The Quince Años Documentation is a collection of liturgical publications, handbooks, and audiovisual materials created by Sister Angela Erevia, Missionary of Cathecists of Divine Providence and Director of Hispanic Ministry for the Diocese of Dodge City, Kansas. The materials were formulated in order to be shared with the surrounding Catholic community and used as preparatory tools for youth, their families, and religious staff who would be partaking in the Quince Años celebration.
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of liturgical materials, audiovisual aids, and hymnals developed by Sister Angela Erevia, MCDP, intended for use during the religious observance portion of the Quince Años (fifteenth birthday) celebration. The handbooks and booklets included in the collection are intended to prepare quinceañera/quinceañero youth, their families, and religious staff for the Quince Años celebration while also centering the Catholic faith.
Arrangement:
Collection is arranged into one series. Materials are arranged topically.
Historical Note:
The celebration of Quince Años is a social, coming-of-age event that is held when US Latino and Latin American youth (usually young women) turn fifteen years old to celebrate their societal debut into adulthood. Quince Años are celebrated throughout Latin America and in parts of the United States. Young women celebrating their Quince Años are referred to as quinceañeras, while young men are called quinceañeros. While Quince Años celebrations are not meant to be religious, families of Catholic quinceañeras and quinceañeros who wished to center their Catholic faith as part of the celebration have worked with religious staff to incorporate Catholic elements and practices. Sister Angela Erevia, part of the Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence and current Director of Hispanic Ministry through the Diocese of Dodge City, developed pamphlets and videos to help quinceañera and quinceañero youth, their families, and religious staff prepare for the religious part of the Quince Años celebration.
Separated Materials:
Natalia Flores donated artifacts to the Division of Home and Community Life (now Division of Cultural and Community Life) in 2009. See accession #: 2009.0169.001 (Quinceanera dress worn by Natalia Flores); 2009.0169.002 (Quinceanera shoes worn with the dress); 2009.0169.003 (tiara worn with the Quinceanera dress); and 2009.0169.004 (bouquet (not flowers or dried) carried with the dress).
Provenance:
Donated to the Archives Center by Sister Angela Erevia in 2009.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Copyright for these materials remains the property of the Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence, 2318 Castroville Road, San Antonio, Texas 78237.
Kaslov, Steve, ca. 1888-1949 (King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies ) Search this
Extent:
0.25 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Oral history
Interviews
Audio cassettes
Place:
Virgin Islands -- 1930-1940
New York (N.Y.) -- 1930-1940
Bowery (New York, N.Y.) -- 1930-1940
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- 1930-1940
St. Thomas (Virgin Islands) -- 1930-1940
Date:
1985 - 1986
1930 - 1943
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains 273 silver gelatin photoprints (Series 1), most of which apparently were made during the 1930s and early 1940s, contemporaneously with the original negatives. All are 8" x 10" or slightly smaller, unmounted except for flush mounted linen on the backs of some prints. The photographs were made primarily in two locations, New York City and the Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands pictures were made as part of a special documentary project in 1939, as described above, whereas the New York photographs stem from Mr. Alland's largely self assigned documentation of various ethnic and religious groups in New York from approximately 1932 to 1943. The projects include photographs of the "Red Bandanna" Romany Gypsy group in the Bowery, a black Jewish congregation, Mohawk Indians in Brooklyn, and other groups, which required extensive exploration, research, and photographing over periods of many days or weeks. A variety of miscellaneous ethnic and religious groups are covered in the general "Other Religions" and "Nationalities" folders. The contents of the "Judaism" folder include primarily New York sites and people, but there are also additional views of a synagogue from the Virgin Islands project.
Series 2 of the collection contains four cassette tape recordings of two interviews with Mr. Alland, three made by Richard Ahlborn (with Eugene Ostroff and Matt Salo) in 1985, and one by David Haberstich and Richard Ahlborn, June 2-3, 1986 (at which time the photographs were donated). The tapes include readings from his autobiography, personal reminiscences on his experiences as an immigrant and a photographer, and commentary on the photographs.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into two series.
Series 1: Photoprints, 1930-1943
Series 2: Audiotape Cassettes, 1985-1986
The photographs are arranged topically and by nationality.
Biographical / Historical:
Alexander Alland, Sr., was born in Sevastopol, Crimea (formerly in the Soviet Union) on 6 August 1902. His last name originally was Landschaft, but he legally changed it to Alland following the birth of his son. Alland's interest in photography began at the age of twelve, when he helped a local photographer with darkroom work. He constructed his own camera from cardboard with a simple meniscus lens and exposed glass plate negatives with the device.
Toward the end of the Civil War in Russia in 1920, Alland relocated in Constantinople, Turkey, where he was hired as an apprentice by a graduate of the Vienna Academy of Photography. When the Union Nationale des Combatants Francais went on a pilgrimage to Gallipoli, a former battle zone on the Dardanelles, he was asked to accompany them in order to document events. After having his request for a pay increase refused, he left his employer two years later and opened his own portrait studio, "Photo d'Art Russe." When civil unrest threatened Constantinople in 1923, he decided to emigrate to the United States.
During his first years in the United States he worked in photo finishing businesses while engaged in home portraiture independently. He married in 1929 and a son, Alexander, Jr., was born. In the 1930s he became one of the best known photographers portraying the life of immigrants and various ethnic groups in New York. (1) In 1936 he was appointed supervisor of the Photo Mural section of the W.P.A. Federal Art Project, and worked as a free lance photographer for magazines and periodicals featuring the activities of various ethnic groups living in New York City. He specialized in making photomurals with montage techniques. (2)
In 1937 Alland became photography instructor at the American Artists' School and joined the American Artists Congress. In 1939, his first book, Portrait of New York, was published and he became president of the "Exploration Photo Syndicate" and went to the U.S. Virgin Islands as part of a project to produce a pictorial record of the West Indian Islands. His photographs appeared in publications and were exhibited at the New School for Social Research and at the Schomberg Collection. In 1942 he joined the staff of Common Ground magazine as photography editor and was appointed by the National Youth Administration to supervise their photography workshop. His book American Counterpoint appeared in 1943 and was selected as "One of the Fifty Best Books of the Year." The original prints from that book were exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, which also exhibited a portfolio of his work on American Gypsies. In 1944 he became director of an agency, "Pictures for Democracy," and in 1945 his book The Springfield Plan was proclaimed another "One of the Fifty Best Books of the Year."
During World War II Alland did technical photography for the War Department, receiving a commendation for this work. After another book My Dog Rinty was published, he left New York City to establish a school of photography, combined with a school of dance directed by his wife, Alexandra, a professional dancer and choreographer. (3) He then began to exhibit his own photographs and to collect glass plate negatives and vintage prints by significant photographers. He is perhaps best known for locating a collection of Jacob Riis negatives and making them available. In 1974 Aperture published his biography, Jacob A. Riis: Photographer and Citizen4. Because of his efforts in providing the Riis negatives to the Museum of the City of New York, that institution awarded a special commemorative medal to him in 1973. The Riis book was followed by two more studies of photographers, Jessie Tarbox Beals, First Woman News Photographer (5) and Heinrich Tonnies, Cartes de Visite Photographer Extraordinaire. (6)
Retrospective exhibitions of Alland's work were held in two major Danish museums in summer 1979 and he was honored for contributions to the cultural history of Denmark. In 1991 studies for his photomural work were included in an historical survey exhibition of American photomontage at the University of Maryland at College Park. (7).
Sources
1. My text is based upon the biographical information recorded on my taped interviews with Mr. Alland in this collection, but see also Bonnie Yochelson, The Committed Eye: Alexander Alland's Photography. New York: The Museum of the City of New York, Inc., 1991.
2. Merry A. Foresta, "Art and Document: Photography of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project," in Official Images: New Deal Photography (essays by Foresta, Pete Daniel, Maren Stange, and Sally Stein), Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987, p. 153, based on an interview with Alland, January 1987.
3. Photographic historian Anne Peterson, contractor for three Archives Center photographic collection projects between 1986 and 1982, reports that she studied ballet as a child with Mrs. Alland.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid
7. See catalog by Cynthia Wayne, Dreams, Lies, and Exaggeration: Photomontage in America. The Art Gallery, University of Maryland at College Park, 1991 (exhibition at the gallery Oct. 21 Dec. 20, 1991).
Related Materials:
Materials in the Archives Center
Carlos de Wendler Funaro Gypsy Research Collection (AC0161)
Contains additional Alland photographs. De Wendler Funaro also photographed Steve Kaslov, his family, and his Bowery coppersmith workshop.
Provenance:
Collection donated by Alexander Alland, June 3, 1986.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Copyrighted material: photographs may not be reproduced without written permission from the Estate of Alexander Alland, Sr.
Topic:
Synagogues -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- New York, N.Y. Search this
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Promptuario manual mexicano que à la verdad podrá ser utilissimo à los parrochos para la enseñanza ; à los necessitados indios para su instrucción ; y à los que aprenden la lengua para la expedicion ... La que con la claridad, y propriedad en el idioma, que pudo, dispuso el P. Ignacio de Paredes de la Compañia de Jesus .
Project, or "Job," files provide documentation of contracts for approximately 250 locations held by Burnham Studios throughout the United States and in Bellau, France, from the 1920s-1980s. Files typically include correspondence with clients, architects and builders, contracts, purchase orders, building plans, sketches, scattered photographs and some printed material. Found at the beginning of the series are some files relating to projects in general, including correspondence and job orders with metal window specialists, Chas. Haas Company; 2 sets of index cards listing project numbers and materials used; records of repair contracts; and a set of completed contracts for the firm Reynolds, Francis & Rohnstock from 1920s-1960s.
The series contains significant documentation for the following projects in particular: New York's Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Saint Mary's Cathedral in Peoria, Illinois, Saint Martin's Church in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D. C.
See Appendix for a list of numbered contracts in Series 6.
Arrangement note:
Arrangement of this series reflects the studio's main system for organizing project files alphabetically by name of the town in which the job site was located. It can be assumed that all folder titles containing references to letters elsewhere in the collection (e.g. "Repairs, A-C, E,") also follow that system of arrangement. Beginning in the 1920s Burnham Studios began assigning numbers to contracts and several copies of a list of contracts by number were found in the collection. That list is provided below and allows for cross-referencing (albeit incomplete) of the projects arranged by location in this series with the design studies found in Series 10: Artwork and Sketchbooks. The list was transcribed from hand-written records which were incomplete and sometimes illegible.
Appendix: List of Numbered Contracts in Series 6:
1. Pitsburgh, E. Liberty Presbyterian Church, 3 figure windows
2. Pittsburgh, E. Liberty Presbyterian Church
3. Sample, Liturgical Arts Exhibition
4. New York, Cath. St. John Divine, Missionary sample
5. Chevy Chase, Shrine Most Blessed Sacrament
6. Boston, Old South, repair corridor windows
7. Boston, Old South, 30 clerestory windows
8. Sample, duplicate Liturgial Arts #3
9. Boston, Old South rose
10. Worcester, All Saints Church, chancel
11. Boston, N. E. Mutual
12. Fall River, St. Mark's Church
14. Albany, St. Andrew's
15. Worcester, All Saints Church (Thompson) duplicate (restored after fire)
16. Buffalo, Westminster Presbyterian
17. Transparencies, Dusky Dancer
18. Quincy, Mausoleum, Long & Saunders
19. Worcester, All Saints Church, aisle, St. Martin of Tours
20. Greenwood, Union Church
21. Illegible
22. New York, Cath. St. John Divine, Lawyers
23. Worcester, All Saints Church, Sample Mr. Robb
24. Waban, Union Church
25. New York, Cath. St. John Divine, Ecclesiastical
26. Worcester, All Saints Church aisle, St. Elizabeth of Hungary
27. New York, Cath. St. John Divine, clerestory (Lawyers Bay-St. Paul; Ecclesiastical Bay-Moses)
28. New York, Cath. St. John Divine, clerestory (St. Augustine, St. Aidan)
468. Norfolk, Va.-Our Lady of Victory Chape (3 narthex, 1 transom, 2 door panels. Utilize 4 discarded medallions and make into 2 sacistry win. and 2 choir win. re-install 3 win. now in place)
469. Pascoag, R.I., Calvary Church
470. Albany, N. Y., St. Andrew's
471. Leominster, Pilgrim Congregational
472. Norfolk, VA., Our Lady of Victory Chapel (revision of rose, 4 nave windows)
473. Attleboro, All Saints
474. Bookplate-Stokes
475. Springfield-Hope Congregational
476. Boston-Holy Cross Cathedral
477. Waban-Union Church
478. Worcester-All Saints
479. Colorado Springs, CO, Grace Ch.
480. Boston-Greek Cathedral (461, 589)
481. Boston-Catholic Boys' Club
482. Providence Museum (repair)
483. Plymouth-St. Peter's (repair)
484. Providence, R.I.-St. Martin's
485. New York City-Mrs. Smith's panels
486. Easthampton-St. Philip's Ch.
487. Samples of glass (movie-Mrs. Taylor)
488. New York-Calvary Church, 5 apse
489. Washington Cathedral-Physician's window
490. Worcester-Sacred Heart
491. St. Paul, Minn.-House of Hope Ch. 7 chapel
492. Boston-Boston Univ., Mt. Chcorua
493. Milton-Milton Academy
494. Newton-St. Paul's
495. Holyoke-Mother House (see 554)
496. Waban-Union Church
497. Plymouth-St. Peter's
498. Boston-Trinity Ch. repair
499. Transparency-Bambino
500. Greenwood-Catholic Church
501. Plymouth-St. Peter's Church
502. Greenwood-Union Church
503. Waban-Union Ch., clerestory
504. Albany, N.Y.-St. Peter's
505. Boston-St. Clement's Church
506. Bronxville, N.Y.-Christ Church
507. Charlton City-St. Joseph's Church
508. Transparency-Small Christ Child
509. Waterbury, Conn.-Bunker Hill Cong. Ch.
510. Winchester-Unitarian Church (3 chapel)
511. Boston (Shaw)
512. Boston (Swift)
513. Montgomery, AL-St. John's (repair)
514. New York-St. John the Divine (St. Col. Chap.)
515. Ipswich-Ascension Memorial Church
516. Washington, D.C.-Rock Creek Parish (Brent)
517. St. Paul, MN-House of Hope, 2 narthex
518. Dedham-Ch. of Good Shepherd, clerestory
519. Granite Falls, MN, St. Paul's Luth. (cross)
520. Jamaica Plain-Blessed Sacrament
521. Briston, R.I.-Christ Church
522. West Roxbury-Jewish Cemetery (inscription)
523. Lonsdale, R. I.-Our Christ Church
524. Newton Center-Our Lady's (repair)
525. Manchester, NH-Grace Ch., 2 lancets
526. Newton-Vachon, 4 lights
527. Winchester-Congregational Ch., Sir Galahad
528. Winchester-Unitarian, Red Cross windows cloister
529. Central Falls, R.I.
530. Worcester-All Saints, 2 Baptistry
531. Boston-Kennedy Residence
532. Newton-Our Lady's, 2 lights
533. Brookline-Temple Israel, repair
534. Boston-St. Anthony's Shrine
535. Boston-St. Anthony's Shrine, 14 Stations
536. Boston-St. Anthony's Shrine, 2 murals
537. Colorado Springs, Grace Ch., 2 narthex
538. Colorado Springs-Grace Ch., Ascension
539. Brookline-Temple Israel, inscriptions
540. Brookline-Temple Israel, repair
541. New York-Calvary, 6 quatrefoils
542. New York-Calvary, 4 single lancets
543. New York-Calvary, 3 lancets
544. Boston-St. Anthony Shrine, 10 doorlights
545. Melrose-Trinity Church, 2 aisle
546. Burlington, Vt.-Cath. Immac. Conception
547. Greenwood-Union Church
548A. Washington Cath.-Choir, Civilizations
548B. Washington Cath.-Choir, Jacob
549. Providence-St. Martin's, 3 aisle
550. Watertown-Methodist, repair
551. Dorchester-St. Mark's
552. North Saugus-Union Church
553. Worcester-All Saints, repair
554. Holyoke-Mother House, 2 confessional
555. Milton-Reed, repair doorlight
556. St. Augustine, Fla-Trinity Ch., Vaill Mem. window
782. Staten Island, NY, Chapel Daughters of St. Paul Convent
783. Melrose, 1st Congregational Church
784. Appleton, Wisconsin, Aid Association for Lutherans, A=Chapel, B=Ornamental Windows
785. Worcester-Chestnut Street Congregational Church
786. S. Weymouth, Church of Holy Nativity
787. East Falmouth, MA, Grace Chapel
788. East Greenwich, RI, St. Lukes
789. Westford, MA, Hoffmire Residence
790. Bengtz, T? 61 Clifton Park, Melrose (Finland)
791. West Hartford, St, John's clerestory
792. Bell
793. [Quincy]
794. Rot? Transparency
795. Temple Israel
796. Me? Cong.
797. [Masonic em?] (WHB)
798. Provincetown-Church of the Holy Virgin
799. Queen of Hearts
800. King of Hearts
801. Lantern
802?
803?
804. Peace Dale
805. St. Pauls, Cambridge, Relief medallion
806. Tivoli, NY
807. Zodiac symbols
808. Transparency-child and lamb
809. Transparency-child and lamb
810. Transparency-Madonna and child
811. Transparency-[Penguin]
812. Peace symbol-3 made
813. Pisces-2 made
814. Worcester-Higgins estate
815. 4 door lights-Winthrop
816. WHB
817. Newfoundland
818. Small Taurus
819. Small Capricorn
820. Houston
821. Worcester-?
822. Small Gemini
823. Small Aries
824. Small Virgo
825. ?
826. Sylvester Cape Cod
827. [Cut one]
828. ?
829. Hamilton-Christ Church
830. 4 Door ?
831. Sample with Bro? ?
832. Reading
833. [Haywood Wakefield] Samples
834. Sample with B? Christian
835. Haywood Wakefield, colonial 9x20.5
836. Haywood Wakefield, colonial 9x20.5
837. Haywood Wakefield, colonial 10x24.5
838. 9x9 samples Haywood Wakefield
839. Marlboro-First Congr. Church
840. Beverly-Hospital Chapel
841. Belmont P? Park Congr.
842. Heywood-6x26.5
843. {Cab door lights (4)]
844. Cleveland Church of the Saviour
845. Sample Mirror-Heywood, Wakefield-6x31.5
846. C? Wakefield
847. Flowers transparency
848. T? Repair
849. Calami? (2 doors)
850. F? 4 windows (house)
851. Arlington ?
852. Rounds-Wilmington
854. Alley
856. Providence-St. Stephens
857. Q?-Salem Lutheran
858. N. ? ? church
858R. N. ? ? church repair
859R. St. Steohen's Providence (repair)
860. B?
861. Newport
862. Temple Israel B?
864. McRuff?
865. Lancaster, PA-Reformed Church
866. Mr. Reese?
867. England
868. Daughter of St. Pauls
870. 12 Christian Angels
871. Rubiyat
872. St. Paul's School Seal
873. Lamp-?
874. Old N. Church
875. Old N. Church Silhouette
876. ?-Silhouette
878. England
879. Rudeman
880. [Hamilton-St. Pauls]
881. [Beth Shalom Peabody]
882. [Samples] Heyward Clear 9" x 38"
883. [Samples] Heyward Clear 8" x 38"
884. [Samples] Heyward Clear 13" x 38"
885. Breckenridge House
886. Concord, NH 4 chapel
887. St. Georges School-Newport RI
888. [Naffei]
889-835. Blue and ? white
890-837. Blue and ? white
891-835. Window glass
892-835. Window gladd
893-835. ?, blue, window glass
894-837. ?, blue, window glass
895. ? repair
896. Woods Hole repair
897. Charlotte, Providence ?
898. Bu???
899. Still River, [MA]
900. Belmont Payson Park
901. Woods Hole Chancel repair
902. ?
903. Rogers-Portrait
904. ?
905. Choate seal for stars
907. ? 6 doors
908. ? [tulips]
910R. St. ? ? window
911. [Stella court Co.]
912. Repair, Winchester Congr.
913. Chattanooga 7 ?
914. Milton Academy, seal
915R. [Ewing Peabody]
916R. Everett repair
917. M?
918R. Dr. Hard?
919R. Pelegrine?
920R. Schwartz repair
924. ? St. Pauls
925. Wakefield Baptist
926R. T? repair
927. ? St.
928R. R? museum
929R. Wilmington
Collection Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Wilbur H. Burnham Studios records, circa 1901-1991. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art
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