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Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31-ead.xml View

Lovett, Jennifer Gordon. Curatorial Office Records of Jennifer Gordon Lovett, 1983-1995.

Title: Curatorial Office Records of Jennifer Gordon Lovett, 1983-1995.

These are the records kept by Jennifer Gordon Lovett during her career at the Clark Art Institute from 1983-1995. These files cover a large spectrum of curatorial office concerns including meeting notes, budgets, exhibition ideas, photo orders, loan records, acquisitions files, business correspondence, and grant applications. There is material concerning the CAI trustees, grad students, interns in the curatorial office, lenders, donors, and staff at other museums. This series contains a great deal of photocopied correspondence that was forwarded to Lovett but not directly addressed to her. Some of the correspondence is addressed to Lovett's assistant, Heather McIntosh.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263161036 View

Brooke, David S. Records and Papers of David Brooke, Director, 1975-1996.

Title: Records and Papers of David Brooke, Director, 1975-1996.

David S. Brooke, Director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute from 1977-1994, was born in Walton-on-Thames, England in 1931. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Harvard University. Before joining the Clark, he served as assistant curator at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA from 1960-1961, as assistant to the director at the Smith College Museum in Northampton, MA from 1963-1965, as chief curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto from 1965-1968, and as the director of the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, NH from 1968-1977. The majority of these records came from David Brooke's office but a smaller group was found at a later date in the Director's Vault. The records retrieved from Brooke's office are divided into categories of professional records and personal research. The professional records span a wide variety of museum concerns including research and planning for exhibitions, grant applications, the museum s acquisitions policy, budgets, annual reports, inventories, lists of artworks, correspondence, and speeches Brooke gave to students and staff. There are particularly extensive files of research on William Bouguereau and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. The Bouguereau research pertains to Brooke's 1983 publication "A Biography of Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr" and a 1985 exhibit "Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr: A Biography of a Painting." The files on Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema concern the acquisition of the Alma-Tadema painting, "The Women of Amphissa," in 1978, which was the first major acquisition during Brooke's tenure. The correspondence in this series contains exchanges with Clark staff, researchers, donors and lenders, and staff at other museums and foundations. The professional records also contain eulogies for John Edward Sawyer, George Heard Hamilton, and Talcott Banks, and poetry by Daniel Perry, architect of the 1955 building. There is an outline and bibliography of materials in the Clark Archives detailing the papers and articles left by RSC and listing articles written about the Clark family. There are daily planners for the years 1977-1992. There are several audiotapes of interviews with David Brooke and a videotape labeled "Portrait by Clemens." Brooke s research on RSC and the Clark family is divided into the categories of RSC Interests, Clark Family Research, Diary Photocopies, RSC Letters, Collectors, and Dealers. RSC Interests contains copies of excerpts from RSC's diaries, Brooke's notes, articles, and other research on topics that particularly interested RSC, such as horses, books, military history, and food and wine. The Clark Family Research includes articles, genealogical records, and folders of Brooke s notes on RSC and his family members. The Diary Photocopies section includes photocopies, transcripts, and indices of RSC' s diaries. RSC's letters includes both photocopies of letters to and from RSC, and Brooke s correspondence with people who knew RSC and other researchers about his research. The autobiography of Paul Clemens is also found in this section. The Collectors and Dealers sections contain Brooke's research about and correspondence with other prominent art collectors of Clark's time and art and book dealers with whom Clark dealt. Finally, this series includes an index of books on military history once owned by Robert Sterling Clark and currently in the collection of the Beinecke Library. The records from the Director's Vault contain planning materials and drafts of the 25th anniversary report, copies of director's reports, research about and correspondence with art dealers, photocopies of early institutional records such as the articles of incorporation and trustee meeting minutes from the 1950s, and photocopies of catalogue information for the RSC military library.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263131260 View

Cunningham, Charles Crehore, 1910-1979. Curatorial Office Records of Charles Cunningham, 1973-1977.

Title: Curatorial Office Records of Charles Cunningham, 1973-1977.

Born in 1910 in Mamaroneck, NY, Charles C. Cunningham attended Harvard and became a curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1935. From 1941 to 1966 he was the director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. He went on to become director of the Art Institute of Chicago until he retired from this position in 1972. George Heard Hamilton, then director of the Clark, invited Cunningham to become chief curator. Cunningham was responsible for two major exhibits at the Clark, The Elegant Academics in 1974 and Jongkind and the Pre-Impressionists: The Painters of the Ecole Saint-Simeon in 1976. He also initiated the Conservation Laboratory, which opened in 1977. Cunningham retired from the Clark that year and died in 1979. The Curatorial Office Records of Charles C. Cunningham primarily contain correspondence about potential museum acquisitions and discussions of loans with staff at other museums. Due to his long and respected career, Cunningham had many acquaintances and close friends among curators and directors at other art institutions, as well as among art historians and dealers. The correspondence in these records includes numerous exchanges about intellectual and business concerns in the art world. The high esteem and affection his peers felt for him is evidenced in letters that blur the line between professional and personal. Other materials in this series include: class lists and grades, assignments, and correspondence with students from several courses taught by Cunningham; CAI memoranda; and financial records about costs of exhibits and loans.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263070846 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18809 View

Thomas J. Dodd Papers, undated, 1919-1971.

Title: Thomas J. Dodd Papers undated, 1919-1971.

The Thomas J. Dodd Papers illuminate the diverse public life of a self-styled crusader. The collection consists primarily of material from Dodd's Senate years (1959-1971) and the Nuremberg war crimes trial before the International Military Tribunal from 1945-1946.

ArchivalResource: 220.0 Linear feet

http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/findaids/Dodd_Thomas/MSS19940065.html View

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Director's Office Records, 1955-1977.

Title: Director's Office Records, 1955-1977.

The Director's Office records 1955-1977 are comprised almost entirely of business correspondence between the Director of the museum and other people and institutions though other records, such as receipts and publications, are occasionally present. During this nascent phase of the museum the Director's Office handled almost all aspects of business and consequently these files reflect a wide spectrum of museum concerns including publicity, acquisitions, finances, staff hiring, construction, and expansion of the museum. Some files are devoted to individuals and institutions while others are labelled with subjects such as Inquiries, Acquisitions, and Employment. The subject headings and content of the materials remains quite consistent throughout the years, even through the tenures of different Directors.

ArchivalResource: 31.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263174350 View

James Matthew Auer photographs

Title: James Matthew Auer photographs

Photographs by Auer from a 1977 exhibition, "Through the Studio Door," at the Oshkosh Public Museum. Contains photographs of artists and celebrities who work or exhibit in Wisconsin, photographs of works of art, and miscellaneous photos.

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Brooks, John H. Records of John H. Brooks, 1968-2007.

Title: Records of John H. Brooks, 1968-2007.

This record group consists of carbon copies of John H. Brooks's outgoing business correspondence from 1968-1977. They are mostly short letters and there are rarely replies or earlier correspondence from the recipients. Brooks was employed by the museum beginning in 1968 as the assistant, and later associate, director. The content of this correspondence primarily deals with planning and organizing events at the Clark, confirming school group visits, confirming flight and hotel reservations for visiting lecturers, and arranging meetings between staff members.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263146161 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

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Prints & Drawing Dept. Curatorial Office Records of the Prints and Drawings Department, 1952-1996 (bulk 1958-1994)

Title: Curatorial Office Records of the Prints and Drawings Department, 1952-1996 (bulk 1958-1994)

This series contains records of the Prints and Drawings Collection from 1952-1996. These records were primarily created by William Collins, curator from 1958-1960; William Ittman, curator from 1967-1971; and Rafael Fernandez, curator from 1975-1994. In the periods between the tenures of these curators the museum director and/or curators and staff from other departments handled prints and drawings business. Consequently, the series also contains files from the former directors Peter Guille, George Heard Hamilton, and David Brooke, and from curatorial assistants including Tom Fels and Kristen Collins. There is also a group of files from Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, professor of art history at Yale University, related to his 1964 publication of Drawings from the Clark Art Institute. In general the files consist of correspondence about prints and drawings acquisitions, loans, and reproductions, research for catalogues and exhibits, inventories of the collection, bills, student papers, and departmental reports.

ArchivalResource: 6.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263172181 View

Oral history interview with Charles Cunningham

Title: Oral history interview with Charles Cunningham

An interview of Charles Cunningham conducted 1977 April 18-19, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording: 4 sound tape reels ; 5 in.Transcript: 109 p.

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw95b844aed-4f95-43e4-977e-888e8deebc06 View

Wadsworth Atheneum. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1952-1960.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1952-1960.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (5 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190843133 View

Hook, Keith, b. 1917. Greater Hartford Chapter of UNESCO records, 1949-1965.

Title: Greater Hartford Chapter of UNESCO records, 1949-1965.

Papers and records compiled by the officers of the Greater Hartford Chapter of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Incorporated in 1950, the papers reflect activity until 1965. Within the collection is one reel-to-reel tape, believed to be a message by Sir Alfred Zimmern. Papers and records from the chapter's treasurers, secretaries, and chairmen form the bulk of the collection. Other items include membership lists, UN Day program material, a variety of UN/UNESCO publications, account books, and copies of the by-laws. Among the officers were Sir Alfred Zimmern (Chairman), Charles C. Cunningham (Chairman), Keith Hook (Treasurer), John Woodard (Treasurer), Eleanor B. Wolf (Secretary), and Olga Erickson (Secretary).

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (5 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/312781313 View

Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

Title: Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

These papers of Fogg Art Museum directors John Coolidge and AgnesMongan document their administration of the museum and related professional activities. Mostof Coolidge's papers were created during his administration, from 1948 to 1968; most ofMongan's papers are from her tenure as acting director and then director (1968 to 1971). Thepapers consist primarily of correspondence, including Coolidge's correspondence with artdealers, and also include photographs, memoranda, reports, meeting minutes, blueprints, printedmaterial, letters of recommendation, page proofs, financial documents, sketches and grantproposals.

ArchivalResource: 152 file boxes + oversize materials

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/art00017/catalog View

Julius S. Held papers, ca. 1918-1999

Title: Julius S. Held papers ca. 1918-1999

Research papers of Julius Samuel Held, American art historian renowned for his scholarship in 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, expert on Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. The ca. 70 linear feet of material, dating from the mid-1920s to 1999, includes correspondence, research material for Held's writings and his teaching and lecturing activities, with extensive travel notes. Well documented is Held's advisory role in building the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. A significant portion of the ca. 29 linear feet of study photographs documents Flemish and Dutch artists from the 15th to the 17th century.

ArchivalResource: 168 boxes; (ca. 70 lin. ft.)

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Archives pamphlet file : Cunningham, Charles C. : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

Title: Archives pamphlet file : Cunningham, Charles C. : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83858535 View

Eleanor Howland Bunce papers

Title: Eleanor Howland Bunce papers

The papers of arts administrator Eleanor Howland Bunce measure 0.7 linear feet and date from 1936 to 1987. Found are general correspondence and greeting cards, and subject files on artists, art collectors, and galleries.

ArchivalResource: 0.7 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw92f80b428-f6e1-4a97-b014-ee3e06ca53f1 View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965. Papers, 1903-2005.

Title: Papers, 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 files boxes + oversize materials.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/424592354 View

Cunningham, Charles C. Cunningham, Charles C.: Art World Personality Files.

Title: Cunningham, Charles C.: Art World Personality Files.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228431398 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

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

Coolidge, John, 1913-1995. Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006.

Title: Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006.

These papers of Fogg Art Museum directors John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan document their administration of the museum and related professional activities. Most of Coolidge's papers were created during his administration, from 1948 to 1968; most of Mongan's papers are from her tenure as acting director and then director (1968 to 1971). The papers consist primarily of correspondence, including Coolidge's correspondence with art dealers, and also include photographs, memoranda, reports, meeting minutes, blueprints, printed material, letters of recommendation, page proofs, financial documents, sketches and grant proposals.

ArchivalResource: 152 file boxes + oversize materials

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434571462 View