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Virginia Rock fonds File
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Warsaw : environs, sculpture, Albee poster, people

File consists of photographs taken by Rock in Poland. Included are photographs of Warsaw's palace of culture, Warsaw street scenes, two photographs of Robert Kennedy at Jagiellonian University, and a portrait of artist Jerzy Beres.

Trip : Warsaw, Krakow : dups and extras

File consists of a variety of photographs taken by Rock in Poland. Included are photographs of street scenes and buildings in Warsaw and Krakow, a May Day parade in Warsaw, the Lajkonik, the 600th anniversary of Jagiellonian University in 1964, and images of Polish countryside.

Toronto Area Women's Research Colloquium

File consists of correspondence, notices, memoranda, abstracts, financial statements, participant lists, questionnaires and schedules pertaining to the organization of a series of colloquia featuring the research projects by women from the University of Toronto and York University, including Rock.

The South and Agrarians

File consists of photographic slides of a park in Lexington, Kentucky, the Nashville State Capitol building and a dam in Tennessee, presumably taken by Rock while visiting the Southern United States.

"The Fugitive-Agrarians in response to social change" : correspondence and drafts

File pertains to Rock's presentation of this paper at the Modern Language Association (MLA) conference in December 1966 and the paper's publication in the summer 1967 issue of the Southern Humanities Review. Correspondents in this file are Eugene Current-Garcia and Taylor Littleton of the Southern Humanities Review and C. Hugh Holman of the University of North Carolina, organizer of Rock's MLA session.

Student papers on women and the American South

File consists of two papers by Rock's students at York University, entitled "Crumbling the monolith: a painful metamorphosis" by Julia Brady and "The Southern lady: from pedestal to politics, 1830-1930" by Denise Costis.

Southern Agrarians and culture : articles

File includes printouts of web pages and articles pertaining to Harriet Jacobs and Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Written By Herself, as well as Rock's notes about Jacobs from 2006-2007. Also included in the file are photographs of houses and landmarks, including Jefferson Davis Park, in Memphis, Tennessee, dated January 1982, though they were likely taken during Rock's attendance at a Memphis conference in October 1981.

Southern Agrarian culture : clippings

File includes a number of newspaper articles about Robert Penn Warren, an article by Rock entitled "Why a year's sabbatical was not enough", and a 1959 programme for All The King's Men at the East 74th St. Theatre in New York City

Postcards from Poland

File consists of blank postcards collected by Rock while living in Poland. Many of these postcards consist of photographs depicting scenery and architecture from around the country, as well as images of artwork.

Polish stamps

File consists of first-day covers featuring cachets and stamps issued by the Polish government, collected by Rock. Also included in the file are extra copies of unused stamps, including some featuring illustrations of cats by Janusz Grabianski (1964).

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