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Authors: The Portrait Photograph File of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

The New York Public Library's online collection of prints and photographs from the Berg Collection of English and American Literature is comprised of portraits of 120 authors from the 1860s to the 1920s. The Bergs originally obtained the photos when acquiring books and manuscripts, but eventually bought or otherwise acquired other author portraits. Visitors can put a face to a name of those...

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/berg-collect...