Identity elements
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Sandra Riley and Peggy C. Hall collection
Date(s)
- 1960-2016 (bulk) (Creation)
Extent
12.00 linear feet (6 record storage cartons and 12 document cases)
Name of creator
Biographical history
Name of creator
Biographical history
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
This collection contains a collection of writings and research from local historian, playwright, director, and teacher, Sandra Riley, and poet, teacher, and musician, Peggy C. Hall. The materials currently include manuscripts, research notes, journals, interviews, drafts, playscripts, ephemera, poetry, and other materials pertaining to their life's work and writings.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
This collection is unprocessed but open for research.
Physical access
This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact Special Collections at asc.library@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Sandra Riley and Peggy C. Hall collection Finding Aid © 2016 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
Language and script notes
Finding aids
Generated finding aid
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Original donation by Sandra Riley and Peggy C. Hall, 2016 (Boxes 1-6). Additional materials donated by Sandra Riley and Peggy C. Hall (Boxes 7-14) were added to collection in 06-2022.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
Books included in original donation:
The Lucayan Taíno: First People of the Bahamas
Sometimes Towards Eden
Homeward Bound
The Lucayans
The American Loyalists and the Plantation Period in the Bahama Islands
Atlantis: the Antedeluvian World
The Bahamas Handbook
Bahamian Lore
The Greenbear Chronicles
Stark's History and Guide to the Bahama Islands
(Additional books added to the cataloging queue from 06-2022 donation)
Related descriptions
Notes element
Specialized notes
- Citation: Sandra Riley and Peggy C. Hall collection, Special Collections, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
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Archivist's note
This finding aid was originally created by Yvette Yurubi, Archives Technician, in 2016. Finding aid edited in fall 2022 by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist.