Erna Weill Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Weill, Erna, 1904-1996
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content: Erna Weill papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.weilerna, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical materials include a resume, a New Jersey Senate resolution honoring Weill, and a photocopy of a certificate of appreciation from the Teaneck Township Council. Correspondence is with American Friends of the Hebrew University, Leonard Bernstein, philosopher Martin Buber, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Golda Meir, National Portrait Gallery, Linus Pauling, Kalman Yaron of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and others. The bulk of the letters are between Weill and potential subjects for sculpture.

Photographs depict Weill in her studio, and Martin Buber, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rudolph Serkin, and Elie Wiesel. Also found are photos of her portrait busts of Rabbi Leo Baeck, Leonard Bernstein, Martin Buber, Abraham Heschel, Fiorello H. La Guardia, King, Golda Meir, Linus Pauling, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wiesel and others, and figural, architectural and ceremonial sculpture. Printed materials include clippings, exhibition announcements, and catalogs. Writings consist of a handwritten draft of Weill's speech given at a 1983 reception in her honor, and lists of Weill's sculpture and the collectors who own her works.