Constance Lindsay Skinner papers

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Collection Data

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1876 - 1939 (Approximate)
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 2769
Topics
Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 1882-1939
Genres
Documents
Photographs
Correspondence
Notes
Content: Collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, movie stills, drawings, printed matter, and additional personal papers of Skinner and her parents. Correspondence, 1899-1939, is with authors, artists, editors, publishers, theatrical people, explorers, scholars, and journalists. Writings include typescripts of Skinner's short stories, articles, novels, poetry, children's stories, and criticism. Photographs are of family and friends, Indians of North America, and views of British Columbia and remote areas of the Canadian northwest. Also, drawings and illustrations, movie stills, clippings of criticism of her books and stories, and newsclippings relating to World War I. Other papers consist of her personal accounts, literary notebooks, cookbooks, address books, as well as letters and papers, 1876-1891, of her parents, Robert James Skinner and Annie Lindsay Skinner.
Date: The bulk of the collection was created between 1930-1939.
Physical Description
Extent: 13.8 linear feet (18 boxes)
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11985436
MSS Unit ID: 2769
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 63ab8bc0-c61e-012f-ddd0-58d385a7bc34
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