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(ERNEST HEMINGWAY) A file from Wide World Pictures with about 100 photographs retracing Hemingway's personal and professional life. Spanning over three decades, the file includes images of Hemingway overseas as a war correspondent, family photographs, pictures of his homes in Cuba, Key West, and Idaho with their hunting trophies, photographs of his trips to Spain, Africa, and Peru that cover his passion for bullfights and hunting, but also as research territories for his novels. The group also includes numerous portraits of the writer over the decades, including on the occasion of the 1954 Literature Nobel Prize, until the announcement of his tragic death, with photographs of his burial and the erection of a memorial on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of his birth in the wilderness of Sun Valley in Idaho. Silver ferrotyped prints, the images measuring approximately 8 1/2x6 1/2 inches (21.6x16.5 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, most with a Wide World Pictures stamp, and most with a press clipping or slug, on verso. 1934-65; printed 1950s-60s
