Edwin Wemple, Charlottesville, Va., 1976.

Item Information

• Description
  Caption by photographer (Andrews): "Ed Wemple grew up in Charlottesville and graduated from the University of Virginia. He wandered the country during the depression of the 1930s. He worked as a longshoreman in New York, in lumber camps in Oregon and eventually went to Mexico, where he became a heroin addict. He cured himself by walking from El Paso to the Oklahoma border. He returned to New York, where he lived until 1964, taking in the bohemian and jazz cultures and working at odd jobs. He returned to Charlottesville in 1964 and lived there until his death in 1987. I lived in the same house with him for a year. He had not had a bath in nine years and spent his time reading and sleeping. He went by taxi once a week to the Alderman Library to replenish his book supply. A wonderful man who had endless stories to tell about his life. I regret that I did not record any of our conversations."

• Item ID
  japph050010010
• Source Collection
  Jesse Andrews photographs, Rubenstein Library, Duke University
• Print Number
  JA_POR_4x5-3
• Spatial Coverage
  Virginia
  Charlottesville (Va.)
• Provenance
  The Jesse Andrews photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2011.
• Title
  Edwin Wemple, Charlottesville, Va., 1976.
• Creator
  Andrews, Jesse
• Extent
  11 x 14 in.
• Date
  1976
• Box Number
  Box 5
• Type
  Image
  Still Image
  photographs
  black-and-white photographs
  documentary photographs
  portraits
• Subject
  Men

• Copyright & Usage
  The copyright in the materials included in the Jesse Andrews Photographs collection are owned by the photographer. The photographs are made available by Duke University Libraries, with permission, for the purpose of research, teaching, and private study. For these purposes users may reproduce single copies of the images from this website without prior permission, on the condition that proper attribution is provided on all such copies. For all other uses, and especially for any proposed commercial uses, researchers must contact the Library to request permission.