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Helen Zakin papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01-exws_zakin

Abstract

Photographs, negatives, and slides, notes, booklets and papers gathered by Dr. Zakin for her research, as well as academic papers and presentations and correspondence.

Dates

  • Creation: 1972-2004
  • Other: Date acquired: 2010

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Helen Jackson Zakin (1945-) is a professor of art, emeritus, at SUNY Oswego. She specialized in medieval stained glass and is internationally known for her research on Cistercian grisaille glass. She published a monograph on that topic, French Cistercian Grisaille Glass (1979), and contributed to an international research project dedicated to recording examples of medieval stained glass, the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi.

Extent

6 boxes (approximately 2.5 linear feet)

Language of Materials

English

Source of Acquisition

Helen Zakin

Method of Acquisition

This archival collection was donated to WMU Libraries Special Collections by Dr. Zakin in 2010.

Physical Description

It is housed in 6 archival Hollinger boxes and contains images, notes, booklets, papers and other materials that she collected for her research, as well as papers and presentations she prepared and correspondence. Her personal research library was donated to the University of Rochester, in New York.

Title
Inventory of the Papers of Helen Zakin finding aid
Status
Completed
Author
Matthew Hilferding and Neil Chase
Date
2016-07-04
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Western Michigan University Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Western Michigan University Libraries, Special Collections
Zhang Legacy Collections Center
1650 Oakland Drive
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5307 US
(269) 387-8490