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• Author/Creator:Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991.
  
• Title:Russell Lynes papers, 1939-1991.
  
• Physical Description:45.0 linear feet (44 boxes)
  
• Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    To request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room select a box in the finding aid
    
    
  • Call Number: YCAL MSS 553
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 41-42, 44
    
  • Notes: Former call numbers: Za Lynes, Uncat Za Ms 253, and Uncat Za Ms 277
    

  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    To request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room select a box in the finding aid
    
    
  • Call Number: YCAL MSS 553
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 1-40, 43
    
  • Notes: Former call numbers: Za Lynes, Uncat Za Ms 253, and Uncat Za Ms 277
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  Gift of Russell and Mildred Lynes, 1958-1993.
  
• Organization:Organized into thirteen groupings: 1958 Acquisition, 1959 Acquisition, 1960 Acquisition, 1961 Acquisition, 1962 Acquisition, 1967 Acquisition, 1973 Acquisition, 1976 Acquisition, 1977 Acquisition, 1980 Acquisition, 1981 Acquisition, 1992 Acquisition, 1993 Acquisition, and 1983 Acquisition.
  
• Access and use:This collection is open for research.
• Biographical / Historical note:Russell Lynes (1910-1991), American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's magazine.
  
• Summary:The Russell Lynes papers contain material documenting the career and personal life of American author and editor Russell Lynes. The collection contains writings, correspondence, photographs, and personal and family papers. Early gifts from Russell Lynes consist chiefly of writings, including drafts, setting copies, and proofs for works of the period, such as The Tastemakers (1954), A Surfeit of Honey (1957), Cadwallader (1959), The Domesticated Americans (1963), and Good Old Modern (1973). Later acquistions also contain writings, with some additional drafts for book-length works, though chiefly shorter works, as well as correspondence, photographs, and personal and family papers.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
  
• Cite as:Russell Lynes Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991.
  American literature--20th century.
  Authors, American--20th century--Archives.
  
• Genre/Form:Photographic prints.
  
• Occupation:Authors United States 20th century.