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{"value"=>"3526899", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1920s-2000s", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/2009"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Series XI: Personal Files"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"41 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"17 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This series focuses on Herskovits' personal life and the achievements and recognitions that she received throughout her career. The correspondence offers an intimate view of Herskovits' feelings and opinions as she wrote to her parents from her Oxford student days to the development of her career as a historian. For almost fifteen years, Herskovits would correspond with her parents on life, travels, and interests. A smaller group of letters in the files refers to her former husbands Igor Kopytoff and Robert Childres.</p> <p>A more granular portrait of Herskovits may be available in her journals, dated from 1953 to 2018. Herskovits' journals and letters to her parents present a rounded portrait of her personal and professional career.</p> <p>The calendars focus on daily activities and are straightforward. The Appointments, Grants, and other Activities offers insights into grants for research, grants that were denied, appointments to committees, and achievements as a historian.</p> <p>Also included are some documents about Herskovits' parents. These files mostly relate to her father's career as an anthropologist and the African Studies program that was established at Northwestern University.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The series is arranged into Family and Personal Correspondence; Appointments Grants and Other Activities; Datebooks; Journals; Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits files.</p>"}
- date_start
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1920
- keydate
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1920
- date_end
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2009
- date_inclusive_start
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1920
- date_inclusive_end
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2009