Photography Collections Database

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Call Number:

PH-02977

Collection Name:

Edith Sitwell Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Ader, Bayerd

Allied Photo Service

Beaton, Cecil (1904 - 1980)

British Broadcasting Corporation

Coster, Howard, 1885-1959 (1885 - 1959)

Country Life Limited

Cromack (Scarborough, England)

G. Bushell & Son

Henley Portraits

Keystone Press Agency

Lidbrooke (London, England)

McClellan Studios

McKenna, Rosalie Thorne (1918 - )

Meitner-Graf, Lotte, d. 1973 ( - d. 1973)

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Peter A. Juley & Son

Planet News Ltd.

Robinson, Ric

Roth, Sanford, 1906-1962 (1906 - 1962)

Sheffield Telegraph & Star ltd.

Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964 (1887 - 1964)

Studio St. Ives Limited

Underwood, John, photographer

No. of Items:

145 photographs (2 boxes)

Span Dates:

late 19th-mid-20th century

Description:

The collection consists of 145 items (photographic prints, half-tone reproductions, postcards) and includes portraits of Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, John Lehmann, and Pavel Tchelitchew, among others. There are also views of the Sitwell home, Renishaw Hall, and Castello Di Montegufoni, as well as photographic reproductions of paintings by Tchelitchew and several photographic prints of rescued animals.

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This collection forms a part of the Literary Files Photography Collection is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images by, collected by, of, and/or related to those entities.

Accession No(s):

P1-P7, P8A-P8C, P9A-P9C, P10, P11A-P11H, P12-P13, P14A-P14B, P15A-P15B, P16, P17A-P17E, P18, P19A-P19B, P20A-P20B, P21-P23, P25-P33, P34A-P34B, P35-P36, P37A-P37B, P38-P39, P40A-P40W, P41A-P41D, P42A-P42T, P43, P46A-P46C, P47-P49, P50A-P50S, P51A-P51G, P53-P54

Finding Aid URL:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01523

Location(s):

Lit File OV Box, M (P54)
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Sitwell, E., Lit File Box 1 (P1-P7, P8A-P8C, P9A-P9C, P10, P11A-P11H, P12-P13, P14A-P14B, P15A-P15B, P16, P17A-P17E, P18, P19A-P19B, P20A-P20B, P21-P23, P25-P33, P34A-P34B, P35-P36, P37A-P37B, P38-P39, P40A-P40W, P41A-P41D)
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Sitwell, E., Lit File Box 2 (P42A-P42T, P43, P46A-P46C, P47-P49, P50A-P50S, P51A-P51G, P53)
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See Also:

Edith Sitwell Art Collection: Works of art related to Sitwell can be found in the Edith Sitwell Art Collection (AR-00371).

Dame Edith Sitwell Collection: Manuscripts related to Sitwell can be found in the Dame Edith Sitwell Collection (MS-03855).