Wood and Adelaide Lawson Gaylor papers

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Wood and Adelaide Lawson Gaylor papers

1866-[circa 1986]

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Biographical material, correspondence, journals, notebooks, address books, business records, writings, sketchbooks, exhibition announcements and catalogs, clippings, photographs, and subject files relating to the artistic careers of Wood Gaylor and Adelaide Lawson, to Gaylor's work as a fashion pattern desiger, and, more broadly, to the New York art scene from the 1913 Armory Show through the 1930s.

2.56 Linear feet

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