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Roi Partridge papers

Title: Roi Partridge papers

The papers of California printmaker and educator Roi Partridge measure 1.0 linear foot and date from 1909-2003, with the bulk of the material dated 1909-1984. Found here are scattered correspondence, notes and writings, a scrapbook, printed material, and photographs. Several of the documents date from the time Partridge was married to photographer Imogen Cunningham, particularly family correspondence and a travel log of family car camping trips to the west. The same travel log documents one sketching trip Partridge made with Eugen Neuhaus.General and family correspondence consists largely of incoming letters with some copies and drafts of outgoing letters. General correspondence is mainly professional in nature and documents exhibitions, commissions, teaching, memberships in artists' organizations, and participation in the WPA Public Works of Art Project. A small number of letters from friends concerning personal and social matters are scattered throughout. Among the correspondents are Ansel Adams, Sherwood Anderson, John Taylor Arms, Hollywood Riviera Galleries, Dard Hunter, the Estate of Bertha Jacques [Elizabeth Linsky, executor], National Academy of Design, and Print Makers Society of California. Family correspondence includes letters to Roi Partridge from family members. Letters to Gryffyd's family are from Imogen Cunningham and Roi Partridge; letters from others about family members are also included.Among the notes and writings are a travel log that documents car camping trips through California and New Mexico taken by Roi Partridge, Imogen Cunningham, and their three sons between 1924 and 1926. The volume also includes Roi's account of a 1926 sketching trip taken with Eugen Neuhaus along the California coast.A scrapbook contains clippings and feature articles about Roi Partridge, along with exhibition announcements and reproductions. Additional printed material is about or mentions Roi Partridge and his family, Ansel Adams, and Imogen Cunningham. There are also family Christmas cards with reproductions of etchings and drawings by Roi Partridge.Photographs are of people and art work, including photographs of Roi and May Ellen Partridge, and Donald Bear, the first Director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Janet Lineberger - later Mrs. Gryffyd Partridge - served as his assistant in the early 1940s). There are numerous photographs and negatives of art work by Roi Partridge (with appraisal and catalog information), and a photograph of Peter Blos' portrait of Partridge.

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Jaques, Bertha E. (Bertha Evelyn), b. 1863. [Helen Hyde biographical material].

Title: [Helen Hyde biographical material]. [1901-1922]

ArchivalResource: 10 pieces : ill.

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Charles W. Dahlgreen papers

Title: Charles W. Dahlgreen papers

The Charles W. Dahlgreen papers measure 1.1 linear feet and date from 1886-1957. Included is biographical material, writings, correspondence, works of art, photographs, financial material, exhibition material and printed material.

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Hill, Edwin Bliss, 1866-1949. Papers of Edwin Bliss Hill, 1737-1954 (bulk 1895-1948).

Title: Papers of Edwin Bliss Hill, 1737-1954 (bulk 1895-1948).

The collection consists of correspondence and manuscripts of Edwin Bliss Hill. Manuscript material in the collection includes: 63 poems by Bertha Grant Avery and manuscripts by Joseph E. Babson, Edwin Bliss Hill, Frank Holme (including 22 volumes of diaries), and Vincent Starrett. Items of note include a typescript of a suppressed chapter from Life on the Mississippi by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and a letter from Edward Waldo Emerson about Ralph Waldo Emerson. Correspondents in the collection include George Ade, Francis Henry Allen, Bertha Grant Avery, Joseph E. Babson, Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, Eva Dean, Edward J. Finch, Earle Robert Forrest, Charlez Ganz, John Francis Holme, Ida May Holme, Bertha Jacques, Frank C. Lockwood, Anton Mazzanovich, Ella Sterlin Mighels, Frank Marion Morris, Alfred Edward Newton, Will Ransom, Charles Henry Sloan, Vincent Starrett, Herbert Faulkner West, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, and William Butler Yeats. Additional correspondents include the University of Arizona Library, the Charles Lamb Society, and the Cuala Press.

ArchivalResource: 2,557 pieces.15 gray boxes.

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Rosenberg, Louis Conrad, 1890-1983. Collection relating to Louis Conrad Rosenberg, 1926-1935.

Title: Collection relating to Louis Conrad Rosenberg, 1926-1935.

Letters, Oct. 19, 1933-Jan. 6, 1934, between Rosenberg and R.P. Tolman, Curator, Division of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian Institution, regarding matted prints which the Smithsonian used for an exhibition on Rosenberg in 1933. Also included is a brief biographical sketch of Rosenberg published by the Chicago Society of Etchers in 1926, a card announcing an exhibition of Rosenberg's drypoints and etchings in 1935, and a letter from Rosenberg to Bertha E. Jaques, Secretary and Treasurer of the Society, August 30, 1934.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24273526 View

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942. Thomas Wood Stevens papers, 1880-1954 (bulk 1897-1937).

Title: Thomas Wood Stevens papers, 1880-1954 (bulk 1897-1937).

Collection contains biographical materials such as early notebooks of writings and sketches, articles about Stevens, and family photographs. Manuscripts by Stevens include pageants, poems, plays, articles, stories, and an original draft and illustrations for his book, The Theatre from Athens to Broadway. Major correspondents are Kenneth Goodman, Samuel Hume, Alden Noble, Ben Payne, Frederick Goudy, and Bertha Jacques. Stevens' work as a theater director is represented by programs, clippings, scrapbooks, prompt books, Shakespearean texts, and photographs of performances; as well as blueprints of Goodman Memorial Theatre and Globe Theatre, Chicago. Included in the collection are Blue Sky Press publications, some written by Stevens; 65 other books by private presses; and seven little magazines. Original etchings by Stevens include a series on American universities.

ArchivalResource: 36 ft.

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Sidney C. Woodward papers

Title: Sidney C. Woodward papers

The papers of art critic, editor, and gallery director Sidney Woodward date from 1823 to 1963, bulk 1915-1932, and measure 3.5 linear feet. The majority of the collection consists of personal and professional correspondence and collected letters that pertain to Woodward's relationships with various artists, galleries, and arts organizations. Also included in this collection are two biographical documents; lecture notes and collected writings; printed material including books relating to the topic of art, exhibition catalogs, and newspaper clippings; a few personal photographs and reference photographs of paintings; and scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, art reproductions, and printed material from the Casson Galleries.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 Linear feet

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Jaques, Bertha E. (Bertha Evelyn), b. 1863. Bertha E. Jaques papers, 1922-1941.

Title: Bertha E. Jaques papers, 1922-1941.

The Bertha E. Jaques Papers include an etching of a statue of Abraham Lincoln, brochure, photograph, poetry, correspondence, obituary, and two editions of her self-published work, Whims.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 linear ft.

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