Carolyn Burke Collection on Mina Loy and Lee Miller
Scope and Contents
The 2011 acquisition includes the bulk of the collection’s Mina Loy papers. This acquisition includes original manuscripts and fragments of various writings, including the prose pieces Alda’s Beauty and Promised Land. Correspondence by Mina Loy and family members is especially well represented, and family photographs and records of Loy’s inventions are also present.
The 2012 acquisition contains 14 audiocassettes, transcripts, and notes from Burke’s interviews with Loy’s daughter, Joella Haweis Bayer.
The 2013 acquisition includes further original documents by Loy. Manuscript fragments for Loy's
Colossus,
Psycho-Democracy,and other poems are present in this acquisition, as is correspondence, photographs, and a small amount of business records. The bulk of the 2013 acquisition, however, is Burke’s research files for the Loy and Miller biographies. Original documents pertaining to Lee Miller are present in this acquisition and include a small amount of correspondence and family photographs. These items have not been separated, and are noted at the file level. Audiovisual material from the 2013 acquisition has been separated to the Audiovisual Material series.
Dates
- 1904 - 2008
- Majority of material found within 1976 - 2005
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Boxes 18, 19, and 20 (audiocassettes, VHS cassettes and microfilm): Use of originals is restricted. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Box 21 (computer disks): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies of electronic files may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Material within this collection has been organized by acquisition reflecting the fact that the collection has been acquired in increments over time. Researchers should note that material within each acquisition overlaps with/or relates to material found in other acquisitions. In order to locate all relevant material within this collection, researchers will need to consult each acquisition described in the Collection Contents section.
Researchers should also note that similar material can be arranged differently in each acquisition, depending on how the material was organized when it was received by the library.
Extent
8.8 Linear Feet (21 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Carolyn Burke
Mina Loy
Lee Miller
Processing Information
This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and organization by acquisition in 2013. Various acquisitions associated with the collection have not been merged and organized as a whole. Each acquisition is described separately in the contents list below, titled according to date of acquisition.
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.
- Artists -- United States
- Artists -- United States -- 20th Century
- Audiovisual materials
- Biographers
- Biographers
- Biographies (documents)
- Born digital
- Burke, Carolyn
- Futurism (Art)
- Futurism (Literary movement)
- Loy, Mina
- Miller, Lee, 1907-1977
- Photographers -- United States
- Photographers -- United States -- 20th Century
- Poetry, Modern -- 20th Century
- Poets, English -- 20th Century
- Poets, English -- 20th Century
- Sound recordings
- Surrealism (Literature) -- France
Creator
- Title
- Guide to the Carolyn Burke Collection on Mina Loy and Lee Miller
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Alison Clemens
- Date
- 2013
- 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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