Dorothea A. Dreier papers

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Dorothea A. Dreier papers

1881-1941

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The papers of the painter Dorothea A. Dreier measure 2.6 linear feet and date from 1881 to 1941, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1887-1923. These papers document not only her life and work as an artist, but also the activities of her distinguished family in the realms of social reform, women's suffrage, and politics, through correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, broadsides, exhibition catalogs, publications, photographs, ephemera, a sketchbook, and legal and financial records.Biographical materials include official documents, childhood writings, notes, ephemera, membership cards, invitations, programs, notes, lists, and legal and financial records.Measuring 1.2 linear feet, correspondence is the largest and most extensive series and consists of letters from family and close friends as well as business correspondence. Although the letters in this series span from 1881-1925, a large number stem from Dorothea's 1913-1916 stay at Saranac Lake for treatment of her tuberculosis.Family correspondents consist of members of Dorothea's immediate family as well as more distant relations, including those who resided in her parent's native Germany. Letters from her sisters Mary E. Dreier, and Margaret (Gretchen) Dreier Robins, her sister-in-law Ethyl Eyre Valentine Dreier and brother-in-law Raymond Robins provide some insight into the varied social reform and political movements, such as women's suffrage and the Bull Moose Party, with which they were allied. Additionally both Mary and Margaret were active in the Women's Trade Union League, Margaret having served as the League's president from 1907-1922. Therefore their correspondence is a rich resource for scholars interested in women's history and the history of the Progressive Era in the United States. Due to their shared interest in the arts, her sister Katherine S. Dreier's letters provide information about her own work as an artist, particularly when she was studying abroad, exhibitions in which she participated or visited, and the Cooperative Mural Workshop, a combination art school and workshop that she ran from 1914-1917 with Walt Kuhn, with substantial financial help from Dorothea.Additionally through her Brooklyn neighborhood, art classes, and support of numerous social causes, Dorothea had a large circle of friends. Frequent correspondents include the Bartlett sisters, Agnes, Mary, and Maud, Rebecca Forbes, Ellen Kuhn Mahan, and Charlotte Schetter. Notable art world correspondents include Vincent van Gogh's sister Elisabeth du Quesne van Gogh, the American Tonalist landscape painter Charles Harold Davis and Dreier's painting instructor and close friend, the painter Walter Shirlaw.Printed materials reflect the varied interests and activities of Dorothea Dreier and select members of her immediate family through exhibition announcements, catalogs, including a numbered copy of the <emph render="italic">The Dorothea A. Dreier Exhibition</emph> from the memorial exhibition of her work at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1925, newspaper clippings relating to her career, the activities of other members of the Dreier family, art and politics; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, brochures and blank postcards.Photographs include both studio portraits and informal snapshots of Dorothea and Katherine Dreier; group photographs including Dorothea; travel photographs, many of which appear to have been taken in the Netherlands; and photographs of Teddy Roosevelt giving a speech at a railway station. Artworks include a sketchbook by Dreier, five sketchbooks by friend and teacher, Walter Shirlaw, and an unidentified artist, a pencil drawing by Shirlaw, an engraving by Huquier and an etching by Ernest D. Roth.

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Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933

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Resident of Saginaw, MI. From the description of Diary, 1863-1865. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 31683745 ...

Davis, Frances Darby.

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Sherman, Julia Munson, d. 1972.

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Bartlett, Mary F.

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Dreier, Theodor.

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Bartlett, Maud W.

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Skeel, Emily E. F., b. 1867.

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Dreier, Ludwig.

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Bartlett, Agnes Willard.

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Bartlett, Agnes Willard.

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Bartlett, Mary Buffum

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Willard Bartlett (1846-1925) was born in Massachusetts and lived in Brooklyn for the latter 56 years of his life. He graduated from New York University in 1868, and in 1870 he wed Mary Fairbanks Buffum of Brooklyn, with whom he had two daughters, Maud W. and Agnes W. Bartlett. Bartlett practiced law with Elihu Root from 1869 to 1883, and in 1884 became a Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State. He went on to serve as an Appellate Division Justice in the Supreme Court, an Associate Justice...

Dreier, Theodor

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Mahan, Ellen Kuhn.

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Bartlett, Maud W.

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Dreier, Ethyl Eyre Valentine.

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Dreier, Ludwig.

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Schetter, Charlotte.

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Bartlett, Mary F.

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Davis, Frances Darby.

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Dreier, Mary E. (Mary Elisabeth), 1875-1963

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Mary Dreier (September 26, 1875 - August 15, 1963) was a New York social reformer. Mary Elisabeth Dreier was born in New York city New York, on September 26, 1875. Her parents, Theodor Dreier, a successful businessman, and Dorthea Dreier, were both immigrants from Germany. Her mother's maiden name was Dreier and her parents were cousins from Bremen, Germany, where their ancestors were civic leaders and merchants. Theodor came to the United States in 1849 and became partner at the New York bra...

Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949

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Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) was a watercolorist, lithographer, and etcher from New York, N.Y. Kuhn was a central figure in the organization of the Armory Show, and artistic consultant to the Union Pacific Railroad. From the description of Walt Kuhn, Kuhn family papers, and Armory Show records, 1859-1978, bulk 1900-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82042078 Painter; New York, N.Y. Organizer of the 1913 Armory Show. Adele Weibel w...

Women's trade union league of America

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The Women's Trade Union League was founded in Boston in 1903 during the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor. Local branches were organized within a year in Boston, Chicago and New York. The League worked through unionization campaigns, educational programs, and legislative lobbying to improve the working conditions of women in the industrial labor force. The organization was dissolved in 1950. From the description of Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and its ...

Bartlett, Mary F.

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Bartlett, Agnes Willard

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Schetter, Charlotte

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Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1938.

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Bartlett, Maud W.

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Robins, Margaret Dreier 1868-1945

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Women's rights leader and social activist. Margaret Dreier Robins was born in 1868 in Brooklyn, New York. She left New York in 1925 and moved to Florida with her husband Raymond Robins. The Robins' resided at a large estate called Chinsegut Hill near the town of Brooksville. Margaret was a founder and leader of the National Women's Trade Union League and an outspoken crusader for equal rights for women in the workplace. She and her husband were also active in politics and campaigned for candidat...

Dreier, Ethyl Eyre Valentine

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Cooperative Mural Workshop.

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Gogh, Elisabeth du Quesne van, 1859-1936

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Forbes, Rebecca

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Dreier, Dorothea A., 1870-1923

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Landscape painter; Brooklyn, NY; b. 1870, d. 1923; sister of Katherine Dreier Theodor Dreier emigrated from Germany around 1849, settled in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised four daughters (Mary, Margaret, Dorothea, and Katherine) and a son (H. Edward). Mary and Margaret grew up to work for women's suffrage and other social causes. Dorothea and Katherine Dreier studied painting at the Art Students League, with Walter Shirlaw, and in Europe. While these latter two were in Hollan...

Shirlaw, Walter, 1838-1909

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Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952

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Painter and co-founder/president of the Société Anonyme, Inc. From the description of Correspondence, 1928-1929. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122577860 Katherine S. Dreier, artist, promoter of modern art, and co-founder of the Société Anonyme. Société Anonyme, organization founded in 1920 by Katherine S. Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray to promote modern art among the public. From the description of Katherin...

Mahan, Ellen Kuhn

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Robins, Raymond, 1873-1954

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