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Archives of American Art
California Palace of the Legion of Honor records
Summary
- Collection ID:
- AAA.calipala
- Creators:
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California Palace of the Legion of Honor
- Dates:
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1910-1945
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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2 Reelsca. 500 items (on 2 microfilm reels)
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of the museum's founder Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, with her family, artists, sellers, dealers, museum directors, and others, including Alfredo Barsanti, Lida J. Hahn, Walter Heil, Thomas Carr Howe, Louis Kronberg, Jermayne MacAgy, Lloyd LaPage Rollins, Ralph Stackpole, and others; a scrapbook, 1923-1924; an auction catalog for the Claus A. Spreckels collection; a postcard album; transcript of a speech about the Legion of Honor; 215 photographs of Spreckels, her family, friends, and works of art, the National Sculpture Society exhibition, 1929, and Rodin sculpture in the Spreckels collections; registrarial receipts, 1924-1931; and miscellany.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Art museum; San Francisco, California.
Administration
Existence and Location of Copies
35mm microfilm reels 2682-2683 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals returned to lender after microfilming.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Lent for microfilming 1982 by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Citation
California Palace of the Legion of Honor records. Owned by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Microfilmed by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Keywords
Archives of American Art
750 9th Street, NW
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Washington, D.C. 20001
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