- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Weaver, Harriet to Sylvia Beach, 1950
Access Restrictions May Apply
The collection is open for research. Access to glass-plate negatives is restricted due to their fragility. Where prints of the negatives are present, the prints are open for research use. Though digitization may not be possible for every negative,...Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically within.
Collection History
- Appraisal
Individual items that were originally acquired as part of the Sylvia Beach Papers are now curated by the Graphic Arts division, including the Shakespeare & Company shop sign painted by Marie Monnier-Bécat; a portrait of Sylvia Beach in oil by Paul-Émile Bécat, signed, Paris, 1923; and a full-length portrait of Adrienne Monnier in oil by Paul-Émile Bécat, Paris 1921;
In addition, two items that remain part of the Sylvia Beach Papers are: an oak cabinet and a bust of William Shakespeare executed in colored Staffordshireware.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Access to glass-plate negatives is restricted due to their fragility. Where prints of the negatives are present, the prints are open for research use. Though digitization may not be possible for every negative, researchers may make requests to digitize material via the Ask Special Collections, form according to Special Collections' policy on digitization.
- Conditions Governing Use
May not be published in whole or in part without permission of the Executors of the Harriet Weaver Estate. Photocopies of originals held in the Weaver estate.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Weaver, Harriet to Sylvia Beach; Sylvia Beach Papers, C0108, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss)
- Box 37
NoteThis collection is stored on site at Firestone Library. Photographs and Box 180 are stored in special vault facilities.
Find More
- Existence and Location of Copies
Some materials, including letters from Ernest Hemingway to Sylvia Beach, are available on microfilm.
- Bibliography
"The Sylvia Beach Collection" by Howard C. Rice, Jr., The Princeton University Library Chronicle , Vol. XXVI, No. 1 (Autumn, 1964). pp. 7-15.
- Names:
- Shakespeare and Company (Paris, France)
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
