Creator:
Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.
Inclusive Dates:
1927- 1968
Abstract:
Correspondence, manuscript plays, stories, songs, speeches, and book manuscripts and galley proofs.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Scripts (documents)
Songs (document genre)
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
United States -- Civilization -- African American influences.
United States -- Race relations.
Authors.
Librarians.
Playwrights.
Poets.
Radicalism
Literature -- Children's
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
African Americans
African-American arts.
African American dramatists.
African American librarians.
African American intellectuals.
African American novelists.
African American poets.
African American Seventh-Day Adventists.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Music.
African Americans in the performing arts.
American literature -- African American authors.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Children's literature -- Authorship.
Harlem Renaissance -- Archival resources.
Creator:
Shaw, Charles Green, 1892-
Inclusive Dates:
1916- 1964
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, illustrator, novelist,
painter, poet. Correspondence (1916-1963); manuscript drafts of writings and poetry with original drawings by
Shaw; exhibition catalogs; photographs; and scrapbooks of magazine articles and clippings compiled by Shaw of his
and his friends' work (1921-1935). Incoming correspondence includes that of Josef Albers, Ruth Chatterton,
George Gershwin, Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The New Yorker, Maxwell Perkins, Smart Set,
Deems Taylor, and Monty Woolley.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drawings (visual works)
Exhibition catalogs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Sketches.
Subject:
The New Yorker (periodical).
Smart set (periodical).
Artists.
Authors.
Illustrators.
Novelists.
Painters.
Poets.
Art -- Illustrators
Art -- Painters
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- Children's
Abstract expressionism -- United States.
Art, American -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Illustrators -- United States.
Novelists, American.
Painters -- United States.
Painting, American -- 20th century.
Poets, American.
Creator:
Cory, David, 1872-1966.
Inclusive Dates:
1888- 1953
Abstract:
American poet and author of children's stories. Collection contains
correspondence, manuscripts and memorabilia.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Photocopies.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Authors.
Poets.
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- Children's
Children's literature, American.
Poets, American -- 19th century.
Creator:
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Inclusive Dates:
1956- 2006
Abstract:
The papers of the American novelist, playwright, poet, short story writer, and author span 1956-1998 and include correspondence; a journal; typescript and holograph manuscripts for essays, novels, plays, and poems; periodicals; photographs; publicity; and reviews.
Type of Material:
Book reviews.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Manuscripts for publication.
Periodicals.
Photographs.
Poems.
Scripts (documents)
Subject:
Dramatists.
Novelists.
Poets.
Authors.
Women Authors
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- Children's
American literature -- Women authors.
American poetry -- Women authors.
Dramatists, American.
Novelists, American -- 20th century.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
American fiction -- Women authors.
Women authors -- 20th century.
Women dramatists, American.
Women novelists, American.
Women poets -- United States.
Women poets, American.
Creator:
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Inclusive Dates:
1937- 1937
Abstract:
A group of typescript and mimeographed poems by the well-known African American poet and writer, with a two-page autobiography and bibliography.
Type of Material:
Bibliographies.
Poems.
Typescripts.
Subject:
Authors.
Poets.
Literature -- American Poetry
African Americans
Radicalism
Literature -- Children's
Literature -- American Fiction
African American poets.
American poetry -- African American authors.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
Creator:
Widdemer, Mabel Cleland.
Inclusive Dates:
1921- 1963
Abstract:
American poet and children's author. Collection contains correspondence, printed material, clippings, subject files. Note that the entire collection consists of photocopies (no original items).
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Transcripts.
Subject:
Authors.
Biography
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- Children's
Women Authors
Authors, American.
Children's authors.
Creator:
McGinley, Phyllis, 1905-1978
Inclusive Dates:
1897- 1978
Abstract:
The Phyllis McGinley Papers comprise personal and business correspondence, writings, and memorabilia. Spanning 1897 to 1978, the collection reflects not only the professional career of the American humorist and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, but also the wide scope of her audience. Writings include, for any given title, any combination of work sheets, manuscripts, production records, and published versions for McGinley's books, essays, interviews, lyrics, poetry, reviews, scripts, speeches and stories.
Memorabilia consists primarily of financial, legal, and printed materials, photographs and scrapbooks.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Calendars (documents)
Check stubs.
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Drafts (documents)
Essays.
Galley proofs.
Interviews.
Notebooks.
Juvenilia.
Librettos (documents for music)
Manuscripts for publication.
Memorabilia.
Musical scores.
Photographs.
Poems.
Reviews (documents)
Scrapbooks.
Scripts (documents)
Speeches (documents)
Workbooks.
Subject:
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Educators.
Humorists.
Lyricists.
Poets.
Women Authors
Literature -- Children's
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
Abortion -- Law and legislation -- New York (State)
American literature -- Irish American authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- Women authors.
Children's literature.
Humorists, American.
Humorous poetry -- United States.
Irish American women.
Irish Americans.
Lyricists -- United States.
Poets, American.
Women authors, American.
Women poets, American.
Creator:
O'Donnell, Thomas C. (Thomas Clay), 1881-1962.
Inclusive Dates:
1900- 1962
Abstract:
Papers of the American editor, author of books on
upstate New York folklore and children's literature. Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1900-1962);
notebooks (1920-1957); scrapbooks; manuscript books, essays, lectures, plays, and poems, as well as research
material; published articles, books, and plays; and memorabilia, including photographs. Correspondents include
Conrad Aiken, C.W. Anderson, Richard Atwater, Marjorie Barrows, Henry Bedford-Jones, Maxwell Bodenheim, Padraic
Colum, Albert B. Corey, Homer Croy, James W. Earp, Walter D. Edmonds, and Vincent Starrett.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Poems.
Scrapbooks.
Scripts (documents)
Subject:
Authors.
Editors.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- Children's
New York State
American literature -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Folklore -- New York (State)
Periodical editors -- United States.