Nancy Venable Raine Papers, 1979-1983
Collection
Identifier: 164
Scope and Contents
This collection documents Nancy Venable Raine's work as poet-in-residence at the Fitzgerald School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1980-81. A portion of the collection is related to her collaboration with the Cambridge Arts Council to display student art and poetry on buses and subways as part of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Arts on the Line program. It also includes a 16mm reel of the film Light Coming Through, a film portrait of Boston artist Maud Morgan that Raine co-directed with Richard Leacock.
Dates
- 1979-1983
Creator
- Raine, Nancy Venable (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Nancy Venable Raine is a poet and essayist. After working as an arts grant administrator in Washington, D. C., in 1978 she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to serve as poet-in-residence at the Fitzgerald School. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Southern Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, and other literary journals. She is the author of the memoir After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back.
Extent
1.2 Linear Feet
.5 Cubic Feet
2 boxes (1 Hollinger box and 1 film can)
350 Items (133 35mm color slides, 1 16mm film reel)
Language of Materials
English
- Arts on the Line (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Cader, Terri (Correspondent)
- Cambridge (Mass.)
- Cambridge Arts Council (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Color slides
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Documentary films
- Dowley, Jennifer (Correspondent)
- Fitzgerald School (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Juvenile poetry
- Local transit
- Mahoney, Paul F. (Correspondent)
- Morgan, Maud, 1903-1999
- Murphy, Joseph (Correspondent)
- Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary)
- Public art -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Exhibtions
Creator
- Raine, Nancy Venable (Person)
- Leacock, Richard (Director, Person)
- Title
- Nancy Venable Raine Papers, 1979-1983
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Michael Wilkerson under the supervision of Alyssa Pacy.
- Date
- 2019-03-06
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Cambridge Room, Cambridge Public Library Archives and Special Collections Repository
Contact:
Cambridge Public Library
449 Broadway
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
617-349-7757
apacy@cambridgema.gov
Cambridge Public Library
449 Broadway
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
617-349-7757
apacy@cambridgema.gov