Content Description
Dates
- 1895 - 2017
- Majority of material found within 1923 - 2017
Creator
- Gerber, Merrill Joan (Author)
Conditions Governing Access
Boxes 101, 102, 151 (audiovisual materials): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Box 152 (computer media): Restricted fragile material. Access copies of digital files may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
After receipt the writings, professional correspondence and papers, and personal and family papers were roughly sorted into series by box, but within individual boxes papers were generally kept in the order in which they were received. As a result, some materials in Series I, II, and III remain intermixed.
Extent
145.58 Linear Feet (152 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Merrill Joan Gerber
Processing Information
This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and minimal organization.
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 or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Abels, Cyrilly
- American literature -- 20th century
- American literature -- 21st century
- Audiovisual materials
- Authors -- United States -- 20th Century
- Authors -- United States -- 21st century
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archives
- Authors, American -- 21st century -- Archives
- Born digital
- Gerber, Merrill Joan
- Klein, Norma, 1938-1989
- Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 1902-1995
- Mintz, Sandra Earl
- Ozick, Cynthia
- Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
- Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993
- Taylor-Hall, Mary Ann
- Vivante, Arturo
- Walker, Charlotte Zoë
- Women authors, American -- 20th century
- Women authors, American -- 21st century
- Young adult fiction, American
Creator
- Gerber, Merrill Joan (Author)
- Title
- Guide to the Merrill Joan Gerber Papers
- Author
- by Greyson Gates, Michael Rush, and Leigh Golden
- Date
- April 2021
- 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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