Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: BERG, Paul
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.138108

Inscriptions:
Recto: [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: TRUMAN CAPOTE / (PAUL BERG); stamped: CARLO CORBETTA / Viale Romagna N. 22 / MILANO – Tel. 710.610 [crossed out]; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; attached inscription, typed: When two of Capote’s high school English teachers came to see his new apartment, he / greeted them, ex-claiming, “Oh come in, come in, you dear little things.” He had / classes with Miss. Catherine Wood (left) and Miss. Marjorie Pierce when he attended / high school in Greenwich, Conn. In 1940 and 1941. He never finished. “I hated it,” / he says. “I was never any good at school.” But of Miss. Wood he says, “In all the / years of going to school, she’s the only teacher who ever meant anything to me at all. / They have remained friends since. The rare wisteria blossom Tiffany lamp at right was a decorating extravagsnza [sic] Capote could not resist. He was reluctant to give its price, / but it has been reported to have cost $5500.; handwritten: n.y. 48

Tagasauris Keywords: 3 people; Arts, culture and entertainment; Capote (film); Chair; Dress; Face; Female; Handbag; Indoors; Looking at camera; Male; Mature adult; Night; Person; Portrait; Senior adult; Suit; Tiffany glass; Tiffany lamp; Truman Capote; Truman Capote; Waist up
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: PERSONALITIES / TRUMAN CAPOTE
Retouching: N