Prints and a few negatives of Ben Hecht, his family, his friends, his dogs, his homes in Nyack, New York, and Oceanside, California, and on the sets of plays and movies he worked on. Includes many prints that were published in Hecht's autobiography, A Child of the Century. Hecht was a fan of the actress Sarah Bernhardt, and collected a few photographs of her, including one from 1879.