Inventory of the Elizabeth Oliver Papers, 1972-2000
Collection Number 5333
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Oliver, Elizabeth, 1940-2000.
- Title
- Elizabeth Oliver Papers, 1972-2000
- Call Number
- 5333
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: About 1000
- Linear Feet: 7.0
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Administrative Information
- Processing Information
- Processed by: Kathryn Roth, October 2007
- Encoded by: Kathryn Roth, October 2007
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Elizabeth Oliver Papers #5333, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Art teachers--United States.
- Art--Study and teaching.
- Diaries.
- Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
- Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
- Oliver family.
- Oliver, Elizabeth, 1940-2000.
- Women art teachers--United States.
- Women artists--United States.
- Women authors, American--20th century.
- Women poets, American--20th century.
- Women teachers--United States--History--20th century.
- Women--New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- Women--United States--Diaries.
- Women--Virginia--Social life and customs.
Biographical Note
Elizabeth Oliver was born in 1940 on her father's dairy farm in Virginia. After attending the University of North Carolina, she moved to New York City, N.Y., and worked as a set designer in the theater. In 1968, she taught craft workshops at the Penland School of Crafts in Penland, N.C. She then moved back to New York City to work as a video producer and editor. In 1977, Oliver was a student at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Me., where she was later invited to teach and serve as a visiting artist. Her primary topics were papermaking and crafts. In the 1990s, she also ventured into poetry and began performing her work. None of her work was published. Around 1997, she was diagnosed with cancer and began three years of treatments. She died on 10 October 2000 in Virginia Beach, Va.
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The collection contains correspondence and other papers of artist, crafts teacher, and poet Elizabeth Oliver of Virginia, New York, N.Y., and other locations. Correspondence is primarily with her father, mother, and other family members, as well as with her students, assistants, friends, and other acquaintances. In her letters, Oliver discussed family matters; her health; course information and teaching, including her work at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts; politics; financial matters; and other topics. Some of the letters are drafts and were never sent. Also included are drafts of poems and other writings, diary entries, samples of Oliver's artwork, photographs, class and teaching notes, clippings, programs, and fliers, and other items.
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1. Correspondence
2. Other Papers
Detailed Description of the Collection
1. Correspondence, 1985-2000.
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2. Other Papers, 1972-2000.
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