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Biographies (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written accounts of the lives of individuals. For the genre regardless of medium, prefer "biography (general genre)."

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Carolyn Burke Collection on Mina Loy and Lee Miller

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 778
Overview: The Carolyn Burke Collection on Mina Loy and Lee Miller consists of Carolyn Burke's research files, correspondence, writings, and original documents pertaining to Mina Loy and Lee Miller. These original documents were obtained by Burke during the course of her research, primarily from Loy's daughter, Joella Haweis Bayer, and Miller's son, Anthony Penrose. The 2011 acquisition includes the bulk of the collection's Mina Loy papers. This acquisition includes autograph manuscripts and fragments of...
Dates: 1904-2008, bulk 1976-2005

Percival Farquhar papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 205
Overview: The papers consist of the business files and correspondence of Percival Farquhar. They document his role in the economic development of Brazil, in particular the Itabira Iron Ore Company. Correspondents include mining engineer Alexander Malozemoff, businessmen J. F. Trippet and Alexander MacKenzie, and aide J. Armstrong Read. Also included in the papers are the research materials used by Charles Gauld, Farquhar's biographer, in the writing of The Last Titan: Percival...
Dates: 1893-1967, bulk 1919-1945

Burton Jesse Hendrick papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1980
Overview: The Burton Jesse Hendrick papers consist of research materials, manuscript drafts, and correspondence related to books later published; news clippings and personal materials consisting of biographical files, estate files, and Yale related materials, 1880-1970.
Dates: 1880-1970, bulk 1917-1949