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Sylvia Beach Papers
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
This collection documents the life and activities of Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), the American author, publisher, and owner of Shakespeare & Company, the Paris bookshop that was a meeting-point for French, English, Irish and American writers during the 1920's and 1930's. The collection consists largely of files relating to Shakespeare & Company; Beach's writings and translations, in particular her memoir Shakespeare & Company ; and files relating to the circle of artists and writers surrounding her throughout her life. Included are family, personal, and business correspondence; business records of Shakespeare & Company; personal and family records; manuscripts and artwork by members of her circle; photographs; and memorabilia.
The rich correspondence series consists of correspondence from and to Sylvia Beach and includes artists such as Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Robert McAlmon, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, Alice B. Toklas, Marianne Moore, Katherine Anne Porter, Richard Wright, George Antheil, Harriet Weaver, Gordon Craig, Arthur Symons, Ford Madox Ford, Frank Harris, Norman Douglas, Ivy Litvinoff, Richard Aldington, Stuart Gilbert, Cyril Connolly, D. H. Lawrence, Stephen Spender, Dorothy Richardson, to name but a few.
The collection also contains the files of Shakespeare & Company, Sylvia Beach's bookshop in Paris. Consisting largely of the shop's business records, the series notably contains the files of Shakespeare & Company's lending library, including member records and their readings. Of special interest is the material relating to Beach's publication of James Joyce, most importantly Joyce's Ulysses .
Also present is an extensive series of photographs documenting the different facets and relationships central to Beach's life, including family, friends, members of her artistic circle, and her life in Paris. They include snapshots as well as formal portraits, many of them captioned, and a number of them by noted photographers such as Gisèle Freund and Man Ray.
The collection further includes materials relating to Sylvia Beach's own writings and translations; artworks and literary manuscripts collected by her both for their artistic value and out of her interest in the artists; files relating to her personal life and files created by and relating to members of her family; and memorabilia.
Arranged into the following series: Series 1: Correspondence; Series 2: Shakespeare & Company; Series 3: Writings and Translations; Series 4: Personal Records; Series 5: Family Records; Series 6: Sylvia Beach's Circle and Collections; Series 7: Photographs; Series 8: Memorabilia
"The Sylvia Beach Collection" by Howard C. Rice, Jr., The Princeton University Library Chronicle , Vol. XXVI, No. 1 (Autumn, 1964). pp. 7-15.
Some materials, including letters from Ernest Hemingway to Sylvia Beach, are available on microfilm.
The collection, which had remained in Miss Beach's Paris apartment at 12, Rue de l'Odéon since her death there in October 1962, was acquired in 1964 from the Sylvia Beach estate, through the generosity of Graham D. Mattison, Princeton Class of 1926, and with the interest and support of Miss Beach's surviving sister, Mrs. Frederic J. (Holly Beach) Dennis of Greenwich, Connecticut.
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This collection was processed by Enid Adelson, Paul Koepp and Karla J. Vecchia in 2004.
Reprocessed by Regine Heberlein and Valerie Addonizio (photographs series) in 2012.
During 2012 processing, the collection (except for the photographs series) was re-arranged on the folder level. The existing distribution of materials in folders and their labels were largely preserved except where found to be wrong.
Folder inventory prepared by Nicholas Williams '2015 and Allyse Terrell '2014 in 2012. During 2022, restrictions on original items, including Ernest Hemingway materials, were lifted as part of a restrictions review project. Lexy deGraffenreid updated the Conditions Governing Access note in January 2025.
Individual items that were originally acquired as part of the Sylvia Beach Papers are now curated by the Graphic Arts division, including the Shakespeare & Company shop sign painted by Marie Monnier-Bécat; a portrait of Sylvia Beach in oil by Paul-Émile Bécat, signed, Paris, 1923; and a full-length portrait of Adrienne Monnier in oil by Paul-Émile Bécat, Paris 1921;
In addition, two items that remain part of the Sylvia Beach Papers are: an oak cabinet and a bust of William Shakespeare executed in colored Staffordshireware.
People
- Joyce, James (1882-1941)
- Abreu, Simone (de Bretteville)
- Alderman, Pauline (1893-1983)
- Aldington, Richard (1892-1962)
- Alexandre
- Alvear, Elvira de
- Antoine-May, Renée
- Aragon (1897-1982)
- Arvanon, Cyrille
- Auger, Pierre
- Baker
- Baldwin, Helen (Green)
- Baltrusaitis, Hélène (Focillon)
- Bazin de Jessey, Fiamette (de Thierry)
- Beach
- Beach, Sylvia
- Beaulieu, Benoit de
- Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986)
- Bedouret, Lionel
- Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940)
- Bernheim
- Bernheim, Antoinette
- Bernheim, Françoise
- Bidoire (Boulenger)
- Bird, William
- Blackmer, Alan
- Blaess, Madeleine
- Blatas, Sylvia (Satenstein)
- Bloch, Marguerite (Herzog)
- Bonnerot, Louis
- Boscq, Marie-Claire
- Bouniols, Louise Olga
- Bourassin
- Bourdet, Claude
- Boyd, James (1888-1944)
- Boyd, Madeleine
- Bramwell, Gloria
- Brémond, Helene
- Brinquant, Simone (Villers)
- Brody, Rachel
- Brooks, Alden
- Brull, Odile
- Brull-Ulmann, Colette
- Bruno, Jean
- Bryher
- Buratti, Jean
- Burnet, Mary Scott
- Burt, Maud
- Busy
- Butler, H. M.
- Caetani, Marguerite (Chapin)
- Cahun, Claude (1894-1954)
- Caillois, Roger (1913-1978)
- Petitjean, Armand
- Camerlynck-Guernier, Gabrielle
- Camille, Georgette
- Camp, Ruth
- Campbell, Arlen
- Carr, Philip
- Carroll, Akrata (von Schrader)
- Cassaigne, Ella
- Catel, Jean
- Cayeux, Jean de
- Cayton, Horace
- Cazamian, Marguerite
- Cazes, Edmond
- Césaire, Aimé
- Chalot, Monique
- Chambaz, Marcel
- Chambrillac, René
- Chanler
- Charbonnel, Mary Maryse
- Chareau, Dorothee
- Chaudot, Marcelle
- Chenneviere, André
- Child, Bertha Cushing
- Chonez, Claudine
- Chopard
- Church, Barbara
- Church, Henry
- Churchill, E. M.
- Citron, Pierre
- Clairin, Pierre-Eugène
- Clairin, Theresa (Shiff)
- Clark, John d'Arcy
- Claudius, Agnes
- Clermont-Tonnerre, Élisabeth (de Gramont)
- Clizbe
- Clogenson, Yves
- Coche de la Ferté, Étienne.
- LeCoeur
- Coffey
- Colens, Fernand
- Collins, R. F.
- Colly
- Comte, le
- Connolly, Cyril
- Cornu
- Couët, B. de
- Coyle, Kestrel
- Crane, Louise
- Crosby, Caresse
- Culbert, W. H.
- Cullerre, Madeleine
- Culley, Eric
- Culme-Seymour, M. C.
- Culver, Donald
- Dachary, Renée
- Dalsace
- Daumal, René
- Davaine, Fred
- Davet, Yvonne (1906)
- Delimal, Eric
- Denham
- Denis, Pierre
- Denis-Graterolle, Elisabeth
- Dennis, Holly Beach
- Dennis, Mary Cable (1872)
- Denoel, Pierre
- Dent
- Desclos, Anne
- Desclos, A.
- Deslernes, Jean
- Devies, Lucien (1910)
- Diebold, Jeanine
- Dillon, George
- Dolan, Rose
- Du Bos, Charles
- Dudley, Katherine
- Duff, Donald
- Dufour, Charles
- Duhamel, Marcel
- Dullin
- Duperley, Denis
- Dupré, Marie Antoinette
- Dupuy, Michel
- Duren, Jean
- Duteurtre, Claude
- Duthie, Enid Lowry
- Dyer, Louise
- Eastman, Max (1883-1969)
- Edel, Bertha (Cohen)
- Edel, Leon (1907-1997)
- Edwards, Thomas
- Eggimann, Bouvier Adele
- Elfvik, Maj
- Ellis, Havelock (1859-1939)
- Eloff, Fanie (1885-1947)
- Enfield, J.
- Engel, Frédéric
- Engelman, Martin (1924-1992)
- Espitalier
- Estrangin
- Exideuil, Pierre d'
- Fabre, Cécile.
- Faidherbe, Francoise
- Falquel, Louis
- Farrar
- Felder
- Fels, Marthe de
- Ferrater, Gabriel
- Field, George
- Finger
- Fischer, Marjorie
- Fitzgerald
- Fitzherbert, P.
- Flandrau, Grace
- Flanner, Janet
- Focillon, Marguerite
- Foltz, Charles
- Fombeure, Maurice (1906-1981)
- Forceville, de
- Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939)
- Forest-Divonne, André de la
- Foret, de la
- Fourcade, Jean
- Fournerey
- Fournier, Jeanne
- Franchot, Stanislas Pascal
- Francillon, Robert
- Francs, des
- Frieseke, Sarah Anne
- Garano Gonzalez, Mariella
- Gascoyne, David
- Gay, Francisque
- Genet, Jean (1910-1986)
- Genet, Mme. Jean
- Gerbault, Paul
- Gibault, H.
- Gibert, Madeleine
- Gide, André (1869-1951)
- Gide, Catherine
- Giedion-Welcker, Carola
- Gilbert, Stuart
- Gillet, Louis
- Gillet, Robert
- Gillie, Darsie Rutherford
- Gischia, Gerry
- Gischia, Léon
- Goldman, Emma
- Golotine
- Goodwin
- Gosse, Emilienne
- Goyert, Georg (1884)
- Grassot, R. (Pissot)
- Gray, William
- Greenich, Sybil
- Gregory, Patrick
- Groethuisen
- Guillemin, Annie
- Guilloux, Louis
- Guiringaud, Pierre de
- Haltel
- Hamilton
- Harden, E.
- Harmsworth, Desmond
- Harper, Allanah
- Hartmann, Françoise
- Harvey, Dorothy (Dudley)
- Hebant, Jeanne
- Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
- Henry, Georgette
- Herbais de Thun, Marie-Valerie d'
- Herbart, Elizabeth
- Heurgon, Jacques
- Hiler, Hilaire
- Hobhouse, U.
- Hoboken, Annemarie (Seidel) van
- Hommel, Bernard
- Imbs, Bravig
- Jacquet, Ernest
- James, T. M.
- Jeanneney, Marie-Laure (Monod)
- Johnson, Marian (Willard)
- Jolas, M.
- Jordan, Howard
- Joyce, Stanislaus
- Kalbfleisch, Beulah (Boynton)
- Kaopeitzer
- Kennedy, Robert
- Kidder, Margaret
- Killen, Alice M.
- King, F.
- Kittredge, Eleanor (Hayden)
- Knipper, Georgette
- Kramer, Lewis
- La Gorce, Agnès de.
- Lacan, Jacques (1901-1981)
- Lacorne, Martine
- Lacroix, E.
- Lafoy, Denise
- Lambert, Jacqueline
- Lamberts
- Lamblin, Bianca (1921)
- Lamirault, Raymonde
- Lamont, Frances Kent (1899-1975)
- Lamy, Marthe
- Langlois
- Lanux, Eyre de
- Lanux, Pierre de (1887-1955)
- Laporte, Madeleine
- Larbaud, Valéry (1881-1957)
- Laughlin, James
- Le Gallienne, Irma
- Le Gallienne, Richard (1866-1947)
- Lebois, André
- Ledoux, Yvette
- Leer, L. E. van
- Leibowitz, René (1913-1972)
- Lemonnier, Léon (1890-1953)
- Léon, Paul
- Lerolle, Guillaume
- Lescure, Yvonne
- Lestocquoy, Bernard
- Leveque, Susanne
- Levinson, Marie
- Levy, Catherine
- Lewisohn, Ludwig (1882-1955)
- Leyris, Betty
- Leyris, Pierre.
- Lier, van
- Linossier, Raymonde (1897-1930)
- Longueau Saint-Michel, de
- Loon, van
- Lord, Eda
- Lorsignol, Pierre
- Lubersac, Constance (Livermore-Seillière) de
- Lucas
- Lucas, B.
- Ludlow, Mary Sophie
- Lyon, Martine
- Mackenzie, D. S. S.
- MacLeish, Archibald (1892-1982)
- Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923)
- Mantoy
- Manziarly, Marcelle de (1899-1989)
- Marcel, Gabriel
- Marcilly, Françoise de (1905-2000)
- Mardrus, Jacques
- Margerie, Henriette de
- Marotte
- Marsland, Harriet
- Martin, Maud
- Martin, Simone
- Martinuzzi, Frank
- Masoliver, Juan Ramón.
- Maspero, Cécile Sophie Blanche
- Maspero-Clerc, Héléne
- Massé, Georgette
- Massey, A. W.
- Massuger, Francoise
- Mathews, Jackson.
- Maurice, Constantin-Weyer
- Maurois, André (1885-1967)
- Maxwell
- Mayer, N. E.
- Mayran, Camille.
- Mazon
- McAlmon, Robert
- McGrew, Marie Carroll
- McNair
- Melik
- Melot, Alberte
- Menzies, Elsa
- Mercanton, Jacques
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1908-1961)
- Merrick, Leonard (1864-1939)
- Merzbach, Mathilde
- Mespoulet, Suzanne
- Metcalf, Thomas N.
- Meyer, Florence
- Mian, Mary
- Michaelides, L.
- Michaux, Henri (1899-1984)
- Milhaud, Madeleine
- Miller
- Milward, J. D.
- Mingalon, Christianne
- Moal, le
- Moal, Paul le
- Monnier, Adrienne
- Montricher, Cécile de
- Morgan
- Morinni, Clara de
- Morison, Theodore
- Morrow, Christine
- Murphy, Dudley
- Murray, John
- O'Connor, Roderic L.
- Oerthel, Maurice
- Ogden, C. K.
- Oldenburger, Eleanor
- Oppen, George
- Orbison, Agnes
- Orbison, Douglas
- Ottensooser
- Ottocar
- Pader
- Pagan
- Paige, Antoinette
- Parisot
- Parmée, Douglas.
- Parrain, Rose Marie
- Pasquier, Jean
- Patmore, Brigit
- Paul, Elliot
- Paul-Dubois, Louis
- Pauleau, Marie-Jeanne
- Payot (Firm : Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Peake, Charles.
- Peggram, Reed
- Pelorson, Andrée (Hirsch)
- Perkins
- Pfeffel, de
- Pfeiffer, Pauline
- Pfeiffer, Virginia
- Pfiffer
- Philip, Terence
- Philipson
- Picard, Pierre
- Pierret, Jean
- Plummer, Dorothy
- Poirson, Christine
- Ponsonby, David
- Poole, Kitty (Wickes)
- Poorilz, Michael
- Porcher
- Porel, Jacques
- Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980)
- Potocki de Montalk, Geoffrey,, Count
- Pottecher, Therèse
- Pottier
- Pottier, Ph
- Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
- Pouree, Jean
- Pourtales, Guy de
- Prenter, Helen
- Pressly, Eugene
- Prévost, Jean
- Prévost, Mme. Gérard
- Prevost, Marcelle (Auclair)
- Price, Phyllis
- Pringle
- Prochasson, Alice
- Proix
- Prot, Alina
- Pulsford, G. E.
- Putzel, Howard
- Puy Fontaine, de
- Quennell
- Ralli, Georges
- Ramniklalk, Trivedi
- Raoussel, de
- Raphael
- Reeves, Joyce
- Regnier, Henri
- Reid, John
- Reid, Marjorie
- Renaudin, Paul
- Renoir, Edmond
- Reverchon, Blanche
- Rey, Jean-Dominique.
- Reynal, Jeanne
- Reynolds, A. M.
- Rhys
- Rice, Matilda
- Richard, P.
- Richards-Orpen
- Richardson
- Richardson, Marian
- Richer, Jean
- Rieder
- Rindges, M. B.
- Rirachowsky, Fanny
- Ris
- Riviere, Jean
- Rivoallan, Anatole
- Roberts
- Robertson, William Cowper
- Robin, Armand
- Rocatallada, Carmen Muñoz
- Roditi, Édouard
- Roditi, Georges.
- Roditi, Marcel D.
- Rodker, John
- Rodman, Selden
- Roger-Levy
- Roger-Roubin, Alexis
- Rogers, Charles
- Rogers, Samuel
- Rolla
- Rolland, Madeleine
- Rolo
- Romains, Jules
- Rooker, John Kingsley
- Rose, de
- Roubin, Alexis
- Roussel
- Rowe-Dutton, Gwen
- Roy, Jean
- Royer-Sement
- Saby, Bernard (1925-1975)
- Sachs, Maurice
- Sage
- Sage, Robert
- Saillet, Maurice.
- Samyn, Ann
- Sargent
- Sarraute, Nathalie
- Satie, Erik
- Saunders, Olivia
- Saur, Maurice
- Savage, Steele.
- Savitsky, Ludmila
- Savy, Alice
- Sayre, Jesse (Wilson)
- Schenk
- Schereck, Mildred
- Schirmer, Mabel
- Schlumberger
- Schlumberger, Jean
- Schueller
- Scott, A.
- Scudder, Janet
- Scudder, Raymond
- Scudder, Thomas
- Seager, Katherine
- Seillier
- Service, Robert W.
- Sessions, Barbara
- Shapiro, Phyllis W.
- Shaw, M. R. B.
- Shayerovitch, Janine
- Sheldon, James S.
- Shelley, Dorothy
- Shelton, Caroline
- Sibon, Marcelle.
- Simon-Juquin
- Smyth-Pigott, Clare (Feilding)
- Solano, Solita
- Somerville
- Sorel
- Sortor
- Soupault, Philippe
- Speaight, R. L.
- Spender, Stephen
- Sperry
- Spira, Claude
- Steegmuller, Francis
- Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)
- Stein, Leo
- Stern, James
- Stevens, George
- Stirling, Monica
- Summerell, Bessie
- Suter, G. V.
- Swan, Emma
- Swasey, Horatio Robert
- Sweeney, James
- Sykes, Christopher
- Syrett, Netta
- Sze, Mai-mai
- Tabouis, Geneviéve (1892-1985)
- Tate, Allen (1899-1979)
- Tehin, Liang Pa'i
- Delpech, Jeanine
- Téry, Simone.
- Thayer, Woodbridge
- Thellier de Poncheville, Nicole (Canlorbe)
- Theves, Elizabeth
- Thiébaut, Marcel (1897-1961)
- Thomas, Henri (1912-1993)
- Thomassin, Franz
- Thoreux, Andrée
- Tomlinson, E. R.
- Tony-Mayer, Therese
- Torrence, Ridgely (1875-1950)
- Tourneux, Pierre
- Tournier
- Tree, Iris (1897-1968)
- Treirse
- Trevelyan, Julian (1910-1988)
- Tritton, A.
- Tuttle, Stephen Davidson (1907-1954)
- Ullmann, Lisette
- Ullmann, W. E.
- Ulmann, Denise
- Ulsh, Doretha
- Upton, Mary Newton
- Valerio
- Valéry, François
- van den Bergh, Tamara
- Vandel, H. S.
- Varney, John
- Vechten, Ann van
- Venable, Edward C. (Edward Carrington) (1884-1936)
- Vernet, François (1917 or 1918-1945)
- Vidor, King (1894-1982)
- Vieillard, Gilbert (1899-1940)
- Vieillot, Marie-Therese (1888-1985)
- Vielé, Mary
- Vienne, de
- Vigan, Monique de (1914)
- Villars, M.
- Violette, G.
- Visser
- Vogein, Pierre
- Vogué, de
- Vox, Maximilien
- Walker, Natalie
- Wallace, Lillian
- Wallace, Richard
- Waller, Robert
- Walsh, Ernest (1895-1926)
- Wang
- Wang, Chun Jen
- Warfield, Frances
- Waterfield
- Waterfield, Gordon (1903)
- Watson
- Watson, George
- Watson, Sarah Pressly (1885-1959)
- Wauquier, René
- Weaver, Audrey
- Wegner, Max Christian
- Weiss, Colette
- Welles Briggs, Carlotta
- Wendel, Hélène de
- Wharton
- Wheeler, Monroe (1899-1988)
- Whitman, Tania
- Whitridge
- Wibbelz, Henry W.
- Wickham, Anna (1884-1947)
- Wigram, Ava
- Wilde, Dolly (1895-1941)
- Wilder, Charlotte F. (1839-1916)
- Wilkinson, Tudor
- Williams, Marjorie
- Williamson, Scott Graham (1909-1948)
- Wilson, Margaret
- Wilson, Natalie
- Wilson, Romer (1891-1930)
- Winger
- Winner, Harry E.
- Wissotzky, Irene
- Wolkowitsch, J. L.
- Wood, Thelma
- Woodward, Daphne
- Woolsey, Leslie (Laughlin)
- Worthing
- Wright, Ellen
- Wright, Julia
- Wright, Richard (1908-1960)
- Van Wyck, William (1883-1956)
- Yard, Amy
- Yarrow, Catherine (1904-1990)
- Ybarra, Penny
- Yeats, Anne (1919-2001)
- Abramov, Ayala Zacks
- Zibell, Francoise
- Zimmer, Isabelle
- Zogheb, M. de
Organization
- Shakespeare and Company (Paris, France)
- British Institute
- Éditions "Les Revues"
- Libraries des deux Lycée
- Mesures
- Rhein (Verlag)
- Synops
Subject
- Authors and publishers -- France. -- 20th century
- Authors, American -- France. -- 20th century
- Authors, English -- France. -- 20th century
- Authors, French. -- 20th century
- Authors, Irish -- France. -- 20th century
- Booksellers and bookselling -- France -- Paris. -- 20th century -- Biography
- Bookstores -- France -- Paris. -- 20th century
- Exiles' writings. -- 20th century
- Novelists, American -- France. -- 20th century
- Novelists, English -- France. -- 20th century
- Novelists, Irish -- France. -- 20th century
- Publishers and publishing -- France -- Paris. -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Paris
Place
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2004
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Collection Inventory
The correspondence series includes correspondence from and to Sylvia Beach. While this series largely encompasses Sylvia Beach's personal correspondence, previously interfiled business correspondence has been maintained in this file group. Correspondence with family members is interfiled.
Correspondents of note include Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Robert McAlmon, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, Alice B. Toklas, Marianne Moore, Katherine Anne Porter, Richard Wright, George Antheil, Harriet Weaver, Gordon Craig, Arthur Symons, Ford Madox Ford, Frank Harris, Norman Douglas, Ivy Litvinoff, Richard Aldington, Stuart Gilbert, Cyril Connolly, D. H. Lawrence, Stephen Spender, Dorothy Richardson, and others.
Researchers primarily interested in Sylvia Beach's business correspondence are advised also to consult the Shakespeare & Company series.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically within.
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Includes an autograph manuscript of "Autobiography of Wonder: A Collection of Poetical Scratchings" sent by Elbridge Anderson to Sylvia Beach.
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Regarding O'Neill incident.
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Includes letter to Sylvia Beach and note from Ernest Hemingway.
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Includes first check mailed by Eleanor Beach for opening of Shakespeare & Company.
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Regarding the opening of the bookshop.
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Concerning the Publication of Ulysses .
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Regarding Stocks.
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Greeting cards.
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Photocopies of correspondence from Sylvia Beach.
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Regarding Lucia Joyce.
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Includes one letter of 1935 May 21 regarding Joyce Manuscript.
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Companion to Mary Morris.
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1 folderAutograph letter.
1 folderAutograph letter.
Top half of the letter is written by Ernest Hemingway and bottom half is written by Hadley.
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1 folderAutograph letter.
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1 folderAutograph Christmas card.
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1 folderAutograph letter.
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Envelope only.
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1 folderAutograph letter.
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1 folderAutograph letter.
Jack is John H. N. Hemingway, oldest son of Ernest Hemingway, born in Toronto on October 10, 1923, and raised as a child in Paris. "Puck" is Jack's wife.
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From the James Joyce Collection, Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Buffalo.
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Includes a 5 Francs bill sent by Sylvia Beach.
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Includes photograph postcards of Tolstoi and of material or places related to him. Captions are in Russian with English captions on reverse side.
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Regarding family coat of arms.
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Also contains 3 Letters to Mr. Ogden.
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3 boxes
May not be published in whole or in part without permission of the Executors of the Harriet Weaver Estate. Photocopies of originals held in the Weaver estate.
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Microfilm photocopies of correspondence.
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Excerpts concerning Harriet Weaver from Sylvia Beach letters to family.
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Physical Description1 folder
Microfilm photocopies of correspondence.
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Physical Description1 folderMicrofilm
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Note to Sylvia Beach.
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The Shakespeare & Company series documents Sylvia Beach's business activities relating to her bookshop in Paris. It includes information on bookshop inventory, orders and subscriptions, the lending library, publishing activities, author readings, bookshop exhibits, and the sale of manuscripts. Of special interest is the material relating to Beach's publication of James Joyce, including, in 1922, Joyce's Ulysses , which she distributed as long as it remained a banned book in England and the United States. The series also includes files relating to the publication of Joyce's Pomes Penyeach in 1927 and a volume of studies of Joyce's Work in Progress (later incorporated in Finnegans Wake ) by fourteen contributors, entitled Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress .
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
Physical Description44 boxes
Cards are filed alphabetically by author, with some titles interspersed. The catalogue is incomplete.
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Alina Prot is also represented.
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Caillois and Petitjean were business partners and used a shared account.
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Includes a lending library card for Miss K. Eisenberg.
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One hundred thirty-six proofs for the 1st edition of Ulysses (Random House, new edition, 1961, pp. 260-609). Placards 29-34, 34 bis, 35-36, 36 bis, 37-52, inserts Y, Y bis, and Z, 52-56, 56 bis, 57-63. Several versions for most Placards, a number of duplicates. No additions or corrections except on placards 43 and 44. Printer's dates range from 28 Sept. 1921-4 Jan. 1922.
Physical Description2 folders
Page proofs for various stages of the list edition of Ulysses (many uncut). Gatherings 17-42, pp. 257-672 (Random House, New edn., 1961, pp. 267-727). Printer's dates range from 10 Oct. 1921 to 19 Jan. 1922.
Includes several different proofs for some signatures; many proofs are duplicates. No additions or corrections.
This set of page proofs appears to be a continuation of the set (Gatherings 1-16, pp. /1/-256) now at the University of Buffalo Library (Peter Spielberg, James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters at the university of Buffalo , V. C. 2).
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Page proofs for various stages of the list edition of Ulysses (many uncut). Gatherings 17-42, pp. 257-672 (Random House, New edn., 1961, pp. 267-727). Printer's dates range from 10 Oct. 1921 to 19 Jan. 1922.
Includes several different proofs for some signatures; many proofs are duplicates. No additions or corrections.
This set of page proofs appears to be a continuation of the set (Gatherings 1-16, pp. /1/-256) now at the University of Buffalo Library (Peter Spielberg, James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters at the University of Buffalo , V. C. 2).
Physical Description1 folder
Twenty-one slip proofs for the last episode of Ulysses (Random House, new edn., 1961, pp. 738-783).
Placard A, fin-Placard E, fin. Several different proofs for some signatures, many placards are duplicates. No additions or corrections, but the successive proofs provide a record of Joyce's changes and expansions.
Printer's dates range from 12 Oct. 1921 to 26 Nov. 1921.
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Forty-six slip proofs for the Third Section of Ulysses ("Eumaeus" and "Ithaca" episodes, but not "Penelope," whose placards were printed under the title "fin").
Placards 1-5, 5 bis, 6-13. Includes several different proofs for most signatures, and a number of duplicates. Printer's dates range from 8 Dec. 1921 to 5 Jan. 1922.
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Preliminary page proofs for the 8th printing of Ulysses (May 1926), in which the type was entirely reset and the text, consequently, expanded to 735 pages. In this reset printing most of the "Additional Corrections" of the 4th-7th printings were incorporated into the text.
Sig. 2, pp. 17-32 Sig. 7, pp. 97-112 Sig. 10-11, pp. 145-176 Sig. 14, pp. 209-224 Sig. 16-17, pp. 241-272 Sig. 21, pp. 321-336 Sig. 24-46, pp. 369-735
Printer's dates range from 21 March 1926 (Sig. 14) to 26 April 1926 (Sig. 45).
The corrections on this proof (presumably made by Sylvia Beach) are typographical corrections. There appear to be no substantive additions or changes.
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Page proof for the 9th printing of Ulysses . The 9th printing used the reset plates of the 8th printing, but these proofs would seem to indicate that there were a few new corrections for the 9th (something not indicated in the standard bibliographies). Proofs initialed by Sylvia Beach.
Sig. 2, pp. 17-32 Sig. 10-11, pp. 145-176 Sig. 14-17, pp. 209-272 Sig. 21, pp. 321-336 Sig. 24-46, pp. 369-735
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Contains announcements for first, fourth, seventh, and eighth editions.
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Includes the signatures of Sherwood Anderson, E. M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf as well as others.
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Includes account statements, notebooks of expenditures and royalties, check stubs, and general notes.
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Contains material documenting Sylvia Beach's role in having the play produced in France as well as correspondence regarding foreign translations.
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Draft with James Joyce's suggestions.
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2 copies of the 1929 edition.
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2 copies of the 1962 edition.
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Includes a lending library card for Miss Reavely.
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Includes inquiries received after the closing of Shakespeare & Company but maintained with the original file run.
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Also included is correspondence with Marianne Moore concerning "The Dial's" refusal to publish a manuscript by James Joyce verbatim.
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Notebooks and loose-leaf records of sales, orders, customers, reviews, and subscriptions.
Arranged chronologically by year.
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Includes a check from Sylvia Beach to Ernest Hemingway.
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Letters and related material.
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Sent to Sylvia Beach by James Joyce containing story by Michael Joyce.
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Book jackets of books shelved at Shakespeare & Company.
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Includes membership cards, blank receipts, bookplates, autograph drafts of pamphlets, postcards, advertisements, overdue notices, order forms, and advertisements.
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Writings and Translations documents Sylvia Beach's works, including her memoir, Shakespeare & Company , and a number of articles and speeches. The series also contains information on Beach's translations of works by Henri Michaux and Adrienne Monnier.
Arranged alphabetically by author, starting with Sylvia Beach's works followed by her translations. Minor articles and speeches are filed at the end of the series.
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Includes sections on Bridgeton, NJ and Paris, France.
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Includes sections on Bridgeton, NJ and Paris, France; Serbia, Spain, and Palais Royale; and WWII Occupation.
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Includes correspondence with editor Margaret Marshall
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Includes invitations and guest list at Gotham Hotel.
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Marked up with Sylvia Beach's corrections.
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The Personal Records series contains material relating to Sylvia Beach's personal activities. It includes awards and honors received, appointment books and calendars, travel files, financial information, and files relating to her homes in France.
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
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Medal in a small box with an inscription in Serbian, "For Tending the Wounded and the Sick 1912." Also includes a small ornament with the letters "SB."
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Includes postcards of Spain.
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Includes opening of Shakespeare & Company.
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Includes publications.
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Regarding an inheritance from the estate of William Millier.
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Regarding an inheritance from the estate of John Blanchard, trustee.
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Also contains statements from the Bank of New York.
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Papers relating to the sale of Shakespeare & Company material to Princeton University and University of Buffalo. Also includes a Christmas card mentioning Jack Hemingway.
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Contains travel arrangements, itineraries, and mementos from Sylvia Beach's travels.
Arranged chronologically.
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Includes postcards and invoices from Hotel Beaujolais.
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The Family Records series contains material relating to the Beach family but not directly involving Sylvia Beach. It includes correspondence between family members as well as files documenting certain family members' activities. The latter include correspondence with others, creative works, and documentation of their business activities. Also includes biographical reference material.
Arranged starting with family correspondence, then alphabetically by name of family member.
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Manual of the First Presbyterian Church of Princton, N.J.; The General Assemblies of Scotland by Sylvester W. Beach, sent to Sylvia Beach; A History and Hand-Book of the First Presbyterian Church, Bridgeton, N.J.; Hazing and Measles in 1872 by Sylvester W. Beach.
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Contains inauguration ticket and various printed announcements and invitations.
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Newspaper clippings, condolences from the Historical Society of Princeton, program for the Sesquicentennial Celebration of The First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, Calendar from Princeton Bank and Trust Company.
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Original in W.D. Howells Collection
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Includes lace pouch containing a list of Eleanor Beach's valuables.
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To the Light House by Virgina Woolf (with inscription "Mother was reading on night of her death"); Poems of John Keats (with inscription "beside mother's bed when she died"); Cabinet Edition of Poems by John Keats (gift to Sylvia Beach by her mother, Christmas 1912); Guild to English Italian Confessions of an English Opium Eater Journal. Also includes an empty portfolio with pen.
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Asking for copies containing "Ulysses" to be sent to Sylvia Beach and several authors.
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Covers his time on the U.S.C.G. "Bibb," "Patrol Echo," U.S.C.G.C. "Bibb," "Bermuda Patrol," U.S.C.G.C. "Eastwind," and "Sunec II"
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Includes articles on Shakespeare & Company, James Joyce, the pirating of Ulysses , and the Twenties Exhibition.
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Includes articles on James Joyce, Ulysses , George Antheil, Shakespeare & Company, the deaths of James Joyce and Nora Joyce, and others.
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Includes articles on Shakespeare & Company , Twenties Exhibition, Joyce Tower, and honorary degree from University of Buffalo.
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Article found on page 7
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Sylvia Beach's Circle and Collections consists of items collected by Sylvia Beach, documenting two overlapping collecting activities: Sylvia Beach's incidental files on artists in her circle (not directly relating to her publication activities, which are documented in the Shakespeare & Company series), and her more formal literary and art collections. The boundary between the two collection activities is fluid, and there are several documented cases in which Beach later formalized collections that were originally created out of personal interest or for reference or business purposes (most notably, her collection of Joyce material, which she largely sold to the University of Buffalo, and her collection of Whitman manuscripts, originally keepsakes she inherited from her aunt and which she later exhibited and offered for sale). The series further contains information on exhibitions of Beach's collections and on the sale of collection items to various cultural institutions.
Due to some overlap between Beach's collecting activities and the publications and exhibitions conducted at Shakespeare & Company, researchers are advised that the Shakespeare & Company series may contain additional material Beach would have considered a part of her collection.
While a number of James Joyce items are represented here, researchers may be interested to know that Sylvia Beach sold the better part of her Joyce collection, including manuscripts and correspondence, to the University of Buffalo Library in 1959, where it is available for research.
Arranged alphabetically by name or topic.
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Opera in Three Acts
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Poster advertising concert by Antheil at Theâtre des Champs-Elysées, 19 June 1926, with Vladimir Golschmann's orchestra.
Physical Description2 items2 copies, with one mounted on board (23.5 x 32.5)
Poster for concert at Salle des Concerts du Conservatoire. Program also includes Mozart's "Concerto en la majeur ," all executed by Rudge on violin and Antheil on piano; Ezra Pound's "Sujet pour violin," executed by Rudge on violin.
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Also includes a piece of board with a red stamp used by Mau Thu.
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Inscription on the backside of the frame: "Souvenir de M. Leavaey. M. Goussel le 18 Mai 1874"
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Contains 5 records which include: East Coker (Parts 1-3), Dry Salvages (Parts 1-3), and Little Gidding (Parts 1-4).
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Reverse side contains readings by Paul Valéry and Guillaume Apollinaire.
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Includes Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Ogden Nash, Dylan Thomas, and others.
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Given to Sylvia Beach by Richard Wright.
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Autograph letter
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Includes note by James Joyce.
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Inscribed: "Sylvia Beach for the study of Work in Progress by James Joyce this work by Ulysse Jourdain"
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Includes play bills, notes, signs and pen nibs relating to Joyce.
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1 folder7" reel (1/4" magnetic tape); audio cassette
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Includes Easter cards, Christmas cards, notes, and a cloth made in Northern Ireland.
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Jacques Lamy was the successor to Adrienne Monnier at La Maison des Amis des Livres.
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Order to undergo medical exam.
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Includes Adrienne Monnier's pens, a pocket knife, and a cigarette case given to Monnier by Sylvia Beach from Sarajevo.
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May not be published in whole or in part without permission of the Executors of the Harriet Weaver Estate.
Physical Description1 folderPhotocopies of originals held in the Weaver estate.
May not be published in whole or in part without permission of the Executors of the Harriet Weaver Estate.
Physical Description1 folderPhotocopies of originals held in the Weaver estate.
May not be published in whole or in part without permission of the Executors of the Harriet Weaver Estate.
Physical Description1 folderPhotocopies of originals held in the Weaver estate.
May not be published in whole or in part without permission of the Executors of the Harriet Weaver Estate.
Physical Description1 folderPhotocopies of originals held in the Weaver estate.
May not be published in whole or in part without permission of the Executors of the Harriet Weaver Estate.
Physical Description1 folderPhotocopies of originals held in the Weaver estate.
May not be published in whole or in part without permission of the Executors of the Harriet Weaver Estate.
Physical Description1 folderPhotocopies of originals held in the Weaver estate.
Contains framed scraps of Walt Whitman manuscripts rescued from a wastebasket by Sylvia Beach's aunt, Agnes Orbison, on a visit to Whitman in Camden.
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20 lines beginning: "The Leaves of Grass, simply the contribution of one Personality" and ends with: "It is not a candidate for the usual honors in that noblest of arenas, does not seek to meddle with literary rules and achievements."
Reverse side contains letter written on a Brooklyn Daily Times letter-head by a Charles, but most of the letter is covered by the pieces of newspaper that Whitman pasted over it to strengthen the sheet of paper.
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17 lines, probably notes for a poem: "Songs have been sung- beautiful matchless songs adjusted to other lands, other days, another spirit and stage of evolution."
Includes a letter to Walt Whitman from Willie N. Jones asking for an autograph on the reverse side.
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17 lines, apparently reflections on poetry and inspiration.
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Envelope addressed to Walt Whitman.
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Manuscript, 12 lines, possibly notes for an essay on politics: "Given the Nineteenth Century with the United States and what they furnish as area and point of view..."
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27 lines: "My own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual and esthetic Personality..."
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16 lines and title "My Book and I": "After serious personal ambition as a young fellow..., rewards wordly, business, political, litterary...to take part in the great melee...I found myself remaining, at the age of 33..."
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This series consists of assorted photographs documenting the different facets and relationships central to Beach's life: her family; her friends, particularly Adrienne Monnier, but also including writers and artists; and her life in Paris as proprietress of Shakespeare and Company.
Snapshot images and negatives (here defined as photographs lacking the formal approach of a studio portrait or news agency documentary photograph) measuring approximately 2.75 x 3.75 inches (7 x 10 centimeters) can often be attributed to Sylvia Beach herself. Images taken in and around Shakespeare and Company and Les Déserts are particular candidates for this attribution. However, photographer attributions were not given in this finding aid unless explicitly stated.
Arranged into 8 subseries.
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This subseries consists of images of Sylvia Beach and her family. Images of immediate family members, including the creator's parents Reverend Sylvester Beach, mother and sisters Holly and Cyprian Beach that date after Sylvia Beach began her independent life (circa 1914) are located elsewhere in the collection.
This sub-series is organized by individual or family group in order of familial relationship to Sylvia Beach.
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Born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923, Ulli Steltzer emigrated to the United States in 1953 with her two children. After teaching music and developing photographs in Massachusetts and New York, Steltzer moved to Princeton in 1957 to accept a job as a professional photographer for the Princeton Packet, whose Tulane Street studio she worked from for much of the next two decades. In addition to taking portraits of many prominent Princeton intellectuals and visitors from the late 1950s through the early 1970s, she also made frequent trips across the United States in her red Volkswagen to photograph and interview African American families in the South, as well as Hopi, Navajo, and Pueblo peoples in New Mexico and Arizona. In 1972, Steltzer relocated her studio to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she befriended several prominent Haida artists, including carvers Robert Davidson and Bill Reid, who would become her frequent collaborators. Steltzer documented the art, culture, and traditions of the Haida and other coastal tribes, as well as the Inuit, with whom she lived for several months. Traveling widely throughout the Americas and Asia during her long career, Steltzer also documented life in Southern California, Guatemala, Cuba, China, and India, with a recurrent focus on immigrant communities and native peoples. Her photographs have been exhibited widely in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and have appeared in at least a dozen photographic books and collaborations.
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This subseries consists of images of Sylvia Beach and her life in Paris from just before the founding of Shakespeare and Company until her death. Photographs include family and friends, notable literary figures, Adrienne Monnier, and events Sylvia Beach attended later in her life.
This subseries is arranged chronologically.
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The original order of materials in these folders is no longer discernible, but includes the following individuals and locations: Sylvia, Cyprian, and Eleanor Beach in Spain (including Ronda), 1914-1916 (negatives likely date from only 1916); Sylvia and Cyprian Beach on a boat to Italy, 1915; Sylvia Beach with the Volontaires Agricoles in Touraine, Summer 1917; Sylvia and Holly Beach in Belgrade, Serbia with the Red Cross, 1919.
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Includes envelopes with handwritten notations about the images.
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Not all negatives in this folder are represented by prints.
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Hand-written notes attribute these images to "Lucie Schwobb" (proper spelling: Lucy Schwob; later: Claude Cahun). These prints may be related to other prints from Rue Dupuytren from the same year located in other folders in this subseries, and some may possibly be attributed to the same photographer.
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Includes an image of Charles Winzer.
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These images may be related to other prints from Rue Dupuytren from the same year located in other folders in this subseries, and some may possibly be attributed to the same photographer.
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These prints may be related to other prints from Rue Dupuytren from the same year located in other folders in this subseries, and may possibly be attributed to the same photographer. A negative of an image in this folder is present in Original Negatives: At Rue Dupuytren.
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These images may be related to other prints from Rue Dupuytren from the same year located in other folders in this subseries, and some may possibly be attributed to the same photographer.
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Includes an image of John Rodker. Dates written on back of prints appear to conflict; some images taken at the same time (based on visual information in images) are labeled with different years. Sylvia Beach and James Joyce are pictured at both locations of Shakespeare and Company. Includes Sylvia with Ulysses . Includes a glass-plate negative.
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Includes a glass plate negative. Please be careful as it is extremely fragile.
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Signed "B. Abbott, Paris 1926" on recto.
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Includes Myrsine Moschos and Madame Tisserand.
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Photograph stamped "Le Capitaine" with signature.
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Stamped on reverse "Please Credit Gisèle Freund, 12, Rue Lalande, Paris-XIV"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
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Stamped on reverse "Gisèle Freund, 18, Rue de l'Odéon, Paris." Some prints are cropped.
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
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Written on reverse "SB back from London, March 1936, photo by Gisèle"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
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Multiple views and multiple prints of the same occasion. A few have hand-written notes on the verso that say similar things. One written on reverse "Adrienne à la porte de Shakespeare and Company avec Sylvia et Virginia Pfeiffer (Hemingway's sister-in-law)"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(5 x 3.5 inches)
Written on reverse "1936, Margaret Newit," stamped on reverse "Please credit Gisèle Freund, 12 rue Lalande, Paris-XIV"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 7 inches)
Gisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(10 x 6.5 inches)
Gisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
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The photographs present in this folder (and their corresponding negatives) are of two different sizes, but appear to have been taken on the same occasion. The prints in this folder represent only a few of the negatives corresponding to this occasion.
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Some negatives present in this folder (and their corresponding prints) are of two different sizes, but appear to have been taken on the same occasion. Not all of these negatives exist as prints.
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Formerly attributed to photographer Gisele Freud for reasons unknown. Includes Sylvia with her father and nephew.
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Stamped "The New York Times S.A. / Wide World Photos"
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Gisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
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Verso includes Gisèle Freund stamp.
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
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Faint inscription on recto of print reads: "To Howard C. Rice, with my thanks and kind regards, Gisèle." Verso includes Gisèle Freund stamp, and hand-written notes including: "James Joyce with his two publishers inside the bookshop "Shakespeare and Co" rue d'Odeon in Paris, 1938."
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Shakespeare and Comapny stamp on verso, and note: "James Joyce Sylvia Beach Adrienne Monnier par Gisèle Freund."
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Two formal portraits by "F Deibo" or "F Deibc."
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Note attached to image reads: Réunion de MESURES chez Henry Church, Fondaleur de la revue, à Ville d'Auray. Henri Michaux, Adrienne Monnier, Sylvia Beach, Germaine Paulhan, Michel Leiris, Henry Church, Audiberti, Barbara Church, Jean Paulhan.
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Likely taken in and around the small roof-top apartment where Sylvia Beach hid after being released from the internment camp at Vittel in Spring 1943. Located at 93, Boulevard de Saint-Michel.
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Includes images of a party with writer Yvonne Desvignes, writer Max-Pol Fouchet, writer and Resistance fighter Jean Marcel Bruller (Vercors), American diplomat Keeler Faus, journalist Jean Schlumberger, Paul Valéry, Jean Denoël, André Chamson, Jean Paulhan, Adrienne Monnier, Marie Monnier, Henri Michaux, Ernest Hemingway, and war correspondent Helen Kirkpatrick (not all individuals pictured). An image in this file appeared in LIFE Magazine on April 10, 1964. An image from the same event appeared November 8, 1954. Folder includes correspondence with Elmer W. Lower of Time and LIFE Ltd. dated 1945 March 27. See also: Hemingway, Ernest for related photographs.
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At the USIS Gallery. Includes Harriet Weaver, Jane Cody, David Wright, John Bodley, Catherine Gide, and others.
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Formal portrait Sylvia Beach in front of picture of Shakespeare. Inscribed on reverse "avec mon très respectueuse souvenir, Henri Cartier-Bresson," stamped on reverse "Complimentary print, not to be reproduced without written permission of magnum photos, 125 Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris-VIII"
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Snapshots of a trip with Yves Bonnefoy, Marthiel and Jackson Mathews.
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Consists of photographs of a television screen with Sylvia Beach appearing on "Appointment with Sylvia Beach" with Malcolm Muggeridge.
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This subseries consists of images of Adrienne Monnier and her lending library Les Amis.
This subseries is arranged chronologically.
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Contains various portraits and snapshots (most undated) of Adrienne Monnier in Paris. One image copyrighted by The New York Times.
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Negative of a snapshot of Adrienne Monnier and dog Teddy in Rue de L'Odéon. Print is present in folder Photographs: Adrienne Monnier.
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Signed by the photographer.
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A photographic image consisting of many photographs combined. The central image is a reproduction of a portrait of Adrienne Monnier by Eliane Janet Le Caisne.
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Includes an unknown individual.
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See also Beach, Sylvia with James Joyce and Adrienne Monnier, Box 277, Folder 8.
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Stamped on reverse "Copyright Foto Gisèle Freund, Tres Sargentos 436, Buenos Aires"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 4 inches)
Gisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
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Gisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
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Inscribed on reverse "Adrienne Monnier dans la librairie, a 7 rue de l'Odéon," stamped on reverse "Copyright by Gisèle Freund, All rights reserved."
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(6.5 x 9.5 inches)
Gisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
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Initialed G. F., stamped on reverse "Gisèle Freund, 18, Rue de l'Odéon, Paris"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(6.5 x 9 inches (on card 9 x 11.5))
Signed Gisèle Freund, stamped on reverse "Copyright by Gisèle Freund, All rights reserved."
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(6.5 x 10 inches)
"Photo Gisèle Freund" written on reverse.
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 7 inches)
Inscribed "photo Gisèle Freund"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(5 x 7 inches)
Stamped on reverse "Copyright Gisela Freund"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(6.75 x 9 inches)
Gisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder
Original context implies these unknown individuals were associated with Adrienne Monnier and her family.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of envelopes with handwritten notations. Also contains a detailed list of photographs labeled "Photos à Adrienne et d'Adrienne" with details about photographs now located in various folders in this collection.
Physical Description1 folder
This subseries consists of personal photographs of Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier and their family members taken over the course of their long companionship. These images are distinct from images taken by and of Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier that concern their professional lives in Paris, which are located elsewhere in the collection. The subseries includes images of James Joyce and Sylvester Beach in the personal context of family gatherings.
This subseries is arranged chronologically.
Physical Description3 boxes
1 folder
1 folder
The original backing board for this photograph has the notation "portrait d'Adrienne Monnier par Eyre de Lanux" on the back. A notation of the other side of the board, facing the back of the print, reads "femme Marie." A drawing of Marie (Rinette) Monnier was included in de Lanux's 1921 New York exhibition of "Outlines of Women."
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes images of Adrienne Monnier in her bookshop, Marie (Rinette) Monnier embroidering, and Clovis Monnier.
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Includes Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Camilla Steinbrugge and Monnier family.
Physical Description1 box
Photographs of Adrienne Monnier date up to 1954; photographs of Sylvia Beach until September 1962.
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
2 boxes
1 folder
1 folder
This subseries consists of images of Sylvia Beach's personal friends who were not active in literary or creative circles.
This sub-series is organized alphabetically.
Physical Description3 boxes
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
One photograph inscribed and signed.
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Includes a letter from B. Lorsignol.
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
Includes photographs of Sylvia Beach with Marion Peter and children at 18 Rue de L'Odéon.
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
2 boxes
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
2 boxes
Includes an image with Sylvia Beach.
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Contains images of children likely removed from correspondence or related images. Some photographs have identification and date information.
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
This subseries consists of images of notable individuals collected by and often inscribed to Sylvia Beach over her lifetime.
This sub-series is organized alphabetically by subject name.
Physical Description13 boxes
Signed "Man Ray, N.Y. 1920"
Physical Description1 folder(5 x 4 inches (mounted on card 9.5 x 7.75 in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
1 box
Inscribed on reverse "To Sylvia Beach With all good wishes from Richard Aldington"
Physical Description1 folder(7.75 x 5.6 inches, mounted on card 9.6 x 6.75 inches)
1 folder(4.25 x 2.5 inches)
1 folder(4.25 x 2.5 inches)
2 boxes
1 folder(9.5 x 6.75 inches, mounted on card 10.75 x 7.75 inches)
1 folder
1 box
Two illegible notes on reverse, stamped on reverse "Réproduction Interdite, Bonney, 12, Rue Montalivet, Paris-VIII, Élysées 19-76"
Physical Description1 folder(5.75 x 9 inches)
Stamped on reverse "P.G. II.—29"
Physical Description1 folder(4.75 x 3.25 inches, mounted on card 7 x 5.25 inches)
"Sherwood Anderson" written on recto, stamped on verso "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris"
Physical Description1 folder(2.8 x 1.8 inches)
See also sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
Physical Description3 boxes
1 folder(4.25 x 2.75 inches)
Portrait in frame inscribed "For Sylvia from George with a bad cold"
Physical Description1 folder(mounted on card 8.5 x 5 inches)
One photograph inscribed "For dearest Sylvia with ever so much love from George." Stamped on reverse "H. Martinie, ses Portraits, 19, Rue de [?], Paris, La plus remarquable Collection de Personnalités, Teleph.: Élysée 34-33" and "la mention Photo Henri Martinie est obligatoire"
Physical Description1 folder(9 x 6.3 inches)
1 folder
Please be extremely careful with the glass-plate negative as it is very fragile.
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
Please be extremely careful with the glass-plate negative as it is very fragile.
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder(9.75 x 6.75 inches)
Please be extremely careful with the glass-plate negative as it is very fragile.
Physical Description1 folder
Written on reverse "Peter 16 months old, Oct. 1938, same here!"
Physical Description1 folder(3.3 x 4.3 inches)
Written on reverse "Peter 16 months old, Oct. 1938, These are enlarged from small snapshots & not very good"
Physical Description1 folder(3.3 x 4.25 inches)
Some prints signed "Máté 927," others with photographer's blind stamp.
Physical Description1 folder
Hand-written caption on recto "Mr. Awfully-Nice, George Antheil, Böske, Slivinsky." Printed caption on recto "549. George Antheil, Böske et leurs amis à le foire. Photographie." Written on verso "George Antheil and Böske at the fair in Paris (Böske is 3rd from right), just behind George, 'Mr. Awfully-Nice' (George holding his hat), at right: Slivinsky."
"Mr. Awfully-Nice" is Hermann von Wedderkop. Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt is second from right. The photograph was taken in 1925 when Stuckenschmidt visited Paris.
Physical Description1 folder(3.8 x 5.5 inches)
1 folder(6.25 x 4.5 inches)
One copy inscribed "For Sylvia, Love George," stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Bookshop, 12, Rue de l'Odéon, Paris-VIe"
Physical Description1 folder(7 x 4.75 inches)
1 folder(7 x 4.75 inches)
Inscribed "For dearest Sylvia with tons of thoughts and love right out of Africa, George" with a few bars of music.
Physical Description1 folder(7.25 x 4.75 inches)
Stamped on reverse "Atelier Ruth Asch, Berlin W 30, Rosenheimerstr. 17 IV, Tel. B 6 Cornelius 2267"
Physical Description1 folder(9.1 x 6.8 inches)
Inscribed "For Sylvia, George Antheil"
Physical Description1 folder(9.75 x 7.75 inches)
Photo was taken in Bernardsville, New Jersey.
Physical Description1 folder(9.5 x 6 inches)
1 folder(8.75 x 6.25 inches)
"Sylvia and George Antheil at Shakespeare and Company" written on recto.
Physical Description1 folder(2.75 x 1.75 inches)
2 boxes
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Two snapshots mounted together, taken at Bois de Boulogne.
Physical Description1 folder
See also Loy, Mina and Djuna Barnes, Box 278B.
Physical Description3 boxes
1 folder(6.75 x 5 inches (mounted in frame 14 x 11))
1 folder(9.5 x 7 inches (mounted on card 10.5 x 8))
1 folder
One photograph: sitting on a pony in front of a house as a young girl. Signed "Natalie C. Barney" and "L'Amazone" on recto.
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3.5 inches)
Written on reverse "Samuel Beckett," stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris."
Physical Description1 folder(7.25 x 5.25 inches, on card)
One photograph: Standing with unidentified woman in front of Shakespeare and Company with Sylvia Beach standing in the doorway.
Physical Description1 folder(10.75 x 7.5 inches)
One portrait mounted on a small card inscribed "To Sylvia, Bill Bird." Includes three enlarged copy prints.
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 2.5 inches (mounted on card 6 x 5))
One photograph: Inscribed "Sylvia Beach, You made Paris more enjoyable for me. Eleanor Boardman, June 21, 1928," printed on reverse "Eleanor Boardman: Eleanor Boardman has been one of the busiest actresses on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. Her latest picture 'The Auction Block' with Charlee Ray, was directed by Hobart Henley. She has also been responsible in large measure for the success of 'The Way of a Girl,' 'The Circle,' 'Proud Flesh,' and 'The Only Thing'"
Physical Description1 folder(8 x 10 inches)
Formal portrait with beret.
Physical Description1 folder(9.5 x 7.25 inches (mounted on card 11 x 8.5 in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
Portrait with pipe. Stamped on reverse "Copyright Foto Gisèle Freund, Tres Sargentos 436, Buenos Aires"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 4 inches)
Formal portrait. Written on reverse "Louis Bromfield, Prix Pulitzer 1927"
Physical Description1 folder(10 x 8.25 inches)
2 boxes
Signed "Bryher, June 1923" on recto.
Physical Description1 folder(11 x 8.75 inches (mounted in frame 14 x 11))
1 folder(6.75 x 5 inches (mounted in frame 14 x 11))
1 folder(9.5 x 7.75 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
(includes 2 negatives)
Physical Description1 folder(7 x 5 inches)
1 folder
Original works by Burgin are include elsewhere in the collection.
Physical Description1 box
Note reads: "3 photos de Burgin jeune fille qu'elle avait données à Adrienne, elle a voulu que Sylvia les garde, visite 19 mars 1960"
Physical Description1 folder
Written on reverse "Burgin"
Physical Description1 folder(4.75 x 3.25 inches)
Written on reverse "Burgin à 17 ans en pensionnat à Lausanne"
Physical Description1 folder(4.75 x 2.25 inches)
Written on reverse "le pere de la mère de Burgin était banquier," "Burgin avec sa mère à Bâle with dog Nigger," "La mère de Burgin était de Buffalo, son grandpère est venu d'Irlande à Buffalo," and "Turner"
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 2.25 inches)
2 boxes
1 folder(8 x 10 inches)
1 folder
1 folder(4.75 x 4.75 inches, on card)
1 folder(4.75 x 4.75 inches, on card)
1 folder(4.75 x 4.75 inches, on card)
1 folder(4.75 x 4.75 inches, on card)
1 folder(4.75 x 4.75 inches, on card)
1 box
Written on reverse "Erskine Caldwell"
Physical Description1 folder(7 x 5.25 inches)
Board includes notations: "Photo. U.S. Ambassy U.S. 10645," "Erksine Caldwell," and "Sylvia is looking for God's little acre/Tobacco Road" [books by Caldwell], measurements on reverse including notes "quia, pauper, amavi," "Ezra Pound," and "Plans (?) at Shakespeare + Co., photo S. Beach"
Physical Description1 folder(3.75 x 3.25 inches, mounted on card 9.25 x 8 inches)
One photograph: Sitting on a wall in the mountains. Inscribed on reverse "Jean Catel, photo brought by Mme Cassaigne, Feb 21 '51"
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 2.5 inches)
1 box
Written on reverse of original "André Chamson 1920."
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3.25 inches)
Written on reverse of original print "André Chamson 1920." Date is not accurate.
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 2.5 inches)
1 folder(7 x 5 inches)
1 folder(3.25 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder(3.25 x 3.25 inches)
Gisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 4 inches (on card))
1 box
Added note (presumably from someone at Princeton University Library) from reads: "Removed from 'This Must Be the Place' as told to Morrill Cody, NY 1937"
Physical Description1 folder
Written on reverse "Cody, Caesar, Molly Darling, 1924"
Physical Description1 folder(2.5 x 1.75 inches)
One photograph: formal portrait, signed "Padraic Colum, Paris 1st Feb 1930." Blind stamp of Pirie MacDonald, Photographer-Of-Men, New York. Label on reverse of A. Bouchard, gilder and framer of paintings and engravings, 14, rue Monsieur le Prince, Paris 6me. Mounted on card.
Physical Description1 folder(8.75 x 5.75 inches, on card)
One photograph: formal portrait. Written on reverse "Aaron Copland," stamped on reverse "Centre Culturel Américain, Réproduction autorisée"
Physical Description1 folder(9.75 x 8 inches)
One photograph: formal portrait, sitting, mounted on board.
Physical Description1 folder(8 x 5.6 inches, mounted on board 9.5 x 7.25 inches)
1 box
Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach from an old friend" and "War," signed "Gordon Craig, Paris 1940"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
1 folder(5.25 x 3.75 inches)
Inscribed "To Sylvia from E.G.C., December 17, 1941" Includes "d'oray" in same hand.
Physical Description1 folder(8.25 x 8.25 inches)
Written on reverse "EGC, photo by David"
Physical Description1 folder(7.25 x 5 inches)
Inscribed "2.2.1941. For Sylvia." and "Photo taken June 1940" (on mounting behind photo), written on reverse "Sylvia Beach, 12 rue de l'Odéon, Paris VI"
Physical Description1 folder(2 x 1.75 inches, mounted on card 3.75 x 2.75 inches)
2 boxes
Mounted one above the other with names written on rectos. Manuscript inscription to Sylvia Beach written in pencil on back of Harry Caresse print, which cannot be fully read owed to the method of mounting.
Physical Description1 folder(both 2.75 x 1.75 inches, mounted on card 7 x 2.5 inches)
mounted side by side, no captions
Physical Description1 folder(both 9 x 5.5 inches, mounted on card 10.5 x 13.5 inches)
One photograph: portrait with beret, titled "E. E. CUMMINGS" mounted on card.
Physical Description1 folder(7.25 x 5 inches, mounted on card 8.25 x 6 inches)
2 boxes
Vintage print signed "Nancy Cunard," stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris."
Physical Description1 folder(11.75 x 9.5 inches)
1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
1 box
Reproduced from Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to Living Authors .
Physical Description1 folder(6 x 5 inches)
Reproduced from Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to Living Authors .
Physical Description1 folder
2 boxes
"H.D. 1917" written on print.
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 2.25 inches)
Reproduced from a publication.
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 8.5 inches)
Reproduced from a publication.
Physical Description1 folder
Signed on print: "Man Ray Paris." Inscribed on board: "To Sylvia Beach ' "H. D." '"
Physical Description2 folders(9 x 6.75 inches (mounted on board 12 x 9 in frame 14 x 11))
One vintage print: Formal portrait, by William "Cicero" Odiorne of New Orleans" signed "John Dos Passos, Paris, September 1924" with "Ordiorne - New Orleans" written in ink on recto. Includes two copy prints.
Physical Description1 folder(9 x 7.5 inches)
1 box
Inscribed "For Sylvia from Uncle Norman," inscribed on reverse "For Sylvia from Uncle Norman, 18 June 1938"
Physical Description1 folder(5.75 x 3.5 inches)
"N.D. 1933 Desmond," written on artwork. Photograph by Marc Vaux, rue de Vaugirard, Paris.
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 6.75 inches, mounted on card 10 x 8.25 inches)
One photograph: inscribed "To Sylvia Beach from Max Eastman, 1922"
Physical Description1 folder(9.25 x 7.25 inches)
One photograph: inscribed "To my dear friend Silvya Beach, Cordially, Serge Eisenstein, Paris 21/III '30," dated on reverse "Eisenstein 1930," stamped on reverse "Atelier Binder, Berlin" and "Copyright by A. Binder, Berlin"
Physical Description1 folder(9.25 x 6.75 inches)
2 boxes
Written on reverse "Photo Gisèle, 7 rue de l'Odéon, Paris-VI"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 7 inches)
Stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris," attached note: "T.S. Eliot with Virginia Woolf, drinking tea in Bloomsbury, early 20s, by Jean de Menasce, given by him to Sylvia Beach." Additional information provided by a letter dated 1997 (removed to collection file) states the location as the Green Room at Garsington from a photograph of that room on page 49 of Heilbrun's Lady Ottoline's Album , and the date as most probably June 1924 ( The Letters of Virginia Woolf , III 116 n. 3).
Physical Description1 folder(6.25 x 4.5 inches)
1 folder(4.75 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder(7.75 x 4.5 inches)
Typescript note attached to back of print. Stamped on reverse "Photograph by Mark Gerson"
Physical Description1 folder(6.75 x 8.25 inches)
2 boxes
2 folders(9 x 7 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
1 folder
2 folders(9 x 7.25 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
1 folder(6.25 x 4 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
1 box
1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach with best regards from Havelock Ellis—Sept. 1923" on recto. Photographer's signature on verso.
Physical Description1 folder(6 x 4.25 inches, mounted on card 10.25 x 8.25 inches)
Signed "Havelock Ellis, Sept. 1923."
Physical Description1 folder(6 x 4.25 inches, mounted on card 10.25 x 8 inches)
Inscribed "With kind regards from Havelock Ellis"
Physical Description1 folder(5.75 x 4 inches, mounted on card 10.25 x 8.25 inches)
See also sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
Physical Description1 box
Included note and envelope state the photograph was loaned to Agathe Valéry 9 April 1962 and returned two days later. Typescript note reads: "Petite photographie de LEON-PAUL FARGUE que Farque a donnée à Sylvia Beach en 1921 (une des rares photos de lui avec sa barbe).
Physical Description1 folder(2.75 x 4 inches)
Stamped on reverse of one copy: "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris." Written on the back of second copy: "Pc. di Bassiano, L.P. Fargue, Cp-X, Pss. di Bassiano, Mlle. Curonio," no stamp.
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 5.5 inches)
One print stamped "Wide World Photos" and "Photograph copyright in the United States by The New York Times."
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 box
1 folder(7 x 5 inches, mounted on card 7.75 x 5.5 inches)
1 folder
1 folder(4 x 5 inches)
1 folder
1 folder(4.6 x 3.5 inches, mounted on card 6.25 x 4.5 inches)
1 folder(9.5 x 7 inches)
1 folder(7 x 9.5 inches)
One photograph: inscribed "À Sylvia Beach: amitié, sympathie, et fie, Paris, le 26 avril 1926 Pedro Figari"
Physical Description1 folder(11.75 x 9 inches, on card)
1 box
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 2.75 inches)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder(4.75 x 2.75 inches)
Inscription in image (not on negative) reads "Paris July 1928, 18 rue de l'Odéon, Festival of St. James" from inside Sylvia Beach's copy of The Great Gatsby .
Physical Description1 folder
Two images have hand-written notations listing Van Vechten as photographer, one image says USIS Archives, Collection : Man Ray.
Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964)Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. Eugene O'Neill was a Nobel Prize-winning American dramatist whose works include, The Iceman Cometh, A Touch of the Poet, and A Long Day's Journey into Night.
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder
2 boxes
Written on reverse "Janet Flanner (Genêt) by Berenice Abbott dressed in costume for masked ball, copyright by Berenice Abbott," attached note on reverse "Janet Flanner ('Genêt' du 'New Yorker') par Berénice Abbott." Possibly a copy print.
Physical Description1 folder(10 x 8 inches)
Likely a copy print.
Physical Description1 folder(10 x 7.5 inches)
Caption: "Back in Paris, Hemingway chats with Sylvia Beach, bookshop owner and James Joyce's publisher, and Writer Janet Flanner, friends of Left Bank days"
Physical Description1 folder(4 x 3 inches)
1 box
1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
Written on recto: "James Elroy Flecker, given to Sylvia Beach by Hellé Flecker 1919"
Physical Description1 folder(5.75 x 4 inches, on card 10 x 7.25 inches)
Formal portrait.
Physical Description1 folder
One vintage print and one copy print of the same image. Written on reverse of vintage print: "E.M. Forster, photographed at the Congrès des Écrivains," stamped on reverse "Copyright Photo Girix, Paris XV, 19 rue Lakanal"
Physical Description1 folder(6.5 x 4.5 inches)
One photograph inscribed "For Miss Sylvia Beach, Sincerely, George Gershwin—June 1928" by G. L. Manuel frères, 47 Rue Dumont
Physical Description1 folder(11.5 x 8.25 inches)
See also sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
Physical Description1 box
Group photograph. Left to right: Jean Schlumberger, Lytton Strachey, Maria van Rysselberghe, Aline Mayrisch, Boris de Schloezer(unconfirmed), Gide, André Maurois, Franz Funck-Brentano, Johan Tielrooy, Roger Martin du Gard, Jacques Heurgon, , Albert-Marie Schmidt.
In front and below: Pierre Viénot, Marc Schlumberger, Jacques de Lacretelle and Pierre Lancel.
Various hand-written notes on recto and verso of photograph identifying (sometimes incorrectly) various persons in the photograph. One note reads: "Photo donné à SB par Heurgon - Pontigny"
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 2.5 inches, mounted on card 4.25 x 4 inches)
Inscribed "à Sylvia Beach en amical souvenir, André Gide"
Physical Description1 folder(9 x 6 inches, on card)
1 folder(1.75 x 2.25 inches)
1 folder
Inscribed "Souvenir du Congo—1925-26, André Gide" Later copy print inscribed on reverse "André Gide on lake Tchad, Africa 1926, by Mark Allegret. By kind permission of Mark Allegret"
Physical Description1 folder(6.5 x 8.5 inches)
Stamped on reverse "Copyright Foto Gisèle Freund, Tres Sargentos 436, Buenos Aires"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 4 inches)
1 box
Mounted on board with another photograph with typescript caption from a publication.
Physical Description1 folder(2.25 x 3.5 inches mounted on card 6.5 x 9.75 inches)
Mounted on board with another photograph with typescript caption from a publication.
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 3.25 inches mounted on card 6.5 x 9.75 inches)
Stamped on reverse "New York Times Photos"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 7 inches)
1 box
1 folder(6 x 4.25 inches)
Inscribed "à Miss Sylvia Beach, amie de Shakespeare et de Joyce— Le grand-père de Riquette—Louis Gillet"
Physical Description1 folder(9 x 6.5 inches, with card 13 x 9.5 inches)
One photograph: seated outside with two young children, stamped on reverse "Copyright Gisèle Freund, 18 rue de l'Odéon, Paris"
Freund, GisèleGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist best known for her portraits of writers and artists of the 20th century, as well as for her documentary photography. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freud studied sociology and art history at the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt University in the early 1930s, where she studied under Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Mannheim and became politically active in anti-fascist circles along with Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Freund fled Germany for Paris in 1933 due to her Jewish heritage and ties to anti-Hitler plots, eventually becoming a French citizen. In Paris she enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she shifted her focus to photography and received her doctorate in 1936. The same year, Adrienne Monnier published Freund's doctoral thesis, "La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle," which promoted the value of photography as a democratizing social force. Freund became close with Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, and even lived with Monnier for a time in the apartment she had shared with Beach; they introduced Freund to the artists and writers in their literary circle who became the subjects of her most famous portraits. She photographed James Joyce at Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1938. Upon the 1939 publication of Finnegan's Wake in England and the United States, Time magazine published a color photograph of Joyce by Freund on its front cover. Freund later published the entire series of portraits in her book James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years (1965). She also worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine photographing the effects of the Depression in England in the mid-1930s.
With Hitler's invasion of Paris looming in 1940, Freund fled to southern France and, later, to Argentina in 1942 at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, the founder of the influential Buenos Aires-based literary magazine Sur. During this time, she worked for the Louis Jouvet Theatre Company (1943-1944), on propaganda campaigns for France Libre (1944-1945), and as a freelance Latin American contributor for Magnum Photos (1947-1954). She was blacklisted from entering the United States during the McCarthy era due to her radical political ties. After moving to Mexico for two years, where she befriended Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Freund returned to Paris in 1953, where she lived until her death in 2000 at the age of 91. Throughout her life, Freund photographed an extensive number of well-known European and Latin American literary and cultural figures, including James Joyce, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Eva Peron, Jorge Luis Borges, André Malraux, and many others. In addition her own photography, Freund is known for her influential critical works about photography, which include Le Monde et ma caméra (1970) and Photographie et société (1974). Freund also received many honors for her photography, including the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1980 and appointments as Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1983.
Physical Description1 folder(9 x 6.5 inches)
Formal portrait inscribed on recto "Para Silvia rendidamenta RAMÓN"
Physical Description1 folder
1 box
Inscribed on back "Pour notre chère petite Adrienne avec toute notre [?] peu dressé—Adelina & Ricardo"
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 4.75 inches)
"Joyce y a habité" written in margin.
Physical Description1 folder(2.5 x 2.5 inches)
1 box
"Frank Harris room Cimiez Nice, gift of Annette Krim to Sylvia Beach, August 1960"
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 6.25 inches)
Inscribed "Frank Harris, in all sympathy, Paris 1925"
Physical Description1 folder(9 x 6.75 inches)
One photograph: portrait with Hope Mirrlees inscribed "To Miss Sylvia Beach from Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees," stamped on reverse "Studio Landau, Photographie Artistique, 17, Rue Lauriston, Paris, Métro: Étoile"
Physical Description1 folder(6 x 8 inches, mounted on card 9.5 x 9.25 inches)
1 box
1 folder(each 3.6 x 2.4 inches, together on card 3.5 x 4.75 inches)
Inscribed "For Sylvia Beach with highest good wishes—Marsden Hartley, Firenze Feb- 1924"
Physical Description1 folder(5.25 x 3.5 inches)
Inscribed "For Sylvia Beach, This beautiful [?] of Chartres—Marsden Hartley"
Physical Description1 folder(5.25 x 3.25 inches, on card)
4 boxes
1 box
Inscribed on reverse "Ernest Hemingway at Shakespeare and Company, by Sylvia Beach, 1921" (includes original negative)
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 2.75 inches)
1 folder
1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
1 folder
2 boxes
Inscribed "For Sylvia Beach, Ernest Hemingway Aug. 1923," signed "M R, Paris"
Physical Description1 folder(9.25 x 7 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
1 folder
1 folder(9 x 6.75 inches (mounted in frame 14 x 11))
Dates and locations recorded on prints in this folder appear to conflict, and thus the range of dates 1923-1924 has been applied to all prints even when a date is recorded on the print itself. The locations (Ronda and Pamplona, Spain) also conflict, even when recorded on the print. Researchers are cautioned to confirm both date and locations of images.
Physical Description1 box
1 folder
1 folder(2.5 x 1.5 inches)
inscribed on reverse "Réproduction interdite, copyright by Sylvia Beach" and "Ernest Hemingway, Robert McAlmon in the arena, Pamplona 1924," stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Library, Sylvia Beach, Paris"
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 5 inches)
1 folder(1.75 x 2.75 inches, mounted on card 2.75 x 3.25 inches)
1 folder(1.75 x 2.75 inches)
Date from hand-written note on back of print.
Physical Description1 folder
Captioned "Novillada, McAlmon and Hemingway: a 'cogida,'" stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Library, Sylvia Beach, Paris".
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 5 inches)
Two negatives taken of some bullfight images in a scrapbook, now disbound. This scrapbook was the course of many Hemingway images in this collection.
Physical Description1 folder
One photographic postcard labeled "Kurs-Hütte 1450 m. der Ski-Schule Schruns" in negative. Inscribed "This is the Living Buddah effect before the beard was really under way."
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
This folder contains multiple versions of the same image, which Sylvia Beach re-photographed, duplicated, enlarged and altered into different versions. Two of the prints have been inscribed by Ernest Hemingway.
Physical Description1 box
Captioned "Wil., H., S.B., E.H."
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 5.5 inches)
Inscribed at bottom "With love from Hemingway." A line drawn from the right margin points to Hemingway's bandaged head with the words "E Hemingway" and "his mark" (?)
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 5.5 inches)
Sylvia Beach apparently masked the original inscribed photograph, eclipsing the hand written inscription on the lower-right corner, and then re-photographed the image, resulting in these copy negatives. Presumably it was one of these two negatives that produced the enlarged (masked) print also located in this folder, which was again inscribed by Hemingway at a later date.
Physical Description1 folder
This photograph is an enlarged and retouched print of the related image of Hemingway outside Shakespeare and Company with Sylvia Beach and her shop assistants. The retouching surrounds the line Hemingway drew on the original. This print is inscribed "To Sylvia with love, farewell to face wounds (from any source!)—Ernest Hemingway"
Physical Description1 folder(9.5 x 5.75 inches)
Most prints in this folder are assumed to have been taken by members of the fishing expedition, including Waldo Peirce, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Smith, John Dos Passos, and the captain, Bra Saunders (Bras). Photographer is only listed when included on print or accompanying notes.
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, storywriter, and journalist from Oak Park, Illinois. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Physical Description2 boxes
Inscribed on reverse "Ernest with sail fish—sunburnt face (pommade) on lip—unfortunately." Stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris"
Physical Description1 folder(8.25 x 5.25 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Ernestito y Barracuda." Stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris"
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 5.25 inches)
Inscribed "Sharks ahead" on recto. Inscribed on verso "Bill Smith on harpoon, Ernestito behind blunderbus." Stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris"
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 5.25 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Bill Smith & Ernest, Ernest smells a Jew Fish," stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris"
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 5 inches)
Inscribed "Ernest and Cato the Elder (hell on the long dart) about to 'delenda' a shark" on recto. Stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris"
Physical Description1 folder(5.75 x 9.75 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Dead mangrove trees—crane's nest," stamped on reverse "Miss Sylvia Beach, 12, Rue de l'Odéon, Paris VI", stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Bookshop, 12, Rue de l'Odéon, Paris VI" Ink touch-ups on print.
Physical Description1 folder(5.75 x 9.75 inches)
1 folder(5 x 8.5 inches)
Inscribed "To Sylvia from Hemingway & Peirce (Unlimited), Big Shark & Muttonhead Boys of Key West, May 1928." Stamped on reverse "Sylvia Beach, 12, Rue de l'Odéon, Paris—6.
Physical Description1 folder(9.75 x 5.75 inches)
Inscribed "à Sylvia des amis Marius et Guijonette" and "Marquesas May / 28"
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 5.25 inches)
Inscribed "To Sylvia, from Amberjack & Lumberjack, May 1928, Marquesas Keys"
Physical Description1 folder(6.25 x 8.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Barracuda—(Bites yer balls off—eats 'em alive, See the blood run—ain't it awful!)"
Physical Description1 folder(5.75 x 9.75 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "E & kingfish"
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 5.25 inches)
Inscribed "The hero of The Sun Also Rises"
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 5.25 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
Most prints in this folder are assumed to have been taken by members of the fishing expedition, including Waldo Peirce, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Smith, John Dos Passos, and the captain, Bra Saunders (Bras). Photographer is only listed when included on print or accompanying notes.
Physical Description1 box
no inscription or stamp
Physical Description1 folder(5 x 3.5 inches)
Title written on recto. Inscribed on reverse "Ernest and sail fish"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Ernest getting thin too—some of his side doesn't appear however—against the sea (jealous fat man writes)"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Bras after shark"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "sail fish looks like a bird doesn't he? his sail is folded in this picture. Its a crime not to throw em all back in the sea—they lose color etc., most beautiful when they first come out"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed "To Miss Beach from Saturn about to devour his children"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
Inscribed "Junior Lepree finds a flea"
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 2.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Contemplation—only one Maquesean landed so far—a Spanish mack—excellent to eat"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
1 folder(4.75 x 3 inches)
1 folder(3.75 x 2.5 inches)
1 folder(3.5 x 2.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "small barracuda, & lip desnudo"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "looking for Jew Fish"
Physical Description1 folder(2.75 x 4.75 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "a jack (not the amber jack), haven't caught any yet"
Physical Description1 folder(4.75 x 3 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "'Bras'—our skipper—is very beautiful"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
Captioned and inscribed on reverse "Ernest in the dinghy"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Bras"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "grub"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Bras about to harpoon turtles en flagrant delit, 'la grande tortue est morte, est morte en ses amours'—a fine picture—but a fell blow—may it never happen to me—the male swam to bottom"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "[?] 'Bras'—the skipper beautiful in this one"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.75 inches)
Inscribed "Fratellini brothers at Key West"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Myrtle on back in foreground with jack on her"
Physical Description1 folder(4.75 x 3 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Barracuda— Er—usually with cold cream on sunburnt mug—(lips blistered)"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "2 tarpoons"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.75 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Harpoons, guns, & Peirce with oar out of sight"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
Captioned "Bill Smith—Ernest" on recto.
Physical Description1 folder(2.75 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "netting mullets for bait"
Physical Description1 folder(2.75 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Baiting up at twilight for tarpon"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Captioned "Dos Passos, Bill, Ignollo catfish, W.P" on recto.
Physical Description1 folder(2.5 x 3.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "The crew that started in Cuba towed by Poopo the girl shark—'Hitch your dinghy to a shark'"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "getting thinner by Hek"
Physical Description1 folder(2.75 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "a shore at the Marquesas with shotgun and harpoon"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Captioned "Between the keys" on the recto.
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Some lids"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "[?] group on an fishing trip, 'Bras, our skipper—is very beautiful,' Hemingway wrote, Key West, 1928"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.75 inches)
Captioned "Er., Capt. Bras, Bill"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Consulting the chart, E—Bill Smith—Bras"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Captioned "nurse shark harpooned by Picador Ernesto," inscribed on reverse "Harpooned by Picador Ernesto"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed "Arrival from the Marquesas—Pauline at dock"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "I didn't get a picture of Myrtle as they pulled her out—as they cursed me for taking pictures instead of pulling," "Myrtle going over the top," and "Then called Cecil de Mille—half the time—the official photographer"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.75 inches)
1 folder(3 x 4.75 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Myrtle still snapping—she's a loggerhead"
Physical Description1 folder(3 x 4.5 inches)
1 box
1 folder(7.5 x 9.75 inches)
1 folder(7.5 x 9.75 inches)
(includes negative)
Physical Description1 folder(6.75 x 9.75 inches)
(includes negative)
Physical Description1 folder(6.5 x 9.75 inches)
1 folder(6.75 x 9.75 inches)
1 folder(9.75 x 6.75 inches)
See also: Sylvia Beach and Friends after the Liberation for LIFE Magazine in this series.
Physical Description1 box
Captioned "Ernest Hemingway chez Sylvia Beach après la Libération," inscribed on reverse "appartient à Sylvia Beach, 12 rue de l'Odéon," stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris".
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(10 x 5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Hemingway at 12 rue de l'Odéon after the Liberation."
Physical Description1 folder(7.75 x 3.75 inches)
This folder contains photographs of images from a French exhibit of images of Hemingway.
Physical Description1 folder
1 box
Inscribed "To Miss Beach with Mr. Hemingway: best wishes...[illegible]" Illegible inscription on reverse.
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
Inscribed "To Sylvia with love, Ernest Hemingway" Location and date information from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
Physical Description1 folder(5.25 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder(each 2.5 x 2 inches, together 2.5 x 4 inches)
1 folder(3.75 x 3.25 inches)
1 folder(5.5 x 4.5 inches)
"American Embassy Paris archives" written on both recto and verso.
Physical Description1 folder(3.75 x 3 inches, mounted on card 6.5 x 5.25 inches)
1 box
inscribed on reverse "(?) John 'Bumby' Hemingway"
Physical Description1 folder(5.25 x 3.25 inches)
1 folder(5.5 x 4.25 inches)
This folder contains envelopes and notes about Ernest Hemingway photographs, which have been separated from the photographic material they refer to and describe.
Physical Description1 folder
1 box
Inscribed on reverse "Er bearing sail fish to Pauline—the fisherman's return"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
1 folder(7.25 x 9.75 inches)
1 folder(7.25 x 9.75 inches)
1 box
(on card for "Henri Hoppenot, Ambassadeur de France"): "Chère Sylvia, je serai en Algérie tout le mois de novembre. Mais nous vous ferons signe en décembre, dès mon retour. Voici une photo de moi, prise vers 1927. (continued on reverse) J'ai bien [?]. Bien affectueusement, H. H."
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder(3.5 x 3.25 inches, mounted on card 10.5 x 4 inches)
1 folder(9.25 x 7 inches, mounted on card 10.5 x 8 inches)
1 box
1 folder(6 x 4.25 inches)
Inscribed "To my friend Sylvia Beach—Sisley Huddleston"
Physical Description1 folder(5.25 x 4.5 inches)
See also sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
Physical Description1 box
Inscribed on reverse "Athanaeum Court, 116 Piccadilly, London W1— Dear Sylvia Beach, You flattered me by asking for my portrait, so here it is by the grace of a street camera artist. It's pretty awful, but I'm afraid that it is a good resemblance! It was good to see you again, and I shall hope for another visit next year.—Sincerely, B.W. Huebsch" A second very small image is of this photograph framed and on a floor, cut from a larger photograph.
Physical Description1 folder(0.6 x 0.3 inches, mounted on card 4.75 x 3.25 inches)
1 folder(5 x 4 inches)
"Eric Huebsch" written on recto, "Erik Huebsch at 14 months" written on reverse.
Physical Description1 folder(2.25 x 3 inches)
2 boxes
Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach, Sincerely, Langston Hughes, Paris, July 37," blind stamped "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten"
Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964)Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. Eugene O'Neill was a Nobel Prize-winning American dramatist whose works include, The Iceman Cometh, A Touch of the Poet, and A Long Day's Journey into Night.
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. Eugene O'Neill was a Nobel Prize-winning American dramatist whose works include, The Iceman Cometh, A Touch of the Poet, and A Long Day's Journey into Night.
Physical Description1 folder(9.5 x 5.75 inches (mounted on card 10.5 x 6.75))
One photograph of an inscribed sketch of Max Jacob. Inscription in sketch reads "à mon cher Michel, Max Jacob, 28 Mars 1922, fait chez notre ami Lasea[?]"
Physical Description1 folder(6 x 4.75 inches)
1 box
Stamped on reverse "Éditions, Robert Laffont, 30, Rue de l'Université, Paris-VII"
Physical Description1 folder(9.25 x 7 inches)
1 folder(6.25 x 5 inches)
Short biography by H.G. Wells on reverse with note: "Printed for the National Portrait Gallery, London, by B. Matthews (Photo Printers) Ltd., Bradford, England."
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
Stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Bookshop, 12, Rue de l'Odéon, Paris VI"
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 3 inches)
Clipping of sketched portrait, titled "Augustus John," from "Supplement to The New Statesman , June 26, 1926"
Physical Description1 folder(13 x 9 inches)
1 box
On reverse to "Miss Sylvia Beach (Shakespeare and Co), Rue de l'Odéon, Paris (France)": "120 Maida Vale W.9., 30 Oct. 1923, I am sending you as promised the least respectable photo of me that I can find. On the card it is me with my nephew's daughter here in this house 15 years ago. Please give my kind regards to La Maison des Amis des Livres, that I am to yourself [from?] yours very sincerely, H. F. Jones"
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder(5.75 x 4 inches, mounted on card 7.25 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed "May 1924, To Sylvia Beach from her devoted Henry Festing Jones"
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 3.5 inches, mounted on board 10.25 x 8 inches)
Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach with all manner of good wishes from Henry Festing Jones, October 1923"
Physical Description1 folder(6 x 4 inches, mounted on card 10.75 x 8 inches)
5 boxes
Note on envelope that housed images reads: "Photos of JJ taken by SB / Joyce on Blooms Day June 16, 1925 at 2 Square Robiac"
Physical Description1 box
Signed "James Joyce 16/6/1925"
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(6.75 x 5 inches)
(includes original negative)
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.75 x 2.75 inches)
attached note similare to inscription on reverse "James Joyce chez lui, photo par Sylvia Beach, drapeau grec derrière Joyce—le 16 juin, jour de Bloom dans Ulysses " (includes original negative)
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 2.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Photograph by Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, Bloomsday: 16 June 1925"
Physical Description1 folder(7 x 5 inches)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder
1 box
Stamped on reverse "Photo Berenice Abbott, 44 rue de Bac, Paris"
Physical Description2 folders(9.25 x 7 inches)
1 folder(9 x 7 inches (mounted in frame 17 x 14))
Signed "Berenice Abbott, Paris, 1926" on recto.
Physical Description1 folder(9.5 x 7 inches (mounted in frame 17 x 14))
One print signed "Berenice Abbott, Paris, 1926" on recto.
Physical Description2 folders(9 x 7 inches (mounted in frame 17 x 14))
1 box
This is a copy print of an original once housed at La Maison des Amis des Livres. Typescript caption at bottom of print: First row (seated from left to right) Philippe Soupault, Mme James Joyce, Edouard Dujardin, Paul Valéry, Joyce, Léon Paul Fargue. Second row: (standing from left to right) Mlle Jeanne Bouquet, Mme Georges Joyce, M. Charles de la Morandière, Mlle Lucia Joyce, Mlle Lucienne Astruc, M. Philippe Fontaine, M. Thomas McGreevy, Léon Pivet, Marc Chadourne, Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Jules Romains, Mme Paul Valéry, André Chamson, Mme Marie Scheikévitch, and Pierre de Lanux. With menu and signatures on reverse.
Physical Description1 folder(7 x 10 inches)
"2 copies de la photo dans la bibliothèque d'Adrienne Monnier, Déjeuner Ulysse chez Léopold Vallée de Chevreuse, Saillet a fait copier cette photo et a donné 2 ex. à Sylvia, signature de Sylvia Beach effacée (?), Valéry a écrit en bas 'Rose as a Peach'"
Physical Description1 folder
1 box
signed below by all three and stamped "The New York Times, 106, rue Réaumur, Paris" (includes negative)
Physical Description1 folder(11.75 x 8.75 inches)
stamped "The New York Times, 106, rue Réaumur, Paris," inscribed on reverse "James Joyce au milieu avec à gauche le romancier irlandais James Stephens et à droit le chanteur Sullivan," stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Bookstore, 12, Rue de l'Odéon, Paris-VI e ," label on reverse of A. Bouchard, gilder and framer of paintings and engravings, 14, rue Monsieur le Prince, Paris 6 me
Physical Description1 folder(7.25 x 9.5 inches, mounted on board 9 x 11.25 inches)
Picture postcard of painted portrait by Jacques Émile Blanche, titled "James Augustine Aloysius Joyce," 1935, taken from the National Portrait Gallery, short biography on reverse with note "Printed for the National Portrait Gallery, London, by B. Matthews (Photo Printers) Ltd., Bradford, England."
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
Formal portrait of James Joyce standing and looking down. Initialed G. F. on recto.
Physical Description1 folder(9.5 x 7.25 inches (mounted on card 11 x 9))
1 box
1 folder
1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
inscribed on reverse "a Berlin bookshop in the 20s with Joyce display"
Physical Description1 folder(2.25 x 3.5 inches)
With attached note "(and alone) on the beach at Scheveningen, Holland 1927"
Physical Description1 folder(4.75 x 5 inches)
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
This folder contains five negatives of the Joyce and Drinkwater family vacationing in Switzerland. Also includes a note identifying location as Lake Constance.
Physical Description1 folder
3 boxes
At least one photograph by Camilla Steinbrugge.
Physical Description1 box
Attached note "James Joyce's room in Dr. Borsch's clinic where the operations were performed on his eyes, corner of Rue du Regard and Rue du Cherche-Midi, Photograph by Camilla Steinbrugge"
Physical Description1 folder(8 x 4 inches)
Written on reverse "photo C.S., Hotel Victoria Palace, rue Blaise Desgoffe"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
Written on reverse "Square Robiac (C.S.), J.J.'s door"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
Written on reverse "photo SB, Sqaure Robiac"
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
1 folder
2 boxes
1 folder(6 x 8 inches)
1 folder(5.75 x 7.75 inches)
1 folder(4 x 6.25 inches)
1 folder(3.25 x 5.25 inches)
1 folder(3 x 5.25 inches)
(includes original negative)
Physical Description1 folder(2.5 x 3.5 inches)
(includes original negative)
Physical Description1 folder(2.5 x 3.5 inches)
(includes original negative)
Physical Description1 folder(2.5 x 3.5 inches)
(includes original negative)
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 2.5 inches)
(includes original negative)
Physical Description1 folder(2.5 x 3.5 inches)
(includes original negative)
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 2.5 inches)
inscribed on reverse "Given to Sylvia Beach by James Joyce"
Physical Description1 folder(14.5 x 11 inches)
1 folder
1 folder(4.5 x 3.5 inches)
1 box
1 folder
Snapshot of Leslie Katz walking on the sidewalk. Inscribed on reverse "to Sylvia with love and admiration, Leslie"
Physical Description1 folder(4.75 x 3.5 inches)
See also sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
Physical Description1 box
"Larbaud with hippopotamus at zoo in Lisbon, copied May 31st 1961. M. Bernard Delvaille asked me to give him a copy, on reflection thought I should keep for Mercure publication Shakespeare and Company "
Physical Description1 folder
Captioned "Abra mais!," inscribed "Miss Sylvia Beach from her friends the Hippopotamus and Valery Larbaud"
Physical Description1 folder(2.75 x 2 inches, mounted on card 5.5 x 4.5 inches)
1 folder(6.25 x 4.25 inches)
1 folder
Stamped on reverse "Vizzavona, 65 Rue du Bac—Paris 7e"
Physical Description1 folder(8 x 6.5 inches)
1 folder(10.5 x 8.25 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "L'original se trouve à la Bibliothèque municipale de Vichy (allies) en France, Fonds Valery Larbaud," stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Bookshop, 12, Rue de l'Odéon, Paris VIe"
Physical Description1 folder(10.75 x 8.75 inches)
Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach from a friend and admirer, Valéry Larbaud." Blind stamp of photographer is illegible in photograph; photograph itself appears to be a vintage copy print.
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches (mounted on board 9 x 7))
1 box
Signed on front and reverse "D.H. Lawrence," stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Bookshop, 12, Rue de l'Odéon, Paris VIe"
Physical Description1 folder(8.75 x 6.75 inches)
Sent by Mlle Patard, note on reverse "Cimetière de Vence, Tombe de D.H. Lawrence, Juin 1932"
Physical Description1 folder(5.25 x 3.25 inches)
One image captioned "Budgen's photo of D.H. Lawrence's grave at Vence (removed to Taos)," inscribed on reverse "close-up of Lawrence's grave, wall at end." Other: captioned "Budgen's photo showing terrace with D.H. Lawrence's grave at Vence," inscribed on reverse "view of the terrace where Lawrence is buried, his grave marked X"
Physical Description1 folder(2.5 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder(10.25 x 8 inches)
Print of a bust (sculpture) of Lawrence.
Physical Description1 folder(9 x 6.5 inches)
1 box
1 folder(9.5 x 7.25 inches)
1 folder(9.5 x 7.25 inches, mounted on card 11 x 8.75 inches)
Written on reverse "Sinclair Lewis dans sa villa à Florence"
Physical Description1 folder(9.5 x 7.25 inches)
Print (non-photographic) of a formal portrait, signed "Wyndham Lewis"
Physical Description1 folder(9 x 6.75 inches)
Includes an image of Raymonde Linossier as a child.
Physical Description1 box
1 folder
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder
Photograph of drawn portrait by Paul-Émile Bécat. Inscribed "For Sylvia, affectionately, Archibald MacLeish." Includes a copy print of the same image, with the inscription.
Physical Description1 folder(11 x 8.5 inches)
1 box
1 folder(4.5 x 3.25 inches)
1 folder(7.5 x 5 inches)
1 box
Written on reverse: "Jackson Mathews as actor—Eugene, Oregon 1934"
Physical Description1 folder(6 x 3.5 inches, mounted on card 10 x 8.75 inches)
1 folder(4 x 5.75 inches)
1 folder(4.5 x 3.25 inches)
1 folder(3.25 x 4.5 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "Pomme, March 1960"
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 2.5 inches)
Photograph of drawn portrait signed by Aaron Bilis 1924. Inscribed "À Sylvia Beach parce qu'elle aime les livres avec la même passion que moi—André Maurois"
Physical Description1 folder(11 x 8.75 inches)
3 boxes
1 box
Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach from Bob McAlmon," signed "M R Paris"
Physical Description1 folder(9.5 x 7 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
1 folder(7.75 x 5.75 inches, mounted on card 11.75 x 9.25 inches)
1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
1 box
Inscribed on reverse "McAlmon at Shakespeare and Company, by Sylvia"
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 2.75 inches)
(includes original negative) (See also photograph 6 in Box 258, Folder 14.)
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
(includes original negative) (See also photograph 6 in Box 258, Folder 14.)
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 2.75 inches)
(See also photographs 2, 3, and 4 in Box 258, Folder 13.)
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.25 x 2.75 inches)
Signed "Bob McAlmon"
Physical Description1 folder(4.75 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
Image is very faded. Signed by Henri Martinie.
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 5.5 inches)
Print is very faded. Possibly by Henri Martinie.
Physical Description1 folder(8.75 x 5.5 inches, mounted on card 10 x 6.5 inches)
Print is very faded. Possibly by Henri Martinie.
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 6.25 inches)
Written on reverse "Ronda, Bob McAlmon 1920 (?)"
Physical Description1 folder(2.75 x 1.75 inches)
Captioned "Bob McAlmon in Mexico"
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 5.5 inches)
inscribed on reverse "Robert McAlmon"
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 2.5 inches)
1 folder(3.6 x 2.4 inches, mounted on card 5 x 3.75 inches)
Signed by the artist.
Physical Description1 folder(8.75 x 6.25 inches)
Written on reverse "James Joyce et Robert McAlmon d'après un dessin par Paul-Émile Bécat 1921," stamped on reverse "Studio P. Delbo, 10 Rue Vavin 10, Paris 6e, Mention Obligatoire"
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 6.5 inches)
Formal portrait.
Physical Description1 folder
1 box
Captioned "Henry Miller, à Paris en 1932 (Photo Brassaï)"
Physical Description1 folder(7.5 x 5.5 inches, mounted on card 8.5 x 6.5 inches)
"Michael Fraenkel" written on reverse.
Physical Description1 folder(4 x 3 inches)
1 box
1 folder
1 folder
1 box
1 folder(on card 6.75 x 5 inches)
Written on reverse "Marianne Moore 1936," note on reverse "cf. M.M.'s letter to S. Beach, Oct. 15, 1936"
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 4.5 inches)
Inscription on verso reads: "To: Courageous generous unselfish willful Sylvia Beach from Marianna Moore, October 12, 1936"
Physical Description1 folder(9 x 7 inches, mounted on card 12.5 x 10 inches)
1 folder(8 x 10 inches)
1 folder
1 folder
Photograph of Justin O"Brein sitting at a café table. Inscribed "pour Sylvia Beach—amitiés de Justin O'Brien" and "Portolino Mare, May 1929"
Physical Description1 folder(on card 6.75 x 4.75 inches)
Formal portrait inscribed "For Sylvia Beach avec toute ma sympathie—Victoria Ocampo, Paris 1934." Additional signature below is illegible. Photograph stamped "Estudio Schónfeld"
Physical Description1 folder(7 x 5 inches)
Portrait in tuxedo. Written on reverse "Document Usis." and "O'Neill (Eugene), Auteur dramatique américain, 27 novembre 1953," stamped on reverse "Archives Photographiques Larousse"
Physical Description1 folder(9.75 x 7 inches)
Formal portrait inscribed "To Sylvia with much admiration, Elliot Paul," written on reverse "To be returned to Mr. Paul"
Physical Description1 folder(7 x 5 inches)
Formal portrait. Stamped on reverse "Photo Barberousse, Droits et Réproductions Réservés"
Physical Description1 folder(9.25 x 6.75 inches)
1 box
1 folder(2.5 x 2.25 inches)
1 folder(2.75 x 2 inches)
1 folder(4.25 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
inscribed "To the good pioneer Sylvia Beach, with my admiration—Katherine Anne Porter"
Physical Description1 folder(9.25 x 7 inches)
Inscribed on reverse: "This portrait was commissioned by George Platt Lynes as a Christmas present to our good friend Monroe Wheeler—Paul Cadmus made it in three hours, of me sitting, without a single erasure, with pencil. The inscription I wrote for Monroe on the original. G.P.L. then photographed it—made December 5, 1942" Original drawing signed "Cadmus 1942." Inscribed in photograph "For Monroe—Remembering: Stone [?] and December 5-6, Modern Museum and The Portrait Show, and ten good [?]—Katherine Anne with love." Inscribed on photograph: "To Paul with love—Aunt Katherine, Rome (?), 3 October 1945"
Physical Description1 folder(9 x 7.5 inches)
See also sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
Physical Description2 boxes
Inscribed on reverse "Dear Sylvia Beach for catalogue—E.P."
Physical Description1 folder(2.5 x 1.75 inches, on card 4.25 x 6 inches)
Note on reverse "Ezra Pound, Poet, Rutherford, New Jersey 6-30-58, Photograph by Richard Avedon"
Physical Description1 folder(6 x 4.25 inches)
1 folder(4.5 x 3.25 inches, in frame 8.25 x 7 inches)
1 folder(6.25 x 4.5 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
(includes negative)
Physical Description1 folder(10.75 x 8.25 inches)
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 3 inches)
1 box
1 folder(4.5 x 2.5 inches)
1 folder(4.5 x 2.5 inches)
Written on reverse of one print "Jean Prévost at Shakespeare and Company, photo by Sylvia," attached note "Removed from: Prévost, Jean, Plaisirs des Sports, Paris 1925"
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
Damaged negative is missing bottom half.
Physical Description1 folder
Signed "au 19 rue de Penthièvres, Paris, Henri Martinie." Inscribed "Á Sylvia, [?], Jean Prévost"
Physical Description1 folder(9.25 x 6 inches, mounted on card 13 x 9 inches)
1 folder
See sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
Physical Description1 box
1 folder(7 x 5.25 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
"Man Ray 1924" written in the negative. Print made from a cracked glass negative.
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 6.5 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
1 folder(6.25 x 4.75 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 11.5))
1 box
Written on reverse "Pierre Reverdy surrounded by his confrère Jean Cocteau, the arrangement of the back ground, Cubist. Official photograph of Real Poet of the War—Sylvia 1917"
Physical Description1 folder(2.25 x 3.25 inches)
Inscribed on reverse "À ma chère Sylvia Beach, le masque funebre de mon ami, Pierre Reverdy"
Physical Description1 folder(9.5 x 7 inches)
1 folder
1 box
1 folder(5.5 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder(on card 5 x 7 inches)
Captioned "Jules Romains, Studio G. L. Manuel Frères" Non-photographic print.
Physical Description1 folder(9.5 x 6.75 inches)
Stamped on revers "Vizzavona, 55, rue du Bac, Paris 7"
Physical Description1 folder(8.75 x 6.5 inches)
1 box
inscribed on reverse "Maurice Saillet?"
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 2.5 inches)
1 folder(5 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder(5.25 x 3.5 inches)
1 folder
1 folder
Formal portrait inscribed "à Sylvia Beach, Jean Schlumberger," signed "P. Delbo"
Physical Description1 folder(6.5 x 4.25 inches, mounted on card 9.25 x 6.75 inches)
Formal portrait inscribed "Hugh de Sélincourt, Feb. 1923," signed "Elliott and Fry," stamped "Elliott and Fry Ltd., Baker Street W"
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 4 inches, mounted on card 8 x 4.75 inches)
Formal portrait, signed "Edward Shanks"
Physical Description1 folder(5.5 x 4 inches, mounted on card 6.75 x 4.25 inches)
2 boxes
"G. Bernard Shaw" signature printed on mount.
Physical Description1 folder(10.5 x 7.5 inches)
Signed "Dorothy Wilding" on recto. Card on reverse "Dorothy Wilding, Camera Portraits, Twenty-two Old Bond Street, London W1"
Physical Description1 folder
Reclining with eyes closed, signed "Yours, Edith Sitwell"
Beaton, Cecil (1904-1980)Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theater. When he was eleven his grandmother bought him a Kodak 3A camera, and he began to teach himself the basics of photography, often getting his sisters and mother to sit for him. He managed to get a portrait sitting with the Duchess of Amalfi, and the resulting images gave Beaton his first piece of published work in Vogue magazine; in 1927 he started working for Vogue on a regular basis. Beaton often photographed the Royal Family for official publication and he also took the wedding pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. During the Second World War, Beaton was posted to the Ministry of Information and given the task of recording images from the home front. After the war, Beaton tackled the Broadway stage, designing sets, costumes, and lighting for a 1946 revival of Lady Windermere's Fan, in which he also acted. His most celebrated achievement for the stage was the sets and costumes for My Fair Lady (1956) which led to two film musicals, Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964), both of which earned Beaton the Academy Award for Costume Design. In 1972, Beaton received his knighthood, but suffered a major stroke two years later which permanently paralyzed one side of his body. Though primarily homosexual, he did have relationships with women, including the actress Greta Garbo.
Physical Description1 folder(on card 10 x 8 inches)
1 box
Captioned "Satirist—A double-decker, 'Engaged in Writing,' comes from Stephen Spender. All about the International Set in Europe," inscribed "June 8, 1958, The New York Times Book Review "
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 3 inches)
Captioned "Stephen Spender, 1937, Preliminary Study for a later drawing by Henry Moore," inscribed "Sylvia Beach from Stephen Spender"
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 6.25 inches)
Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach from Stephen Spender, Sept. 1937," stamped on reverse "Spender Edmiston photos, 28, upper montagu st., w.1., padd 0613," and "Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Library, Paris"
Physical Description1 folder(8.5 x 6.5 inches)
2 boxes
1 folder(4.5 x 3.25 inches, mounted on card 11 x 7 inches)
1 folder(11.5 x 9 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
1 folder(9.5 x 7 inches (mounted on card 10.75 x 8.25))
1 folder(4.75 x 3.5 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
Signed (crossed out) "Man Ray, 1922"
Physical Description1 folder(9.5 x 7 inches (mounted in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
No signature, written on reverse "Gertrude Stein—Aline (sic) Toklas—in the pavil. rue de Fleurus"
Physical Description1 folder(7 x 9.5 inches (mounted on card 8 x 10.25))
Formal portrait by Philippe Halsman. Two copies, possibly copy prints.
Physical Description1 folder(7 x 5.25 inches)
Contains a negative of a formal portrait. No print is present in the folder.
Physical Description1 folder
Clipping of cartoon portrait drawn by Kharitz (?)
Physical Description1 folder
In costume for Aida . No photograph is present for this negative.
Physical Description1 folder
Formal portrait. Written on reverse "Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz)"
Physical Description1 folder(8 x 6.25 inches)
Photogravure of a portrait. "Arthur Symons" signature printed on mount.
Physical Description1 folder(9 x 6.5 inches, mounted on card 10.5 x 7.75 inches)
Formal portrait by Orren Jack Turner.
Physical Description1 folder
See also sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
Physical Description1 box
Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach—June 1929, Allen Tate"
Physical Description1 folder(2 x 2 inches)
Inscribed "For Sylvia, Forsitan et baecolim meminisse iuvabit; and with love. Allen Tate, Paris, November 26, '56" Appears to be a slight mispelling of Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit .
Physical Description1 folder(10 x 8 inches, mounted on card 10.5 x 8.75 inches)
Inscribed "Allen Tate at the exhibition of the Paris 20s, 1959"
Physical Description1 folder(9.25 x 2.25 inches)
"Extreme right: S. Spender, Backs to camera: Arthur and Marina Schlesinger" with note "We expect to arrive in Paris around May 22nd. Please be there! Joyous Christmas and a Happy New Year and love from Isabella and Allen, 1960"
Physical Description1 folder(3.5 x 5 inches, photo only)
Clipping of a portrait, seated at a table.
Physical Description1 folder(13 x 9.75 inches)
1 box
(includes negative)
Physical Description1 folder(7 x 5 inches)
Written on reverse "Left to right: Virgil Thomson, Walter Piston, Herbert Elwell and Aaron Copland. April or May 1926 in apartment of Nadia Boulanger. Occasion was a concert of The Société Musicale Indépendente about to be held at Salle Gaveau. 'For all of us the concert constituted something of a debut, since all our works were sizeable and I think none of us had ever had works of that seriousness and length performed before. A fifth composer, George Antheil, was also on the program, but was unable to be present for the photograph.' (From letter from Virgil Thomson, 2/18/59), Taken by Thérèse Bonney"
Photo was likely taken May 5, 1926, the day before the concert.
Physical Description1 folder(10 x 8 inches)
Formal portrait seated at a table.
Physical Description1 folder
Portrait standing outside, signed "Iris Tree"
Physical Description1 folder(9.75 x 5 inches, mounted on card 11.25 x 7.5 inches)
Formal portrait by Nickolas Muray, New York. Inscribed "For Sylvia Beach, with the greetings of Jean Starr Untermeyer."
Physical Description1 folder(10 x 8 inches)
Clipping (photogravure) of painted portrait in profile, titled "The Publisher". Inscribed "T. Fisher Unwin sent this photograph to Sylvia Beach after a visit to her bookshop."
Physical Description1 folder(10.25 x 7.75 inches)
See also sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
Physical Description1 box
1 box
includes original negative
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
includes original negative
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
includes original negative
Beach, SylviaBorn in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
Physical Description1 folder(4.5 x 2.75 inches)
Inscribed "à Sylvia Beach, mon ombre! Paul Valéry"
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Inscribed "30 Oct. 1931, Looking at past, To Sylvia with many thanks, and kind remembrances, her old friend Paul Valéry"
Physical Description1 folder(5.25 x 3.5 inches, in frame 6.5 x 5 inches)
Signed by photographer.
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Inscribed "à Sylvia Beach, Paul Valéry et Martine, 1.11.35"
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inscribed on reverse "François Valéry 1937" (includes original negative)
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Written on reverse "Paul Valéry après la Séance à Shakespeare and Company," stamped on reverse "Copyright by Gisèle Freund, All rights reserved"
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Formal portrait. Inscribed "to Sylvia Beach with my admiration and in memory of those far away twenties—Cordially, Edgard Varèse"
Physical Description1 folder9.5 x 8 inches (mounted in frame 14 x 11)
Formal portrait signed "F. Bergman [?]" or "Begmon?" and "Warner." Written on reverse "Verhaeren (got at AM's [Adrienne Monnier's] about 1917)"
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Formal portrait by G. L. Manuel Frères, 47 Rue Dumont d'Urville. Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach, encouraging ! King Vidor, Paris, June 22 28"
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Formal portrait by G. L. Manuel Frères, 47 Rue Dumont d'Urville, Paris, signed "Francis Viele Griffin". Illegible inscription on reverse
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A candid snapshot of Ernest Walsh seated, wearing an overcoat draped on his shoulders. Signed "Ernest Walsh" on the verso.
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Photogravure of a formal portrait. "H.G. Wells" signature printed on mount.
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See also series III. Bookshop: Shakespeare and Company, Box 93; and series VI. General Correspondence and Related Material, Box 234.
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Stamped on reverse "Shakespeare and Company, Bookshop, 12 Rue de l'Odéon, Paris-VIe"
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Image may be a vintage copy print.
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Image may be a vintage copy print.
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1 folder(5.25 x 4 inches, on card 11 x 8 inches)
inscribed on reverse "Wilde and Lord Alfred"
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Card mounted photograph from Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street, London. W.
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Captioned "Caricature of Oscar Wilde from an original drawing by Aubrey Beardsley"
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inscribed "where Oscar Wilde stayed after he left prison"
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See also sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
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1 folder(on board 5.5 x 4.25 inches)
1 folder(3.25 x 2.25 inches, on card 6.75 x 4.75 inches)
Written on reverse "Thornton Wilder, Writers' Congress, Paris 1936," stamped on reverse "Please credit Gisèle Freund, 12, rue Lalande, Paris—XIVe"
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See also sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
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Note states: "The pictures of the children (2 boys) in this folder are not of William Carlos Williams as a child, but of his two sons William Eric and Paul. They were taken the year they were in school in Switzerland. Florence Williams (their mother—Mrs. William Carlos Williams) was there with them. She is the woman in the three other small photos. Date: 1927-1928—Mary Ellen Solt"
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Captioned "Bill Williams in his garden in Rutherford, N.J.," inscribed on reverse "Sylvia Beach, 12 rue de l'Odéon"
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Captioned "Bill Williams in his garden, Rutherford, N.J.," inscribed on reverse "The rose garden and the fountain pen"
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Captioned "Bill Williams," inscribed on reverse "a forehead like narcissi"
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Captioned "Bill Williams 'giving birth to 3 kittens,'" inscribed on reverse "Wm. Carlos Williams giving birth to 3 full grown kittens"
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Inscribed on reverse "peasant hands"
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1 folder(2.5 x 1.75 inches)
1 folder(2.5 x 1.75 inches)
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1 folder(2.5 x 1.75 inches)
Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach—May 27-1924, Paris, William Carlos Williams," signed "Man Ray, Paris"
Physical Description1 folder(11.25 x 9 inches (mounted on card 13 x 9.5 in frame 14.5 x 11.5))
(includes negative)
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Removed from: Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle , NY 1931
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1 folder(10 x 8 inches, mounted on card 10.5 x 8.5 inches)
1 folder(9.25 x 7 inches, mounted on card 10.5 x 8.5 inches)
See also: T.S. Eliot
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1 folder
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1 folder(5 x 4 inches)
1 folder(all 6 x 4 inches (mounted on card 8 x 15))
See also sub-series F. Photographs by Copyrighted Photographers.
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Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach, Sincerely yours, Richard Wright, June 7, 1946, Paris," stamped on reverse "please credit photo by yavno"
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Inscribed "To Sylvia Beach, Sincerely yours, Richard Wright, June 8, 1946, Paris," written on reverse "From: Frank Marshall Davis, 3507 South Parkway, Room 11, Chicago"
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1 folder(2.75 x 4 inches)
inscribed "To Sylvia Beach, Sincerely yours, Richard Wright, June 7, 1946, Paris"
Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964)Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. Eugene O'Neill was a Nobel Prize-winning American dramatist whose works include, The Iceman Cometh, A Touch of the Poet, and A Long Day's Journey into Night.
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1 box
Inscribed on reverse "Studying A Portrait of the Artist! JHW"
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"W.B. Yeats" signature printed on mount.
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Captioned "W. B. Yeats, Menton, 1938, Photograph by kind permission of Miss Nora S. Herald"
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Contains unidentified photographs, 1923-1924, by known and unidentified photographers.
This sub-series is currently unorganized.
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The negatives included in this box were made by Sylvia Beach (likely in the early 1960s) of images in this collection. There are no unique images in this box. The originals are located throughout the rest of the series.
No arrangement action was taken on this part of the collection during 2013 processing.
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Cards are arranged in alphabetical order and cards may contain further details about images.
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Copies of negative images arranged in alphabetical order with names on envelopes.
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The Memorabilia series contains objects acquired as part of the Sylvia Beach Papers. Of special interest are a set of tin soldiers with parade ground and the cabinet they were housed in at Shakespeare & Company, as well as various trinkets relating to William Shakespeare used to decorate the bookshop.
Arranged by type of material.
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In use at the time of Beach's death. Contains Sylvia Beach's driver's license, Legion of Honor documentation, and calling cards.
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These soldiers, representing George Washington and his staff, were housed in the small oak wall cabinet placed near the front of the bookstore to guard over the "House of Shakespeare."
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These soldiers, representing George Washington and his staff, were housed in the small oak wall cabinet placed near the front of the bookstore to guard over the "House of Shakespeare."
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The small round oak box is inscribed: "Oak from Shakespeare's Birth-Place" and Contains an inscription inside as well as a note from Sylvia's sister.
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Very fragile: please be careful with this item.
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Staffordshireware figurine of William Shakespeare, n.d. Sylvia Beach received it as a gift from Lady Ellerman (the mother of Winifred Ellerman, better known as Bryher), who had purchased it in Brighton.
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Inscription reads: "West-Point at Shakespeare's birthplace. Together with a Greek flag-bearer for luck. With Major-General V. Larbaud's compliments."
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The small oak wood cabinet contained a detachment of toy soldiers representing George Washington and his staff, supplied by Valery Larbaud to stand guard over the "House of Shakespeare." Beach hung the cabinet with the soldiers near the front door of Shakespeare & Company.
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Includes small busts of David Garrick and Edwin Booth below. Formerly framed and hung in Shakespeare & Company.
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