- physdesc
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- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Ruskin [Text]", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19183", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1835-1914", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1835/1914"}
{"value"=>"1855-1889", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1855/1889"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"John Ruskin collection of papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, portraits, and pictorial works."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Ruskin, John, 1819-1900", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>John Ruskin was a British art critic, writer, lecturer and social commentator. Born on February 8, 1819, he published his first articles in Architectural Magazine under the pseudonym Kataphusin in 1837. He lectured at Oxford University as the Slade Professor of Fine Arts from 1870 to 1879 and then again from 1883 to 1884.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials was previously owned by W. T. H. Howe, Owen D. Young, Violet Hunt, Herschel Jones, R. B. Adam, and [--?] Fayerweather, and Benjamin R. Tucker.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include holograph poems and essays, as well as a manuscript, entitled \"From Ruskin,\" by George Cram Cook in Cook's hand. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1855 to 1889, from the author to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from [1859] to 1914, between various correspondents, including Francesca Alexander, Eliza Callahan Cleveland, Jean Ingelow, Walt Whitman, and others. There are letters to Ruskin from George Cruikshank, William Holman Hunt, Jean Ingelow, and Oscar Wilde, dating from 1867 to 1884.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The John Ruskin collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19183#c232443'>Manuscripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19183#c232453'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19183#c232510'>Portraits and Pictorial Works</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</p>"}
- physloc
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{"value"=>"*Z-10351 [Microfilm]", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
- date_inclusive_start
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1835
- date_inclusive_end
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1914
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- keydate
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1835
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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204 items
- date_start
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1835
- date_end
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1914
- date_bulk_start
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1855
- date_bulk_end
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1889