A March 21, 1834 letter from painter Henry Inman thanking Prosper Wetmore for influence on his behalf, reporting the election of town officers and offering to forward Wetmore's letters to the Capitol; and a December 20, 1847 letter from painter Thomas Seir Cummings to Wetmore describing the selection of new members into the New York Sketch Club at the home of H. W. Greatorex and congratulating Wetmore on achieving honorary membership.
Biographical / Historical:
Merchant, military official, legislator and educational administrator.
Provenance:
Donated 1987 by Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisc.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
MS 3404 Copy of report to Dr. C. G. Abbott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, on field work done in North Dakota under the direction of the Logan Museum of Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, at the Greenshield and Hensler or Van Oosting sites
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
December 31, 1929
Biographical / Historical:
The Greenshield site was an Arikara village occupied from 1795-1799 and 1835-1837, and the Hensler or Van Oosting site was a Mandan village, occupied and abandoned before white contact.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3404
Local Note:
One photograph missing (January 31, 2006).
Typescript document
Topic:
Greenshield site (North Dakota) -- Archeology Search this
Hensler site (North Dakota) -- Archeology Search this
Van Oosting site (North Dakota) -- Archeology Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 3404, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Beloit College archeological expedition members. Jordan Jeptha Markham (1916-2001), Thomas G. Coleman (1918-2007), Andrew Hunter Whiteford (1913-2006), Paul Homer Nesbitt (1904-1985), Barbara Rivet (1914-1990), Shirley Webb Kretschmer (1914-2016), and John William Bennett (1915-2005)
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Letters, photographs, clippings, and business records relating to the art careers of Spencer Baird Nichols, his brother Hobart Nichols, and their father Henry Hobart Nichols, in the New York and Connecticut area.
Letters, 1923-1974, concern Spencer's exhibitions and family matters, business-related correspondence and letters between Nichols daughter, Helen Jacobs, and the Theodore Lyman Wright Art Center, Beloit College, the Smithsonian and collector James Blinder, pertaining to Nichols' work. Photographs include one of the Jay-Oakley-Nichols family (1870); two tintypes of Hobart, ca. 1880, and one of Spencer, 1899; photos of Spencer's artwork and a few of Hobart's; and Spencer's house and studio. Business records consist of inventories and receipts from Spencer's exhibits in New York.
Biographical / Historical:
Spencer Baird Nichols was a portrait painter, landscape painter, muralist, book illustrator, and educator; Connecticut. He taught illustration at the Art Students League. In 1934, he became director of art at Marot Junior College, Thompson, Connecticut. Nichols' works include a portrait of Andrew Stephenson painted for the House of Representatives and murals executed in Connecticut.
Provenance:
Donated 1989 by Hobart Nichols, son of Spencer Baird Nichols and by Helen Jacobs, daughter of Spencer Baird Nichols, 1989, 1990, and 1994.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
An interview of Ray Metzker conducted 1991 Apr. 30, by Anne Schuster Hunter, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
Metzker discusses his family and German heritage; childhood in Milwaukee, Wis.; early interest in photography; attending Beloit College; military service in Korea; studies at Illinois Institute of Technology; his series "My Camera and I in the Loop"; life in Chicago and traveling to Europe; moving to Philadelphia and teaching at the Philadelphia College of Art; his disenchantment with using the single image and moving into double frames; his landscapes of the 1980's; and his retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1984.
Biographical / Historical:
Ray Metzker (1931- ) is a photographer from Philadelphia, Pa.
General:
Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 46 min.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics, and administrators.
Restrictions:
Transcript: Patrons must use microfilm copy.
Topic:
Photography, Artistic -- United States Search this
Photographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews Search this
Genre/Form:
Interviews
Sound recordings
Sponsor:
Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
