Exhibition catalogues and notices of Abeles and others; correspondence; genealogy of Abeles and Banner families; inventory lists from galleries; papers re National Academy of Design, 1982-2002; autobiographical sketches; student recommendations; and papers relating to Abeles' professorship at University of New Hampshire. Oversize items: sketch pad from 1949, account book, 1988-1991; certificates, watercolor by Natalie Smith, exhibition posters, and drawings entered in Boston Memorial Holocaust Competition. Correspondence from family, friends, students, and other artists includes letters from S.C.: Dr. Bob Ochs, professor emeritus of history at USC; David Van Hook, former administrator of Columbia Museum of Art; Abeles' maternal and allied families: Banners and Leders. Letters from Abeles' mother, ca. 1960s (Box 2), document changes occurring in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and the state as a whole. Artists represented include S.C. artists Jesse Bardin, William Halsey, and Jasper Johns. Other artist correspondents of note are Harvey Breverman, Dominic Cretara, Martha Erlebacher, Gregory Gillespie, Philip Grausman, Bud Shackelford, Lorraine Shemesh, Sidney Simon, Vincent Smith, Frank Stack, Harry Sternberg, Bill Stewart, and Jerome Witkin. Autobiographical sketch, "My Yes-Tiddies," (Box 7) re boyhood in Myrtle Beach, including, "how farm families would come in and politely ask to feel Uncle Mose and Uncle Max's craniums for the horns that Hebrews supposedly have according to their bibles. When they were disappointed did they then doubt their bibles, or the 'racial' purity of my uncles or rationalize that there had to be some NYC clinic that removed them before sending forth heathen Hebrews into their bible thumping midst." Remembering his childhood home on US-17, Abeles wrote that from the stoop, he had "seen Churchill, FDR and Bernard Baruch together pass by in an open limo, as well as truck after truck loaded with Nazi prisoners of war from a POW camp in our town, at other times, massive bronze or stone sculptures in progress en route to Brookgreen Gardens ... That spot was my living education taking the place of what the rural deep South lacked, museums of history, nature, art, life."
