Biographical Information, 1944-1964
Biographical Information (2 folders; 1944-1964) includes autobiographical writing and magazine articles about Banér.
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Skulda V. Banér papers, 1900-1975 (majority within 1920-1964)
3.5 linear feet
Author of Ironwood, Michigan. Correspondence and scrapbooks relating to the development of Banér's literary career; also photographs.
The Skulda V. Banér papers document her career as an author and her midlife adaptation to blindness, as well as eighty years in the life of the Banér family. The collection has been divided into six series: Biographical Information, Correspondence, Manuscripts, Publications, Photographs, and Scrapbooks. Some material is in Swedish. The library also has the papers of Johan G.R. Banér.
Correspondence, 1915-1973
Correspondence (.75 linear ft.; 1915-1973) is arranged for the most part in chronological order, and includes a partial index to correspondents. Banér corresponded with family, friends, editors and other writers in both the United States and Sweden. There are letters in the collection from the following individuals: John V. Brennan, Paul Brooks, Maurice Evans, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Oscar Hammerstein II, Ann Harding, Jean Hersholt, Ira R. Kent, Mary M. McBride, Agnes Moorehead, Frank L. Mott, Chase S. Osborn, Carl Sandburg, Leopold Stokowski, Edward Weeks, and Orson Welles.
Banér kept a separate file of letters from her friend Frederick T. Jeram; his earliest letters document his service in the First World War.
Nanna Banér Taylor donated correspondence concerning her sister, including letters from friends which she received in the years following Banér's death. These are filed as "Taylor" and "Washbourn" in the Correspondence series.
Manuscripts, 1927-1963
Manuscripts (1.25 linear ft.; undated and 1927-1963) contains drafts of books, short stories, articles, poetry, and the script of a television show. The manuscript of Pims, her children's book, includes original illustrations by Ruth Lives.