Exhibition Records
This accession consists of records documenting the planning and production of exhibitions created and maintained by Louise Allison Cort, Museum Specialist, 1985-1989; Assistant Curator, 1989-1994; Associate Curator, 1994-1995; and Curator, 1995- . Topics covered include research, planning, preparation, event feedback, fund raising, budgets, the traveling exhibition, artists, travel, agreements, and education. Many documents are written …
Tommi Parzinger collection
Parzinger, Tommi, 1903-1981.
This collection does not represent the entire Parzinger archive. The German firm, K.P.M., has the drawings Parzinger produced for the line of ceramics and a part of the documentation for the work in the United States was damaged or lost in a 1951 flood in the Madison Avenue office. However, enough of the archive remains to document a significant part of the designer's work from the 1940s-1970s. Included in the collection are brochures, ad sheets, magazine pages, chart-like sheets of furniture designs, drawings or blueprints, clippings, photographs, press articles, and pages of notes. The collection does not include business papers which were deliberately excluded for space reasons.
Robert Chapman Turner papers
The papers of ceramicist Robert Chapman Turner measure 13.3 linear feet and date from circa 1917 to 2005. The papers document Turner's career as an educator and studio potter through biographical material, correspondence, writings, teaching files, professional files including lectures, subject files, printed material, and photographs.
Hanna Lore Hombordy Papers
The project files include booklets: "Elements of Design" (1953-54); "Appearance Design" (1954); packaging and label designs and prototypes, photographs of drawing machinery, clippings, and misc. designs and printed advertisements for shoes, antennas, and candies.,This collection documents Hombordy's work as a graphics designer in the late 1940s and 1950s while employed at A.W. Lewin …
Fisher, Bruce & Company Records
Fisher, Bruce & Company.
Fisher, Bruce & Company, importers of china, earthenware, and glassware, were located on Market Street, Philadelphia. The collection contains catalog pages and price lists for china, earthenware, and glassware imported from Belgium, Britain, France, and Italy, and some American ceramics.
Ralph Bacerra papers
The papers of Los Angeles ceramic artist and educator Ralph Bacerra measure 3.4 linear feet and date from 1957 to 2015. The collection documents Bacerra's career through correspondence, professional activity files including teaching files from Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute, exhibition files, writings and notes including the artist's ceramic formulas and a diary, artwork including sketchbooks and drawings, photographs including images of Bacerra and his work, and printed material relating to Bacerra's career.
Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason papers
Mason, Derek, 1927-
Artists' files; business files; photographs and slides; transcripts and sound recordings; printed material; and miscellany.
Exhibition Records
This accession consists of records documenting the planning and production of exhibitions as well as professional activities and research. These records were created and maintained by Louise Allison Cort, Curator, 1995-2018; Associate Curator, 1994-1995; Assistant Curator, 1989-1994; and Museum Specialist, 1985-1989. Topics covered include lectures, research, collaborative projects, peer reviews, exhibition development, installation, traveling …
MS 7522 Notes on Virginia archaeology
Notes on individual sites excext for those on the United States National Museum collection and notes on pottery types. The photographs are views of sites and layouts of stone tools. The material was used to prepare Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 160, A ceramic study of Virginia archeology, 1955. Some negatives of …
Maija Grotell papers
Biographical materials, correspondence, awards, photographs, and printed materials relating to the career of the noted ceramicist and teacher who devoted the last quarter century of her life to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
