George Knight photographs of Robert Louis Stevenson homes, haunts and travels [graphic]. ca. 1980-ca. 2000.

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George Knight photographs of Robert Louis Stevenson homes, haunts and travels [graphic]. ca. 1980-ca. 2000.

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Photographs pertaining to the homes, haunts and travels of Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as research material pertaining to the photographs, and illustration layout mock-ups. Material was created and collected to illustrate Knight's book: Search for Stevenson: a biographic sketch of Robert Louis Stevenson (never published).

3 boxes and 2 folders (ca. 310 photographic prints and ca. 130 slides) and 1 box (ca. 560 negatives) : color and b&w ; 32 x 49 cm or smaller.

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Knight, George, 1914-2000.

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Knight was a San Francisco commercial photographer whose work documents the Bay Area scene, important local personalities, and numerous business activities. After he retired he was free to pursue his plan of following in Robert Louis Stevenson's footsteps around the world, study him, and photograph the places he lived in or wrote about. In 1988 he relocated to Scotland with his wife Dora. He died there on June 8, 2000. From the description of Search for Stevenson : a biographic sketc...

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

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Robert Lewis (later changed to "Louis") Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 13, 1850. He attended the University of Edinburgh intending to become a civil engineer like his father, but ill health curtailed his studies and prompted him to travel to warmer climates. This inspired Stevenson to write stories, novels and essays about his travels. While in France he met American artist Fanny Osbourne. The two fell in love, and in 1879 Stevenson traveled to California, where he...