Annie Nathan Meyer Papers
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection includes professional and personal correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of Meyer's plays, her books Barnard Beginnings and The Gallery-Goer's Book, essays, and other writings, 1920s-1940s; playbills from performances of her plays, clippings of reviews of her books and plays, book jackets, clippings of her magazine articles, and other literary ephemera including the copperplate engraving used to print her personal bookplates.
Dates
- Creation: 1890 - 1950
Creator
- Meyer, Annie Nathan (Person)
Access
This collection has no restrictions. This collection is located on-site.
Publication Rights
Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard College Archives. The Barnard College Archives approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Reproduction Restrictions
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes.
Biography
Annie Nathan Meyer was a founder of Barnard College and served on the Board of Trustees from 1889 through 1951. The idea for the establishment of New York City's first four-year women's college was first promoted in "A Memorial Resolution to the Columbia Board of Trustees" written in 1887 by Meyer with the help of Melvil Dewey and Mary Mapes Dodge. This was followed by an article in The Nation (Jan. 26, 1888). It was Meyer's idea to name the new school after the late Columbia president, Frederick A. P. Barnard. She was instrumental in maintaining a Jewish presence at Barnard and in recruiting African-American students. Meyer was an anti-suffragist, in contrast to her sister Maude Nathan who was prominent in the movement. As a writer, she produced three novels, a number of non-fiction works, articles, short stories and twenty-six plays.
Extent
3.88 Linear Feet
Language
English
Abstract
This collection consists of the personal papers, correspondence, manuscripts, publications, and scrapbooks of Barnard college founder and trustee, Annie Nathan Meyer.
Collection Arrangement
The records are arranged in five series, two of which have been further divided into subseries. The series and subseries arrangement of the records is as follows:
- Series 1, Literary Manuscripts
- Series 2, Literary ephemera
- Series 3, Correspondence
- Subseries 1, Literary correspondence
- Subseries 2, Family correspondence
- Subseries 3, Barnard College
- Subseries 4, Other Correspondence
- Series 4, Publications
- Subseries 1, Articles from magazines
- Subseries 2, Books
- Series 5, Scrapbook
Physical Location
This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.
Acquisition Information
The acquisition date and source is unknown.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
Processing History
This collection is unprocessed.
Descriptive Rules Used:
Finding aid adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Encoding:
Machine readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002.
Finding aid written in English.
Topical
- Title
- Guide to Annie Nathan Meyer Papers
- Status
- In Progress
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Barnard Archives and Special Collections Repository