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Arabella Huntington Papers, 1888-1925

Title: Arabella Huntington Papers 1888-1925

Papers of the American philanthropist and collector. Her first husband was financier Collis P. Huntington; her second husband, Henry E. Huntington. Correspondence (1892-1923); inventories of paintings, jewelry, and real estate; bills and receipts from art dealers, galleries and stores, including Joseph Duveen, J. Seligmann, and Tiffany & Co.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/h/huntington_a.htm View

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

Jacques Seligmann & Co. records

Title: Jacques Seligmann & Co. records

The records of Jacques Seligmann & Co. measure approximately 203.1 linear feet and date from 1904 to 1978, with bulk dates from 1913 to 1974. The collection includes extensive correspondence files, reference material on American and European collectors and their collections, inventory and stock records, financial records, exhibition files, auction files, and the records of subsidiary companies. The collection is an invaluable resource in tracing the provenance of particular works of art and provides a comprehensive view of the activities of collectors and art dealers in the years leading up to and following World War II.

ArchivalResource: 203.1 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9967799ef-d6d8-4390-819b-3d9300dcf1d3 View

Jacques Seligmann & Co. records

Title: Jacques Seligmann & Co. records

The records of Jacques Seligmann & Co. measure approximately 203.1 linear feet and date from 1904 to 1978, with bulk dates from 1913 to 1974. The collection includes extensive correspondence files, reference material on American and European collectors and their collections, inventory and stock records, financial records, exhibition files, auction files, and the records of subsidiary companies. The collection is an invaluable resource in tracing the provenance of particular works of art and provides a comprehensive view of the activities of collectors and art dealers in the years leading up to and following World War II.

ArchivalResource: 203.1 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9967799ef-d6d8-4390-819b-3d9300dcf1d3 View

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959. Bernard and Mary Berenson, Papers (1880-2002, bulk 1880-1959) : a finding aid.

Title: Bernard and Mary Berenson, Papers (1880-2002, bulk 1880-1959) : a finding aid.

Includes Bernard Berenson and Mary Berenson's published and unpublished manuscripts, notes, diaries, letters, offprints of articles, surplus volumes of published books, biographical material, and personal photographs. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters to Bernard Berenson, but also some letters by the Berensons and Nicky Mariano. Among the correspondents included are: Baroness Alda Anrep, Margaret Scolari Barr, Robert Woods Bliss, Jacqueline Onassis, Kenneth Clark, Cass Canfield, John Coolidge, Duveen Brothers, William G. Constable, Charles H. Coster, Katherine Dunham, Max Eastmen, Henry Sayles Francis, Edward Waldo Forbes, Felix Frankfurter, Helen C. Frick, Isabella S. Gardner, Martha Gellhorn, J. Paul Getty, Bella da Costa Greene, Hamish Hamilton, Learned Hand, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Hofer, Robert Lehman, Walter Lippmann, Mary McCarthy, Agnes Mongan, Walter Pach, Harold W. Parsons, Carlo Placci, Arthur Kingsley Porter, Paul J. Sachs, Jacques Seligmann, King Gustaf Adolf VI of Sweden, Grenville L. Winthrop, and Edith Wharton.

ArchivalResource: 140 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463667699 View

Berenson, Bernard and Mary. Papers, 1880-2002, 1880-2002

Title: Berenson, Bernard and Mary. Papers, 1880-2002 1880-2002

ArchivalResource: 72.0 Linear feet; (216 file boxes, 25 large format folders, 8 folders, 17 card file boxes, 18 photo boxes, 4 rolls microfilm, 8 boxes photocopies from other repositories)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/ber00008/catalog View

Oral history interview with William Milliken

Title: Oral history interview with William Milliken

An interview of William Milliken conducted 1974 Dec. 27-1976 Mar. 13, by Dennis Barrie, for the Archives of American Art. Milliken speaks of his family background and history; his childhood; his education, and studies at Princeton; his first position as Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum; his involvement with the Frick and the Cooper Union Museum; his appointment to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1919, and becoming its director in 1930. He recalls William R. Valentiner, Jacques Seligmann, Isabella Stewart Gardner, J.P. Morgan, Henry Frick and others.

OralHistoryResource: 5 sound tape reels ; 5 in. (106 p. transcript)

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw998cdcaf0-9fcc-4ef1-922d-801f35d6a0dd View

Papers of Paul J. Sachs, 1903-2005

Title: Papers of Paul J. Sachs, 1903-2005

These papers of Fogg Art Museum associate director Paul J. Sachs document his administration of the museum, his teaching career at Harvard, and related professional activities. The papers consist primarily of correspondence and also include photographs, printed material, clippings, architectural drawings, reports, financial records, letters of introduction, insurance records, maps, funding appeals, minutes, memoranda, exhibition brochures, page proofs and press releases.

ArchivalResource: 99 file boxes + oversize materials

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/art00010/catalog View