Box 1
Contains 12 Results:
Biographical Material, 1956, undated
Contains Who's Who questionnaire, and notes about his activities from 1907 through the 1940s.
Correspondence - Grand Central Art Galleries (Claude Barber, Ruth Raile), 1957
Regarding commissioned portraits for American Bureau of Shipping and City Service Company.
Correspondence - Strassburger, Ralph Beaver, 1953-1954
Naval Academy classmate of Neilson. Contains photographs and other materials regarding racehorse, Worden.
Correspondence regarding portrait commissions, 1948-1960
Correspondents include:
Fair Department Store re: Thelma Thorkelson
Mathey, Dean re: General T. Coleman DuPont
Munsun Gallery (Emerson L. Munsun) re: Charles Costello
Myers, Clarence J.
National War College re: Mr. Stimson (includes photographs)
Schaefer, Rudolph
Spaugh, R. Arthur re: Arthur Spaugh
Steinhilber, Fred G. (Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons) re: H. Lloyd Jones
Exhibition catalog - American Valiant and Glorious: The Flying Tigers, 1945
Exhibition of portraits of the Flying Tigers by Neilson.
Index to photographs of portraits, undated
Titled "Index to photographs of portraits painted by Raymond P. R. Neilson N.A. with # of film on file and # of book of photographs"
Notes on paintings - 1915-1940, undated
Loose notes of chronological entries providing physical descriptions of Neilson's paintings.
Notes on paintings - 1940-1948, undated
Chronologically ordered entries regarding Neilson's painting career, including physical descriptions of his paintings, anecdotal information, and exhibition and prize information. Diary was removed from a binder and was written by someone other than Neilson, likely his wife.
Notes on paintings - circa 1940s, undated
Draft notes for diary above.
