Peter Newell family papers 1840-1986 1884-1950

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Peter Newell family papers 1840-1986 1884-1950

The Peter Newell Family Papers consists of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, photographs, drawings, paintings, prints, toys, and sculpture by or relating to Peter Newell and his family, including his sons-in-law Howard McCormick and Alfred Z. Baker. Correspondence files contain letters from artists, writers, and editors of the period; family in Kansas, Illinois, New Jersey; Clendenon Sheaf Newell at Cornell University; as well as family friends Frances Sage Bradley, Walter Karig and Charles Edward Smith. The collection includes over 3,000 sketches, preparatory drawings, finished illustrations, printed proofs and tearsheets for Newell's book and magazine work. Also included are 67 mammoth plate photographs of the American West and Mexico by William Henry Jackson, presumably acquired by Newell.

Total Boxes: 256; Other Storage Formats: Oversize, 49 Oil Paintings; Linear Feet: 371.50

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Periodical Publishers Association of America.

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Smith, Charles Edward.

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Exposition Universelle (1900 : Paris, France)

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

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Renowned photographer of Western landscapes, employed by the United States Geological Survey and commercial enterprises to document wilderness areas and Native American cultures. From the description of Colorado Views [picture], ca. 1870-1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 46460710 Official photographer for the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories conducted by Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden. From the description of Papers, 1851-1878. (Duke University Library). ...

Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)

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Art school. Organized in 1875 by students as a revolt against the National Academy of Design school. From the description of Art Students League records, 1875-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565877 ...

Smith, Charles Edward, 1904-1970

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Smith was Dean of the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Charles Edward Smith papers, 1933-1971 (bulk 1955-1967) (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26631877 ...

McCormick, Howard, 1875-1943

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Karig, Walter, 1898-1956

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Max Carlton Miller (1899-1967) was born February 9, 1899, at Traverse City, Michigan. The Miller family moved to Everett, Washington while Max was a child, and then to a homestead on the Montana prairie. Miller returned to Everett to attend high school and enlisted in the Navy during WWI. Following his discharge, he finished high school and attended the School of Journalism at the University of Washington. At the time he was to graduate, he was at Shelby, Montana covering the Demsey...

Newell, Clendenon Sheaf, 1892-1918.

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Periodical Publishers' Association of America.

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Harper & Brothers.

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Correspondence (129 letters) and typescript (unsigned) revisions and notes, 1954, (23 p.) concerning the publication of The Scope of Total Architecture by Walter Gropius. Includes 22 letters from Gropius. From the description of Correspondence with Walter Gropius, 1952-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612369957 Publishing firm in New York City. From the description of Harper & Brothers Records 1817-1929. (Columbia University In the City of New ...

Newell, Peter, 1862-1924

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Peter Newell, an illustrator and author, was born in Illinois and lived in and around New York City for most of his life. Extensive information on Newell and his career appears in the finding aid for the Peter Newell Family Papers (YCAL MSS 62). From the guide to the Peter Newell collection, 1893-1914, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Peter Newell was an American illustrator and author of children's books, including Topsys and turvys and The slant book . ...

Cornell University

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Bradley, Frances Sage, 1862-1949

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Frances Sage Bradley, physician and author, was born 28 August 1862 in Fort Gaines, Georgia, and died 12 February 1949, in Washington, D.C. She married artist and editor, Horace James Bradley (c1862-1896) in 1885 and moved to New York City, were he was art editor of HARPER'S MONTHLY and HARPER'S WEEKLY. After his death (1896), Frances Bradley studied at the Woman's Medical College of New York and was one of the first two women graduates of Cornell's School of Medicine (1899). She practiced in At...

Baker, A. Z. (Alfred Zantzinger), 1870-

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