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Finding Aid to Pictorial Material from the Lawrence Ferlinghetti Papers, approximately 1935-2015
BANC PIC 1990.095
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The Bancroft Library
Title: [Pictorial material from the Lawrence Ferlinghetti papers]
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1990.095
Physical Description:
1150 photographs
in 12 boxes and 5 oversize folders
: chiefly gelatin silver prints
; various sizes
Date (inclusive): approximately 1935-2015
Abstract: Portraits and personal snapshots of Lawrence Ferlinghetti throughout his life; his family, friends, and associates; views
of City Lights Books (and other North Beach locales); as well as photographs from trips to Europe and Nicaragua. Includes
photographs of Allen Ginsberg and other poets, portraits of Pressley Bisland and family, and images used in Barry Silesky's
biography: Ferlinghetti, the artist in his time.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials,
please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Pictorial material from the Lawrence Ferlinghetti Papers, BANC PIC 1990.095, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley
Digital reproductions of selected images are available.
Title: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Papers,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 90/30 c
The original accession of this collection comprised (approximately) 345 photographic prints, negatives, and 1 pencil drawing
housed in 2 boxes, from which 3 digital objects (3 images) were produced by the library for researcher orders. 2017 additions
to the collection brought the total to approximately 1,000 photographs, and 2021 additions increased the number to 1,150.
Only material received by 1990 has an item listing.
Original installment (--A boxes 1-2): Portraits and personal snapshots of Lawrence Ferlinghetti throughout his life; his family,
friends, and associates; views of City Lights Books (and other North Beach locales); as well as photographs from trips to
Europe and Nicaragua. Includes photographs of Allen Ginsberg and other poets, portraits of Pressley Bisland and family, and
images used in Barry Silesky's biography: Ferlinghetti, the artist in his time.
2017 additions: Portraits and snapshots of Ferlinghetti, his family, friends and associates, with an emphasis on the 1990s
to 2010s; a Mississippi trip taken in 2003; a Kirby Smith family photograph album from the 1930s and 1940s; many oversize
mounted prints pertaining to Ferlinghetti's career and associates that perhaps decorated the walls of City Lights. Also includes
a custom box containing the original drawing for the logo of City Lights Books (OBJ TEMP box 1). Objects include a City Lights
Bookstore t-shirt, a Howl cap, an Ambrose Lightship t-shirt, a Piazza Saint Francis/Poets Plaza pin, and a City Lights pin.