Papers, ca.1869-2000.

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Papers, ca.1869-2000.

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The Byrdcliffe archives includes correspondence of the Whitehead family; photographs, many of which are dated and the people in them identified (twenty of which were taken by Jesse Tarbox Beals); more than 600 original drawings and paintings, including furniture designs by Edna Walker and Zulma Steele, colored designs for rugs created by Marie Little, and designs for metalwork and pottery; approximately 575 issues of magazines; scrapbooks; over 700 study prints taken from large 19th century portfolios depicting ornaments from Medieval, Renaissance, and pre-Raphaelite sources; manuscript records of expenditures and income from items produced at the colony; Byrdcliffes library card catalog, including both the cards and the physical square-shaped catalog; the Byrdcliffe Guest Register; trade catalogues of products used at Byrdcliffe; about 80 monographs, as well as publications written by Jane and Ralph Whitehead; land surveys; and legal documents. In addition, there are drawings of furniture available from the English firm of Morris and Company, and many unsigned drawings and paintings, mostly landscapes. At least some of these were executed by Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead.

ca. 2,000 items : ill.

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