Writings
name: label: Collection Director
content: Porterfield, Jeanne
label: Collection Director
content: Chickering, Lisa
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content: Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.63 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
label: Date
content: 1954-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2015.16, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 3 consists of materials from 1954-1997 and undated related to Chickering and Porterfield's writing projects and published work. These materials include drafts of published and unpublished short travel essays and book chapters, compiled autobiographical reference material, and correspondence.

Chickering and Porterfield's writing output included several unfinished and unpublished projects, the most significant being a memoir entitled Behind the Travel Picture. Drafts of chapters of this project cover both "how-to" advice and personal anecdotes from their film career. Other writing projects included more straightforward travel writing (a compendium of walking tours and a guide to Europe's Miniature Countries), as well as writing more focused on history and local traditions. Published materials include travel writing manuscripts on a wide range of geographic subjects for a variety of magazine and newspaper publications. 

Exact authorship is generally unattributed in unpublished materials, though the bulk is likely Chickering's output, as she is cited as "writing a book" in press clippings as early as 1956 (Graves, Beatrice. "Once She Tried to Tunnel Her Way to Hongkong," The China Sunday Post-Herald. 3 June 1956).

In some cases, Chickering and Porterfield separated materials by publishing entity; these divisions were maintained. Manuscripts are dated circa publication date, when known. Not all material may have been published.

For tear sheets and printed material, please see series 4.

This series is arranged in 3 subseries: 3.1 Book materials, undated; 3.2 Other personal narratives, 1954-1955, undated; 3.3 Travel writing manuscripts, circa 1982-circa 1995, undated.