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Photographs of artists donated by the Worcester Art Museum
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Creators:
Worcester Art Museum
Dates:
circa 1880-1900
Size:
10 Items (photographic prints, b&w, 19 x 24 cm. and smaller.)
Collection ID:
AAA.worcartm
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Included are photographs of: J.G. Brown, Carle J. Blenner, Bruce Crane, J.H. Dolph, Gilbert Gaul, James McDougal Hart, Francis Coates Jones, Arthur Parton, Henry P. Smith, and Carleton Wiggins.

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Hortense Ferne papers
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Creators:
Ferne, Hortense T., 1885-1976
Dates:
1889-1951
Size:
0.2 Linear feet ((50 items on 3 microfilm reels))
Collection ID:
AAA.fernhort
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Letters from Harry Roseland, Edward Caswell, Francis C. Jones, Devitt Welsh, and John Taylor Arms; autographs of American literary and art figures, late 19th-20th centuries; catalogs of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers, 1928-1937; catalog, March 1906, of the American Association of Artists listing paintings sold for Moses Tanenbaum, Ferne's fath...

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Artists' Fellowship records
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Creators:
Artists' Fellowship
Dates:
1872-1980
Size:
5 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
Collection ID:
AAA.artifell
Repository:
Archives of American Art

UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence, membership files, minutes, historian's records, financial material, subject files, and miscellany.

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Interviews of artists and architects associated with the National Academy of Design
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Creators:
Lockman, DeWitt McClellan, 1870-1957
Dates:
1926-1927
Size:
3 microfilm reels
Collection ID:
AAA.lockdewi
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Transcripts and handwritten drafts of interviews of 86 artists and architects associated with the National Academy of Design, conducted by Lockman. Also included are a few biographical sketches.

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Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. artists' letters collection
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Creators:
McGuigan, Mary K.
Dates:
1794-1938
Size:
0.6 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.mcgumary
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The collection of artists' letters compiled by Mary and John McGuigan Jr. measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1794-1938. The collection is comprised of a group of letters, writings, and signed documents to and from a variety of artists, art administrators, art critics, historians, and art-related organizations assembled from multiple sources. It also includes associated printed material with some documents and a few photographs, including carte de visites and cabinet cards.

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Library of Congress Copyright Deposit Collection of photomechanical prints of American art works
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Creators:
Library of Congress
Dates:
circa 1890-1945
Size:
183.5 Cubic feet ((58 solander boxes))
Collection ID:
SAAM.Photo.LOC
Repository:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Research and Scholars Center

The Library of Congress Copyright Deposit Collection is comprised of 2,335 photomechanical reproductions of works by 741 artists (mostly American). The large-format prints, deposited with the Library of Congress for copyright between 1890 and 1945, represent a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art.

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Digitized Content George H. Clark Radioana Collection
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Creators:
Clark, George Howard, 1881-1956
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Dates:
circa 1880-1950
Size:
220 Cubic feet (700 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0055
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection forms a documentary record of over half a century of the history of radio, with the greatest emphasis on the period 1900-1935. The collection includes materials that span the entire history of the growth of the radio industry. It is useful for those historians and other researchers interested in technological development, economic history, and the impact of applications of technology on American life.

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Digitized Content Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.12: Banquet Negatives
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Creators:
Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994
Custom Craft
Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
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Dates:
1923-1940
Size:
15 Boxes
The materials in the subseries consists of black and white silver gelatin negatives.
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0618.S04.12
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Scurlock photographic studio was a fixture in the Shaw area of Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1994, and encompassed two generations of photographers, Addison N. Scurlock (1883-1964) and his sons George H. (1920- 2005) and Robert S. (1916-1994). Subseries 4.12 materials primarily document clients of the Scurlock Studio that were organizations and the images depict those groups' and organizations' activities. An overview to the entire Scurlock collection is available here: Scurlock Studio Records

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Digitized Content Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Books
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
circa 1664-1967
Size:
8.17 Cubic feet (consisting of 17 boxes, 11 folders, 24 oversize folders, 2 map case folders. )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Books
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Books forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

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Digitized Content Macbeth Gallery records
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Creators:
Macbeth Gallery
Dates:
1947-1948
1838-1968
bulk 1892-1953
Size:
131.6 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.macbgall
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The Macbeth Gallery records provide almost complete coverage of the gallery's operations from its inception in 1892 to its closing in 1953. Through extensive correspondence files, financial and inventory records, printed material, scrapbooks, reference and research material, and photographs of artists and works of art, the records document all aspects of the gallery's activities, charting William Macbeth's initial intention to lease his store "for the permanent exhibition and sale of American pictures" through over sixty years of success as a major New York firm devoted to American art. The collection measures 131.6 linear feet and dates from 1838 to 1968 with the bulk of the material dating from 1892 to 1953.

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