Herma Hoyt Briffault papers

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unitid

{"value"=>"MssCol 391", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"391", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Herma Hoyt Briffault papers"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"ca. 1938-1975", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1938/1975"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".4 linear foot (1 box)"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1938

date_inclusive_end

1975

origination

{"value"=>"Briffault, Herma Hoyt, 1898-", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Herma Hoyt Briffault (1898- ) was an American author and translator. Beginning in the late 1940s she worked with Vilhjalmur Stefansson researching the history of the Russian-American effort to create a telegraph system between Alaska and Siberia.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Collection consists of Briffault's typed manuscript, correspondence, research materials, and related papers. Typescript is \"To the Yukon and Beyond\", a story of the Russian-American telegraph expedition of 1865-1867 to the Arctic region of Alaska and Siberia. Also, correspondence regarding its publication, copies of source materials concerning the expedition, Briffault's resume, and copies of newsclippings.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"accession_number"=>"MSS 75M14"}

{"date"=>"1975", "source"=>"Briffault, Herma Hoyt", "method"=>"Gift", "value"=>"Gift, Briffault, Herma Hoyt, 1975"}

{"extent"=>"1 o"}

keydate

1938

prefercite

{"value"=>"Herma Hoyt Briffault papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Herma Hoyt Briffault (1898- ) was an American author and translator. Beginning in the late 1940s she worked with Vilhjalmur Stefansson researching the history of the Russian-American effort to create a telegraph system between Alaska and Siberia. Collection consists of Briffault's typed manuscript, correspondence, research materials, and related papers. Typescript is \"To the Yukon and Beyond\", a story of the Russian-American telegraph expedition of 1865-1867 to the Arctic region of Alaska and Siberia. Also, correspondence regarding its publication, copies of source materials concerning the expedition, Briffault's resume, and copies of newsclippings.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

.4 linear feet (1 box)

date_start

1938

date_end

1975

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