55 Mercer Artists, Inc. records
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55 Mercer Artists, Inc.
- Dates:
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1939-2007
bulk 1970-2007
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5.1 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.55mercga
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Archives of American Art
55 Mercer Artists, Inc. records, 1939-2007, bulk 1970-2007, measure 5.1 linear feet. The records, which are incomplete with sizeable gaps, consist of administrative records, exhibition files, artists' files, financial records, scrapbooks, guest books, and printed material that document one of the most successful and long lived artist run cooperative galleries in SoHo. The only item pre-dating 55 Mercer Artists, Inc. is a 1939 newspaper clipping in the artists' files.
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1862-1901
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1 Item (pictorial calendar 77 drawings, graphite and colored pencil, 10 x 213 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2002-28
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The calendar consists of 77 entries drawn on a piece of coarse cotton cloth with one selvedge edge and one edge machine hemmed. The entries begin near one end of the strip and move from left to right in a staggered linear sequence, stopping well short of the opposite end. Summer and winter entries alternate, with the register of summer entries draw...
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Orengo, Alejandro
- Dates:
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2011-2016
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90 Digital images
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-085
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
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Warner, Langdon (1881-1955)
- Dates:
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1915
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2 Copies (Two copies of a bound volume of 226 typed pages, with 48 mounted silver gelatin prints with captions, 194p, 29 x 22 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1994.07
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
A report prepared by archaeologist and art historian Langdon Warner on his travels of 1913-1914 to investigate the founding of an American school of Chinese archaeology to be established in Beijing. Warner's travels included Europe, Japan, Korea, China and Indo-China. Warner spoke with scholars, administrators and officials, and travelled to museum...
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Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840
- Dates:
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1803
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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
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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-...
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McFarland, J. Horace (John Horace), 1859-1948
American Rose Society
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1899-1974
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30 Cubic feet (2718 photographs: black and white; 448 glass lantern slides; 41 glass negatives; color records; plant patents; publications. )
- Collection ID:
- AAG.MCF
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Archives of American Gardens
The J. Horace McFarland Collection includes over 3,100 photographic images of private and public gardens throughout the United States, as well as some from foreign countries, dating from 1899 to 1963. Many of these images, generated for Mount Pleasant Press (later the J. Horace McFarland Company), were used to illustrate trade catalogs published by the firm as well as journal and newspaper articles. The collection also contains color records that were used as reference aids during the printing process, plant patents, and various publications of the McFarland Company.
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Crotti, Jean, 1878-1958
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1913-1973
bulk 1913-1961
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1.7 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.crotjean
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The scattered papers of French Dada painter Jean Crotti measure 1.7 linear feet and date from 1913-1973, with the bulk of the material dated 1913-1961. Found within the papers are autobiographical notes and essays; correspondence with family and colleagues, among them Jean Cocteau, Andre Crotti, Suzanne Duchamp, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Gleizes, Christian a.k.a. Georges Herbiet, Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, and Jacques Villon; notes and writings by Crotti and others; art work by Crotti and Paul Guillaume; a scrapbook; and additional printed material. Photographs are of Crotti, Suzanne Duchamp, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and other family and friends; and of Crotti's art work. There are audio recordings on phonograph records of three interviews with Crotti and one with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Blancpain.
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Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912
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circa 1860s
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1 Print (albumen, image 23 x 29 cm., mounted 31 x 40 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1999.11
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
One albumen print of the Mausoleum of Akbar, Secundra. View from an angle with two Indian men in the center of the photograph. Signed "Bourne 1250" in the lower right corner of the image.
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Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
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1876-1931
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131 Linear feet (29 architectural drawings)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A.01
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. The papers include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, and photographs.
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Cox, John Hadley, b. 1913
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circa 1936-1939
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105 lantern slides (approximate count)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1991.07
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Period latern slides taken in the mid to late 1930's pertaining to objects in Mr. Cox's collection, namely ceramics, bronzes, lacquer and figures found at archaeological sites in Changsha, Hunan province, dating primarily from the Zhou and Han Dynasties and from the Warring States period.