The papers of art historian, collector, educator, and museum administrator John Davis Hatch measure 24.9 linear feet and date from 1790-1995. Within the papers are biographical materials; correspondence; personal business and legal documents; diaries; research, organization, and teaching files; writings; printed materials; photographs; and works of art (mostly sketches) by American artists. Research files regarding artists and specific subjects comprise the bulk of this collection.
Scope and Content Note:
The papers of art historian, collector, educator, and museum administrator John Davis Hatch measure 24.9 linear feet and date from 1790-1995. Within the papers are biographical materials; correspondence; personal business and legal documents; diaries; research, organization and teaching files; writings; printed materials; photographs; and works of art (mostly sketches) by American artists. Research files regarding artists and specific subjects comprise the bulk of this collection.
Scattered biographical materials include an invitation to the Hatch's anniversary party in 1964, short biographical sketches and resumes, certificates, report cards, a silhouette of the Hatch Family circa 1904, and a typecript of a diary written by Olivia Hatch as a child.
Correspondence includes professional correspondence between Hatch and colleagues; letters from family and friends; and some materials regarding exhibitions from the Hatch Collection. The bulk of correspondence spans Hatch's professional career although there are scattered letters from 1915-1943 from Hatch to his parents. Also found are letters addressed to an unidentified "Henry." Correspondence is also found in the research files.
Personal business and financial records consist of inventories, bills, receipts, and other records for artworks purchased, loaned, or donated by Hatch. Also found are records from the J. D. Hatch Associates Cultural Consultants, a draft of Hatch's will, stock and tax materials, and travel papers and passports.
Scattered diaries and journal fragments and a transcript date from 1925-1965. Thirteen "Daily Reflection Journals" date from 1975-1987.
Research files on artists and subjects are extensive, comprising one-half of the collection. Files are varied and may include primary research materials, correspondence, printed materials, notes, and writings. Some of the artists' letters and other materials dated from 1790-early 1800s may have been purchased by Hatch. Among many other items, there is an illustrated letter written by Oscar Bluemner and photographs of Bluemner; primary research materials dating from the early 1800s on John Vanderlyn including a will, receipts, and correspondence; a letter from Rembrandt Peale dated 1830, and an autograph letter from John Trumbull dated 1790. Also found is an index card file.
Organization files contain files and records related to Hatch's affiliations with many cultural organizations. A small amount of teaching and education files consist of Hatch's notes and lectures from the University of Oregon and the University of Massachusetts, and from his continuing education courses he took at St. John's College. Writings and notes include short essays by Hatch, mostly concerning art, exhibitions and museum administration; book reviews; general notes, lists, and reports.
Printed Materials are comprised of exhibition catalogs and announcements, including those from the American Drawing Annual in the 1940s-1950s; printed articles annotated by Hatch; clippings; pricelists; and published works.
A small number of photographs are of Hatch, some by Dorothy Frazer; of his family and friends; and of artists. The bulk of the photographs are of works of art including those owned by Hatch.
Artwork includes two sketchbooks - one by Kenneth Callahan and another by Lloyd McNeill; and additional drawings and sketches by Julian Scott, Henry Kirke Browne, Kenneth Callahan, Ezra Clark, John Cranch, Jasper Francis Crospey, F. O. C. Darley, C. H. Granger, Seymour J. Guy, George Harvey, Edward Lamson Henry, Henry Inman, as well as unsigned or illegible names.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as 11 series:
Missing Title
Series 1: Biographical Information, circa 1900-1980s (Box 1; 8 folders)
Series 2: Correspondence, 1903-1990s (Box 1-3; 2 linear feet)
Series 3: Personal Business and Legal Records, Date (Box 3; 0.3 linear feet)
Series 4: Diaries and Journals, 1925-1987 (Box 3, 23; 1.2 linear feet)
Series 5: Research Files, 1790-1992 (Box 3-13, 20-21, 24; 12.7 linear feet)
Series 6: Organization Files, 1930s-1990s (Box 13-14; 1.0 linear feet)
Series 7: Teaching and Education Files, 1930s-1993 (Box 14-15; 1.0 linear feet)
Series 8: Writings and Notes, 1936-1990s (Box 15; 0.3 linear feet)
Series 9: Printed Material, 1870s-1990s (Box 15-19, 22, 25-26, OV1; 5.9 linear feet)
Series 10: Photographs, circa 1900-1990s (Box 22; 0.2 linear feet)
Series 11: Artwork, 1851-1973 (Box 22; 0.3 linear feet)
Biographical Note:
Art historian, collector, educator, and museum administrator John Davis Hatch (1907-1996) worked in the Boston and New England area, as well as the Pacific Northwest, and New York state. Hatch served as director of the Art Institute of Seattle, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Albany Institute of Art and History, and the Norfolk Museum of Art and Sciences.
John Davis Hatch was born in San Francisco, California in 1907. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were architects and Hatch studied landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as an apprentice to Lockwood de Forest. After abandoning landscape architecture, he accepted a position as director of the Seattle Fine Arts Society (1928-1931) at the age of twenty-one and taught art history courses at the University of Washington.
In 1932, Hatch accepted the position of assistant director of the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. He also directed the federal Public Works of Art Project in New England. Additionally, Hatch served from 1940-1948 as director of the Albany Institute of Art and History and from 1950-1959 of the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. Hatch worked as an art advisor for exhibitions at five historically African-American colleges in Atlanta and in San Simeon in California. He founded the American Drawing Annual exhibition.
Hatch conducted extensive research on artists Oscar Bluemner and John Vanderlyn, American silverwork, and American drawing. In addition, Hatch collected American drawings and later donated many of works of art from his personal collection to the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Aside from his early teaching in Washington state, Hatch taught at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Oregon. He was a member of numerous professional arts-related organizations.
In 1939, Hatch married Olivia Stokes with whom he had four children: Sarah, John, Daniel and James. He died in 1996.
Related Material:
The Archives of American Art holds two oral history interviews with John Davis Hatch: June 8, 1964 conducted by H. Wade White and 1979-1980 conducted by Robert F. Brown. Also found is a separately cataloged photograph of Hatch and Henry Francis Taylor from 1933.
Additional research materials complied by Hatch are located in the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the library of the National Gallery of Art, and the Senate House, Kingston, New York.
Hatch donated two hundred and seventy American drawings to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Separated Material:
Four books annotated by Bluemner, a letter from Bluemner, a letter from A. Stieglitz to Bluemner, photographs of works of art, and exhibition materials were removed from the papers and merged with the Oscar Bluemner papers at the Archives of American Art.
Provenance:
John Davis Hatch and the John Davis Hatch estate donated his papers to the Archives of American Art in several installments between 1960-1996. Many of the primary materials relating to John Vanderlyn were acquired by Hatch from a photographer in Kingston, New York, who received them from a niece of Vanderlyn. Robert Graham of James Graham and Sons gave Vanderlyn's will to Hatch.
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Container:
Box 23
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1969 December 5
Scope and Contents note:
Job Number: 7050
Series Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view negatives due to cold storage. Using negatives requires a three hour waiting period. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270.
Series Rights:
When the Museum purchased the collection from the Estate of Robert S. Scurlock, it obtained all rights, including copyright. The earliest photographs in the collection are in the public domain because their term of copyright has expired. The Archives Center will control copyright and the use of the collection for reproduction purposes, which will be handled in accordance with its standard reproduction policy guidelines. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The collection was acquired with assistance from the Eugene Meyer Foundation. Elihu and Susan Rose and the Save America's Treasures program, provided funds to stabilize, organize, store, and create digital surrogates of some of the negatives. Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
There are forty-five volumes of daily diaries in which Smillie describes his paintings, drawings and prints, and references over 200 artists with whom he was acquainted. Loose items originally filed within the diaries include letters, notes, sketches, a silhouette, calling cards, receipts, printed material, and a photo of Smillie, among many other items.
See Appendix for a list of artists mentioned in the diaries from Series 1.3.
Arrangement note:
This subseries is arranged in chronological order with materials tucked into diaries at the end of the subseries and arranged by type. The loose items had been removed from the diaries at an earlier time, most likely upon microfilming, and it is not clear in which diary they were originally filed.
Appendix: Artists Mentioned in James David Smillie's Diaries, 1865-1880:
Abbey, Edwin A.: 1877 May 11, Dec 18; 1878 Jan 10, Jan 11, Jan 22, Jan 25, Jan 28, Mar 9, Mar 11, Apr 30
Anderson, A.: 1873 Feb 8
Augero, Francesco: 1867 Apr 23; 1868 Feb 10, Feb 1, Jun 5, Oct 30, Nov 17, Nov 19, Dec 4, Dec 17; 1869 Jul 10; 1870 Mar 22, Apr 9, Jun 9; 1871 Oct 3; 1872 Nov 5; 1873 Jan 8, Feb 8, Apr 18, May 13, May 23, Jun 20, Dec 19; 1875 Jun 18, Dec 6; 1876 Jan 2
Baldwin, A. H.: 1875 Mar 5; 1877 Feb 27, Mar 1, Mar 5, Mar 6, May 2; 1878 Jan 24; 1880 Apr 12
Bascom, Marie Louise (Mrs. James R. Brevoort): 1868 Dec 19; 1871 May 9, May 26; 1872 Feb 28, May 1, Nov 4, Nov 11, Nov 15, Nov 20
Beard, William H.: 1871 Nov 2, Nov 23; 1872 Jan 27, May 9; 1873 Feb 1; 1877 Jan 21; 1880 Mar 18
Beers, Julie: 1868 Jun 16, Nov 7, Nov 11; 1870 Mar 12, Mar 31; 1871 Dec 9; 1872 Oct 30; 1873 Mar 10; 1875 Dec 28; 1876 Feb 25
Bellows, Albert Fitch: 1867 Feb 6; 1868 Jan 18, Apr 16; 1871 Jan 10, Jan 16, Mar 15, Nov 23; 1872 Jan 26, Feb 1, May 7; 1873 Feb 4, Feb 13, Mar 5, May 27, Nov 27; 1874 Jan 27, Feb 5, Feb 11, Feb 25; 1875 Jan 28, Feb 3, Feb 4, Feb 6, Feb 8, Feb 17, Nov 5, Nov, 12; 1876 Jan 14, Jan 17, Mar 20, May 16, Nov 9, Nov 20, Dec 14, Dec 18, Dec 19, Dec 22; 1877 Feb 15, Mar 16, Apr 30, May 9, Oct 23, Nov 9, Nov 21, Dec 14; 1878 Feb 4, May 19, Dec 22; 1879 Jan 12, Feb 20, Mar 16, May 13, Nov 14; 1880 Jan 3, May 10, Nov 3, Nov 16
Bierstadt, Albert: 1866 May 10
Blackman, Walter: 1868 Aug 22, Aug 24, Sep 13; 1870 Oct 22; 1871 Oct 3, Oct 31
Blauvelt, Miss H. J.: 1872 Jan 22; 1876 Jan 25, May 19; 1877 Feb 22
Blodgett, William: 1871 Jan 20, Jan 26
Bradford, William: 1872 Feb 22
Brevoort, James Renwick: 1865 Apr 24; 1866 Jan 5, Jan 6, Mar 19; 1867 Jan 4, Apr 23, Oct 25, Nov 20; 1868 Feb 14, Feb 19, Feb 26, Mar 18, Apr 18, May 4, Jun 1; 1869 Oct 11, Oct 30; 1870 Oct 20, Nov 1, Dec 10, Dec 17, Dec 23, Dec 24, Dec 31; 1871 Jan 7, Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 18, Feb 22, Feb 25, Mar 22, Apr 15, Oct 3; 1872 Feb 1, Apr 24; 1873 Feb 5, Apr 8, Apr 9; 1878 Dec 18
Bricher, Alfred Thompson: 1873 Dec 27; 1875 Nov 12, Dec 2, Dec 10; 1875 Mar 20, Nov 3, Nov 30, Dec 14; 1876 Mar 1, Dec 14
Brown, John George: 1867 Feb 19; 1870 Apr 29, Dec 2; 1872 Mar 25, Nov 20; 1873 Nov 8; 1874 Jan 8, Apr 4, May 5, Jun 24, Dec 7; 1875 May 22, Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 30, Dec 14; 1876 Feb 25, Mar 1, Nov 20, Dec 18; 1877 Feb 5, Feb 15, Feb 20, Mar 16, Mar 20, Mar 27; 1878 Mar 6, Dec 7, Dec 20; 1880 Jan 31, Mar 26, Jun 5; 1880 Dec 23
Brown, Walter: 1869, Jan 27, Dec 8; 1870 Mar 10, Mar 12; 1872 Dec 10, Dec 12; 1873 Jan 21, Feb 5; 1874 Jan 3, Jan 18, Jan 20, Feb 5, Apr 3, May 12, May 14, May 15, Jun 11, Dec 5, Dec 10; 1875 Mar 24; 1878 Mar 19
Burling, Frederick Gilbert: 1867 Feb 6, Mar 6, Jun 4, Oct 24, Nov 11, Nov 25, Dec 19; 1868 Jan 31, Apr 16, May 7, Sep 14, Oct 31, Nov 2, Nov 12; 1869 Jan 11, Jan 16, Nov 12, Dec 16, Dec 16; 1870 Jan 4, Jan 10, Feb 16, May 3, Jun 6, Jun 24, Nov 1, Nov 18; 1871 Jan 31, Feb 4, Oct 3; 1873 Feb 1, Apr 22; 1874 Jan 6, Jan 17, Feb 4, Feb 9, May 20, Jun 3; 1875 Feb 8;
Butler, H.: 1872 Apr 4
Calvery, Charles: 1870 Dec 13; 1873 Feb 25, May 26; 1874 Jun 9; 1876 Jan 28, May 12, Dec 30; 1878 May 6, Oct 10; 1879 Mar 12, Apr 7
Carpenter, Francis Bicknell: 1872 Apr 10; 1873 (no date)
Casilear, John W.: 1872 Jan 27, 1875 May 22
Champney, Benjamin: 1867 Aug 1, Sep 24
Campney, [no first name]: 1879 Jan 16; 1880 Feb 4
Chase, William Merritt: 1880 Sep 11
Church, Frederick Edwin: 1877 Apr 22
Church, Frederick S.: 1879 Dec 1; 1880 Apr 14
Church, [no first name]: 1869 Dec 31; 1878 Jan 24, Jan 29
Colman, Samuel Jr.: 1867 Jan 5, Mar 6, Jun 4, Jun 27, Nov 5, Nov 25, Dec 2, Dec 18, Dec 26; 1868 Feb 2, Feb 25, Apr 16, Jun 3, Jun 9, Jul 22, Aug 8, Aug 12, Aug 13, Aug 15, Aug 26, Aug 29, Aug 30, Aug 31, Sep 1, Sep 6, Sep 7, Sep 8, Sep 10, Sep 16, Sep 23, Sep 25, Nov 2, Nov 10, Nov 12, Nov 21, Dec 10, Dec 15; 1869 Jan 17, Jan 18, Jan 21, Feb 23, Mar 8, Mar 9, May 4, May 8, Jun 2, Jul 9, Jul 16, Jul 17, Aug 16, Aug 18, Aug 19, Aug 21, Aug 23, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 28, Aug 30, Sep 4, Sep 12, Sep 13, Sep 15, Sep 16, Sep 17, Sep 19, Sep 22, Sep 28, Sep 30, Oct 28, Nov 13, Nov 16; 1870 Jan 29, Apr 30, Jun 13, Jun 15, Jun 27, Jun 29, Jul 5, Aug 14, Nov 1, Dec 13; 1871 Jan 7, Jan 24, Jun 15, Jun 16, Oct 3, Nov 14, Nov 15, Dec 1; 1872 Jan 12, Jan 26, Jan 27, Jan 30, Feb 2, Feb 19, Feb 28, Mar 28, Apr 4, Apr 11, Apr 12, Apr 13, May 6, May 17, Jun 6, Nov 25, Dec 9; 1873 Jan 15, Mar 30, Jun 12; 1874 Apr 25, May 31, Dec 3; 1875 Jun 13, Aug 12, Sep 3, Sep 14, Oct 22, Oct 26, Oct 27, Nov 2, Nov 8, Nov 22, Dec 14; 1876 Jan 11, Jan 12, Jan 29, Feb 5, Feb 15, Feb 27, Mar 3, Apr 19, Apr 20, Apr 23, May 12, May 15, May 20, Jun 18, Nov 4, Nov 10, Nov 12, Nov 14, Nov 21, Dec 10, Dec 18, Dec 22; 1877 Mar 16, Mar 28, Apr 10, May 9, Jun 20, Oct 9, Oct 24, Oct 26, Nov 2, Nov 18, Nov 21, Nov 28, Nov 29, Dec 5; 1878 Jan 3, Jan 9, Feb 6, Feb 13, Feb 14, Mar 8, Mar 12, Mar 17, Mar 20, Mar 21, Mar 25, Apr 6, Apr 8, Apr 10, Apr 16, Apr 19, Apr 27, May 4, May 23, May 27, May 30, Jun 1, Jun 5, Jun 6, Aug 9, Aug 11, Aug 12, Aug 26, Aug 29, Aug 30, Oct 10, Nov 16, Nov 22; 1879 Jan 12, Mar 4, Mar 12, Mar 23, Mar 28, May 5, May 16, May 21, Jun 10, Jun 12, Oct 12, Oct 13, Nov 18, Nov 27, Dec 8, Dec 16, Dec 21; 1880 Jan 4, Jan 9, Feb 13, Feb 25, Mar 26, Apr 12, Apr 21, Apr 30, May 18, Oct 21, Oct 26, Nov 3, Nov 6, Nov 7, Nov 28, Dec 6, Dec 27
Colyer, Vincent: 1874 Feb 25, Feb 28
Covell, Margaret: 1874 Apr 11, Jun 24
Craig, William B.: 1867 Dec 16; 1871 Nov 16; 1873 Feb 11
Cranch, Christopher Pearce: 1867 Dec 12; 1868 May 7, Nov 22; 1869 Oct 29, Dec 7, Dec 10; 1870 Jan 18, Jan 19; 1872 Feb 20; 1879 Aug 5
Cropsey, Jasper Francis: 1867 Dec 16; 1869 Nov 2; 1871 Feb 4; 1878 Mar 20
Culver, "Of Chicago": 1871 Jan 13, Jan 19, Mar 6; 1871 May 9; 1874 Mar 5, Dec 16; 1875 Mar 20; 1876 Dec 30
Culverhouse, Johann Mongles: 1870 Dec 27; 1875 Apr 29
Dana, William Parsons Winchester: 1868 Jan 24; 1870 Apr 29
Dolph, John Henry: 1876 Jan 14; 1877 Mar 14
Darley, Felix O. C.: 1869 Jan 20, Jul 3; 1873 Feb 11, Dec 1; 1874 Jan 22, Jan 26, Mar 7, Mar 29, Apr 3; 1877 Mar 13
De Forest, Lockwood: 1872 Apr 8
De Haas, Mauritz or Maurice Frederick: 1867 Dec 3; 1870 Feb 1, Apr 29; 1872 Sep 11; 1874 Apr 14; 1876 Feb 25
Delnoce, Lewis (Luigi): 1879 Jun 6; 1880 Aug 16
Dodge, W. E.: 1868 Mar 14; 1969 Nov 27
Dunn, Alexander Gordon: 1871 Feb 4
Durand, Asher Benjamin: 1866 Feb 22; 1867 Nov 4; 1868 Sep 8, Sep 10, Sep 13, Sep 15; 1870 Aug 18, Aug 21, Sep 11, Sep 16, Sep 24, Sep 26; 1872 Feb 12; 1880 Nov 5
Durfee, Rose: 1876 Dec 30; 1877 Jan 21, Mar 1, Mar 14, Apr 22, Apr 30, Jun 1, Nov 1, Nov 7; 1878 Mar 13, Apr 17, Nov 27; 1880 May 11
Eaton, Joseph Oriel: 1867 Feb 21; 1869 Feb 27, Mar 11, Mar 15, Nov 15; 1870 Feb 26, Apr 29; 1871 Dec 30; 1873 Feb 3, Dec 4; 1874 Jan 17, Dec 16; 1875 Feb 8
Eaton, Wyatt; 1878 Jun 1
Ehninger, John Whetton: 1866 Jul 1, Jul 3, Jul 16, Aug 10, Aug 14; 1867 Feb 19; 1869 Jan 20; 1880 Jan 12, Apr, 16 Apr 19, Jul 14, Jul 16, Jul 17, Jul 20, Jul 21-30, Aug 2
Fairman, James: 1866 May 16; 1867 Oct 24, Oct 26, Oct 28; 1868 Mar 6; 1870 Mar 20, Dec 13
Falconer, John M.: 1870 Apr 29; 1873 Feb 1; 1874 Jan 9, Jan 12, Jan 22, Mar 7, Apr 19, Dec 10; 1875 Jan 5; 1878 Jan 25; 1879 Jun 18, Jun 19, Nov 22, Dec 16
Farrer, Henry: 1867 Mar 6, Dec 17; 1869 Jan 20; 1871 Apr 27; 1873 Feb 3, Mar 12; 1877 Jan 8, Feb 5, Dec 10; 1880 Jun 1, Nov 3, Nov 12, Nov 16
Fenn, Harry: 1867 Mar 6; 1869 Apr 1; 1870 Jan 28; 1872 Jul 20; 1873 Mar 10, Nov 27, Dec 26; 1874 Jan 14, Dec 3; 1875 Jul 15
Ferguson, Henry A.: 1868 Aug 24, Sep 13; 1869 Oct 14; 1870 Mar 11, Mar 26, May 3, Jul 21, Sep 24; 1871 Jan 11, May 2, Sep 3; 1872 Jun 5, Aug 17; 1873 Mar 20, Aug 2, Oct 31, Nov 6, Nov 22, Dec 8, Dec 10, Dec 17, Dec 23; 1874 Jan 6, Jan 8, Jan 12, Jan 13, Jan 15, Feb 2, Feb 10, Feb 28, Mar 7, Mar 24, Jun 3, Jun 6, Jun 11, Oct 7, Oct 31, Nov 14, Dec 18; 1875 Apr 19, May 21, Jun 27, Sep 14; 1876 Jun 10; 1877 May 3; 1878 Jan 6, Jun 29, Oct 4, Dec 18; 1879 Dec 12
Fiske, Charles Albert: 1869 Nov 25; 1870 Feb 28
Forbes, Edwin: 1867 Nov 20; 1869 Mar 1
Fraser, "Of Toronto": 1869 Jun 2
Fraser, James: 1872 Apr 13
Fraser, John: 1870 Dec 2
Fredericks, Alfred: 1868 Nov 2; 1873 Dec 9
Freeborn, Miss: 1875 Feb 2
Gay, Edward: 1869 Dec 10
Gifford, [no first name]: 1867 Dec 17; 1869 Jan 20, Mar 11, Nov 22; 1874 Jun 11; 1875 May 22
Gifford, Robert Swain: 1867 Mar 26, Nov 11; 1868 Mar 23, Dec 1; 1869 Apr 15, Oct 14, Nov 13; 1870 Jan 17, Jan 20, jan 22, Feb 26, Apr 29, May 9, May 28, Jul 8; 1871 Feb 15, Apr 4, May 9, Dec 30; 1872 Feb 27, Dec 10; 1873 Jan 1, Jan 9, Feb 19, Mar 29, May 5, Dec 27; 1874 Jan 17, Jan 30, Mar 2, Mar 5, Mar 23, Apr 30; 1875 Nov 29; 1876 Jan 11, Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 20, Dec 7, Dec 14, Dec 19; 1877 May 2, May 9, Dec 10, Dec 11; 1878 Jan 25, Feb 15, Feb 23, Mar 9, Mar 11, Mar 20, Apr 18, Mar 10, May 18; 1879 Jan 26, Mar 21, Mar 29; 1880 Feb 25, Mar 26, Apr 14, May 10, May 19, Dec 27, Dec 29, Dec 31
Gifford, Sanford Robinson: 1867 Feb 19, Mar 6, Dec 4; 1869 Dec 18; 1870 May 28; 1873 Jan 4, Dec 4; 1877 Feb 21; 1878 May 25; 1879 Feb 7, Mar 23, Apr 20, Dec 11; 1880 Apr 8
Gilbert, Miss: 1873 Jan 25, Dec 18; 1874 Apr 16, Jun 24, Dec 22; 1875 Jan 22, Feb 25, Mar 1; 1876 Jan 24, Apr 4, Apr 12, Apr 13, Apr 17, Nov 13; 1877 Mar 1
Gilbert, G. A.: 1874 Jan 30
Greatorex, Eliza Pratt: 1872 Oct 30; 1873 mar 15, Apr 8; 1874 Apr 13, Jun 12, Jun 24
Greatorex, Kathleen Honora: 1866 Mar 3; 1873 Mar 6, Mar 28; 1874 Jun 8, Jun 10, Jun 12, Jun 13
Greene, Edward D. E.: 1871 Dec 18; 1872 Jan 27, May 9, May 25, Jul 14; 1873 Mar 8, Nov 17; 1874 Feb 9, Feb 23, Mar 3
Grey, Henry Peters (?): 1871 Nov 23
Griswold, Casimir Clayton: 1867 Feb 19; 1870 Jun 7
Guy, Seymour Joseph: 1868 Jan 31; 1869 Apr 8; 1872 Jan 27
Hall, George Henry: 1871 Oct 28, Nov 2; 1873 Nov 8; 1875 Apr 9; 1877 Jan 7
Hart, James M.: 1865 Mar 19, May 10, Jun 20; 1866 Jun 13; 1867 Jan 4, Feb 21, Apr 23, Aug 31, Oct 24, Nov 21; 1868 Jan 2, Apr 16, Jun 23, Nov 7; 1869 Aug 14, Aug 15, Sep 24, Oct 14, Oct 26; 1870 Mar 28, Sep 4, Oct 20, Dec 13; 1871 Feb 23, Jun 26, Oct 3, Nov 9; 1872 Feb 24, Nov 12, Dec 19; 1873 Aug 2, Nov 17; 1874 Mar 7, Nov 19; 1875 Apr 5, May 16, Oct 27; 1876 May 17, Dec 16; 1878 Jun 1
Hart, Maria Theresa Gorsuch: 1866 Jan 2; 1867 Apr 22, Oct 24; 1870 Aug 2; 1874 Jan 8; 1875 Mar 23
Hart, William: 1867 Feb 19, Oct 28, Nov 1, Nov 23; 1868 Jan 31, Feb 25, Nov 2, Nov 12, Dec 21; 1869 Nov 15; 1870 Jan 31, Feb 1, Apr 29, Jun 7, Nov 10, Dec 13; 1871 Jan 31, Feb 3, Mar 14, APr 4, Apr 25, May 1, May 9, May 12, May 15, Nov 2; 1872 Feb 1, Feb 6, Nov 9, Nov 12, Nov 25, Dec 10; 1873 Jan 9, Feb 5, Mar 29, Nov 3; 1874 Apr 30; 1875 Mar 20, Apr 3; 1876 Feb 11
Hayes [Hays], William Jacob: 1869 Mar 31, Dec 18
Heade, Martin Johnson: 1869 Sep 13; 1870 Apr 29, Jun 9, Dec 30
Hennessy, William John: 1870 APr 29
Henry Edward Lamson: 1880 Dec 20
Hepburn, William: 1875 Jan 28
Hetzel, George: 1878 May 28
Hicks, Thomas: 1876 May 1
Hill, John William: 1876 Apr 11
Hodgkins: 1868 Sep 14
Holbertson, Wakeman H.: 1873 Feb 1
Homer, Winslow: 1875 Feb 6; 1878 Mar 15
Howland, Alfred C.: 1872 Jul 10; 1873 May 1
Hubbard, Richard William: 1867 Feb 19; 1875 Feb 8, Apr 9, May 22
Huntington, Daniel P.: 1868 Apr 1; 1869 Jan 29, May 10; 1872 Mar 14; 1876 Feb 16, may 1; 1877 Fan 9; 1878 Mar 4
Innes, George: 1868 May 1, May 4; 1879 Mar 14
Jefferson, Joseph: 1870 Nov 4, Nov 9
Johns, "Of Pittsburgh": 1871 Jan 15
Johnson, David: 1874 Mar 23; 1875 Feb 4
Johnson, Eastman: 1868 Apr 1; 1869 Jan 29, Apr 4; 1878 Aug 4, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 27, Aug 26; 1879 Feb 7; 1880 Jul 21
Johnson, Samuel Frost: 1870 Jun 1; 1871 Jan 4; 1873 Jan 8, Apr 8; 1876 Dec 14
King, [no first name]: 1871 Jul 29, Aug 9; 1873 Jan 3
Kensett, John Frederick: 1866 Feb 21; 1868 Jan 29; 1870 Nov 10; 1872 Apr 23; 1873 Mar 13
Kittell, Nicholas Biddle: 1870 Feb 8, Apr 9; 1874 Jun 22
Knowlton, Miss: 1879 Aug 13
Knudsen: 1870 Mar 10
Kuntze, Edward J.: 1868 May 8, Jun 9; 1869 Apr 15, Oct 19; 1870 Mar 10, Apr 10
La Farge, John: 1869 Nov 22, Nov 25; 1870 Apr 29
Lambdin, George C.: 1868 Jan 31, Aug 13, Aug 15
Lang, Louis: 1871 Nov 16
Lawrie, Alexander: 1869 Nov 15; 1873 Oct 2; 1874 Mar 24
Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb: 1866 Feb 21
Linton, William James: 1870 Apr 29; 1873 Nov 3; 1874 Jan 13
Loop Henry Augustus: 1865 Nov 29, Nov 30, Dec 25; 1866 Feb 7; 1869 Jan 3, Oct 14
McEntee, Jervis: 1868 Jan 18; 1869 Dec 18; 1876 May 1, Jun 23; 1878 Apr 25
Magrath, William: 1870 Aug 8, Dec 19; 1871 Jan 16; 1874 Jun 6; 1875 Feb 1, Nov 6; 1876 Dec 21, Dec 22, Dec 26; 1877 Mar 28; 1878 Jan 24, Jan 29, Mar 20
Martin, Charles: 1870 May 18
Martin, Homer Dodge: 1870 Jun 17
Miller, Charles Henry: 1874 Mar 2; 1877 Dec 5; 1878 Apr 8
Moore, Charles Herbert: 1868 Mar 11
Moran, Edward: 1873 Apr 25, Nov 1; 1876 Mar 14; 1880 Mar 18
Moran, Thomas: 1873 Dec 7; 1874 May 21; 1876 Apr 6
Morse, Samuel F. B.: 1869 Mar 13; 1870 Apr 21
Mulvaney, John: 875 Jul 15, Sep 3
Nast, Thomas: 1873 Feb 9, Feb 17
Nehlig, Victor: 1870 Apr 29, Dec 27; 1871 Jan 19
Newman, Henry Roderick: 1870 Feb 17; 1873 Jan 9
Nicoll, James Craig: 1867 Oct 6; 1869 Dec 20; 1870 Feb 1, Apr 6, May 3, May 7, Dec 30; 1871 Jan 9, Jan 14, Mar 20, Oct 21; 1872 Feb 26, Dec 1, Dec 11; 1873 Jan 6, Jan 15, Feb 3, Oct 31, Nov 1, Nov 4, Nov 28, Dec 1, Dec 2, Dec 4, Dec 9, Dec 23, Dec 29; 1874 Jan 17, Jan 21, Jan 30, Feb 2, Feb 3, Feb 4, Feb 5, Feb 12, Feb 13, Apr 28, May 14, May 16, May 19, May 26, Jun 24, Oct 3, Oct 25, Nov 27, Dec 3, Dec 8; 1875 Jan 6, Jan 27, Feb 3, Feb 8, Feb 17, Mar 3, Mar 15, Mar 19, Mar 22, Apr 5, Apr 9, Apr 28, Apr 29, May 5, May 14, Jun 18, Jul 3, Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 26, Nov 26, Nov 30, Dec 1, Dec 14, Dec 17, Dec 20, Dec 21; 1876 Jan 21, Feb 14, Mar 1, Mar 14, Mar 20, Mar 29, Apr 3, Apr 7, Apr 8, Sep 3, Nov 20, Dec 16, Dec 18, Dec 22, Dec 28; 1877 Jan 2, Jan 11, Feb 6, Feb 15, Feb 19, Feb 27, Mar 1, Mar 6, Mar 9, May 10, Jun 20, Nov 14, Nov 15, Nov 24, Dec 14, Dec 18; 1878 Jan 26, Feb 13, Mar 6, Mar 12, Mar 20, Apr 4, May 9, May 17, May 17, Jul 1, Jul 2, Nov 20, Dec 11, Dec 28; 1879 Mar 1, Mar 10, Jul 19, Nov 13, Dec 16; 1880 Mar 8, Apr 12, Apr 30
Norton, Henry: 1874 Jan 10
Ogilvie, Clinton: 1868 Apr 13, Apr 30, Jul 13; 1869 Dec 22; 1871 Jan 7; 1872 Apr 1; 1873 Mar 4; 1877 Jan 2; 1879 Apr 21
Ordway, Albert T.: 1868 Jan 18
Page, William: 1871 Nov 9, Nov 23, Dec 12; 1872 May 9, Nov 22; 1875 Feb 3
Parton, Ernest: 1871 Jan 31; 1872 Feb 5; 1874 Jan 31; 1880 Dec 20
Perry, Enoch Wood: 1868 Jan 31; 1869 Nov 10; 1870 Dec 13; 1871 Nov 23, Nov 27, Dec 5; 1872 Jan 27, Feb 5, May 9, Nov 20; 1874 Feb 6, Jun 24; 1875 Feb 6, Apr 9; 1877 Feb 9, May 2
Porter: 1871 Sep 1
Reed, T. F.: 1868 Mar 30, Apr 18, Jun 12; 1869 Feb 21
Reinhart, Charles: 1877 Dec 18; 1878 Feb 22, Mar 4, Apr 8
Reinhart, Benjamin OR William: 1870 Apr 13; 1871 Nov 14
Richards, Thomas Addison: 1868 Apr 1, Apr 17, Jun 2, Jul 3, Nov 12; 1871 Nov 20; 1872 Mar 11, Nov 25, Dec 10; 1873 Feb 20, Dec 5, Dec 9; 1874 Jan 6, Jan 12, Apr 6, Apr 21; 1875 Dec 14
Richards, William Trost: 1869 Mar 13; Apr 14, May 4m Nov 23, Nov 24, Dec 7; 1870 May 5; 1871 Jan 17, Mar 20; 1872 Feb 8, Dec 1; 1873 Jan 29, Mar 20, Jun 3, Jun 5, Jun 6; 1874 Apr 8; 1875 Jan 3, Feb 24, Feb 25, Mar 29, May 31, Nov 23; 1876 Jan 10, Apr 21, May 4, Oct 22, Oct 26, Oct 27; 1877 Jul 26; Dec 19; 1878 Mar 4
Richards, [no first name]: 1871; 1874; 1875 Jan 28
Richardson, Cora: 1873 Dec 12, Dec 13, Dec 22
Rimmer, William: 1870 Dec 6, Dec 13, Dec 21; 1872 Jan 4, Feb 1, Feb 8, Feb 15, Feb 22, Mar 29
Ritchie, Alexander Hay: 1868 Apr 17, May 12, May 20, May 23, May 25, May 26, May 28, Jun 15, Jun 22, Jun 24, Jun 25, Jun 26, Jun 27, Jun 30, Jul 1, Jul 2, Jul 3, Jul 10
Robbins, Horace Wolcott: 1869 Mar 11, Nov 22, Dec 15; 1870 Dec 12; 1873; 1874 Apr 18, Dec 16; 1875 Nov 26, Nov 30; 1876 Jan 14, Jan 17, Mar 1, Mar 12, Mar 16, Nov 20, Dec 18; 1877 Apr 18, Apr 22, Jul 26, Jul 27, Nov 8; 1878 Jan 10, Jan 18, Feb 23, Feb 24, Mar 9, Mar 20, May 1; 1879 Dec 11, Dec 12; 1880 Feb 28
Rogers, John: 1870 Nov 4; 1871 Feb 5, Mar 10, Apr 14, Dec 8; 1872 May 6; 1873 Dec 29; 1875 Mar 26, Apr 4, Nov 25, Dec 8, Dec 19; 1876; 1877 Apr 1
Rondel, Louis: 1870 Mar 3, Mar 30, Dec 12
Rondell, Frederick: 1867 Nov 28; 1869 May 29
Rood, Prof.: 1869 Feb 7; 1871 Feb 10
Ryder, Albert Pinkham: 1872 Jan 12, Feb 22, Mar 14, Mar 18, Mar 28
Satterlee, Walter: 1873 Apr 19, Nov 3; 1874 Dec 9, Dec 16; 1876 Jan 14, Mar 7; 1877 Nov 8; 1878 Feb 23
Scott, Julian: 1867 Feb 19; 1870 Apr 29
Shattuck, Aaron Draper: 1867 Feb 19, Nov 23; 1871 Nov 16, Nov 23; 1872 Feb 22
Shirlaw, Walter: 1870 Feb 17; 1878 Mar 11, Apr 8; 1880 Mar 4
Shortleffe, Roswell Morse: 1869 Aug 23, Aug 27, Aug 30; 1870 Aug 13, Aug 23, Aug 31, Sep 20-22; 1872 Feb 28, Mar 8; 1873 Mar 18; 1874 Mar 23, Dec 6; 1875 Jan 25l 1877 Jan 7, Mar 20, Mar 28, Jun 23, Nov 25; 1878 Jun 4, Dec 20; 1879 Feb 19, Apr 8, May 23, Nov 18; 1880 Apr 14
Silva, Francis A.: 1874 Jan 13, Feb 2, Jun 1, Jun 16, Jun 17; 1875 Jan 25, Jan 26, Jan 27, Feb 1, Dec 17; 1876 Feb 7, Feb 28, Mar 14, Dec 22, Dec 26; 1877 Mar 30; 1878 Mar 5, Mar 20
Slade, Helen (?): 1870 Mar 10
Smith, Francis Hopkinson: 1873 Jan 28, Jan 29; 1874 Feb 22, Dec 6, Dec 10; 1875 Jan 14, Jan 27, Feb 3, Mar 4, Mar 5, Mar 7, Mar 15-20, Mar 20, Mar 24, Apr 1, May 3, May 13, Nov 3, Nov 7, NOv 16, Nov 26, Dec 1, Dec 17, Dec 20; 1876 Jan 12, Jan 17, Jan 26, Feb 8, Feb 11, Mar 1, Mar 26, Jul 4, Dec 23; 1877 Jan 7, Jan 16, Feb 8, Feb 9, Feb 16, Mar 16, Mar 18; 1878 Jan 16, Feb 13, Mar 12, Mar 14, Mar 18, Mar 20, Apr 30, Dec 20; 1880 Jan 21, Oct 8
Smith, Thomas Lochlan: 1871 Jan 7; 1877 Nov 29
Symington: 1877 Feb 9; 1878 Mar 20
Tait, Arthur F.: 1868 Jan 17, Dec 7; 1869 Nov 15; 1870 Feb 5
Thayer, "Prof": 1879 Aug 26
Thompson, Launt: 1873 Feb 19
Thompson, [no first name]: 1873; 1875 Mar 20; 1876 Mar 7; 1877 Nov 8; 1878 Feb 19
Thurston, Frank: 1872 Apr 9
Tiffany, Louis Comfort: 1867 Jun 27, Sep 5, Nov 29; 1868 Aug 12, Aug 15, Aug 31, Sep 1, Sep 1, Sep 6, Sep 10, Nov 7, Dec 16; 1869 Mar 29, Apr 6, Apr 12, APr 26, Aug 16, Aug 18, Aug 21, Aug 23, Aug 24, Aug 26, Oct 26, Oct 27, Nov 15, Nov 22; 1870 Jan 22, Mar 10, May 9, Jun 6, Jun 30, Jul 2-5, Jul 15; 1871 Feb 11, Feb 15, Mar 13, Apr 22, Nov 23, Dec 30; 1872 Jan 8, Jan 10, Jan 17, Feb 2, Feb 16, Mar 11, Mar 14, Apr 8, May 17, Nov 12, Nov 14, Nov 25, Dec 9, Dec 19, Dec 11; 1873 Jan 1, Jan 9, Jan 17, Jan 28, Feb 1, Feb 3, Feb 7, Feb 8, Mar 10, Mar 29, Nov 3, Dec 4, Dec 9, Dec 27; 1874 Jan 15, Jan 17, Jan 20, Feb 2, Feb 3, Feb 4, Feb 11, Mar 2, Apr 14, May 5; 1875 May 18, May 21, Nov 4, Nov 7, NOv 8, Dec 16, Dec 21; 1876 Jan 29, Nov 14, Dec 22; 1877 Mar 8, May 7, Jun 4, Jun 13, Oct 26, Nov 8, Nov 21; 1878 Jan 18, Feb 25, Mar 2, Mar 5, Mar 8, Mar 20, Apr 6, Nov 18; 1879 Jan 16, Feb 7, Mar 3, Apr 22, Dec 8; 1880 Jan 3, Mar 8, Apr 12, May 8, Nov 10
Townley: 1871 Jan 16, Apr 18
Troll, Mrs.: 1870 Aug 8; 1874 Dec 16
Vaini, Pietro: 1874 Jan 7, Apr 15, Jun 17
Van Elten, Kruseman: 1867 Feb 6, Oct 6
Vedder, Elihu: 1869 Jan 27, Mar 17
Verplanck, Delancy: 1869 Jan 25, Jan 26, Nov 10; 1872 Feb 21, Jun 24, Jul 9, Jul 10; 1873 Dec 29; 1874 Feb 25
Waller: 1880 Feb 25, Feb 27, Mar 26
Walters, Josephine: 1871 Mar 6, Dec 30
Ward, Charles Caleb: 1871 Feb 4
Ward, E. M.: 1877 Jan 19, Apr 2
Ward, J. Q. A.: 1866 Dec 3; 1867 Feb 6, Feb 19; 1868 Jul 24; 1869 Jan 29, Jan 30, Feb 8; 1870 May 9; 1871 Jan 4, Nov 2, Nov 23; 1873 Nov 25, Dec 8; 1874 Jan 22, Mar 2, Mar 28; 1876 Feb 16; 1877 Nov 27; 1879 May 6
Warren, Andrew W.: 1870 May 4, May 30, Jun 7
Weir, John F.: 1878 May 1
Weir, J. Alden: 1880 Mar 3
Wenzler, Henry Anton: 1868 Mar 6, Apr 13; 1870 Nov 5, Nov 14; 1871 Jan 19, Apr 4, Apr 10
West: Feb 6
White, Edwin: 1868 Apr 1
Whittredge, Thomas Worthington: 1865 Mar 28; 1868 Mar 14m Apr 1; 1869 Jan 29, Dec 18; 1871 Jun 2-9; 1874 Jan 8, Jan 22, Jun 24; 1875 Sep 17, Sep 29, Nov 12, Nov 30; 1876 Apr 14, Apr 24, Apr 25, Apr 26, Apr 27, May 3, May 5, May 8; 1880 Apr 8
Williams, Isaac (?): 1869 May 5; 1876 Apr 27, May 3
Willis, William H.: 1869 Jan 14
Wilmarth, Lemuel Everett: 1874 Dec 4; 1877 Nov 22; 1878 Jan 14, Mar 4
Wood, George Bacon: 1868 Aug 1; 1869 Aug 14, Oct 15; 1873 Apr 23
Wood, Thomas Hosmer: 1870 Mar 4, Mar 18; 1871 Jan 19
Wood, Thomas Waterman: 1869 Jan 17, Feb 2; 1870; 1872; 1873 Mar 29; 1874 May 12; 1876 Mar 1; 1877 Feb 3, Feb 5, May 2, Jun 1, Jun 4, Jun 6; 1878 Jan 2, Jan 7, Jan 14, Jan 21, Jan 29, Feb 19, Mar 4, Mar 9, Mar 20, May 15, May 17, May 18, May 29; 1879 Feb 10, Mar 1, Jun 14, Jun 19; 1880 Jan 25, Jan 31, Dec 29
Woodward, Laura (?): 1872 Jan 22; 1873 May 20, Dec 2, Dec 13, Dec 18; 1874 Mar 7, Mar 16, Apr 11, Apr 17, May 20, MAy 25, Jun 11, Jun 17, Jun 24, Nov 13, Nov 16, Dec 22; 1875 Jan 12, Jan 21, Jan 22, Feb 3, Feb 25, Mar 1, Apr 12, Dec 3, Dec 24; 1876 Jan 9, Jan 25, May 17, May 19; 1877 Nov 8; 1879 Aug 28
Woolsey, E. J.: 1868 Apr 1
Wyatt, Alexander Helwig: 1869 Jan 9, Jan 17, Feb 3, Nov 15; 1870 Feb 4, Apr 26, May 28, Aug 8, Sep 18, Sep 20-22; 1872 MAr 8, Dec 10; 1873 Feb 5, Dec 27; 1874 Apr 30; 1877 Nov 1; 1878 Aug 17, Aug 25, Nov 22, Dec 22; 1879 Jan 26, Feb 25, Mar 12, Nov 12
Yale, Leroy Milton: 1869 Jan 13; 1870 Oct 29, Nov 29, Nov 30, Dec 13; 1871 May 15, Nov 1; 1875 Feb 26, Feb 27, Mar 8, Mar 9, Apr 12, Mar 30, May 2, May 11, Jun 27, Oct 23, Oct 29; 1878 Jan 11, Mar 11, Mar 13; 1879 May 31, Jun 3
Young, James Harvey: 1868 Apr 8
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James D. Smillie and Smillie family papers, 1853-1957. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Rockwell Kent papers, circa 1840-1993, bulk 1935-1961. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Letters in this series include the personal and professional correspondence of William Page, his wife, Sophia Candace Stevens Page, and their families, as well as correspondence of Sophia Page's first husband Stephen Hitchcock and his family.
William Page's correspondence is found from 1833 to 1885 only, with the bulk of his correspondence dating from 1852 to 1877. Drafts of outgoing letters written by William and Sophia Page are found throughout the series. Correspondence is arranged chronologically, with undated correspondence filed alphabetically by author at the end of the series. Correspondence of Page's children, which is voluminous from the early 1880s onward, and other family correspondence of the Page, Stevens, and Hitchcock families has not been indexed.
The earliest correspondence is that of Page's relatives of the Mathies, Dunnel, and Baldwin families of New York State. From 1840 through 1852, much of the correspondence is that of the Hitchcock family. See Series 2.3 for correspondence between Sophia and Steven Hitchcock. Love letters between William Page and Sophia (then Hitchcock) are prevalent in 1857, the year they were married. Family correspondence among Sophia Page, her parents, and her brothers Henry, B. Frank, and Simon Stevens is prevalent from the 1850s through the 1880s. By 1884, much of the correspondence is that of the Page children, including their personal, business, and family correspondence. A long, amorous correspondence from Charlotte "Sharly" Briggs to Candace "Dacie" Page, which documents an apparently intimate relationship between the two women, is found from the late 1880s onward, with many undated letters.
William Page's significant correspondents include artists such as Thomas Hicks, Enoch Wood Perry, William Stark, Theodore Tilton, and Lemuel Wilmarth; patrons Wendell Phillips, J. Hopper, William Walker Scranton, and Francis G. Shaw; writers James Russell Lowell, Charles Frederick Briggs (see also Series 2.2), George W. Curtis, and the actress Charlotte Cushman. An unusually lengthy letter from Page to a young artist "W" (possibly William Stark) about painting is dated 1860. Sophia Page's correspondents include Thomas K. Beecher, Mary Olmsted and Bertha Olmsted.
See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents from Series 2.1.
Appendix: Selected Correspondents from Series 2.1.:
The following is a selective list of correspondence of William and Sophia Page in Series 2.1: General Correspondence.
Spellings and abbreviations of names below reflect the actual signatures of letters. Names preceded by question marks indicate partially-legible signatures. Letters with unsigned and illegible signatures which could not be indexed are common in the correspondence, so this index should not be considered comprehensive.
Adam, Sarah W.: 1877-1878
Allan, W.G.: 1848
Allen, Elizabeth Akers: 1863-1864, 1880, 1885-1888, 1892, undated
Alsop, ?H.J.W.: 1871
Ammon, W.E.: 1887-1888
Appleton, Nathan: 1874
Arcadian Club: 1874
Armstrong, William: 1889
Austin Baldwin and Co.: 1863
Avery, Charles: 1870
Avery, Sam P.: undated
Badeau, Adam: 1866
Baker, H.: undated
Baker, W.J.: 1874
Balducci, Y.: 1855
Bard, M.I.: undated
Barney, C. H.: 1863
Barney, Hiram: undated
Bartholemew, E.: 1855-1856
Bartlett, C.E.: undated
Barton, Sam: 1870, 1879
Bates, L.: undated
Beardsley, Annie: 1885
Beatty, John W.: 1900, 1902
Becker, Dr.: undated
Beckwith, James Carroll: 1899
Beecher, Thomas K.: 1850, 1853-1854, undated
Bellinger, Louis: 1887
Benedict, Robert D.: 1856, 1876, 1886
Benedict, Taft, and Benedict: 1880
Benet, W.V.: 1861
?Bennett, J.R.: undated
Berdam, D.W.: 1861
Betty, Edward: 1875
Biglow, L.G.: 1883
Bigmore, Edward: 1880
Birney, E.P.: 1865
Blomeger, Georgina: undated
Boies, H.M.: 1875-1876
Bossange, H.: 1855
Bradford, J.F.: 1870
Brady, J.R.: 1873
Brehart, Mary: 1888, undated
Briggs, Charles Frederick: 1852, 1861, undated (see also series 2.2)
Briggs, Charlotte "Sharly": 1877, 1882-1883, 1886-1894, 1896, 1899, undated
Richards, T. Addision: 1882, 1886 (see also the letters used as evidence in Page's probate trial; Series 4)
Richmond, Victoria and J.W.B.: 1883, 1886
Rider, George S.J.: 1868
Ridner, Caroline: 1885, 1887
Rively, Mary: 1886-1887
Robertson, Ann Elize Worcester: 1877
Robinson, A.S.: 1852-1853, 1855, 1862
Robinson, E.: 1874
Robinson, George C.: 1868, undated
Robinson, Mrs. Jennie: 1870
Robinson, M.C.: 1853
Robinson, W.H.: 1875-1876
Rogers, John: undated
Rogers, W.K.: 1877
Rose, J.W.: 1882
?Rossel: 1878
Ruggles, Edward: 1861
Sanborn, ?O.H.: 1868
Sartain, John: 1875
Schultz, E.A.: 1873
Schuyler, Louisa Lee: 1877
Schwab, Charles M.: 1906
Scott, Frank H.: 1875
Scott, Julian: 1874
Scranton, William Walker: 1874-1875, 1877-1879, 187?, 1880-1881
Scribner editors: 1879
Searle, L.: undated
Sellstedt, L.G.: 1863-1864, undated
Shaw, Anna K: 1863, undated
Shaw, Francis George: 1850-1851, 1853-1855, 1859, 1861, 1863-1864, 1872-1874, 1876-1877, 1880-1881, undated (see also letters used as evidence in Page's probate trial; Series 4)
Shaw, Sarah B.: 1877, 1879, 1881, 1883, 1885-1889, 1892, undated
Shegogue, J.H.: 1848
Shelton, W.H.: 1905
Shinn, Earl: 1873
Shipman, Andrew: 1892
Shipman, Frank: 1886
Shipman, Mary C.: 1886, undated
Skinner, Mabel R.: 1879
Smith, Charles E.: 1868
Smith, J. Eustace: 1884
Southland, William D.: 1886
Spencer, L: 1862
Sperry, Watson: 1880
Spring, Jeanie: 1861
Spring, Marcus: 1867, 1869, 1872
Spring, R.B.: undated
Spring, Rebecca: 1886
Stafford, John: 1864, 1877
Stafford, O.H.: 1864
Stark, William and Madelaine: 1858, 1860-1862
Stebbins, A.: 1869
Stenton, Josephine: 1872
Stoddard, W.O.: 1870
Storrs, R.S.: 1870
Story, Mr. and Mrs. William Wetmore: 1850, undated
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William Page and Page Family papers, 1815-1947, bulk 1843-1892. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
Photo lot 87-2P, United States National Museum Department of Anthropology photograph collection relating to Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Edgar P. Richardson papers, 1814-1996, bulk 1921-1996. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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