Papers, 1776-1942.

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Papers, 1776-1942.

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Papers of P.C. Brooks 3d of Medford, Mass., contain genealogical materials on the Brooks family; papers concerning Brooks family properties in Medford and Boston, including estate inventories; notes and papers written by Gorham and P.C. Brooks I; correspondence and receipts pertaining to the purchase of paintings, including a series of letters by J. Foxcroft Cole; and inventories of books, silver, and objets d'art. Among the correspondents are Shepherd Brooks; Charles F. Adams; Saltonstall family members; artists B.C. Porter, Sarah Whitman, J.S. Sargent, Anders Zorn, W.M. Hunt, and Cyrus Dallin. Includes a series of papers (1912) concerning Brooks's purchase of Dallin's Indian sculpture for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Collection contains photographs and exhibition catalogues as well.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Art museum; Boston, Mass. From the description of Exhibition of water colors by American & European artists : February 26 to April 14, 1929 / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220207458 ...

Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915

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Soldier, businessman, civic leader and historian. Descendant of two presidents and the son of a noted diplomat, Adams served with distinction as a Union officer during the Civil War. After the war, he became a nationally recognized authority on the railroad industry, chairing the Massachusetts Railroad Commission from 1869 to 1879, and ultimately taking on the presidency of the Union Pacifc Railroad for six stormy years, 1884-1890. From 1890 to 1915, Adams was content to be a man of a...

Brooks, Gorham, 1795-1855.

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Zorn, Anders, 1860-1920

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Saltonstall family.

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Brooks, Peter Chardon, 1831-1920.

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Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925

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Florence 1856-1925 London. From the description of Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew, 1868-1925) [painting]. [ca. 1905] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906593 Anglo-American painter. From the description of Letters, 1881-1916. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81028068 Sargent was an American-born painter who lived and worked in France, England and elsewhere. From the description of [Letter] Sunday, 33, T...

Whitman, Sarah

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Brooks family.

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Porter, Benjamin Curtis, 1845-1908.

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Brooks, Shepherd, 1837-

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Cole, Joseph Foxcroft, 1837-1892

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Dallin, Cyrus E. (Cyrus Edwin), 1861-1944

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American sculptor. From the description of Letter, 1929 May 11, Arlington Heights, Mass., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184907322 Sculptor; Arlington Heights, Massachusetts. From the description of Cyrus Edwin Dallin papers, 1883-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122647980 Cyrus E. Dallin (1861-1944) was an American sculptor and teacher. He was an important figure an American sculpture and taught for more than forty ...

Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879

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William Morris Hunt (1824-1879) was a painter, portrait painter, and instructor from Boston, Mass. From the description of William Morris Hunt photographs and catalogs, ca. 1878-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122333561 William Morris Hunt (1824-1879) was a painter and instructor from Boston, Mass. Hunt drowned in the Isle of Shoals, N.H., possibly a suicide. From the description of William Morris Hunt letters and photographs, [ca. 1...

Brooks, Peter Chardon, 1767-1849

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