Helen Zeese Papanikolas papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0471

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Helen Zeese Papanikolas papers (1954-2001) contain materials concerning the research and writing of this Utah historian and folklorist. Included are correspondence, research files, news clippings, oral history manuscripts, published and unpublished articles.

Dates

1954-2009

Creator

Papanikolas, Helen, 1917-2004 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Biographical Sketch

Helen Zeese Papanikolas (1917-2004) was born in Carbon County, Utah, to Greek immigrant parents George and Emily Zeese (Yiorgis and Emilia Zisimopoulos). The family moved to Salt Lake City in 1933. She received a B.A. from the University of Utah in 1939 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from that institution in 1984. She married Nick E. Papanikolas and the couple had two children. Her publications include numerous articles in the Utah Historical Quarterly and Western Humanities Review as well as historical monographs and anthologies such as Toil and Rage in a New Land: The Greek Immigrants of Utah (1970) and The Peoples of Utah (1976). She was an accomplished belletrist who wove ethnographic themes from her experience as a Greek-American into memoir, fiction, and poetry. Helen Papanikolas died in November 2004.

Extent

6.75 Linear Feet (16 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Additional Description

Abstract

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Helen Papanikolas (boxes 1-3) in 1970.

Donated by Helen Papanikolas (boxes 4-15) in 2001 and 2003.

Donated by Marcus Theodore (boxes 4-15) in 2011.

Related Materials

See also the Carbon County coal strike records (MS 0473) and Greek archives (MS 0530) in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.

Related Materials

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives..

Processing Information

Processed by Allesen Peck in 1986.

Addendum processed by Polly Stewart in 2007 and by Betsey Welland in 2019.

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