Walter W. Thompson Papers, 1918-1974.

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Thompson, Walter W., 1882-1948. Walter W. Thompson Papers, 1918-1974.

Walter W. Thompson Papers, 1918-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79480158

Correspondence, business records, pamphlets, brochures, ledgers, diaries, news clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs documenting Thompson's career as an artist in various cities of S.C. and elsewhere. Manuscripts span 1918-1974, with bulk of material dating to 1930s and 1940s; topics represented include the history of art and its teaching in 20th century South Carolina; the Federal Art Program of the WPA; and the habits and lifestyles of artists' during the first half of the twentieth century. Correspondents include Mary Hope Cabaniss, Marie Chisholm, Elizabeth Boatwright Coker, Charles Mason Crowson, Edith and James McBride Dabbs, Beulah Glover, Elizabeth Parker, Mary Haskell Minis, Mabel Montgomery, Catharine P. Rembert, Anna Wells Rutledge, Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Mary Prichard Taylor, Kathleen Tisdale, Julia Elizabeth Tolbert, Edna Reed Whaley, Elizabeth White, and Robert N. S. Whitelaw. Box 6 (1859-1994) holds journals, sketches, volumes, articles, correspondence, and photographs; 4 journals written by Thompson during 1928 and 1943-1944, which document activities during World War II. In the years after Thompson's death, one volume includes entries recorded by a relative while on a 1958 trip to England. Many items relate to the family of Thompson's wife, Elizabeth Gertrude Dabbs, daughter of Eugene Whitfield Dabbs and Alice Maude McBride Dabbs. Family members represented include Eugene Whitfield Dabbs, James McBride Dabbs, Alice Maude McBride Dabbs, Maude Dabbs Haas, Samuel McBride, Sophie McBride, and Elizabeth Dabbs Thompson. Visual materials in the collection include a sketchbook produced by Thompson for his wife as a Christmas gift in 1941, several photographs of and by Trude Fleischman, and two silhouettes produced in 1936 by Walterboro native Carew Rice (1899-1971), hailed by poet Carl Sandburg as "America's Greatest Silhouettist."

6 cartons (7.5 linear ft.)

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