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Dylan Thomas and Oscar Williams, Spring 1953, 5th Ave., New York – Historic Print

Dylan Thomas and Oscar Williams, Spring 1953, 5th Ave., New York, 1953 — historic photograph
Dylan Thomas and Oscar Williams, Spring 1953, 5th Ave., New York, 1953. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Dylan Thomas and Oscar Williams, Spring 1953, 5th Ave., New York

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Dylan Thomas and Oscar Williams are the pair named here, photographed together on Fifth Avenue in New York in spring 1953. Thomas, the Welsh poet, made his American reading tours in these years and was already famous for his public performances of his work, while Williams was an American anthologist and poet best known for collecting modern verse for general readers. The caption card is the only source for the date and location, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of two literary men on a city street during Thomas's last American visit.

Created / published1953
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I. (2); Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,033 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151601

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