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William Butler Yeats 1865-1939
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William Butler Yeats photograph collection
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A collection of photographs of William Butler Yeats in various informal settings with friends and associates, approximately 1900-1910 and 1937-1939, just before his death in 1939. The earliest photographs are a set of 13 glass plate negatives dating from approximately 1900-1910, showing Yeats with a group of unidentified women and one older man, in a home or parlor. There are also two small glass stereographs of sailing vessels. The photographs from 1937-1939 depict Yeats with Edith Shackleton Heald and others at her home, Chantry House, in Steyning, West Sussex, England. They are seen relaxing in lawn chairs and in group scenes with book illustrator Edmund Dulac and his wife, author Helen Beauclerk, and Edith's sister Nora Shackleton Heald, who is credited with taking some of the photographs. Some unidentified people are also present in the Chantry House photographs. A later set of photographs, from approximately 1960s, shows a film crew in the garden of Chantry House with (possibly) Edith Shackleton Heald. Other miscellaneous photographs are two snapshots of Yeats sitting at a seaside location and one view of "Yeats Tower" (Thoor Ballylee).
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