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Carl Van Vechten Photographs of Eugene O'Neill
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
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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.
The collection consists of 113 photographs of Eugene O'Neill and his wife, Carlotta, taken by Van Vechten. Most of the photographs are studio style; some, however, are informal in tone, taken at their estate, Casa Genotta, in Georgia.
The photographs are arranged chronologically by subject: portraits of Eugene, portraits of Carlotta, photographs of Casa Genotta and related.
Gift of Carl Van Vechten (AM 18516).
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Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.
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- 2008
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This collection is open for research.
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