Etta Blum Photograph Collection
Scope and Content
Collection consists of four excellent black-and-white portraits (8 x 10 in. or smaller), including one of Etta Blum taken by Ben Kerns (1980). The remaining three portraits are of Frank Waters. One, by Robert Kostka, depicts Waters standing in front of an Indian mural; another is a full length portrait taken out-of-doors before an adobe building (perhaps the author's home).
Dates
- Creation: 1980
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Duplication allowed for research purposes in most cases. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
Biography
Etta Blum was born in 1908 in New York City. She attended Hunter College and Columbia University and for years worked for the New York City Board of Education. She published two books of poetry (Poems and The Space My Body Fills) as well as translating from Yiddish, poems and short stories written by her husband, Eliezer Blum-Alquit. She lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 1978 to the time of her death in 1981.
Extent
1 folder (4 photographic prints)
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Abstract
Collection consists of four black-and-white portraits, including one of Etta Blum taken by Ben Kerns (1980). The remaining three portraits are of Frank Waters.
Physical Location
B2. Small Collections box 4. Filed by Pictorial Number.
Separated Material
Photographs separated from the Etta Blum Papers.
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Etta Blum Photograph Collection, 1980
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Pictorial Collections Staff
- Date
- © 2007
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
cswrref@unm.edu