Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
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
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.