MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Caroline Brandt papers

Unprocessed — Multiple Containers

Identifier: ViU-2020-0088

Content Description

This collection details Caroline Brandt's work building her collection of miniature books and her donation of it to the University of Virginia. This collection contains correspondence, clippings, newsletters, photographs, certificates, broadsides, catalogs, notes, and lectures, appraisals, articles, DVDs, audio cassettes and VHS tapes related to miniature books and to Brandt as a collector. The bulk of materials are reference materials on the miniature books as well as appraisals documenting the collection and its value. Brandt spent most of her life building a collection of 15,000 miniature books, which now resides in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. The McGehee Miniature Book Collection, named after her first husband, C. Coleman McGehee, a UVA alumnus, came to the library in 2005.

Acquisition Type

Gift

Provenance

Gift of Caroline Brandt, 12 March 2020.

Restrictions Apply

Access Restrictions

This collection is unprocessed but is open for research.

Dates

1964 - 2020

Extent

2.85 Cubic Feet (2 cubic boxes and 1 oversized flat file folder)

4 Cassettes (Three audio and one VHS cassettes. Two audio cassettes of Brandt lectures another of artist Valentine Poska.)

37.6 Gigabytes (7 DVDS and 1 CD)

Inventory

Box 1 References and checklists Box 2 Articles, references, appraisals, AV materials 1 oversized folder: broadsides and modern illuminated script

Subjects

Miniature books.

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