Robert L. Benney Research Collection, 1933-1978.

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Robert L. Benney Research Collection, 1933-1978.

The Robert L. Benney Research Collection spans the period from 1940-1978 and includes correspondence to and from Benney, personal papers and records, reproductions of artwork, ephemera, newspaper and magazine clippings and scrapbooks.

5 boxes (4.85 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7587071

New-York Historical Society Library

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Benney, Robert L., 1904-

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Robert Benney, a successful commercial artist and illustrator, gained recognition as a war artist-correspondent during World War II. In 1943 he was hired by Abbott Laboratories to document the Naval Aviation Department's activities in the Pacific. He was commissioned again by Abbott in 1944 to illustrate the Army Medical Department in the South Pacific, where he covered the invasion of Saipan. After WWII, Benney continued to work as an artist-correspondent. He traveled to North Africa in 1954 to...

Colby, Elliot.

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