George Fayer portrait photograph collection
Scope and Content Note
The George Fayer collection includes portraits of military and political leaders, musicians, scholars, public officials, celebrities and delegates to the United Nations. It also includes notables such as Dean Acheson, Sara Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Thomas Dewey, Anthony Eden, Jascha Heifetz, John Maynard Keynes, Louis Krasner, Vivian Leigh, Archibald MacLeish, John Pierpont Morgan, Herbert Putnam, Edward R. Stettinius, Arturo Toscanini, Wendell Willkie, among others.
Dates
- Creation: ca. 1940-1950
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Access Restrictions
The George Fayer portrait photograph collection is open to research.
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Rights Restrictions
Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For general information see: "Copyright and Other Restrictions..."
Biographical Note
George Fayer was an English portrait photographer who served as the official photographer of the League of Nations. Born June 8, 1892 in Budapest, Hungary. Died Nov. 5, 1950 in Cannes, France.
Extent
250 photographic prints (ca) : gelatin silver ; 41 x 51 cm and smaller
Abstract
The photographs depict notable people such as diplomats, military and political leaders, musicians and celebrities, both American and foreign.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into groups called LOTs. LOT 2407 and LOT 11824 are arranged alphabetically, by surname.
- LOT 2407 (F): Portraits of diplomats, industrialists and other notable people
- LOT 2409 (F): Portraits of the chairmen of delegations to the United Nations, 1947
- LOT 2465 (F): Portraits of individuals, representing 35 nations, associated with the International bank for reconstruction
- LOT 11824 (H): Studio portraits of notable public figures.
Catalog Record
Provenance
Gift; George Fayer; 1945-1946.
Online Content
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Bibliography
- Washingtoniana : photographs : collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress / Kathleen Collins. Washington : The Library, 1989.
Processing History
The George Fayer collection was processed by staff in Prints and Photographs Division. This finding aid contains unverified data from old container lists transcribed by Tori Cox and Gillian Mahoney in 2020. Not all of the groups of material are described at the same level of detail. Finding aid encoded by Kristen Sosinski in August 2020.
- Title
- George Fayer portrait photograph collection
- Author
- Prepared by the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress
- Date
- 2020
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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