MG 278
EUNICE MILDRED MCCLOSKEY PAPERS
1931-1979
8.5 cu. ft.
Eunice Mildred McCloskey, a noted novelist, poet, and painter, was born in 1906
in Ridgeway, Pennsylvania. Once described as the Grandma Moses of Pennsylvania,
Eunice McCloskey was an accomplished painter and writer with over seventeen published
books and approximately four thousand paintings. McCloskey was a member of the
Professional Hall of Fame and a Fellow of the International Institute of Arts
and Letters.
The collection contains personal correspondence, scrapbooks, newspapers and
clippings (many from the Ridgeway Record), manuscripts of novels, celebrity
autographs, and magazine reviews, 1931-1979.
- General Correspondence, 1949-1977. (2 boxes, 4 folders) {#278m.1}
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- Manuscripts, Agreements, and Citations, 1956-1970, [undated]. (1 box) {#278.2}
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- Exhibit Materials, Poetry and Memorabilia, 1935-1976. (1 box) {#278m.3}
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- Magazines, 1931-1970. (1 box) {#278m.4} [Holdings]
- Newspaper Clippings, 1955-1977. (1 box) {#278m.5} [Holdings]
- Scrapbooks, 1957-1977. (9 volumes) {#278m.6} [Holdings]
- Photographs, [undated]. (1 box) {#278m.7} [Holdings]