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      Identifier: MS.025
    
 
    
    
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        Contains a handwritten volume, circa 1900, listing works in the A.M. Byers art collection, a 1935 typed inventory of the Byers family collection, and some loose documents.  "Summary of the Collection of Paintings & Miniatures of A. M. Byers Esq. Allegheny PA," the handwritten volume, contains entries for 84 paintings and seven miniatures.  Entries include the artist's name and biographical information, title and description of the work, and some provenance information.  This volume...
    
    
        Dates: 
      1900 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1935
    
  
  
    
  
 
    
         
    
  
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      Identifier: MS.026
    
 
    
    
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        Catalog of the art collection of George Jay Gould, railroad executive, containing photographs and accompanying typed information for 37 paintings.
     
    
        Dates: 
      1945
    
  
  
    
  
 
    
         
    
  
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      Identifier: MS.005
    
 
    
    
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        Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and research material regarding the work of American painter and founder of the Cape Cod School of Art, Charles W. Hawthorne.
     
    
        Dates: 
      1904-1947
    
  
  
    
  
 
    
         
    
  
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      Identifier: FFP.04.01
    
 
    
    
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        Childs Frick (1883-1965) was the son of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick. He was a noted paleontologist and a founding trustee of The Frick Collection. These papers consist of letters to Childs Frick chiefly from family members and friends.
     
    
        Dates: 
      1883-1901, 1925, undated
    
  
  
    
  
 
    
         
    
  
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      Identifier: MS.101
    
 
    
    
      Scope and Content Note
        Collection consists of three handwritten volumes that document painting sales of the Christie's London auction house from 1910 to 1945. The sales index is organized alphabetically by artist's name, with sale dates listed chronologically beneath the artist. Sales information includes title of work, size (in centimeters), date of sale, lot number, owner, buyer, and price paid (in British pounds). Buyers and sellers include institutions, art dealers, and individuals. Individuals are listed by...
    
    
        Dates: 
      1910 - 1945
    
  
  
    
  
 
    
         
    
  
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      Identifier: MS.058
    
 
    
    
      Scope and Content Note
        Small sketchbook (approximately 9 in. x 6 in.) containing approximately 25 pencil drawings of mainly houses, sailboats, and lighthouses in Indiana or Massachusetts. The drawings were executed by William E. Clarke, a well-known organist in Massachusetts, and his brother, Lynn Winthrop Clarke (1877-1932), a judge, when they were young.
     
    
        Dates: 
      1878-1890
    
  
  
    
  
 
    
         
    
  
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      Identifier: MS.043
    
 
    
    
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        Records document works of art that passed through the Coe Kerr Gallery, arranged alphabetically by artist's last name, and mainly contain photographs and/or descriptions of the works of art, including provenance information. The Coe Kerr Gallery operated from 1968 to 1993 and handled a variety of 19th and 20th century American artists including Andrew Wyeth, Mary Cassatt, and John Singer Sargent.
     
    
        Dates: 
      circa 1968-1993
    
  
  
    
  
 
    
         
    
  
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      Identifier: MS.001
    
 
    
    
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        Correspondence, exhibition catalogues, press releases, newspaper clippings, and other printed material documenting the research conducted by the College Art Association for their publications, The Index of Twentieth Century Artists and Parnassus.
     
    
        Dates: 
      1927-1938
    
  
  
    
  
 
    
         
    
  
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      Identifier: TFC/FARL-0700-030-02.01
    
 
    
    
      Scope and Content Note
        Photographs, 1933-1935, document the conversion of the Frick family's New York City residence at One East 70th Street into a public museum, The Frick Collection, as well as the construction of a new Frick Art Reference Library building at 10 East 71st Street. Both interior and exterior views show  areas of the Frick residence that would be altered or demolished during the construction project, the conversion of areas within the house, the construction of new spaces for the museum, and the...
    
    
        Dates: 
      1933 - 1935
    
  
  
    
  
 
    
         
    
  
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      Identifier: MS.061
    
 
    
    
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        Two attached lined notebooks containing two inventories of the contents of Downham Hall in 1880 and 1881.  The first, "An Inventory of the Household Furniture, Books, Pictures, and Effects at Downham Hall," completed in October of 1880 and carried through both notebooks, details the contents of 50 rooms and spaces within the house as well as outbuildings and gardens. Also includes loose page tallying the number of plants in the gardens, greenhouse, conservatory, etc. The second...
    
    
        Dates: 
      1880-1881