Barbara Shor papers, 1953-2000 and undated, bulk 1970s-1998

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Summary

Creator:
Shor, Barbara
Extent:
21 Linear Feet
5159 Items
Language:
English.
Collection ID:
RL.01179

Background

Scope and content:

Oracles and books on divination (01-045)(28 items, 1.8 linear feet; dated ca. 1970s-1990s and undated), including 17 decks of tarot and other cards, many enclosed in fabric or leather. Shore designed two of the decks, "The Earth Alliance Deck" and "The Earthrise Deck." Also includes sets of runes and I Ching coins, a pendulum, an edition of the I CHING, a rune book edited by Ralph Blum, and other printed material regarding the I CHING and tarot cards.

The addition (01-248) (5131 items, 19.2 linear feet; dated 1953-2000, bulk 1970s-ca. 1998) documents Shor's work on dreams. Includes 41 volumes of meditation and dream journals by Shore (1974-1999); other journals and dream documentation and interpretation by Shor and others; correspondence; and dream-related periodicals, including Dream Network Bulletin. There are also drafts of Shor's poems, short stories, essays, and dream handbooks (ca. 1953-2000), including Unexpected Gifts,Open Channel,Dreaming with Angels,Shared Dreaming,Dream Tool Kit: How to Remember and Encode Your Own Dreams,Small Gifts, and The Swan; records from the Dreamgate Shared Dreaming Project; notes on or from other dream-related workshops; 11 black-and-white and 3 color photographs; and 197 computer disks containing circa 9800 electronic documents.

Biographical / historical:

Writer, dream workshop leader, and director of Dreamgates Communities in New York, N.Y. Shor died in 2001.

Acquisition information:
The Barbara Shor Papers was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2001.
Processing information:

Processed by Jessica Lancia; Danielle McGregor

Completed February 1, 2002

Encoded by Ruth E. Bryan

This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

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Subjects:
Tarot cards -- Private collections
Tarot cards
Dreams
Oracles
Dream interpretation
Divination
Occultism
Fortune-telling by Chinese characters
Fortune-telling
Format:
Color photographs
Black-and-white photographs
Machine-readable records
Floppy disks
Tarot
Runes
Names:
Shor, Barbara
Shor, Barbara

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