“The exhibition explores the most dynamic period of Hemingway’s creative life, from 1918 to the aftermath of World War II, and his recurrent theme of confronting the fullness of life—and the finality of death—with grace and courage. Utilizing almost one hundred rarely exhibited manuscripts and letters, photographs, drafts and typescripts of stories, first editions, and artifacts from the author’s life, the exhibition reveals the man behind the myth, his struggles and triumphs.” — The Morgan Library
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway
The exhibition “Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars” presents a great range of items, from the author’s dog tags and official Certificate of Identity to original manuscript pages. © The Morgan Library & Museum. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Photography by Graham S. Haber, 2015.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) at “almost four years of age.” Image reproduced from his mother’s scrapbook, volume II, 1901– 1904. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
![Senior tabula : June 1917, Oak Park, Ill. : [Publishing Board of the Oak Park and River Forest Township High School, 1917.] composite created by Miko McGinty showing various pages with Enrest Hemingway, PML 185641](https://i0.wp.com/artssummary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/4-senior-tabula.jpg?ssl=1)
Photographs from the pages of Senior Tabula, Hemingway’s high school yearbook, 1917.
Ernest Hemingway on crutches while recovering in Milan, Italy, September 1918. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Agnes von Kurowsky and Ernest Hemingway, Milan, 1918. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Portrait of Hemingway in his Red Cross uniform, January 1919. Ermeni Studio, Milan. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Hemingway’s 1923 passport (detail), 1923. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
![F.Scott Fizgerald, Autograph letter to Ernset Hemingway, signed, On Board the S. S. Conte Biancamano, [12/23/26] (The Ernest Hemingway Collection / Kennedy Presidential Library)](https://i0.wp.com/artssummary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/8-fitzgerald-letter-to-hemingway2.jpg?ssl=1)
F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald (1896– 1940), Autograph letter to Ernest Hemingway, signed, On Board the S.S. Conte Biancamano, [10–23 December 1926]. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. By permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated on behalf of the Fitzgerald Trust.
![Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Three stories & ten poems / [Paris] : Contact Publishing Co., c1923. PML 128140](https://i0.wp.com/artssummary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/9-three-stories-by-hemingway2.jpg?ssl=1)
Ernest Hemingway, Three Stories & Ten Poems, [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923, The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature, The Morgan Library & Museum, Photography by Graham S. Haber, 2014.
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926, The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature, The Morgan Library & Museum, Photography by Graham S. Haber, 2014.
Hemingway (at left) during the Fiesta of San Fermin in Pamplona, 1925. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Clarence and Ernest Hemingway in Key West, Florida, 10 April 1928. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
First page of autograph manuscript of A Farewell to Arms, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Copyright © 1929 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed ©1957 by Ernest Hemingway. All rights reserved.
Photograph of Hemingway at the Finca Vigia, posing in front of Waldo Pierce’s 1929 oil portrait, Kid Balzac, which depicts Hemingway, 1952. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Ernest Hemingway at the wheel of his boat, Pilar, with Carlos Gutierrez, 1934. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Ernest Hemingway revising the typescript of For Whom The Bell Tolls, Sun Valley, Idaho, November 1940. Robert Capa © International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos.
Ernest Hemingway stepping out of a canoe, Sun Valley, Idaho, October 1941. Photograph by Robert Capa. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. © International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos.
Hemingway with Colonel Charles “Buck” Lanham in Schweitzer, Germany, during World War II. 28 September 1944. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
![EH4972P c. 1947 Ernest Hemingway and Mary Hemingway outside of their Sun Valley, Idaho lodge. [Damage to photograph on the bottom-center and bottom-left; discoloration, fogging in several places]. Idaho 1939-1961: Box 14, Folder 16 Please credit: Unknown. Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston.](https://i0.wp.com/artssummary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/19-ernest-and-mary-hemingway-outside-of-the-sun-valley-lodge.jpg?ssl=1)
Ernest and Mary Hemingway outside of the Sun Valley Lodge, Idaho, circa 1947. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Ernest Hemingway’s Certificate of Identity, Issued May 1944. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Images courtesy The Morgan Library & Museum