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Digitized Content Karl Knaths papers
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Creators:
Knaths, Karl, 1891-1971
Dates:
1890-1973
bulk 1922-1971
Size:
8.9 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.knatkarp
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of cubist painter Karl Knaths measure 8.9 linear feet and date from 1890 to 1973, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1922 to 1971. The collection includes biographical material, personal and professional correspondence, four diaries, 22 notebooks and notes on theoretical color and compositional approaches to painting, published and draft copies of essays on art, miscellaneous printed material, 132 sketchbooks and other artwork.

Digitized Content Elizabeth McCausland papers
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Creators:
McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965
Dates:
1838-1995
bulk 1920-1960
Size:
45 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.mccaeliz
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of art critic, writer, and historian Elizabeth McCausland measure 45 linear feet and date from 1838 to 1995, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920 to 1960. The collection provides a vast accumulation of research data on various artists and aspects of American art, especially the early American modernists and the Federal Arts Projects. Papers include McCausland's extensive research and writing files, particularly on Marsden Hartley, E. L. Henry, Lewis Hine, George Inness, and Alfred H. Maurer. McCausland's correspondence with artists includes a substantial amount with Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz. Her collaborative work with Berenice Abbott on the Changing New York book and series of photographs is well-documented within the collection. Also found are general writings, subject files, files relating to exhibitions, teaching, and committees, photographs, art work, personal papers, and printed material. Additional McCausland material donated later from the estate of Berenice Abbott include biographical materials, project files, writings, and printed materials.

Digitized Content Merry Renk papers
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Creators:
Renk, Merry, 1921-2012
Dates:
1952-2000
Size:
0.9 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.renkmerr
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of San Francisco metal-worker, jeweler, and painter Merry Renk measure 0.9 linear feet and date from 1952 to 2000. The collection comprises business records that include sales invoices, inventories, exhibition price lists, correspondence, and other material related to Renk's business activities. Also found are printed materials, a few sketches of utensils, writings, and a video recording of the documentary "Merry Renk: Jeweler" by Alan Leveton.

Digitized Content Mughal Garden Project Drawings and Photographs
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Creators:
Unknown
Dates:
undated
Size:
5 Linear feet
Collection ID:
FSA.A.03
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

These materials are related to the joint research project with the Smithsonian and the Pakistan Department of Archaeology entited, "Garden, City, and Empire: The Historical Geography of Mughal Lahore." This project explored the spatial layout of garden sites and their geographic relationships with teh broader urban context. There are various draft ...

Digitized Content Hughes French India Company School Drawings
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Creators:
Hughes, Thomas L., Mr.
Dates:
[1840?]
Size:
32 Items (39 x 25 cm.)
Collection ID:
FSA.A1993.10
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

A series of watercolor pictures depicting Tamil men and women of various trades and castes. These ethnographic studies may have been rendered for a French official or merchant as identification aides by a local Indian artist in Pondicherry, as the area was under French control as part of the French Indian Territories during this time. The name "Com...

Digitized Content Thomas Daniell Collection
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Creators:
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840
Dates:
1803
Size:
1 Item (1 vol., ill., 77 x 59 cm.)
1 Item (pencil and ink wash on paper (73 x 46 cm.))
Collection ID:
FSA.A2001.04
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Collection consists of two items: 1. "Oriental Scenery, Vol. 5. Hindoo Excavations in the Mountain of Ellora, near Aurungabad, in the Decan." Atlas folio, 77 x 59 cm., bound in contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards, with 24 hand-colored aquatints by James Wales under the direction of Thomas Daniell and an engraved aquatint title page. Self-...

Digitized Content MS 1122 Report on the forestry, elevation, rainfall, and drainage of the Colorado Valley, together with an apercu of its principal inhabitants, the Mahhaos Indians
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Creators:
Tassin, August Gabriel
Dates:
October 31, 1877
Size:
45 Pages
8 Maps
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1122
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
Digitized Content Aaron A. Sargent 1883 Designs for Aerial Ship
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Creators:
Sargent, Aaron Augustus, 1827-1887
Dates:
1883
Size:
0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
Collection ID:
NASM.2000.0032
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection consists of drawings relating to Aaron A. Sargent's designs for an Aerial Ship in 1883

Digitized Content MS 1999-23 Herbert Ward drawings from the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
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Creators:
Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919
Dates:
circa 1886-1889
Size:
51 Drawings (Disbound album :)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1999-23
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

This collection is composed of a disbound album containing fifty-one drawings by Herbert Ward, made when he was a member of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Most of the drawings depict men and women of the upper Congo River, but several others depict tools and implements.

Digitized Content MS 2392 Petroglyphs near Hurley, New Mexico
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Creators:
Hesse, Walter
Dates:
March 1925
Size:
2 Drawings (60 x 65 1/2 in. 53 x 64 in.)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2392
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The drawings illustrate rock carvings and paintings at two sites, giving the position of the petroglyphs on the rocks as well as their color and design. The first drawing is captioned, "the stone-drawings (partly chiseled with flintstone, partly painted with red-brown paint) south of the excavation, northwest of Hurley, New Mexico;" the second is c...

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