Example of an EAD Finding Aid Template
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<ead audience="external" relatedencoding="MARC21">
<eadheader audience="internal" langencoding="ISO 639-2" relatedencoding="marc21" findaidstatus="edited-full-draft" id="a0">
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<filedesc>
<titlestmt>
<titleproper>The Feinberg-Whitman Collection, <date type="inclusive"> 1834-1919.</date</titleproper<author>Revised, expanded, and encoded by Andrew Jewell and Mary Ellen Ducey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries.</author>
</titlestmt>
<publicationstmt>
<publisher>
Archives and
Special
Collections,
Electronic Text
Center<lb/>
University of
Nebraska–Lincoln
Libraries
</publisher>
<date>2001</date>
<address>
<addressline>N209
Love Library <lb/>
P.O. Box 880410<lb/>
University of
Nebraska–Lincoln<lb/>
Lincoln, NE
68508</addressline>
</address>
</publicationstmt>
</filedesc>
<profiledesc>
<creation>ead done by Andrew Jewell and Mary Ellen Ducey, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries
<date>2001</date</creation>
<langusage>Finding
aid written in
<language>English.</language</langusage>
</profiledesc</eadheader>
<frontmatter>
<titlepage>
<titleproper>The
Feinberg– Whitman
Collection<date type="inclusive">1834-1919.</date</titleproper>
<publisher>Archives
and Special
Collections<lb/>University
of Nebraska–Lincoln
Libraries</publisher>
<date>2001</date>
<p>
<date>2001</date> University
of
Nebraska–Lincoln</p>
</titlepage>
</frontmatter>
<archdesc audience="external" level="collection" langmaterial="eng" type="inventory">
<did id="al">
<head</head>
<unittitle audience="external" label="title:" encodinganalog="245$a"> The Charles E. Feinberg collection of the papers of Walt Whitman (in part),
<unitdate audience="external" type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f" label="dates">1834-1919</unitdate</unittitle>
<unitid audience="external" label="identification" type="MS Number:" encodinganalog="099" repositorycode="nub" countrycode="us">PS3202 .F4 1986 rl. 1-34</unitid>
<origination audience="external" label="Creator:">
<persname encodinganalog="100">Whitman, Walt</persname</origination>
<origination audience="external" label="Collector:">
<persname encodinganalog="110"> Feinberg, Charles E.</persname</origination>
<physdesc audience="external" label="Quantity:" encodinganalog="300$a"<extent>34</extent<genreform> microfilm reels (35 mm)</genreform</physdesc>
<repository encodinganalog="852$a" label="Repository:"<corpname>Archives and Special Collections <subarea>University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries</subarea</corpname>
<address>
<addressline>N209 Love Library <lb/> P.O. Box 880410<lb/> University of Nebraska–Lincoln<lb/> Lincoln, NE 68508</addressline>
</address</repository>
<physloc>Microforms Department</physloc>
<abstract>This finding aid is created from microfilm reels held at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The original papers are held at the Library of Congress</abstract>
</did>
<admininfo>
<accessrestrict audience="external" encodinganalog="506" id="a14">
<head>Restrictions:</head>
<p> None </p>
</accessrestrict>
<userestrict encodinganalog="540" id="a15">
<head>Copyright:</head>
<p>The use of Archives and Special Collections material is governed by the U.S. Copyright Law (title 17 U.S. Code). </p>
</userestrict>
<prefercite encodinganalog="524" id="a18">
<head>Preferred Citation:</head>
<p>The Charles E. Feinberg collection of the papers of Walt Whitman, <date>1834-1919</date>, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries</p>
</prefercite>
<altformavail type="paper" encodinganalog="530" id="a17">
<head>Alternative Format:</head>
<p> Original Documents held at the <corpname>Library of Congress</corpname</p>
</altformavail>
</admininfo>
<scopecontent<head>Scope and Content:</head<p>This is kind of what we call a forward to a collection we didn't write. WE HAVE FREEDOM!!</p</scopecontent>
<bioghist<head>Biographical Information:</head<p>History of Feinberg and his collection</p</bioghist>
<controlaccess<head>Subjects:</head<persname encodinganalog="600">Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts </persname<subject encodinganalog="650">Poets, American--19th century--Biography </subject>
</controlaccess>
<dsc type="in-depth">
<c01 level="series">
<did>
<unitid label="series">4</unitid>
<unittitle>Literary File</unittitle>
<unitdate type="inclusive">1841-1919 and undated</unitdate>
<container type="reel">11-24</container>
<container type="box">19-37</container>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Manuscript drafts, proofs and offprints, notes, printed matter, correspondence, trial lines, outlines, and miscellaneous items relating to speeches, lectures, articles, poems, and books. The material is arranged under the appropriate literary form.</p>
</scopecontent>
<c02 level="subseries">
<did>
<unitid label="subseries">2</unitid>
<unittitle>Poetry File</unittitle>
<unitdate type="inclusive">1842-1892 and undated</unitdate>
<container type="reel">15-19</container>
<container type="box">25-30</container>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Handwritten manuscript drafts, trial lines and titles, proofs and offprints, and printed matter, arranged alphabetically by title.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c02>
<c02 level="item">
<did>
<container type="reel">15</container>
<container type="box">25</container>
<container type="folder">Aboard at a Ship's Helm (1867). Proof Sheets.</container>
<unitid label="item">1</unitid>
<unittitle>
<title render="quoted">Aboard at a Ship's Helm</title</unittitle>
<unitdate certainty="probable">1867</unitdate>
<physdesc<genreform>Proof Sheets</genreform</physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Clipped proof sheets of<title render="quoted">Aboard at a Ship's Helm</title>. No editorial marks on page. </p>
</scopecontent>
</c02>
</c01>
</dsc>
</archdesc</ead>
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