Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public domain Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343 USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Glass plate negatives of original manuscript of Alice's adventures underground], ca. 1935. 47 dry-plate glass negatives, each measuring 19.5 x 24.5 cm, used for the 1936 limited, unnumbered private issue of a facsimile copy of Underground. The glass negatives were made by Levin Corbin Handy in Washington, D.C. at the request of Eldridge Johnson following Johnson's purchase at auction of the original handwritten manuscript from Alice's library. This unique set of plates, originally believed lost in Germany during World War II, reappeared at the auction from which the set was purchase for the USC Cassady Collection. The photographer, Handy, was an apprentice of Matthew Brady. Unique and only set of glass negatives of the original handwritten manuscript.
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