Photography Collections Database

Record Detail

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Call Number:

PH-02895

Collection Name:

W. E. van (Walter Emile) Wijk Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Wijk, W. E. van (Walter Emile), 1887- (1887 - 1961)

No. of Items:

33 items

Span Dates:

first half of 20th century

Description:

The collection consists of 33 photographs, the majority of which are glass negatives of manuscripts, taken or collected by the mathematician, physicist, and science historian, W. E. van (Walter Emile) Wijk (Dutch, 1887-1961).

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This collection forms a part of the Literary Files Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

Accession No(s):

957:0002:0036-0038; 957:0005:0001-0029; 976:0002:0001

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01364

Location(s):

Wijk, W.E.V., Lit File (957:0002:0036-0038)
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Curatorial permission required Lit. Coll. Box 9 (glass negatives and transparencies 957:0005:0001-0029; 976:0002:0001)
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See Also:

University Bibliotech Leiden Photography Collection: Related material is located in the University Bibliotech Leiden Photography Collection (PH-00215) that consists of 705 photographic reproductions predominantly of ancient and historical manuscripts held by the Leiden University Library (i.e., Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Bibliotheek).