IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1548
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Manes, Walter (b 1911): Personal papers
Date(s): 1918-1999
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Manes | Walter | b 1911 | musician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Walter Manes was born in Berlin in 1911, one of four children of Philipp and Gertrude Manes, a Jewish family. He managed to escape Nazi Germany through employment opportunities as a musician in Shanghai in 1938 and 1939. He remained with his wife in China until 1948 when he emigrated to USA. (See 1548/1 for an autobiographical account).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Personal papers of Walter Manes, 1918-1999, includes correspondence with parents; official documentation; papers relating to his time in Shanghai; correspondence regarding emigration to USA and photographs.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, German and French
System of arrangement:
Chronological by subject.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by Eva Manes.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
WL 1346
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: March 2008