Mira Edgerly Korzybska Papers ca.1850-1960.
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Creator:
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Korzybska, Mira Edgerly, 1872-1954. |
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Phys. Desc:
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13 linear ft (ca.8,200 items in 25 boxes, 2 scrapbooks, & 19 oversized folders). |
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Location:
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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Biographical Note
Painter of portraits on ivory. She was a self-taught artist whose career as a successful and sought after portraitist took
her from San Francisco to New York, London, Washington, Latin America, and Chicago. In 1919, she married Alfred Korzybski,
1879-1950 (q.v.), and worked with him tyo develop and promote his theories of General Semantics.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, diaries, documents, photographs, audio tape recordings, printed materials, scrapbooks,
and sketches and drafts of portraits. Her finished portraits on ivory are cataloged separately for the Art Collection (q.v.).
The collection includes her correspondence with friends and clients; manuscripts of her articles, lectures, and many unpublished
autobiographical drafts; pencil sketches, watercolor drafts, and photoprints of her portraits on ivory; photographs of her
family amd travels; clippings and other printed materials; and three scrapbooks of clippings and memorabilia. There is cataloged
correspondence from Arnold Genthe, S.I. Hayakawa, Karen Horney, Burges Johnson, Dwight Macdonald, and Alice B. Toklas.
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