Manuscripts

Scrapbook - family

Description: Scrapbook containing childhood and family photographs, including early baby pictures of Babitz and Babitz with her godfather Igor Stravinsky.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1940s-1980s
Call number: mssBabitz
Creator: Babitz, Eve(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Eve Babitz through Glenn Horowitz Bookseller with support from Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield, November 2021.; gift of Mirandi Babitz, December 2024.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Scrapbook - friends

Manuscripts

Scrapbook containing photographs of friends and ephemera approximately 1969. Includes photographs of Harrison Ford, Noel Harrison, and others, gatherings at Earl McGrath's, and photo booth snapshots of Babitz.

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Biographical and family

Manuscripts

Materials related to Babitz's childhood and school days, including a handmade card for her father, a single diary page, report cards, and yearbooks. Also includes her passports, astrology charts, business cards, miscellaneous notes and receipts, and materials related to Marcel Duchamp events in which Babitz was asked to participate. Some family related items include a Bach workbook written by Sol Babitz and a family calendar, cookbook, and genealogy by Mirandi Babitz.

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Eve Babitz, family, and art

Manuscripts

Photographs of Eve Babitz from childhood through the 2000s, her family, and artwork. Artwork photographs include several prints of a Brian Jones collage, and a series of slides taken by Paul Ruscha.

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Correspondence - friends and family incoming/outgoing

Manuscripts

Incoming letters and cards from friends, some unsigned or unidentified; and the majority of Babitz's outgoing correspondence. Babitz's outgoing correspondence is primarily from the late 1960s to early 1970s and includes carbon copies, drafts, and unsent letters and postcards. There is also incoming and outgoing family correspondence (mid 1950s to mid 1960s) with her parents Sol and Mae Babitz, sister Mirandi Babitz, and a few other relatives.

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Photographs

Manuscripts

Photographs and negatives of Eve Babitz, her family and friends, and the Los Angeles area, including hundreds taken by Babitz of friends and gatherings during the years 1969-1972. Photo subjects from this time include Jackson Browne, the Byrds, Black Oak Arkansas, Glenn Frey, Steve Martin, Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons (38 images), and Dan Wakefield; and several Los Angeles locations including Echo Park and the Griffith Observatory. There are also photos from the late 1980s of friends and gatherings and a trip to Miami. Family photographs include Eve Babitz from childhood to the 2000s, her cats, her parents Sol and Mae Babitz, sister Mirandi Babitz, and their family home. Scrapbooks and photo albums feature snapshots of friends and family, with one album dedicated to the Slow Days, Fast Company book release party in 1977. There is also significant material related to dance in Los Angeles, which appears to be related to Babitz's book Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night.

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Photo albums

Manuscripts

Four photo albums, including one documenting the Slow Days Fast Company book release party in 1997, and another with snapshots of Babitz and her friends at an event in 1987. The other two albums include a mixture of childhood, family, and friends photographs, which have been removed and housed separately within the box due to the albums' deterioration.

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