John Howard Griffin papers, 1920-2004

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Series XXI. Photographs



Box 36 Folder 871 Animals -- cat, rabbit & cat; deer, 3 photographs


Box 36 Folder 872 Belgium, 10 photographs


Box 36 Folder 873 Luis Berber , [n.p.], August 1965, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 874 Blacks in Mississippi, Mississippi, August 1974, 9 photographs


Box 36 Folder 875 Lola Bobesco, Susanne Genty and Jacques Genty , Huy, Belgium, December 1965, 2 photographs


Box 36 Folder 876 Lorenzo Bonazzi , [n.p.], 9 June 1967, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 877 Children playing, [n.p.], 12 July 1962, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 877A [Father Clayton?] Portrait, Fort Worth, texas, 1974, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 878 Earl Coverdale , Spirit Lake, Iowa, June 1964, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 879 Meade Crane , Texas, 4 June 1967, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 880 Andrew Dasberg & Robert Ellis , Taos, New Mexico, 1964, 2 photographs


Box 36 Folder 881 Andrew Dasberg , Taos, New Mexico, 1964/65, 2 photographs


Box 36 Folder 882 Madame Suzanne Dessertennes , [n.p.] & Denver, 1974, 2 photographs


Box 36 Folder 883 Father Godfrey Diekmann , [n.p.], August 1965, 2 photographs


Box 36 Folder 884 Catherine de Hueck Doherty , Combermere, Ontario, 1968, 2 photographs


Box 36 Folder 885 Nell Dorr , [n.p.], December 1972, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 886 Michael Dunne , [n.p.], 2 November 1974, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 887 P.D. East , [n.p.], 1962, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 888 Brother Emmanuel , Detroit, 1964, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 889 Sister Fleurette, IMS , Los Angeles, CA, 1 July 1964, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 890 Flowers, [n.p.], May 1965, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 891 France, 1960s & 1970s, 4 photograph


Box 36 Folder 892 Anne Freemantle , New York and Texas, 1965-1975, 3 photograph


Box 36 Folder 893 George Galinkin , Mansfield, Texas, 1972, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 894 Maxwell Geismar , [n.p.], 8 June 1962, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 894 Ernesto Tovar , Mexico, 1961, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 895 Maxell Geismar , [n.p.], 1965, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 896 Father George Amanda Griffith's communion mass, [Mansfield, Texas], 1972, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 896 Father Mottet Amanda Griffith's communion mass, [Mansfield, Texas], 1972, 2 photographs


Box 36 Folder 897 Amanda Griffin , [Mansfield, Texas], 1966-1972, 26 photographs


Box 36 Folder 898-902 Gregory Griffin , [v.p.], 1961-1965, 12 photographs


Box 36 Folder 903 John Howard Griffin Getting haircut, [v.p.], 1974, 3 photographs


Box 36 Folder 904 John Howard Griffin On various t.v. shows, [Mansfield, Texas], October 1974, 2 photographs


Box 36 Folder 905 John Howard Griffin Humorous mock-entry on Who's Who re sackbut player, [Mansfield, Texas],, 1973 & 1975, 2 photographs


Box 36 Folder 906 John Howard Griffin & Dick Gregory , [n.p.], 1973, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 907 John Howard Griffin At Merton's hermitage, [n.p.], 1973, 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 908 John Howard Griffin Taken by Father George, [n.p.], [1967], 1 photograph


Box 36 Folder 909 John Howard Griffin & Antoinette Grunelius Working together on the Gwen John project, Kolbshein, France,, [1967], 6 photographs


Box 36 Folder 909 Chateau and chapel, Kolbshein, France, [1967], 2 photographs


Box 36 Folder 910 John Howard Griffin & Msgr. Brady , Windsor, Ontario, March 1966, 1 photograph



Box 37 Folder 911 John Howard Griffin At Pacem in Terris Award, Windsor, Ontario, 1968, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 912 & 913 Griffin family (Piedy; Mother; Susan; George; Amanda; and John Howard) in groups, [Mansfield, Texas],, 1963-1966, 10 photographs


Box 37 Folder 914 & 915 Lena Mae Griffin Griffin's mother, [Mansfield, Texas], 1964, 2 photographs


Box 37 Folder 916 Piedy Griffin Griffin's wife, [Mansfield, Texas], 1966/1967, 2 photographs


Box 37 Folder 916 Susan Griffin Griffin's daughter, [Mansfield, Texas], 1967, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 917-920 Susan Griffin Griffin's daughter, [Mansfield, Texas], 1960s and 1970s, 13 photographs


Box 37 Folder 921-924 Dom Bede Griffiths Born December 17, 1906, in Walton on Thames, England; died May 13, 1993, at the small monastic ashram he had headed since 1968, in Tamil Nadu, India. Griffiths' worked to foster ecumenical relations between Christians and Hindus in India. He assisted in the foundation of Kurisumala Ashram, a monastery of the Syrian Rite of the Catholic Church which uses the Syriac language in its prayers and services. Griffiths wore the `kavi' (saffron-coloured) dress of the sannyasi (monk) and used Sanskrit and other Indian languages in the celebration of the Christian liturgy combined with the study of the mystical tradition of Hinduism., [Mansfield, Texas],, 1963/1964, 4 photographs


Box 37 Folder 925 House, interior, [Mansfield, Texas], 1966, 7 photographs


Box 37 Folder 926 Penn Jones Portrait, [Mansfield, Texas], July 1963, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 927 Lili Kraus (with Piedy and John Howard Griffin) Snapshots, [v.p.], 1970s, 4 photographs


Box 37 Folder 928 Halldor Laxness & Corneille Heymans Nobel prizewinners in literature and medicine, Huy, belgium,, December 1965, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 929 Denis Levertov Portrait, [n.p.], [1975], 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 930 Jacques Maritain Portrait and snapshots, [v.p.], 1964-1967, 4 photographs


Box 37 Folder 931 Jacques Maritain et al With Thomas Merton, Father Sullivan and John Howard Griffin, [v.p.],, 1966, 6 photographs


Box 37 Folder 932 Thomas Merton In hermitage, Trappist, KY, [n.d.], 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 933 Merton's hermitage and environment, Trappist, KY, 1972, 6 photographs


Box 37 Folder 934 Thomas Merton With camera in rail yard, KY, 1968, 5 photographs


Box 37 Folder 935 Thomas Merton Portrait, KY, 25 April 1968, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 936 Thomas Merton Reading, KY, 19 March 1963, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 937 Thomas Merton Official portrait by John Howard Griffin, KY, 20 March 1963, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 938 Thomas Merton At the hermitage with John Howard Griffin, KY, 1967, 2 photographs


Box 37 Folder 939 Mexican Joe's living room, [n.p.], February 1968, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 940 Mexico scenery (Santa Maria and Rancho Santo Domingo), [n.p.], 1965 & 1975, 5 photographs


Box 37 Folder 941 Milhaud Trio, Fort Worth, Texas, 8 September 1973, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 942 Monestary of Gethsemani, Trappist, KY, 24 January 1963, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 943 Father Stanley Murphy Portrait, [n.p.], 29 July 1962, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 944 Father Stanley Murphy Celebrating mass in studio of John Howard Griffin, Mansfield, Texas,, 11 July 1966, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 945 Zara Nelsova Zara Nelsova was born in Winnipeg in 1918. Her parents had emigrated from Russia in 1910. Zara made her solo orchestral debut, playing the Lalo Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Malcolm Sargent. After the war Nelsova was able to realize her lifelong ambition of studying with Pablo Casals. In 1955, Nelsova gave a landmark series of recitals for solo cello in London and New York and in 1966, she became the first North American cellist to tour the Soviet Union. Zara was the favorite cellist of Ernest Bloch, who wrote three Solo Suites for her and presided as conductor for her recording of his Schelomo. Samuel Barber also chose her as soloist for a recording of his Cello Concerto, with him conducting. She died in 1995., Minneapolis,, 12 March 1963, 7 photographs


Box 37 Folder 946 Philip Noel-Baker, Dominique Pire, Professor C. Heymans, and H. Laxness Four Nobel Prize Winners, Huy, Belgium,, December 1965, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 947 The Novice, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico, 1961, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 948 Rabbi Joel Orent Portrait, [n.p.], September 1969, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 949 Charles Rector Portrait, [n.p.], 25 March 1968, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 950 Pierre Reverdy Born September 11, 1889, in Narbonne, France; died June 17, 1960. His early poems, Les Epaves du ciel, in 1924, surrealists hailed Reverdy as the greatest living poet. A collection of Reverdy's poetry. Main d'ouvre, was published in 1949, and his poetic theories are explained in his Le Gant de crin, published in 1926. Solesmes, France,, 1946, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 951 Rhein archivist, Rhein, France, 3 November 1961, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 952 Scenery, [n.p.], [1966], 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 953 Don Shoemaker Snapshot with dog, Santa Maria, Morelia, Mexico, September 1965, 1 photograph


Box 37 Folder 954 Saint Barthelemy's Church, Liege, 1964, 2 photographs


Box 37 Folder 955 Taos Pueblo, N.M., 1964, 2 photographs


Box 37 Folder 956 Father James Thompson Portraits and snapshots, [v.p.], 1963-1975, 5 photographs


Box 37 Folder 957 Father James Thompson's church and environment, Ferriday, LA, 1963, 4 photographs


Box 37 Folder 958 Two nuns (one of Griffin's favorite photographs), [Mexico], 27 July 1963, 1 photograph