Rachel Field collection 1917-1942

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Rachel Field collection 1917-1942

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.fieldr

The collection consists of letters from Rachel Field to Ruth Stanley-Brown Feis and from Field to Prentiss Taylor. Also included in the collection are writings by Field, many with illustrations by Taylor, and original writings and drawings by Taylor.

1.17 linear feet (3 boxes)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349195

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Feis, Ruth Stanley-Brown, 1892-1981

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61j9jhd (person)

Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65148rd (person)

Prentiss Taylor was born 1907 in Washington, D.C. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City and became a noted landscape painter. He spent four months in Charleston, South Carolina in 1933 doing sketches of rundown buildings. Working for the W.P.A., he made a series of lithographs from these drawings. He was also an illustrator about stories of blacks in the South. He served as president of the Society of Washington Printmakers for 34 years and did pioneering work in art theorapy wi...

Field, Rachel, 1894-1942

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jm286r (person)

Rachel Field, author, studied playwriting at Radcliffe, 1914-1918. She wrote plays, children's books, poetry, and novels. She received the Newberry medal for children's literature (1929) and the National Award for Fiction (1935). From the description of Papers, 1845-1942 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008513 Rachel Field, American novelist, poet, and author of children's fiction. From the guide to the Rachel Field collection, 1917-1942,...