Anne of Green Gables

PUBLIC "-//North Carolina Division of Archives and History::North Carolina State Archives//TEXT (US::NcD::[P.C.1784]::Sylvia Girsh Ashby Collection)//EN" "ashby.xml" Sylvia Girsh Ashby Collection Finding aid completed by: George Stevenson; machine-readable finding aid created by: Ashley Yandle North Carolina Division of Historical Resources

North Carolina State Archives 4614 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 USA Phone: 919/807-7310 Fax: 919/733-1354 Email: archives@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us URL: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/

Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Microsoft Word. Date of source: March 25, 1991. Finding aid completed March 25, 1991 by George Stevenson; Finding aid encoded by Ashley Yandle, North Carolina State Archives, May 31, 2002 Description is in English. Sylvia Girsh Ashby Collection North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 Contact Information Division of Historical Resources North Carolina State Archives 4614 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 USA Phone: 919/807-7310 Fax: 919/733-1354 Email: archives@ncdcr.gov URL: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/archives/arch/default.htm Processed by George Stevenson Date Completed March 25, 1991 Encoded by Ashley Yandle Date Encoded May 31, 2002

Descriptive Summary Sylvia Girsh Ashby Collection Ashby, Sylvia Girsh. The Sylvia Girsh Ashby Colletion is a small collection of memorabilia relating to Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, North Carolina) during the years 1946-1948. Sylvia Girsh (subsequently Mrs. Cliff Ashby) was a student at Black Mountain during those years. 16 items (2 of which are duplicates); Xerox copies, printed matter, photographs. North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources Information for Users Access Restrictions

Available for research.

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Preferred Citation

[P.C.1784] Sylvia Girsh Ashby Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources, Office of Archives and History.

Acquisition Information

Gift, Sylvia Girsh Ashby, Lubbock, Texas, 6 March 1991.

Processing Information

Finding aid completed by George Stevenson.

Completed March 25, 1991.

Collection Overview

A small collection of memorabilia relating to Black Mountain College during the years 1946/47 through 1947/48. Included are a photograph of Sylvia Girsh (subsequently Mrs. Cliff Ashby), a student at Black Mountain during the academic years 1946/47 and 1947/1948; one xerographic copy of a review of Mrs. Ashby's stage adaptation of Anne of Green Gables; one photograph of Mr. and Mrs. John Wallen (Mr. Wallen having been on the faculty at Black Mountain during Mrs. Ashby's stay there as a student); four photographs of Kurt Wallen; one information booklet concerning Black Mountain College (ca. 1950); five gravure prints of three publicity photographs of Black Mountain College and its grounds about 1946/1947; one copy of the brochure announcing the exhibition of The Arts at Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 at Edith C. Blum Art Institute; a small pamphlet printing of Seven Poems by Jesse Green, 1950 (a student at Black Mountain in 1946/1947 and 1947/1948); and a copy of the obituary of Martha Hult Leiken, a former student at Black Mountain.

Online Catalog Headings Ashby, Sylvia Girsh. Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History. Wallen, John. Wallen, Kurt. Keiken, Martha Hult. Green, Jesse Dawes. Related Material:

Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS) at http://www.ncarchives.dcr.state.nc.us