Blanche Harding SewallPapers 1847-1959

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Blanche Harding SewallPapers 1847-1959

The collection consists ofcorrespondence, college materials, pamphlets and programs, materials related tothe construction of Sewall residence and the Sewall's Japan trip. The dates forthis collection range from 1847 to 1959 with the bulk of the material rangingfrom 1935 to 1948.

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Rice University - Alumni and Alumnae.

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Sewall, Blanche Harding

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Blanche Harding Sewall (Mrs. Cleveland Sewall) was a native of Fort Worth, Texas and attended Rice Institute with the class of 1917. She was an artist, philanthropist and, as a patron of the arts, a founding member of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She organized a private foundation, the Library of Arts. At her husband's death in 1942, she assumed operations of his wholesale grocery company, Carson Sewall & Co. Marine Division. As a memorial to her husband, she donated funds for the const...

Sewall House.

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Sewall family - Archives.

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Garden Club of America

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Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942

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In 1887 Cram joined with Charles Wentworth to open an architectural office (Cram and Wentworth) in Boston. In 1891 Bertram G. Goodhue joined them. Shortly thereafter Wentworth died and the firm became Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, which it remained until 1910 when Goodhue left to form his own firm in New York. Cram & Ferguson kept that name even when younger partners joined in 1925 and after Ferguson died in 1926. From the description of [Unidentified church] [graphic] : [perspec...