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Wildenhain, Frans, 1905-1980
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1974
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1 Item ((13 p. on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.wildfrga
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Wildenhain's application for a National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1974, in which he asks for support to work in a new medium, porcelain. A 12-page resume which lists training, exhibitions, prizes and awards, and other activities is included.
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Foster, John Arthur, 1900-1980
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[ca. 1935-1989]
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0.8 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.fostjohn
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Biographical material, business records concerning sales, loans, and exhibitions, undated and 1943-1981; writings, including lecture notes, articles and drafts, undated and 1938-1953; correspondence with professors, art and ceramic institutions, friends and colleagues, undated, and 1935-1977; printed material, including exhibition catalogs, announc...
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United States Postal Service
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undated
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1 Envelope
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7252
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The stamps are on an envelope postmarked Santa Fe, New Mexico, dated April 13, 1977, and addressed to William C. Sturtevant. The pottery on the stamps is from Acoma, San Ildefonso, Hopi, and Sia.
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Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911
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undated
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3277
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Clipped from magazines such as Harper's ca. 1874-1878. Mostly concerns Old World.
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MS 2038 Notes and sketches related to Zuni pottery
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Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915
- Dates:
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1896
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26 Items (pages and slips )
8 Photographs
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2038
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
These are of a painted tablet, katchinas, petroglyphs, and cloud and rain symbols on pottery; list of photographs taken by M. C. Stevenson; and photographs of pottery in United States National Museum, probably used for reference in study of cloud and rain symbols. Two pages of notes entitled "Cloud and Rain Symbols" contain list of [United States N...
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Bennett, Edwin, 1818-1908 (potter)
Edwin Bennett Pottery Company
Ceramics and Glass, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1844-1881
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4 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0213
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Early Bennett family histories, Edwin Bennett's autobiography, correspondence, 1914-1981, Bennett Pottery Company records, photographs, notebooks of clay and glaze formulae and other miscellaneous items, 1844-1981.
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Fischer, Kitty C. L.
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1940-1981
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0.2 Linear feet ((on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.fisckitt
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Letters, 1940-1981, are primarily from ceramist Frans Wildenhain to Kitty and Hermann Fischer. Thirteen of the letters are illustrated. Also included are a watercolor sketch, undated; 3 clippings and an announcement for Wildenhain's pottery in Putten, Holland; and photographs, 1944-1975, of Wildenhain with his third wife Lili and Fischer's friend H...
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Volkmar, Charles, 1841-1914
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1827-1985
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1.2 Linear feet ((on 1 microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.volkchar
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Printed material, biographical material, correspondence, and photographs (ca. 1860-1920) documenting the Volkmar family's involvement in the development of the ceramics industry in northeastern America. The collection focuses on Charles Volkmar but the careers of Carl, Leon (1879-1959), and Charles Volkmar, Sr. (1809-1892) are also documented. Mate...
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Watkins, C. Malcolm
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1935-1979 and undated
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12.59 cu. ft. (23 document boxes) (1 half document box) (1 16x20 box) (1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7322
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The papers of C. Malcolm Watkins provide comprehensive documentation of his professional career from 1934 to 1980. The collection documents his interest in early American culture; his research on ceramics, historic archeology, and early California history; his curatorial and administrative activities in the Department of Anthropology, USNM, ...
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Kemp, Emory L. (Professor)
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1930's.
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
Glass plates, 3-1/4" x 4", silver gelatin.
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0138
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Seventeen photographic lantern slides on glass and pottery manufacture. Includes diagrams of a gas-fired glass tank, the Fourcault process for making plate glass, the Colburn process for making sheet glass, a recuperative glass tank, silica minerals, a graph of the time-temperature curve for annealing flat glass, and pictures of the Kastner Neill P...