Zane Grey Inc. records
Scope and Contents
Contains Zane Grey and Zane Grey Inc. business records and personal materials. Included are photographs and letters documenting Zane Grey's fishing travels to New Zealand, Oregon, Tahiti, Australia, and many more places. There are also checks, bank statements, letters, and manuscripts relating to Zane Grey's work as an author. Zane Grey's personal life with his family is documented through letters and journal entries. Zane Grey Inc. business records includes bank statements, checks, letters, and contracts. Dated circa 1853-2005, bulk circa 1894-2005.
Dates
- approximately 1853-2005
- Majority of material found within 1894-2005
Creator
- Zane Grey, Inc. (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Materials in English, with some materials in French,Spanish, and Japanese.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to use material from this collection must be obtained from Reference Services at specialcollections@byu.edu.
Administrative History
Zane Grey, Inc. (1932- ) is a private corporation that owns the copyright and distribution rights for works produced by Zane Grey.
Zane Grey, Inc. was formed in 1932 in Los Angeles, California. It was formed with the purpose of handling bonds, securities, indebtedness, and other transactions associated with Zane Grey. It acted as Zane Grey's agent and was the means by which his business was managed so as to separate the formal aspects of his work from his personal life.
The original directors of the corporation were Zane Grey, Lina Elise Grey, Romer Grey, Kenneth W. Robertson, and Edwin G. Bowen.
Extent
96 cartons (96 linear ft.)
3 oversize boxes (4.98 linear ft.)
1 folder (0.05 linear ft.) : Digital scans of negatives on disks
Other Finding Aids
Word document with a folder level inventory of the entire collection as well as an inventory of the original order and locations of the documents in the entire collection that is available in the case file.
Custodial History
Purchased from Zane Grey Inc. in 2015.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased; Zane Grey Inc.; 2015.
Appraisal
Literary Manuscripts Collection Development Policy.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital scans of photographic negatives are available in Folder 105.
Processing Information
Processed; Sadie Julian; 2015.
- Australia -- Photographs
- Authors and publishers -- Correspondence
- Authors, English -- Manuscripts
- Bank statements
- Business records
- Business, Industry, Labor, and Commerce
- Compact discs
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Fishing -- Photographs
- Grey, Lina Elise, -1957
- Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
- Home and Family
- Letters
- Manuscripts
- New Zealand -- Photographs
- Oregon -- Photographs
- Publishers and Publishing
- Publishers and publishing
- Social Life and Customs
- Sports and Recreation
- Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- Photographs
- Western stories -- Manuscripts
- Title
- Register of Zane Grey Inc. records
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Sadie Julian
- Date
- 2015 December 10
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
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Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States