George Bernard Shaw Collection. 1879-1950.

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Arbuthnot, Malcolm, 1877-1967. George Bernard Shaw Collection.

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George Bernard Shaw Collection. 1879-1950.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145406711

Abstract

Collection consists of eight boxes and four albums of photographs (various processes represented), spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. A large portion of these images are portraits of Shaw. Other subjects include stills from play productions, actors, and film stills from George Bernard Shaw plays adapted for film. Also included are a number of photographs of Shaw with such notable personalities as H. G. Wells, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Charlie Chaplin, Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Auguste Rodin, and Helen Keller. The images were made by various photographers including Alvin Langdon Coburn, Howard Coster, W. & D. Downey, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Frederick Evans, Yousuf Karsh, Florence Vandamm, and Shaw himself. Three of the albums were assembled by the Ransom Center in Shaw's original groupings. The fourth album was assembled by a Ms. B. L. Lyle, of the Lyles of Westbourne, and it contains ten images of Shaw, and five images taken by him. Taken together this collection of photographs provides an excellent overview of Shaw as both dramatist and man.

Extent

871 items (photographic and photomechanical prints, albums) : albumen, gelatin silver, photogravure, photomechanical, platinum ; 33 x 25.3 cm. or smaller.

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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6831331

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Epithet: American photographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x00002a Photographer; New York, N.Y. From the description of [Alfred Stieglitz] / [graphic] Alvin Langdon Coburn. [ca. 1907] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220205528 ...

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son and third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Though descended from landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of gentility. Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and briefly attending Protestant and Catholic day schools. At fifteen Shaw began working as a bookkeeper in a land agent's office which required him t...

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Hutton, Kurt, 1893-1960.

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Shaw, Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend

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Eisenstaedt, Alfred

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Eisenstaedt was a German-American photographer and photojournalist. He worked for Life Magazine and is best known for capturing the V-J Day celebration in Times Square. From the description of Photograph with commentary, ca. 1980s. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 706807112 b. 1898; d. 1995. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80307824 ...

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Malarski, Jan,

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W. & D. Downey

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Schaffner earned his Harvard AB 1917. He served Harvard as a member of the Committee to Visit the Harvard College Library and as a donor of books. From the description of Joseph Schaffner, ca. 1955. ca. 1955. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228509808 From the description of Joseph Schaffner, ca. 1955. ca. 1955. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77068627 Yousuf Karsh, an Armenian Turk who emigrated to Canada in 1918, is known for his formal portrait...

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London Stereoscopic Company

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Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts. The British Library, established in 1973, is now responsible for manuscript collections previously held by the library of the British Museum. From the guide to the Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts, 20th century, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) ...

George Bernard Shaw Collection. 1879-1950.

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