Joyce Jones Papers, 1930-1980

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Joyce Jones Papers, 1930-1980

University of Michigan botanist and Ann Arbor handweaver. Papers and photographs relating to her participation in various local art organizations, especially the Ann Arbor Art Association, the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the fine arts section of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters; and her participation in handweaving associations, including the Ann Arbor Handweaver's Guild, the Handweaver's Guild of America, the Michigan League of Handweavers, and the handweaving classes at the Y.M.-Y.W.C.A.

2 linear ft.

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Bentley Historical Library

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Ann Arbor Art Fairs (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

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Jones, Joyce, 1897-1980.

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University of Michigan botanist and Ann Arbor handweaver. From the description of Joyce Jones papers, 1930-1980. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420618 Joyce Hedrick Jones was born July 1, 1897 in Fort Recovery, Ohio. She received a bachelor's and master's degree from Miami of Ohio University and came to Ann Arbor in 1929. In 1933, Joyce married Volney H. Jones, a well-known professor of ethnobotany at the University of Michigan. During the next ...

Michigan academy of science, arts and letters

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In March of 1892, University of Michigan zoology professor J. E. Reighard addressed a circular letter to well-known men in Michigan discussing the possible formation of a state society of naturalists "to comprise zoologists, botanists and physiologist." This effort was unsuccessful, but in 1894, Professors F. C. Newcombe, botany, J. B. Steere, zoology, and W. P. Lombard, physiology, Called for a meeting to organize a society whose role would be to co-ordinate scientific research and...

Ann Arbor Handweaver's Guild.

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Ann Arbor Art Association.

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The Ann Arbor Art Association was formed in 1909 by a group of local artists and University of Michigan art department faculty members who wished to further their talents and interests by collaborating with like-minded people in the community. Their first exhibit home was in Alumni Memorial Hall. The Association continued to hold exhibits, both juried and non-juried, in the Hall until the 1940s when it moved to the galleries of the Rackham building. As the Association ga...

Michigan League of Handweavers.

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Handweavers Guild of America

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Ann Arbor Young Men's-Young Women's Christian Association (Mich.)

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