Howard Pyle manuscript collection, 1898-1988.

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Howard Pyle manuscript collection, 1898-1988.

Collection consists of biographical history of Pyle's family, primarily correspondence, photographs and obituaries; correspondence between Pyle and his students; newspaper clippings, reproductions and scrapbooks of all his book and magazine illustrations; material relating to the development of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts in conjunction with the growth of the Howard Pyle collection; exhibition catalogues and lectures about Pyle (1912-present); sub-collections include the primary and secondary material gathered by Richard Wayne Lykes, Willard S. Morse, Howard Pyle Brokaw, and Paul Strayer.

80 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8065650

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Brokaw, Howard P.

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Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911

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American illustrator and writer of children's books. From the description of Howard Pyle letter to Elmer Reynolds July 2, 1887. (Ohio University). WorldCat record id: 13054039 Illustrator, muralist, writer, art teacher, of Wilmington, Del. From the description of Howard Pyle manuscript collection, 1898-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70977558 Illustrator and children's book author; Wilmington, Del. From the description of Howard Pyle let...

Morse, Willard S. (Willard Samuel), 1856-1935

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Morse was born on June 12, 1856 in Ware, MA; at age 15 he began an apprenticeship in a machine shop in Taunton; moved to the West, where he first worked as a clerk in the Denver post office, and then in the office of the Consolidated Virginia mine at Virginia City, NV; later became a mining executive in the West and Mexico; moved to New York City in 1906, where he was made a director and member of the executive committee of the American Smelter Securities Co., Chilean Exploration Co., and Braden...

Strayer, Paul, 1885-1981

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Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts (Wilmington, Del.)

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Lykes, Richard Wayne

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Pyle family.

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