An excerpt from: The Stieglitz Archive at Yale University, by Doris Bry; originally published in the Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 25, No. 4 (April 1951), pp. 123-130:
What is Stieglitz?
The question has been asked and answered, asked again and answered by those who were not satisfied. It is still being asked.
The Stieglitz Archive, recently given to the Library’s Collection of American Literature by Georgia O’Keeffe, provides the raw material for at least a substantial portion of a fresh answer to the old question. This material can be broadly described as the things Stieglitz kept during his eighty-two years (1864-1946), aside from his own photographic work and collection of paintings. It is a vast untidy conglomeration with little meaning in many of its separate parts. Taken as a whole, however, it comprises a picture of a person and of an era, and gives new clues for the portrait of Stieglitz that remains to be made.
Image: Portrait of Stieglitz at Lake George