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Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series VII: Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: HCFF.01.07
Abstract

Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) was a prominent art collector and industrialist. This collection consists of diaries maintained by staff in Frick's Pittsburgh office, and a friendship calendar with submissions from his family and friends.

Dates: 1880-1933

Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series VIII: Letterpress Copybooks

 Collection
Identifier: HCFF.01.08
Abstract

Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), a Pittsburgh industrialist who made his fortune in coke and steel, was also a prominent art collector. This series consists of volumes containing copies of Frick's outgoing correspondence on matters relating to business and investments, art collecting, political activities, real estate, philanthropy, and personal matters.

Dates: 1881-1923

Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series X: Invoice Books

 Collection
Identifier: HCFF.01.10
Abstract

Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) was a prominent industrialist and art collector. This collection documents expenditures of the Frick household during the 1880s and 1890s.

Dates: 1881 - 1896

Hesselius Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS.011
Abstract

Correspondence and records of the descendants of painter Gustavus Hesselius. Correspondents include Hesselius' granddaughter, Elizabeth Henderson Wertmüller; her mother, Lydia Hesselius Henderson; her aunt, Mary Hesselius; and other relatives. Letters concern personal and business matters.

Dates: 1780-1820s

Howard M. Stoner Research Files on Albert Moore

 Collection
Identifier: MS.169
Abstract

Research files of Howard M. Stoner (1933-2017) on the painter Albert Moore (1841-1893). Files contain correspondence, photographic materials, notes, photocopies of scholarship on Moore, and Stoner's unpublished manuscript on the artist.

Dates: 1997-2002

Images of Artists Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS.013
Abstract

The international artists featured in this growing collection include painters, sculptors and muralists born in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their images were captured by various photographers and printmakers in a variety of settings and portrait styles. Formats include cabinet cards, postcards, prints on paper, and photographs. Seven of the photographs were signed by the artists, four of which were personally addressed to Mrs. Adelaide Frick (wife of Henry Clay Frick).

Dates: circa 1800s-1900s

Italy and Switzerland Album

 Collection
Identifier: HCFF.06.PS-07 (Album 1)
Scope and Content Note Album contains photographs taken by Helen Clay Frick during the latter portion of the Frick family's 1912 trip abroad. People depicted in the album include Helen Clay Frick's mother, Adelaide H.C. Frick, her future sister-in-law, Frances Shoemaker Dixon, and her governess, Marika Ogiz, as well as J. Horace Harding and Dorothea Harding, who traveled with the Frick family in 1912. Images in the album were predominantly taken in Italy, with some images of Switzerland at the end. Cities...
Dates: 1912 - 1912

J. Hall Pleasants Research Files

 Collection
Identifier: MS.012
Abstract Dr. J. Hall Pleasants (1873-1957), an authority on early Maryland painters and their works, provided the Frick Art Reference Library with information on thousands of Maryland paintings, and also organized and participated in the Library's photographing expeditions to Maryland. The correspondence and notes in this collection contain information on the genealogy of portrait subjects, painting provenance, attributions, owners, dates, and locations, with the bulk of the research concerning...
Dates: 1924-1959

Jane, Lady Abdy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS.128
Abstract

The papers of art dealer and society hostess Jane, Lady Abdy (1934-2015) contain material related to her commercial galleries, as well as her business as a private art dealer, including artist files, press clippings, exhibition catalog drafts, book reviews, sales and purchases, events planning, and correspondence.

Dates: 1960-2016, undated

John Appleton Brown Sketchbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MS.057
Scope and Content Note

Two small sketchbooks, approximately 7 in. x 4 in.

Volume one is a small sketchbook containing approximately 30 pencil drawings of lake and mountain landscapes and structures in the Swiss Alps, many with captions, along with some drawings of Parisian figures at the end.

Volume two is a small sketchbook containing approximately 35 pencil sketches of landscapes, figures, and botanical objects, and one page of musical notation.

Dates: undated

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Frick, Helen Clay, 1888-1984 31
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919 21
Frick, Adelaide Howard Childs, 1859-1931 19
Frick Art Reference Library 13
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 13
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Frick Collection 9
Clapp, Frederick Mortimer, 1879-1969 7
Ogiz, Marika, -1952 7
Hastings, Thomas, 1860-1929 5
M. Knoedler & Co. 5
Allom, Charles, Sir, 1865-1947 4
Brière-Misme, Clotilde 4
Carrère & Hastings 4
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--New York 4
Pope, John Russell, 1874-1937 4
Biebel, Franklin M. (Franklin Matthews) 3
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 3
Carstairs, Charles, 1865-1928 3
Duveen Brothers 3
Frick family 3
Lewis, Virginia E., 1907-1995 3
Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883 3
Marc Eidlitz & Son 3
McElroy, F.W. (Frank W.) 3
Overholt, Karl F., 1877-1938 3
Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1874-1960 3
White, Allom & Co. 3
Arthur Tooth & Sons 2
Blanchard, Adelaide Frick, 1915-1956 2
Bowman, John G. (John Gabbert), 1877-1962 2
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 2
Carnegie Steel Company 2
Chubb, C.F. (Charles F.) 2
Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948 2
Creelman, Alice 2
Dabbs, B.L.H., 1839-1899 2
De Wolfe, Elsie, 1865-1950 2
Duveen, Joseph Duveen, Baron, 1869-1939 2
Dwight, H. G. (Harrison Griswold), 1875-1959 2
Frick Art Reference Library--History 2
Frick, H.C. (Henry Clay), 1919- 2
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919--Art Collections 2
Frick, Martha Howard, 1885-1891 2
Fry, Roger, 1866-1934 2
Gay, Walter, 1856-1937 2
Harding, Dorothea Barney, 1871-1935 2
Harding, J. Horace, -1929 2
Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918 2
Hesselius, Gustavus, 1682-1755 2
Houdon, Jean Antoine, 1741-1828 2
Hovey, Walter Read, 1895- 2
Knoedler, Roland F., 1856-1932 2
Knox, Katharine McCook 2
Knox, Philander C. (Philander Chase), 1853-1921 2
Martin, Ira W. 2
Milliken & Bevin 2
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 2
Osterling, F. J., 1865-1934 2
Park, Lawrence, 1873-1924 2
Quay, Matthew Stanley, 1833-1904 2
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
Roseti, F. 2
Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828 2
White House (Washington, D.C.) 2
A. Decour & Co. 1
Abdy, Jane 1
Abdy, Robert Henry Edward, 5th Baronet 1
Albers, Josef 1
Albers, Josef--Exhibitions 1
Alefounder, John, -1795 1
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 1886-1941 1
Allied War Salon (1918) 1
American Art Association 1
American Art Galleries (New York) 1
American Museum of Natural History 1
Andrews, W.C., -1899 1
Anson, Alfred 1
Arminger, William, 1752-1793 1
Aufrecht, Gustave 1
Avinoff, Andrey, 1884-1949 1
Bacon, Edward R. (Edward Rathbone), 1846-1915 1
Bacon, Virginia P. 1
Baillie, William, 1723-1810 1
Barnekow, Brita, 1868-1936 1
Bayley, Frank W. (Frank William), 1863-1932 1
Belleroche, Albert de, 1864-1944 1
Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923 1
Beruete y Moret, A. de (Aureliano), 1876-1922 1
Bénard, E. (Edmond), 1838-1907 1
Bignou Gallery 1
Binks, Isobel B. 1
Blanche, Jacques-Emile, 1861-1942 1
Boldini, Giovanni, 1842-1931 1
Bone, Henry Pierce, 1779-1855 1
Borch, Gerard ter, 1617-1681 1
Boyd, Ellen R. 1
Brandus, Edward 1
Brashear, John A. (John Alfred), 1840-1920 1
Braun, Karel 1
Bredius, Abraham, 1855-1946 1
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