Content Description
The collection contains artwork, professional and personal papers, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, journals and other papers by or relating to Clement Hurd.
Dates
- 1902–2003
- Majority of material found within 1944-2003
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research. Box 37 and 47: Restricted fragile material. For further information consult Access Services or the appropriate curator.
Conditions Governing Use
The Clement Hurd Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund and the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2016, 2018. Gift of Thacher Hurd, 2016.
Arrangement
Organized into four series: I: Children's Book Illustrations and Related Professional Papers, 1935 - 2003; II: Artwork, 1920 - 1983; III: Correspondence, 1902 - 1988; IV: Personal Papers, 1928 - 1997.
Extent
89.58 Linear Feet ((117 containers) )
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The collection contains artwork, professional and personal papers, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, journals and other papers by or relating to Clement Hurd.
Biographical / Historical
Clement Hurd (1908-1988) was an American artist. He is best known for his illustrations of children's books, particularly his collaborations with children's book author, Margaret Wise Brown on the books Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.
General
The number 83 appears to have been inadvertantly missed in the numbering sequence for containers.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections as they are acquired, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.
After receipt the collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and minimal organization, by Beinecke Library staff
Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952
- Children's literature, American -- 20th Century -- Illustrations
- Children's literature, American -- 20th century
- Hurd, Clement, 1908-1988
- Hurd, Edith Thacher, 1910-1997
- Painters -- United States -- 20th century
- Scrapbooks
- Screen prints
- Sketchbooks
- Watercolors (paintings)
- Woodcuts (prints)
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American
- Title
- Guide to the Clement Hurd Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Beinecke staff
- Date
- April 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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