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Series VI: Archived Web Site, 2019-present

Susan Orlean Papers, 1930s-2015, 2019

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Series IV: Personal and Biographical Files, 1930s-2009, undated

This subseries includes address books, appointment books, business cards, calendars, diaries, family correspondence and materials, journals, passports, photographs, school papers, and various mementos and souvenirs.

Family correspondence can also be found in Series II; most of the correspondence in Series IV is from the 1940s and does not directly involve Susan Orlean.

Subseries IV.1: Personal Materials, 1940s-2000


Box 29 Folder 2 Address Book, circa 2000

Box 29 Folder 3 Appointment Book, 1974


Box 28 Folder 19 Business Cards, undated

Primarily from Florida.


Box 29 Folder 4 Calendar, 1973


Box 30 Folder 1 Diary, 1969


Box 29 Folder 5-7 Journals, 1974-1977, (3 Folders)

Box 29 Folder 8 Diaries and Journals--Miscellaneous Pages, 1995-1997, undated


Box 32 Folder 2 Divorce Materials, 2000-2001, undated

Restricted until 2055


Box 29 Folder 30 New York City Marathon Race Bib, 1992

Box 29 Folder 9 Orlean-Gillepsie Wedding Announcement, 2001

Box 29 Folder 10 Passports, 1975, 1984


Box 30 Folder 3-4 Photographs--Susan Orlean and Orlean Family--Childhood Photographs, 1960s-1970s, (2 Folders)

Box 30 Folder 5-8 Photographs, 1960s-1980s, (4 Folders)

Photographs are a mix of personal and professions; some are 4x6" photographs that may be related to some of her travel stories or pieces for the New Yorker.

Box 30 Folder 4 Photographs--Headshots, circa 1990

Possibly related to the publication of Saturday Night.


Box 29 Folder 31-36 Various Mementos and Souvenirs, 1940-1967, undated, (6 Folders)

Includes World's Fair stamps, Chinese firecracker labels, Cleveland Indians pins, etc.


Box 22 Glasses and Sunglasses, undated, (3 Items)

Subseries IV.2: School Materials, 1960s-1976, 2008


Box 29 Folder 11 Camp Stuff, 1967-1971, undated

Box 29 Folder 12 Byron Junior High School--Spectrum, 1970

Literary Journal

Box 29 Folder 13 The Shakerite--Various Issues, 1972-1973

Shaker Heights High School newspaper

Box 29 Folder 14 Shaker Heights High School Diploma, 1973

Box 29 Folder 15 Shaker Heights High School Alumni Hall of Fame--Award Certificate and Ceremony Program, 2008

Box 29 Folder 16-17 University of Michigan--Notebooks, 1970s, (2 Folders)


Box 31 Folder 8 University of Michigan--Transcipts, 1973-1976

Restricted until the death of Susan Orlean.


Box 29 Folder 18 University of Michigan Diploma, 1976

Box 29 Folder 19 LSAT Results, 1976

Box 29 Folder 20-29 School Assignments and Papers, Poetry, and Miscellaneous Writings, 1960s-1970s, (10 Folders)


Box 37 Folder 1-4 School Binder, 1972, undated, (4 Folders)


Box 32 Folder 3 The Synopsis--Project by Student Group, 1969

Restricted until 2055

Includes grades for students other than Orlean.

Subseries IV.3: Family Materials, 1944-2009, undated


Box 30 Folder 9-10 Family Correspondence and Materials, 1944-1951, 1969, (2 Folders)

Box 30 Folder 11 Austin Gillepsie--Miscellaneous, 2009, undated

Box 30 Folder 2 Arthur Orlean--Photograph, circa 1933

Box 30 Folder 12 New Yorker "Talk of the Town"--Birthday Wishes for Arthur Orlean, undated

Box 30 Folder 13 Arthur Orlean--Obituary and Eulogy, 2007

Box 30 Folder 14 David Orlean--Miscellaneous, 1994-1997


Box 32 Folder 6 Orlean Family Business/Financials, 1986-2000

Restricted until 2055


Box 30 Folder 15 Peter Sistrom--Clipping, Cartoon, undated

Box 30 Folder 16 Postcards of Sátoraljaúhely, Hungary, undated

Box 30 Folder 17 Mrs. Lewis M. Gross--Railway Tickets, 1954