Call Number:

PH-02929

Collection Name:

Rudyard Kipling Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

141 photographs

Span Dates:

circa 1870-1940, undated

Description:

The collection consists of 141 items (47 loose photographic prints, 45 nitrate negatives, 18 glass negatives, and 31 images in an album) of and related to author and poet Rudyard Kipling (British, 1865-1936). The prints are portraits of Kipling (some are art reproductions); candid snapshots of Kipling (on a horse) in India, seated with a group of children, or speaking to a group of adults; views of Kipling's house, and of Rudyard Lake Garage; portraits of Kipling's parents; and snapshots of memorials and/or gravestones for various Kipling family members. Several images and most photographers are unidentified. The nitrate negatives are for snapshots of graves. The Kipling album contains images of East Sussex, including "Bateman's" (Kipling's home from 1902-1936) and the nearby village of Burwash, as well as Herstmonceux, Beachy Head, and views of Bodiam Castle.

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

Accession No(s):

P1-P66; 957:0098:0001-0032; 997:0079:0058; 997:0105:0627-0634

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01487

Location(s):

Kipling, R., Lit File Album 1 (957:0098:0001-0031)
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Lit File OV Box, Large (P5-P6)
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Kipling, R., Lit File
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Curatorial permission required Lit File Cabinet Storage (glass negs. P1, P7-P9, P15-P16, P35-P37; P42-P43, P49, P52-P57)
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Curatorial permission required Lit File Cold Storage (P20A-P20H; P21-P32, P33A-P33B; P58-P66; 957:0098:0003-0004, 0012-0022, 0032)
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