Frances Rich Papers, 1914-1988

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Frances Rich Papers, 1914-1988

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Papers focus primarily on Rich's career as a sculptor, with a small amount of material on her work as Director of Smith College Public Relations, and her service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Types of material include correspondence, biographical articles, research files, clippings, exhibit catalogs, posters, scrapbooks (including a scrapbook of her student years at Smith College), and photographs of her work and family. Photographs, exhibit catalogs, and correspondence document her sculptures of such notable people as Lotte Lehmann, Diego Rivera, Katherine Hepburn, Margaret Sanger, and Alice Stone Blackwell. A sculpture of Margaret Sanger's head is also included.

3.5 linear ft. (6 boxes; oversize posters)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7620399

Smith College, Neilson Library

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