1.6 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 4 reels))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Scrapbooks
Date:
1913-1979
Scope and Contents:
Printed material, correspondence, photographs, a scrapbook, and a journal.
UNMICROFILMED: Ca. 450 letters from Edith to her friends and ca. 50 letters to Edith and Fred from family and friends; clippings and exhibition announcements; address lists; and a short priced list of Edith's paintings.
REEL 75: Letters to Edith and Fred from Louis Eilshemius, Jose Orozco, John Sloan of the Artists and Writers Dinner Club, Holger Cahill of the First Municipal Art Exposition, Edwin Way Teale and professional organizations; clippings about Edith and Fred, particularly Fred's religious paintings, exhibition catalogs and announcements; photographs of Fred; a sketch of Fred by Edith; and a letter from John Kieran, "Why I Want Willkie."
REEL 414: Correspondence, with letters from Anthony Lauck, Isabel Bishop and other friends and art institutions; Fred's journal containing ideas on religion, poems, and observations; a scrapbook, 1913-1946; clippings and articles; a photograph of Edith's portrait of her husband; and an address given by Fred.
REELS 1798 & 1799: Ca. 200 letters from Edith to her friends plus correspondence with Joseph Bates, Jr., Isabel Bishop, John Kieran, Elsie Nagler, and Homer Saint-Gaudens; clippings and exhibition invitations.
Biographical / Historical:
Painters; Massachusetts and Dallas, Tex. Fred Nagler and Edith Kroeger met while studying at the Art Students League in New York. Fred was a painter of religious subjects. Edith was a landscape painter.
Provenance:
Donated by Edith and Fred Nagler, 1968-1979.
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.
Biographical data; letters from the Arthur Johnson Memorial Library, Raton, New Mexico; Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri; New York Historical Society; and Edwin Way Teale, 1961-1978; a press release, 1966; magazine and newspaper clippings, 1976-1979; 2 scrapbooks, 1920's-1970's, containing biographical data, letters, covers of children's books illustrated by Lantz, magazine and newspaper clippings, printed material, and photographs of Lantz, his family and his works of art; and 24 photographs of his paintings.
Biographical / Historical:
Realist painter; born in Stromberg, Nebraska. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute (where he later taught) and in New York City at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. He has lived and painted in the Midwest, California, New York, New Mexico, and Mexico.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1984 by Paul V. Lantz.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
The insect world of J. Henri Fabre / translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos ; with introduction and interpretive comments by Edwin Way Teale ; foreword by Gerald Durrell
The insect world of J. Henri Fabre / in the translation of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos ; with introduction and interpretive comments by Edwin Way Teale
The aviation manual : a practical handbook on flying as a business - planes, motors, instruments, training courses, license requirements, air traffic rules - flight in theory and practice / Lieut. Com. John W. Iseman, U.S.N.R., editor-in-chief ; Colonel N.J. Boots, Randy Enslow, Travis Hoke, Assen Jordanoff, Otto H. Lunde, John D. Peace, Jr., Merwin M. Peake, F.G. Pryor, G.B. Speir, Edwin W. Teale, Arthur Wakeling ; with 250 illustrations and diagrams
