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0058
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Drawing of Ezra Pound by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0059
Artist/Maker Coburn, Alvin Langdon (1882 - 1966)
Title [Ezra Pound]
Date 1922
Medium Collotype
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0060
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ezra Pound]
Date Undated
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 997:0032:0061

See Also:

Ezra Pound Collection: Related manuscript materials, from which some of all of this collection were likely transferred, are located in the Ezra Pound Collection (MS-03308).