Mae Reed Porter and Clyde Porter Papers 1839-1970

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Mae Reed Porter and Clyde Porter Papers 1839-1970

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Mae Reed Porter and her husband, Clyde Porter were historians of the American West whose work focused on the paintings of Alfred Jacob Miller and his patron, Sir William Drummond Stewart, who explored the Western territories in the 1830s and 1840s during the trapper and trader era.

24.87 cubic ft. (53 boxes)

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Ruxton, George Frederick Augustus, 1820-1848

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Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 1796-1871

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Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874

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Painter; Baltimore, Md. and Scotland. From the description of Alfred Jacob Miller manuscript and sketches, [undated] and 1837. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571456 ...

Mae Reed Porter and Clyde Porter

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Clyde Porter, born in St. Louis, Missouri, and Mae Reed, from Des Moines, met as classmates at Iowa State College and married in 1910. Clyde, like his father, was an executive with Kansas City Power & Light and benefactor of the Kansas City Museum. Mae Reed Porter was an historian of the American West and an art collector. She purchased a collection of sketches and watercolors, 1837-1838, of Alfred Jacob Miller. Miller was born in Baltimore and studied in Paris and Rome. In 1837...