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[Jones Garden]: looking from the driveway towards the street masked by flowers, shrubs, trees, and an ornamental pot placed on a post.

Photographer:: Forbes, Anna L. Search this

Collection Creator:: Garden Club of America Search this

Extent:: 1 Digital image (col., TIFF file.)

Type:: Archival materials; Digital images

Place:: Jones Garden (Charleston, West Virginia); United States of America -- West Virginia -- Kanawha -- Charleston

Date:: 2014 Sep.

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:: Gardens -- West Virginia -- Charleston Search this; Houses Search this; Flower beds Search this; Pottery Search this; Hedges Search this; Trees Search this; Patios 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 WV019005

See more items in:: The Garden Club of America collection; The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / West Virginia / WV019: Charleston -- Jones Garden

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Gardens

GUID:: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6ca23ea20-2bd7-4b45-b39e-2fe0621dbc89

EDAN-URL:: ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref11913

Herbert Waide Hemphill papers

Creator:: Hemphill, Herbert Waide Search this

Names:: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center Search this; Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Search this; Exposition Universelle de Paris (1878 : Paris, France) Search this; Folk Art Society of America Search this; Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.) Search this; National Museum of American Art (U.S.) Search this; Aiken, Gayleen Search this; Bogun, Maceptaw, Rev. Search this; Borkowski, Mary Search this; Brice, Bruce Search this; Carpenter, Miles B. (Miles Burkholder), 1889- Search this; Coins, Raymond Search this; Crittenden, Varick A. Search this; Dinsmoor, Samuel Perry, 1843-1932 Search this; Donovan, Carrie Search this; Fancher, John W. Search this; Finster, Howard, 1916-2001 Search this; Flanagan, Thos. J. (Thomas Jefferson), b. 1890 Search this; Fowler, Tim Search this; Gatto, Victor Joseph, 1893-1965 Search this; Ghostley, Alice, 1926-2007 Search this; Goins, Vernon Search this; Hall, Michael D., 1941- Search this; Hamblett, Theora, 1895-1977 Search this; Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe Search this; Harvey, Bessie, 1929- Search this; Hawkins, William Lawrence, 1895-1990 Search this; Hicks, Tiny Search this; Holley, Lonnie Search this; Hunter, Clementine Search this; James, A. Everette (Alton Everette), 1938- Search this; Jennings, James Harold Search this; Jones, S. L. (Shields Landon), 1901- Search this; Jordan, John Search this; Josephson, Nancy, 1955- Search this; Klumpp, Gustave, 1902-1974 Search this; Lisk, Charles Search this; Little, Roy Search this; Lopez, George Search this; Maldonado, Alexander Aramburo, 1901-1989 Search this; McCarthy, Justin, 1891-1977 Search this; Merrill, James Ingram Search this; Morgan, Gertrude Search this; Mr. Imagination, 1948- Search this; Nathaniel, Inez Search this; O'Kelley, Mattie Lou Search this; Orth, Kevin, 1961- Search this; Patterson, Clayton Search this; Prince, Daniel C. Search this; Prince, Neal A. Search this; Robertson, Royal Search this; Rowe, Nellie Mae, 1900-1982 Search this; Smith, Fred, 1886-1975 Search this; Smith, Robert E., 1926- Search this; Smither, John Search this; Smither, Stephanie Search this; Spies, Jim Search this; St. EOM, 1908-1986 Search this; Terrillion, Veronica Search this; Tolliver, Mose, 1920- Search this; Tolson, Edgar, 1904-1984 Search this; Walters, Hubert Search this; Weissman, Julia Search this; Young, Purvis, 1943- Search this; Zeldis, Malcah Search this

Extent:: 26.7 Linear feet

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Video recordings; Watercolors; Sketchbooks; Sound recordings; Photographs; Drawings; Poems; Reports; Prints; Interviews

Date:: 1776-1998; bulk 1876-1998

Summary:: The papers of folk art collector and museum curator Herbert Waide Hemphill date from 1776-1998, bulk 1876-1998, and measure 26.7 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials, personal business records, files documenting his collecting, writings, art work, minutes of meetings, a scrapbook, printed material including exhibition and auction announcements and catalogs, and miscellaneous artifacts. The collection also contains numerous photographs of Hemphill, family members, his residences, friends and colleagues, exhibitions, travel, and art work. Sound and video recordings include interviews of Hemphill.

Scope and Content Note:: The papers of folk art collector and museum curator Herbert Waide Hemphill date from 1776-1998, bulk 1876-1998, and measure 26.7 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials, personal business records, files documenting his collecting, writings, art work, minutes of meetings, a scrapbook, printed material including exhibition and auction announcements and catalogs, and miscellaneous artifacts. The collection also contains numerous photographs of Hemphill, family members, his residences, friends and colleagues, exhibitions, travel, and art work. Sound and video recordings include interviews of Hemphill.

Biographical material includes photocopies of Hemphill's birth certificate and passport, social security cards, and international health card, genealogical notes, an evaluation of his school work, membership cards, award certificates, address books, and an engagement calendar containing very brief annotations of his activities.

Correspondence documents Hemphill's affairs with miscellaneous museums and art institutions, discussing his presentation of lectures, exhibitions, and loans from his collection to organizations including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, the Folk Art Society of America, the Museum of International Folk Art, and the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum.

Hemphill's correspondence with friends and colleagues discuss collecting activities and pursuit of newly discovered folk art and artists. Many of the letters are from artists. Correspondents include Varick A. Crittenden, Michael D. Hall, A. Everette James, Daniel C. Prince, Neal A. Prince, and artists Rev. Maceptaw Bogun, Mary Borkowski, Tim Fowler, Joseph Victor Gatto, S. L. Jones, Gustav Klumpp, Roy Little, George Lopez, Kevin Orth, and Malcah Zeldis. There are also scattered letters from artists Miles Burkholder Carpenter, John W. Fancher, Rev. Howard Finster, William Hawkins, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Mr. Imagination, Mattie Lou O'Kelley, Clayton Patterson, St. EOM, and Mose Tolliver. One letter from Stephanie and John Smither is etched on a bone.

Personal business records include both legal and financial documents. There are wills for Hemphill, his mother, and for his friend Neal A. Prince. The records also include leases, insurance records, contracts, grant proposals, loan agreements, deeds of gift, price lists, consignment records, tax records, and miscellaneous receipts. Cancelled checks relate to Hemphill's collecting interests and activities, and include payments to artists for their work. There are court papers documenting a lawsuit by Hemphill's landlord who was attempting to evict him.

Art work consists of a sketchbook by Roy Little, a set of hand-cut Japanese mask designs, a collage of Polaroid photographs taped to glass created by Rev. Howard Finster, a hand-made book by Nancy Josephson, and miscellaneous drawings, watercolors, and prints by various artists including Justin McCarthy, Inez Nathaniel, and Nellie Mae Rowe.

Notes and writings include card files of artists, extensive bibliographic card files, and scattered notes on artists including Miles Carpenter, Raymond Coins, Rev. Howard Finster, Mattie Lou O'Kelley, Royal Robertson, Veronica Terrillion, Mose Tolliver, and Bill Traylor. Also found are lists of artists, patrons, and art work, miscellaneous notes, and minutes of meetings. Writings by Hemphill and others including Michael D. Hall, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, A. Everett James, and Julia Weissman, consist of reports, typescripts, and poems concerning a wide range of art-related topics and travel.

A scrapbook consists of unbound pages of clippings and newsletters about Hemphill, his collection, and exhibitions of folk art.

There is extensive additional printed material illustrating Hemphill's many interests. This series primarily consists of clippings and exhibition announcements and catalogs for mainstream artists as well as folk artists. Also included are auction announcements and catalogs, announcements for festivals, press releases, and calendars of events. Numerous booklets, brochures, programs, menus, business cards, and novelty postcards concern a variety of topics including worldwide travel, the sale of art work, miscellaneous galleries, museums, organizations, conferences, schools, lectures, antiques and craft shops, films, publications, restaurants, household items, historical topics, and miscellaneous artists including Miles Carpenter, S. P. Dinsmoor, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, and Veronica Terrillion. There are also autographed copies of booklets The Black Swan and Other Poems by James Merrill, and The Blood of Jesus by Thomas Jefferson Flanagan. Novelty postcards range from photographs of Elvis Presley to cards with amusing captions or cartoon jokes. There is also sheet music by Charles Trenet. Miscellaneous printed material includes several eighteenth-century newspapers and a 1776 thirty shilling note from New Jersey.

Photographs are of Hemphill, family members, his residences, friends and colleagues including style editor Carrie Donovan, artist Rev. Howard Finster dancing at an exhibition opening, actress Alice Ghostley, Michael D. Hall, circus performers Vernon Goins and Tiny Hicks, Smithsonian curator Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Neal A. Prince, and Jim Spies. Photographs of exhibitions include stereographic views of the International Exhibition in Philadelphia and the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and photographs of Hemphill's donation of his collection and its subsequent exhibition at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. Travel photographs include views of South Dakota, Texas, the American West, Japan, Mexico, and The Netherlands.

Numerous photographs of art work sometimes include images of the artists with their work including Bruce Brice, Raymond Coins, John W. Fancher, Rev. Howard Finster, Theora Hamblett, Bessie Harvey, William Hawkins, James Harold Jennings, John Jordan, Charles Lisk, Alexander Maldonado, St. EOM, Fred Smith, Edgar Tolson, Hubert Walters, and Purvis Young. Some photographs of unattributed art work has been arranged by the state in which it is located and includes a Mardi Gras parade in Louisiana, a Mummer's parade in Pennsylvania, Lucy the Elephant-shaped building in New Jersey, and Holy Ghost Park in Wisconsin. Other photographs of unattributed art work include works on paper, paintings, sculpture, signs, collages, needlework, glass, ceramics, and architecture.

Sound and video recordings include a cassette from Hemphill's phone answering machine that contains only Hemphill's message to callers, cassette recordings of interviews with and concerning Hemphill, artist St. EOM, painter Robert E. Smith discussing his work, and the tour narration for a Smithsonian exhibition Made With Passion. There are videotapes about Hemphill and about artists Gayleen Aiken, Miller and Bryant, and Malcah Zeldis, and miscellaneous African American artists. There is also a videotape of an American Museum of Natural History tour group arriving in a succession of villages in Melanesia and Papua New Guinea where they are greeted by the native people and given the opportunity to purchase their art work.

Artifacts consist of a scattered assemblage of three-dimensional objects including three wooden "fringe" pieces from cigar store figures, ceramic fragments from a sword handle, a lock of horse hair, and a hand-painted View Master viewer souvenir from the opening of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. The View Master contains a disc of photographs of artists with their work including Vollis Simpson and Mary Frances Whitfield. Also included is a teacher's kit Little Adventures in Art containing four phonograph albums and four short film strips of slides showing art work in animal and bird forms.

Arrangement:: The collection is arranged as 10 series; all series are arranged chronologically:

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Series 1: Biographical Material, 1916-1997 (Box 1, 28; 12 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1901-1998 (Boxes 1-5, 27- 28, OV 31; 4.0 linear feet)

Series 3: Personal Business Records, 1817-1997 (Box 5-7, 28; 2.0 linear feet)

Series 4: Art Work, 1911-1997 (Box 7, 32; 0.4 linear feet)

Series 5: Notes and Writings, 1938-1996 (Box 7-10, 28; 2.5 linear feet)

Series 6: Scrapbook, 1965-1976 (Box 10; 1 folder)

Series 7: Printed Material, 1776-1998 (Box 10-19, 28-29, OV 31; 9.5 linear feet)

Series 8: Photographs, 1876-1997 (Box 19-24, 29; 5.5 linear feet)

Series 9: Sound and Video Recordings, 1986-1991 (Box 25-26; 13 folders)

Series 10: Artifacts, 1968-1995 (Box 26, 30; 0.7 linear feet)

Biographical Note:: Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr., (1929-1998) lived in New York city and was a prominent curator, historian, and collector of American folk art. Hemphill was one of the founding members of the Museum of American Folk Art, organized several large exhibitions of folk art, and co-authored Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artist.

Hemphill was born on January 21, 1929 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the son of businessman Herbert Waide Hemphill, Sr., and Emma Bryan Bradley Hemphill whose uncle, William Clark Bradley, was one of the owners of the Coca-Cola Company.

Hemphill was reared in his mother's home town of Columbus, Georgia, and attended Wynnton School. At the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Hemphill's principle interests were in art and theater. In 1948, he spent a year studying fine arts at Bard College under Stefan Hirsch, a painter and folk art collector.

Hemphill developed his interest in collecting while accompanying his mother on her shopping forays searching for Dresden china. His first acquisition was a wooden duck decoy purchased when he was seven years old. His early collections were of glass bottles, marbles, stamps, and puzzle jugs. In 1949, Hemphill moved to Manhattan and began to focus on modern European and American art and African sculpture, but after 1956 he concentrated exclusively on 19th and early 20th century American folk art. He often discovered artists during his extensive travels, especially in the American South.

In 1961, Hemphill became one of the six founding trustees of the Museum of Early American Folk Art, later named the Museum of American Folk Art, in New York City. Between 1964 and 1973, he was the museum's first curator and curated many exhibitions, helping to promote awareness of work created by self-taught or visionary artists. He later served as Trustee Emeritus for many years.

Between 1974 and 1988, Hemphill loaned portions of his extensive personal collection to 24 museums nationwide and in 1976, the American Bicentennial Commission selected works from his collection for a goodwill tour of Japan. He was named guest curator at the Brooklyn Museum in 1976 and at the Abby Aldrich Folk Art Collection in 1980, and often appeared as guest lecturer at various universities, the Smithsonian Institution, and at the Library of Congress. In 1986, Hemphill donated more than 400 folk art works to the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum, resulting in a landmark exhibition Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection of the National Museum of American Art.

Hemphill's publications include books Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists, co-authored with Julia Weissman in 1974, Folk Sculpture USA for the Brooklyn Museum in 1976, and Found in New York's North Country: The Folk Art of a Region, co-authored with Varick A. Chittenden in 1982 for the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute.

Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. died on May 8, 1998 in New York City.

Provenance:: Herbert Waide Hemphill donated his papers in 5 installments between 1988 and 1996.

Restrictions:: Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of audiovisual materials with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

Rights:: 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 -- Collectors and collecting Search this; Folk art -- Collectors and collecting Search this; Curators -- New York (State) -- New York Search this; Art -- Economic aspects Search this

Genre/Form:: Video recordings; Watercolors; Sketchbooks; Sound recordings; Photographs; Drawings; Poems; Reports; Prints; Interviews

Citation:: Herbert Waide Hemphill papers, 1776-1998, bulk 1876-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:: AAA.hempherb

See more items in:: Herbert Waide Hemphill papers

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Art

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EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-aaa-hempherb

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Frank Christol photographs

Photographer:: Christol, Frank Search this

Extent:: 215 Photographic prints (dupe prints (2 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in. ); 215 Negatives (photographic) (dupe negs, black & white, 4 x 5 in. ); 215 Photographic prints (silver gelatin (2 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)

Container:: Volume 1; Volume 2

Culture:: Bamileke (African people) Search this

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Photographic prints; Negatives (photographic); Black-and-white photographs

Place:: Cameroon; Africa

Date:: 1920s

Summary:: Photographs taken by French Missionary Frank Christol during his stay in the Cameroon Grassfields, during the 1920s.

The photographs document the peoples of the Cameroon Grassfields, particularly the Bamileke. Activities depicted include dancing and playing musical instruments. Objects include figures, masks, textiles and vessels. There are images of chiefs' palaces and architectural details such as carved doors and house posts. Portraits, often with people in groups with objects, document dress, hairstyles, jewelry and scarification. People portrayed include carvers with their work and chiefs in their palaces.

Arrangement note:: Images indexed by negative number.

Restrictions:: Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.

Rights:: Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Genre/Form:: Black-and-white photographs; Photographic prints

Identifier:: EEPA.1989-004

Archival Repository:: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

GUID:: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo74e573905-34c1-4cbe-a7e8-1c03cb042157

EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-eepa-1989-004

Genesis #2

Artist:: Lorser Feitelson, born Savannah, GA 1898-died Los Angeles, CA 1978 Search this

Medium:: oil on fiberboard

Dimensions:: 40 1/4 x 48 in. (102.1 x 121.8 cm)

Type:: Painting

Date:: 1934

Topic:: Religion\New Testament\Mary Search this; Allegory\life\womanhood Search this; Dress\costume\mask Search this; Object\furniture\lamp Search this; Object\other\shell Search this; Object\fruit\cantaloupe Search this; Object\foodstuff\egg Search this

Credit Line:: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase

Object number:: 1985.33

Restrictions & Rights:: Usage conditions apply

See more items in:: Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department:: Painting and Sculpture

Data Source:: Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7e3d503f1-03f4-4a87-8fdd-5bc8357d38c3

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:saam_1985.33

view Abraham Lincoln digital asset number 1

Abraham Lincoln

Cast after:: Leonard Wells Volk, 1828 - 1895 Search this

Sitter:: Abraham Lincoln, 12 Feb 1809 - 15 Apr 1865 Search this

Medium:: Plaster

Dimensions:: 14.6 x 21.6 x 23.5cm (5 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 9 1/4")

Type:: Sculpture

Date:: 1917 cast after 1860 original

Topic:: Mask\Life mask Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Male Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Law and Law Enforcement\Lawyer Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Military and Intelligence\Soldier Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\President of US Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Environmentalist Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Merchant Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Illinois Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\Government official\Surveyor Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\State Senator\Illinois Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\Government official\Postmaster Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Crafts and Trades\Boat builder Search this; Portrait Search this

Credit Line:: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Museum of American History

Object number:: NPG.71.24

Restrictions & Rights:: CC0

See more items in:: National Portrait Gallery Collection

Exhibition:: America's Presidents (Reinstallation September 2017)

On View:: NPG, West Gallery 240

Data Source:: National Portrait Gallery

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EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:npg_NPG.71.24

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Abraham Lincoln

Cast after:: Clark Mills, 13 Dec 1810 - 12 Jan 1883 Search this

Sitter:: Abraham Lincoln, 12 Feb 1809 - 15 Apr 1865 Search this

Medium:: Plaster

Dimensions:: 17.1 x 20.3 x 29.8cm (6 3/4 x 8 x 11 3/4")

Type:: Sculpture

Date:: c. 1917 cast after 1865 original

Topic:: Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Beard Search this; Mask\Life mask Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Male Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Law and Law Enforcement\Lawyer Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Military and Intelligence\Soldier Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\President of US Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Environmentalist Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Merchant Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Illinois Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\Government official\Surveyor Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\State Senator\Illinois Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Politics and Government\Government official\Postmaster Search this; Abraham Lincoln: Crafts and Trades\Boat builder Search this; Portrait Search this