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BOX I:1-34 Part I: Family Papers, 1890-1996
Correspondence between family members, vital records, school papers, military records, household, financial, and legal papers, employment records, diaries, notes, newspaper articles, and printed ephemera relating to Ralph and Fanny Ellison and other family members.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family member and alphabetically by type of material therein. Correspondence between Ralph Ellison and other family members has been placed under his name.
BOX I:1 Bell, Ida Ellison
Correspondence, 1912, 1921-1937
Miscellany, 1918-1938
Buford, Ligon
Citizens' Committee for Reemployment, 1938
Miscellany, 1938-1945
Ellison, Alfred, undated
Ellison, Fanny McConnell
Correspondence
Buford, James A., 1943-1944
Buford, Ligon, 1934-1945, 1963, 1980
(3 folders)
General, 1930-1996
(4 folders)
BOX I:2 Warren, Billy (“Willie”) and George, 1932-1967
(3 folders)
Warren, John, Rosanna, and Sue, 1968-1971, 1989-1992
Waugh, Eliza (“Ella”), 1952-1963
Waugh, Robert Harold and Mary, 1955-1957, 1967-1978
Employment
Chicago Defender, 1939-1941
(2 folders)
Chicago, Ill., Board of Education, Visual Education Project
“Ancient Roman and Byzantine Costume,” undated See also Oversize
(3 folders)
BOX I:3 Correspondence, 1938-1939
“Costume of the Eighteenth Century,” undated See also Oversize
(5 folders)
Costume of the Middle Ages and seventeenth century, undated See also Oversize
(5 folders)
BOX I:4 Costume of the Middle Ages and seventeenth century, undated
(12 folders)
BOX I:5 Costume of the Middle Ages and seventeenth century, undated See also Oversize
(1 folder)
“Egyptian Costume,” undated See also Oversize
(7 folders)
“Greek Costume,” undated
(4 folders)
BOX I:6 “Greek Costume,” undated
(1 folder)
Miscellany, 1938-1939
Persian and Chinese costume, undated
Harold L. Oram, Inc. (fund-raising agency), 1950-1970, 1980-1981
(3 folders)
Miscellany, 1933-1955, 1967
National Urban League, 1943-1946 See also Oversize
Negro People's Theatre, Chicago, Ill.
Constitution and organization, 1939
Correspondence, 1937-1940
(4 folders)
BOX I:7 Financial papers, 1938-1939
Meetings, 1938-1939
Membership and officers, 1938-1939
Miscellany, 1936-1940
(2 folders)
Proposals, 1939
New York City Housing Authority, New York, N.Y., 1945-1946
Résumés, 1929-1956
United States Navy, Bureau of Yards and Docks, 1941-1942
War Production Board, Traffic Section, 1937-1944
BOX I:8 Works Progress Administration, 1937-1941
World Organization of the Lamp of Brotherhood, 1956-1963
Young Women's Christian Association, 1937-1941
Legal records, 1937, 1944-1954, 1963-1981
(2 folders)
Medical records, 1938-1984, 1995
(4 folders)
Miscellany, 1929, 1937-1944, 1958-1963
BOX I:9 Notes
1942-1995
(5 folders)
BOX I:10 Undated
(5 folders)
BOX I:11 Undated
(7 folders)
BOX I:12 Undated
(1 folder)
School papers
Elementary and high school, Chicago, Ill., 1921-1932 See also Oversize
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn
Creative Literature, 1933
General, 1931-1938
General, 1931, 1936-1949
(3 folders)
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Contemporary British drama, 1933-1936
Fundamentals of speech, 1936
General, 1934-1942
BOX I:13 Miscellaneous notes
(2 folders)
Modern drama, 1934-1935
Stagecraft, undated
Writings, 1930-1943
(5 folders)
Ellison, Herbert M.
Correspondence, 1934-1937
Miscellany, 1928-1944
School papers, undated
BOX I:14 Ellison, Ralph
Biographical information, 1943-1994
(6 folders)
Correspondence
Bell, Ida Ellison
1933
(2 folders)
BOX I:15 1934-1937
(6 folders)
Bell, John, 1933-1935
Brown, Lewis Thomas and Othello Albertha, 1953-1980
Buford, Ligon, 1980
Ellison, Fanny McConnell
1944-1959
(4 folders)
BOX I:16 1961-1963, 1970, 1984-1990
(2 folders)
Ellison, Herbert M., 1933-1993
(6 folders)
Ellison, Rose Poindexter, 1939-1943
Johnston, May Belle DeWitt, 1936-1953
BOX I:17 Miscellaneous family members, 1937-1983
Diaries, 1934-1936
Drawings, 1932
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