- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Card, Virginia D., 1919-2003
- Title:
- Virginia Card Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1v53jw99f
- Dates:
- 1893-2002
- Size:
- 17 boxes and 7.1 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-17
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Virginia Card is a Native American of Delaware and Creek descent. Consists of correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, and audio-visual material. The collection is especially noteworthy for Virginia Card's extensive documentation of the activities of Native American communities in California.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
This collection consists of correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, and audio-visual material. Cards writings include essays and opinion pieces on Native American topics as well as her personal reminiscences of people and events, and may be supplemented by corresponding photographs. Card's subject files include notes and research on Native American groups and organizations as well as social and legal issues. The audio-visual material includes audio correspondence from Virginia Card, reminiscences, documentary recordings of events, and mixed music tapes. The collection is especially noteworthy for Virginia Card's extensive documentation of the activities of Native American communities in California.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Card, Virginia D., 1919-2003
Virginia Card (née Stilwell, 1919-2003), an American Indian of Creek and Delaware descent, spent the first forty-five years of her life in and around Klamath Falls, Oregon. She moved to Sacramento, California, in the early 1970s and became involved in various American Indian movements. She was active in the Sacramento Indian Center and edited two Native American newsletters, the United Tribes Sunbeam and the Moccasin Telegraph. Virginia Card died on December 15, 2003.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
These papers were donated as fifteen separate gifts from Virginia Card (1987-2004), eight separate gifts from Joan Cassidy (1988-1996), two gifts from Elizabeth First (1997, 2004), and one gift from Karin Whittlesey (2011).
- Appraisal
The United Tribes Sunbeam and the Moccasin Telegraph were transferred to the rare book collections in 1991; they may be requested through the library's online catalog. 0.4 linear feet of photocopies of published law articles readily available from other sources were discarded in 2011.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Dexter Palmer and Jannon Stein in 2001. Finding aid written by Dexter Palmer and Jannon Stein in 2001. Finding aid updated by Regine Heberlein in 2011.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- 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. Patrons may request digital copies of original analog media, but will be responsible for the cost of digital conversion, payable in advance. Turn-around time for such requests will depend on the size and scope of the project. Requests should be directed to Special Collections Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form.
- Credit this material:
Virginia Card Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1v53jw99f
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-17
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Audio cassettes. -- aat
Indigenous peoples of North America -- California -- Folklore.
Indigenous peoples of North America -- Music.
Maidu Indians -- Songs and music. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century
Diaries -- 20th century.
Photographs -- 20th century.
Radio scripts.
Scrapbooks -- 20th century - Names:
- Sacramento Indian Center, Inc
