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Catalog Data

Collection Creator:
Smith, Joseph Lindon, 1863-1950  Search this
Extent:
(Box 1-4, OV 11; 3.5 linear feet)
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1768-1965
Scope and Contents note:
Letters are primarily from family members, artists, museum staff concerned with work in Egypt, and art patrons involved with Smith's charitable pageants. Correspondents include Cecilia Beaux, Frank Benson, George DeForest Brush, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Denman Ross. There are scattered letters from Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Henry James, Charles G. Loring, Paul Manship, General John J. Pershing, John Singer Sargent, and Abbott Handerson Thayer. See Appendix for a list of correspondents in Series 2
Appendix: Correspondents in Series 2:
Abbas, Abdul Baba, 1912 Abbott, Holker, 1917 Abdullah, Mohamed, 1938 Abingdon, The Countess of, 1940, 1941 Aldrich, Eleanor, 1940 Aldrich, J.B., 1896 Aldrich, William T., 1931 Alexander, L.G., 1894 Alma Tadema, Sir Lawrence, 1894 American Express Company, 1934 American Federation of Arts, 1940, 1941, 1942 American Red Cross, 1917, 1945, 1946 Baldwin, Florence, 1898 Baltimore Museum of Art, 1941, 1943 Bartlett, Frederic Clay, 1910 Bass, R.P. and Edith, 1932, 1932 Beaulieu, Elizabeth, 1943 Beaux, Cecilia, undated, 1899 Bennett, Esther, 1895, 1899 Bennett, Sophie, 1897, 1899, 1903 Benson, Eugene, undated Benson, Frank Weston, 1899, 1943, 1945 Berenson, Bernard, 1897 Bey, Sahfik Ghorbal, 1948, 1949 Bey, A. Heikal, 1948, 1949 Bigelow, W. Sturgis, undated, 1893, 1901 Bittinger, Charles, 1950 Bliss, Robert Woods and Mildred, 1916, 1940 Boston Breeze, 1931 Bradley, Kate A., 1919 Breasted, Charles, 1931 Breckingham, Eugenia B., 1893, 1943 Brejant, Grace M., 1895 Brewster, Frederick and Margaret, 1936 Bridges, Styles, 1939, 1940 British War Relief Society, 1941 Brooklyn Museum, 1933, 1943 Brown family, undated, 1894, 1895, 1986, 1899 Brown, Frederick and Ida, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1900 Brown University, 1929 Brummer Gallery, Inc., 1937 Brush, George de Forest, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1935 Buck, Matilda S., 1897 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1912, 1917 Burbank, Mr., 1943 Cabot, Arthur J. and Sally, 1896 Calhoun, Lucy, 1910 Cambridge: Superintendent of Schools, 1942, 1943 Carey, Arthur Astor, 1902 Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1931 Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1940, 1941, 1942 Carter, Mary Duncan, 1937 Cartland, Joseph, 1898 Chace, Lucretia G., 1909 Chandler, J.E., 1894 Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1911 Chinese Republic, 1944 Churchill, Winston, 1901, 1945 Clements, Cyril, 1946 Coca Cola Company, 1943 Constable, William George and Olivia, undated, 1942, 1943, 1949 Coolidge, Anne, 1940 Coolidge, John Templeman, 1894 Coolidge, Katie S., undated, 1899, 1900 Coolidge, Katrine (Cara), undated, 1898, 1899, 1900 Coolidge, Molly, undated, 1893 Cravath, Paul D., 1922, 1930, 1931 Crawford, Cheryl, 1930 Crowninshield, Frederic, 1882 Curtis, Daniel Sargent, 1897 Cushing, Tom, 1913 Cutting, W. Bayard and Sybil, 1909 Dallas, John T., 1929, 1931, 1940, 1942 Dartmouth College, 1929 Dawes, Charles G., 1930 Day, Frank Miles, 1897, 1898 de Beaumont, Renee, 1897, 1898 de Bildt, Harold, 1938, 1939 de Forest, Mrs., 1940 dell'Albergo Leon Bianco, Raffaella, 1906 de Marco, Marchese e Marchesa De Viti, undated de Monbrison, H., 1923 Dewey, Thomas E., 1941 Doe: Miss Jessie Doe Children's Aid Society, 1941 Dublin School, 1947 DuBois, Francis and Betty, 1943, 1944 Eddy, Augustin, 1910 Egyptian Education Bureau, 1947 Eliot, Grace H., 1889 Ellis, Ray and Alice, 1946 Ely, Gertrude, 1916 Emery, Prof. W.B., 1957 Evan, Evans, 1917 Fairbanks, Arthur, 1922 Fairchild family, undated, 1894 Fairchild, Sally, undated, 1891 Farraud, Beatrix, 1924 Fernald, Reginald, 1914 Fields, Annie, 1900 Fitzgerald, Fred and Abbie, 1947, 1949, 1950 Fitzhugh, Armistead, 1946 Folkways, 1948 Foreign Relations, Senate Committee on, 1909 Fuertes, Katharine, 1942 Fuller, Robert, 1898 Galleria Simonetti, 1902 Garden Club of Dublin, 1943 Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1894, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1919, 1921 Gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1945, 1955 Gardner, John L., 1898 Gardner, Agnes, 1894 Garrison, Frank J., 1889 Gay, Mrs. Walter, 1920 General Theological Seminary Library, 1939 Graziani, Adolfo, 1903 Greek War Relief Association, 1944 Greene, Henry Copley, 1893, 1897 Greene, Lois Anna, undated, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1892, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1910, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1921, 1922 Greene, Mary Amory, undated, 1893 Greenough, Charles P., 1898 Gugler, Eric, 1948 Hallowell, (Aunt) Sally, 1897, 1900, 1902 Hamamsi, Ali Bey, 1949 Hamed, H., 1909 Harkness, Edward, 1931 Harrigan, D. Ward, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 Harrison, DeSales, 1943 Harrowby, Lady, 1927 Hart, Francis R., 1929 Harvard University (Peabody Museum), 1931, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1952 Hauff, L.B., 1940 Hearst, Phoebe A., 1899 Hemenway, Augustus and Harriet, 1931 Henderson, Mrs. William P., 1928 Heneidy, Abdel-Lateef Erfan, 1948 Higgins, John W., 1940 Higginson, Col. Henry L., 1898, 1905, 1931 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth and Ida, 1893, 1896 Hill, Aunt Nellie, 1921 Hillard, Mary R., 1932 Hodge, Zarah, 1932 Hopkinson, Charles, 1899 Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1930 Howells, Mildred, undated Howells, W.D., 1891 Hughes, Dudley and Francis Smith, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 Hussein, Abd Essalam, 1948 Jaccaci, 1930 James, Mrs. Alexander, undated, 1946, 1948, 1963 James, Arthur Curtiss and Harriet, undated, 1914, 1920, 1924, 1929, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940 James, Henry, undated James, William, 1943 Jenks [Jencks], John, 1768, 1782 Jones, Robert Edmond, 1946 Kaneko, Kentaro, 1901, 1904 Kelekian, F., 1929, 1931, 1932 Kendall Hall School, 1944 Kenyon College, 1923 Keppell, Frederick P., 1931, 1940 Komai, S., 1901 Landwehr, Juan, undated Lang, A. Hamilton, 1900 Lauzirotti, A., 1892, 1896 Lawrence, Elizabeth, 1896, 1897 Loeser, Charles, undated Loevenich, Karl, 1946, 1947, 1948 Lombard, Mrs. Percival H., undated Loring, Charles Greely, 1900 Lothrop, Thornton, 1894 Lowell, Carlotta Russell, 1892 MacDowell, M., 1910, 1915, 1943 MacVeagh, Emil, undated, 1950 MacVeagh, Fannie, 1940 MacVeagh, Franklin, 1899, 1928, 1931 Malicheff, Michael G. (Nick) and Rebecca Smith, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946 Manship, Paul, 1942, 1943, 1948 Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1929, 1930 Mauran, Isabel, undated, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950 McKittrick, Margaret, undated McLean, Gardiner, 1908 Meriden Bird Club, Inc., 1949, 1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1941, 1946 Metropolitan Opera Company, 1924 Meyer, Mr., 1903 Middle East Institute, 1948 Missouri, University of, 1940 Mitchell, S. Weir, 1899, 1900 Mohammed, Dowe, 1902, 1903 Mongiardini, Gemma, 1903 Moore, Charles H., 1894, 1903 Morley, Sylvanus, 1939, 1940, 1941 Mountbatten, Lady Louis (Edwina), 1940 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1900, 1905, 1906, 1909, 1910, 1915, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1952 Museum School Alumni Association, 1931 Nelson Gallery of Art/Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949, 1950 New Hampshire Children's Aid and Protective Society, 1940, 1941 New Hampshire Committee to Help Hampshire, England, 1940, 1941, 1942 New Hampshire, University of, 1948, 1949, 1950 New Hampshire War Chest, Inc., 1943, 1946 New York Public Library, 1936, 1949 New York Times, 1928 Norton, C.E., 1894, 1901 Okakura, K., 1901 Offner, Richard, 1929, 1930 Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1938 Osgood, Hamilton, 1900 Otaki, H.K., 1901 Otis, Joseph E., 1928, 1938, 1942 Otis, Raymond and Frances Smith, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1941 Page, Henrietta, 1899 Parker, A. Stanley, 1923 Parker, Herbert, 1929 Parrish, Isabel M., 1898 Parrish, Maxfield, 1943 Pasha, Nokrashi, 1948 Pasha, Sanhoury, 1947, 1948, 1949 Patterson, Jefferson, 1937 Peabody Museum, Salem, 1913 Pell, Madeline, undated, 1930 Pennsylvania, University of, 1931, 1940 Pershing, Gen. John J., 1940 Persian Legation, 1934 Peters, John P., 1899 Petrie, Graham, undated Petrie, W.M., undated Platt, H., 1897 Platt, Charles Adams, 1893 Pollard, John, 1935 Pope, 1932 Porter, Mrs. James F., 1911 Pratt family, 1901, 1916, 1942, 1943, 1945 Providence Art Club, 1912 Pumpelly, Raphael and Eliza, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1919 Putnam, Bertha, 1940 Putnam, Corinna, 1899 Putnam, Ethel F., 1921, 1940 Putnam, George Palmer, 1924, 1932 Putnam, (G.P. Putnam's sons), 1938 Putnam, George Haven and Fannie, 1894, 1899, 1900 Putnam, V., 1897 Quibell, Edward, 1915, 1930, 1932 Ramadan, A.M., 1950 Ray, Margaret L., 1913 Reasoner family, 1943 Regali, Domenico, 1903 Reisner, George A., 1908, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 Richards, Beverley, 1919 Ringling, Mr., undated Robertson, I., 1903 Robinson, Edward (Ned), 1891, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1899 Rochat, Giovanni, undated Rockefeller, Nelson, 1943 Rodman Gallery, 1935 Rollins College, 1945 Roosevelt, George, 1943 Roosevelt, Nicholas, 1950 Ross, Denman, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1904, 1905, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1934, 1935 Ross, Frances W., 1891, 1892, 1893, 1895, 1901 Rossi-Scotti, Roberio, 1907 Russell, Theodore, 1909 Saarinen, Aline, undated St. Louis Pageant and Masque, 1914 Saint Louis Pageant Drama Association, 1917 Salamah, Dowi M., undated Sargent, John Singer, undated, 1900, 1909 Sargent, Nellie, 1899 Sargent, Violet, 1890 Saunders, Frederick W., undated Schieffelin, John Jay and Lois, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 Schieffelin, Johnnie, 1943 Schoen, Gretchen, 1921 School, Art League of New York City, 1931 School of Decorative Design, 1931 Schuyler, Philip, 1899 Schweinfurth, J.A., 1931 Sears, Sarah, 1897, 1898, 1904 Sears, Taber, undated Sebasti and Reali, 1903 Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1909 Servien, Jose, undated Seymour, S.O., 1913 Shaw, Pauline, undated, 1895 Shaw, Quincy, 1896, 1897, 1901 Shaw, S.P., undated Shohday, Abbas Helmy, 1948 Simkhovitch, Vladimir G., 1944 Simmons College, 1942 Simmons, Mrs. Franklin, 1903 Simmons, George and Virginia, 1914, 1922 Sims, William S., 1932 Skinner, Alice Parrish, 1940 Smith, Corinna Putnam, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 Smith, Florence A., 1908 Smith, Frances, undated, 1908, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925 Smith, Henry Francis and Emma Greenleaf Smith, 1848, 1878, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 Smith, Joseph Lindon, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946 Smith, Lois Lindon, undated, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932 Smith, M. Linton, 1900 Smith, Rebecca, 1908, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1922 Smith-Petersen, M.N., 1932, 1946 Smithsonian Institution, 1949, 1950 Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, 1901 Spaulding, Huntley N., 1940, 1942 State, Department of, 1908, 1934, 1940, 1947 Stearns, Foster, 1941 Stebbins, Roderick, 1912 Steele, Asa, undated Steffins, Rev. Fr., undated Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1917, 1918 Stevens, Thomas Wood Stevens Theatre Collection, 1942 Stewart, E. Channing, 1900 Stewart, George, 1943, 1945, 1947 Stowell, Chan, 1914 Strong, Margaret, 1916 Stroud, Mary, 1903 Sullivan, T. Russell and Lucy, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1906, 1909, 1913, 1916 Tarbell, Ida M., 1930 Tavern Club, 1911, 1917 Taylor, Jessie, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 Taylor, William and Rebecca Smith, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938 Teachman, Jessie, 1897, 1905 Thayer, Abbott Handerson, undated Thayer, Abbott Handerson Thayer Memorial, 1941 Tobey, Charles W., 1939, 1942 Tomita, Kojiro, 1936, 1937, 1943, 1947 Turner, C.Y., 1902 Turner, Ross, 1896 Union League Club, 1918 United China Relief, Inc., 1944 United Nations Relief Fund, 1942 University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1931, 1943 Vanderbilt, Mrs. George and Cornelia, 1923 Vanelli, Caesar, 1929, 1930 Vaughan, Henry Goodwin, 1936 Volpi, Elia, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907 von Pustau, Helene, 1895, 1899 Walters, Thorstina Jackson, 1929 Wang, Lucy C., 1944 War Finance Committee (New Hampshire), 1944 Warren, H. Langford, 1907 Warren, Harold B., 1931 Webster, Laurence and Edith, 1941 Webster, Sue, 1916 Weems, Katharine Lane, 1965 Wendelstadt, Baron Wendelstadt, 1894, 1896, 1897 Wheeler, Roy R., 1932, 1946 White, Elise, 1931 Whitman, Paul, undated, 1893, 1899, 1901, 1902 Willard, Belle, 1931 Williams, Ben Ames, 1928 Yale University, 1915, 1934 Yamanaka and Company, 1930, 1931 Young, Hugh H., 1941, 1942 Zatelli, H., 1897
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Collection Citation:
Joseph Lindon Smith papers, 1647-1965, bulk 1873-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.smitjose, Series 2
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Archival Repository:
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