7 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Art, American.
Lyman Potter Spencer papers, 1856-1914
250 items ; 11 containers ; 4.4 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Artist, soldier, and calligrapher. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, account books, genealogical file, penmanship file, and other papers documenting Spencer's Civil War service and his efforts to continue the publication of the copybooks by his father, Platt R. Spencer, who developed the Spencerian style of handwriting.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers, 1793-1944
10,060 items ; 73 containers plus 3 oversize ; 18.4 linear feet ; 36 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Artist and inventor. Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers. Includes letters from Samuel Finley Breese Morse to his family describing his studies in England during the War of 1812 and his subsequent struggle to support himself as a portrait painter in the United States; correspondence and other papers relating to Morse's invention of the...
George Biddle papers, 1863-1973
3,500 items ; 31 containers plus 1 oversize ; 12 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Artist and public official. Correspondence; diaries; drafts and printed copies of speeches, articles, and a memoir; sketchbooks; scrapbooks; announcements; book reviews; and other papers relating chiefly to Biddle's role in American art, his work for the federal support of art, and the Federal Art Project, including also material relating to his involvment with the United States War Department...
Charles Henry Fromuth papers, 1884-1937
100 items ; 2 containers plus 1 oversize ; 1.2 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Artist. Diaries, autobiographical manuscripts, miscellaneous personal documents, newspaper clippings, exhibition catalogs, receipts, paint palettes and other papers relating principally to Fromuth's life and work as an American expatriate artist living in France.
Bernece Berkman-Hunter papers, 1910-1991
400 items ; 2 containers ; 1 linear foot -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Painter and graphic artist. Correspondence, notebooks, financial papers, legal papers, exhibit files, printed ephemera, card files, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Berkman-Hunter’s career as an artist.
Freddy Homburger papers, 1926-1990
3,150 items ; 8 containers plus 1 oversize ; 4.5 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Physician, scientist, and artist. Correspondence, reports, speeches, writings, academic records, printed matter, and photographs documenting Homburger's career as a physician involved in cancer research, his interest in art as a collector and a painter, and his service as honorary Swiss consul in Boston, Mass.
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Mary Sheppard Burton collection, 1993-2006
3 folders of manuscript material including 1 pamphlet (12 p.) 12 hooked rugs : hand-dyed wool on 12-thread count linen ; circa 45 x 69 in. and smaller 3 VHS videocassettes: sound, color; 1/2 in. 1 folder of 25 4 x 6 in. color photographic prints and negatives -- Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The collection contains hooked rugs and documentation of the craftsmanship of rug hooking artist, Mary Sheppard Burton, of Germantown, Maryland. Her Tell Me ‘Bout Series consists of 12 rugs created between 1993 and 2005 that interpret the history of her family.
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