Scope and Contents note
The collection includes manuscripts and related material for five books, reviews of several works and minor correspondence with editors, publishers and illustrators.
Dates
- 1952-1969
Creator
- Hall, Rosalys Haskell (Person)
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time.
Conditions Governing Use note
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical/Historical note
Rosalys Haskell Hall was born in New York, New York, on March 27, 1914. Hall attended Ecole Sevigne, Paris France, New Jersey College for Women (now Douglas College of Rutgers University) and Ethical Culture Norman Training School. Hall also took special courses at Columbia University and New York University.
Hall belonged to the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, Junior Writers Forum in New York and Newport Historical Society.
Hall was a teacher of kindergarten and French at the Sutton Beekman School in New York, New York, a seller of children's books in New York at Doubleday Bookshop, from 1938-1944; and at Longman's, Green & Co. (now merged with David McKay Co., Inc., under McKay name), as editor in Children's Book Department beginning in 1944. Hall also worked as a freelance editor for other publishers.
Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003.
Extent
1 linear feet (2 containers)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Rosalys Haskell Hall was born in New York on March 27, 1914. She has been book editor for David McKay Co., and a writer of books for children. The collection includes manuscripts, reviews and correspondence that reflect Hall's work.
Arrangement note
Collection is organized into the following series:
Series: Manuscripts and reviews
Series: Correspondence
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Rosalys Haskell Hall in 1968.
General Physical Description note
2 containers
Processing Information note
Collection processed by processing staff, June 2006.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Children and Youth Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Children's literature, American -- Authorship Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Hall, Rosalys Haskell
- Hall, Rosalys Haskell
- Literature Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Manuscripts for publication Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Women Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Women authors, American -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Rosalys Haskell Hall Papers
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by processing staff
- Date
- ©2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
