Arranged in eight subseries; over 5"x7" and oversize (three boxes):
Subseries A: Elizabeth Robins
Subseries B: General Portraits
Subseries C: Robins Family
Subseries D: Alaska
Subseries E: Backsettown
Subseries F: Chinsegut
Subseries G: Colorado, and other places
Subseries H: Negatives

All photographic materials from the Elizabeth Robins Papers are gathered together in Series Nine. Photographs which originated in other series, e.g. Series Two: General Correspondence, are marked appropriately.

The photographs are arranged by subseries in albums, followed by boxes of over 5"x7," which correspond to each subseries. Larger oversize photographs are housed with Oversize Material.

Subseries A contains photographs of Elizabeth Robins. Cabinet photos of her in American and English theatrical performances are arranged by title and include such plays as Divorce, The American, The Master Builder. There are also over forty formal portraits of Robins, varying from studio to passport photographs. Elizabeth Robins can also be found in Subseries C - F.

Photographs of early American and British actors and actresses, many in costume and theatrical pose, can be found in Subseries B. Lawrence Barrett, Mrs. Patrick Campbell (several autographed), and Herbert Beerbohm Tree are just some of the "greats" represented. Photographs of Elizabeth Robins's husband, George Richmond Parks, an actor with the Boston Museum Company, are also included here, as well as cabinet photos of many of her theatrical colleagues.

Subseries B also contains portraits of Elizabeth Robins's friends (including classmates) and relatives. William Archer, Florence Bell and family, and Octavia Wilberforce all are substantially represented. Bell's stepdaughter, Gertrude, is pictured with her compatriot Col. T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"). There are photographs of famous people, such as Queen Victoria, Edgar Allan Poe (a daguerreotype), and Robert Louis Stevenson. One, of Henrick Ibsen, is an autographed presentation portrait.

Photographs of Elizabeth Robins's immediate family can be found in Subseries C. There are childhood portraits of her brothers and sister, and the earliest Elizabeth Robins photograph, taken when she was approximately three years old. The most numerous photographs in this subseries are of her brother, Raymond Robins, including several oversize prints. The subseries also includes three daguerrotypes.

On her journey to Alaska's Klondyke in 1900, Elizabeth Robins took a camera with her. Subseries D records what she saw there. The subseries also includes photos given to her by friends in Alaska and those taken by commercial photographers. Gold mining, Eskimo life, Yukon River landscapes, and the early towns of Alaska receive extensive coverage. A small number of these photographs have been published in Robins's Raymond and I.

Backsettown, Robins's country home in Henfield, Sussex, England, continues today as a rest home for women. Subseries E contains an album of photographs taken at Backsettown, including interior and exterior shots of the brick-and-timber main house and of people associated with life there. There are many photographs of Octavia Wilberforce farming Backsettown's fields or tending to its cows; of Elizabeth Robins's ward, David Scott, growing up there; and of one-time Backsettown residents. Postcard shots of the village of Henfield and its environs are also contained in Subseries E.

Subseries F is made up of two albums of photographs taken at Chinsegut, the Hernando County, Florida estate where Elizabeth Robins's brother, Raymond, lived. This subseries includes many candid photographs of Margaret Dreier Robins and her sister, Mary Dreier, both of whom were active in the women's movement in the United States. The reconstruction of the main house is well documented, as are the crops, flora and fauna of Chinsegut. This subseries contains a fine collection of photographs of the black servants who worked for the Robinses, providing a chronicle of their domestic and work experiences in rural Florida during the first quarter of this century. Later, Chinsegut was operated as a wildlife sanctuary by the United States government.

Places visited by Elizabeth Robins and unidentified landscape photographs are contained in Subseries G. There are a few stereographs from Summit, Colorado, which include shots of gold mining camps. Subseries H contains all of the negatives found in Series Nine; they are numbered consecutively but divided by subject categories.

Series Nine is an important visual research collection. The studio portraits, especially of persons associated with the dramatic arts, are useful sources for studies on American and English professional photography. There is a signed Edward Steichen portrait (1907) of an unknown woman included in Subseries B. Rural life in southern England and the southern United States is covered in Subseries E and F.