- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"618 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Van Vechten", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19131", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1911-1964", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1911/1964"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1911
- date_inclusive_end
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1964
- keydate
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1911
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Carl Van Vechten 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, typescripts, correspondence, and financial documents."}
- 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"=>"Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Carl Van Vechten was an American novelist, critic, essayist, book collector, and photographer.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, and financial documents. The typescripts include essays, notes toward works, and criticism. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence by the author, dating from 1922 to 1964, to Ronald Firbank, John D. Gordan (the first curator of the Berg Collection), Frances Steloff, and Sir Hugh Walpole. It also includes a number of letters related to papers of Gertrude Stein at Yale University. There are letters to Van Vechten from Ernest Augustus Boyd, Norman Douglas, Ronald Firbank, Robert Smythe Hichens, Edward James, Klaus W. Jonas, Arthur Machen, W. S. Maugham, George Moore, Marmaduke W. Pickthall, Muriel Pickthall, Matthew Phipps Shiel, Reginald Turner, Hugh Walpole, Alec Waugh, Rebecca West, and others, dating from 1911 to 1963.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Carl Van Vechten collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19131#c218294'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19131#c218303'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19131#c218428'>Financial Documents</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>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- 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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618 items
- date_start
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1911
- date_end
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1964