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Helen Worden Erskine papers, 1860-1984

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Call No.: MS#0400
Bib ID 4078525 View CLIO record
Creator(s) Worden, Helen, 1896-1984
Title Helen Worden Erskine papers, 1860-1984
Physical Description 72 Linear Feet (154 boxes, 3 oversize flat boxes, 1 map case folder)
Language(s) English .
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Card catalog and list (9 p.)

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Series I: Catalogued Correspondence, boxes 1-2, is located on-site.

Series II, III, and IV are located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

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Arrangement

Arrangement

Material is arranged into four series.

Description

Scope and Content

Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, documents, drawings, photographs, audio tapes, clippings, and other printed materials covering every aspect of Helen Worden Erskine Cranmer's life and career. There are extensive biographical files on: Jenny S. Bradley, Prince Charles of England, Joseph Dixon, Dwight and Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Rosina Lhévinne, Paul Niehans, the Morgan twins (Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and Thelma Morgan Converse Furness), Jovanka Tito, Harry and Bess Truman, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; and large files on crime, recluses, New York City history, and travel. There are extensive drafts and source materials for her unpublished autobiography. There are pencil sketches, pen-and-ink drawings, watercolors, charcoal sketches, photographs, and printed copies by Helen Worden Erskine Cranmer and by others.

Using the Collection

Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Other Finding Aids

Card catalog and list (9 p.)

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

Series I: Catalogued Correspondence, boxes 1-2, is located on-site.

Series II, III, and IV are located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Researchers must wear gloves when handling photographs and artwork.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Helen Worden Erskine papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Related Materials

Wilbertine Teters Worden papers: papers of Helen Worden Erskine's mother, the journalist and writer Wilbertine Teters Worden. At the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

Luellen Teters Bussenius papers: papers of Helen Worden Erskine's aunt, also a journalist and editor of The Delineator.

John Erskine papers: Papers of Helen Worden Erskine's first husband, Columbia University English professor, writer, and president of the Juilliard School of Music. At the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

Reminiscences of Helen Worden Erskine : oral history, 1957: Transcript of an oral history interview with Joan Pring, in which Worden discusses her early life in Denver, Colorado and New York City; Paris, 1925; the New York World and World-Telegram, 1926-1931; and Professor John Erskine.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Linda Bradley Cranmer, 1986.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Cranmer, Linda Bradley. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--03/15/86. Accession number--M-03.15.86.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

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Processing Information

Processed HR 03/16/88.

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2022-10-17 Biographical note expanded and other front matter updated by CLB.

2022-10-26 Photographs and artwork inventories updated by CLB.

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Advice columnists Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Advice columns Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Barton, Bruce, 1886-1967 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Biographers Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Bolton, Guy, 1884-1979 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Bradley, Jenny S., 1886-1983 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Charles, Prince of Wales, 1948- Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Crime Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Dixon, Joseph, 1799-1869 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Eisenhower, Dwight D (Dwight David), 1890-1969 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Erskine, John, 1879-1951 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Ghostwriters Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Graham, Stephen, 1884-1975 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Hurston, Zora Neale Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Lhevinne, Rosina, 1880-1976 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
New York world-telegram Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Niehans, Paul, 1882-1971 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Recluses Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Royal households -- Great Britain Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Travel Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Vanderbilt, Gloria Morgan, 1904-1965 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Women journalists -- United States -- 20th century Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
World Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

History / Biographical Note

Biographical Note

Helen Worden Erskine Cranmer (1896-1984), was a journalist, advice columnist, biographer, and ghostwriter. She worked as a reporter and columnist for The World (later New York World-Telegram) from 1926 to 1944, contributed freelance work to magazines from 1944 until 1956, worked as associate editor for Collier's from 1952 until 1956, and wrote the Dorothy Dix syndicated advice column from 1959 until 1964. She also published books on New York City and recluses, and served as a ghostwriter for several autobiographies and many biographical and autobiographical magazine articles.

Helen Worden was born in Denver, Colorado on July 12, 1896. Her father, Charles George Worden (1869-1897), was an attorney and publisher who died the year after Helen's birth. Her mother, Wilbertine Teters Worden (1867-1949), was also a journalist, as was her aunt, Luellen Teters Bussenius. She spent her childhood in Colorado and New York City.

Worden studied drawing at the University of Colorado from 1915 until 1919 and in Paris, with Andre Lhote (1885-1962), in 1925 and 1926. She often incorporated her own sketches in her columns. She joined the staff of The World as a society reporter, and later worked as a crime reporter for the New York World-Telegram from 1937 until 1944. (This role supported her subsequent appearance on "The $64,000 Challenge" television program with crime as her specialty.) In addition to her newspaper work, Worden published several books during the 1930s and early 1940s: The Real New York (1932), Round Manhattan's Rim (1934), The Society Circus (1937), Here is New York (1939), and Discover New York (1943).

In 1938, Worden wrote the first of a series of popular articles on the "Mystery Men of Harlem," the wealthy and reclusive brothers Homer and Langley Collyer. New York City's recluses were also the subject of Worden's 1953 book, Out of This World. She left the New York World-Telegram in 1944 to focus on freelance work. In 1953, during her tenure at Collier's, she joined the press pool for United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' tour of the Middle East and Asia; she was the only woman correspondent on the tour.

The Dorothy Dix advice column Warden wrote from 1959 until 1964 was the first syndicated advice column, originated by the journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861-1951) in 1895 and distributed by The Bell Syndicate. In some papers it appeared over other signatures: Clara Valli, Muriel Nissen, Kitty Kelly, or Gladys Parker. Joyce Brothers took over the column on Worden's departure in 1964.

Helen Worden was married to John Erskine, author and professor of English at Columbia University, from 1945 until his death in 1951; and to William Henry Harrison "Harry" Cranmer, a mining engineer, from 1959 until his death in 1967. She died in New York City on July 31, 1984.

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Series I: Correspondence


Catalogued Correspondence



Box 1 Barton, Bruce


Box 1 Barzun, Jacques


Box 1 Belmont, Eleanor Robson (Mrs. August )


Box 1 Bolton, Guy


Box 1 Bryher, Winifred


Box 1 Caldwell, Erskine


Box 1 Carrington, Hereward


Box 1 Coolidge, Julian Lowell


Box 1 Crothers, Rachel


Box 1 Damrosch, Walter Johannes


Box 1 Davidson, Jo


Box 1 Dulles, John Foster


Box 1 Erskine, Helen Edminster Worden


Box 1 Erskine, John



Box 2 Fadiman, Clifton


Box 2 Farley, James Aloysius


Box 2 Fish, Stuyvesant


Box 2 Frederica, Queen Consort of King Paul of the Hellenes


Box 2 Frohman, Daniel


Box 2 Gish, Lillian


Box 2 Gogarty, Oliver Joseph St John


Box 2 Goldberg, Rube


Box 2 Graham, Stephen


Box 2 Hansen, Harry


Box 2 Harris, Jed


Box 2 Hayes, John Russell


Box 2 Highet, Gilbert


Box 2 Holt, Hamilton Bolton


Box 2 Hurst, Fannie


Box 2 Hurston, Zora Neale


Box 2 Huston, John


Box 2 Kauffer, Edward McKnight


Box 2 Kennerley, Mitchell


Box 2 Knox, Frank


Box 2 Lamont, Thomas William


Box 2 Lindbergh, Charles August us


Box 2 Luce, Clare Boothe


Box 2 Marie Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Russia


Box 2 Maxwell, Elsa


Box 2 Morris, Lloyd R.


Box 2 Moses, Robert


Box 2 Reid, Helen Rogers (Mrs. Ogden M.)


Box 2 Reid, Whitelaw


Box 2 Rhys, Ernest Percival


Box 2 Robinson, Henry Morton


Box 2 Schwab, Charles Michael


Box 2 Speyer Leonora von Stosch


Box 2 Stewart, William Rhinelander, Jr.


Box 2 Stolberg, Benjamin


Box 2 Sullivan, Frank


Box 2 Swartwout, Gladys


Box 2 Talleyrand-Perigord, Anna Gould de Castellane, Duchesse de


Box 2 Tito, Josip Broz and Jovanka Budisavljevic Broz


Box 2 Trilling, Lionel


Box 2 Troubetzkoy, Amelie Rives Chanler (Princess Pierre)


Box 2 Tynan, Kenneth Peacock


Box 2 Van de Water, Virginia Belle Terhune


Box 2 Van Doren, Irita Bradford


Box 2 Wagner, Robert Ferdinand


Box 2 Willing, John Thomson


Box 2 Winchell, Walter


Uncatalogued Correspondence



Box 3 A-Br



Box 4 Bu-C



Box 5 D-F



Box 6 G



Box 7 H-J



Box 8 K-L



Box 9 M-O



Box 10 P-R



Box 11 S-Th



Box 12 Ti-Woo



Box 13 Wor-Y


Box 13 Unidentified


Box 13 Death of Wilbertine T. Worden, 1949


Box 13 Christmas Cards, 1956


Box 13 Wedding to William H. H. Cranmer, 1959


Box 13 Get Well Cards, 1979

Series II: Writings by Helen Worden Erskine


Subseries A: Autobiography

Manuscripts, drafts, notes, correspondence, and related items for her projected autobiography which included family history, her grandfather (Col. Wilbert Barton Teters) and his Civil War experiences, her childhood in New York City and in Colorado, life with her mother (Wilbertine Teters Worden), her career in journalism, her travels, and her marriages to John Erskine and to William Henry Harrison Cranmer. She published many articles based on her childhood and on her mother's adventures. Guy Bolton's play, Jenny Kissed Me, was based on her memoirs of her mother. There are also many genealogical notes on the Teters, Wordens, and other related families.



Box 14 Typescripts



Box 15 Typescripts



Box 16 Typescripts



Box 17 Typescripts



Box 18 Drafts and Notes



Box 19 Drafts and Notes



Box 20 Drafts and Notes



Box 21 Drafts and Notes



Box 22 Notes and Miscellaneous



Box 23 Notes and Miscellaneous



Box 24 Diaries, 1915-1949



Box 25 Diaries, 1950-1956



Box 26 Diaries, 1957-1961



Box 27 Diaries, 1962-1969



Box 28 Diaries, 1970-1976



Box 29 Diaries, 1978-1983


Subseries B: Biography

Manuscripts, typescripts, memoranda, notes, correspondence, tape cassettes, transcripts, photographs, clippings, and other related materials for her biographical articles and columns for magazines and newspapers and for her books and planned books.



Box 30 Blacks--Liberia, Marian Anderson, and others


Bradley, Jenny Serruys (Mrs. William A.), 1886-1983

The unpublished biography, Many Sinners and a Few Saints, of this French literary agent.



Box 31 Typescripts and Transcripts of Tapes



Box 32 Typescripts and Transcripts of Tapes



Box 33 Cassette Tapes and Transcripts

28 audiocassette tapes



Box 34 Correspondence



Box 35 Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales

A 1955 magazine articles and a projected biographical book.



Box 36 Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales

A 1955 magazine articles and a projected biographical book.



Box 37 Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales

A 1955 magazine articles and a projected biographical book.



Box 38 Dehn, Konrad Detlev, Count von, 1688-1753

The Von Dehn family of California commissioned her in 1958 to write a biography of this Danish and German diplomat. She withdrew from the arrangement in 1961.



Box 39 Dehn, Konrad Detlev, Count von, 1688-1753

The Von Dehn family of California commissioned her in 1958 to write a biography of this Danish and German diplomat. She withdrew from the arrangement in 1961.



Box 40 Dixon, Joseph, 1799-1869

She was commissioned in 1956 by The Reader's Digest and in 1958 by the Dixon Crucible Co., of Jersey City, New Jersey, to write a biography of this American inventor. Her article appeared in 1958 but the book was abandoned in 1961 for lack of surviving documentation.



Box 41 Dixon, Joseph, 1799-1869

She was commissioned in 1956 by The Reader's Digest and in 1958 by the Dixon Crucible Co., of Jersey City, New Jersey, to write a biography of this American inventor. Her article appeared in 1958 but the book was abandoned in 1961 for lack of surviving documentation.



Box 42 Eisenhower, President Dwight D. and Mrs. Mamie Doud



Box 43-44 Erskine, John, 1879-1951

She wrote several articles about her first husband, Professor of English at Columbia University, 1909-1937 and President of the Julliard School of Music, 1928-1937.



Box 44 Tape Recordings



Box 45 French Celebrities

Gen. and Mme Christian Castries, Genevieve de Galard-Terraube, Andre Geraud-Pertinax, Andre Maurois, the Rothschilds, and Misia Sert.


Hermits and Recluses (mostly in New York City)

Newspaper articles for the New York World-Telegram and stories for various magazines, later drawn upon for her book, Out of This World (New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, circa 1953), from which the play, The Girls in 509 (1959), was adapted by Howard Teichman.



Box 46 Out of This World


Box 46 The Girls in 509



Box 47 The Girls in 509


Box 47 The Collyer brothers--Correspondence and Poetry of the Collyer Family, 1860-1880



Box 48 Other Hermits and Recluses



Box 49 Other Hermits and Recluses



Box 50 Lhevinne, Rosina Bessie, 1879-

A projected biography of this pianist and music teacher.



Box 51 Marks, Gerald

She helped this American songwriter with his autobiography.



Box 52 Miscellaneous Biographical Notes



Box 53 Miscellaneous Biographical Notes



Box 54 Miscellaneous Biographical Notes--Women



Box 55 New York Celebrities



Box 56 New York Celebrities--Women



Box 57 New York Celebrities--Women


Niehans, Paul, 1882-1971

From about 1962 until 1971 she wrote articles about Dr. Niehans' cellular therapy and worked on his biography which failed to find a publisher.



Box 58 Typescripts



Box 59 Typescripts



Box 60 Typescripts



Box 61 Typescripts



Box 62 Drafts and Typescripts



Box 63 Notes, Drafts, and Correspondence



Box 64 Notes, Drafts, and Correspondence



Box 65 Tape Recordings and Photographs



Box 66 Political Figures



Box 67 Royalty



Box 68 Salesmen

Her article on salespeople and correspondence for her projected book, Drummer Boy; a history of the traveling salesman.



Box 69 Princess Soraya (former Empress of Iran)



Box 70 Tito, Jovanka Budlisavljevic Broz--Article for Collier's in 1952 and 1955, 1952, 1955



Box 71 Tito, Jovanka Budlisavljevic Broz--Article for Collier's in 1952 and 1955, 1952, 1955



Box 72 Truman, President Harry S. and Mrs. Bess Wallace--Article for Collier's in 1952 and 1955, 1952, 1955



Box 73 Truman, President Harry S. and Mrs. Bess Wallace--Article for Collier's in 1952 and 1955, 1952, 1955


Vanderbilt, Gloria Morgan (Mrs. Reginald W.); Thelma Morgan Converse Furness (Viscountess Furness) (The Morgan Twins) and Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper

From 1956 until 1958 she worked on the dual autobiography of the Morgan twins; after a disagreement, the book was completed by another author. These files include early materials on the Gloria Vanderbilt custody trial and Thelma's affair with the Duke of Windsor.



Box 74 Drafts and Transcripts



Box 75 Drafts and Notes



Box 76 Transcripts and Tape-recordings



Box 77 Tape-recordings



Box 78 Vanderbilt Family

Her newspaper and magazine articles and clipping files on Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Hamilto, McK. Twombly, and other family members.



Box 79 Windsor, Duke and Duchess of

Their courtship, the abdication crisis, and their subsequent lives.



Box 80 Windsor, Duke and Duchess of

Their courtship, the abdication crisis, and their subsequent lives.


Subseries C: Crime

Newspaper articles, drafts, planned books, clippings, notes, and correspondence about crime and trials, primarily in New York City, Helen Worden was a crime reporter for the New York World-Telegram from 1937 until 1944. Later she appeared on "The $64,000 Challenge" television program with crime as her specialty.



Box 81 Miscellaneous



Box 82 Miscellaneous



Box 83 Card File



Box 84 Juvenile Gangs



Box 85 Organized Crime and Racketeering



Box 86 Rubinstein, Serge



Box 87 Television Shows and Ideas



Box 88 Women



Box 89 Women


Subseries D: Fiction

Drafts, Proofs, Notes, Correspondence, and Publicity Materials



Box 90 Serials for Newspapers and Magazines



Box 91 Short Novel: Prelude to Murder

In 1952 she collaborated with Rita Weiman on this unpublished mystery story which is based on the Parsons' abduction case which she had covered as a crime reporter.



Box 92 Short Stories



Box 93 Short Stories


Subseries E: Funerals and Memorial Societies



Box 94 Articles for The Reader's Digest, 1956-1958.


Subseries F: Magazines

Editorial correspondence about her many magazine articles, along with some drafts, memoranda, contracts, photographs, and printed articles.



Box 95 Magazines, A-Z



Box 96 Magazines--Collier's


Subseries G: Newspaper Columns and Articles


"About People" in the New York Herald Tribune from October 1948 until August 1949.



Box 97 Correspondence from Readers



Box 98 Clippings of the Column



Box 99 "The Dorothy Dix Column"



Box 100 "The Dorothy Dix Column"



Box 101 "The Dorothy Dix Column"



Box 102 "The Dorothy Dix Column"



Box 103 "The Dorothy Dix Column"



Flat Box 537 "The Dorothy Dix Column", 2 Volumes

There is correspondence from readers, manuscripts and drafts of her replies, business correspondence and memoranda about the column, her subject files for replies, and promotional materials.

This advice column was distributed by The Bell Syndicate from 1959 until 1964. In some papers it appeared over other signatures: Clara Valli; Muriel Nissen; Kitty Kelly; and Gladys Parker. She was succeeded by Joyce Brothers.



Box 103a The New York World-Telegram--Clippings of her columns and articles



Box 104 "That's Life"

This column of commentary was distributed by the Hall Syndicate in 1955 and 1956. Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, memoranda, contracts, and related materials.



Box 105 "That's Life"

This column of commentary was distributed by the Hall Syndicate in 1955 and 1956. Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, memoranda, contracts, and related materials.



Box 106 Miscellaneous columns: "About Society"; "The Art World"; "Belle Brummell"; "Heart Line"/"Heart Beat'--U.S.A."; "In New York"; "Of Men and Women"; "Reporter's Notebook"; and other unidentified columns and related materials


Subseries H: Travel

Articles, book manuscripts, drafts, correspondence, journals, memoranda, photographs, printed and other related materials about her travels.


Colorado and the Surrounding Area

Articles about her childhood family, travels, and history of the Colorado area and its people.



Box 107 Mile High Country--Proposed Book--Draft and Correspondence



Box 108 Counties and Towns



Box 109 Counties and Towns



Box 110 Miscellaneous



Box 111 Miscellaneous



Box 112 Miscellaneous



Box 113 Europe



Box 114 Europe


New York City

She wrote several guidebooks to New York City and many series of newspaper articles on New York City history.



Box 115 New York City--General



Box 116 New York City--General



Box 117 New York City--General



Box 118 Books on New York City


Box 118 Hotels



Box 119 Old Houses



Box 120 Photographs and Illustrations



Box 121 Saudi Arabia and the Middle East

From 1951 to 1956 she wrote many articles about the Middle East and in 1953 she covered the Middle Eastern tour of John Foster Dulles, the American Secretary of State.



Box 122 Saudi Arabia and the Middle East

From 1951 to 1956 she wrote many articles about the Middle East and in 1953 she covered the Middle Eastern tour of John Foster Dulles, the American Secretary of State.



Box 123 Saudi Arabia and the Middle East

From 1951 to 1956 she wrote many articles about the Middle East and in 1953 she covered the Middle Eastern tour of John Foster Dulles, the American Secretary of State.



Box 124 United States



Box 125 United States


Box 125 Latin America, the Orient, and Other Places


Subseries I: Writings as a Subject

Notes, articles, correspondence and clippings on fiction, composition, vocabulary, correspondence-courses, criticism, playwriting, suggested topics, and scrapbook pages.



Box 126 Writings as a Subject



Box 127 Writings as a Subject


Subseries J: Miscellaneous



Box 128 Miscellaneous Articles by Erskine--Manuscripts, Notes, and Clippings



Box 129 Miscellaneous Notebooks and Address Books


Subseries K: Scrapbooks

Scrapbooks of her newspaper articles and columns along with articles of interest to her. There is also some correspondence included.



Box 130 1923-1951



Box 131 1929-1966



Box 132 1940-1958



Box 133 1949-1968



Box 134 1926-1970



Box 135 1943-1969



Box 136 1951-1969



Box 137 1954-1969



Box 138 1961-1969



Box 139 1927-1933



Box 140 1934-1939



Box 141 1937-1940



Box 142 1940-1944


Subseries L: Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Documents, and Tapes (not articles by Erskine)



Box 143 Manuscripts



Box 144 Miscellaneous--Passports, Documents, Lists, Awards, Ideas, Horoscopes, Publicity, Financial, Real Estate



Box 145 Miscellaneous--Passports, Documents, Lists, Awards, Ideas, Horoscopes, Publicity, Financial, Real Estate



Box 146 Subject Files



Box 147 Subject Files



Box 148 Tapes

Series III: Artwork



Box 149 Artwork



Box 155 Folder 4-8 Artwork, 1867, 1916-circa 1950s, undated, 5 folders

By Helen Worden and others. Also includes one folder of prints and maps.



Box 156 Folder 1 Artwork, circa 1920s-1940s


Box 156 Folder 2 George Frese comic, circa 1940s

Original artwork


Box 156 Folder 3 Drawing of Helen Worden, age 6, 1902


Box 156 Folder 4 Portrait of Helen Worden, 1942, Broken into two pieces; handle carefully.



Mapcase 14-H-3 Artwork, 1 portfolio

Series IV: Photographs



Box 150 Photographs and Albums



Box 151 Folder 1 Childhood, 1896-1914


Box 151 Folder 2 Photographs taken by Wilbertine Teters Worden in Mexico, 1897


Box 151 Folder 3 Tintype of Helen Worden with Patrick Henry (a dog), 1903, Rounded, three-dimensional object; probably intended to be framed.


Box 151 Folder 4 Colorado, 1916-1924, 1945-1977

Denver, Boulder, and excursions into the mountains


Box 151 Folder 5 Colorado negatives, circa 1920s


Box 151 Folder 6 Head shots of Helen Worden, circa 1920s-1980


Box 151 Folder 7 Solo informal photographs of Helen Worden, circa 1920s-1970s


Box 151 Folder 8 At work, 1922-1954


Box 151 Folder 9 Events, 1935-1978


Box 151 Folder 10 Discover New York promotion, 1943


Box 151 Folder 11 Out of This World book launch party, 1953


Box 151 Folder 12 John Foster Dulles tour of the Middle East and Asia, 1953


Box 151 Folder 13 Ellen Brown, Metropolitan Club president, circa 1970s



Box 152 Folder 1 John Erskine, Harry Cranmer, and families, circa 1890s, 1940s-1970s


Box 152 Folder 2 Children and families, circa 1900-1970s


Box 152 Folder 3 Animals, 1903-1983

Helen Worden and friends with animals, mostly cats and dogs.


Box 152 Folder 4 Unidentified contact sheets, circa 1910s


Box 152 Folder 5 Postcards, circa 1910s-1977


Box 152 Folder 6 Friends and acquaintances, circa 1920-1981


Box 152 Folder 7 Niagara Falls, circa 1920s


Box 152 Folder 8 Phyllis Chorman and Walter Comb family, circa 1920s-1955


Box 152 Folder 9 Europe, 1926-1976


Box 152 Folder 10 New York City, 1928-1975


Box 152 Folder 11 Claire de Lisle and Willard Huntington Wright, 1928-1937


Box 152 Folder 12 Bradley Beach, New Jersey, 1929


Box 152 Folder 13 Scottish Terriers, 1930s


Box 152 Folder 14 Florida, circa 1930s-1949


Box 152 Folder 15 Interiors and exteriors of buildings, various locations, circa 1930s-1970s



Box 153 Folder 1 California, Nevada, and Oregon, 1931-1979


Box 153 Folder 2 Yacht Jamaroy, 1938


Box 153 Folder 3 Woodstock, New York, 1941


Box 153 Folder 4 Shoreham, Long Island, 1941-1942, 1978


Box 153 Folder 5 Quebec, 1948-1949


Box 153 Folder 6 Beach and cemetery, probably on Long Island, circa 1950


Box 153 Folder 7 Steinway, circa 1970s


Box 153 Folder 8 Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, 1972


Box 153 Folder 9 Borneo, 1973



Box 154 Folder 1 Negatives, circa 1940s-1970s


Box 154 Folder 2 Negatives, 1937-1941, In storage case with contents labeled


Box 154 Folder 3 Negatives, 1938 March-September, In storage case with contents labeled



Box 155 Folder 1-3 Photographs, 1916-1955, 3 folders



Box 156 Folder 5 Photograph of the Erskines' living room, 1940s