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Call Number:

PH-02936

Collection Name:

Elbert Hubbard Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Bach Bros.

Ellis (Photographer)

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1856 - 1915)

Hyatt (Photographer)

Lively, William Spencer, 1855-1944 (1855 - 1944)

Moffett Studio

Nagel & Dursthoff (Berlin)

Schervee, Herman, 1867-1923 (1867 - 1923)

Strauss, J. C. (Julius Caesar), 1857-1924 (1857 - 1924)

Topley, William James, 1845-1930 (1846 - 1930)

W. S. Lively & Son

Williams, R. Morris, 1850-1931

No. of Items:

24 items

Span Dates:

circa 1904-1915

Description:

The collection consists of 24 pictures (22 photographic prints and 1 photogravure), the majority of which are portraits of Elbert Hubbard (American, 1856-1915), author, publisher, philosopher, and founder of the the Roycroft arts and crafts community in East Aurora, New York. Item 997:0079:0126 was removed from a copy of Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Beecher (East Aurora, N.Y.: Roycrofters, 1903) that is located in the Center's library (call number PN 4012 H7 1903 HRC). These materials were likely transferred from the Elbert Hubbard Collection (MS-02048).

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This collection forms a part of the Literary File Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.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

957:0150:0001-0021 -- Internal transfer; 957:0150:0001-0021; 997:0079:0126; 999:0036:0026, 0131; 997:0079:0126 -- Internal transfer; 999:0036:0026, 0131 -- Internal transfer

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01389

Location(s):

Lit File OV Box, Medium (957:0150:0021)
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Hubbard, E., Lit File (957:0150:0001-0020; 997:0079:0126; 999:0036:0026, 0131)
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Item(s):

Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Elbert Hubbard with bicycle on Roycroft Campus]
Date 1914 or 1915
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number
957:0150:0018

See Also:

Elbert Hubbard Art Collection: Additional visual works that were owned by Hubbard are located in the Elbert Hubbard Art Collection (AR-00123).

Elbert Hubbard Collection: Related manuscripts and correspondence, from which these works were likely transferred, are located in the Elbert Hubbard Collection (MS-02048).

J. C. (Julius Caesar) Strauss Photography Collection: Two additional photographs of Hubbard are located in the J. C. (Julius Caesar) Strauss Photography Collection (PH-01446).