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Eloise Keeler papers and family materials
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Title: Eloise Keeler papers and family materials
Dates: 1935-1992
Collection Number: 1985.011
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 carton, 1 box (1.2 linear ft.)
Repository:
Berkeley Historical Society
Berkeley, California 94704
Abstract: Mainly Eloise Keeler writings and personal materials.
Language of Material: English
The collection is open for research. Some items damaged by fire: restricted use.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Berkeley Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the archivist of the Society. Permission for publication is given as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Eloise Keeler papers and family materials. Berkeley Historical Society
Gift of Ann Sterling Miller, 1985, with later additions.
Biography/Administrative History
Eloise Keeler was born on April 5, 1905, to prominent Berkeley writer Charles Augustus Keeler, and artist and photographer
Louise Mapes Bunnell Keeler. Eloise Keeler graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1926, majoring in economics
and acted in student productions. Keeler was a free-lance writer in the San Francisco Bay Area, writing in many different
genres including short stories, newspaper and magazine articles, plays, screenplays, radio and television scripts, poetry
and a biography on her brother Leonarde Keeler. Eloise Keeler died in Marin County, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2000.
Scope and Content of Collection
Writings of Eloise Keeler: poems, plays, short stories; Pet columns for San Francisco Examiner, 1965-1975; some correspondence
and some family photographs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Poetry
Screenplays
Radio plays