Erica Rutherford fonds
Rutherford, Erica
Actors
Art galleries
Artists
Printmaking
Actors - Photographs
Art - Catalogues
Arts
Authors
Diaries (1950-2000)
Motion pictures - Photographs
Motion pictures - Reviews
Diaries (1900-1950)
Diaries (2000-2050)
Motion pictures
Theatre - Photographs
Gender identity
Painting (Art)
Theatre
Theatre - Reviews
P.E.I. Printmakers Council
Rutherford, Erica, 1923-2008
The fonds consists of personal and business papers, correspondence, sketchbooks, writings, photographs, and other records belonging to Erica Rutherford (1923-2008). The records, which span the years ca. 1930s-2005, document Rutherford's various careers as an actor, set designer, director painter, printmaker, teacher, illustrator, and writer. The fonds also consists of personal papers which provide insight into the private life of an individual who struggled with gender identity from a young age, ultimately undergoing transsexual surgery to live her life as a woman. The fonds has been divided
into the following five series:
Series1: Art and artistic career
Series2: Theatre and film
Series3: Writing
Series4: Biographical sketches, exhibit lists, etc.
Series5: Personal papers, daybooks, photographs, etc.
[ca. 1930S]-2005; Copied 2009
3.24 m of textual records and other material
http://www.gov.pe.ca/paroatom/index.php/erica-rutherford-fonds
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