MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, N.H.) records, 1869-1970
35,000 items ; 81 containers plus 3 oversize ; 33 linear feet ; 1 microfilm reel -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The MacDowell Colony was founded as an artist colony in 1907 by Marian MacDowell who dedicated it as a memorial to her husband, American composer Edward MacDowell. The bulk of the records reflects the operational and administrative functions of the colony and its parent organization, the Edward MacDowell Association, and consists of correspondence, applications for admission, minutes of...
Alexander King papers, 1953-1987
1,920 items ; 25 containers ; 9.5 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author, illustrator, and storyteller. Correspondence, writings, business papers, scrapbooks, and photographs relating to King's literary works, television appearances, relations with colleagues in the fields of art, literature, and entertainment, social life in New York, N.Y., and fund-raising efforts for kidney dialysis facilities. Some correspondence concerns housing discrimination against...
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Lewis Nathaniel Chase papers, 1836-1947
89,000 items ; 224 containers ; 89.6 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Editor, author, and educator. Autographed letters and correspondence with poets, writers, artists, musicians, and actors; family papers; and miscellaneous personal and academic material stemming from Chase's career as a writer and university professor.
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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...
Ludwig Bemelmans papers, 1951-1962
72 items ; 3 containers ; 1.2 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author, artist, and children’s book writer and illustrator. Drafts of the novels Are You Hungry, Are You Cold and The Street Where the Heart Lies. Also includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers.
Daniel Chester French papers, circa 1848-1968
23,000 items ; 94 containers ; 37.6 linear feet ; 44 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Sculptor and artist. Correspondence of French, his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, and other members of the French family relating primarily to French's career as a sculptor and artist and to the French family.
Marie Paneth papers, 1938-1968
600 items ; 8 containers ; 2.8 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Artist, teacher, and writer. Correspondence, a diary, reports, notes, writings, and children’s artwork documenting Paneth’s therapeutic use of art in working with children who suffered traumatic experiences. Included is her work with children during the bombardment of London in 1941-1942 and her postwar work with children who survived German concentration camps.
Harmon Foundation, inc., records, 1913-1967
37,800 items ; 121 containers ; 48.4 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Correspondence, biographical notes, catalogs, scrapbooks, and other material relating to the organization and its founder, William Elmer Harmon. Included are records of the foundation's award programs, biographical notes on African and African-American artists, and correspondence with African art centers.
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.