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Records of the Assistants to the Directors, 1913-1999 (inclusive),1927-1943 (bulk)

Title: Records of the Assistants to the Directors, 1913-1999 (inclusive),1927-1943 (bulk)

These records of the Assistants to the Directors of the Fogg Art Museum document the administrative and teaching activities of the individuals who held the position. The bulk of the collection dates from 1927 to 1943 and includes the records of Walter Siple, Henry Sayles Francis, Frederick B. Robinson, John S. Thacher, Frederick Grace and Louisa Sprague. The collection consists primarily of correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 28 file boxes + oversize materials

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/art00019/catalog View

Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969. Papers, 1867-2005.

Title: Papers, 1867-2005.

These papers of Fogg Art Museum Director Edward Waldo Forbes document his administration of the museum and a wide range of personal and professional activities and interests. The bulk of the collection dates from 1909 to 1944. The papers consist primarily of correspondence, including a series of correspondence with art dealers, and also include photographs, reports, expedition field notes and journals, printed material, newspaper clippings, blueprints, meeting minutes, letters of recommendation, insurance records, invoices, page proofs, telegrams, rubbings, sketches, visiting cards, shipping documents and press releases.

ArchivalResource: 119 boxes + oversize materials.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422897333 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01543/catalog View

Papers, 1939-1984

Title: Papers, 1939-1984

These papers of former Fogg Art Museum Director and Harvard University ProfessorJohn Coolidge document a portion of his teaching activities, museum administration, and otherpersonal and professional endeavors and interests. The papers consist primarily of personalcorrespondence, and date largely from 1947-1975. Also included are research materials, teachingmaterials, lecture notes, speeches, reports, resumes, photographs and financial records.

ArchivalResource: 10 file boxes, 1 half-file box + oversize materials

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/art00016/catalog View

Fogg Art Museum. Archives of the Fogg Art Museum, 1895-1985 (inclusive).

Title: Archives of the Fogg Art Museum, 1895-1985 (inclusive).

Records consist of official correspondence files of former Museum directors Charles H. Moore, Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs, Arthur Pope, John P. Coolidge, Agnes Mongan, Daniel Robbins, and Seymour Slive; exhibition files, including exhibition catalogs and correspondence relating to past exhibitions at the Fogg; and correspondence files of assistant directors of the Museum and of Margaret Gilman, Secretary of the Fogg.

ArchivalResource: ca. 230 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234360132 View

Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962. Papers of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, ca. 1860-1969 (inclusive), 1900-1967 (bulk).

Title: Papers of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, ca. 1860-1969 (inclusive), 1900-1967 (bulk).

This collection contains documents relating to the whole of the Bliss's lives: their personal and family lives, their philanthropic endeavors, their art collecting, and Robert Woods Bliss's Foreign Service career. Due to the Bliss's social standing and activities, the collection includes correspondence with many prominent twentieth-century figures. These include musicians (Nadia Boulanger, Blair Fairchild, Doda Conrad and Samuel Dushkin), political figures and government officials (Gifford Pinchot, Herbert Hoover, Louise, Queen of Sweden, Frank Kellog, William Henry Hunt and Charles Warren), and art critics and art historians (Bernard Berenson, Royall Tyler, William Tyler, Fitz Roy Carrington and Henri Focillon).

ArchivalResource: 58.22 cubic feet in 174 containers

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76975086 View

Dumbarton Oaks. Administrative records of Dumbarton Oaks, 1940-1965 (inclusive).

Title: Administrative records of Dumbarton Oaks, 1940-1965 (inclusive).

Administrative records, consisting primarily of the correspondence of John Thacher, Director of Dumbarton Oaks from 1940-1969, and dealing with collecting issues, personnel and appointments, financial matters and with Dumbarton Oak's relationship with Harvard University, the Fogg Museum and its faculty, including Edward Waldo Forbes, Paul Sachs and Agnes Mongan. Also included is correspondence with Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, founders of Dumbarton Oaks.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic feet in 4 containers

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76975085 View

Pope, Arthur, 1880-1974. Papers, 1907-1979.

Title: Papers, 1907-1979.

These papers of Harvard Fine Arts professor and museum director Arthur Pope document his administration of the Fogg, Germanic and Semitic Museums from 1945 to 1948, as well as his teaching, research and publication activity over several decades. The papers consist primarily of correspondence and also include memoranda, printed material, photographs, lecture transcripts, calling cards, reports, fabric samples, exhibition wall text and labels, drafts of published work, preparatory notes for class lectures and page proofs.

ArchivalResource: 18 file boxes + oversize materials

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/424592312 View