Administration records, 1950-1986, undated.

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Administration records, 1950-1986, undated.

Records consist of correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, notes, by-laws, reports, press releases, agendas, financial documents, minutes, schedules and calendars, manuals, directories, statistics, telegrams, press clippings, photographs and other materials dating 1950 to 1986 and undated. These documents issue from the offices of a succession of museum curators, including W.R. Valentiner, Paul Wescher, Anne Jones, Burton B. Fredericksen, and Gillian Wilson, as well as from the offices of Trustee Norris Bramlett and J. Paul Getty himself. Other records also originated in the Security and Personnel departments of the museum. Subjects are varied, but include financial matters, personnel, art acquisition, remodeling and expansion of the museum, security, visitor policies and statistics, visiting scholars, museum publications and reference queries.

13.14 linear feet : (31.5 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6812906

Getty Research Institute

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Wittmann, Otto, 1911-2001

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Otto Wittman, 1911-2001, museum director and consultant of Toledo, Ohio. From the description of Oral history interview with Otto Wittmann, 1981 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397653 Director of the Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art during World War II, Otto Wittmann served as a member of the Art Looting Investigation unit of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), within the U.S. War Department. The Art Looting Investigation unit was authorized as a project of the OSS...

Corzo, Miguel Angel (Mexican conservator, contemporary)

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Fredericksen, Burton B.

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Forster, Kurt Walter.

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Wilson, Gillian, 1941-....

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JONES, ANNE MARIAN

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Zeri, Federico

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Whitworth, Frank.

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Williams, Harold Ivory, 1949-2010

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Epithet: singer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x0000b6 ...

Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958

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Epithet: art historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000506.0x0002d7 Valentiner was a museum director, writer, and art historian. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany. Director, Detroit Institute of Art, 1924-1946, Director-Consultant, Los Angeles Museum of Art, 1946-1954, Director, J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, Calif., 1954, Director, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1955-1958. Editor, Art ...

Bramlett, Norris.

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Lehman, Yole.

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Staniskis, Joseph A.

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Brealey, John M. 1911-1989

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Getty, J. Paul (Jean Paul), 1892-1976

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American oil tycoon and art collector Jean Paul Getty was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on December 15, 1892 to George Franklin Getty (1855-1930) and Sarah Catherine McPherson Risher Getty. Around 1906 the Getty family moved to Los Angeles. J. Paul Getty eventually persuaded his father to shift the focus of the family petroleum business to the Los Angeles basin. Beginning in the early 1930s Getty lived in a house he built next to William Randolph Hearst's on the beach in Santa Monica. During Wo...

Briant, Elizabeth.

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Garrett, Stephen, 1922-

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Stothart, Herbert.

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Duke, Lani

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Birkmeyer, Karl.

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Getty, Gordon

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Capodieci, Barbara J.

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J. Paul Getty Museum

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The development of the PhotoArchive/ Library began in the earliest years of the development of the J. Paul Getty Museum during the mid- to late-1950s. Since 1983 the Photo Archive/Library has been part of the Getty Research Institute. From the description of Photo Archive budget information, 1976-1979. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 85173571 After considering various options for expanding his ranch house in Pacific Palisades, California, which had served as ...

J. Paul Getty Trust

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Fox, Janet E.

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Art Properties, Inc.

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Englander, Nancy

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Frel, Jirí

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Wescher, Paul, 1894-....

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Art historian, administrator; Santa Monica, Calif. He and his wife Mary collected pre-Columbian art and 20th century painting. From the description of Paul and Mary Wescher papers, 1920-1976 (bulk 1949-1976). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122576826 ...

Fink, Eleanor E.

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Getty, George F. (George Franklin), 1924-1973

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Kren, Thomas, 1950-....

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