Paisley jumpsuit, created by Peacock, 1967

File — Box: 52

Identifier: 3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This series covers Molly Peacock's personal life, including her childhood, education, marriage, and visual art. The series also contains a small amount of material from Peacock's career before she became a writer, namely her time working at WNBF radio and her time working at SUNY Binghamton.

These files include drawings and paintings, school papers, class notes, grades and certificates, graduate school applications, news clippings, work memos and notes, SUNY Binghamton reports, and WNBF television and ad copy.

For poetry written by Peacock during her childhood and education, see the juvenalia sub-series in Poetry. For personal photographs and correspondence, see the photography and correspondence series respectively.

Dates

Creation: 1967

Conditions Governing Access

The digital material has not yet been fully reviewed for access and may contain additional restricted materials. Because staff will need to review materials for restrictions before providing access, researchers should email speccoll@binghamton.edu about the collection well ahead of any research visit.

The analog portion of the collection is open for research use and has no known restrictions.

Biographical / Historical

Note by Molly Peacock, written in 2022: "Pink + Orange Paisley Day Glo Jumpsuit. I sewed this jumpsuit from a Simplicity pattern and wore it when I cut my hair short in Harpur College 1967. Art Spiegelman was appalled and said, nasally, 'What made you cut your hair?!?!?' Independence is the answer. There is a photo in the Collection that shows me in this dress. I wore it when Robert Bly and Galway Kinnell came to read. "