James Jackson Jarves papers 1838-1954

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James Jackson Jarves papers 1838-1954

1838-1954

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Consists of family correspondence, general correspondence, diaries, and memorabilia of the Jarves family. Major family correspondents are James Jackson Jarves, his first wife, Elizabeth Russell Swain Jarves, his son Horatio Deming Jarves, and his second wife Isabel Heyden Jarves.

6.5 Linear Feet (7 boxes)

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 11648253

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Jarves, James Jackson, 1818-1888

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James Jackson Jarves (1818–1888) was an American newspaper editor, and art critic who is remembered above all as the first American art collector to buy Italian primitives and Old Masters. Jarves was the editor of an early weekly newspaper in the Hawaiian Islands, the Polynesian (1840–48). During the 1850s, Jarves relocated to Florence, Italy where he served as the U.S. vice-consul and collected art. After other American museums refused to buy Jarves' collection, Yale University granted him a ...