Herman George Scheffauer Photograph Album, ca. 1885-ca. 1925

Processed by Chris McDonald.

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

1997

Herman George Scheffauer Photograph Album, ca. 1885-ca. 1925

BANC PIC 1984.019 -- fALB

The Bancroft Library

University of California

Berkeley, California 1997

Finding aid and digital representations of archival materials funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Processed and encoded by:

California Heritage Digital Image Access Project staff in The Bancroft Library and The Library's Electronic Text Unit

Digital images processed by:

The Library Photographic Service

Finding aid completed:

December 1996

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Herman George Scheffauer Photograph Album,

Date: ca. 1885-ca. 1925

Collection Number: BANC PIC 1984.019 -- fALB

Creator: Scheffauer, Herman George, 1878-1927

Extent: 1 album (131 photographic prints, various sizes, many bound); 38 x 27 cm. 68 digital objects

Repository: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is stored off-site. Advance notice required for use.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Herman George Scheffauer Photograph Album, BANC PIC 1984.019 --fALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Digital Representations Available

Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.

Related Collections

Title: Herman George Scheffauer Papers, 1895-1927

Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 84/22 c

Title: Herman George Scheffauer Papers, 1893-1926

Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 73/87 c

Title: Herman George Scheffauer Papers, [ca. 1900-1912

Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS C-H 89

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

The Herman George Scheffauer Photograph Album was transferred from the Herman George Scheffauer Papers, 1895-1927, BANC MSS 84/22 c.

Biography

Herman George Scheffauer was born in San Francisco, California in 1878. A poet and playwright of local importance, he was a protégé of Ambrose Bierce and was associated with George Sterling and other Bohemian Grove writers and artists. He married the English poet Ethel Talbot, with whom he had a daughter, Fiona. In 1910, Scheffauer moved to Germany to become a translator and journalist. He committed suicide in 1927.

Scheffauer's published poetry and drama includes Of Both Worlds (1903), Looms of Life (1908), The Sons of Baldur (1908), Drake in California (1912), The Hollow Head of Mars (1915), and The Infant in the News-Sheet (1921). His published translations from the German, many of them posthumous, include Atta Troll (1913), by Heinrich Heine; Bashan and I (1923), Children and Fools (1928), Early Sorrow (1930), and A Man and His Dog (1930), all by Thomas Mann; Gas (1924), by Georg Kaiser; and Peter the Czar (1925), by Klabund.

Scope and Content

The Herman George Scheffauer Photograph Album contains 130 photographs taken circa 1885-1925. Nearly all the photographs in the album feature Scheffauer, many of them being portraits taken by professional photographers in San Francisco, London, and Berlin. Other notable persons featured in the collection include Ambrose Bierce, George Sterling, Haig Patigian, James Hopper, Frederick Bechdolt, as well as Scheffauer's wife Ethel and their daughter Fiona. Identifiable locations featured in the collection include the Bohemian Grove, London, Scotland, Spain and Germany. A few of the photographs feature sculptural or painted portraits of Scheffauer.

Photographer's featured in the collection include Arnold Genthe, Gabriel Moulin, Adolph Langfier, Florence Vandamm, Becker & Maass, Coover and Rasmussen, Heywood and Towers, John W. Baker, and Annie W. Brigman.

The album appears to have been compiled by an unidentified niece or nephew of Scheffauer, as such captions as "Uncle Herman" and "Aunt Ethel" would indicate.

The album also contains one etching--a portrait of Scheffauer by William Walker.

The album--bearing the hand-written title "Herman George Scheffauer"--is bound in string. For preservation purposes, its covers and leaves have been sleeved in plastic.

:1 [Boyhood portrait of Herman George Scheffauer.]