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Thornton Oakley papers

Title: Thornton Oakley papers

Correspondence, artist files and subject files relate to Oakley's activities as an artist and illustrator, and his involvement with numerous art organizations, including the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Philadelphia Water Color Club, the Artists' War Relief Committee of Philadelphia, and the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts. Artist files on Cecilia Beaux, Florence Este, John Taylor Arms, John McLure Hamilton, Christian Brinton, George Morrow, Leila Mechlin, John Harkrider, Alexander Robinson, and Joseph Pennell, among others, primarily contain letters. Some also include photographs and printed matter. Four inches of letters from Beaux discuss working habits, portrait commissions, life in Paris, and personal matters. Letters from Este discuss life in France during the war, French artists, exhibitions at the Philadelphia Water Color Club, and Cecilia Beaux. Other material relates to Oakley's mural for the Franklin Institute.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 linear ft. (on 4 microfilm reels)

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Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909. Papers, 1781-1984.

Title: Papers, 1781-1984.

Consists of the papers of Richard Watson Gilder and his wife, artist Helena de Kay Gilder, and their family.

ArchivalResource: ca. 23,000 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436041417 View

Sloan, Helen Farr, 1911-2005. Helen Farr Sloan Philadelphia Inquirer notebooks. 1886-1896.

Title: Helen Farr Sloan Philadelphia Inquirer notebooks. 1886-1896.

The Helen Farr Sloan Philadelphia Inquirer notebooks consists of fourteen binders of Philadelphia-area news clippings broadly related to the subject of art. Materials date from 1886 to 1896, encompassing the early years of John Sloan's work in Philadelphia, and suggest that Mrs. Sloan supported this project to collect biographical and historical context for this period of her husband's career. The collection includes photocopies of art-related materials published in the following Philadelphia newspapers: The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Evening Call, The Evening Telegraph, The Evening Bulletin, North American, The Philadelphia Press, The Philadelphia Record, Public Ledger, and The Times. The bulk of the articles are from The Philadelphia Inquirer. The collection is organized in chronological order and is divided into three series.

ArchivalResource: 5.3 linear feet (14 volumes in 5 record center boxes and 1 manuscript box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/300486614 View

Joseph Lindon Smith papers

Title: Joseph Lindon Smith papers

The papers of Boston and New Hampshire painter Joseph Lindon Smith date from 1647-1965, with the bulk of papers dating from 1873-1965, and measure 8.8 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials; letters from family members, artists, museums, and art patrons; seven diaries by Smith and two by his wife Corinna, personal business records, notes and writings, files concerning charitable theatrical productions, one sketchbook and other art work, a scrapbook, printed material, photographs, and sound recordings of radio interviews and a radio program on Smith.

ArchivalResource: 8.8 Linear feet

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Thomas Prichard Rossiter and Rossiter Family papers

Title: Thomas Prichard Rossiter and Rossiter Family papers

The Thomas Prichard Rossiter and Rossiter Family papers measure 0.5 linear feet and date from 1840 to 1961. Included are letters to painter Thomas Prichard Rossiter and letters to his son, architect Ehrick Kensett Rossiter, documenting their friendships with many artists. Notable letters are from James Fenimore Cooper, William Morris Hunt, John Jay, J. F. Kensett, William H. Morris, Samuel F. B. Morse, George Peabody, Cecelia Beaux, William A. Coffin, Daniel Chester French, Will H. Low, Gari Melchers, William Sartain, Augustus Vincent Tack, Dwight Tryon, and many others. The collection contains Thomas Prichard Rossiter's sketchbook drawn while living in Italy in 1943, and three other sketches including a portrait of his family. Also found are letters to Edith Rossiter Bevan and her writings on her grandfather, Thomas Prichard Rossiter, including a biography and checklist of his paintings. Bevan also compiled a scrapbook on his career and family history which includes drawings by Rossiter, photographs of the Rossiter family and his artwork, notes by Bevan, news clippings, and other printed material. A collection of Edith Rossiter Bevan's artists' letters is found within the papers. Letters are from Alexander Archipenko, J. Carroll Beckwith, Reginald Birch, Emma M. Cadwalader-Guild, Andre Castaigne, Fanny Cory, Kenyon Cox, Frank Craig, Charles Dana Gibson, Jay Hambridge, Henry Hutt, A. J. Keller, Rockwell Kent, Fiske Kimball, David Scott Moncrieff, H. Siddons Mowbray, Peter Newell, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls, Ralph M. Pearson, Frederic Remington, Otto Soglow, and Elizabeth Whitmore.

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Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942. Autograph letter signed Cecilia Beaux to: Miss Hazard October 31, [1901?].

Title: Autograph letter signed Cecilia Beaux to: Miss Hazard October 31, [1901?].

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

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Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942. Autograph letter signed Cecilia Beaux to: Miss Hazard.

Title: Autograph letter signed Cecilia Beaux to: Miss Hazard.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70813412 View

Seymour, George Dudley, 1859-1945. George Dudley Seymour papers, 1684-1944 (inclusive).

Title: George Dudley Seymour papers, 1684-1944 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, research files, printed material, and miscellanea of George Dudley Seymour, a lawyer, antiquarian, historian, author and city planner in New Haven, Connecticut. Seymour's personal papers and collected manuscripts document the history of the Seymour family, the patriot Nathan Hale, the city planning movement in New Haven, Connecticut, and local history, 1684-1944. General correspondence files contain the bulk of personal correspondence, with many figures from the fields of art, education, politics, and sculpture represented, including William Howard Taft, a close friend of Seymour's. Family genealogy files include extensive correspondence, papers, and photographs Seymour accumulated in the course of his research on The Seymour Family (1939). Seymour also collected information and manuscripts relating to Nathan Hale, the Connecticut hero. As a pioneer in New Haven's early city planning movement, Seymour amassed correspondence with such notable figures as Cass Gilbert and Frederick Law Olmstead, minutes of commission meetings, and clipping files which detail much of the city planning activity engaged in during the early 1900s. Topical files and scrapbooks document a wide range of literary and professional activities, including Seymour's writings on New Haven and Connecticut history, and his legal practice in patent law.

ArchivalResource: 57 linear ft. (128 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153515 View

Plastic Club records

Title: Plastic Club records

Constitution and by-laws; an undated membership list; membership certificates; correspondence with Cecilia Beaux, Elliott Daingerfield, Joseph Pennell, officers of the club, and others; a visitor's register; bookplates; exhibition catalogs; annual reports; a photograph album; and ten scrapbooks containing clippings, photographs, letters and miscellaneous printed material.

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Selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Archives of American Art collection

Title: Selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Archives of American Art collection

Correspondence, printed material, writings, and other personal papers collected by Carl Zigrosser and Leila Mechlin and later added to by others, all relating to American art.

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Cole, Rufus Ivory, 1872-1966. Papers, ca. 1900-1966.

Title: Papers, ca. 1900-1966.

This collection contains much material on the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and its staff, namely, annual reports, budgets, patient statistics, administration of the hospital, etc. Other medical topics represented include his education at, and contacts with the Johns Hopkins University; the Association of American Physicians; the Harvey Society of New York; and the New York Academy of Medicine.

ArchivalResource: ca. 36,000 items (38 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474016 View

Letters from various correspondents, 1871-1940.

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1871-1940.

Letters from variouscorrespondents to the Boston lawyer Boylston Beal.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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Drinker, Sophie Hutchinson, 1888-1967. Additional papers, 1911-1983 (inclusive).

Title: Additional papers, 1911-1983 (inclusive).

Correspondence, diaries (1913, 1923-1935), photographs, awards, and speeches and articles on women's history and women's rights. Also included are notes and drafts of Drinker's unpublished book, Colonial Women and the Law.

ArchivalResource: 1.21 linear ft. (1 carton, 1/2 file box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/526765082 View

Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942. Autograph letter signed Cecilia Beaux to: Mr. McCracken April 9, 1909?

Title: Autograph letter signed Cecilia Beaux to: Mr. McCracken April 9, 1909?

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70813416 View

Helen Farr Sloan, Philadelphia Inquirer, notebooks, 1886–1896

Title: Helen Farr Sloan notebooks Philadelphia Inquirer 1886–1896

The Helen Farr Sloan notebooks consist of fourteen binders of Philadelphia-area news clippings broadly related to the subject of art, encompassing the early years of John Sloan’s career in Philadelphia, and include a separately-organized group of materials from the same period about the Drexel family and publisher George W. Childs. Philadelphia Inquirer

ArchivalResource: 5.3 linear feet; (14 volumes in 5 record center boxes and 1 manuscript box)

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Century Magazine letters

Title: Century Magazine letters

Correspondence of the Century Magazine and its predecessors, Scribner's Monthly, and St. Nicholas Magazine. Also included is material related to the Century War Series.

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George Dudley Seymour papers, 1684-1944

Title: George Dudley Seymour papers 1684-1944

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, research files, printed material, and miscellanea of George Dudley Seymour, a lawyer, antiquarian, historian, author and city planner in New Haven, Connecticut. Seymour's personal papers and collected manuscripts document the history of the Seymour family, the patriot Nathan Hale, the city planning movement in New Haven, Connecticut, and local history, 1684-1944. General correspondence files contain the bulk of personal correspondence, with many figures from the fields of art, education, politics, and sculpture represented, including William Howard Taft, a close friend of Seymour's. Family genealogy files include extensive correspondence, papers, and photographs Seymour accumulated in the course of his research on (1939). Seymour also collected information and manuscripts relating to Nathan Hale, the Connecticut hero. The Seymour Family

ArchivalResource: 57 linear feet (128 boxes)

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Dorothea Gilder papers regarding Cecilia Beaux

Title: Dorothea Gilder papers regarding Cecilia Beaux

The Dorothea Gilder papers regarding Cecilia Beaux date from 1897 to 1920 and include correspondence between Beaux and Gilder, scattered printed materials, a photograph of Beaux with Gilder, and a photograph of the two with other friends. The papers are comprised primarily of correspondence between Cecilia Beaux and her close, life-long friend and intimate companion Dorothea Gilder between 1897 and 1920. The letters recount daily activities, travels, work, social life, attitudes, and aspects of their intimate relationship. Also found is scattered third party correspondence. Two folders of printed materials include newspaper reviews of Beaux's 1903 exhibition, and four exhibition catalogs, several of which are not found in the papers of Cecilia Beaux. The photograph is a single snapshot of Beaux with Gilder. One additional photograph of Beaux, Gilder, and friends is found attached to a 1906 letter.

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