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Call Number:

PH-02914

Collection Name:

Allen Ginsberg Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Delhi Photo Co.

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 (3 - April 5, 1997)

Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010

Wylie, Hal

No. of Items:

46 photographs

Span Dates:

20th century

Description:

The collection consists of 46 photographs (43 loose photographic prints, 1 color slide, 1 safety negative strip, and 1 nitrate negative). Subjects include Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Neal Cassady. The majority of the photographs were withdrawn from the Peter Orlovsky Collection (MS-03115).

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01467

Location(s):

Ginsberg, A., Lit File
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Cold Storage Lit File Boxes (P12)
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See Also:

Peter Orlovsky Collection

Allen Ginsberg Collection

Ira Lowe Collection of Allen Ginsberg