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Series I: Correspondence, 1912, 1926-1968, undated
Series II: Writings, 1922-1962, undated
Series III: Personal, 1907-1968, undated
Series IV: Visual material, 1890s-1963, undated
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Ernestine Evans papers, 1890-1968, bulk 1930-1967

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Series I: Correspondence, 1912, 1926-1968, undated

This series contains Evans' personal and professional correspondence, and it includes letters both incoming and outgoing. The majority of these letters dates to the 1940s and 1950s; this archive does not contain Evans' early correspondence. Evans' most voluminous correspondence was with Jessie Heckman Hirschl, a lifelong friend whom she met during her undergraduate studies. Other friends and colleagues that are well represented here include: Evans' close friend Frances H. Flaherty, wife of the documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty. (Evans collaborated with Robert Flaherty on several occasions.); Gertrude Emerson Sen, an expert on Asia, who lived in India and was, like Evans, a member of the Society of Women Geographers; Margaret Barrington ("Topsy"), a writer who lived in Ireland; Helga Greene, a prominent London literary agent; and Karl A. Bickel and Carleton Beals, two writers for whom she served as literary agent. Evans' correspondence also includes letters to and from luminaries that include Walker Evans, Jean Renoir, Cornell Capa and Katherine Anne Porter.


Box 1 Folder 1 to 12 Incoming, 1912, 1930s-1949, (13 Folders)


Box 2 Folder 1 to 11 Incoming, 1950-1959, (11 Folders)


Box 3 Folder 1 to 5 Incoming, 1960s, (5 Folders)

Box 3 Folder 6 to 11 Incoming, Undated, (6 Folders)


Box 4 Folder 1 to 2 Incoming, Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 4 Folder 3 to 8 Outgoing, circa 1930s-1967, (6 Folders)


Box 5 Folder 1 to 5 Outgoing, circa 1930s-1967, (5 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 6 Outgoing, 1941-1945, undated

Box 5 Folder 7 Outgoing, 1957

Box 5 Folder 8 to 13 Outgoing--Flaherty, Robert and Frances, circa 1940-1950, (6 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 14 Outgoing, 1960-1965

Box 5 Folder 15 to 16 Others, 1932-1958, undated, (2 Folders)


Box 6 Folder 1 to 2 Others, 1932-1958, undated, (2 Folders)

Box 6 Folder 3 to 4 Regarding Evans, 1955-1967, undated, (2 Folders)

Box 6 Folder 5 Fragments, 1941-1965, undated

Alphabetical and previously catalogued

Box 6 Folder 6 Allen, Evelyn, 1953, undated

Box 6 Folder 7 Anderson, Eleanor and Sherwood, 1946-1957, undated

Box 6 Folder 8 Barrington, Margaret "Topsy", 1941-1952, undated

Box 6 Folder 9 Bickel, Karl, 1941-1954, undated

Box 6 Folder 10 Bliven-Sheean, 1941-1945

Box 6 Folder 11 Capa, Cornell, (includes reminiscences of Robert Capa), undated

Box 6 Folder 12 Evans, Walker, undated

Box 6 Folder 13 Flaherty, Robert, Frances and family, 1938


Box 7 Folder 1 Flaherty, Robert, Frances and family, 1937-1951, undated

Box 7 Folder 2 Graham, Eleanor, 1940-1958, undated

Box 7 Folder 3 Greene, Helga, 1953-1965, undated

Box 7 Folder 4 to 11 Hirschl, Jessie [Heckman], 1938-1968, undated, (8 Folders)

Box 7 Folder 12 Johnstone, Ken, 1959-1961, undated


Box 8 Folder 1 MacLeish, Archibald, 1940, undated

Box 8 Folder 2 Plomer, William, 1943-1958

Box 8 Folder 3 [Porter,] Katherine Anne, 1944-1951, undated

Box 8 Folder 4 Schaffner, John to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Edes Harrison and Elizaberth Briggs Harrison, 1968

Box 8 Folder 5 to 6 Sen, Gertrude Emerson--(Mrs. Basiswar Sen), 1926-1965, undated, (2 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 7 [Treat Bergeret,] Ida, 1947-1958, undated

Box 8 Folder 8 to 10 General, 1941-1958, undated, (3 Folders)

Series II: Writings, 1922-1962, undated

Included in this series are manuscripts, drafts, published work and notes by Evans and others; many of the writers whose work appears here were probably Evans' clients during her time as a literary agent. Various manuscripts of Evans' written work are available, including several drafts of an article about Nina Khrushcheva that she wrote during Khrushcheva and her husband's visit to America in 1959, drafts of book reviews, articles for the Office of War Information and various other writings.

Manuscripts and drafts by other authors include work by Carlton Beals, Martha Bensley Bruère, Clinch Calkins, Elizabeth Ellis, Thomas Hibben, Anabel Hughes, Paula Holladay, Ellen Nelson, James W. Osgood, Ken Sato, Felizia Seyd, Janet Stevenson, Harriet Teague, Beatrice Washburn, Annabel Williams-Ellis, and Corwin Willson, among others.

Memoranda, transcripts, newspaper and magazine clippings (of Evans' work and others'), and full periodicals and books are also represented.

By Evans

Box 8 Folder 11 to 12 General, undated, (2 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 13 Book Reviews, undated

Box 8 Folder 14 Finland--for Esso Magazine, 1950s

Box 8 Folder 15 Nina Khrushcheva, 1959

Box 8 Folder 16 "Looking East from Moscow"--for Asia magazine, 1922

Box 8 Folder 17 "The Man at the Corner Table," manuscript, undated

Box 8 Folder 18 "A New Name in Lights: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink", circa 1936


Box 9 Folder 1 Office of War Information, 1943

Box 9 Folder 2 "The War of Ideas"--for the Herald Tribune, 1943

Box 9 Folder 3 Writings on World Religion, undated

Box 9 Box 4-5 Untitled manuscript, chapters 1-11, undated, 2 folders

By others

Authorship Unknown

Box 9 Folder 6 Children's Fables, undated

Box 9 Folder 7 Children's Literature, undated

Box 9 Folder 8 "Conversion of Exigency", undated

Box 9 Folder 9 Germany , undated

Box 9 Folder 10 History of Grace Abbott and U.S. Children's Bureau, undated

Box 9 Folder 11 Irish-American History, undated

Box 9 Folder 12 Korea, circa 1950s


Box 10 Folder 1 Poetry, undated

Box 10 Folder 2 The Seventh Continent , undated

Box 10 Folder 3 Tilly , undated

Box 10 Folder 4 Vegetables, undated

Box 10 Folder 5 The Wedding Trip , undated

Box 10 Folder 6 to 7 Who Is Growing Older? Everybody! , undated, (2 Folders)

Box 10 Folder 8 to 9 General--Manuscripts, undated, (2 Folders)

Box 10 Folder 10 General--Fragments, undated, (1 Folders)


Box 11 Folder 1 to 9 General--Fragments, undated, (9 Folders)


Box 12 Folder 1 Augur, Helen--various, undated

Box 12 Folder 2 Beals, Carlton-- Flower of France, undated

Box 12 Folder 3 Beals, Carolyn Kennedy-- The Trial Begins, undated

Box 12 Folder 4 Boehm, Carson-- Oceanography, 1959

Box 12 Folder 5 Boyd, Madeleine-- Claude Monet, undated

Box 12 Folder 6 to 7 Bruère, Martha Bensley and Robert Bruère-- The Triumph of Felicity Brail: An American Parable, (2 Folders)

Box 12 Folder 8 Calkins, Clinch-- State Occasion, undated

Box 12 Folder 9 to 10 Craton, Anne Washington--untitled, undated, (2 Folders)


Box 13 Folder 1 Ellis, Elizabeth-- The Fatal Diet, undated

Box 13 Folder 2 Grierson, John-- Propaganda and Education, 1943

Box 13 Folder 3 Hibben, Thomas-- Rammed Earth Construction, 1940, undated

Box 13 Folder 4 Holladay, Paula-- Call Me Hagar, (incomplete), undated

Box 13 Folder 5 Holladay, Paula--"Prolegomena" to "The Journey Homeward", undated

Box 13 Folder 6 to 7 Holladay, Paula--various, undated, 2 folders

Box 13 Folder 8 Holmes, Winifred--poetry--"The Red Sea Dolphins", 1945


Box 14 Folder 1 Hughes, Anabel--Poetry--Drafts and Notes, undated

Box 14 Folder 2 Jarecka, Louise--Journal, circa 1931

Box 14 Folder 3 Leland, Marine-- French Canada, 1944-1945

Box 14 Folder 4 Lovett, Robert Morss--"The Outside Children – The Virgins", 1942

Box 14 Folder 5 Momoko, Ishii--"Merry Dolls, Quiet Dolls", undated

Box 14 Folder 6 Morrison, Stanley-- The Bibliography of Newspapers and the Writing of History, 1954

Box 14 Folder 7 Nelson, Ellen-- Dodo the Duck, undated

Box 14 Folder 8 Osgood, James W.-- A Constructive Program for Conservatives, undated

Box 14 Folder 9 Sato, Ken-- The Yellow Jap Dogs, undated


Box 15 Folder 1 Sen, Gertrude-- Testing Ground in NEFA, undated

Box 15 Folder 2 to 3 Seyd, Felizia-- Alexander I of Russia, undated, (2 Folders)

Box 15 Folder 4 Shapley, Olive--untitled manuscript, 1949-1950

Box 15 Folder 5 Stevenson, Jane-- Kate: A Play, 1951

Box 15 Folder 6 Teague, Harriet-- Richard Mill: In Memoriam, undated

Box 15 Folder 7 Thompson, Dorothy--"Editorial for Ladies' Home Journal", undated

Box 15 Folder 8 Tikhonov, Nikolai-- Tales of Leningrad, undated

Box 15 Folder 9 Treat, Ida--Manuscripts, undated

Box 15 Folder 10 Turner, Roger-- If I must go down to the sea again, undated

Box 15 Folder 11 Uht, John-- Four Tigers, Four Trees and Mabu, undated

Box 15 Folder 12 Washburn, Beatrice--Short Pieces, 1939

Box 15 Folder 13 Washburn, Beatrice-- Sketches of Mexico-- Manchester Guardian, 1940


Box 16 Folder 1 Williams-Ellis, Annabel-- Human Nature Study for Schools, undated

Box 16 Folder 2 to 4 Willson, Corwin-- Merrily We Roll, 1962, (3 Folders)

Box 16 Folder 5 Woodward, Anne-- Paddy Corrigan Stories, 1954

Box 16 Folder 6 Wuolijoki, Hella-- Women of Property, 1937

Children's Book Manuscripts

Box 16 Folder 7 Barrington, Margaret, 1946, undated

Box 16 Folder 8 Jarecka, Louise, undated

Box 16 Folder 9 General, undated


Box 17 Folder 1 to 6 Various Authors, A-Y, undated, 6 folders

Box 17 Folder 7 Project files--Greeting Cards, undated

Box 17 Folder 8 Project files--General, undated

Memos and Press Releases

Box 17 Folder 9 BBC Fortnightly Newsletter , 1942

Box 17 Folder 10 British Information Services, 1959

Box 17 Folder 11 George Eastman House, 1949, undated

Box 17 Folder 12 Journal of the American Medical Association , 1943-1944

Box 17 Folder 13 Lend Lease: Miss Rankin's Amendment , 1941


Box 18 Folder 1 Magnum Photo, 1955-1959

Box 18 Folder 2 Palmer, Frederick, 1945

Box 18 Folder 3 Penguin Books, undated

Box 18 Folder 4 Post Office Department, 1946-1958

Box 18 Folder 5 UNESCO World Review , 1949

Box 18 Folder 6 General, 1944-1957, undated

Notes

Box 18 Folder 7 Biographical, undated

Box 18 Folder 8 Women Journalists, 1945

Box 18 Folder 9 to 10 General, undated, (2 Folders)

Printed Material

Books


Box 22 Folder 3 General, undated

Box 22 Folder 4 Cockade Portfolio, V. I. Lenin, undated

Box 22 Folder 5 Ellen Browning Scripps, 1936

Box 22 Folder 6 Encyclopedia Britannica--Picture Books, undated

Box 22 Folder 7 From Learning to Earning, The Welsh, undated

Box 22 Folder 8 Children and Their Books, edited by Evans, 1926

Box 22 Folder 9 Collection by Evans, circa 1928-1940

Box 22 Folder 10 Lasten Kesä, undated

Clippings


Box 23 Folder 1 Eleanor Anderson, undated

Box 23 Folder 2 Manchester Guardian , 1948

Box 23 Folder 3 Newspaper Articles by Evans, 1945-1953, undated

Box 23 Folder 4 Magazine Articles by Evans, circa 1920s-1949

Box 23 Folder 5 Reviews by Evans, undated

Box 23 Folder 6 General, undated

Pamphlets

Box 23 Folder 7 Alfred University, 1942-1943

Box 23 Folder 8 Children's Literature, 1939-1960

Box 23 Folder 9 Lamont, Corliss--"The Myth of Soviet Aggression," "Challenge to McCarthy", 1953-1954

Box 23 Folder 10 Medical, 1947, undated

Box 23 Folder 11 Scottish independence, 1944-1946

Box 23 Folder 12 United States Children's Bureau, 1937-1962

Periodicals

Box 23 Folder 13 Fair Winds magazine, 1937-1939

Box 23 Folder 14 Trade Magazines: Advertising Typographers Association of America, Schlumberger, Standard Oil, 1952-1957


Box 24 Folder 1 General, 1941-1958

Transcripts

Box 24 Folder 2 "Woman's Hour", 1949

Box 24 Folder 3 Library of Congress Hearings, 1954

Box 24 Folder 4 The Hollywood Story", 1948

Box 24 Folder 5 to 6 Proposals, undated, (2 Folders)

Subject Files

Box 24 Folder 7 Film, 1944-1948, undated

Box 24 Folder 8 Finland, undated


Box 8 Folder 9 Missionaries of Batanga, Phillipines, undated

Box 8 Folder 10 Office of War Information, 1938-1944

Series III: Personal, 1907-1968, undated

Personal documents relating to Evans' life, including mementos and ephemera, address books and journals, medical and financial documents, and government-issued documents, such as passports can be found in this series. Also included in this series are documents relating to Evans' old age care, funeral, and memorial services. There is also a small collection of documents related to three other parties: real estate and financial documents regarding the Hirschl family, as well as personal documents belonging to Louise F. Lee and Colin Landin.


Box 18 Folder 11 Autobiographical Writings and Guggenheim Fellowship Application, undated

Box 18 Folder 12 to 13 Ephemera and Mementos, 1941-1962, undated, 2 folders


Box 19 Folder 1 to 23 Address Books, undated, (23 Folders)


Box 20 Folder 1 Address book, undated

Box 20 Folder 2 Journal, undated

Box 20 Folder 3 Postcards, undated

Box 20 Folder 4 to 8 Postcards to Evans, 1907-1966, undated, (5 Folders)

Box 20 Folder 9 Contacts, 1965-1966, undated

Box 20 Folder 10 Contacts--UN Telephone Directory, 1945

Financial

Box 20 Folder 11 Banking, 1941-1967

Box 20 Folder 12 Leases, 1946-1961

Box 20 Folder 13 General, 1941-1967, undated

Box 20 Folder 14 Flaherty Films, 1946-1965


Box 21 Folder 1 Medical documents, 1953-1965, undated

Box 21 Folder 2 Passports, 1949-1957

Box 21 Folder 3 Funeral and Memorial Service for Evans, 1967-1968

Others

Box 21 Folder 4 Flaherty, Robert--Memorial Documents, 1948-1951

Box 21 Folder 5 Hirschl, Jessie [Heckman]--financial documents, 1892-1965

Box 21 Folder 6 to 9 Landin, Colin--Correspondence, 1950-1954, undated, 4 folders

Box 21 Folder 10 Landin, Colin--General, 1951-1956


Box 22 Folder 1 Lee, Louise, 1945-1956

Box 22 Folder 2 Weil, Elsie--Journal, undated

Series IV: Visual material, 1890s-1963, undated

This series contains a wide array of photographs, prints, drawings and watercolor paintings. Among the large collection of photographs are a small number of images of Evans; images of schoolchildren by the renowned photographer Gordon Parks; images and manuscripts from the Magnum News Service; photographs and picture postcards from many countries around the world, including Russia, Mongolia, India and Mexico; and film stills from documentaries by Evans' friend and colleague, Robert Flaherty.

Other visual material includes unattributed life-drawings as well as drawings and paintings by children, perhaps dating to Evans' time at the Whitney Studio Club; large-format illustrated maps and posters; illustrations and page proofs, likely from books that Evans commissioned and edited while working as a literary agent; and a smattering of additional material.

Photographs


Box 24 Folder 11 Ernestine Evans, 1890s-1950s

Box 24 Folder 12 Astor Place Riots and Rammed Earth Construction, undated

Box 24 Folder 13 Robert Flaherty documentary film stills, undated

Box 24 Folder 14 India and Africa, various, undated


Box 25 Folder 1 Magnum News Service Photographs: Algeria, Space Exploration, Moscow, Iraq, 1963

Box 25 Folder 2 Parks, Gordon--Students of P.S. 186 in Harlem, 1945

Box 25 Folder 3 India--News Stock Images, undated

Box 25 Folder 4 Individuals, undated

Box 25 Folder 5 Mexico, undated

Box 25 Folder 6 "Moscow Strikes Back", undated

Box 25 Folder 7 Miller, Lee--Unidentified Sitter, undated

Box 25 Folder 8 Southeast Asia, undated

Box 25 Folder 9 U.S.S.R., undated

Box 25 Folder 10 to 14 General, undated, (5 Folders)


Box 26 Folder 1 to 11 India, undated, (11 Folders)

Box 26 Folder 12 to 23 General, undated, (12 Folders)

Visual Material--Oversize


Box 27 Folder 1 Drawings--Hewes, Alanson--Life-Drawings, undated

Box 27 Folder 2 Illustrations and Page Proofs--Jones, Lombard C.--Papermaking Cartoons, undated

Box 27 Folder 3 Illustrations and Page Proofs--Kimball, Marie--The Martha Washington Cookbook, undated

Box 27 Folder 4 to 5 Paintings--Watercolor Landscapes by Children, undated, (2 Folders)

Box 27 Folder 6 Photographs, undated

Box 27 Folder 7 Posters--British Information Services, undated

Box 27 Folder 8 Relief Prints, undated

Box 27 Folder 9 Reproductions, undated

Box 27 Folder 10 to 11 General visual material, unattributed, undated, (2 Folders)

Visual Material--General


Box 28 Folder 1 Book Art, undated

Box 28 Folder 2 Cartoon Cells--"Rumpus", undated

Box 28 Folder 3 Data Visualizations--Scott Air Force Base, circa 1945

Drawings

Box 28 Folder 4 Children's, undated

Box 28 Folder 5 Craig, John, undated

Box 28 Folder 6 Hewes, Alanson, undated

Box 28 Folder 7 Pen, undated

Box 28 Folder 8 Pencil and Charcoal, undated

Box 28 Folder 9 General, undated

Box 28 Folder 10 Illustrations--Japanese, undated

Illustrations and Page Proofs

Box 28 Folder 11 Hewes, Alanson, undated

Box 28 Folder 12 Lee, Charles--An Almanac of Reading, 1940

Box 28 Folder 13 Nautical Motifs-Mexican children, undated

Box 28 Folder 14 Scherf, Margaret--The Case of the Kippered Corpse, undated

Box 28 Folder 15 Various, undated

Box 28 Folder 16 Paintings--Watercolor, undated

Box 28 Folder 17 Paintings--Other, undated

Box 28 Folder 18 Posters--British Empire, Cuba, U.S. Office of Emergency Management, undated

Box 28 Folder 19 Relief Prints, undated

Box 28 Folder 20 to 21 Reproductions, undated, 2 folders

Box 28 Folder 22 General, undated

Unprocessed Material


Box 29 Correspondence, Manuscripts, Address Books, Clippings, etc.


Box 30 Correspondence, Manuscripts, Address Books, Clippings, etc.