The private archive of journalist, writer, screenwriter, painter, and women’s rights activist Necile Tevfik (1911-1964) is now open access (0.30 linear meters)!
As part of the “Digitization, Cataloging, and Online Access Project for Archives and Collections” (February-December 2021), supported by the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul, the Necile Tevfik Private Archive, part of the Private Archive Collection, has been made accessible through the archive database.
(see http://kutuphane.puktacloud.com/medas/giris.php#katalog)
The archive includes silent and sound film scripts, notes on cinema techniques, stories, correspondence related to the stories, newspaper clippings, French translations of her works, speeches regarding the Republic and the status of women, and a photograph of Necile Tevfik. Drafts of letters sent by her father, Mehmet Tevfik, about the children of Yusuf İzzeddin Efendi, a telegram sent by her mother, Emine Naciye Neyyal, regarding the health of Nizameddin Efendi, poems written by her sister, Meliha Zafir Yenerden, and a poem by Güzin Tevfik are also part of the archive.
Additionally, documents related to the Turkish Women’s Union (1st Term), of which she was a member of the Board of Directors, records concerning the preparatory work conducted by the Turkish Women’s Union for the 12th Congress of the International Women’s Union, name lists, surveys and responses, notes on the civil code, addresses of the members of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Women’s Union in 1935, news regarding the dissolution of the Union, promotional brochures, summary reports, working reports, campaign texts, preparatory documents for the 12th Congress of the International Women’s Union, draft resolutions of the Congress, Commission decisions, pre-establishment activities of the Turkish Women’s Union (2nd Term), the association’s charter, and documents related to the Union’s international relations, as well as letters from Rosa Manus, Lâtife Bekir, and Şükûfe Nihal to Necile Tevfik, and a letter from Necile Tevfik to Suzanne Grinberg are among the other documents in the archive.
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