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Putnam, Anne Eisner. Papers, 1913-1995.

Title: Papers, 1913-1995.

The papers include all variety of materials surrounding the life of Anne Eisner Putnam (AEP), some materials concerning the business of Camp Putnam, and notes and data on the Mbuti Pygmies. The materials concerning AEP's artistic career include: original drawings; lithographs of drawings; sketchbooks; loose sketches; slides, photographs and negatives of paintings and watercolors; juvenilia; portrait sketches; and costume studies. Subjects of original drawings are primarily Africa, life of the Pygmies, abstracts, nudes, figures, still life, portraits of Patrick Putnam, among others. There is a fairly complete set of photographs and slides of AEP's paintings and watercolors. Also includes art exhibition photos of her works taken by photographers Peter A. Juley, Aaron Siskind, and others. The writings series includes AEP's autograph manuscripts, typescripts and carbons, notebooks, notes, journals, stories, transcriptions of Pygmie legends, drafts and notes for Madami, lecture notes, and drafts for lectures. Topics concern the Mbuti Pygmies and all aspects of life at Camp Putnam such as gardening, African languages, movie ideas, Ituri forest animals and people, weddings, ceremonies, and many others. Other series include: materials concerning the Putnam collection now housed at the American Museum of Natural History; anthropologist Colin Turnbull; Camp Putnam miscellany (including guest registers); financial and banking records of both AEP and Camp Putnam, and biographical miscellany concerning AEP such as clippings, passports, resumes, and other material. Correspondence includes: friends and family (both Eisners and Putnams), banking and financial correspondence, condolence letters to the family on AEP's death, and some third-party correspondence. The visual materials series, is a combination of all the visual materials from the Anne Eisner Putnam papers and the Patrick Putnam papers (unprocessed as of January 2006). This includes photographs, slides, negatives, prints, printed graphics, picture postcards, and a few manuscript lists concerning groups of images. Subjects of images concern the Putnam family, Eisner family, early lives of both AEP and Patrick Putnam, Patrick Putnam's early trips to Europe (1924), the Far East (1925-1927), New Mexico (1938), and his African years before he met AEP (beginning 1927). There are extensive photographs of Camp Putnam, the Belgium Congo and other areas of Africa (especially Nigeria), Mbuti Pygmies and other African natives, African collection items, portraits of individuals and groups, African animals, and other topics. Includes photographs by the photographers: Colin M. Turnbull, Herbert Lang, Francis S. Chapman, Aaron Siskind, and others.

ArchivalResource: 47 boxes, 4 v. (16 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79413987 View

Dorothy Eisner papers, 1923-2008

Title: Dorothy Eisner papers 1923-2008

The Dorothy Eisner Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and ephemera that document periods of her personal life and artwork. Eisner's correspondence files contain letters from fellow painters: nearly thirty from her friend Dorothy Andrews (1918-2008), who wrote mostly from her home in Khania, Crete; three from William Kienbusch (1914-1980); and one each from Sarah Freedman McPherson (1894-1978) and Emil Holzhauer (1887-1986); there are also letters from her stepdaughter, the painter Joan McDonald Miller. However, the bulk of the correspondence is between Eisner and her parents William and Florine Eisner, and includes letters in which she describes her interactions with Leon Trotsky during the Dewey Commission's hearing in Mexico City. Additional items related to that experience are the nearly fifty informal snapshot photographs taken in and around the hearing, Eisner's admission card, and one letter from Trotsky. Other friends in the correspondence files include the writers Tess Slesinger (1905-1945) and Diana Trilling (1906-1996). Other papers include copies of the constitution of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, and an autobiographical memoir written by her grandfather Moritz Eisner, who had emigrated from Vienna to the United States. A folder of miscellaneous personal papers holds some childhood letters and drawings, a bank book from the early 1930s, and a few financial papers from the late 1970s-early 1980s. A binder of photographs and a scrapbook of clippings, photographs, and ephemera, supplemented by folders of announcements, brochures, and installation photographs, document Eisner's paintings and collages, and exhibitions of her work. The collection also includes two published books of photographs by Walker Evans.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.eisner View

Eisner, Dorothy. Dorothy Eisner papers, 1925-2008.

Title: Dorothy Eisner papers, 1925-2008.

The Dorothy Eisner Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and ephemera that document periods of her personal life and artwork. Eisner's correspondence files contain letters from fellow painters: nearly thirty from her friend Dorothy Andrews (1918-2008), who wrote mostly from her home in Khania, Crete; three from William Kienbusch (1914-1980); and one each from Sarah Freedman McPherson (1894-1978) and Emil Holzhauer (1887-1986); there are also letters from her stepdaughter, the painter Joan McDonald Miller. However, the bulk of the correspondence is between Eisner and her parents, and includes letters in which she describes her interactions with Leon Trotsky during the Dewey Commission's hearing in Mexico City. Additional items related to that experience are the nearly fifty informal snapshot photographs taken in and around the hearing, Eisner's admission card, and one letter from Trotsky. Other friends in the correspondence files include the writers Tess Slesinger (1905-1945) and Diana Trilling (1906-1996). A folder of miscellaneous personal papers holds some childhood letters and drawings, a bank book from the early 1930s, and a few Social Security papers from the late 1970s-early 1980s. A scrapbook of clippings, photographs, and ephemera, supplemented by folders of announcements, brochures, and installation photographs, document exhibitions of Eisner's paintings and collages mounted during her lifetime. The collection also includes two published books of Walker Evans's photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear feet (4 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702158803 View

Joseph A. Towles papers, circa 1920s-2009.

Title: Joseph A. Towles papers, circa 1920s-2009.

The collection contains eight different series of materials that document various aspects of the lives and careers, both separately and together, of Colin Turnbull and Joseph Towles. Anthropological research files focus mostly on their field work on the Mbuti and Mbo pygmies of the Congo area and the Ik of Uganda. Professional papers document their work in academic and museum settings. There are personal papers of their domestic life; fictional writings of Joseph Towles; a professional and personal photograph series; personal and professional films and audio tape, including materials documenting their African fieldwork and association with the camp of Patrick and Anne Putnam; slides documenting African fieldwork and travels; and a series documenting the collection itself. Despite the fact the majority of materials document the life and achievements of Colin Turnbull, this collection, holding both Turnbull's and Joseph Towles' papers, is named for Joseph Towles at Turnbull's request. There is also a separate collection of African, religious, and domestic artifacts collected by them.

ArchivalResource: 71.25 linear feet (50 record cartons, 13 archival boxes, 4 oversize, and 3 slide cases)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/471778565 View

Anne Eisner Putnam papers

Title: Anne Eisner Putnam papers

The scattered papers of painter Anne Eisner Putnam consist of 40 items and date from 1936 to 1968. Found is an application for Who's Who of American Women, and two letters concerning her book and artwork. Printed material includes clippings (1936-1965) about exhibitions of her artwork in New York, her experiences in Africa, press releases, and her obituary. Photographs are of Putnam's paintings; of Putnam at "Camp Putnam" in the Ituri Rainforest in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) with members of one of the Congo Pygmy tribes; a snapshot of Putnam; and a portrait of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam.

ArchivalResource: 40 Items

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw99ad42a53-9f45-4395-8aa1-fc0f13fced32 View

Richard Aldrich papers, 1842-1956 (inclusive), 1883-1938 (bulk).

Title: Richard Aldrich papers, 1842-1956 (inclusive), 1883-1938 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, andother papers of the music critic Richard Aldrich (1863-1937), including collectedphotographs and programs. Also includes collection of letters from Aldrich to OttoDresel (1826-1890).

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear feet (9 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01976 View