Federal Art Project negatives of art and craft work
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Creators:
Federal Art Project (Ohio)
Dates:
1936-1940
Size:
0.2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.fedeartp05
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Negatives of murals, signs, ceramic figures, furniture, sculpture, toys, posters, and other arts and crafts made for the FAP in the Ohio region.

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Wilbur D. Peat papers
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Creators:
Peat, Wilbur David, 1898-1966
Dates:
1933-1939
Size:
1 Linear foot ((on 2 microfilm reels))
Collection ID:
AAA.peatwilb
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Correspondence; financial reports; project reports and bulletins of the Public Works of Art Project; correspondence with William Milliken, Director of Region 9 of the PWAP, relating to the administration of PWAP and Treasury Relief Art Project; applications; work reports and letters from aritsts about their projects, analyses of their work in quest...

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Clarence Holbrook Carter papers
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Creators:
Carter, Clarence Holbrook, 1904-2000
Dates:
1900-1979
Size:
10.7 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 6 reels))
Collection ID:
AAA.cartclar
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Correspondence; diaries; business records; printed material; photographs; and miscellaneous items.

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Selected Federal Art Project of the Work Projects Administration records from the United States National Archives (microfilm)
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Creators:
Federal Art Project (U.S.)
Dates:
1935-1948
Size:
70 Microfilm reels
Collection ID:
AAA.fedeartp09
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Selected records from the United States National Archives and Records Administration of the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Work Projects Administration. Records cover a broad range of topics. The bulk are from the Central Files, "States" and "General Subject" series, 1935-1944. Also microfilmed are materials from series Federal Art Project, Feder...

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Digitized Content Ben Shahn papers
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Creators:
Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
Dates:
1879-1990
bulk 1933-1970
Size:
25.1 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.shahben
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of social realist painter, photographer, illustrator, printmaker, and teacher Ben Shahn (1898-1969) measure 25.1 linear feet and date from 1879-1990, with the bulk of the material dating from 1933-1970. The bulk of the collection consists of over 14 linear feet of incoming letters from artists, writers, colleagues, publishers, art organizations, galleries, and universities and colleges. Also found are biographical materials, project and source files, printed material, artwork by Shahn and others, photographs taken of and by Shahn, interview transcripts, sound recordings of interviews and a motion picture film.

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Digitized Content Correspondence
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Dates:
1926-1974, undated
Level:
series
Size:
22 Linear feet (Boxes 1-22; Reels 5488-5545)
Collection ID:
AAA.downgall
Repository:
Archives of American Art

This series consists of the business and personal correspondence of Edith Gregor Halpert and the Downtown Gallery. For the most part, this series is general business correspondence concerning routine activities of the Downtown Gallery, including the American Folk Art Gallery and the Daylight Gallery, both operated by the Downtown Gallery on the sam...

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Digitized Content Correspondence
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Dates:
1883-1980
Level:
series
Size:
2.1 Linear feet (Box 1-3, FC 23)
Collection ID:
AAA.pachwalt2
Repository:
Archives of American Art

This series contains family correspondence and extensive professional letters from noted artists and art world figures including critics, writers, collectors, museums and other art institutions. Scattered letters from Pach can also be found here. See Appendix for partial chronological list of letters from Series 2.

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Digitized Content Forman H. Craton Papers
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Creators:
Craton, Forman H., 1902-1983
Dates:
1902-1983
Size:
4.15 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0454
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Diaries and memoirs, profusely illustrated with photographs and other mementos, which describe Craton's life, education and work experience as an engineer at General Electric in minute detail, and include his comments on the culture, current events and politics of the times; and correspondence, mostly letters from Craton to his wife and to his mother.

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