Robert Scull papers
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Scull, Robert, 1917-1986
- Dates:
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1955-circa 1984
bulk 1965-1970
- Size:
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2.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.sculrobe
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Robert Scull papers measure 2.2 linear feet and date from 1950 to circa 1984, with the bulk of the material dating from 1965 to 1970. Throughout the 1960s, Robert Scull was a wealthy and prominent art collector of Abstract, Pop, and Minimalist art whose collection included works by Michael Heizer, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, among others. His papers include fourteen annotated appointment books, correspondence, financial and legal records, printed material, and photographs. There is a 0.2 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2020 that includes black and white photographs (and 1 color photograph), snapshots, negatives and negative strips of family, friends artwork and artists; correspondence; and loan forms for works of art.
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Lay, Oliver Ingraham, 1845-1890
Lay, Charles Downing, 1877-1956
- Dates:
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1789-2000
bulk 1870-1996
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10.54 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.layoliv
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Oliver Ingraham Lay, Charles Downing Lay, and Lay Family Papers measure 10.54 linear feet and date from 1789 through 2000, with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1870-1996. The collection presents an overview of the personal lives and careers of painter, Oliver Ingraham Lay and his son, landscape architect, Charles Downing Lay. In addition, there are the papers of Lay family members and friends, including those of the Marian Wait Lay family (wife of Oliver Ingraham Lay) and of the Laura Gill Lay family (wife of Charles Downing Lay). Also found are the papers of the landscape and nature painter Fidelia Bridges. The collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, diaries, writings and notes, scrapbooks, family business records, exhibition files, printed material, as well as original artwork, sketches, a sketchbook, landscape designs, and photographs.
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Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
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1866-1890
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0068
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of five children's books about the circus, a brochure announcing the show in London, an 1873 advertisement for the Great Traveling World's Fair of Barnum's, and two scrapbooks.
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MacRae, Elmer Livingston, 1875-1953
- Dates:
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1899-circa 2013
bulk 1912-1916
- Size:
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1.8 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.macrelme
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Elmer Livingston MacRae papers related to the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc., (AAPS) measure 1.8 linear feet and date from 1899 to circa 2013, with the bulk of the material dating from 1912-1916. Elmer Livingston MacRae served as Treasurer of the AAPS when the association organized the International Exhibition of Modern Art, also known as the Armory Show of 1913. The bulk of this collection concerns MacRae's involvement with the AAPS and the Armory Show and includes administrative files, correspondence, exhibition files, financial records, printed materials, and artifacts.
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Heermance, Laura W., 1916-1960
- Dates:
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bulk 1937
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11 digital scans
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2005.0022
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of scans copied by the NASM Archives of eleven photographs taken by Laura W. Heermance (1916-1960) in France during the Spring of 1937. The photographs were shot at the Le Bourget Airport and at the Aero Club de la Riviera, France The following aircraft are shown: Imperial Airways Short L. 17 Scylla and Handley Page H.P. 42...
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American Foundation for the Study of Man
- Dates:
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1952
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1 Painting
12 Photographs
1 Item (folio)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2015.07
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Photographs and Folio created by American Foundation for Study of Man Two reports sent to Bayard Colgate, member of the Board of Directors of the American Foundation for the Study of Man in 1952 summarizing the expeditions between 1950 and 1952. One is a letter-size, spiral bound folio of reproduction photographs with a 4 page report; the second is...
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- Dates:
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1977
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2016.0027
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of nine postal covers commemorating the 50th anniversary of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's historic flight from New York to Paris in 1927 and the following good will tour.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Gordon, Robert B.
Starr, A.B., 1882-1962
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1905-1906
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1034
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Three volumes of laboratory notes compiled by Starr while a student at Sibley College, Cornell University. The tests written about in the notebooks related to engines, steam, tensile strength of cast iron, lubricants, and other subjects. The notebooks contain notes, charts and graphs, and cyanotypes.
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Judd, Michael
MacCready, Paul, 1925-
- Dates:
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2002-11-08
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0842
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes nine (9) original Beta Cam SP videos documenting interviews with Paul MacCready, the father of human powered flight. MacCready invented the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross.
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Historical Records Survey (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1935-1942
- Size:
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4.4 Linear feet ((on 12 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.histreco
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Records documenting activities of the Survey to inventory portraits in America done before 1860 in the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.