Charles L. Hutchinson papers, 1880-1924.

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Charles L. Hutchinson papers, 1880-1924.

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Letters to Charles L. Hutchinson, a Chicago banker, president of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a major philanthropist; plus resolutions in memoriam. Correspondence chiefly concerns his business and charitable activities. Topics include efforts to place a memorial to George Howland in McKinley High School; a drive to establish a Samuel Willard Memorial Fund at Illinois College; World War I era relief activities of American groups, Belgian groups, French groups, and ca. 1921 Russian groups. Includes letters from sculptor Leonard W. Volk about replicas of his life cast of Abraham Lincoln's face that Hutchinson ordered sent to G.F. Watts, the English artist. Other correspondents include Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, Chauncey McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, Mary E. McDowell, Lorado Taft, and Samuel Willard. The resolutions in memoriam, Oct.-Dec. 1924, are contained in volumes, often illuminated and including elaborate calligraphy, from the Art Institute of Chicago, Caxton Club, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago Clearing House Association, Commercial Club of Chicago, Illinois Merchants Trust Company, Old People's Home of Chicago, Presbyterian Hospital, South Park Commissioners of Cook County, Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute, and the University of Chicago. Also present are two expressions of appreciation: from the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922 April 27; and from the Chicago Society of Artists, 1923 Feb. 1. Includes a life membership in the Art Institute of Chicago issued to A.B. Mead and signed by Hutchinson, 1911 April 20.

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