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1. Visual materials from the Janet Flanner and Solita Solano papers

   1,070 items (chiefly gelatin silver and albumen prints) : b&w, some color ; 25 x 38 cm. or smaller. . -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Photographs from scrapbooks chronicling the lives and careers of American writers Janet Flanner and Solita Solano. The album includes many individual and group portraits, mostly informal. Many images document the years Flanner and Solano lived together in Paris as American expatriates, particularly between World Wars I and II. Also documented are prominent literary and artistic individuals, close friends and associates, and many images of Flanner and Solano taken by noted photographers.

2. Janet Flanner and Solita Solano papers, 1870-1976

   3,000 items. 20 containers plus 3 oversize. 7 linear feet. 2 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Journalists, writers, and literary editors. Correspondence, subject files, drafts of articles, books, poems, and other writings, and miscellaneous material, including scrapbooks and memorabilia, relating primarily to Flanner's career as a writer, especially with the New Yorker; to Solano's interest and writings; and to literary and intellectual life in Paris and New York.