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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence, 1976
Series VI: Writings By and About, 1960s-2010s
Series X: Audio and Video Recordings, 1964-2007
Series XI: Books, 1725-2010

Shirley Hazzard papers, 1920s-2016

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Series IX: Photographs, 1920s-2013

This series contains both personal photographs and professional portraits and event photographs. These are primarily prints, but also include contact sheets, proofs, and negatives.

The majority of photographs lack labels and dates, although many photographs from the 1960s-1980s are date-stamped. In addition, Hazzard made various copies of her favorites, so there is some duplication within the photographs as a whole.

Subseries IX.1: Professional Portraits, 1940s-2009

This subseries consists primarily of professional portraits of Hazzard. These include early portraits from the 1940s and 1950s, as well as professional portraits made during her writing career from the 1960s-2005. There are also several group portraits from the American Academy of Arts and Letters from 1994-2009.

This subseries also includes some portraits of Francis Steegmuller, as well as portraits taken of Hazzard and Steegmuller as a couple.

The subseries consists primarily of prints, but also includes contact sheets, proofs, and a few negatives.


Box 50 Folder 1-3 Professional Portraits, 1940s-1950s, 3 folders

School portraits, and potrait done at Wellington.

Box 50 Folder 4 Professional Portraits?, 1950s-1960s

These appear to have been taken at the United Nations. One print, four negatives.

Box 50 Folder 5-41 Professional Portraits, circa 1962-2005, 37 folders

Primarily professional portraits of Hazzard, although a few photo shoots include Steegmuller. These are primarily prints, but some photo shoots include contact sheets, negatives, and proofs.


Box 59 Folder 8 Professional Portraits, 1965

Two oversized portraits. There are smaller shots from this photo shoot in Box 50 Folder 13.


Box 51 Folder 1-3 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1994-2009, 3 folders

These are portraits that were taken of committees, groups at members' dinners, etc. that include Hazzard. Photos include labels.


Box 59 Folder 9-10 Professional Portraits (Hazzard and Steegmuller), 1980s, 2 folders

Oversized portraits of Hazzard and Steegmuller, photographed as a couple.


Box 52 Folder 16 Professional Portraits (Steegmuller), 1960s

Box 52 Folder 20 Steegmuller at Bill Maxwell's Birthday, 1993 August 16

Professional shot.

Subseries IX.2: Events, 1966-2010

This subseries includes both snapshots and professional photographs of awards, formal events and parties, and professional events. Many of these are unfortunately unlabeled and undated.


Box 53 Folder 23 Event, 1966

Box 53 Folder 24 Hazzard at the United Nations for International Women's Day, 1977 March 8

Photos have some damage.

Box 53 Folder 25 Transit of Venus Bookstore Event?, circa 1980

Box 53 Folder 26 Hazzard with Margaret Leng Tan, 1982

Box 53 Folder 27 Event, 1980s

Box 53 Folder 28 Columbia University Event, 1980s-1990s

Box 53 Folder 29 Event / Party (Enlargement), 1999

Box 53 Folder 30 Party? for The Great Fire, 2003

With card from Jeannette Watson Singer.

Box 53 Folder 31 Hazzard at Kiesnans Apartment, 2003 Fall

From Ben Taylor

Box 53 Folder 32 Award for The Great Fire?, 2003/2004

Box 53 Folder 33 New York Public Library Spring Luncheon, 2004

Box 53 Folder 34 Event, circa 2004

Box 53 Folder 35 New York Public Library Literary Lions?, 2005

Box 53 Folder 36 Queenswood School Day for Shirley Hazzard, 2005

Box 53 Folder 37 Shanghai, 2005

Box 53 Folder 38 Hong Kong, 2005

Box 53 Folder 39 Hazzard and Robert P. Harrison Interview, 2005 December


Box 12 Folder 1 Photographs, 1988, 2004-2007, undated

Miscellaneous snapshots, including several of Hazzard and Steegmuller, and their cat. Also three snapshots of Hazzard from 2004-2007, including one of her reading to children at the Queenwood Library.


Box 53 Folder 40 Honors at Capri?, 1990s/2000s


Box 29 Folder 10 Literary Lives: The World of Francis Steegmuller and Shirley Hazzard, 2010

Exhibition at the New York Society Library. Includes invitation, exhibition catalog, and a few professional photographs of Hazzard and Steegmuller.


Box 56 [Literary Lives Event], 2010, Black Album

Color snapshots from exhibiton opening event at the New York Society Library.


Box 53 Folder 43 Literary Lives Event, circa 2010

These photographs are from the exhibition opening.

Box 53 Folder 41-42 Events, 2000s, 2 folders

Box 53 Folder 44 Miscellaneous Event Photographs, 1970s-2000s

Subseries IX.3: Family, 1920s-1970s

These include snapshots and professional photographs of the Hazzard family, dating primarily from the 1920s-1950s.


Box 51 Folder 4-7 Catherine Hazzard, 1920s-1950s, 4 folders

Box 51 Folder 8 Hazzard Family, circa 1933

Box 51 Folder 9 Shirley and Valerie Hazzard, 1930s

Box 51 Folder 10 Valerie Hazzard?, 1950s

Box 51 Folder 11 Hazzard Family on the RMS Queen Elizabeth and the RMS Queen Mary, 1950s

Box 51 Folder 12 Hazzard Family, circa 1951

Box 51 Folder 13 Hazzard Family in New York City and Washington, D.C., 1951

Box 51 Folder 14-16 Mostly Family Snapshots?, 1950s-1970s, 3 folders


Box 59 Folder 11 Professional Portraits of Three Children, 1960s

Two portraits, one of three children (two boys and a girl) and a single portrait of the same girl. Photographs are unlabeled. Perhaps Hazzard niece and nephews, Hamlin, Catherine, and Robbie Barnes?

Subseries IX.4: Personal Snapshots, 1940s-2013

This subseries consists primarily of snapshot prints. There are also a few photograph albums and some negatives.

The majority of photographs lack labels and dates, although many photographs from the 1960s-1980s are date-stamped. In addition, Hazzard made various copies of her favorites, so there is some duplication within the photographs as a whole.

Many photographs were completely loose and unsorted. Others were in envelopes, but these are generally unlabeled. In addition, photographs in envelopes may not form distinct reels or groups, rather, photographs may be together for the purpose of making copies or enlargments.

Hazzard and Steegmuller, 1960s-2014

These include various snapshots of Hazzard and Steegmuller. Some of these were favorites, and multiple copies and enlargements of these photos were made by Hazzard. In addition, there is a folder of photographs that Hazzard lent to an interviewer in 2005, which documents her selection of their best photographs.

There is an album of wedding photographs from Hazzard's wedding to Steegmuller in 1963. These are undamaged, but faded.


Box 52 Folder 1-4 Hazzard--Various Snapshots of, 1960s-2000s, 4 folders

Box 52 Folder 5 Steegmuller--Slides

Box 52 Folder 6-8 Steegmuller--Various Snapshots of, 1960s-1990s, 3 folders

Box 52 Folder 9 Steegmuller--Negatives, include some snapsnots of Steegmuller

Box 52 Folder 10-14 Hazzard and Steegmuller--Various snapshots of Hazzard and Steegmuller Together, 1960s-1990s, 4 folders

Includes some negatives.


Box 12 Folder 1 Photographs, 1988, 2004-2007, undated

Miscellaneous snapshots, including several of Hazzard and Steegmuller, and their cat. Also three snapshots of Hazzard from 2004-2007, including one of her reading to children at the Queenwood Library.


Box 52 Folder 15 Hazzard-Steegmuller Wedding, 1963

Box 52 Folder 17 Hazzard--Small Portraits, Extra Passport Photos?, Etc., 1970s-1990

Box 52 Folder 18 Steegmuller--Enlarged Snapshot, with Negative, circa 1987

Box 52 Folder 19 Hazzard and Steegmuller, 1980s

Box 52 Folder 25 Photos of Hazzard and Steegmuller, Lent by Hazzard for Interview in 2005, 1960s-2003

This folder includes copies of several personal and professional photos of Steemguller and Hazzard. Includes note.


Box 60 Painting of Hazzard and Steegmuller, 2014

Small color painting on canvas, signed Anshaw 2014.

Groups, Events, Etc., 1971-2015

These include some photographs of Hazzard and Steegmuller with friends, and at informal events such as birthday parties.


Box 56 England and New York at Manhattan House, 1971 June - 1973 January, Ivory Album

Snapshots, mostly of Hazzard and Steegmuller, but some include friends


Box 53 Folder 2 Hazzard and Steegmuller with William H. Robinson, 1977

Includes clipping on Robinson.


Box 51 Folder 29 Vedeniapine Visit (circa 1979), Other Photographs of Hazzard and Steegmuller, Includes Chris Cooper, circa 1979

The Vedeniapine photographs duplicate those found in Box 25; this folder includes some other photographs.


Box 53 Folder 3 Roberto Pane, and a few other photos, including a landscape photo by Pane, circa 1987

Includes negatives.

Box 53 Folder 4 Hazzard with Roberto Pane?, 1980s

Box 53 Folder 5 Hazzard, Steegmuller, Saul Bellow, Laetitia Cerio, mostly on Capri, 1980s?

Box 53 Folder 6 Eugénie's Wedding (Photos from Carlo Knight), undated

Box 53 Folder 7 Hazzard, Steegmuller, Sebastian de Grazia in a piazza; Millenium of San Constanzo, circa 1991


Box 56 Photograph Album from Evan Cornog, 1996, Green Album

Album of photographs from Cornog's trip to Italy, given as a thank-you to Hazzard.


Box 53 Folder 8 Capri, with Evan [Cornog], 1997

Box 53 Folder 9 Visit to Sarah Whitaker Peters (Jackson Hole, WY?), circa 1998

Includes card.

Box 53 Folder 10 Hazzard with Bill and Phyllis Levin, 1990s

Box 53 Folder 11 Ida Nicolaisen and Abraham Pais, with card, 2000

Box 53 Folder 12 Hazzard with Harley Gordon at Paula Fox's 80th Birthday Dinner, 2003

With card from Sheila Gordon, 2009.

Box 53 Folder 13 Hazzard at The Century (Florence?), with card, 2004

Box 53 Folder 14 Collage of Hazzard in Italy, 2000s

Box 53 Folder 15 Hazzard and Unidentfied Man, 2010s

Enlargement of snapshot.

Box 53 Folder 16 Hazzard, Steegmuller, and Friends - Capri and Naples (Small Album), 1960s-1990s

Box 53 Folder 17 Important - Solaia, Capri, Ercolano, New York City, 1960s-1990s

Box 53 Folder 18 Includes some similar shots to "Important" (Box 53, Folder 17), 1980s-1990s

Box 53 Folder 19 Hazzard and Others --Includes Peter and Ann Levin, Jon Deland, Emma Deland, Michael Leahy, 1960s-1990s

Box 53 Folder 20 Hazzard, Steegmuller, and Others--Enlargements / Copies, 1970s-2000s

Box 53 Folder 21-22 Hazzard and Steegmuller with Others, Miscellaneous, 1960s-2000s, 2 folders


Box 51 Folder 17 Hazzard's Birthday, 2005

Includes the Leahys, Bill and Phyllis [Levin].

Box 51 Folder 18 Hazzard's Birthday, 2007

With Phyllis Levin.

Box 51 Folder 19 Hazzard's Birthday, 2009

Box 51 Folder 20 Hazzard's Birthday, 2009, 2011

Box 51 Folder 27 Miscellaneous Photos of Others, Identified, 1950s-2015

Includes photographs of Norman Sherry, Giles and Erie Constable, Patricia Walmsley, Everett Fahy, Catherine Walston, Robert Sonkin, Bill and Phyllis Levin, William Maxwell, and members of the Vivante family.

Other Subjects, 1943-2001, undated

This subseries includes photographs of residences, landscapes, cats, and a photograph album of Glenleigh.

Photographs related to Hong Kong, Chris Cooper, and the Vedeniapine family are cross-referenced in the container list here. These also relate to The Great Fire in Series IV.

Hong Kong, 1930s-2005


Box 25 Folder 12 Photographs, 1943-1951

Personal photographs. Includes photographs of Hazzard, A.P. Vedeniapine., Christopher Cooper, Alan [Green?]and others.

Box 25 Folder 13-14 Photographs, 1948, undated, 2 folders

Personal photographs. Includes photographs of A.P. Vedeniapine, Christopher Cooper, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, CRH Kindersley, and Hazzard.

Box 25 Folder 15 Photographs, circa 2005

These are from a trip Hazzard made to Hong Kong in 2005. Includes photographs of Hazzard.

Box 25 Folder 16 Photographs--A.P. Vedeniapine and Family, circa 1924-2013

Hazzard is in a few of these photographs. Includes Hazzard's visit to Wales in the 1970s; these photos include Chris Cooper. Also includes later family visits with Hazzard.

Box 25 Folder 17 Photographs, 1930s-1940s

These are reference photographs of Hong Kong.


Box 51 Folder 28 Hong Kong Related Photos?, circa 1948?

Several unidentified photographs of a dinner event.


Box 53 Folder 1 Steegmuller's House at Sharon, CT, 1960s


Box 52 Folder 21-22 House at Capri, circa 1996, 2 folders

Box 52 Folder 23 House at Capri, from New York Times, 1997


Box 51 Folder 21 Panorama Prints, 1993, undated

Box 51 Folder 22-24 Trips / Landscapes--Enlargements, 1980-1990s, 3 folders

Box 51 Folder 25 Landscape Print, with 2 Slides


Box 56 Folder 62 Landscape Photograph by Evan Cornog, 1978


Box 51 Folder 26 Capri--Panorama View by Karl Kirchwey, 2001


Box 52 Folder 24 Cats


Box 56 Glenleigh, undated, White Album

Snapshots of house, rooms.

Other Photographs, 1940s-2000s

These photographs are primarily personal snapshots of Capri, informal gatherings, trips, friends, and similar subjects. The majority are prints, but there were negatives in some of the envelopes.

The majority of photographs lack labels and dates, although many photographs from the 1960s-1980s are date-stamped. In addition, Hazzard made various copies of her favorites, so there is some duplication within the photographs as a whole.

These is one box of miscellaneous negatives; these are unlabeled, and mostly undated.


Box 55 Folder 1 Personal Photographs, General, 1940s

Box 55 Folder 2-9 Personal Photographs, General, 1950s, 8 folders

Includes Howard Daniel, Suzanne Puffet, Eddie Rascovich.

Box 55 Folder 10 New York City, Photos and Postcards, 1950s

Box 55 Folder 11 Solaia, 1950s

Box 55 Folder 12-14 Personal Photographs, General, 1950s/1960s, 3 folders

Box 55 Folder 15-30 Personal Photographs, General, 1960s, 16 folders

Box 55 Folder 31-39 Personal Photographs, General, 1960s-1970s, 9 folders

Box 55 Folder 40-50 Personal Photographs, General, 1970s, 11 folders

Box 55 Folder 51-60 Personal Photographs, General, 1970s-1980s, 10 folders

Box 55 Folder 61-80 Personal Photographs, General, 1980s, 20 folders


Box 56 Folder 1-33 Personal Photographs, General, 1980s-1990s, 33 folders

Box 56 Folder 34-48 Personal Photographs, General, 1990s, 15 folders

Box 56 Folder 49-51 Personal Photographs, General, 1990s-2000s, 3 folders

Box 56 Folder 52-53 Personal Photographs, General, 1990s-2000s, 2 folders

Mostly Capri, gatherings with friends.

Box 56 Folder 54 Hazzard with Cat, with postcard, 2000

Box 56 Folder 55 Friends in Capri, 2006, undated

Includes Susan Wyndam.

Box 56 Folder 56 St. Urbano and the Grotto, 1960s-1990s

Box 56 Folder 57-58 Personal Photographs, General, 1960s-1980s, 2 folders

Box 56 Folder 59 Miscellaneous Photos of Others, Unidentified, 1950s-2000s

Box 56 Folder 60 Miscellaneous Postcards

Box 56 Folder 61 Miscellaneous Photographs


Box 54 Folder 1-7 Negatives--Miscellaneous, 1960s, undated, 7 folders