Edmund Schureman Campbell papers. [manuscript] 1884-1950.

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Edmund Schureman Campbell papers. [manuscript] 1884-1950.

The papers contain Campbell's files as head professor and librarian of art and architecture, and curator of Bayly Museum, 1929-50. They consist of routine correspondence regarding exhibits; book purchases; faculty selection; the renovation of Fayerwether Hall; bills, vouchers and financial papers; student assistantships, grades, notices, and problems; the annual catalog, courses; housekeeping & maintenance; and plans for and the building of Clark Hall and Newcomb Hall. There are some files of his predecessor Sidney Fiske Kimball on these same topics. Campbell's varied architectural interests are represented by files on the American Institute of Architects, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, the Virginia University Board of Architects, the selection of lecturers and concert artists at U. Va., the Virginia Art Commission, the restoration of the Wren Building at William & Mary, examinations for architects' licenses in Virginia, restoration and furnishings at Monticello, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the renovation of Ash Lawn, and the U.S. Public Works Administration. Correspondents include Edwin Anderson Alderman, John Edwin Canaday, Harry Clemons, Colgate Whitehead Darden, James Hardy Dillard, Jay Winston Johns, Stanislaw John Makielski, John Lloyd Newcomb, John Kevan Peebles, and John Garland Pollard.

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