Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
| title | Theodore Dreiser Papers, ca. 1890-1965 (bulk 1897-1955). | repository | University of Pennsylvania |
| description | Contains 22 series, including correspondence (118 boxes); legal matters (7 boxes); writings (260 boxes), comprising books, essays, short stories, poems, plays, screenplays, radio scripts, addresses, lectures, interviews, introductions, and prefaces; journals edited by Dreiser (6 boxes); notes (9 boxes); diaries (5 boxes); biographical material (1 box); memorabilia (41 boxes), comprising scrapbooks, photographs, art work, promotional material, postcards, and miscellanea; financial records (5 boxes); clippings (23 boxes); works by others (12 boxes); and oversize materials (2 boxes). Also includes materials regarding various family members: brother Paul Dresser (8 boxes of correspondence, sheet music and lyric sheets, clippings and memorabilia, and two plays written by Dresser); second wife Helen Dreiser (4 boxes of diaries and other writings); and niece Vera Dreiser (2 boxes of correspondence). Location: Rare Book & Ms Library Manuscripts Call Number: Ms. Coll. 30 |
| extent | 503 boxes |
| formats | Correspondence Legal Files Clippings Financial Records Diaries |
| access | The Theodore Dreiser Papers may be examined by researchers in the reading room of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. Permission to quote from and to publish unpublished materials must be requested in writing from the Curator of Manuscripts. |
| record link | http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/dreiser/findingaid/td01.html |
| record source | http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/mss/dreiser/dreiser.html |
| acquisition information | Gifts with some additional purchases, received: 1942 through 1991. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:50 |
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| title | Arthur Davison Ficke Papers. | repository | Yale University Library |
| description | The Arthur Davison Ficke Papers document the personal lives and literary interests of Arthur Davison and Gladys Brown Ficke. Major correspondents include Witter Bynner, Floyd Dell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Lee Masters, and John Cowper Powys. In addition to manuscripts of Ficke's own works, the papers contain manuscripts of poems by Witter Bynner, Edgar Lee Masters, and others. Location: BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) Call Number: YCAL MSS 50 |
| extent | 36.50 linear feet (72 boxes) |
| formats | Personal Papers Correspondence Manuscript |
| access | This collection is open for research. Restricted in boxes 67-69 is restricted until 2023 Dec 31. For further information, consult the appropriate curator. Restricted Fragile in box 70 and in cold storage may only be consulted with permission of the appropriate curator. Preservation photocopies or photographic prints for reference use have been substituted in the main files. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.ficke |
| record source | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3458938 |
| finding aid | Online and in repository |
| acquisition information | The papers came to The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 1950 as the gift of Gladys Brown Ficke. Additional material was donated in subsequent years by Mr. and Mrs. Stanhope Blunt Ficke, Alyse Gregory, Belinda Jeliffe, Mary Alice Metzgar, and John Van E. Kohn. One item was purchased in 1965 from Seven Gables Bookshop. |
| updated | 12/07/2018 11:01:20 |
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| title | Margaret Parton papers, 1885-1981. | repository | University of Oregon Libraries |
| description | Collection consists of materials that deal extensively with the personal and professional life of an American family at home and abroad throughout the 20th century. The creative as well as the professional pursuits of the Parton family are represented by diaries, correspondence, dispatches from India and Japan, and articles on growing social awareness in the United States. Correspondents include Lincoln Steffens, Fremont Older, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Elmer and Berta Hader, and Inez Haynes Irwin. The collection includes Parton's diaries, manuscripts, school work, artwork by Parton and others, photographs, and tape recordings. Other family members' papers are included in the collection as well as those of Martha and Robert Bruère. Bio/History: Margaret Parton (1915-1981) was a journalist, critic, and author. She was educated at the Lincoln School of Teachers in New York City and Swarthmore College. |
| extent | 43 linear ft. (83 containers) |
| formats | Correspondence Manuscript Diaries Photographs Works of Art |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv75255 |
| record source | http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv75255 |
| finding aid | Online and unpublished finding aid and selected name index available; inquire with Special Collections and University Archives. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:51 |
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| title | Dorothy Dudley Papers, 1912-1946. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | The collection includes five letters of B.W. Huebsch, 1912-1913, relating to the publication of Dudley’s translation of Auguste Rodin’s essay on the Venus de Milo; an undated note from Marcel Duchamp, accompanying Dudley’s manuscript for a review of his "La Mariee mise a nu par ces celibataires, meme," published in 1934; plus six letters of the sculptor Ossip Zadkine, 1932-1935, with some commentary on his latest works and personal philosophy. Also included are letters of Jacques Delamain, Bernard Fay, Arthur Davison Ficke, Frank Irving Fletcher, Merlin N. Hanson, John T. McCutcheon, Thomas O’Connor, A. Plotkin, Sidney Solomon and Oliver Willett, mostly relating to Dudley’s 1932 biography of Theodore Dreiser, "Forgotten frontiers," with an undated typewritten manuscript children’s story by Eliza Orne White entitled, "Dorothy Dudley’s birthday." Bio/History: American author and translator. |
| extent | ca. 27 items. |
| formats | Correspondence Manuscript |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat76280 |
| record source | http://library.getty.edu/vwebv/searchBasic |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:51 |
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| title | Papers of Henry and Nina Webster Dumont, 1905-1943 (bulk 1930-1936). | repository | Library of Congress |
| description | Henry Dumont's papers consist of correspondence (much of it with the poet George Sterling), printed matter, scrapbooks, clippings, business papers, and several drafts (1936) of his biography of Sterling entitled Faun on Olympus. Includes Dumont's correspondence about Sterling with Albert M. Bender, Theodore Dreiser, Arnold Genthe, Charmian London, Virgil Markham, William McDevitt, H. L. Mencken, George Steele Seymour, Upton Sinclair, and Sterling's daughters, Alice Chrystal Sterling Gregory and Mary Isabelle Sterling Routhwaite. Also includes poems by Sterling, many of them autographed. Also includes material on Dumont's career with Pacific Coast Borax Company and his involvement with the Business Men's Art Clubs of Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Nina Webster Dumont's papers relate primarily to her work as statistician and conductor of surveys for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and other federal and state agencies on such topics as air pollution, consumer purchases, cost of living, health, medical care costs, and occupational morbidity and mortality. Bio/History: Businessman, author, and poet. Married Nina Webster, statistician for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and other federal and state agencies. |
| extent | 3,000 items. 9 containers. 3.6 linear feet. |
| formats | Correspondence Printed Materials Scrapbooks Clippings Business Papers |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003058 |
| record source | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003058 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and online. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:51 |
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