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Guide to the Ester Hernandez Papers

Hernandez (Ester) Papers

Bill O'Hanlon

Department of Special Collections

Green Library
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
Phone: (650) 725-1022
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/
2005

The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.



Descriptive Summary

The Ester M. Hernandez collection

Collection number:
M1301

Creator:
Hernandez, Ester

Collection Size:
53.5 linear ft.

Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Abstract:
The collection contains original artwork, photographic images, periodical articles regarding both Hernandez and many of her contemporaries, original manuscripts, audio and visual recordings documenting interviews and political events, and ephemera gathered from artists, performers, and political/social activists and events.

Languages:
Languages represented in the collection: English

Access

Collection is open for research, except for Subseries 6.6 Artist's Files: Alice Walker; materials must be requested at least 24 hours in advance of intended use.


Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.


Preferred Citation

, M1301. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.


Acquisition Information

In part purchased and in part a gift of Ester M. Hernandez, 2001.


Biography / Administrative History

Hernandez is an artist of the first generation of Chicano and Chicana artists who participated in the Chicano art movement that began in the late 1960s as part of the Chicano civil rights movement. Her collection represents more than twenty-five years of involvement in many of the most important historical activities of this period, including the farmworkers' movement, the feminist movement, international environmental movements, and the art movement itself, including the visual, literary, and performing arts. A California Bay Area artist, Hernandez is primarily known as a printmaker and pastel artist. She has also created a lesser-known body of photographic and performance work.


Scope and Content of Collection

Includes correspondence, contracts, exhibition brochures and catalogues, newspaper and journal articles and reviews, books, original manuscript stories, interviews (both of the artist and of other artists, writers, and performers conducted by Hernandez), slides, photogrpahs and negatives, works of art (prints, posters, drawings, pastels) by the artist and other artists, videos, audio tapes, cd's and albums, and costumes and accessories.


Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Chavez, Cesar 1927-
Hadad, Astrid
Huerta, Dolores 1930-
Mendoza, Lydia
Walker, Alice 1944-
United Farm Workers of America.
Mexican American Art.

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