Ralph and Bena Frank Mayer papers

ArchivalResource

Ralph and Bena Frank Mayer papers

[ca. 1920]-1964

Correspondence, writings, photographs, art work, subject files, scrapbooks, and printed material.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8340161

Archives of American Art

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