Papers, 1910-1924.

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Papers, 1910-1924.

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This collection is a compilation of Park's extensive correspondence, for the period 1910 to 1924, with museum directors, portrait owners, authors, publishers, photographers, art connoisseurs, and a variety of scholarly institutions concerning his work in the field of colonial art. Included are letters on the value of specific works, letters with detailed descriptions of portraits, letters on the compilation of photographs of old Worcester views (with which Park became involved in 1924), letters on the advisability of unearthing the old gravestones on Worcester's common. There are also many photographs of portraits collected by Park and by Clarence Saunders Brigham (1877-1963).

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Gadsden Public Library

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Washington, George, 1732-1799

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Morgan, John Hill, 1870-1945

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John Hill Morgan (1870-1945), an assistant professor and curator of American painting at Yale University, was considered an authority on early American art, most notably of portraits of George Washington. Among his publications are "The Life Portraits of George Washington and Their Replicas" (1931) which he co-wrote with Mantle Fielding, "Gilbert Stuart and His Pupils" (1939), and "Early American Painters" (1921), as well as other monographs and articles on artists such as John Watson, Joseph Bl...

Lane, John, 1854-1925

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Belknap, Henry Wyckoff, 1860-1946.

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Savage, Joseph, -1814

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Army officer and justice of the peace, of Berwick, Me. From the description of Records, 1787-1809. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70955010 ...

Frick, Helen Clay, 1888-1984

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Blackburn, Joseph, 1700-1765?

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Fielding, Mantle, 1865-1941

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Mantle Fielding was an architect and authority on colonial painting. Born in New York City, the son of Mantle and Anna M. Stone, he was educated at the Germantown (Pa.) Academy. He graduated in 1883 and then studied architecture at MIT. After working as a draftsman and architect in Philadelphia, he launched an independent firm around 1886 that continued in operation until 1938. Fielding joined the T-square club in 1886. The first of Fielding's numerous publications in the field of art history ap...

Abbott, George E. H., d. 1911.

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Park, Lawrence, 1873-1924

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Greenwood, Ethan Allen, 1779-1856

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West, William Edward, 1788-1857

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Jones, Ernest, 1879-1958

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Forbes, Harriette Merrifield, 1856-1951.

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Harriette Forbes was an author and historian from Worcester, Ma. Her husband was Judge William Trowbridge Forbes and her daughter, Esther Forbes, was a novelist. Forbes wrote New England Diaries, Orderly Books and Sea Journals, 1923, and Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Made Them, 1927. From the description of Glass plate negatives of New England gravestones, 1925-1939. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122559240 Author of Gravestones of Early New Eng...

Bolton, Charles Knowles, 1867-1950

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Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828

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Stone, Benjamin

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Gage, Thomas Hovey, 1826-1909

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Whiting, Frederic Allen.

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Gittings, J. E.

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Brigham, Clarence S. (Clarence Saunders), 1877-1963

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Clarence Saunders Brigham (1877-1963) began his distinguished library career while a student at Brown University. After graduation in 1899 he was appointed librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society and in 1908 he left that position to accept the offer of the librarian's post at the American Antiquarian Society. He was named director of the Society in 1930 and was made its president in 1955. He resigned fifty-one years after he began working in Worcester. Brigham was a dedicated librarian ...

Savage, Thomas, 1608-1682.

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Clarke, Thomas B. (Thomas Benedict), 1848-1931

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Bayley, Frank W. (Frank William), 1863-1932

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