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Manufacturer:

Old Bleach Linen Company, Ltd., Randalstown, Northern Ireland  Search this

Medium:

Medium: 52% linen, 48% cotton Technique: screen printed on plain weave

Type:

printed, dyed & painted textiles

Commemorative tea towel

Object Name:

Commemorative tea towel

Made in:

Northern Ireland

Date:

1977

Credit Line:

Gift of Susanna Ebendorf

Accession Number:

1977-75-2

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Textiles Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f03a70da-b421-4849-b213-45733f2ad5ce

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1977-75-2

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2014-11-18T18:55:26.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

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cooperhewitt

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_8O6LCg5ncAI

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2014-06-17T13:07:39.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

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cooperhewitt

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_AvLILr8H5Pg

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2020-12-15T02:35:48.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

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cooperhewitt

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_QQ6jfUm83hA

Printed by:

Powell Brothers Color Graphix LLC, American  Search this

Commissioned by:

Webb for Mayor, Inc., American, founded 1991  Search this

Subject of:

Wellington E. Webb, born 1941  Search this

Medium:

ink on cloth

Dimensions:

H x W: 27 1/2 x 20 1/4 in. (69.9 x 51.4 cm)

Type:

T-shirts

Place used:

Denver, Colorado, United States, North and Central America

Date:

1995

Topic:

African American  Search this

Clothing and dress  Search this

Communities  Search this

Politics  Search this

Urban life  Search this

Credit Line:

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Honorable Wellington E. Webb and Wilma J. Webb

Object number:

2014.46.3

Restrictions & Rights:

No Known Copyright Restrictions

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification:

Clothing-Historical

Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera

Data Source:

National Museum of African American History and Culture

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5e829f520-3c8a-4ea6-a553-8f496cf2a98c

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmaahc_2014.46.3

Created by:

Wadsworth Aikens Jarrell Sr., American, born 1929  Search this

Subject of:

Angela Davis, American, born 1944  Search this

Medium:

printing ink on paper

Dimensions:

H x W: 31 x 37 1/2 in. (78.7 x 95.3 cm)

Type:

screen prints

portraits

Place made:

Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Date:

1972

Topic:

African American  Search this

Art  Search this

Civil Rights  Search this

Local and regional  Search this

Politics  Search this

Women  Search this

Credit Line:

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number:

2010.3.1

Restrictions & Rights:

© Wadsworth Jarrell

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification:

Visual Arts

Data Source:

National Museum of African American History and Culture

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd507038819-f39e-41cd-9d9f-763dba1269c3

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmaahc_2010.3.1

Producer:

Jack Lenor Larsen, American, 1927 – 2020  Search this

Medium:

Technique: screen printed

Type:

printed, dyed & painted textiles

Textile

Object Name:

Textile

Designed in:

New York, New York, USA

Date:

1975

Credit Line:

Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen, Inc.

Accession Number:

1977-67-3

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Textiles Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a298dcf3-1c86-46be-9e73-0b137e8e62d3

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1977-67-3

Designer:

Jack Lenor Larsen, American, 1927 – 2020  Search this

Producer:

Jack Lenor Larsen Incorporated, (New York, NY, USA)  Search this

Medium:

Medium: silk Technique: screen printed with discharge on dyed plain weave Label: dyed silk, screen printed with discharge agent

Type:

printed, dyed & painted textiles

Textile

Object Name:

Textile

Designed in:

New York, New York, USA

Manufactured in:

Thailand

Date:

1972

Credit Line:

Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen

Accession Number:

1973-54-1-a,b

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright Notice:

© Cowtan & Tout

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Textiles Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d598dc15-048d-4185-b2b6-40d9b42df38b

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1973-54-1-a_b

Manufacturer:

Karl Mann Associates  Search this

Designer:

Jack Lenor Larsen, American, 1927 – 2020  Search this

William Skilling  Search this

Medium:

Screen-printed paper, vinyl

Type:

Wallcoverings

Sample book

Object Name:

Sample book

Made in:

New York, USA

Date:

1969

Credit Line:

Gift of Karl Mann Associates

Accession Number:

1969-132-1-1/57

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4940f8ff9-d602-46ae-9f05-615c4cb90d67

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1969-132-1-1_57

Designer:

Jack Lenor Larsen, American, 1927 – 2020  Search this

Manufacturer:

Karl Mann Associates  Search this

Medium:

Screen-printed paper

Type:

Wallcoverings

Sidewall

Object Name:

Sidewall

Made in:

New York, New York, USA

Date:

1959–1960

Credit Line:

Gift of Karl Mann Associates

Accession Number:

1960-91-1

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4c6d2b545-cd7a-4534-8722-fe50c8609253

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1960-91-1

Designer:

Jack Lenor Larsen, American, 1927 – 2020  Search this

Manufacturer:

Karl Mann Associates  Search this

Medium:

Screen-printed paper

Type:

Wallcoverings

Sidewall

Object Name:

Sidewall

Made in:

New York, USA

Date:

1959–1960

Credit Line:

Gift of Karl Mann Associates

Accession Number:

1960-91-2

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq421be0912-e8c0-4472-8426-b20db9def86e

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1960-91-2

Designer:

Jack Lenor Larsen, American, 1927 – 2020  Search this

Producer:

Jack Lenor Larsen Incorporated, (New York, NY, USA)  Search this

Medium:

Medium: linen Technique: screen printed on plain weave

Type:

printed, dyed & painted textiles

Textile

Object Name:

Textile

Designed in:

New York, New York, USA

Manufactured in:

USA

Date:

1958

Credit Line:

Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen, Inc.

Accession Number:

1960-170-1

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq427313ef7-0482-45ba-a0c5-7c967dbd789a

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1960-170-1

Creator:

Olds, Elizabeth, 1896-1991  Search this

Photographer:

Blatas, Arbit  Search this

Names:

Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957  Search this

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961  Search this

Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933  Search this

Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955  Search this

Miró, Joan, 1893-  Search this

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972  Search this

Extent:

3 Linear feet ((on 1 microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1917-1976

Scope and Contents:

Letters, writings, business records, printed matter, photographs and art works.

Included are: biographical information; ca. 50 letters received, and copies of letters sent, including a 4 p. letter from Ezra Pound in which he writes about the work and temperment of Constantin Brancusi and Fernand Leger, and recommends that Olds talk to Ernest Hemingway about Joan Miro. Pound also writes about the work of European old master painters and the art museums of Italy, France and England; typescripts of an undated manuscript, "What is a Silk Screen Print," and of a lecture, "Mass Production of Prints"; ca. 200 clippings; 47 exhibition catalogs and announcements including several for exhibitions of color silk screen prints; photographs, including 14 of Olds and her family, 2 of Olds by Berenice Abbott, and one of Olds and her teacher George Luks, and 62 of her art work; priced lists of work sold; printed miscellany, mostly concerning her work as a writer and illustrator of children's books; 110 drawings and paintings; and 46 prints. Ca. 100 slides of her work were not microfilmed.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter, printmaker and illustrator; New York City and Sarasota, Florida. Died 1991.

Provenance:

All material donated to Archives by Elizabeth Olds, January 6, 1978. 46 prints were transferred by the Archives to the National Museum of American Art January 1984.

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.

Occupation:

Illustrators  Search this

Painters  Search this

Printmakers  Search this

Serigraphers  Search this

Topic:

Serigraphy -- United States  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.oldseliz

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-oldseliz

Creator:

McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965  Search this

Names:

American Art Research Council  Search this

Barnard College -- Faculty  Search this

Federal Art Project (U.S.)  Search this

United States. Farm Security Administration  Search this

Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991  Search this

Dove, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1946  Search this

Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943  Search this

Hawthorne, Charles Webster, 1872-1930  Search this

Henri, Robert, 1865-1929  Search this

Henry, Edward Lamson, 1841-1919  Search this

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940  Search this

Inness, George, 1825-1894  Search this

Kleinholz, Frank, 1901-  Search this

Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000  Search this

Maurer, Alfred Henry, 1868-1932  Search this

Morgan, Barbara Brooks, 1900-1992  Search this

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946  Search this

Weegee, 1899-1968  Search this

Weston, Edward, 1886-1958  Search this

Extent:

45 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Scrapbooks

Prints

Drawings

Photographs

Watercolors

Place:

New York N.Y. -- Pictorial works -- Photographs

Date:

1838-1995

bulk 1920-1960

Summary:

The papers of art critic, writer, and historian Elizabeth McCausland measure 45 linear feet and date from 1838 to 1995, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920 to 1960. The collection provides a vast accumulation of research data on various artists and aspects of American art, especially the early American modernists and the Federal Arts Projects. Papers include McCausland's extensive research and writing files, particularly on Marsden Hartley, E. L. Henry, Lewis Hine, George Inness, and Alfred H. Maurer. McCausland's correspondence with artists includes a substantial amount with Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz. Her collaborative work with Berenice Abbott on the Changing New York book and series of photographs is well-documented within the collection. Also found are general writings, subject files, files relating to exhibitions, teaching, and committees, photographs, art work, personal papers, and printed material. Additional McCausland material donated later from the estate of Berenice Abbott include biographical materials, project files, writings, and printed materials.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of art critic, writer, and historian Elizabeth McCausland measure approximately 45 linear feet and date from 1838 to 1995, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920 to 1995. The collection provides a vast accumulation of data on various artists and aspects of American art, especially the early American modernists and the Federal Arts Projects. Papers include McCausland's extensive research and writing files, particularly on Marsden Hartley, E. L. Henry, Lewis Hine, George Inness, and Alfred H. Maurer. McCausland's correspondence with artists includes a substantial amount with Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz. Her collaborative work with Berenice Abbott on the Changing New York book and series of photographs is well-documented within the collection. Also found are general writings, subject files, files relating to exhibitions, teaching, and committees, photographs, art work, personal papers, and printed material. Additional McCausland material from the estate of Berenice Abbott include biographical materials, project files, writings, and printed materials.

McCausland's personal papers consist of appointment books and engagement calendars, scrapbooks, student papers, works printed on her private press, financial records, biographical material, and scattered memorabilia, which together document other aspects of her life apart from her work. Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters along with enclosures, dating from McCausland's time as a journalist for The Springfield Republican in the 1920s and 1930s to her time as a freelance writer, art critic, and historian (1940s-1960s) and mostly concerning professional matters. Also included is a substantial amount of correspondence with artists, particularly Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz, and some personal correspondence with her mother. General writings consists primarily of copies of McCausland's speeches and lectures on various art topics in addition to her early poems (dating from the 1930s) and scattered essays and articles.

The most extensive part of the collection is comprised of McCausland's research and writing files pertaining to large research and curatorial projects, such as ones on the artists Alfred H. Maurer and Marsden Hartley (which was begun by the American Art Research Council and subsequently taken over by McCausland), and one for the American Processional exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in 1950. A wide variety of smaller projects are also well-documented in the series Other Research and Writing Files, including ones on E. L. Henry, Lewis Hine, George Inness, her collaborative work with Berenice Abbott on the Changing New York book and series of photographs. Numerous other artists and art topics are covered as well, such as Arthur Dove, Robert Henri, Jacob Lawrence, Charles Hawthorne, film, and photography. Files for her book Careers in Art (1950), her many speaking and lecture engagements, and editing work are also found in this series. Files consist primarily of correspondence, notes, research material, manuscripts, bibliographies, photographs of works of art, completed research forms for works of art, card index files, and printed material.

Also found are subject files containing printed material, scattered notes and correspondence, and photographs, which may have been used for reference and/or collected in the course of McCausland's research activities; files relating to various exhibitions organized by McCausland from 1939 to 1944, including ones of silk screen prints and modern photography; files relating to courses on art history taught by McCausland, especially the one she taught at Barnard College in 1956; and files stemming from her participation in various art organizations and committees, especially during the time period just before and during the Second World War.

Printed material consists primarily of clippings and tear sheets of McCausland's newspaper articles and columns, which document her contributions to The Springfield Republican from 1923 to 1946, in addition to scattered exhibition catalogs, announcements, books, and miscellaneous publications. Photographs include ones of various artists and works of art, ones from the Farm Security Administration, and ones by photographers, such as Berenice Abbott (including ones from the Federal Art Project book, Changing New York), Barbara Morgan, Weegee, and Edward Weston, among others. Photographs, sometimes annotated or including notes, are scattered throughout her research files. Also included are photographs of McCausland, dating from her childhood. Art work found in the collection includes drawings, prints, and watercolors that were either given to McCausland by the artist or collected by her in the course of her work as an art critic and historian.

Additional material belonging to Elizabeth McCausland and donated by the estate of Berenice Abbott includes biographical material; business and personal correspondence; professional project files and writings, including drafts and research materials related to the book projects Art in America, Conversations with March, and Frank Kleinholz; and printed materials, including reprints of critical essays and articles by McCausland.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 15 series:

Series 1: Personal Papers, 1838, 1920-1951 (Boxes 1-2, 34; 1.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1923-1960 (Boxes 2-5; 2.9 linear feet)

Series 3: General Writings, circa 1930-1954 (Boxes 5-6; 0.9 linear feet)

Series 4: Alfred H. Maurer, 1851-1951, bulk 1948-1950 (Boxes 6-9; 3.7 linear feet)

Series 5: American Processional, 1949-1951 (Boxes 10-11; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 6: Marsden Hartley, 1900-1964, bulk 1944-1964 (Boxes 11-21, OV 37; 10 linear feet)

Series 7: Other Research and Writing Files, 1896, 1926-1958 (Boxes 21-25, 31; 4.6 linear feet)

Series 8: Subject Files, 1927-1954 (Boxes 25-26; 1.0 linear feet)

Series 9: Other Exhibition Files, 1939-1941, 1944 (Box 26; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 10: Teaching Files, 1939-1965 (Box 27; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 11: Committee Files, 1936-1960 (Box 27; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 12: Printed Material, 1923-1953 (Boxes 28-32, 34, OV 38, BV 44-47; 4.6 linear feet)

Series 13: Photographs, circa 1905-1950 (Boxes 32-36, OV 37; 1.4 linear feet)

Series 14: Art Work, 1887-1942 (Boxes 33-34, OV 39-43; 0.7 linear feet)

Series 15: Elizabeth McCausland Material from the Estate of Berenice Abbott, 1920-1995 (Boxes 48-53; 5.4 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Elizabeth McCausland, the art critic and writer, was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1899. She attended Smith College, receiving her Bachelor's degree in 1920 and her Master's in 1922. Beginning in 1923, she worked as a general reporter for The Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts). After several years, she began to review art exhibitions and soon became an established art critic. In the course of her work, she began to develop friendships with artists, such as Alfred Stieglitz and Arthur Dove. During these early years, she also wrote poetry and designed and printed limited edition publications on her private press.

McCausland moved to New York in 1935, but continued to contribute a weekly art column to The Springfield Republican until it suspended publication in 1946. From the mid-1930s on, she worked primarily as a freelance writer and art critic, contributing articles to publications such as Parnassas, The New Republic, and Magazine of Art. In the latter part of her career, her writings focused more on art history and special studies on artists.

In the late-1930s, McCausland collaborated with the photographer Berenice Abbott on the Federal Art Project book, Changing New York, for which she provided the text to Abbott's now-famous photographs of New York City neighborhoods, architecture, and street scenes. She studied and wrote about photography, including numerous articles on the photographer Lewis Hine (of whose work she organized a retrospective exhibition at the Riverside Museum in 1939), and was appointed to the Advisory Committee of the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Photography in 1944.

McCausland went on to organize other exhibitions, including a show of contemporary work, "The World of Today" (Berkshire Museum, 1939), shows of silk screen prints (Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, March 1940 and New York State Museum, Summer 1940), and a photography show, "Photography Today" (A.C.A. Gallery, 1944). In the late 1930s, she embarked upon a study of "the status of the artist in America from colonial times to the present, with especial attention to the relation between art and patronage," which continued over twenty years (and was never completed) and for which she received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1943.

In addition to her other writing, during the 1940s, McCausland carried out studies on the artists, E. L. Henry and George Inness, which resulted in exhibitions at the New York State Museum in 1942 and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in 1946, respectively and publications (a report on Henry and a book on Inness). From 1948 to 1949, she carried out an extensive study of the painter, Alfred H. Maurer, organizing an exhibition, "A. H. Maurer: 1868-1932," which showed at the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1949, and publishing the biography, A. H. Maurer, in 1951. In 1950, she worked as a special consultant on the American Processional exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery and as editor of the accompanying book. Shortly thereafter, she began a study of Marsden Hartley for a monograph, which was published in 1952, and she helped organize the Hartley exhibition at the University of Minnesota that same year. She continued the Hartley study on larger scale for a planned biography and catalogue raisonne; although she continued to work on it off and on for the next decade, the project was never completed.

McCausland published other books, including Careers in the Arts (1951), and undertook other research and consulting projects, such as photo-editing Carl Sandburg's Poems of the Midwest (1946), conducting surveys of art and advertising for an article in Magazine of Art and of art education for Cooper Union Art School, and contributing yearly articles on art to various encyclopedias. At different times throughout her career, she supplemented her income by taking teaching positions. She taught courses on art history at Sarah Lawrence College from 1942 to 1944 and at Barnard College in 1956, as well as courses at the Design Laboratory (1939) and the New School for Social Research (1946). She also gave numerous lectures and speeches on various art topics, and regularly participated in conferences and symposiums. Towards the end of her career, she was publishing less, but was still involved in many projects, most notably the Hartley study.

McCausland was a tireless promoter of the arts, and often an advocate for artists. Even though her work was well-known among certain art circles, she never received the recognition as a writer that she deserved. Nor was she ever able to free herself from the pressure of writing for a living. Continually suffering from poor health, she died on May 14, 1965.

Related Material:

Related material found in the Archives includes a sound recording from a symposium on Marsden Hartley, of which McCausland was a participant, held at the Portland Museum of Art in 1961. The Frank Kleinholz papers contain a recorded interview of McCausland done in 1944-1945 for radio station WNYC. Some of McCausland's correspondence is found in the G. Alan Chidsey papers; Chidsey served as a trustee of the Marsden Hartley estate.

Separated Material:

Material separated from the collection includes some issues of Camera Work (Vol. 30, 47, 49/50), which were combined with other issues in an artificial collection created by the Archives at some earlier point.

Provenance:

Elizabeth McCausland donated the bulk of her papers in several installments from 1956 to 1961. An unknown donor, perhaps her literary executor, donated additional papers sometime after her death in 1965. It appears that McCausland originally donated her research files on Marsden Hartley, measuring 10 linear feet, to the Whitney Museum, who then lent them to the Archives for microfilming in 1966, and donated them sometime thereafter. McCausland originally donated files of newspaper clippings and offprints of her articles to the The New York Public Library, who gave them to the Archives in 1968. Additional McCausland material from the estate of Berenice Abbott was donated to the Archives in 2009.

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.

Rights:

The Elizabeth McCausland papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Occupation:

Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Art criticism -- United States  Search this

Documentary photography -- United States  Search this

Authors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art -- Exhibitions -- United States  Search this

Art -- History -- Study and teaching  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States  Search this

Art -- Societies, etc. -- United States  Search this

Modernism (Art) -- United States  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Genre/Form:

Scrapbooks

Prints

Drawings

Photographs

Watercolors

Citation:

Elizabeth McCausland papers, 1838-1995, bulk 1920-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art

Identifier:

AAA.mccaeliz

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Elizabeth McCausland papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-mccaeliz

Creator:

Commercial Decal, Inc.  Search this

Seliger, Charles, 1926-2009  Search this

Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978  Search this

Extent:

4.62 Cubic feet (39 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Business records

Annual reports

Exhibition catalogs

Decals

Photographs

Lithographs

Screen prints

Date:

1926-1993, undated

Scope and Contents note:

The Commercial Decal, Incorporated records consist of decals, photographs and advertising materials that trace the business transactions of Commercial Decal, Incorporated from its early creation through its closing in 1992. Most of the actual decals and patterns are from the early 1970s through 1992. The records of product orders, however, date back to 1926. Background information on Commercial Decal, Incorporated and its parent company, Pictorial Productions, Incorporated is also included among the materials. There are also several photographs of the plant and its employees from the 1940s.

The collection is arranged into eight series in thirty nine boxes. Series one contains historical and background materials. Series two consists of the corporate records of Commercial Decal, Incorporated and Pictorial Productions, Incorporated. These materials include articles, newsletters, annual reports, and photographs. Series three consists of the work order cards for individual orders. Order cards follow pieces of work through the several stages of decal production. Series four includes work orders and patterns for specific orders. These orders are written out on pressroom and proofing jackets that are similar to work order cards. Unlike series three, a copy of the pattern used is included with the order jackets. Series five and six contain original and copied decals that were used between the 1970s and 1990s. Series five contains copies of a variety of patterns and series six mainly focuses on special and commemorative decals. Series seven includes advertising materials created by Kleb Associates, Incorporated for Commercial Decal, Incorporated. Series eight contains materials relating to the artistic career of surrealist artist Charles Seliger, Commercial Decal's vice-president of design. There are several catalogues from Seliger's art shows in the United States and Europe dating from the 1970s to the early 1990s.

Arrangement:

Divided into 8 series: (1) Background and Historical Information, 1935-1993; (2) Corporate Records, 1964-1991; (3) Work Order Cards, 1926-1972; (4) Work Orders and Patterns, 1940-1985; (5) Patterns, 1974-1989; (6) Commemorative and Special Decals, circa 1970-1990; (7) Advertising Mmaterials, dates unknown; (8) Charles Seliger Artwork, circa 1970-1990.

Biographical/Historical note:

Commercial Decal, Incorporated Corporate Records, was a pictorial printing company opened in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1912. The company was one of the few American firms that produced decorative decals for major ceramic companies. The company supplied decals to most of the ceramics industry, including such major firms as Haviland, Homer Laughlin, Lenox, Hallcraft, Bradford, Corning, Anchor Hocking, and Salem China. They also produced decals for glass and plastic products. Most of the company's decals featured straightforward, edge-of-the-plate designs in floral, abstract, or geometric patterns. Other products included decals of reproductions of famous art works (Norman Rockwell was particularly popular), commemorative and historical designs, advertising decals for products (including Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and Quaker Oats), and original patterns and designs for china sets and cookware. In 1935, Commercial Decal, Incorporated Corporate Records designed a new set of dishes for the White House at the request of Eleanor Roosevelt, who gave them to her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a Christmas present. In 1973, company President Charles Silberstein, introduced a new method of transfer, the four color or camera separation process, which revolutionized the business by making colors more reproducible and accurate and production time faster. In the mid-1980s, the company began to lose customers to increased competition. Then, in the late-1908s, the New York State Department of Environmental Control imposed heavy fines on the company for serious violations of environmental laws. Between lost customers, increased competition, and the need to install environmentally-friendly new equipment, the company was unable to pay the fines. By August of 1992 the company had gone out of business.

Related Materials:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Salem China Company, 1930s-1981, undated

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Salem China Company, 1930s-1981

Provenance:

Collection donated by Commercial Decal, through Charles Seliger, 1993, Febuary.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

advertising -- 20th century  Search this

Decalcomania  Search this

Ceramics -- 20th century  Search this

Lithography -- 20th century  Search this

Glass -- 1940-1990  Search this

Serigraphy  Search this

Genre/Form:

Business records -- 20th century

Annual reports

Exhibition catalogs -- 1970-2000

Decals

Photographs -- 20th century

Lithographs

Screen prints

Citation:

Commercial Decal, Incorporated Corporate Records, 1940-1991, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0477

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Commercial Decal, Incorporated Corporate Records

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0477

Collection Creator:

Sturtevant, William C.  Search this

Container:

Folder Oversize Artwork Folder 24, Drawer 4

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Screen printed? image of a woman weaving

Collection Restrictions:

Files containing Sturtevant's students' grades have been restricted, as have his students' and colleagues' grant and fellowships applications. Restricted files were separated and placed at the end of their respective series in boxes 87, 264, 322, 389-394, 435-436, 448, 468, and 483. For preservation reasons, his computer files are also restricted. Seminole sound recordings are restricted. Access to the William C. Sturtevant Papers requires an apointment.

Collection Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Collection Citation:

William C. Sturtevant papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

The papers of William C. Sturtevant were processed with the assistance of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Dr. Ives Goddard. Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

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William C. Sturtevant papers

William C. Sturtevant papers / Series 11: Artwork

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-2008-24-ref14852

Collection Creator:

Sturtevant, William C.  Search this

Container:

Folder Oversize Artwork Folder 24, Drawer 4

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Screen printed? image of a bird

Collection Restrictions:

Files containing Sturtevant's students' grades have been restricted, as have his students' and colleagues' grant and fellowships applications. Restricted files were separated and placed at the end of their respective series in boxes 87, 264, 322, 389-394, 435-436, 448, 468, and 483. For preservation reasons, his computer files are also restricted. Seminole sound recordings are restricted. Access to the William C. Sturtevant Papers requires an apointment.

Collection Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Collection Citation:

William C. Sturtevant papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

The papers of William C. Sturtevant were processed with the assistance of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Dr. Ives Goddard. Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

See more items in:

William C. Sturtevant papers

William C. Sturtevant papers / Series 11: Artwork

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-2008-24-ref14854

Collection Creator:

Sturtevant, William C.  Search this

Container:

Folder Oversize Artwork Folder 24, Drawer 4

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Screen printed? image of a man riding on a horse, chasing another horse with a lasso

Collection Restrictions:

Files containing Sturtevant's students' grades have been restricted, as have his students' and colleagues' grant and fellowships applications. Restricted files were separated and placed at the end of their respective series in boxes 87, 264, 322, 389-394, 435-436, 448, 468, and 483. For preservation reasons, his computer files are also restricted. Seminole sound recordings are restricted. Access to the William C. Sturtevant Papers requires an apointment.

Collection Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Collection Citation:

William C. Sturtevant papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

The papers of William C. Sturtevant were processed with the assistance of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Dr. Ives Goddard. Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

See more items in:

William C. Sturtevant papers

William C. Sturtevant papers / Series 11: Artwork

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-2008-24-ref14856

Collection Creator:

Sturtevant, William C.  Search this

Container:

Folder Oversize Artwork Folder 24, Drawer 4

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Screen printed? image of a horse

Collection Restrictions:

Files containing Sturtevant's students' grades have been restricted, as have his students' and colleagues' grant and fellowships applications. Restricted files were separated and placed at the end of their respective series in boxes 87, 264, 322, 389-394, 435-436, 448, 468, and 483. For preservation reasons, his computer files are also restricted. Seminole sound recordings are restricted. Access to the William C. Sturtevant Papers requires an apointment.

Collection Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Collection Citation:

William C. Sturtevant papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

The papers of William C. Sturtevant were processed with the assistance of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Dr. Ives Goddard. Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

See more items in:

William C. Sturtevant papers

William C. Sturtevant papers / Series 11: Artwork

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-2008-24-ref14858

Artist:

Bernal, Isabel  Search this

Sponsor:

Puerto Rico. Division of Community Education. Department of Education  Search this

Collection Donor:

Archivo General de Puerto Rico  Search this

Collection Collector:

Puerto Rico. Division of Community Education. Department of Education  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (Ink on paper., 88.8 x 58.5 cm.)

Container:

Map-folder 32

Type:

Archival materials

Posters

Screen prints

Place:

Puerto Rico -- 20th century

Date:

1983

Scope and Contents:

This commemorative poster depicts the Rey Momo, or king of Puerto Rican carnival, a celebration which started on the island in the mid nineteenth century. Connected to Spanish carnival traditions, it takes place the week before the beginning of Lent, which is a traditional period of fasting and general abstinence in the Christian calendar. The carnival in San Juan was for many years a very important and picturesque event. (From exhibition text by Marvette Perez.)

Local Numbers:

AC0615-0000032.tif (AC Scan)

1997.3100.42 (Museum Cat. No.)

Exhibitions Note:

In the exhibition "Posters from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) of Puerto Rico, 1948-1989," Sept. 17, 2008-Jan. 18, 2009, at the Smithsonian's S. Dillon Ripley Center.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Lent  Search this

Carnival -- Puerto Rico  Search this

Carnivals  Search this

Politics -- Puerto Rico  Search this

Genre/Form:

Posters -- Puerto Rico

Screen prints

Collection Citation:

Puerto Rico Division of Community Education Poster Collection, 1940-1990, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

See more items in:

Puerto Rico Division of Community Education [DIVEDCO] Poster Collection

Puerto Rico Division of Community Education [DIVEDCO] Poster Collection / Series 1: Events / Festivals Cultural

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0615-ref1091