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Lanette Scheeline collection, 1945-1970

Summary
Collection ID:
SIL-CH.1998-29-1
Creators:
Scheeline, Lanette, 1910-
Dates:
1945-1970
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
7 Boxes
Repository:
This collection documents Scheeline's work as a textile designer from 1945-1970.The archive material consists of brochures, photographs, sketches, correspondence, scrapbooks, client records, and other related items that document Ms. Scheeline's career from the 1930s to the 1980s (briefly covers 1990s). A majority of the items deal specifically with the projects for textiles and wallcoverings, research on forms in nature, and notes on her travels.
Arrangement note
Arrangement note
Materials are arranged in seven boxes as follows: I. design scrapbooks; sketches of textiles and wallpapers; II. Press (photos, articles and releases); exhibition brochures; financial and legal records; client records; misc. correspondence; III. client designs and records; IV. Cooper-Hewitt correspondence; travel sketchbooks; personal photos and correspondence; box of photos and slides (textiles and papers); V. design scrapbook; drawings and sketches; photocopies; William Katzenbach, Practical Book of American Wallpaper; VI. blocking materials; handblocks scrapbook; and VII. large drawings and design records.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
American artist and textile designer Lanette Scheeline (1910- ) specializes in textile and wallpaper designs, and does custom block-printing for decorators. Scheeline is a Sausalito native, University of California graduate and former student at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design. She spent years working in other phases of textile or wallpaper design and all contributed to the background of technique, marketing, public taste and business judgment she needed in her own enterprises. She first gained recognition at the Golden Gate International Exposition (1940). Since then her work has been on view at the de Young Museum, Marin Art & Garden Fair, the Contemporary Gallery in Sausalito, the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, the Mill Valley Outdoor Art Club, the New-York Historical Society, and the Pacific Coast Textile Exhibition (1949, 1950) in the company of Trude Guermonprez and Jack Lenor Larsen among others.
Administration
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
All materials were donated to the museum by Lanette Scheeline in 1998.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
Unprocessed; access is limited; Permission of Library Director required. Policy.
More Information
Location of Other Archival Materials Note
Location of Other Archival Materials Note
Materials are also available in the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Musuem, Drawings and Prints Department.
Other Finding Aids note
Other Finding Aids note
No finding aid available.
Keywords
Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Photocopies Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Business records Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Press releases Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Correspondence Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Textile designers -- United States Occupation Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Drawings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wallpaper designers -- United States Occupation Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Slides (photographs) Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Architectural digest (Los Angeles, Calif : 1925) Title Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Designs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Interior design (New York, N.Y.) Title Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Better homes and gardens Title Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Exhibition catalogs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Interiors (Stroudsburg, Pa.) Title Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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Wallpaper -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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Watercolors Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
York Wallpaper Company Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sheraton Hotel (Honolulu, Hawaii) Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
W. & J. Sloane Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Scheeline, Lanette, 1910- Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Philip Graf Wallpapers, Inc. Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Liz Sander Designs Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Meinhard Greeff and Co. (New York, N.Y.) Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hart, Helen Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Katzenbach & Warren Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Bowen, Louis W. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Draper, Dorothy, 1889-1969 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Bailey & Griffen Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Bloomcraft (Firm) Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Repository Contact
Smithsonian Libraries
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Washington, DC 20013-7012
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