Helena and Elizabeth Mayer papers, 1905-1993.
Collection Number: 4938
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Helena and Elizabeth Mayer papers, 1905-1993.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4938
Abstract:
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.
Creator:
Mayer, Helena, 1908-1994.
Mayer, Elizabeth, 1906-1991.
Quanitities:
1.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Cornell University Library employees, 1955-1971.
Born Hungary, displaced persons after the Second World War. Both Ph.D.s, Rome.
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.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Helena and Elizabeth Mayer papers, #4938. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Places:
Hungary -- Description.
Subjects:
Refugees, Political -- Hungary.
Fiction.
Refugees, Political -- Personal narratives.
Families -- United States.
Families -- Hungary.
Form and Genre Terms:
Postcards.
Photographs.
Diaries.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Retirement and general financial documents
|
1963-1992 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Library and displaced person identification cards
|
1931-1947 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Hungarian citizenship papers, school papers and other family documents
|
1935-1950 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
E. Mayer, "The Vatican Library," speech
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Art work by E. Mayer
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence, on postcards; largely undated, but before WWII
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence, fragments
|
1955-1967 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Diary; notes on sightseeing in Rome
|
June 1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Diary
|
1947-1964, 1982-1991 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Diary, "Ithaca: la città dolore"
|
1956-1975 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Diary [time of her sister's death]
|
June-Nov. 1991 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Diary
|
June 12, Aug. 21, 1992, Mar. 9, [1993?] |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Recollections
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Tribute to Mother
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Reading notes on Roman History, genealogy and other books
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Reading notes
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 17-18 |
Manuscript, "Novellen"
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Manuscript
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Manuscript, "Aus dem Nebel," 3 parts
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Manuscript, "Aus dem Nebel, Bk. II, Die Revolution"
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 3-4 |
Manuscript
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Manuscript, "Die Heilige und ihre Gefangenen"
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Manuscript, "Die vier Ritter," etc.
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Manuscript
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Manuscript, "Christmas, 1991," etc.
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Manuscript fragments
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Manuscript music, E. Mayer
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Manuscript recipes, E. Mayer
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Photographs, Mayer family
|
1905-1914 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Photographs, Mayer father and mother
|
1904-1970 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Photographs, Mayer sisters
|
1909-1940 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Photographs, E. Mayer
|
1907-1935 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Photographs, E. Mayer
|
1937-1953 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Photographs, H. Mayer
|
1908-1936 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Photographs, H. Mayer
|
1937-1954 |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Photographs, Mayer family, misc.
|
1931-1968 |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Photographs, Mayer family, Totterer family
|
n.d.-1934 |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Identification cards and admission tickets
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Material on Fairview Heights
|
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| Box 3 |
Grade books and published articles, E. Mayer
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| Box 3 |
Grade books and published articles, H. Mayer
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| Box 4 |
Coins, pens, postcards, photographs and music
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| Box 5 |
Oversized diplomas and certificates including Certificates of Naturalization for both
sisters
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