[Photographs of T.S. Eliot].

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[Photographs of T.S. Eliot].

Two portrait photographs of Eliot by Richard Avedon (undated), and two additional photographs (photographer unidentified) of Eliot with Robert Giroux at LaGuardia airport, New York City, in November 1948 on Eliot's departure to London and on to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Included in the papers of Robert Giroux located at Loyola University New Orleans.

4 photographs ; 10 x 10 cm. or larger.

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