Helena and Elizabeth Mayer papers

Collection — Box: 6

Identifier: 4938

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Personal papers of the Mayer sisters Helena and Elizabeth include correspondence, photographs, diaries, manuscripts of novels and short stories, and documents pertaining to their status as students, displaced persons, scholars, and naturalized American citizens. Includes academic reading notes, scholarly articles, diplomas and certificates, art work, ephemera (keepsakes, coins), and postcards, financial material, retirement documents, family records, and miscellaneous other papers.

Dates

1905-1993.

Creator

Mayer, Helena, 1908-1994. (Person)
Mayer, Elizabeth, 1906-1991. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Cornell University Library employees, 1955-1971.

Born Hungary, displaced persons after the Second World War. Both Ph.D.s, Rome.

Extent

1.5 cubic feet. (1.5 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Physical Description

Correspondence, photographs, diaries, manuscripts, documents, notes, articles, diplomas and certificates, art work, ephemera, postcards, financial material, family records, and other papers.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: H. Finch
Date completed:: December 1995
EAD encoding:: Martin Heggestad, April 2004