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Archives of American Art
Catharine Willson photographs and clippings
Summary
- Collection ID:
- AAA.willcath
- Creators:
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Willson, Catharine
- Dates:
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1895-1964
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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48 Items(on a partial microfilm reel)
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
A scrapbook, clippings (1911-1964), a photograph album, and photographs (1895-1918) illustrate life at the Eagle's Nest art colony.
Scope and Contents
Twenty-seven photographs and a photograph album document family events and Willson's summers with her uncle, painter Ralph Clarkson, at Eagle's Nest art colony in Oregon, Illinois (1895-1963). Subjects include costume pageants, artists' cabins, Rock River scenes, Taft's statue "Black Hawk", Willson with Clarkson, and artists Charles Francis Browne, J. Spencer Dickerson, Horace Spencer Fiske, Oliver Dennett Grover, and Loredo Taft. The album also contains 10 Christmas cards (1943-1963) and 12 clippings, including an obituary for Wallace Heckman (1927) and 4 articles about Mrs. Vernon Thomas (1928). A second scrapbook contains 49 picture postcards, primarily of Colorado scenes, and a clipping about Eagle's Nest (1911).
Administration
Existence and Location of Copies
35mm microfilm reel 3990 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Existence and Location of Originals
Reel 3990 (frames 1-210): Originals returned to the lender, Catharine Willson, after microfilming.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Archives of American art retained copy prints of some of the photographs lent by Catharine Willson.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Keywords
Archives of American Art
750 9th Street, NW
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Washington, D.C. 20001
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