Elfriede Abbe papers, 1939-1989.

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Elfriede Abbe papers, 1939-1989.

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Collection consists of professional papers, including correspondence with persons and organizations commissioning her sculpture, suppliers of sculpture materials and casting firms, and from the publisher of her books, collectors of her books and prints, and other artists and craftsmen, admirers and well wishers, and organizations of which she was a member; also, letters concerning a piece of her sculpture, "The Hunter," on display at the 1939 World's Fair and the publication of an article on her work in American Artist in 1962; photographs of her and her sculpture; appointment calendars, annotated with descriptions of her work, methods, and activities, and including photographs of her works, 1978-1988; a catalog of her sculpture; wood cut illustrations, notes, manuscripts and page proofs for books she illustrated, printed, or translated; sketches; wood engraving blocks; prints; pamphlets; announcements of publications of her books; mimeographed typescripts of lectures given; news articles on her works of art; and announcements concerning her gallery shows. Also, a catalog from the Southern Vermont Art Center's 60th Anniversary Festival of the Arts, 1989. Also paper with watermark from Dard Hunter. Correspondents include Edgar Anderson, Stanley Brogren, Knox F. Burnett, Cornelia Van A. Chapin, Gilmore D. Clarke, Theodore R. Dudley, Ettl Studios, John Folinsbee, Roscoe Guernsey, J.L. Hautman, Katherine Thayer Hobson, Carleton Howe, Roy A. Hunt, Arthur Jones, Norman Kent, Irvin Kerlan, Alison Mason Kingsbury, Knight and Son Metal Letters and Figures, Carolyn and Lewis Knudson, Robert D. Kohn, George H.M. Lawrence, Walter Leuba, J. Ben Lieberman, Paul Manship, Ivan Meštrović, James L. Montague, Minnie and Walter C. Muenscher, Hobart Nichols, Richard Pennington, Lilly and Felix Reichmann, Roman Bronzeworks, Lessing Rosenwald, Ross W. Sloniker, Lieselotta and Friedrich Solmsen, Alice and Rolla Tryon, Vermarco Lime Company, Vermont Marble Company, S. F. Vorhees, James Lamar Weygand, and Wheeler Williams.

2.9 cubic ft.

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Abbe, Elfriede, 1919-2012

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Sculptor, engraver, illustrator; Manchester Center, Vermont. From the description of Elfriede Abbe papers, 1948-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220140871 From the description of Elfriede Abbe papers, 1948-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 767864287 Elfriede Abbe, a sculptor, printer, printmaker, and scientific illustrator, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University in 1940 and worked as an artist for the University from 1942-1974. F...

Montague, James L.

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Burnett, Knox F.

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Solmsen, Friedrich, 1904-1989

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Sloniker, Ross W.

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Hobson, Katherine Thayer.

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Manship, Paul, 1885-1966

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Sculptor. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Manship : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733743 From the description of Paul Manship interview, 1959 Feb. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80437629 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Paul Manship papers, 1863-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502772 From the description of Paul Manship interview, 1956 Oct. 9-31...

Kerlan, Irvin.

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Reichmann, Lilly, 1909-

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Pennington, Richard, 1952-

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R. Pennington, 1904-19--, Librarian and author came from England to Sydney, N.S.W., as literary secretary of the International University Society, 1926-1930, and returned as librarian of the University of Queensland, 1939-1945. He was a friend of the poet, Christopher Brennan. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225776138 ...

Hunt, Rachel McMasters Miller, 1882-1963

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William Pitt, the younger, was prime minister of Great Britain from 1783-1801. James O'Hara served in the Revolutionary War and became an important businessman and landholder in Pittsburgh. John Heckewelder was a Moravian missionary trying to convert Indians in the Ohio territory to Christianity. From the description of Rachel McMasters Hunt collection 1792-1839. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 48226811 ...

Nichols, Hobart, 1869-1962

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Landscape painter and illustrator; Bronxville, New York. Born in Washington, D.C. Studied at the Academie Julian. President of the National Academy of Design, 1939-1949, President Emeritus, from 1949; Vice-President and Director, Tiffany Foundation, New York; Assistant to Director of Fine Arts, United States Commission, Paris Exposition 1900. From the description of Hobart Nichols papers, [ca. 1895]-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502551 ...

Meštrović, Ivan, 1883-1962

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Croatian sculptor and faculty member at the University of Notre Dame, 1954-1962. From the description of Papers, 1924-1962. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 25469779 ...

Kingsbury, Alison Mason, 1898-....

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Artist. Alison Mason Kingsbury was an artist in Ithaca, N.Y. She came to Ithaca in 1926 as a student assistant to Ezra Winter, who designed the mural in the lobby of Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University. She married Morris Bishop, a noted Cornell writer and historian. From the description of Alison Mason Kingsbury papers, [ca. 1923]-1965. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64071673 ...

Ettl Studios.

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Folinsbee, John Fulton, 1892-1972

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Guernsey, Roscoe.

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Roman Bronzeworks.

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Knudson, Carolyn.

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Brogren, Stanley.

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Weygand, James Lamar

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Lawrence, George H. M. (George Hill Mathewson), 1910-1978

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George H.M. Lawrence, East Greenwich, R.I.: botanist, director of Hunt Botanical Library, Pittsburgh, and bibliophile and collector of rare books. Thomas Greene, Jr. (1719-1813) : descendant of John Greene (1585-1659) one of the original proprietors of Warwick, R.I. From the description of Thomas Greene papers, 1749-1939 bulk 1749-1795. (University of Rhode Island Library, Kingston). WorldCat record id: 49595601 George Hill Mathewson Lawrence, a nat...

Muenscher, Walter Conrad Leopold, 1891-1963

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Professor of Botany. Cornell University, Ph.D. 1921. From the description of Walter C. Muenscher papers, 1911-1956. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64652098 ...

Muenscher, Minnie Worthen

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Anderson, Edgar L.

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Leuba, Walter, 1902-

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Walter Leuba (1902-1983) and Martha Leuba (née Dryburgh) (1909-1988) collected books, wood block prints, other art, and signed letters by writers, artists, and other notable figures. They were married in 1938 and lived for much of their lives at 516 Jacksonia Street on Pittsburgh's North Side. Walter's collecting activities began in the 1920s, around the time that he met his first wife, Mildred Wallach (1908-1932). Walter Leuba spent his early life in New York, Rhode Island, and Pittsburgh. Aft...

Dudley, T.R. (Theodore R.), 1936-

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Cornell University

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Vermarco Lime Company.

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Rosenwald, Lessing J. Lessing Julius 1891-1979

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Collector, patron. From the description of Lessing J. Rosenwald interview, 1970 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80812816 Background: Rosenwald acquired photographs of each woodcut in 21 copies of the Strassburg 1496 Terence (Goff T-94), compared them, and documented the variants. His article analysing the production of Grüninger's Terence was never completed. Rosenwald sought the advice of Rudolf Hirsch, whose three pages of comments accompany the material. ...

Tryon, Rolla Milton, 1916-

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Clarke, Gilmore D., 1892-1982

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Gilmore David Clarke, American landscape architect & chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts, died 1985. From the description of Gilmore D.Clarke papers, ca.1920-1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 489376200 Landscape architect. From the description of Reminiscences of Gilmore David Clarke : oral history, 1959. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 505184805 From the description of Reminiscenc...

Knight and Son Metal Letters and Figures.

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Vorhees, S. F.

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Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966

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Hunter was part of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, and a member of Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters in East Aurora, NY, in 1904. He devoted his life to research, collecting, writing, and publishing the history of hand papermaking and printing. He published books at his Mountain House Press and established Lime Rock Mill, a paper mill in Connecticut. In 1939 he established the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at MIT, which later moved to the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Ga. F...

Solmsen, Lieselotte

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Lieberman, J. Ben

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Educator, editor, author, amateur printer, and proponent of the private press, J. Ben Lieberman is widely regarded as the father of the twentieth-century chappel movement in the United States. Following his death, in 1986, friends of Lieberman in association with the American Printing History Association endowed the J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture in his honor. Elizabeth Koller Lieberman was J. Ben Lieberman's lifelong partner in private press publishing and in the promotion of printing. ...

Howe, Carleton.

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Hautman, J. L.

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Chapin, Cornelia Van A.

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Knudson, Lewis, 1884-1958

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Plant physiologist; professor of botany, Cornell University. From the description of Lewis Knudson papers, 1938-1946. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073326 From the guide to the Lewis Knudson papers, 1938-1946., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) ...

Kohn, Robert D., 1870-1953

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Architect; Leader and President of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1890]-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155489064 ...

Kent, Norman, 1903-1972

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Artist and art educator Norman Kent (1903-1972) graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1925. He began his career as a Buffalo-based illustrator before teaching at Hobart and William Smith colleges in Geneva. He later served as the editor of American Artist magazine for more than 25 years. Kent was best known for his woodcuts and watercolor landscapes. [From http://artoncampus.rit.edu/artist/64/] From the guide to the Norman Kent Papers, 1920-1971, (Special Collection...

Tryon, Alice F.

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Williams, Wheeler, 1897-1972

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Wheeler Williams (1897-1972) was an American sculptor known for his allegorical figures. A graduate of Yale (1919) and Harvard (1922), he also studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Williams was a supporter of the House Un-American Activities Committee in its search for Communists in the arts. From the guide to the Wheeler Williams Manuscript, 1959, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Vermont Marble Company

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The Vermont Marble Company was created in 1881 as a result of the merger of the Sutherland Falls Marble Co. and the Rutland Marble Co. The Rutland Marble Co. had been incorporated in New York City and included quarries in West Rutland, Center Rutland, and Salem, N.Y. The Sutherland Falls Marble Co. was incorporated in Vermont in 1870 by Redfield Proctor. Redfield Proctor managed the new Vermont Marble Co. and Adolphus Smedburg was treasurer. From the description of Vermont Marble Com...

Reichmann, Felix, 1899-1987

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American librarian, long associated with Cornell University Library. From the description of Felix Reichmann manuscripts, [ca. 1957-1958]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937126 ...

Jones, Arthur, 1889-1979

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