COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
The Janet Hamill Archive contains extensive materials that document the life and work of Janet Hamill. The archive additionally illuminates Hamill's unique relationship with her longtime friend, poet, writer, singer-songwriter and artist Patti Smith. Included are correspondence (approximately 380 letters), manuscripts, journals, notebooks, diaries (several thousand pages dated 1967-2007) and photographs documenting Hamill's work. Also included are materials pertaining to Patti Smith consisting of correspondence (approximately 100 letters), manuscripts and notes concerning the book Just Kids (approximately 1,000 pages) and photographs of and by Patti Smith.
Dates
- 1967-2010.
Creator
- Hamill, Janet. (Person)
- Smith, Patti. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Poet, performer and artist.
Extent
12 cubic feet. (12 cubic feet.)
Abstract
The Janet Hamill Archive contains extensive materials that document the life and work of Janet Hamill and illuminates Hamill's unique relationship with her longtime friend Patti Smith.
SERIES LIST
Series I: Correspondence
Subseries Ia: General Correspondence Subseries Ib: Publishing Correspondence Subseries Ic: Miscellaneous Correspondence
Series II: Writings by Janet Hamill
Series III: Announcements for Performances/Readings and Related Material
Series IV: Photographs
Series V: Audio and Visual Items
Series VI: Journals, Diaries and Notebooks
Series VII: Moving Star
Series VIII: Personal Effects and Miscellaneous Items
Series IX: Artwork by Others
Series X: Patti Smith
Subseries Xa: Correspondence with Janet Hamill Subseries Xb: Photographs of Patti Smith Subseries Xc: Artwork by Patti Smith Subseries Xd: Just Kids Manuscripts and Notes Subseries Xe: Assorted Materials Subseries Xf: Robert Mapplethorpe Subseries Xg: Performances and Events with Patti Smith and Janet Hamill Subseries Xh: Audio Materials Subseries Xi: Posters and Broadsides
SEPARATED MATERIAL
Books - cataloged individually in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
- Fleurs du Mal: in Pattern and Prose, by Charles Baudelaire
- The Letters of Charles Baudelaire to his Mother, 1833-1866, by Charles Baudelaire
- Genioy Figura de Jorge Luis Borges , by Alicia Jurado
Physical Description
Correspondence, photographs, publications
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- March 2013
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu