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Aunt Jemima Advertising Collection

Collection

Identifier: MGHL-00039

Scope and Contents

This collection includes original artwork, packaging, administrative documents, and advertising materials

Found in: Dowd Illustration Research Archive

Mary Jo Bang Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms154

Scope and Contents The Mary Jo Bang Papers consists largely of her own manuscript materials, including drafts of individual poems, book reviews, essays, introductions and translations, as well as editorial material toward her published and unpublished books. Also included are personal journals, college work, artwork, printed materials and ephemera. A substantial amount of personal and business correspondence is present, primarily with friends, family, editors, students, and...

Found in: Manuscripts

Kay Boyle Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 20, Folder: 8

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf241

Scope and Contents

Includes 6-page transcript from Kay Boyle's Senate loyalty hearings during the McCarthy era; manuscript draft of a letter from Boyle to Samuel Beckett (2 sheets); two letters from Kenneth Burke to Boyle (including one with photocopied letter from Mona Van Duyn to Burke on verso); one letter from Evan Connell to Boyle; and one letter from Alexandra Pringle at Virago Press in London to Boyle (with Boyle's manuscript annotations).

Found in: Manuscripts

Committee for the Education of Women (CEW) Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: WUA-01-wua00017

Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of documents that detail the formation of the Committee for the Education of Women (CEW).

Found in: University Archives

Ivy Compton-Burnett Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms029

Scope and Contents The Ivy Compton-Burnett Papers consists primarily of letters and post cards from Compton-Burnett to Kay Dick (98 items) and Kathleen Farrell (29 items), some items addressed to both, all written between 1947 and 1969. Included is one letter from Margaret Jourdain to Kay Dick dated December 16, 1947. The content is largely personal in nature, offering or accepting invitations, conveying information about travel plans, etc. Frequent reference is made to Compton-Burnett's domestic situation and...

Found in: Manuscripts

Dean of Women and Dean of Students Office Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: WUA-01-wua00083

Scope and Contents This collection includes early materials about McMillian Hall, the first women’s dormitory on campus; sororities; women’s honor societies, including Sophomore Commission, Chimes, and Mortar Board; and the administration of the Women’s Building. Primarily materials are paper office files, supplemented with a few photographs and a small number of audio recordings from the 1970s.More recent additions include miscellaneous flyers, brochures, memos, and group rosters from women’s...

Found in: University Archives

Isabella Gardner Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms050

Scope and Contents

The Isabella Gardner Papers contain manuscript and editorial material toward most of her books drafts of individual poems as well as letters to and from various editors, friends, and family.

Found in: Manuscripts

Katherine Arnstein Heinemann Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms054

Scope and Contents

The Katherine Arnstein Heinemann Papers consist mainly of autograph and typescript drafts of her poems, as well as manuscript and editorial material relating to her collections Brandings (1988) and Some Inhuman Familiars (1983). A small group of correspondence is also present.

Found in: Manuscripts

Fannie Hurst Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms058

Scope and Contents

The Hurst Papers consist of a small quantity of correspondence (most of it between Hurst and her school friend Lois Toensfeldt), the manuscript for her novel Quiet Street, some diary material, and a group of clippings and memorabilia. Special Collections also holds Hurst's personal collection of her published work which includes a complete set of first and variant editions, translations, and other copies of her books.

Found in: Manuscripts

William Inge Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms173

Scope and Contents

The William Inge Collection consists of the first edition and production archive for Picnic: A Summer Romance and playbills for various productions of Inge's plays.

Found in: Manuscripts

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