Metadata: Papers of Vera Sassoon
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 368 A3017
- Title:
- Papers of Vera Sassoon
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Vera Sassoon
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sassoon, Vera
- Date(s):
- 1880/1966
- Date note:
- 1880s/1966
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 0.23 linear metres: 2 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains a copy of a typescript memoir of Vera Sassoon (née Rosenberg) recalling her youth in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, together with her travel writings, 1950s-66, and correspondence relating to Hahn and Gunzburg family history, 1952-5. The main part of the collection are the series of photographs, of Vera Rosenberg and other Rosenberg family members, of the Gunzburg, Hahn, Myers and Sassoon family photographs, and of First World War soldiers.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gunzburg family
- Hahn family
- Myers family
- Sassoon family
- Sassoon, Vera
- Subject terms:
- Memoirs
- Personal records
- World War I
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections