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Part I: Closed, 1932-1994
(continued) |
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“A Hard Time Keeping Up” (posthumous
title), undated
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“Hymie's Bull” (posthumous title),
undated
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“I Did Not Learn Their Names,” circa
1940
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“The Initiation,” undated
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(5 folders) |
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“Jake Smith,” undated
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“The King of the Bingo Game,” 1944,
1970-1974, 1980, 1988-1992
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“Mister Toussan,” 1941-1947,
1971
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“Myth Mood,” circa 1937
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Notes, 1978-1980, 1988-1990
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“The Red Cross at Morriston, Swansea,
S.W.,” undated
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“Slick Gonna Learn,” 1939
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“A Storm of Blizzard Proportions,”
1944
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BOX I:231 |
“That I Had the Wings,”
undated
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Tillman and Tackhead, undated
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(3 folders) |
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Untitled, undated
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(3 folders) |
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Writings by others |
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Bone, Robert, 1972
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Miscellaneous authors,
1936-1965
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Speeches, Lectures, and Interviews |
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Lectures |
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1945, 1 Nov., “American Negro Writing, A
Problem of Identity,” Bennington College, Bennington, Vt.,
1945
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1969, 26 Mar., lecture on Invisible Man, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.,
1973-1974
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Interviews |
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1960, 11 May, “A Talk with Ralph Ellison,”
Richard G. Stern, 1960-1961
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Miscellaneous notes and fragments,
undated
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BOX I:OV 1-OV 22 |
Part I: Oversize, 1923-1993
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Oversize material consisting mostly of drawings, financial and legal records,
writings, and printed material. |
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Organized and described according to the series, folders, and boxes from which
the items were removed. |
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BOX I:OV 1 |
Family Papers |
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Ellison, Fanny McConnell |
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Employment |
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Chicago, Ill.,
Board of Education, Visual Education Project “Ancient Roman and
Byzantine Costume,” undated (Container I:2) |
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BOX I:OV 2 |
“Costume of the
Eighteenth Century,” undated (Container
I:3) |
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BOX I:OV 3 |
Costume
of the Middle Ages and seventeenth century, undated
(Containers I:3-I:5) |
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BOX I:OV 4 |
“Egyptian
Costume,” undated (Container I:5) |
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BOX I:OV 5 |
National Urban
League, circa 1944 (Container I:6) |
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BOX I:OV 6 |
School papers |
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Elementary and high
school, 1925, 1932 (Container I:12) |
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BOX I:OV 7 |
Ellison, Ralph |
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Financial records |
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Income and
expenses, 1965-1992 (Containers I:21-I:22) |
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BOX I:OV 8 |
Household papers |
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Inventories and
insurance, circa 1968 (Container I:24) |
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BOX I:OV 9 |
Key West, Fla. |
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Financial
records, 1976-1979 (Container I:25) |
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BOX I:OV 10 |
Legal records,
1976 (Container I:25) |
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BOX I:OV 11 |
Miscellany,
undated (Container I:26) |
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BOX I:OV 12 |
Plainfield, Mass. |
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Inventories
and insurance, circa 1968 (Container I:26) |
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BOX I:OV 13 |
Printed matter,
1967, 1976, 1983 (Container I:31) |
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BOX I:OV 14 |
School papers |
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Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee,
Ala. |
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Music,
1923 (Containers I:32-I:33) |
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BOX I:OV 15 |
Publications,
1934-1935 (Container I:33) |
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BOX I:OV 16 |
General Correspondence |
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Ellington, Duke,
undated (Container I:46) |
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BOX I:OV 17 |
Ralph Ellison Branch, Metropolitan Library
System, Oklahoma City, Okla. |
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Architectural drawings,
1973 (Container I:65) |
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BOX I:OV 18 |
Writings |
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Miscellany |
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Royalty statements,
1972-1992 (Container I:114) |
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Novels |
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Invisible Man
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Author's first proof,
1951 (Container I:152) |
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Published editions |
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Random House |
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Royalty
statements, 1952-1963, 1970-1980 (Container
I:154) |
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BOX I:OV 19 |
Short stories |
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“Hymie's Bull” (posthumous
title), undated (Container I:163) |
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BOX I:OV 20 |
Reference File |
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Africa, 1953, 1959
(Container I:179) |
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African-American
studies, 1969 (Container I:179) |
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American Indians,
1971 (Container I:179) |
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Biographical information |
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Hemingway, Ernest,
1935 (Container I:187) |
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Holiday, Billie,
1991 (Container I:188) |
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Europe, 1954
(Container I:201) |
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Photography, 1937
(Container I:207) |
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BOX I:OV 21 |
Miscellany |
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Appointment calendars,
1963, 1991-1993 (Container I:213) |
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BOX I:OV 22 |
Awards, citations, and honorary
degrees |
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College of William and
Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1972 (Container I:214) |
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University of Maryland,
College Park, Md., 1974 (Container I:214) |
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Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, N.C., 1974 (Container I:214) |
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BOX II:1-25 |
Part II: Family Papers, 1896-2005
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Correspondence between family members, household papers, financial, legal,
employment, and school records, notes, newspaper articles, and printed matter
relating to Ralph and Fanny Ellison and other family members. |
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Arranged alphabetically by name of family member and alphabetically by type of
material therein. |
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BOX II:1 |
Brock, William, 1923-1939
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Buford, Ligon |
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Correspondence, 1933, 1940-1942
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Financial records, 1941-1943
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Miscellany, 1936-1943
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Ellison, Fanny McConnell |
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Addresses, 1963, undated
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Appointment calendars, 1941-1944
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Correspondence |
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Adams, Joel and Ruth, 1944
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Ali, Miriam, undated
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Alston, Charles H., 1944
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Arter, Callie Belle, 1937
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Baker, Lucille,
1935
See also Container II:2, Howard, Charles
P.
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Barbour, Ruth, 1942-1945
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Bearden, Romare, 1944
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Bennett, Robert, 1934
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Bowser, Gretchen, 1943-1944
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Brock, William, 1922-1931
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(2 folders) |
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Buford, James A., 1942-1944
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Buford, Ligon, 1939-1944
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(2 folders) |
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Burton, Essie, 1940-1942
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“B” miscellaneous, 1943-1944
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BOX II:2 |
Cage, Alelia, 1927-1931
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Crichton, Delmar, 1943-1944
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Cumby, Bert, 1936
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“C” miscellaneous, 1934-1937
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Darling, Jay N. (“Ding”),
1936
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Davis, Toye, 1944
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Dillon, Lucile (“Dilly”),
1933-1936
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“D” miscellaneous, 1936-1944
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“E” miscellaneous, undated
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Florant, Anne and Lyonel,
1934-1945
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