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Sage, Gardner A. [Map of the area later bounded by Avenue of the Finest, Pearl Street, Frankfort Street and Rose Street, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)] / surveyed as in possession by Gardner A. Sage.

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by Avenue of the Finest, Pearl Street, Frankfort Street and Rose Street, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)] / surveyed as in possession by Gardner A. Sage. [ca. 1848]

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 2 assembled sheets : ms., col. ; 36 x 84 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55049260 View

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

https://sova.si.edu/record/SIA.FARU7060 View

Oral history interview with Roswell Weidner

Title: Oral history interview with Roswell Weidner

An interview of Roswell Weidner conducted 1989 July 20-27, by Marina Pacini, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project. Weidner discusses his early life, education, and art training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, first at the school at Chester Springs, and later at the main school in Philadelphia. He discusses the programs at both schools, and recalls some of the faculty members, including Roy Nuse, Albert Laessle, George Harding, Joseph Pierson, Francis Speight, Daniel Garber, and Henry McCarter. He discusses the courses, exhibitions, and the competitions for traveling scholarships. He also discusses his study at the Barnes Foundation with Violette De Mazia and Angelo Pinto. After leaving the Academy, he joined the National Youth Administration and then transferred to the WPA with the Museum Extension, the Painting Project and the Print Project. He speaks of his work for each of these programs, their administration, and some of the individuals involved including Dox Thrash. He recalls Mary Curran and the efforts made by Albert Barnes to have her removed as head of the Painting Project. Weidner discusses his fifty years as a teacher at the Academy, beginning in 1939, and the changes in the institution since then, including the introduction of printmaking, the growth of abstraction, the hiring of women and black instructors, and other changes. He speaks of his wife, Marilyn Kemp Weidner, a paper conservator, and the development of her practice, as well as his own future work.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording 3 sound cassettes.Transcript 134 p.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9d0c1ada8-2608-4b70-b8bd-f95469159f82 View

Schultz, Sigrid, 1893-1980. Papers, 1835-1980.

Title: Papers, 1835-1980.

Papers documenting the personal and business life of Sigrid Schultz, an American-born foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune who served as bureau chief in Berlin from 1926 to 1941, and was an author, radio broadcaster, and lecturer. Included also are materials generated by her parents, Hermann and Hedwig Schultz, and by her maternal forebears, the Jaskewitz family.

ArchivalResource: 17.0 c.f. (51 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes),1 reel of microfilm (35mm),1 tape recording, and687 photographs; plusadditions of 2.5 c.f.,3611 photographs, and92 negatives.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692789 View