Ernest Hemingway Audiovisual Materials

Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection

The finding aid provides a detailed list of the collection’s contents.

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Hemingway's personal photograph collection contains over 11,000 images plus six childhood scrapbooks.  It was donated to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library by his widow, Mary Hemingway. The collection is organized in series covering family photos and major places or events of importance in Hemingway’s life.

The Library also collects other Hemingway materials, including photographs, moving images, and sound recordings. We have a very small collection of archival footage featuring Ernest Hemingway, as well as documentaries about the author and televised dramatizations of his books. We also have a limited number of sound recordings that include interviews about Hemingway, readings of his books, and several recordings of Hemingway speaking.

Browse Media

  • The Media Gallery provides a selection of images from the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection.
  • Listen to Ernest Hemingway reading his remarks on receiving the Nobel Prize. 

For more information

If you would like more information about the audiovisual holdings (including duplication services), or wish to make an appointment to use the audiovisual research room, please email us at JFK.avarchives@nara.gov.

Mother's Scrapbooks

Grace Hall Hemingway created and annotated six scrapbooks to document her son Ernest’s first eighteen years of life, long before he became a Nobel Prize winning author. There is a sixth scrapbook made by Grace Hall for Ernest’s grandparents (Grandparents’ Scrapbook) that has yet to be digitized.

About PDF Downloads & Physical Copies

  • Below are digital renditions available for download as PDFs; click on the scrapbook title or icon to download the PDF.
  • Physical copies are closed for research; high resolution images are available in the Audiovisual Department. To make an appointment to view the digital scrapbooks or other photographs in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, please email us at JFK.avarchives@nara.gov.