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Archives of American Art
Read family papers
Summary
- Collection ID:
- AAA.readread
- Creators:
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Read family
- Dates:
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1848-1935
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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229 Items(on partial microfilm reel)
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Read family members, Thomas Buchanan Read, Mary Pratt Read, Mary Alice Read, and Harriet Denison Butler Read, and notable military, literary, political, and artistic figures, particluarly of the 19th century. Correspondents include Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, William Whiteman Fosdick, Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, Ludwig Knaus, Hiram Powers, Thomas Addison Richards, Randolph Rogers, John Sartain, William Wetmore Story, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Philip Sheridan, James Garfield, and William Tecumseh Sherman, among others.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Thomas Buchanan Read was a poet, a portrait and history painter, and sometime sculptor, and worked in the U.S. and abroad.
Administration
Existence and Location of Copies
35mm microfilm reel 1478 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals returned to the lender, Denison Burton, after microfilming.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Lent for microfilming 1979 by Denison L. Burton.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Keywords
Archives of American Art
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Victor Building, Suite 2200
Washington, D.C. 20001
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