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Edwin C. Graber poetry collection
 

Administrative Information | Search Terms | Background Note | Scope and Contents Note | Arrangement | PDF of Finding Aid
 

COLLECTION SUMMARY

Title:     Edwin C. Graber poetry collection

Dates:     1937-1949

Creator:     Edwin C. Graber

Physical Description:     0.42 linear feet—1 container

Collection number:     MA 34

Language:     Collection material in English.

Repository:     South Dakota State University Archives, Hilton M. Briggs Library, South Dakota State University, Brookings, S.D.

Abstract:     Collection is composed of chapbooks of Edwin C. Graber’s poetry.

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance:     This collection was found in the archives stacks in the fall of 1997 in a box labeled ‘vertical file’.

Access Restrictions:     This collection is open to research without restrictions. Items in this collection do not circulate and may be used in-house only.

Copyright Status: Copyright 2008 by South Dakota State University and SDSU Archives. Please credit the SDSU Archives if you copy or reproduce material from this finding aid.

It is the responsibility of anyone reproducing material to determine the copyright holders and obtain permission from them if necessary. Archives staff will provide available copyright information on request. Please note that most collections, especially those received before 1997, may not have complete information on file. (Revised 15 SEP 2003)

Preferred Citation:     [Identification of item]. Edwin C. Graber poetry collection, MA 34, South Dakota State University Archives, South Dakota State University, Brookings, S. D.

Processing Information:     This collection was processed by Stephen Van Buren on 13 March 2002.with revisions on July 9, 2008 (cjg).

SELECTED SEARCH TERMS

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the subject guide. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

Persons:

  • Graber, Edwin C.

Subjects:

  • South Dakota—Poets—Graber, Edwin C.

  • South Dakota—Poetry—And One Clear Call for Me.

  • South Dakota—Poetry—Evenglow.

  • South Dakota—Poetry—Golden Streets Across the Lake.

  • South Dakota—Poetry—I Want My Horizons Far and Free.

  • South Dakota—Poetry—Meditations Browned Selectively.

  • South Dakota—Poetry—Selected Verse.

  • South Dakota—Poetry—What Lyric Lends Itself As Living?

BACKGROUND NOTE

Edwin C. Graber is from Freeman, Hutchinson County, South Dakota.  Publications include a number of self-published poetry collections and chapbooks.

SCOPE and CONTENTS NOTE

The collection consists of chapbooks of Graber’s poetry and does not contain larger collections of verse, which may be found in the South Dakota Collection.

ARRANGEMENT of the RECORDS

Folders are arranged in alphabetical order.

Box 1.

Folder

Description

Dates

1

All Life Was Once A Single Word

1946

2

Aloneness a Tent

[n.d.]

3

Alphabets the Cornerstones

[n.d.]

4

Behold the Pasques as They Stride Across the Hills

[n.d.]

5

Bejewelled Mirrors on the Dewy Grass

[n.d.]

6

Books are as Glints at Midnight Given

[n.d.]

7

Branches Twiddling Their Thumbs

1943

8

Brilliantly Aurora Borealis

1946

9

Colossal and More … the Night

1945

10

Cool Plashes

1943

11

Enshadowes Pools Now Beckon

[n.d.]

12

Eternal June

1945

13

Fertile Fields

1939

14

Flames Can Go But Chaos

[n.d.]

15

From Universe to Universe

[n.d.]

16

Golder Streets Across the Lake

1944

17

Harvest of Youth

1937

18

In Quest of the Music of Timeless Time

1946

19

I Want My Horizons Far and Free

1947

20

Let Dreams Remember But Alacrities Nudge

1946

21

Looms of Greenery

1942

22

Meditations Browned Selectively

1949

23

Mists Along the Horizon

1946

24

Mountains to the West

[n.d.]

25

Nature the Peerless Colorist

1944

26

Never a Bough But Adored the Hills

1946

27

Of Essences There is No End

1947

28

Olympus of the Prairies

1944

29

Packages to the Heart's Content

[n.d.]

30

Pencilling Petaline Clouds as Pictures

[n.d.]

31

Prismatic Rainbow in the Sky

1949

32

Quintessence the Goal

[n.d.]

33

Resonant Rains

1939

34

Roses Symbolic of the Quiet Beauty

1948

35

Sauntering Paths

1942

36

Stars Are My Parade, The

1944

37

Sunset Tints

1943

38

Tangential Experiences in the Throes of Gyration

[n.d.]

39

Time Wends From Out the Starry Vast

1946

40

Tinselly Blossoms

1942

41

Today is as a Streamlet Meandering to the Sea

[n.d.]

42

To Lace the Dells With Flashy Flowers

1946

43

Trailblazing in the Dusk

1944

44

Wheats That May Whisper

1945

45

Whirling Through Endless Space

1947

46

Wisdom Robed in More Than Purple

[n.d.]

47

What Lyric Lends Itself as Living?

1949

48

With Trees on Either Hand

1942

49

Zeniths as Yet But Dimly Seen

1945

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