Elinor Langer collection of Josephine Herbst

This collection includes materials previously identified by the following call number: Uncat ZA MS 920.

Prior to processing, this collection originally included materials identified by the following call numbers: Uncat ZA MS 108A, Uncat ZA MS 108B, Uncat ZA MS 175, and Uncat ZA File 309. These materials are now part of the Josephine Herbst Papers (YCAL MSS 474) and include Herbst family photographs and personal papers that originally belonged to Herbst. Following Herbst's death, Langer borrowed the material for her work on Josephine Herbst biography, Josephine Herbst: The Story She Could Never Tell.

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This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and minimal organization at the time of acquisition. Further organization and description were carried out in 2011.

As a rule, descriptive information found in the Collection Contents section is drawn in large part from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.

This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.