About the Collection
This digital collection provides a sample of the photographs, images, albums, and more, of the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote (1916-2009), his family, and his career. Also available online is a digitized file of the kinescope, A Young Lady of Property.
The Horton Foote Papers collection, 1838-2011, comprises approximately 276 linear feet of material documenting the Wharton, Texas native’s 60-year career in film, stage, and television. It includes manuscripts, scrapbooks, handwritten drafts of screenplays, diaries, letters, photographs, and family memorabilia.
![[Harriet 'Hallie' Gautier Brooks Foote, Horton Foote's Mother]](/-/media/site/libraries/digital-collections/hor/hor_landing_new_hallie.jpg?h=400&iar=0&w=600&hash=0F4163D9DE5B78AF8C13DE5B365A4150)
![['1918' Director Ken Harrison, Hallie, Lillian and Horton Foote]](/-/media/site/libraries/digital-collections/hor/hor_landing_new_1918.jpg?h=417&iar=0&w=600&hash=14AFBA082735A3842044E96C96A41CBB)
![[Horton Foote, Side Profile]](/-/media/site/libraries/digital-collections/hor/hor_landing_new_foote.jpg?h=400&iar=0&w=600&hash=B706DEF786842F4AA6BF9C84B959DDBC)