This series includes writings, speeches, and projects. School records consist of college and graduate school notes and notebooks and Starr's thesis, "American Abstract Photography to 1930" (1963). Writings and speech materials are primarily about friend and artist Minnie Evans, and contain drafts of articles, notes, slides for the exhibition Women Photograph Men, held at the International Women's Arts Festival (1976), and scripts. There are also two speeches about race relations and writings and research that developed into publications and speeches, such as "Minnie Evans – Innocent Realist" and "Minnie Evans and Me".
Project files document Starr's work on the Florida Public Housing Project and include notes and clippings on civil rights and race relations, and meeting minutes, notes, clippings, photographs, newsletters, and correspondence from the organizations Florida Council on Race Relations, Gainesville Council on Human Relations, League of Women Voters and the Southern Regional Council.
Arrangement:
The series is organized into groupings of writings, lectures and speeches, and projects.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Nina Howell Starr papers, circa 1933-1996. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian's Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
