Ward-Perkins Family Papers, ca. 1877-1954.

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Ward-Perkins Family Papers, ca. 1877-1954.

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The papers consist of approximately 2,000 related items (1,500 letters) relating to the Ward and Perkins families of Boston, New York, and elsewhere. Other families who figure prominently in the papers are the Barkers, the Howards, and the Bruens. The basic arrangement of the collection is based on Donald Fitch's article "The Ward-Perkins Papers," published in volume XVI of the UCSB Library publication Soundings (1985), which was itself based on the initial inventory of the collection prepared by Jeffrey Akard of the Santa Barbara firm A.B.I. Books. Citations are provided below, where available, for more detailed information of the items listed.

5.6 linear ft. (15 boxes and 2 oversize boxes).

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8210098

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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Ward, Samuel Gray, 1817-1907

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Samuel Gray Ward (October 3, 1817 – November 17, 1907) was an American poet, author, and minor member of the Transcendentalism movement. He was also a banker and a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among his circle of contemporaries were poets and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller who were deeply disappointed when Ward gave up a career in writing for business just before he married. Ward was born on October 3, 1817 in Portland, Maine. He was the son of Lydia ...

Perkins, Charles Callahan, Mrs., -1909

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Ward, Thomas W. (Thomas Wren), 1786-1858

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Businessman. From the description of Thomas W. Ward correspondence, 1841 February 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981311 ...

Perkins, Elizabeth Ward

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Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886

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Epithet: author and art critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000053 Painter, etcher, author, art and music critic, of Boston, Mass. Perkins graduated from Harvard in 1843; studied art in Rome and Paris; promoted art education for the masses; organized the Boston Art Club and served as president, 1869-1879; was a founder and honorary director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...