Deborah Rawson papers, 1947-2007
Collection Number: 8462
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Deborah Rawson papers, 1947-2007
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8462
Abstract:
Includes student notebooks and papers from grade school through college, photographs,
letters to Rawson, subject files, and articles written by her.
Creator:
Rawson, Deborah, 1952-1992.
Quanitities:
4.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Cornell University Class of 1968. After graduating from Cornell, Deborah Rawson traveled
to Japan, where she studied flower arranging and the tea ceremony. She returned to
the U.S. to work on a master's degree from Hunter College and worked as a journalist
for publications including Harper's Bazaar, "New York Talk," "On the Next Wave," and
the Japanese edition of Cosmopolitan. In 1989, she published a book about her Vermont
heritage, Without a Farmhouse Near. Deborah Rawson died in 1992. A room in the Carl
A. Kroch Library is named in her memory.
Includes student notebooks and papers from grade school through college, photographs,
letters to Rawson, subject files, and articles written by her.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Deborah Rawson Papers, #8462. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Cornell University. Class of 1968
Cornell University -- : Students.
Places:
Japan -- Description and travel.
Subjects:
Women college students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Personal correspondence
|
1947-1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Personal correspondence
|
1961-1965 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Personal correspondence
|
1966-1968 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Personal correspondence
|
1968 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Personal correspondence
|
1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Personal correspondence
|
1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Personal correspondence
|
1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Personal correspondence
|
1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Personal correspondence
|
1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Personal correspondence
|
1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Personal correspondence
|
1973 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Personal correspondence
|
1974 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Personal correspondence
|
1974 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Personal correspondence
|
1975-1976 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Personal correspondence
|
1978 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Personal correspondence
|
1981-2007 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Personal correspondence
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Personal correspondence
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Personal correspondence
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Personal correspondence
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Congratulation cards - Deborah's birth
|
1952 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Birthday cards - Deborah's first birthday
|
1953 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Letters to Deborah, from friends
|
1970-1973 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Condolence cards
|
1992 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Cards from Chuck
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Special occasion cards to Jessie and Burnett, from Deborah
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Cards to Deborah, from Jessie and Burnett
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Blank cards
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Grade school work
|
1960's |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
High school/college work
|
1968-1970 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
High school/college work
|
1970-1979 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Thesis
|
1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Pearl River High School items
|
1968-1969 |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
High school diploma
|
1969 |
| Box 2 | Small box |
Additional grade school material
|
1960's |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Proposals
|
n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Interviews
|
n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence, drafts, proofs
|
1980's |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence, drafts, proofs
|
1980's |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence, drafts, proofs
|
1980's |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence, drafts, proofs
|
1990's, n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence, drafts, proofs
|
1990's, n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Additional correspondence
|
1980-1997 |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Additional drafts
|
n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Articles by Deborah Rawson
|
1980's |
| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Articles by others
|
1980's |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Articles by others
|
1980's |
| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Joseph Brodsky items
|
1980's |
| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Biographies
|
n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Rawson fund and family reunion
|
1991, n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Deborah Rawson Memorial Library
|
1996 |
| Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Cornell Cinema
|
n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Guggenheim summer internship
|
1970 |
| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Report on Physicians for Human Rights mission to Israel
|
1988 |
| Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Rawson room dedication
|
1995 |
| Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Athletic achievement certificate
|
1960 |
| Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Japanese study aids (Japanese 4006)
|
1975 |
| Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Unidentified items
|
n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Miscellaneous notes
|
n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Miscellaneous items
|
n.d. |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Poems
|
n.d. |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Journals
|
1964-1968 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Journals
|
n.d. |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Journals
|
n.d. |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Photos
|
n.d. |
| Box 4 |
Student notebooks
|
1960's-1970's | |
| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Cornell diploma
|
1973 |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Photo of Deborah Rawson room wall hanging
|
n.d. |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Ikenobo floral art certificates
|
1974 |
| Box 5 |
Deborah Rawson plaque
|
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| Box 5 |
Additional estate materials
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Scope and Contents
Clippings, pictures of house, correspondence with Cornell regarding scholarship. Also
an article by Rawson in Manhattan East newspaper.
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