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Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

131 Linear feet (29 architectural drawings)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Diaries

Financial records

Correspondence

Photographs

Place:

China

Syria

Egypt

India

London (England)

Japan

Boston (Mass.)

Detroit (Mich.)

Washington (D.C.)

Kandy (Sri Lanka)

Sri Lanka

Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka)

Date:

1876-1931

Summary:

The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. The papers include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, and photographs.

Scope Content:

The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. The papers include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, financial material, architectural drawings, and photographs.

Correspondence, circa 1860-1921, includes Freer's correspondence, 1876-1920, with artists, dealers, collectors, museums, and public figures; letterpress books contain copies of Freer's outgoing letters, 1892-1910; correspondence collected by Freer of James McNeill Whistler, and his wife Beatrix, 186?-1909, with Lady Colin Campbell, Thomas R. Way, Alexander Reid, Whistler's mother, Mrs. George W. Whistler, and others; correspondence of Whistler collector Richard A. Canfield, 1904-1913, regarding works in Canfield's collection; and correspondence of Freer's assistant, Katharine Nash Rhoades, 1920-1921, soliciting Freer's letters from his associates, and regarding the settlement of his estate.

Also included are twenty-nine pocket diaries, 1889-1890, 1892-1898, 1900-1919, recording daily activities, people and places visited, observations, and comments; a diary kept by Freer's caretaker, Joseph Stephens Warring, recording daily activities at Freer's Detroit home, 1907-1910. Inventories, n.d. and 1901-1921, of American, European, and Asian art in Freer's collection, often including provenance information; vouchers, 1884-1919, documenting his purchases; five volumes of scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeill Whistler, 1888-1931, labeled "Various," "Peacock Room," "Death, etc.," "Paris, etc.," and "Boston...London" ; three volumes of newsclippings, 1900-1930, concerning Freer and the opening of the Freer Gallery of Art.

Correspondence regarding Freer's gift and bequest to the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1916; and photographs, ca. 1880-1930, of Freer, including portraits by Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen, Freer with others, Freer in Cairo, China and Japan, Freer's death mask, and his memorial service, Kyoto, 1930; photographs of artists and others, including Thomas Dewing, Ernest Fenollosa, Katharine Rhoades taken by Alfred Stieglitz, Rosalind B. Philip, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Abbott H. Thayer, Dwight Tryon, and Whistler; and photographs relating to Whistler, including art works depicting him, grave and memorial monuments, works of art, the Peacock Room, and Whistler's memorial exhibition at the Copley Society.

Organization of the Papers:

This collection is organized into twelve series.

Series 1: Genealogical and Biographical Data

Series 2: Correspondence

Series 3: Diaries

Series 4: Freer Colleague Materials

Series 5: Art Inventories

Series 6: Financial Materials

Series 7: Exhibition Loan Files

Series 8: Biblical Manuscripts and Gold Treasure Files

Series 9: American School of Archaeology in China

Series 10: Printed Material

Series 11: Outsize Material

Series 12: Photographs

Biographical Note:

1854 February 25 -- Born in Kingston, New York

1873 -- Appointed accountant and paymaster of New York, Kingston and Syracuse Railroad by Frank J. Hecker (1846-1927)

1876 -- Moves to Indiana to work, with Hecker, for the Detroit and Eel River and Illinois Railroad

1880 -- Moves to Detroit, participates in organization of the Peninsular Car Works with Hecker

1883 -- Becomes vice president and secretary of Peninsular Car Company when it succeeds Peninsular Car Works

1883 -- Begins collecting European prints

1884 -- Peninsular Car Company constructs plant on Ferry Avenue

1887 -- Meets Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)

1887 -- Acquires proofs of 26 etchings, Venice, Second Series(1886), by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

1887 -- Purchases a small Japanese fan attributed to Ogata Korin(1658-1715)

1887 -- Buys land on Ferry Avenue

1889 -- Meets Frederick Stuart Church (1826-1900) and Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925) in New York

1890 -- Commissions Wilson Eyre (1858-1944) to design house on Ferry Avenue, Detroit, Michigan

1890 -- On first trip to London, meets James McNeill Whistler(1834-1903)

1892 -- Moves to Ferry Avenue house

1892 -- Tryon and Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) undertake decoration of reception rooms

1893 -- Lends American paintings to World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

1893 -- Purchases first piece of Chinese art, a small painting of white herons by an anonymous Ming dynasty (1368-1644) artist

1894 -- Begins yearlong trip around the world, which includes visit to the Whistlers in Paris and first trip to Asia, stopping in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, China, and Japan

1896 -- Meets Matsuki Bunkyo (1867-1940) in Boston

1899 -- Takes part in consolidation of railroad-car building companies then retires from active business

1900 -- Attends Exposition International Universelle in Paris

1900 -- Buys villa in Capri with Thomas S. Jerome

1901 -- Meets Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) in Paris and Ernest Fenollosa(1853-1908), who visits Freer in Detroit

1902 -- Meets Dikran Kelekian (1868-1951)

1902 -- Spends summer in Britain building Whistler collection

1902 -- Views Whistler's, Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room

1904 -- Purchases Whistler's Peacock Room

1904 -- Offers his art collections and funds to build a museum in which to house them to the Smithsonian Institution

1905 -- Smithsonian committee visits Freer in Detroit

1906 -- United States government formally accepts Freer's gift on January 24

1906 -- Freer signs Deed of Gift to Smithsonian Institution on May 5

1907 -- On second tour of Asia, meets Hara Tomitaro 1868-1939) in Yokohama, Japan

1908 -- Takes third trip to Asia, specifically to West Asia to study Rakka ware

1909 -- Tours Europe to study art museums

1909 -- On fourth trip to Asia, attends memorial ceremony for Fenollosa (d.1908 September) at Miidera, Japan, and meets Duanfang (1861-1911) in China

1910 -- On last trip to Asia, visits Longmen Buddhist caves in China

1911 -- Suffers stroke

1912 -- Lends selection of objects for exhibition at Smithsonian Institution

1913 -- Meets Eugene (1875-1957) and Agnes E. (1887-1970) Meyer

1913 -- Commissions Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933) to design museum building in Washington

1914 -- Meets Katharine Nash Rhoades (1885-1965) in Detroit

1915 -- Settles in New York City

1915 -- Site of future Freer Gallery of Art is determined

1916 -- Platt's plans for Freer Gallery are approved by Smithsonian Regents and Commission of Fine Arts and ground is broken in September

1918 -- After falling ill in Detroit, Freer travels to New York for treatment

1918 -- Work on the museum building is delayed by the war

1919 -- Freer appends codicil to will permitting acquisitions of Asian, Egyptian, and Near Eastern (West Asian) art

1919 -- Dies in New York City on 25 September and is buried in Kingston, New York

1919 -- Construction of Freer Gallery completed

1920 -- John Ellerton Lodge (1876-1942) is appointed director of the Freer Gallery

1923 -- Freer Gallery opens to the public on May 9

1930 -- Memorial ceremony for Freer is held at Koetsuji, Kyoto

Charles Lang Freer was an American industrialist who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. He was a well-known collector of Asian art, and strongly supported the synthesis of Eastern art and Western art. One of his most famous acquisitions was James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room.

Index:

Index to cross-referenced correspondents in the series Charles Lang Freer correspondence

Beal, Junius E. -- See: -- Warring, Joseph Stephens

Black, George M. -- See: -- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Board of Education (Kingston, New York) See: Michael, M. J.

Bonner, Campbell See: University of Michigan

Boughton, George H. See: Yardley, F. C.

British Museum See: Binyon, Laurence; Hobson, R. L.

Brown, Harold H. See: Art Association of Indianapolis

Buchner, Evelyn B. See: Knoedler, M., and Company

Buckholder, C. H. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Butler, S. B. See: Unidentified correspondents

Carnegie Institute See: Balken, Edward Duff; Harshe, Robert B.

Carpenter, Newton H. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Caulkins, Horace James See: Pewabic Pottery

Chao, Shih-chin See: Gunn, Chu Su

Chicago & North Western Railway Co. See: Hughett, Marvin

Clark, Charles Upson See: Clark, Arthur B.

Cleveland Museum of Art See: Whiting, Frederic Allen

Columbia University See: Braun, W. A.; Gottheil, Richard; Hirth, Friederich

Commission of Fine Arts See: Moore, Charles

Corcoran Gallery of Art See: Minnigerode, C. Powell

Crocker, Anna B. See: Portland Art Association

Dannenberg, D. E. See: Karlbeck, Orvar

De Menoncal, Beatrice See: Lien, Hui Ch'ing Collection

De Ricci, Seymour See: Ricci, Seymour de

Defnet, William A., Mrs., See: Franke, Ida M.

DeMotte See: Vigouroux, J.

Detroit Institute of Arts See: Detroit Museum of Art

Detroit Publishing Company See: Livingstone, W. A.

Detroit School of Design See: George Hamilton; Stevens, Henry

DeVinne Press See: Peters, Samuel T.; Witherspoon, A. S.

Dyrenforth, P. C. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Eddy, Arthur J. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Eggers, George Williams See: Art Institute of Chicago

Farr, Daniel H. See: Robinson and Farr

Farrand School (Detroit) See: Yendall, Edith

Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) See: Laufer, Berthold

Flagg, Frederick J. See: Allen, Horace N.

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University See: Forbes, Edward; Pope, Arthur Upham; Sachs, Paul J.

French, M. R. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Fu, Lan-ya See: Pang, Lai-ch'en

Fujii, Yoshio See: Yoshio, Fujii

Gerrity, Thomas See: Knoedler, M., and Company

Goupil Gallery See: Marchant, William

Gray, William J. See: Barr, Eva

Great Lakes Engineering Works See: Hoyt, H. W.

Grolier Club See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Heinemann, W. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Holden, Edward S. See: West Point, U. S. Military Academy

Hudson, J. L. See: Weber, William C.

Hutchins, Harry B. See: University of Michigan

Hutchins, Charles L. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Kelekian, H. G. See: Kelekian, Dikran G.

Kent, H. W. See: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lee, Kee Son See: Li, Chi-ch'un

Levy, John See: Schneider, A. K.

Library of Congress See: Rice, Richard A.; Wright, Helen

Louvre (Paris, France) See: Midgeon, Gaston

Matsuki, Z. See: Matsuki, Kihachiro

McKim, Mead and White See: White, Stanford

Mills, A. L., Colonel See: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Miner, Luella See: Lien, Hui Ch'ing Collection

Minneapolis Institute of Arts See: Breck, Joseph; Van Derlip, John R.

Monif, R. Khan See: Rathbun, Richard

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston See: Lodge, John Ellerton

Naser, Katen & Nahass See: Katen, K.

Nordlinger, Marie, Miss See: Meyer-Riefstahl, Marie

Panama Pacific International Exposition See: Moore, Charles C.; Trask, John E. D.

Peabody Museum See: Morse, Edward Sylvester

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts See: Trask, John E. D.

Perry, Mary Chase, Miss., See: Pewabic Pottery

Philip, Ronald M. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Pope, G. D. See: Barr, Eva

Reinhart, A. G. See: Gottschalk, E.

Reitz, Sigisbert Chrétien Bosch See: Bosch-Reitz, Sigisbert Chrétien

Rutgers College See: Van Dyke, John C.

Saint-Gaudens, Augusta H. See: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Saint-Gaudens, Homer See: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Samurai Shokai See: Nomura, Yozo

San Francisco Art Association See: Laurvik, J. Nilsen

Scribner's, Charles, Sons See: Van Dyke, John C.

Shaw, Wilfred B. See: University of Michigan

Shirae, S. Z. See: Yamanaka and Company

Smith College See: Clark, Arthur B.

Smithsonian Institution See: Holmes, William Henry; Rathbun, Richard; Ravenel, Walcott, Charles D.

Society of Arts and Crafts (Detroit) See: Plumb, Helen

Societe des Beaux-Arts See: Reid, Alexander

Stevens, George W. See: Toledo Museum of Art

Stratton, Mary Chase Perry See: Pewabic Pottery

Tanaka, Kichijiro See: Yamanaka and Company

Tuttle, William F. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Union Trust Company (Detroit) See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

United States Military Academy See: West Point, U. S. Military Academy

University of Chicago See: Zug, George Breed

University of Pennsylvania, Univ. Mus. See: Gordon, George Bryon

Ushikubo, D. J. R. See: Yamanaka and Company

Wallis & Son See: Barr, Eva; Thompson, C. Croal Ward, Clarence See: Oberlin College

Warren, Edward K. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Warring, Stephen See: Warring, Joseph Stephens

Watkin, Williams R. T. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Watson, Margaret, Miss See: Parker, Margaret Watson

Whistler, Anna See: Stanton, Anna Whistler

Whiting, Almon C. See: Toledo Museum of Art

Williams College See: Rice, Richard A

Wright, F. G. See: Orbach and Company

Yatsuhashi, H. See: Yamanaka and Company

Index to cross-referenced correspondence in the series Whistler correspondence

Bell, William See: Unidentified correspondents

Brown, Ernest See: Painter Etchers' Society, Committee

Cowen, John T. See subseries: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence

Ford, Sheridan See: Reid, Alexander

Haden, Francis Seymour See: Painter Etchers' Society, Committee

Haden, Francis Seymour, Lady See: Haden, Deborah Whistler

Leighton, Frederick, Baron See: Campbell, Lady Colin

Moore, Albert See: Reid, Alexander

Morley, Charles See: Pall Mall Gazette

Morris, Harrison S. See: Reid, Alexander

Pennell, Joseph See: Miscellaneous typescripts

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts See: Reid, Alexander

Prange, F. G. See: Reid, Alexander

Societe des Beaux-Arts See: Reid, Alexander

Society of Portrait Painters See: Reid, Alexander

Stevens Fine Art See: Reid, Alexander

Studd, Arthur See: Miscellaneous typescripts

[Vanderbilt?], George, Mrs. See: George, Mrs.

Whistler, William McNeill, Mrs. See: Whistler, Nellie

Whistler Memorial Committee See: Miscellaneous typescripts

Related Material:

The Archives of American Art microfilmed portions of the Freer papers in 1992. The microfilm is available at the Archives of American Art's Washington D.C. office, the Freer Gallery of Art Library, and through interlibrary loan.

Provenance:

Gift of the Estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Art, American -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Architecture -- Asia  Search this

Genre/Form:

Diaries

Financial records

Correspondence

Photographs

Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

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Creator:

Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass), 1901-1988  Search this

Names:

Phelps-Stokes Fund  Search this

Tuskegee Institute  Search this

United Negro College Fund  Search this

Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943  Search this

Moton, Robert Russa, 1867-1940  Search this

Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass), 1901-1988  Search this

Extent:

18.66 Linear feet (21 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Diplomas

Notebooks

Articles

Manuscripts

Photographic prints

Ephemera

Scrapbooks

Newsletters

Awards

Photographs

Invitations

Legal documents

Programs

Correspondence

Clippings

Date:

1882 - 1988

Summary:

President of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (later Tukegee Institute; now Tuskegee University) from 1935 - 1953 and founder of the United Negro College Fund (1944). Patterson was born on October 10, 1901. Orphaned at age two, he was raised by his eldest sister, Wilhelmina (Bess), a school teacher in Texas. He studied at Iowa State College, where he received a doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1923 and a master of science degree in 1927. Five years later, he was awarded a second doctorate degree from Cornell University. Patterson taught veterinary science for four years at Virginia State College, where he was also Director of Agriculture. His tenure at Tuskegee University started in 1928 and spanned almost 25 years, first as head of the veterinary division, then as the director of the School of Agriculture and finally as Tuskegee's third president. He married Catherine Elizabeth Moton, daughter of Tuskegee University's second president, Dr. Robert R. Moton. Patterson also founded the School of Veterinary Medicine at Tuskegee in 1944, the same year he founded the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). The UNCF continues today as a critical source of annual income for a consortium of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tuskegee University among them.

Scope and Content note:

The Frederick Douglass Patterson Collection comprises 18.66 linear feet of correspondence, manuscripts, research material, published writings, photographs, audiovisual material, scrapbooks, diplomas, awards, and other materials chronicling the personal life and professional career of Frederick D. Patterson.

The collection is comprised of glimpses into the life of Dr. Patterson. The little correspondece that survived is located in Series 2: Career, Series 3: Correspondence, and Series 4: Organizations. Some of the correspondence takes the form of congratulatory notes from 1953 during Patterson's transfer from Tuskegee Institute to the Phelps-Stokes Fund, located in Series 2. There is also a personal note sent to Patterson's wife, Catherine Patterson, from George Washington Carver in which he describes peanut oil as a good massage oil.

Arrangement note:

The collection is arranged by series and chronologically therein:

1. Biography: This series provides insight into Patterson's family life through primary documents. It is comprised of family wills, insurance policies, and his autobiography. Sub-series are arranged alphabetically by title.

2. Career: This series contains materials from Patterson's long professional career in the field of higher education, including his tenure as present of both the Tuskegee Institute and the Phelps-Stokes Fund. Sub-series are arranged chronologically.

3. Correspondence: This series contains letters sent to Patterson (and his wife) of a personal and professional nature. Several letters relate to Patterson's personal business "Signs and Services," which was a small billboard advertising company. There are also letters from George Washington Carver. The series is arranged chronologically. 4. Organizations: This series contains material from the various foundations Patterson founded and to which he belonged, including the R.R. Moton Fund and the College Endowment Funding Plan. He is especially noted for developing the United Negro College Fund. The series is organized alphabetically by sub-series title.

5. Honors: This series contains the awards, citations, and resolutions Patterson received during his lifetime. Folders are organized chronologically. 6. Subject Files: This series comprises articles, employee vitas, and other documents collected and organized by Patterson. Among the subjects in the files are higher education, Negroes, segregation, civil rights, and employee records. There is no key to this system.

7. Photographs: The Photograph series mostly documents Patterson's tenure at Tuskegee University. The series includes images of Patterson and various other notable figures during formal functions at the university. Noteworthy personalities include George Washington Carver, Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.

8. Printed Materials: This series contains books, programs, and other documents from Patterson's personal collection. The series is organized alphabetically by author's last name.

Biographical note:

Frederick Douglass Patterson was born on October 10, 1901 to parents William and Mamie Brooks Patterson, in the Buena Vista Heights area of Anacostia in Washington, D.C. The youngest of six children, Patterson's parents died of tuberculosis before he reached the age of two years, his mother when he was eleven months old and his father a year later. Following his parents' death, the Patterson children were split up and sent to live in the homes of family and friends as stipulated in his father's last will and testament until he was seven years old, Patterson lived in the Anacostia area with a family friend he called "Aunt Julia."

When he was seven years old, Patterson's older sister Bess (a recent graduate of the Washington Conservatory of Music) decided to seek employment in Texas and took him with her. Many of their parents' family still lived in the state, which allowed Patterson the opportunity to spend months with various aunts and uncles, while his sister taught music throughout the South. After completing eighth grade, Patterson joined his sister at the Prairie View Normal School, where she taught music and directed the choir. Patterson attended the school for four years, during which time he developed an interest in veterinary medicine.

In 1920, Patterson enrolled at Iowa State College as a veterinary student. He graduated in 1923 and moved to Columbus, Ohio, to join his brother John. While there, he took the Ohio State Board exam for Veterinary Medicine. Although he became certified, a lack of money prevented him from practicing. Four years later he received a teaching offer from Virginia State College (VSC) in Petersburg, Virginia, which afforded him the opportunity to work within his profession. While at VSC Patterson took a leave of absence and returned to Iowa, in 1926, to pursue a Master's degree in veterinary medicine.

After five years at VSC, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute offered Patterson a position running the veterinarian hospital and teaching veterinary science. He moved to Tuskegee, Alabama in 1928. While at Tuskegee, Patterson decided to pursue a Ph.D. in bacteriology at Cornell University. During his year and a half leave from Tuskegee, Patterson completed his coursework and wrote his dissertation. After he returned to Tuskegee, a serial killer murdered three people, including the head of the Department of Agriculture. Confronted with this tragedy, school officials quickly offered Patterson the vacant position, which he accepted in 1934.

Robert R. Moton, second president of Tuskegee, retired in 1935 and a search was soon commenced to find the next president for the school. Patterson, in the meantime, pursued more personal matters when he met and married Catherine Moton (with whom he would have a son) in June 1935. By then he was already hired to take his now, father-in-law's, position as President of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.

As president of Tuskegee, Patterson made several changes and many additions to the institution. He increased faculty housing for professors; integrated the Board of Trustees' meeting meals and eventually arranged for both balck and white members to eat at one table; shortened the name to Tuskegee Institute; and established the Department of Commercial Dietetics in 1935, the veterinary medicine program in 1942, and the engineering program in 1948. While many considered Patterson's changes important achievements, it was his development of the Commercial/Military Aviation Program that would bring the school distinction and fame.

Patterson first attempted to develop the aviation program in 1939. The government fostered the development of such programs by subsiding the expenses. All a university had to do was present able-bodied instructors and willing pupils. Tuskegee had both. By 1940 the United States Air Force was interested in integrating its forces. In order to do this they needed trained black pilots. Tuskegee was the perfect place to provide the needed pilots since the school was situated in an all-black environment where students could concentrate on learning to fly without having to worry about racist reactions from their fellow classmates. To accommodate this program, the Tuskegee Army Air Base was created. Tuskegee pilots flew missions throughout World War II and would later be recognized for their bravery.

An important part of Patterson's duties as president was fund-raising. By 1943 he found it increasingly difficult to find ample sources of funds to run the Institute. He came to realize Tuskegee and similar black colleges would benefit if they pooled their funding resources and asked for larger amounts of money from philanthropic individuals and organizations as a collective. Working together would cut fund-raising expenses; this in turn would leave more money for the colleges to use as they wished. Patterson named his new creation the United Negro College Fund (UNCF); it would go on to raise millions of dollars for the nation's historically black colleges. He served as the first president of the organization.

During the fifteen years Patterson served as president of Tuskegee, he hosted many famous personalities, including W.E.B. DuBois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, Pearl Buck, and Andre Segovia. He developed a lasting relationship with George Washington Carver, who had been a professor with Tuskegee since the days of Booker T. Washington.

Patterson served on many organizational boards in addition to his educational work. His involvement with the Phelps-Stokes Fund would ultimately lead Patterson to leave his beloved Tuskegee Institute to apply his educational philosophies on a broader scale. In 1953 the Fund approached Patterson and offered him the presidency of the organization. Patterson, feeling he needed a change, accepted the offer. He resigned from Tuskegee that same year and moved to New York to begin a new life.

Organized in 1911, the Phelps-Stokes Fund supported African, African American, and Native American education and worked on solving housing problems in New York City. Patterson's interest in African education began before he joined Phelps-Stokes. In 1950 the World Bank/International Bank Commission to Nigeria hired him to "evaluate the resources of Nigeria and…to study the educational programs and the organizational structure of advanced education." Through his work with the Fund he continued his efforts to improve the educational opportunities for Africans and help them move beyond colonialism. Patterson traveled extensively throughout the west coast of Africa in support of these goals.

In addition to forming the UNCF, Patterson created two other organizations (the Robert R. Moton Institute and the College Endowment Funding Plan), during the mid 1960s and 1970s. Each was designed to improve funding efforts for historically black colleges. The Robert R. Moton institute began as an off-shoot of the Phelps-Stokes as a site for conferences to address the Fund's primary concerns. Patterson's idea for the Institute came from a desire to put to use a piece of property inherited after Moton's death. Empathy with the frustrations of college presidents regarding the restricted funding for institutional expenses led Patterson to create the College Endowment Funding Plan. The Endowment was designed to alleviate this situation by providing matching funds to eligible colleges. The Endowment made its first payment in 1978. Unfortunately, by the 1980s, the Moton Institute lost most of its government funding due to federal cutbacks. This resulted in reductions to the Institute's programming.

It was not until Patterson was well into his eighties that he began to retire from his life of public service. On June 23, 1987, President Ronald Reagan presented Dr. Patterson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest possible honor that can be bestowed upon a civilian, for his service in higher education and his role in creating funding sources for the nation's historically black colleges. A year later Frederick Douglass Patterson died at the age of eighty-seven.

Honorary Degrees

undated -- Xavier University

1941 -- Virginia State College

1941 -- Wilberforce University

1953 -- Morehouse College

1956 -- Tuskegee Institute

1961 -- New York University

1966 -- Edward Waters College

1967 -- Atlanta University

1969 -- Franklin and Marshall College

1970 -- Virginia Union University

1975 -- Bishop College

1977 -- St. Augustine's College

1982 -- Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

1984 -- Stillman College

1985 -- Payne College

Distinctions

undated -- Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Carter

undated -- The Southern Education Foundation, Inc. Distinguished Service Citation

undated -- The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and Texas Association of Developing Colleges Annual Leadership Awards

1950 -- Christian Education department, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Inc. Citation for Distinguished Service

1953 -- Bethune-Cookman College, the Mary McLeod Bethune Medallion

1953 -- John A. Andrew Clinical Society at Tuskegee Institute, Citation for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Humanity

1953 -- Tuskegee Institute, Certificate of Appreciation for 25 Years of Service

1957 -- Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Beta Lamda Sigma Chapter, Bigger and Better Business Award

1960 -- National Alumni Council of the UNCF, Inc. Award

1963 -- National Business League, Booker T. Washington Award

1965 -- Booker T. Washington Business Association, Certificate of Acknowledgement

1970 -- Moton Conference Center Award

1970 -- Tuskegee National Alumni Association, R.R. Moton Award

1972 -- American College Public Relations Association, 1972 Award for Distinguished Service to Higher Education

1972 -- UNCF F.D. Patterson 71st Birthday Award

1975 -- National Business League, Booker T. Washington Symbol of Service Award

1976 -- Phelps-Stokes Fund, Continuous Creative and Courageous Leadership in the Cause of Higher Education for Blacks

1977 -- Yale Alumni Associates of Afro-America, Distinguished Service Award

1979 -- Alpha Phi Alpha Education Foundation Inc., Distinguished Educator Award

1979 -- Tuskegee Institute Alumni Association Philadelphia Charter Award

1980 -- The Iowa State University Alumni Association, Distinguished Achievement Citation

1980 -- Gary Branch NAACP Life Membership Fight for Freedom Dinner 1980, Roy Wilkins Award

1980 -- State of Alabama Certificate of Appreciation

1982 -- St. Luke's United Methodist Church Achievement Award

1983 -- Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., Distinguished Service Award

1984 -- Booker T. Washington Foundation, Booker T. Washington Distinguished Service Award

1984 -- The Ohio State University Office of Minority Affairs, Distinguished Humanitarian and Service Award

1985 -- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc, Eta Zeta Lamda Chapter Civic Award

1985 -- United States, Private Sector Initiative Commendation

1987 -- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc of New York State, Founders Day Award

1987 -- Presidential Medal of Freedom

1987 -- Brag Business Achievement Award

1987 -- Phelps-Stokes Fund, Aggrey Medal

Public Service

1941-1971 -- Southern Educational Foundation, Inc., Board Member

1943-1988 -- United Negro College Fund, Founder, President, and Member

1960s-1988 -- Robert R. Moton Memorial Institute, Founder

1970s-1988 -- The College Endowment Funding Plan, Founder

undated -- American National Red Cross, Board of Governors Member

undated -- Boys Scouts of America, National Council Member

undated -- Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report on Reorganization of Federal Government, Board Member

undated -- Institute of International Education, Advisory committee Member

undated -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Life Member

undated -- National Business League, President and Board Member

undated -- National Urban League, National Committee Member

undated -- Phelps-Stokes Fund, Board of Trustees Member

undated -- President's Commission on Higher Education for Negroes

undated -- Southern Regional Education, Board of Control Member

Related Materials:

Additional biographical materials in the Dale/Patterson Collection of the Anacostia Community Museum Archives.

This collection contains artifacts catalogued in the ACM Objects Collection.

Provenance:

The Frederick Douglass Patterson papers were donated to the Anacostia Community Museum in 2001 by Frederick Douglass Patterson, Jr.

Restrictions:

Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.

Rights:

The Frederick Douglass Patterson papers are the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.

Topic:

Universities and colleges -- Administration  Search this

African Americans -- Education (Higher)  Search this

African American universities and colleges  Search this

Genre/Form:

Diplomas

Notebooks

Articles

Manuscripts

Photographic prints

Ephemera

Scrapbooks

Newsletters

Awards

Photographs

Invitations

Legal documents

Programs

Correspondence

Clippings

Citation:

Frederick Douglass Patterson papers, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Frederick Douglass Patterson, Jr.

Identifier:

ACMA.06-010

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Frederick Douglass Patterson papers

Archival Repository:

Anacostia Community Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa7da84300b-c608-41af-b59a-1f44dce53a26

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-acma-06-010

Creator:

Gibson, Gordon D. (Gordon Davis), 1915-2007  Search this

Names:

Center for the Study of Man (Smithsonian Institution)  Search this

Lewis, Kepler-Morden African Expedition  Search this

National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)  Search this

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)  Search this

Smithsonian Institution. Museum of Man  Search this

Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Expedition to Madagascar -- 1962  Search this

Estermann, Carlos  Search this

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002  Search this

Marshall, Lawrence Kennedy, 1898-1980  Search this

Mohun, Richard Dorsey  Search this

Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858  Search this

Reining, Priscilla  Search this

Taunt, Emory H.  Search this

Tisdel, Willard P.  Search this

Verner, Samuel Phillips, 1873-1943  Search this

Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919  Search this

Correspondent:

Adams, Robert McCormick (Americanist)  Search this

Bohannan, Paul James  Search this

Cavendish, Marian W.  Search this

Dibble, Charles  Search this

Doyle, David W.  Search this

Fenkykovi, J.J.  Search this

Gill, Lunda Hoyle  Search this

Hartley, G.W.  Search this

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978  Search this

O'Bryan, Deric  Search this

Robbins, Warren M.  Search this

Stanley, Jo Ann T.  Search this

Stone, Janet  Search this

Summers, Roger  Search this

Tax, Sol, 1907-1995  Search this

Thieme, Darius and Mimi  Search this

Trousdale, William  Search this

Turnbull, Colin  Search this

Wagley, Charles, 1913-1991  Search this

Wentzel, Volkmar Kurt, 1915-2006  Search this

Photographer:

Duggan-Cronin, A. M. (Alfred Martin), 1874-  Search this

Friedmann, Herbert, 1900-1987  Search this

Lewis, Ralph Kepler  Search this

Wentzel, Volkmar Kurt, 1915-2006  Search this

Extent:

95 Linear feet (154 document boxes, 1 manuscript folder, 63 card file boxes, 1 oversize box, plus 64 microfilm reels, 137 sound recordings, 3 map folders, and 3 sets of rolled maps )

Culture:

Kuba  Search this

Bayei (African people)  Search this

Bushmen  Search this

Kuvale (African people)  Search this

Mbundu (African people)  Search this

Mbandieru (African people)  Search this

Keyu  Search this

Kongo (African people)  Search this

Herero (African people)  Search this

Himba (African people)  Search this

Hakawona  Search this

Diriku (African people)  Search this

Turkana  Search this

Tchavikwa  Search this

Suk (African people)  Search this

Suk  Search this

Ovambo (African people)  Search this

Nzima (African people)  Search this

Nyaneka (African people)  Search this

Ndongona (African people)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

Namibia

Botswana

Angola

Date:

1936-2007

Summary:

This collection is comprised of the professional papers of Gordon D. Gibson. The collection contains his correspondence, field notes, research files, museum records, writings, photographs, sound recordings, and maps.The bulk of the collection consists of Gibson's southwestern Africa research. This includes his field notes, film scripts, photographs, sound recordings, and grant proposals he wrote in support of his fieldwork in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. In addition, the collection contains his research notes, maps, drafts, publications, and papers presented at conferences. While most of his research focused on the Herero and Himba, the collection also contains his research on the Ovambo and Okavango and other southwestern African groups. In the collection is a great deal of photocopies and microfilms of literature on southwestern African ethnic groups, many of which are in Portuguese and German and which he had translated for his files. He was also interested in African material culture, especially Central African headgear. His research on African caps is well-represented in the collection, and includes photos of caps at various museums, source materials, research notes, and textile samples of knots and loop work. Gibson's files as the curator of African ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History also make up a significant portion of the collection. Among these records are his files for the museum's Hall of African Cultures and other African exhibits; his files on the museum's African collections, early donors and collectors of the collections; his personnel files; documents relating to his committee work; department and museum memos; meeting minutes; and his records as head of the Old World Division and acting chair of the department. The collection also documents the efforts to establish the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Film Center, now the Human Studies Film Archives, as well as his work on the planning committee to establish the Museum of Man at the Smithsonian. Memos and minutes relating to the Smithsonian's Center for the Study of Man are also present in the collection. In addition to Gibson's field photos, the collection also contains African photos taken by others. Among these are Herbert Friedmann's photos of Kenya; Hausmann's Libya photos; photos by Ralph Kepler Lewis during the Morden Africa Expedition in Kenya; and photos by Lawrence Marshall, Volkmar Wentzel, Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin, and Father Carlos Estermann. There are also photos of the exhibit cases from the Hall of African Cultures; photos of Smithsonian and non-Smithsonian African artifacts; and copies of photographs he obtained from different archives, including the National Anthropological Archives. Other materials in the collection include his files as film reviews editor for the American Anthropologist during the 1960s and 70s and his activities in different organizations.

Arrangement:

Arranged into 19 series: (1) Correspondence, 1938-1998; (2) Southwestern Africa Research, 1951-2004; (3) Caps Research; (4) Nineteenth Century Collectors; (5) General Research Files; (6) Exhibits, 1959-2007; (7) Curatorial Files, 1936-1984; (8) National Anthropological Film Center, 1965-1983; (9) Museum of Man, 1952-1981 [bulk 1968-1981]; (10) Center for the Study of Man (1967-1979); (11) Writings, 1947-1981; (12) Organizations; (13) Daily Log, 1958-1983; (14) Personal Files ; (15) Card Files; (16) Photographs, circa 1904-1983 [bulk 1953-1983]; (17) Microfilm; (18) Maps; (19) Sound Recordings

Biographical Note:

Gordon D. Gibson (1915-2007) was trained at the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1952) and joined the staff of the Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology in 1958 as its curator of African ethnology. He served in that capacity until 1983. During the 1960s, he undertook a major renovation of the National Museum of Natural History's African exhibits, which had been on display since the 1920s. He developed the Hall of African Cultures, which opened in 1969 and remained on view until 1992. He was also instrumental in establishing the National Anthropological Film Center, now the Human Studies Film Archives. During his tenure, he also served as the first chairman of the Senate of Scientists of the National Museum of Natural History (1963-1964), chairman of the museum's photographic facilities committee (1968), member of the Center for the Study of Man, and member and chairman of the Department of Anthropology collections committee and its photographs records committee (1970s-1980s). He also had special interests in the department's library and processing lab. In 1980, he was chairman of a committee which studied the feasibility of establishing a Smithsonian Institution Museum of Man. Gibson held several offices and committee memberships with the Anthropological Society of Washington during the during the 1960s and 1970s and served as film review editor of the American Anthropologist. Gibson conducted fieldwork among the Herero and Himba in Botswana (1953, 1960-61), Namibia (1960-61, 1971-73), and Angola (1971-73). Articles produced from his field research include "Bridewealth and Other Forms of Exchange Among the Herero," "Double Descent and Its Correlates among the Herero of Ngamiland," "Herero Marriage," and "Himba Epochs." While in the field, he also filmed footage of the Herero, Himba, Zimba, and Kuvale. His edited films include Herero of Ngamiland (1953), Himba Wedding (1969), and The Himba (1972). In addition to the Herero and Himba, he also conducted research on the Okavango and Ovambo people. He edited and translated Carlos Estermann's Ethnography of Southwestern Angola (published in 3 volumes in 1976-81) and edited and contributed to The Kavango Peoples (1981). Gibson's research interests also included Central African headgear, coauthoring High Status Caps of the Kongo and Mbundu (1977) with Cecilia R. McGurk.

Related Materials:

Other materials relating to Gordon Gibson at the National Anthropological Archives can be found in the Records of the Department of Anthropology, Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the Records of the American Anthropological Association.

The Human Studies Film Archives holds his films on the Herero, Himba, Kuvale, and Zimba.

The Smithsonian Institution Archives has materials relating to Gibson's work as the first chairman of the Senate of Scientists.

Provenance:

The papers of Gordon D. Gibson were received in three separate accessions. The first accession (comprised of correspondence; committee files; and materials relating to the Herbert Ward collection, the National Anthropological Film Center, the Center for the Study of Man, and the Museum of Man) was transferred to the National Anthropological Archives by Gibson after his retirement. A guide to this accession was created in 2001. An accretion (consisting of correspondence, fieldwork and research files, curatorial files, writings, photographs, sound recordings, and maps) was transferred to the archives by Gibson's family in 2007. His exhibition and museum specimen files were transferred to the archives in 2008 by the Department of Anthropology.

Restrictions:

The Gordon Davis Gibson papers are open for research. Access to the computer disks in the collection are restricted due to preservation concerns. The personnel files of Smithsonian staff have also been restricted.

Access to the Gordon Davis Gibson papers requires an appointment.

Topic:

Africa -- Ethnology  Search this

American Anthropologist -- film editor  Search this

Headwear -- Africa, Central  Search this

Exhibitions -- National Museum of Natural History  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Citation:

Gordon Davis Gibson papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.1984-13

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Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw379619042-2f6c-46c7-8819-45a504628089

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-1984-13

Creator:

Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971  Search this

Clapp, Willard M.  Search this

Clapp, William, Mrs  Search this

Clapp, Willard, Mrs.  Search this

Architect:

Meade, Frank B.  Search this

Hamilton, J.  Search this

Landscape architect:

Shipman, Ellen Biddle, 1869-1950  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Extent:

1 Slides (photographs) (col.)

Type:

Archival materials

Slides (photographs)

Place:

Ohio -- Cleveland

United States of America -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County -- Cleveland

Date:

1929

General:

Image is the property of Syracuse University, Margaret Bourke White photograph.

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Spring  Search this

Walkways, stone  Search this

Gates -- Iron  Search this

Woodland gardens  Search this

Perennials  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, Item OH101001

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The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Ohio / OH101: Cleveland -- Untitled Garden

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb635ee505e-e352-445b-af8c-9869b7a4d5e4

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref15967

Designer:

Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972  Search this

Medium:

B&W Printed Material

Type:

archive

Archive folder

Object Name:

Archive folder

Date:

1968-1971

Credit Line:

Henry Dreyfuss Archive, gift of Various Donors

Accession Number:

Dreyfuss Symbol Sourcebook Working Papers Folder 032

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Archives Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq442461c4b-7280-4dfc-a417-6540d1421716

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_Dreyfuss_Symbol_Sourcebook_Working_Papers_Folder_032

Designer:

Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972  Search this

Medium:

B&W Printed Material

Type:

archive

Archive folder

Object Name:

Archive folder

Date:

1970-1971

Credit Line:

Henry Dreyfuss Archive, gift of Various Donors

Accession Number:

Dreyfuss Symbol Sourcebook Working Papers Folder 037

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq44c64f6a8-792d-4182-87aa-142bc20b6de9

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_Dreyfuss_Symbol_Sourcebook_Working_Papers_Folder_037

Designer:

Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972  Search this

Medium:

B&W Printed Material

Type:

archive

Archive folder

Object Name:

Archive folder

Date:

1968-1969

Credit Line:

Henry Dreyfuss Archive, gift of Various Donors

Accession Number:

Dreyfuss Symbol Sourcebook Working Papers Folder 038

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Archives Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq462a22ab2-a6c9-4d78-87ae-6df86e603c67

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_Dreyfuss_Symbol_Sourcebook_Working_Papers_Folder_038

Designer:

Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972  Search this

Medium:

B&W Printed Material

Type:

archive

Archive folder

Object Name:

Archive folder

Date:

1971

Credit Line:

Henry Dreyfuss Archive, gift of Various Donors

Accession Number:

Dreyfuss Symbol Sourcebook Working Papers Folder 078

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq402d14ce3-6866-4b5e-8e27-a9a8c05e7dad

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_Dreyfuss_Symbol_Sourcebook_Working_Papers_Folder_078

Designer:

Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972  Search this

Medium:

B&W Printed Material

Type:

archive

Archive folder

Object Name:

Archive folder

Date:

1971

Credit Line:

Henry Dreyfuss Archive, gift of Various Donors

Accession Number:

Dreyfuss Symbol Sourcebook Working Papers Folder 079

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq475a17337-007c-4726-afe8-df5f2c08dc5b

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_Dreyfuss_Symbol_Sourcebook_Working_Papers_Folder_079

Designer:

Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972  Search this

Medium:

B&W Printed Material

Type:

archive

Archive folder

Object Name:

Archive folder

Date:

1968-1973

Credit Line:

Henry Dreyfuss Archive, gift of Various Donors

Accession Number:

Dreyfuss Symbol Sourcebook Working Papers Folder 083

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4396ff412-f514-4ce6-9740-8dcedec242a1

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_Dreyfuss_Symbol_Sourcebook_Working_Papers_Folder_083

Designer:

Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972  Search this

Medium:

B&W Printed Material, Graphics

Type:

archive

Archive folder

Object Name:

Archive folder

Date:

1968-1971

Credit Line:

Henry Dreyfuss Archive, gift of Various Donors

Accession Number:

Dreyfuss Symbol Sourcebook Working Papers Folder 163

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4df19bc20-63bb-493d-bf91-79b3af6248b7

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_Dreyfuss_Symbol_Sourcebook_Working_Papers_Folder_163

Designer:

Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972  Search this

Medium:

B&W, Color Printed Material, Graphics

Type:

archive

Archive folder

Object Name:

Archive folder

Date:

1959-1980

Credit Line:

Henry Dreyfuss Archive, gift of Various Donors

Accession Number:

Dreyfuss Symbol Sourcebook Working Papers Folder 281

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4816bc8ea-d955-4fff-b220-8ab0bf2f67e1

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_Dreyfuss_Symbol_Sourcebook_Working_Papers_Folder_281

Creator:

Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001  Search this

Names:

Center for Advanced Visual Studies  Search this

Illinois Institute of Technology  Search this

Saidenberg Gallery  Search this

Triennale di Milano (Milan, Italy)  Search this

Arnheim, Rudolf  Search this

Bertoia, Harry  Search this

Blee, Michael  Search this

Boghosian, Varujan  Search this

Brazdys, Konslancija  Search this

Burgess, Lowry, 1940-  Search this

Burnham, Jack, 1931-  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976  Search this

Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-  Search this

Dreyfuss, Henry, 1904-1972  Search this

Eames, Charles  Search this

Eames, Ray  Search this

Egawa, Kazuhiko  Search this

Entwhistle, Clive  Search this

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-  Search this

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969  Search this

Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988  Search this

Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987  Search this

Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005  Search this

Kepes, Juliet  Search this

Kowalski, Piotry  Search this

Lynch, Kevin, 1918-1984  Search this

McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980  Search this

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, 1905-  Search this

Nusberg, Lev, 1937-  Search this

Osborn, Robert Chesley, 1904-1994  Search this

Piene, Otto, 1928-  Search this

Read, Herbert Edward, Sir, 1893-1968  Search this

Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979  Search this

Rickey, George  Search this

Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961  Search this

Sonfist, Alan  Search this

Steinberg, Saul  Search this

Tacha, Athena, 1936-  Search this

Takis, Vassilakis  Search this

Tange, Kenzō, 1913-  Search this

Thiel, Philip  Search this

Tovish, Harold, 1921-2008  Search this

Tsʻai, Wen-ying, 1928-  Search this

Wolff, Robert Jay, 1905-  Search this

Wurster, William Wilson  Search this

Zvilna, Jēkabs, 1913-1997  Search this

Faculty:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Search this

Extent:

21.2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Caricatures

Designs

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Sound recordings

Place:

Times Square (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1909-2003

bulk 1935-1985

Summary:

The papers of Hungarian-born artist, art theorist, and educator, Gyorgy Kepes, measure 21.2 linear feet and date from 1909-2003, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1935-1985. The papers document Kepes's career as an artist and educator, and as founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), through biographical material, correspondence, writings by Kepes and others, project files, exhibition files, printed material, sketchbooks, artwork, sound recordings and motion picture films, and photographic material.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of Hungarian-born artist, art theorist, and educator, Gyorgy Kepes, measure 21.2 linear feet and date from 1909-2003, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1935-1985. The papers document Kepes's career as an artist and educator, and as founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), through biographical material, correspondence, writings by Kepes and others, project files, exhibition files, printed material, sketchbooks, artwork, sound recordings and motion picture films, and photographic material.

Correspondence provides a wide range of documentation on all aspects of Kepes's career including his collaborations and friendships with artists, architects, writers, scientists, and fellow educators including Rudolf Arnheim, Alexander Calder, Henry Dreyfuss, Charles and Ray Eames, Clive Entwhistle, R. Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, S. W. Hayter, Jean Hélion, Laszlo and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Lev Nussberg, Robert Osborn, George Rickey, Saul Steinberg, Kenzo Tange, Robert Jay Wolff, and Jekabs Zvilna. Correspondence also documents the evolution of Kepes's vision for the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, which he established in 1967, and his subsequent leadership of CAVS at M.I.T. Records document his collaborations with students and fellows including Lowry Burgess, Jack Burnham, Piotry Kowalski, Margaret Mead, Otto Piene, Alan Sonfist, Athena Tacha, Vassilakis Takis, Philip Thiel, Harold Tovish, and Wen-Ying Tsai. Correspondents also include people who contributed to Kepes's Vision + Value series, including Michael Blee, Kazuhiko Egawa, Jean Hélion, and others. Correspondence includes three motion picture films, including what appears to be an early version of Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames.

Writings include notes and manuscripts for articles and essays in which Kepes explored ideas evident in his books The New Landscape and Language of Vision, and submitted to publications such as Daedalus, Design, Domus, and Leonardo. Writings also include manuscripts for lectures, and draft manuscripts documenting Kepes's collaborative work with fellow M.I.T. professor Kevin Lynch on city planning, which culminated in Lynch's research project "The Perceptual Form of the City."

A small group of "Times Square Project" files documents Kepes's proposal for a lightscape in Times Square that was ultimately not realized.

Teaching files include sound recordings of circa five symposia and discussions held at M.I.T., the Illinois Institute of Technology, and elsewhere, some featuring Kepes and including Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen and others.

Exhibition files include documentation of three exhibitions, including Light as a Creative Medium (1968) and a Kepes exhibition at Saidenberg Gallery (1968). They also record Kepes's involvement in designing the 1968 Triennale di Milano.

Printed material includes a substantial collection of announcements and catalogs for Kepes exhibitions, lectures, and other events, and includes catalogs and announcements for scattered exhibitions of his wife, artist and illustrator, Juliet Kepes. Clippings from newspapers and magazines include articles about Kepes, and contain some copies of published writings and designs by him. The series also includes sound recordings and motion picture films containing original material for a CBS television series "The 21st Century," probably as part of the episode "Art for Tomorrow," which appear to feature M.I.T. fellows Jack Burnham and Vassilakis Takis. Another motion picture film of an Italian documentary "Operazione Cometa" can also be found here.

Two sketchbooks contain pen and ink and painted sketches by Kepes. Artwork by Kepes includes original poster designs, caricatures, and many pencil, and pen and ink sketches and paintings on paper and board, including designs for stained glass. Artwork by others includes ink on mylar sketches by D. Judelson and Konstancija Brazdys, and a sketch by Harold Tovish. Also found are circa seventeen motion picture films and four sound recordings, the majority of which are untitled and by unidentified artists, but include films by M.I.T. fellows Otto Piene, Vassilakis Takis, Philip Thiel, Harold Tovish, Wen-Ying Tsai, and others.

Photographs are of Kepes, Juliet Kepes, and other family members; students, colleagues, and friends, including R. Buckminster Fuller, Serge Chermayeff, Harry Bertoia, Varujan Boghosian, Alexander Calder, Marchall McLuhan, Margaret Mead, Herbert Read, I. A. Richards, Saul Steinberg, and William Wurster; and of Kepes in his studio. There are also photos of exhibition installations in which Kepes's work appeared or which he designed, and photos of his artwork and of images for publications which he wrote or edited. Photos by others include artwork by established artists and work by students, as well as photographs arranged by subjects such as cityscapes, forms found in nature, light patterns, mechanical devices, and photomicrographs. A collection of lantern slides with similar content to the photos of artwork and photos by subject is also found in this series and includes a lantern slide of Picasso creating a design with light.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as eleven series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1940-circa 1980 (0.25 linear feet; Boxes 1, 28)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1936-1984 (5.7 linear feet; Boxes 1-7, 28 OV 33, FCs 39-41)

Series 3: Interviews and Transcripts, 1954-1970 (4 folders; Box 7)

Series 4: Writings and Notes, 1948-circa 1980s (1.4 linear feet; Boxes 7-8, 28)

Series 5: Times Square Project Files, 1972-1974 (6 folders; Box 9)

Series 6: Teaching Files Sound Recordings, circa 1953-1972 (0.7 linear feet; Box 9)

Series 7: Exhibition Files, 1958-1973 (0.4 linear feet; Boxes 9-10)

Series 8: Printed Material, circa 1922-1989 (3.6 linear feet; Boxes 10-12, 28-29, OVs 35, 37, FCs 42-49)

Series 9: Sketchbooks, circa 1940s-circa 1970s (2 folders; Box 12)

Series 10: Artwork and Moving Images, circa 1924-2003 (2.5 linear feet; Boxes 12, 13, OVs 33-36, 38, FCs 50-62)

Series 11: Photographs, 1909-1988 (10.4 linear feet; Boxes 13-32)

Biographical / Historical:

Painter, designer, art theorist, and educator, Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001), was born in Selyp, Hungary, and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest. He worked with Moholy-Nagy in Berlin and London before joining him at the New Bauhaus (later the Chicago Institute of Design) in 1937.

Kepes taught courses at the New Bauhaus from 1937 to 1945, and published Language of Vision in 1944, summarizing the educational ideas and methods he had developed during his time at the institute. In 1946 he accepted a teaching position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) where he initiated a program in visual design.

In 1956 Kepes published The New Landscape in Art and Science, in which he presented images from nature that were newly accessible due to developments in science and technology, and explored his ideas for a common language between science and the visual arts.

In 1965, these ideas were apparent in Kepes's proposal of an expanded visual arts program at M.I.T., which would "build new as yet undetermined bridges between art and engineering and science," according to the minutes of an M.I.T. Art Committee meeting in March of that year. Kepes's vision dovetailed with M.I.T.'s vested interest in promoting the arts, and faculty and administrators were open to the argument that "The scientific-technical enterprise needs schooling by the artistic sensibilities." In 1967, they appointed Kepes Director of M.I.T.'s Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS).

Kepes retired from the regular faculty at M.I.T. in 1967, to focus on his role as director of CAVS, where he worked to provide artists with opportunities for exploring new artistic forms on a civic scale through a working dialogue with scientists and engineers. Early fellows of the center included Maryanne Amacher, Joan Brigham, Lowry Burgess, Jack Burnham, Piotry Kowalski, Otto Piene, Vassilakis Takis, and Wen-Ying Tsai.

In 1965-1966 Kepes edited a six-volume series entitled Vision + Value, published by George Braziller, Inc. Each volume featured essays that centered around a core theme: The Education of Vision; Structure in Art and Science; The Nature and Art of Motion; Module, Symmetry, Proportion, Rhythm; Sign, Image, Symbol; and Man-Made Object. Contributions came from prominent artists, designers, architects, and scientists of the time including Rudolf Arnheim, Saul Bass, Marcel Breuer, John Cage, R. Buckminster Fuller, Johannes Itten, Marshall McLuhan, and Paul Rand.

Kepes experimented widely with photography, producing abstract images through the application of fluids and objects to photographic paper. He also took commercial work throughout his career, producing designs for all kinds of objects, including books and stained glass windows for churches. He returned to painting in the 1950s, and his development as a painter continued throughout his career at M.I.T., where he remained until his retirement in 1974, and beyond. His paintings, which were abstract and often incorporated organic shapes and hints of landscapes, can be found in museums such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Kepes received many awards during his lifetime, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1958); the Gold Star Award of the Philadelphia College of Art (1958); the National Association of Art Colleges Annual Award (1968); the California College of Art Award (1968); and the Fine Arts Medal from the American Institute of Architects (1968). In 1973 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an associate member, and became a full academician in 1978. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Related Materials:

Additional papers of Gyorgy Kepes can be found at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Visual Studies Special Collection.

Separated Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming (reel 1211) including ninety-eight letters to Kepes from colleagues, 1946-1974. Lent materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

Gyorgy Kepes lent papers for microfilming in 1974 and donated material to the Archives of American Art in a series of gifts between 1974 and 1993.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.

Rights:

Authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce requires written permission from Juliet Kepes Stone or Imre Kepes. Contact Reference Services for more information.

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Topic:

Art -- Philosophy  Search this

Artists' studios--Photographs  Search this

City planning  Search this

Educators--Massachusetts--Cambridge  Search this

Motion pictures (visual works)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Caricatures

Designs

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Sound recordings

Citation:

Gyorgy Kepes papers, 1909-2003, bulk 1935-1985. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.kepegyor

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Gyorgy Kepes papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f863f285-f429-48f1-ba6e-fb74702c12ba

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-kepegyor

Photographer:

Patoski, Christina  Search this

Extent:

1 Cubic foot (2 boxes, 16" x 20")

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Dye destruction process

Cibachrome (tm)

Dye destruction photoprints

Place:

Santa Fe (N.M.) -- Holiday decorations

Brooklyn (N.Y.) -- Holiday decorations

Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Holiday decorations

Sun Valley (Idaho) -- Holiday decorations

New York (N.Y.) -- Holiday decorations

Corpus Christi (Texas) -- Holiday decorations

Denver (Colo.) -- Holiday decorations

Fort Worth (Tex.) -- Holiday decorations

New Orleans (La.) -- Holiday decorations

Dallas (Tex.)

Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) -- Holiday decorations

Date:

circa 1973-1992

Summary:

Fourteen color photographic prints by Christina Patoski, depicting front-lawn and front-porch holiday displays (primarily Christmas) in various U.S. cities.

Scope and Contents:

The fourteen photographs in this group are Cibachrome prints from 35mm. Kodachrome slides, documenting front-lawn and front-porch holiday displays (primarily Christmas) in various U.S. cities, including a variety of economic, ethnic, and regional groups, architectural genres, and decorating styles, documenting a "unique seasonal custom found only in America." Several images suggest attempts to broaden the cultural/religious basis of the celebration, combining Jewish traditions with the Christmas decorating tradition. Cities documented are Denver, Fort Worth, Minneapolis, Sun Valley (Idaho), Manhattan and Brooklyn, N.Y., Corpus Christi, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, New Orleans, and Santa Fe.

The Cibachrome prints are horizontal on 16" x 20" paper, with 22" x 28" mats, except for "Holiday Spectacular," which was used on an introductory panel in ta national Museum of American History exhibition, without a mat.

Arrangement:

Collection is unarranged.

Biographical / Historical:

Photographer, documentary producer, and journalist, Christina Patoski began photographing front-lawn and front-porch Christmas displays in 1973, in Fort Worth, Texas, beginning with a house on Diaz Street in the Como neighborhood. She called the photograph "Red Extravaganza," and it inspired her to photograph other houses. Driving up and down Fort Worth Streets at Christmastime with her saxophonist husband Johnny Reno, she worked exclusively at night. Concentrating at first on the most elaborate displays, she later sought simpler, more personal decorations, and became more discriminating. She repeated in many areas of the country as part of an ongoing project spread over many years. She is interested in documenting "unusual" elements of popular culture within a variety of topical fields.

She told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, "I've seen so much, that for me to stop and take a photo now, it has to be something special… I've noticed, though, that there are a lot of houses decorated this year. And to me, that indicates a sense of optimism… when people decorate, there's a sense of good feeling."

Her photographic technique is simple, employing two fifteen-year-old 35mm cameras and low-speed Kodachrome film, using commercial processing. She has been photographing since she was a child, when her father encouraged her. Graduating from the University of Minnesota School of Journalism, she spent several years in Minneapolis as a dancer, choreographer, and television editor. She returned to Fort Worth in 1976 to work in television news, but since 1979 has been a free-lance writer, radio reporter (contributing to National Public Radio's "All Things Considered), and a producer and writer.

She is interested in documenting unusual elements of popular culture (what she calls "weirdness"), such as her Texas Monthly story, illustrated with her portraits, on Texas women with "big" hair. She maintains files on longhorn steer, pyromaniacs, tornadoes, and cheerleading, and considers herself a "Margaret Mead of popular culture."

Sources Jackie Koszczuk and Janet Tyson, "A Sense of the festive: Photographer captures home-grown Christmas Art," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Section E, December 25, 1993, pp. 1, 4.

Provenance:

Collection donated by Christina Patoski, December 14, 1994.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

Rights:

Christina Patoski retains copyright. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- Holiday decorations -- 1970-2000  Search this

Judaism -- Customs and practices  Search this

Christmas decorations -- 1970-2000  Search this

Hanukkah decorations -- 1970-2000  Search this

Housing -- 1950-2000 -- U.S.  Search this

Decorations -- Holiday -- 1950-2000 -- U.S.  Search this

Holiday decorations -- 1970-2000  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- Color photoprints -- 1950-2000

Dye destruction process

Cibachrome (TM)

Dye destruction photoprints

Citation:

[Photograph title], Christina Patoski Holiday Photoprints, 1973-1992, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Copyright Christina Patoski. Gift of the artist.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0508

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Christina Patoski Holiday Photoprints

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep839603bc7-5156-45f6-bd46-fb8381d2f498

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0508

Artist:

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906  Search this

Sitter:

Thomas Casimer Devin, 10 Dec 1822 - 4 Apr 1878  Search this

George Armstrong Custer, 5 Dec 1839 - 25 Jun 1876  Search this

Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, 14 Jan 1836 - 2 Dec 1881  Search this

William Hemsley Emory, 7 Sep 1811 - 1 Dec 1887  Search this

Philip Henry Sheridan, 6 Mar 1831 - 5 Aug 1888  Search this

James Birdseye McPherson, 14 Nov 1828 - 22 Jul 1864  Search this

George Crook, 8 Sep 1828 - 21 Mar 1890  Search this

Wesley Merritt, 16 Jun 1834 - 3 Dec 1910  Search this

George Henry Thomas, 31 Jul 1816 - 28 Mar 1870  Search this

Gouverneur Kemble Warren, 8 Jan 1830 - 8 Aug 1882  Search this

George Gordon Meade, 31 Dec 1815 - 6 Nov 1872  Search this

John Grubb Parke, 22 Sep 1827 - 16 Dec 1900  Search this

William Tecumseh Sherman, 8 Feb 1820 - 14 Feb 1891  Search this

John Alexander Logan, 9 Feb 1826 - 26 Dec 1886  Search this

Ulysses Simpson Grant, 27 Apr 1822 - 23 Jul 1885  Search this

Ambrose Everett Burnside, 23 May 1824 - 13 Sep 1881  Search this

Joseph Hooker, 13 Nov 1814 - 31 Oct 1879  Search this

Winfield Scott Hancock, 14 Feb 1824 - 9 Feb 1886  Search this

John Aaron Rawlins, 13 Feb 1831 - 6 Sep 1869  Search this

Edward Otho Cresap Ord, 18 Oct 1818 - 22 Jul 1883  Search this

Francis Preston Blair, Jr., 19 Feb 1821 - 9 Jul 1875  Search this

Alfred Howe Terry, 10 Nov 1827 - 16 Dec 1890  Search this

Henry Warner Slocum, 24 Sep 1827 - 14 Apr 1894  Search this

Jefferson Columbus Davis, 2 Mar 1828 - 30 Nov 1879  Search this

Oliver Otis Howard, 8 Nov 1830 - 26 Oct 1909  Search this

John McAllister Schofield, 29 Sep 1831 - 4 Mar 1906  Search this

Joseph Anthony Mower, 22 Aug 1827 - 6 Jan 1870  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

304.8cm x 487.7cm (120" x 192"), Accurate

Type:

Painting

Date:

1865

Topic:

Costume\Headgear\Military  Search this

Weapon\Sword  Search this

Exterior\Landscape\Battleground  Search this

Nature & Environment\Animal\Horse  Search this

Symbols & Motifs\Flag\Military  Search this

Symbols & Motifs\Flag\National\United States  Search this

Hugh Judson Kilpatrick: Male  Search this

Hugh Judson Kilpatrick: Politics and Government\Diplomat\Minister  Search this

Hugh Judson Kilpatrick: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Major General  Search this

John Aaron Rawlins: Male  Search this

John Aaron Rawlins: Politics and Government\Cabinet member\Secretary of War  Search this

John Aaron Rawlins: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

John Aaron Rawlins: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

George Gordon Meade: Male  Search this

George Gordon Meade: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

George Gordon Meade: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

George Gordon Meade: Science and Technology\Engineer\Military engineer  Search this

John Alexander Logan: Male  Search this

John Alexander Logan: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

John Alexander Logan: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

John Alexander Logan: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

John Alexander Logan: Politics and Government\US Senator\Illinois  Search this

John Alexander Logan: Politics and Government\State Legislator\Illinois  Search this

John Alexander Logan: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Illinois  Search this

Winfield Scott Hancock: Male  Search this

Winfield Scott Hancock: Politics and Government\Presidential candidate  Search this

Winfield Scott Hancock: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

Winfield Scott Hancock: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Winfield Scott Hancock: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Brigadier General  Search this

Winfield Scott Hancock: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Major General  Search this

George Armstrong Custer: Male  Search this

George Armstrong Custer: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Henry Warner Slocum: Male  Search this

Henry Warner Slocum: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

Henry Warner Slocum: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Colonel  Search this

Henry Warner Slocum: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

Henry Warner Slocum: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Henry Warner Slocum: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Brigadier General  Search this

Henry Warner Slocum: Politics and Government\US Congressman\New York  Search this

Henry Warner Slocum: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Major General  Search this

Alfred Howe Terry: Male  Search this

Alfred Howe Terry: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

Alfred Howe Terry: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

Alfred Howe Terry: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

James Birdseye McPherson: Male  Search this

James Birdseye McPherson: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

James Birdseye McPherson: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Brigadier General  Search this

James Birdseye McPherson: Science and Technology\Engineer\Military engineer  Search this

James Birdseye McPherson: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Major General  Search this

George Crook: Male  Search this

George Crook: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

George Crook: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Edward Otho Cresap Ord: Male  Search this

Edward Otho Cresap Ord: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War  Search this

Edward Otho Cresap Ord: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

Joseph Hooker: Male  Search this

Joseph Hooker: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War  Search this

Joseph Hooker: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Major General  Search this

Joseph Anthony Mower: Male  Search this

Joseph Anthony Mower: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Colonel  Search this

Joseph Anthony Mower: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

Joseph Anthony Mower: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Captain  Search this

Joseph Anthony Mower: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Joseph Anthony Mower: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Major General  Search this

Thomas Casimer Devin: Male  Search this

Thomas Casimer Devin: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Colonel  Search this

Thomas Casimer Devin: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Thomas Casimer Devin: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Brigadier General  Search this

William Hemsley Emory: Male  Search this

William Hemsley Emory: Literature\Writer  Search this

William Hemsley Emory: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War  Search this

William Hemsley Emory: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Brigadier General  Search this

William Hemsley Emory: Science and Technology\Scientist\Astronomer  Search this

George Henry Thomas: Male  Search this

George Henry Thomas: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

George Henry Thomas: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Philip Henry Sheridan: Male  Search this

Philip Henry Sheridan: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Colonel  Search this

Philip Henry Sheridan: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

Philip Henry Sheridan: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Captain  Search this

Philip Henry Sheridan: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Philip Henry Sheridan: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Brigadier General  Search this

Philip Henry Sheridan: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Major General  Search this

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.: Male  Search this

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.: Politics and Government\US Senator\Missouri  Search this

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Missouri  Search this

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.: Politics and Government\State Legislator\Missouri  Search this

William Tecumseh Sherman: Male  Search this

William Tecumseh Sherman: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

William Tecumseh Sherman: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War  Search this

William Tecumseh Sherman: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

William Tecumseh Sherman: Business and Finance\Banking and Finance\Banker  Search this

William Tecumseh Sherman: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

John Grubb Parke: Male  Search this

John Grubb Parke: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

John Grubb Parke: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Oliver Otis Howard: Male  Search this

Oliver Otis Howard: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

Oliver Otis Howard: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Oliver Otis Howard: Literature\Writer\Historical  Search this

Oliver Otis Howard: Education and Scholarship\Founder\University  Search this

Jefferson Columbus Davis: Male  Search this

Jefferson Columbus Davis: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

Jefferson Columbus Davis: Law and Crime\Criminal\Murderer  Search this

John McAllister Schofield: Male  Search this

John McAllister Schofield: Politics and Government\Cabinet member\Secretary of War  Search this

John McAllister Schofield: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

John McAllister Schofield: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Wesley Merritt: Male  Search this

Wesley Merritt: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

Wesley Merritt: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Ulysses Simpson Grant: Male  Search this

Ulysses Simpson Grant: Natural Resource Occupations\Agriculturist\Farmer  Search this

Ulysses Simpson Grant: Politics and Government\Cabinet member\Secretary of War  Search this

Ulysses Simpson Grant: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War  Search this

Ulysses Simpson Grant: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\General  Search this

Ulysses Simpson Grant: Politics and Government\President of US  Search this

Ulysses Simpson Grant: Congressional Gold Medal  Search this

Ambrose Everett Burnside: Male  Search this

Ambrose Everett Burnside: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Business executive\Railroad executive  Search this

Ambrose Everett Burnside: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Ambrose Everett Burnside: Politics and Government\US Senator\Rhode Island  Search this

Ambrose Everett Burnside: Politics and Government\Governor\Rhode Island  Search this

Gouverneur Kemble Warren: Male  Search this

Gouverneur Kemble Warren: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Teacher  Search this

Gouverneur Kemble Warren: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army  Search this

Gouverneur Kemble Warren: Science and Technology\Engineer\Civil engineer  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Harry Newton Blue in memory of her husband Harry Newton Blue (1893-1925), who served as an officer of the Regular U.S. Army 1917-1925

Object number:

NPG.66.37

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Exhibition:

Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900

On View:

NPG, East Gallery 121

Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4a4b278b3-8054-4445-a6cd-5c2ff5bac636

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.66.37

Author:

Mead, Margaret 1901-1978  Search this

Physical description:

xxx, 340 pages 21 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

United States

Date:

1965

Topic:

Anthropology  Search this

National characteristics, American  Search this

Civilization--history  Search this

Anthropologie  Search this

anthropology  Search this

Amerikanen  Search this

Culturele antropologie  Search this

Volkskarakter  Search this

Call number:

E169.1 .M47 1965

E169.1.M47 1965

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_9251

Author:

Mead, Margaret 1901-1978  Search this

Author:

Byers, Paul  Search this

Physical description:

vii, 126 pages with illus 26 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1968

Topic:

Forums (Discussion and debate)  Search this

Forums (Discussions et débats)  Search this

Call number:

LC6519 .M47

LC6519.M47

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_9626

Author:

Mead, Margaret 1901-1978  Search this

Physical description:

viii, 260 pages illustrations 18 cm

Type:

Books

Aufsatzsammlung

Date:

1964

Topic:

Anthropology  Search this

Anthropologie  Search this

anthropology  Search this

Aufsatzsammlung  Search this

Kulturanthropologie  Search this

Culturele antropologie  Search this

Call number:

GN6 .M47

GN6.M47

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_9995

Creator:

Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001  Search this

Subject:

Arnheim, Rudolf  Search this

Bertoia, Harry  Search this

Blee, Michael  Search this

Boghosian, Varujan  Search this

Brazdys, Konslancija  Search this

Burgess, Lowry  Search this

Burnham, Jack  Search this

Calder, Alexander  Search this

Chermayeff, Serge  Search this

Dreyfuss, Henry  Search this

Eames, Charles  Search this

Eames, Ray  Search this

Egawa, Kazuhiko  Search this

Entwhistle, Clive  Search this

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster)  Search this

Gropius, Walter  Search this

Hayter, Stanley William  Search this

Hélion, Jean  Search this

Johnson, Philip  Search this

Kepes, Juliet  Search this

Kowalski, Piotry  Search this

Lynch, Kevin  Search this

McLuhan, Marshall  Search this

Mead, Margaret  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, László  Search this

Nusberg, Lev  Search this

Osborn, Robert Chesley  Search this

Piene, Otto  Search this

Read, Herbert Edward, Sir  Search this

Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong)  Search this

Rickey, George  Search this

Saarinen, Eero  Search this

Sonfist, Alan  Search this

Tacha, Athena  Search this

Takis, Vassilakis  Search this

Tange, Kenz?  Search this

Thiel, Philip  Search this

Steinberg, Saul  Search this

Tovish, Harold  Search this

Ts?ai, Wen-ying  Search this

Wolff, Robert Jay  Search this

Wurster, William Wilson  Search this

Zvilna, J?kabs  Search this

Center for Advanced Visual Studies  Search this

Illinois Institute of Technology  Search this

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Search this

Saidenberg Gallery  Search this

Triennale di Milano (Milan, Italy)  Search this

Type:

Caricatures

Designs

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Sound recordings

Place:

Times Square (New York, N.Y.)

Citation:

Gyorgy Kepes papers, 1909-2003, bulk 1935-1985. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- Philosophy  Search this

Artists' studios--Photographs  Search this

City planning  Search this

Educators--Massachusetts--Cambridge  Search this

Motion pictures (visual works)  Search this

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this

Architecture & Design  Search this

Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7252

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209402

AAA_collcode_kepegyor

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks

Architecture & Design

Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209402