Sonora Carver Papers
1891-1994
Collection documents Sonora Carver's career as a diving horse rider and her advocacy work with the Lighthouse for the Blind.
Robert L. Shurr Script and Scrapbook for the Motion Picture "George Washington Carver"
Shurr, Robert L. (scriptwriter)
The film, George Washington Carver, starring Carver himself, was filmed in 1939 and released in 1940. Ben Parker was the director and Robert L. Shurr wrote the screenplay.
Richard Carver Wood photographs of the dedication of To the Morrow
Four b&w mounted photographs taken by Richard Carver Wood of the dedication of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculpture, "To the Morrow," created for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Pictured in the photographs with the sculpture are Whitney, Juliana Force, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and Grover Whalen, the …
Richard Carver Wood Photographs
Asch, Patsy
Wood, Richard Carver
Photographs taken by Wood including persons prominent in the New York City social, literary, and theatrical fields. Other subjects include architecture, landscapes, still life, dunes, military, and theater in the United States and other countries.
MS 2844 Reference notes collected by Truman Michelson
Topics: population; Reports of Indian Affairs; Jesuit Relations; Houk; references to Annals of Iowa; Kansas Historical Society Collections; Carver; Wisconsin Historical Society; Perrot; Armstrong; notes on the Religion Dance; notes on the Fox system of consanguinity.
Ivory Coast Mask Carver film
Footage documents a Senufo carver making a mask: 1) chopping a block of wood from a log, 2) carving the mask using hand adzes and knives and 3) painting the finished mask. Also documented is the ceremony in which the mask is used and other dance sculptures are shown. Please note that the …
Oral history interview with Edgar Tolson
Pennington, Estill Curtis
14 Pages (Transcript)
An interview of Edgar Tolson conducted 1981July 30, by Estill Curtis Pennington, with the assistance of Larry Hackley, for the Archives of American Art.
Pauline A. Pinckney research materials on American figureheads
Handwritten and typed notes on the carving of ship's figureheads in preparation for Pinckney's book, American figureheads and their carvers.
Rochette and Parzini records
Rochette and Parzini correspondence, financial records, business records, subject files, and photographs of works of art, concerning commissions for the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Museum of History and Technology (Smithsonian Institution), U.S. Senate and Capital buildings, government buildings, universities, churches and cathedrals.
Colombia, Land of Mountain Coffee
Linear feet
Columbia, Land of Mountain Coffee and associated photographic materials, all by Richard Carver Wood, Patsy Asch's father. Film was produced by Richard Carver Wood, written by Frank Beckwith and edited by Lee Burgess. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context …
