Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Niebyl, Elizabeth Hale
- Extent:
- 0.75 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
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Materials include correspondence, published reports and proposals, printed pamphlets and brochures, as well as manuscript drafts of research adn memorandum, notes, and more. Topics covered include senior housing, veterans' housing, poor and middle class housing, rent control, evictions, housing prices, discrimination, and more.
- Biographical / historical:
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Elizabeth Hale Niebyl (1912-1984) was a leader in public housing during the New Deal era. She was married to Marxist economist Karl Niebyl (1906-1985). Elizabeth Niebyl worked as an information analyst for the U.S. Housing Authority in the 1940s, and worked as an officer at various housing authorities on the East Coast before moving to California with her husband in the 1970s.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased by Stanford Libraries in 2017. Accession MSS 2017-192.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
- Terms of access:
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While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022