CHASE-RIBOUD, BARBARA.
Barbara Chase-Riboud papers, circa 1939-2014
Barbara Chase-Riboud papers, circa 1939-2014
Emory University
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-727-6887
rose.library@emory.edu
Permanent link: http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/gs6sv
Table of Contents
Descriptive Summary
Creator: | Chase-Riboud, Barbara. |
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Title: | Barbara Chase-Riboud papers, circa 1939-2014 |
Call Number: | Manuscript Collection No. 1292 |
Extent: | 53.5 linear feet (54 boxes), 2 oversized papers folders (OP) and 2 extra-oversized papers (XOP) |
Abstract: | Papers of artist and novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud including correspondence, writings by Chase-Riboud, photographs, research material, and audiovisual material. |
Language: | Materials entirely in English. |
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Special restrictions apply: Barabara Chase-Riboud's family correspondence, notes, and drafts of an edited volume of letters are closed until publication of the volume.
Use copies have not been made for audiovisual material in this collection. Researchers must contact the Rose Library at least two weeks in advance for access to these items. Collection restrictions, copyright limitations, or technical complications may hinder the Rose Library's ability to provide access to audiovisual material.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.
Separated Material
Emory also holds a complete set of Barbara Chase-Riboud's published work. These materials may be located in the Emory University online catalog by searching for Chase-Riboud, Barbara, author.
Source
Purchase, 2014.
Citation
[after identification of item(s)], Barbara Chase-Riboud papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.
Processing
Unprocessed collection.
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Collection Description
Biographical Note
Barbara Chase-Riboud (1939-), sculptor, novelist, and poet, was born to Vivian May Chase and Charles Edward Chase in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has degrees in fine arts from Temple University and Yale University and studied in Rome on a John Hay Whitney Fellowship. In 1961, she married French photographer Marc Riboud and moved to Paris. She has two sons with Riboud: Alexis Riboud and David Riboud. Chase-Riboud is a sculptor whose work has been exhibited in museums around the world as well as an award-winning novelist. Her works include Sally Hemings: A Novel, a fictionalized account of the relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, that won the 1980 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Excellence in Fiction by an American Woman.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of the papers of Barbara Chase-Riboud from circa 1939-2014, including correspondence, writings by Chase-Riboud, photographs, research material, and audiovisual material. The majority of the collection is research for and drafts of Chase-Riboud's novels and poetry From Memphis and Peking (1974); Sally Hemings: A Novel (1979); Love Perfecting (1980); Valide: A Novel of the Harem (1986); Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra (1987); Echo of Lions(1989); The President's Daughter (1994); Hottentot Venus (2004); and Every Time a Knot is Undone, a God is Released (2014). There are also drafts of several unpublished works including Equinox and Manderville Outline, as well as a heavily annotated volume of Selected Poems by e.e. cummings which was a college project of Chase-Riboud. There is also a significant amount of material relating to Chase-Riboud's involvement in a lawsuit against Dreamworks film studio over the film Amistad.
Arrangement Note
Unprocessed collection.
Selected Search Terms
Corporate Names
Topical Terms
- African American women artists.
- African American women novelists.
- African American women poets.
- African American women sculptors.
Form/Genre Terms
Container List
Box | Folder | Content |
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1 | 1 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, family correspondence, 1957-1958 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 2 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, family correspondence, 1960-1962 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 3 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, family correspondence, 1963-1964 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 4 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, family correspondence, 1965-1966 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 5 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, family correspondence, 1967-1968 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 6 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, family correspondence, 1969-1970 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 7 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, family correspondence, 1971-1973 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 8 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, family correspondence, 1974-1980 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 9 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, family correspondence, 1981-1986 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 10 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, family correspondence, undated [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 11 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, letters from Marc Riboud, circa 1961-1980 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 12 | Chase-Riboud, Barbara, letters from others, circa 1962-1976 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 13 | Chase, Vivian, letters from Marc Riboud, circa 1963-1985 [RESTRICTED] |
1 | 14 | Chase, Vivian, letters from others, 1964-1974 [RESTRICTED] |
2 | - | Valide edited translations and publisher's copy; Central Park Hannah Elias and draft 8; Dusky Sally |
3 | - | Valide draft 1, corrections, and research material; Heart on Fire (Hannah Elias) |
4 | - | Valide drafts 3 and 5, first draft, Anglo-American photocopy and Italian edition |
5 | - | Valide draft 4, research material, and reviews in English |
6 | - | China; Artemisia; Amistad legal document; A Mansion of Aching Hearts (Hannah Elias); Selma Shapiro; Echo of Lions |
7 | - | Sally Hemings reviews (Italian and German); From Memphis and Peking; Love Perfecting drafts 1-4; Hannah Elias |
8 | - | Valide reviews (Italian, German and French); black culture research material; documents and reviews; autographs |
9 | - | Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra all versions; Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra music; Sally Hemings clippings 1979; collectors correspondence; autographs |
10 | - | Correspondence 1975-2010; literary quotations; personal school books and reports |
11 | - | Echo of Lions drafts and original screenplay |
12 | - | David Franzoni correspondence regarding Amistad Suit; Vivian Chase; Steven Spielberg Amistad clippings; Amistad film script versions 1-3 |
13 | - | Negro of Peter the Great; Anthony Janson Abrams book; China and Japan; African burial ground; DC articles on Hemings and Jefferson; Foundries |
14 | - | The President's Daughter reviews; photographs (slides); addresses and invitations; middle passage; research material on black culture (photocopies) |
15 | - | Central Park drafts 1-6; Manderville Outline unpublished manuscript |
16 | - | Valide research material and photocopy; publishers contracts in French |
17 | - | Dusky Sally lawsuit; Sally Hemings drafts 3, final and unnumbered; The Virginian screenplay drafts and final |
18 | - | Thomas Jefferson files; Echo of Lions transcript files; Vogue manuscript; letter from O'Donnell and Schaeffer; From Memphis and Peking drafts 1-2 |
19 | - | Love Perfecting drafts and final; Echo of Lions draft; Sally Hemings screenplay, French translation, and libretto treatment |
20 | - | Philadelphia museum; Belvaderian Capri, national slavery law, Abraham Lincoln |
21 | - | Hottentot Venus reviews; Ragtime Girl; and family photographs |
22 | - | The President's Daughter research material, drafts, final draft, and editor's copy (French) |
23 | - | Echo of Lions; literary correspondence 1954-1995; photographs; Barbara Chase-Riboud profile articles |
24 | - | Amistad suit against Dreamworks |
25 | - | Philadelphia Museum correspondence and inventory; other museum correspondence; museum loans and permissions |
26 | - | Amistad suit against Dreamworks; royalties |
27 | - | Edmonia Lewis biography research; Worldwide rights museums and galleries; helicopter poems; Every Time a Knot is Undone, a God is Released; Love Perfecting; invitations to Barbara Chase-Riboud exhibitions |
28 | - | Hannah Elias clippings and texts; Central Park draft [eventually published as The Great Mrs. Elias] |
29 | - | Barbara Chase-Riboud family papers and educational records; Letters to My Mother notes; Cleopatra photocopy; Amistad reviews Piemme; The Million Woman March [RESTRICTED] |
30 | - | Egyptian Nights drafts 1 and 3; The German Lover/Egyptian Nights unpublished novel |
31 | - | Echo of Lions research material |
32 | - | Echo of Lions final drafts and translation copies |
33 | - | Barbara Chase-Riboud catalogs 1-3 |
34 | - | Barbara Chase-Riboud catalogs 4-6 |
35 | - | Barbara Chase-Riboud catalogs 7-9 |
36 | - | Hottentot Venus versions 1-3 and final |
37 | - | Hottentot Venus research material |
38 | - | German Lover; Mansion of Aching Hearts; Hessmanyling |
39 | - | Sally Hemings American reviews; Hessmanyling; The Paris Club; Valide research notes |
40 | - | The President's Daughter first draft, version 2, publisher's edits and incomplete files |
41 | - | Museum loans and contracts; correspondence; ICM contracts 1 and 2 |
42 | - | Photographs of sculptures and other photographs; Barbara Chase-Riboud bibliography articles and current files; book proposals and project outlines |
43 | - | Love Perfecting; Equinox (Love Perfecting); From Memphis and Peking draft 5; Dusky Sally lawsuit |
44 | - | The President's Daughter editor's and publisher's copies, page proofs, drafts 4 and 6 |
45 | - | The President's Daughter drafts 1-2 and 4 |
46 | - | Sally Hemings research material, conferences and publications; Sally Hemings screenplay (English and French); Sally Hemings Italian translation |
47 | - | Sally Hemings draft 4-5, first typewritten draft, and research material |
48 | - | Barbara Chase-Riboud Amistad lawsuit deposition transcripts; Sally Hemings drafts 1-3 |
49 | - | Sally Hemings American reviews, publishers' copy of The President's Daughter |
50 | - | Barbara Chase-Riboud Amistad lawsuit deposition transcripts (DOC file 077001); slides of "Africa Rising" and other images |
51 | - | Barbara Chase-Riboud films and videotapes (Valide, etc.); Barbara Chase-Riboud bibliographic guide; last version of Collected Poems (signed copy) |
52 | - | Barbara Chase-Riboud photographs and photo albums |
53 | - | Ragtime Girl drafts 2, 4, 5-6 and research material; Valide research material |
54 | - | Video recordings, printed material, and annotated Selected Poems by e.e. cummings |
OP1 | - | Barbara Chase-Riboud artwork [1 of 2] |
XOP1 | - | Barbara Chase-Riboud artwork [2 of 2] |
OP2 | - | Posters and photographs |
XOP2 | - | Poster |
- | - | Oversized film reel |