Archives of American Art

Century Magazine letters

Summary

Collection ID:
AAA.centillu
Dates:
1870-1918
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
3 Microfilm reels
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Correspondence of the Century Magazine and its predecessors, Scribner's Monthly, and St. Nicholas Magazine. Also included is material related to the Century War Series.
Scope and Contents
Among the correspondents are: Cecilia Beaux, James C. Beckwith, Samuel G. W. Benjamin, William M. Chase, William A. Coffin, Timothy Cole (98 letters), Charles C. Coleman, Royal Cortissoz, Kenyon Cox, Reginald C. Coxe, Christopher P. Cranch, Henry H. Cross, Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, Thomas W. Dewing, Alexander W. Drake, Wyatt Eaton, George W. Edwards, Frank E. Elwell, Gaston Fay, Harry Fenn, Mary H. Foote, William L. Fraser, Charles L. Freer, Daniel C. French, Frank French, Isabella S. Gardner, Jay Hambidge, Charles H. Hart, Arthur Hoeber, George Inness, Jr., August F. Jaccaci, Arthur I. Keller, Edward W. Kemble, Knoedler M. & Company, Christopher G. La Farge, John La Farge, Charles R. Lamb, Florence N. Levy, Frank J. Mather, Leila Mechlin, Gari Melchers, Francis D. Millet, Thomas Moran, Edward L. Morse, Hobart Nichols, Elizabeth Nourse, Thornton Oakley, Violet Oakley, Maxfield Parrish, William O. Partridge, Elizabeth R. Pennell (83 letters & 55p. handwritten article), Joseph Pennell, Henry R. Poore, Eva A. Remington, Henry Reuterdahl, Boardman Robinson, Henry Sandham, DeCost Smith, Jessie W. Smith, Albert E. Sterner, Alfred Stieglitz, William J. Stillman (ca. 95 letters), Lorado Taft, Henry O. Tanner, Abbott H. Thayer, Gerald H. Thayer, Dwight W. Tryon, John C. Van Dyke, Douglas Volk, Irving R. Wiles, and others.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
A quarterly publication on the arts and current affairs.

Administration

Existence and Location of Copies
35mm microfilm reels N6-N8 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals in the New York Public Library, Manuscript Division.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Microfilmed 1956 by the Archives of American Art with other art-related papers in the Manuscript Division of the New York Public Library. Included in the microfilming project were selected papers of the Art Division and the Prints Division.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

More Information

Other Title

Other Title
Century Company collection (NYPL microfilm title)

Other Finding Aids

Other Finding Aids
List of correspondents available at Archives of American Art offices, filed New York Public Library, Manuscript Division.


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Century illustrated monthly magazine Title Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
St. Nicholas magazine Title Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Scribner's magazine Title Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Beckwith, J. Carroll (James Carroll), 1852-1917 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Coffin, William A. (William Anderson), 1855-1925 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Coleman, Charles Caryl, 1840-1928 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Coxe, R. Cleveland (Reginald Cleveland), 1855- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 1813-1892 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cross, Henry H., 1837-1918 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Drake, Alexander, 1843-1916 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Eaton, Wyatt, 1849-1896 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Elwell, F. Edwin (Frank Edwin), 1858-1922 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Fay, Gaston Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Fenn, Harry, 1838-1911 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Fraser, William Lewis, 1841-1905 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
French, Frank, 1850-1933 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hoeber, Arthur, 1854-1915 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Inness, George, 1854-1926 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Jaccaci, Augusto Floriano, 1857-1930 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Keller, Arthur Ignatius, 1866-1924 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Kemble, E. W. (Edward Windsor), 1861-1933 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
La Farge, C. Grant (Christopher Grant), 1862-1938 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
La Farge, John, 1835-1910 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Lamb, Charles R. (Charles Rollinson), 1860-1942 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Levy, Florence N. (Florence Nightingale), 1870-1947 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mather, Frank Jewett, 1868-1953 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mechlin, Leila, 1874-1949 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Morse, Edward Lind, 1857-1923 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Nichols, Hobart, 1869-1962 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Nourse, Elizabeth, 1859-1938 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Oakley, Thornton, 1881-1953 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Oakley, Violet, 1874-1961 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Partridge, William Ordway, 1861-1930 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Poore, Henry Rankin, 1859-1940 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Remington, Eva Caten, d. 1918 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Reuterdahl, Henry, 1871-1925 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Robinson, Boardman, 1876-1952 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sandham, Henry, 1842-1910 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Smith, DeCost, 1864-1939 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Thayer, Gerald Handerson, 1883-1939 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Tryon, Dwight William, 1849-1925 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Volk, Douglas , 1856-1935 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wiles, Irving Ramsay, 1861-1948 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
M. Knoedler & Co. Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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