Joseph Hergesheimer Letter, 1918

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Joseph Hergesheimer Letter, 1918

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00896.xml

The collection includes an autobiographical letter of Hergesheimer's youth, written in 1918.

0.1 cu. ft.; 1 folder

eng,

Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Hergesheimer, Joseph, 1880-1954

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Born February 15, 1880 in Philadelphia, Joseph Hergesheimer was the son of Joseph and Helen MacKellar Hergesheimer. He grew up in a stable, middle-class, suburban family. His father, a cartographer, worked for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Hergesheimer traveled to Europe on money inherited from his grandfather, studying and painting in Florence and Venice. By 1907, when he returned to the United States and married Dorothy He...