Arthur Asahel papers, 1865-1957.

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Arthur Asahel papers, 1865-1957.

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Landscape architect, Boston. Collection includes journals, diaries, genealogical accounts, photographs, biographies and autobiography. There is also correspondence, both personal and pertaining to professional work including Metropolitan District Commission (Boston) projects, Colonial Williamsburg, Old Sturbridge Village, Plymouth Rock, and Quabbin Reservoir (Mass.) as well as private estate work. Shurtleff family diaries and correspondence relate to his father Asahel M. Shurtleff and to his brother Rev. Alfred D.K. Shurtleff and sister Gertrude H. Shurtleff. Other correspondents include Alexander and William James, Langdon Warner, Jacques Barzun, Albert B. and J. Cheney Wells, Joseph G. Deering and Nelson A. Rockefeller. The collection also contains published and unpublished writings, expense and agency accounts and a comprehensive collection of glass negatives that are separately stored.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Colonial Williamsburg, inc.

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Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012

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Born in France on November 30, 1907, critic-historian Jacques Barzun came to the United States in 1920 and received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. He taught at Columbia until his retirement in 1975, having also for a decade been Dean of Faculties and Provost. From 1975 to 1993 he was Literary Adviser to Charles Scribner's Sons. Among his forty books are biographical-critical studies of William James and Hector Berlioz, several volumes of literary and cultu...

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979

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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and previously as the 49th governor of New York from 1959 to 1973. He also served as assistant secretary of State for American Republic Affairs for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (1944–1945) as well as under secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1954....

Wells, Joel Cheney, 1874-1960.

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Old Sturbridge Village

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"Attentive to duty: women's experience in early 19th century New England," a conference held at Old Sturbridge Village, March 26-27, 1977. From the description of Conference papers, 1977. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007304 ...

James, William, 1882-1961

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William James, Jr. (1882-1961), son of famous psychologist William James, was an American painter who worked as a painting critic for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and as its director from 1930-1937. While at the Museum School, James met Mrs. Kathryn A. Hodgman of Kalamazoo, Michigan through Edward W. Forbes. James and Hodgman studied together at his summer home in Chocorua, New Hampshire during the summer of 1934. From the guide to the Papers, 1930-1937, (Harvard Art...

Shurtleff, Asahel M.

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Shurcliff, Arthur A. (Arthur Asahel), 1870-1957

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Shurcliff was a landscape architect who, with Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr., founded the landscape architecture program at Harvard University. From the description of Notebooks, 1897-1902. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79025322 From the guide to the Notebooks, 1897-1902., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Arthur A. Shurcliff (born Shurtleff) was educated at MIT and Harvard's Bussey Institute. He apprenticed at the Olmsted offi...

Metropolitan District Commission (Boston, Mass.)

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Deering, Joseph G.

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Shurtleff, Alfred D. K.

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Wells, Albert B.

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Shurtleff, Gertrude H., 1872-

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James, Alexander R. (Alexander Robertson), 1890-1946

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Portrait painter. The younger son of psychologist William James (1842-1910), brother of painter William James (1882-1961), and nephew of novelist Henry James, Alexander James was actually christened Francis Temple Tweedy James in 1890. In 1925 he had his name officially changed to Alexander Robertson James. Later in life he dropped the Robertson and became Alexander James. He studied with Abbott Handerson Thayer and was a close friend of John Singer Sargent and Rockwell Kent. From th...

Warner, Langdon, 1881-1955

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Warner graduated from Harvard in 1903 and taught fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Langdon Warner, 1926-1954. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069994 These rubbings were presented to Harvard by scholars and collectors Langdon Warner, Lawrence Sickman, Hamilton Bell, Adrian Rübel, and others. Langdon Warner collected many rubbings in north and northwest China during two Fogg Museum-sponsored expeditions in 1923-1924 and 1925, and he donated ot...