Harrington was a Bureau of American Ethnology ethnologist involved in the study of over one hundred American tribes. His speciality was linguistics. Most of the material concerns California, southwestern, northwestern tribes and includes ethnological, archeological, historical notes; writings, correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, biological specimens, and other types of documents. Also of concern are general linguistics, sign language, writing systems, writing machines, and sound recordings machines. There is also some material on New World Spanish, Old World languages. In addition, there are many manuscripts of writings that Harrington sketched, partially completed, or even completed but never published. The latter group includes not only writings about anthropological subjects but also histories, ranging from a biography of Geronimo to material on the history of the typewriter. The collection incorporates material of Richard Lynch Garner, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, and others. In his field work, Harrington seems sometimes to have worked within fairly firm formats, this especially being true when he was "rehearing" material, that is in using an informant to verify and correct the work of other researchers. Often, however, the interviews with informants (and this seems to have been the case even with some "rehearings") seem to have been rather free form, for there is a considerable intertwining of subjects. Nevertheless, certain themes frequently appear in his work, including annotated vocabularies concerning flora and fauna and their use, topography, history and biography, kinship, cosmology (including tribal astronomy), religion and philosophy, names and observations concerning neighboring tribes, sex and age division, material culture, legends, and songs. The fullness of such materials seems to have been limited only by the time Harrington had to spend with a goup and the knowledge of his informants.
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(Some of the titles are tentative). Papers relating to Alaska/Northwest Coast, including (1) Aleut; (2) Tlingit/Eyak; (3) Northern Athapascan (Beaver, Carrier, Chipewyan, Sarsi, Sekani, Cree); (4) Nicola/Thompson; (5) Lummi/Nespelem; (6) Duwamish; (7) Chimakum/Clallam; (8) Makah/Quileute; (9) Quinault/Chehalis/Cowlit; (10) Chinook/Chinook Jargon; (11) "Kwalhioqua-Tlatskanai"; (12) Tillamook, (13) Alsea/Siuslaw/Coos; (14) Southwest Oregon Athapascan (Chasta Costa, Chetco, Upper Coquille, "Gold Beach", Smith River, Tolowa, Tutini, Upper Umpqua), (14) Galice/Applegate; (15) Takelma, general and miscellaneous;
(16) Klamath; (17) Wiyot/Yurok/Mattole; (18) Coast Yuki/Northern and Central Pomo/Kato; (19) Coast Miwok; (20) Lake and Coast Miwok/Southeastern Pomo/Wappo; (21) Nisenan/Northern Sierra Miwok; (22) Southern Pomo/Central Sierra Miwok; (23) Karok/Shasta/Konomihu; (24) Chimariko/Hupo; (25) Achomawi/Atsugewi/Wintu/Yana; (26) Chamariko/Achomawi/Atsugewi/Wintu/Yana; (27) Costanoan (Chocheno, Mutsun, Tumsen); (28) Salinan (Antoinano, Migueleno); (29) Yokuts (Chunut, Tachi, Wikchamni, Yawdanchi, Yawelmani, Koyeti); (30) general and miscellaneous; papers relating to southern California and the Basin area,
including (31) Chumash (Barbareno, Cruzeno, Ineseno, Obispeno, Purisimeno, Ventureno); (32) Chauilla; (33) Chemehuevi; (34) Gabrielino; (35) Juaneno; (36) Kitanemuk; (37) Luiseno; (38) Serrano; (39) Tubatulabal; (40) Diegueno; (41) Mohave/Yuma; (42) general and miscellaneous; papers relating to the Southwest, including (43) Apache; (44) Hopi; (45) Jemez; (46) Acoma/Laguna; (47) Cochiti; (48) Navaho; (49) Pima/Papago; (50) Illeta; (51) Taos; (52) Picuris; (53) Tewa; (54) Zuni; (55) general and miscellaneous; papers relating to the Plains, including (56) Comanche; (57) Caddo/Pawnee/Wichita; (58) Dakota/Lakota; (59) Hidatso/Mandan/Crow;
(92) general and miscellaneous; notes and writings on special linguistic studies, including (93) correspondence; (94) financial records; (95) personal records; (96) poetry; (97) newspaper clippings; (98) printed material/reprints/photostats/microfilm; (99) maps; (100) photographs (101) sound recordings; (102) botanical specimens
Joseph S. Danner, Edward S. Davis, Ella C. Deloria, Frances Densmore, Paul Desiardins, Lydia Dornherr, Harry W. Dorsey, Frederick Huntington Douglas, David C. Dozi, Edward P. Dozi, Robert Drak Aitken), Rose S. Gaffney, David E. Gales, S. H. Gapp, Clark M. Garber, Lucrlson Fenton, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Reginald G. Fisher, Barbara Freire-Marreco (see also Barbara Aitken), Rose S. Gaffney, David E. Gales, S. H. Gapp, Clark M. Garber, Lucretia Garcia, Maria Garcia, Paul Garcia, Walter C. Garwick, William Gates, Ja Gapp, Clark M. Garber, Lucretia Garcia, Maria Garcia, Paul Garcia, Walter C. Garwick, William Gates, James A Geary, Otto William Geist,
Richard H. Geoghegan, Harold S. Gladwin, Pliny Earle Goddard, T. R. Goodwin, Howard W. Gorman, Blanche C. Grant, George Grasty, Louis H. Gray, Alexander Grigolia, Alexandra Gromoff, F. A. Gross, Ruther Gruber, Erwin G. Gudde, Grace Guest, Ralph Gustafson, Berard Haile, Alfred Irving Hallowell, Howard M. Hamblin, Lucile Hamner, Adelaide Harrington, Arthur Harrington, Awona Harrington, Edmund Ross Harrington, Elliot Harrington, Mark Raymond Harrington, Robert Fleming Heizer, Marta Herrera (Orozoco), Melville Jean Herskovits, Edgar Lee Hewett, George Gustave Heye,
Thomas Willing Hicks, Willard Williams Hill, William B. Hill, Philip K. Hitti, Hulda R. Hobbs (Heidel), Frederick Webb Hodge, Robert Hofsinde, W. C. Holden, Nils Homer, R. B. Horsefield, James Hovey, Grace Hudson, John W. Hudson, William Hughes, Edward P. Hunt, George Hunt, Wayne Henry (Wolf Robe) Hunt, Arnold J. Jacobins, Jean Allard Jge, George M. Lamsa, William T. Linkins, Ralph Linton, Alan Lomax, Theodore R. Lonewolf, uis Kroeber, Benjamin T. Kurtz, Walter and Hilda Kurze, Oliver LaFarge, George M. Lamsa, William T. Linkins, Ralph Linton, Alan Lomax, Theodore R. Lonewolf,
Boas Long, Ivan Alexis Lopatin, Robert Harry Lowie, Charles F. Lummis, Phoebe Maddux, Frank Marashulo, Frank Marr, John Marr, Edna P. Marsh, Gordon H. Marsh, William B. Marye, Elizabeth Mason, John Alden Mason, Anna P. Mattinger, Wayne L. Mauzy, William Ralph Maxon, Parker McKenzie, F. Romero Mendez, Clinton Hart Merriam, E. Vigo Mestres, Truman Michelson, Harry E. Miller, Ralph L. Milliken, William S. Mills, Willie Miranda, Albert Mohr, Dionisia Mondragon, Manuel Mondragon, Lucy Montgomery, Harriet Moore, Mildred C. Moore, R. E. Moore, Rosalind Moore, Carlos Morales, Marion Moreno, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Philip A. Munz, O. J. Murie,
Roy Nash, Mrs. W. J. Nichols, Eugene A. Nida, Frans M. Olbrechts, Cornelius Osgood, Asbjorn P. Ousdal, Charles F. Outland, Henry E. Parmenter, Elsie Clews Parsons, A. W. Payne, Ellen Peace, Elizabeth Wells Pearce, Arthur B. Perkins, Mrs. Rodolphe Petter, Kenneth L. Pike, Arnold R. Pilling, Nellie B. Pipes, I. J. Pitman, J. O. Prescott, Erik Kellerman Reed, Nathaniel Julius Reich, Jane Richardson, Arthur Stanley Riggs, Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., Helen H. Roberts, Clarence M. Ruth, Everett Sanders, Edward Sapir, Charles F. Saunders, F. H. Saville, Paul Schumacher, Donald Scott, Blanche Seeley, Ettie Seeley, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,
A. W. Setychell, Jessie Shaw, Anna O. Shepard, Frank T. Siebert, Rita Siedenberg, Albion M. Sitton, Nich Sivonen, H. D. Skinner, Mrs. N. P. Sloan, Clement Smith, Stella Smith, Jack Snow, Maria Soto, Frank Gouldsmith Speck, Robert F. Spencer, Marjorie Spinks, Waldo C. Spraque, Winifred Stamm, Moses Steinberg Marian Stirling, Matthew Williams Stirling, William Duncan Strong, Edgar Howard Sturtevant, Georgianna Barbara Such, John R. Swanton, Turkey Tayac, Douglass Taylor, Lincoln Thompson, Morjorie L. Tichy, Janet Tietjins, Bennie Tilden, J. R. R. Tolkien, W. Cameron Townsend, George L. Trager, Lovell B. Triggs, Edwin H. Tuttle,
Ruth Underhill, Richard Fowler Van Valkenburgh, Rosendo Vargas, Charles Frederick Voegelin, Paul Vogenitz, James W. Waldo, Paul A. F. Walter, Althea Warren, Fred Washington, Thomas Talbot Waterman, Edith White, Joseph J. White, Leslie A. White, Grace T. Whiting, Robert B. Whitsett, Benjamin Lee Whorf, H. E. Williams, William L. Wonderly, Arthur Woodward, Robert W. Young, and Father Zephyrin of the Santa Barbara Mission.
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John Peabody Harrington papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Carroll County -- Westminster
United States of America -- Maryland -- Carroll County -- Marston
United States of America -- Maryland -- Carroll County -- New Windsor
Date:
1838-2023, undated
bulk 1872-1985
Summary:
Papers documenting the farming and family life of the Robinson family of Prince George's County and after 1975, Charles County, Maryland. Papers documenting the farming and family of the Via family of Greene County, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Prince George's by 1949, and Calvert Counties by 1956, Maryland.
Scope and Contents:
An extensive and comprehensive collection of papers relating to family, farming, and the Southern Maryland tobacco culture, the Robinson and Via Family Papers cover many aspects of family and farm life. The papers are particularly important in regard to the tobacco culture that defined Southern Maryland for generations. The papers concern two distinct family groups, the Robinson and Via families who are connected through the marriage of Franklin A. Robinson and Adina Mae Via. The papers consist of material generated by the Robinson and Via families in their personal and working lives and as farm owners and operators.
The papers are especially strong in 20th century material. They consist of various types of farm records: account books, bills, receipts, tenant farming agreements, ephemera, land rental and purchase agreements, insurance policies, photographs and 8mm and 16mm films of farming practices and procedures, equipment and landscapes, related to the farming of tobacco, small grains, and livestock. The personal records include diaries, letters both personal and business, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, high school yearbooks, baby books, house plans, recipe books, photographs and 8mm films of birthdays, holidays, weddings, baptisms, family occasions, and family travel, oral histories, and funeral ephemera including photographs, and transcription discs. Of particular interest are the "Serenity Farm Tobacco Production Photographs" documenting the crop year 1999-2000 and the films detailing agricultural practices. There is a memorandum book for Black Walnut Thicket, 1885-1901, the Baden farm in Baden, Prince George's County.
This collection includes a comprehensive range of 8mm and 16mm films and photographs documenting farming practices and landscapes as well as family gatherings, birthdays, holidays, and vacations. The researcher is alerted to the fact that in some cases with the memorandum and account books, books printed for a given year were often saved and used for subsequent years, some were dated, some were not.
The collection is divided into seven series arranged by subject and most often chronologically at folder level within each series.
Arrangement:
The collection is divided into seven series:
Series 1: Ferndale Farm (Potomac Landing), Prince George's County, Maryland, 1861-1973, undated
Subseries 1.1: Farm papers, bill, and receipts, and publications, 1861-1973, undated
Subseries 1.2: Farm papers, bill, and receipts, 1945-1960, undated
Subseries 1.3: Farm papers, bills, and receipts, 1960-1965, undated
Series 2: Robinson Family, 1845-2017, undated
Subseries 2.1: Family Papers and Publications, 1845-1993, undated
The Robinson family is thought to be of Scottish origin and appear in the records of Prince George's County, Maryland by the early 18th century. The line has been definitively traced to James Robinson (?-1849). James' father was probably Benjamin Robinson (?-1810), of Prince George's County, Maryland. (Will Book TT1, pg. 15, Records of Prince George's County, Maryland, Maryland State Archives (MSA))
James Robinson and Sarah Wynn were issued a marriage license on February 28, 1802 in Prince George's County, Maryland. (Marriage Records of Prince George's County, Maryland) Eleven children lived to maturity (not listed in birth order); Thomas Wells (1803-1869), Ann, Priscilla, James Monroe, Benjamin (1813-1882), John C. (1819-1895), Mary Sophia, Thomas Stanley (1800-1874), Alfred, Sarah Ann, Matilda, and Rebecca Maria.
James worked as a farm manager for Benjamin Oden near Upper Marlborough, Prince George's County. (Oden Papers, Maryland Historical Society) The Robinsons and their children, moved to Wood County, Virginia (now West Virginia) by April 18, 1818 where James acted as Oden's land agent (Deed Book 6, pg. 123, Land Records of Wood County, West Virginia). They brought with them three enslaved described in the above reference as, "Kate a woman 45 years of age very black; Colonel a boy aged 8 years yellow complexion: and George a boy aged six years of a dark brown complexion." They settled on part of what was known as the "Burnt Mill" tract in the general area where the Hughes River meets the Little Kanawha River. (Deed Book 9, pg. 110 and Deed Book 14, pg. 40, Land Records of Wood County)
Thomas Wells Robinson may not have accompanied his family to Virginia as he has a presence in Prince George's County prior to 1822 and was employed as a farm manager for Benjamin Oden at least until 1832. He married Elizabeth J. Richards on December 15, 1829 (Robinson Family Bible). They had nine children; Richard Thomas (1831 1906), Rebecca Maria (1832-1895), Mary Wynn (1834-1916), James George (1835-1883), Virlinda Victoria (1837-1838), Elizabeth Ann (1839-1916), Sarah Ann Sophia (1840-1874), Franklin Alexander (1841-1905) and John Alfred (1843); seven lived to maturity. (Robinson Family Bible) Elizabeth died on August 17, 1843 from complications in childbirth. She was buried in the graveyard of Page's Chapel (later known as St. Thomas Episcopal Church), Croom, Prince George's County.
In 1843, Thomas purchased the plantation of Dr. Benjamin B. Hodges for $10,000 or approximately $15 an acre. Hodges was a brother-in-law of Benjamin Oden. The deed dated September 7, 1843 describes the parcel as containing, "Six hundred and twenty nine acres of land more or less and constitute that plantation or Estate of the said Benjamin Oden heretofore commonly called "Brown's Quarter Place" being the Land tracts and parcels of land sold by the said Benjamin Oden to the said Benjamin B. Hodges and by deed bearing date the tenth day of December eighteen hundred and thirty five and recorded in Liber AB no. 10 folio 162 also one of the land Records of the County aforesaid". (JBB no. 3 pgs. 312 314, Land Records of Prince George's County) The land was level to rolling bordered on the north by a tributary of Piscataway Creek and generally termed "white oak land". Underlying the whole property was a large strata of gravel and sand. The entire parcel went by the name, Potomac Landing.
Thomas supplemented his land holdings with later purchases. With the exception of twenty acres purchased from Sarah Talbert in 1844, (JBB no. 3 pg. 475, Land Records of Prince George's County) and the purchase of lot #3 consisting of 195 acres, part of the estate of John Townshend in 1856, these purchases were not contiguous to Potomac Landing. By the time of his death in 1869 these non-contiguous parcels had been sold. Thomas sold eighty-six acres of Potomac Landing and Jeffries to Edward Eversfield in October of 1843. (JBB no. 3, pg. 198, Land Records of Prince George's County) On January 13, 1846 Thomas married the widow Martha Ann Walls, daughter of George and Martha Naylor Walls. They had two sons; Benjamin Wells (1848-1849) and Robert Henry (1851-1937).
In addition to his sons, Thomas owned enslaved. The number varied from six in 1849 (JBB 6, folio 186, Land Records of Prince Georges' County) to eleven as noted in the census for 1850, and finally six as noted in the census of 1860. The 1867 Maryland Slave Statistics noted that, "at the time of the adoption of the Constitution of Maryland, in the year 1864, . . ." Thomas owned six enslaved, their names and ages being; Isaac Franklin age 31, Alfred West age 19, Susan West age 17, Margaret Franklin age 14, Fannie Franklin age 12, and Peter Franklin age 9. All were noted as being in good physical condition. (Prince Georges' County Slave Statistics 1867 1869, C 1307 1, MdHR:6198, page 185, MSA)
Thomas's financial problems began in the mid-1800s when Deeds of Trust appear in the county records securing outstanding loans. In 1856 and 1857 Thomas joined with others as bondsman for his son, Richard who was serving as "Collector of the State and County Taxes" for the 4th collection district, making he and the other signatories liable for any uncollected taxes. This, coupled with poor investments, led to his almost being "sold out" in 1859-1860 by J.W. & E. Reynolds of Baltimore to pay his debts. He executed three drafts on Penn & Mitchell, also of Baltimore, to pay off J.W. & E. Reynolds. (Equity Case #597, Prince Georges' County) Thomas was in poor health and his son James managed the farm in 1857 and 1858, and again from 1861 to October of 1862 (Equity Case #873, Prince Georges' County)
In October of 1862 Thomas' two sons, James and Franklin, traveled to Richmond to join the Confederate States Army. James enrolled in the 5th Battalion, Local Defense Arsenal and Franklin enrolled in the 5th Virginia Infantry, the Stonewall Brigade. (CSA Military Records, National Archives) James visited home frequently but was captured by the Union Army in St. Mary's County, Maryland on May 15, 1864 and spent the remainder of the war in Point Lookout Prison Camp. He was released on May 14, 1865. Franklin was not able to visit home at all during the war but survived to return home in 1865.
In 1865, Thomas surveyed a parcel of 172 acres for his daughter Rebecca Maria. Rebecca had married her second cousin, William B. Robertson, on November 18, 1855. He made a gift of fifty acres, and Rebecca agreed to purchase the remainder. The Robertsons named this parcel Holly Grove. In Equity Case #849 (1872) filed after Thomas' death, his widow Martha and Samuel H. Berry, as executrix and executor, sought to recover payment for this land. At that time, William B. Robertson described this 172 acres of Potomac Landing: "There was no fences on the line which separated this land from the old gentleman's land, but he was to put a fence on it which he agreed to do before we agreed to come there. The land was thin, unimproved, with gullies and scrubby pine. If witness had been a judge of land he would not have given five dollars for it. All the improvements were one comfortable quarter the other indifferent with a poor oak shingle roof, worn out which made it not tenantable." Further along in his testimony, William gave an account of a conversation, "In a few days my father in law Thos. W. Robinson came to Washington and told me there his children had returned from the South, his two sons, that his debts were small and he was a happy man." Rebecca and William built a house on the property, a side-hall, double parlor plan that most likely her brother James was builder. They also built accompanying farm structures. (Records of Prince George's County, Maryland, Equity Case #849, MSA)
Thomas' son, Franklin, managed the farm after the War. In December 1868 Thomas entered into a sharecropping agreement with Edward Hanson, an African-American. After about a year-long illness, on May 16, 1869, Thomas died, deeply in debt. He was buried beside Elizabeth in the graveyard at St. Thomas' Church. He named as executrix his wife, Martha, and his friend and lawyer, Samuel H. Berry, as executor. His will divided the farm into thirds, one third going to his wife and their son Robert Henry, one third to his son James, and one third to his son Franklin. The land was surveyed according to the will. His personal property was sold but not enough profit was realized to pay off his creditors. The Commissioners of Prince George's County sued the estate on behalf of Thomas' creditors. The outcome was that in 1876 the property was sold at public auction. The Notice of Sale dated September 1, 1876 in the local county newspaper, The Prince Georgian, describes the farm as, "containing 514 2/3 acres More or less. The Improvements consist of a SMALL DWELLING, Three Barns, Stabling, and other necessary outbuildings. It is well wooded and watered, and the soil of fair quality. It has recently been divided into three lots and will be offered in lots, a description of which will be given at the time of sale." The sale was held on September 27, 1876, Lot No. 1 was purchased by Robert for $6.00 an acre, Lot #2 was purchased by Franklin for $5.00 an acre and Lot #3 was purchased by James for $4.00 per acre. Robert and Franklin eventually paid off their mortgage, but James defaulted on his purchase and later moved to St. Mary's County, Maryland. His portion later came to be owned by the Hawkins family, some members who had worked on the Robinson farm. (Equity Case #873, Prince Georges' County, MSA)
Lot #1, purchased by Robert from his fathers' estate, consisted of 177-1/3 acres, including the dwelling and farm buildings. On July 24, 1872, he married Amanda Malvina Baden (1849-1940), daughter of Robert W. G. and Margaret Caroline Early Baden. The Baden and Early families were both prominent south county families. Robert and Amanda had eight children; Caroline Early (1873 1967), Lucy Tennent (1875 1958), Albert Henry (1878 1914), Martha Perry (1880 1961), Robert Gover (1882 1882), Frank Alexander (1883 1970), Margaret Baden (1886 1956) and Grace Malvina (1889 1965).
By 1880 Robert had paid off his debt on the property and was fully engaged in farming. Unlike his father, or perhaps because of his father, Robert did not add to his land holdings, choosing to remain relatively debt free for his lifetime. The only land transactions he participated in were the sales of 79-3/4 acres in 1921 of Amanda's inheritance from her father and her interest in two smaller parcels of her father's land sold in 1894 and 1928 respectively. In 1928 he transferred 3.09 acres to his son Frank.
As late as the Federal census of 1880, Franklin was living with Robert and his household, both men engaged in farming. Sometime after 1880, Franklin took up residence on his part of Potomac Landing. His brother James most likely built the side-hall double parlor house that copied the main house at Potomac Landing. On February 18, 1897, Martha Robinson, died at the age of ninety. She was buried in the graveyyard of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Baden, Prince George's County.
Robert continued cultivation of tobacco and small grains as his father before him. The first reference to the farm being named Ferndale is found in the "Communion Record" of Robert's daughter, Martha Perry "Pattie", dated 1896. (Robinson and Via Family Papers) The exact origin or reason for this new name is lost but perhaps the name Potomac Landing held such bitter memories of debt and hardship that, as a symbolic break with the past, a new name was found. It also may have simply been a way to distinguish this portion of Potomac Landing from the others. The farm continued to be listed on tax bills as Potomac Landing well into the 20th century, but was known to the general public and businesses as the Ferndale Farm. (Robinson and Via Family Papers)
Robert served as deputy inspector at the State Tobacco Warehouse in Baltimore for eight years under W.B. Bowie. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Bank of Brandywine. In July of 1905, Franklin died, a bachelor farmer. He was buried facing south in the graveyard of the Church of the Atonement, Cheltenham, (a chapel in St. Thomas' Episcopal Parish) where he had served as vestryman, treasurer, and cemetery custodian. Franklin died intestate and a lengthy process of dividing his estate began. This resulted in the sale of his part of Potomac Landing (Lot #2) in July 1908 to William E. Boswell. The court declared Robert ineligible for any inheritance due to his being " . . . a brother of the half blood." The Boswell family later sold the property to the Billingsley family of St. Mary's County. (Equity Case 3209, Prince George's County)
In 1910, after living in the farm's original home for approximately sixty seven years, the Robinson family built a new home. It was described in a 1956 insurance policy as, "2 story, frame, metal roof, 16x43, wing 14x28, 9 rooms." (Robinson and Via Family Papers) The house design was a simple Victorian with plastered walls, and lit by carbide gas. Electrical lighting was installed in 1951. The house was built with monies from Robert and Amanda, and their son Frank, who served as builder and contractor.
On Tuesday March 9, 1937, "During a celebration in honor of his wifes birthday anniversary, Mr. Robinson collapsed at the table and died immediately without a word or a sigh." (Robinson and Via Family Papers) Robert was buried beside his mother in the cemetery at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Baden.
At Robert's death, Ferndale Farm was valued at $30.00 an acre, the total acreage, 174 acres, being valued in the whole at $5,220.00. Robert died intestate, again the fate of the land was in question. He left eight heirs, his widow, Amanda, six of his children and his son Albert Henry's only surviving child, R. Henry Robinson. Rather than have the farm sold and his mother's life disrupted, Frank purchased the estate and personal property from the heirs. Before this could take place, a deed had to be granted the heirs for the property since one had never been recorded after the 1876 sale. Equity case 873 was reopened sixty-two years after its supposed resolution. Frank testified, "over a period of about thirty years I would on a number of occasions, talk about the fact that he had purchased and paid for this property and that a deed had never been executed to him and [he] kept saying he was going to have someone straighten this matter out for him." It was discovered that Robert had fully paid for his part of Potomac Landing. On February 14, 1938 the farm was deeded from Amanda along with Robert''s heirs to Frank. (Book 499, page 334, Land Records of Prince George's County) According to the deed and a 1937 fire insurance policy the farm consisted of 177 1/3 acres, "1 two story dwelling, one tenant house, 1 barrack, 1 tobacco barn, 1 corn house & cow stable, 1 Stable, and 1 Granary & Stable." (Robinson and Via Family Papers)
Frank A. Robinson, now the sole owner of Ferndale Farm, was born August 17, 1883. He learned farming and in addition took up the trade of builder and contractor. As a young man, he worked in the general store of his uncle Robert Baden. He was the contractor for the first Bank of Brandywine and many homes in and around the town of Brandywine, including the home of his cousin Robert E. Baden, DDS. He was secretary of the Building Committee for construction of the Chapel of the Incarnation in Brandywine, a mission chapel for St. Thomas' Episcopal Parish. His success in the building trade gave him disposable income that he invested in land. His first purchase was in August, 1915 of a 2-9/100 acre of land in Brandywine that was being sold by the Board of County School Commissioners; the purchase price was $300. In March 1916 he purchased 38.09 acres of his Uncle Franklin's farm. This property adjoined Ferndale Farm.
Over the next fifty-four years of his life, Frank bought and sold many pieces of real estate. Perhaps his most significant purchases were: 18-1/3 acres purchased from The German American Colonization Land Company of Maryland in October 1915 (Book 115, pg. 140, Land Records of Prince George's County); 147.99 acres purchased from August and Wilhelmina Noltensmeir in December 1917 (Book 129, pg. 263, Land Records of Prince George's County) and 320 acres called the Vineyard purchased from William M. Wilson in March 1928. Frank used these three parcels as collateral for other purchases. Never once did he mortgage Ferndale Farm, insuring that no matter what financial stormy seas might blow, his home was secure. Over the course of his life, especially in the case of the Noltensmeir farm, when cash was needed a parcel of land would be surveyed off and sold. He inherited his grandfather Thomas' love of land but had fortunately developed a shrewd business sense to go along with it.
The booming economy and suburbanization of the Washington metropolitan area in the early 1960's led to the high quality gravel lying beneath Ferndale into becoming a valuable commodity. In October 1962, Franklin and his parents granted a three-year lease to William C. Nolte for mining sand and gravel on the Ferndale Farm at .174 per yard. (Book 2747, pg. 11, Land Records of Prince George's County) From now until 1975 when the property was sold, gravel would be mined from under the farm by various companies. In November 1962, Elizabeth and Frank transferred to Franklin the 38.09 acres Frank had purchased from Fitzhugh Billingsley in 1916. (Book 2754, pg. 99, Land Records of Prince George's County) That same year they transferred 6.754 acres, part of the Vineyard, to son Robert and his wife Lois, (Book 2765, pg. 201, Land Records of Prince George's County)
On December 28, 1965, Frank and Elizabeth participated in a land exchange/purchase of the farm of Ralph W. and Cordelia H. Brown located along the Patuxent River in Benedict, Charles County, Maryland. Franklin had rented this farm the year before and was impressed enough by its location and arability to work out a purchase. Frank and Elizabeth traded 65.9920 acres that would eventually become Franklin's under Frank's will. On February 21, 1966 they deeded the Charles County farm to Franklin and Adina. Adina named this property Serenity Farm. The property consisted of 480.66 acres. (Liber 179, page 708 etc., Land Records of Charles County)
On February 5, 1970, after a short illness, Frank died at Cafritz Memorial Hospital. He was buried at St. Paul's Episcopal Church near his parents. In his will, probated March 4, 1970 he left thirty acres of the property purchased from the German American Land Company and A. Noltensmeir to Elizabeth. He willed forty acres of the same parcel to daughter Mary Robinson Conner. The remainder of Ferndale Farm was willed to Franklin and the remaining acreage of the Vineyard was left to Robert Lee.
Franklin Alexander Robinson was born August 13, 1932 at the Garfield Hospital in Washington, D.C.. He received his schooling in the public school system of Prince George's County, graduating from Gwynn Park High School in June 1951. He was a charter member of Gwynn Park's chapter of The Future Farmers of America. He was extremely active in FFA, achieving the Degree of Maryland Farmer in 1950 and their highest award, the Degree of American Farmer at their convention in Kansas City, Missouri in October 1953. He obtained his private pilots license in 1954. He entered the United States Army in February 1955 and went through basic training at Camp Gordon, Augusta, Georgia. After basic training he was transferred to Camp Hanford, Washington State. There he worked part time on the farm of Dick and Theresa Laurent during his off duty hours and began a lifelong friendship with them. He returned home to farming on an agricultural discharge in October of 1956. On July 27, 1958 he married his high school sweetheart, Adina Mae Via, daughter of Robert Milton and Virginia Woods Via. They had three children: Franklin Alexander (1959), Robert David (1962), and Adina Theresa (1963).
Franklin continued expanding and improving the farming operation by modern methods and means. At times, he farmed over one thousand acres, both owned and rented. On February 21, 1966, his parents deeded their purchase of the Ralph W. and Cordelia H. Brown farm in Benedict to he and Adina, later known as Serenity Farm Franklin and Adina engaged an architect to draft house plans for an anticipated new residence. A small A frame vacation home was built on the property so the family could spend weekends there.
On December 14, 1966, after a long illness, Adina died from complications associated with Hodgkin's Disease. She was buried in Trinity Memorial Gardens, Waldorf, Charles County. Franklin married Margaret Walker Lennox (nee Tallen, known as Rita) on August 21, 1970 (Marriage Records of Prince George's County, Maryland). This marriage ended in divorce in 1977. There were no children from this marriage.
On July 14, 1975 the Robinson family, Franklin, his second wife, Margaret, her daughter Margaret W. Lennox, Franklin, Jr., R. David, A. Theresa and Elizabeth B. Robinson, moved to Serenity Farm. On July 17, 1975 Franklin and Elizabeth sold the remaining acreage of Ferndale Farm to Brandywine Sand and Gravel, thus ending 131 years of ownership by the Robinson family. Elizabeth Bourne Robinson died on July 15, 1976 and was buried beside her husband at St. Paul's Church, Baden. Franklin married Hiltrud (Ceddie) Harris (nee Sedlacek) on July 15, 1978. (Robinson Family Bible) This marriage ended in divorce in 1986. There were no children from this marriage. Franklin married Diedre Gale Merhiage on April 19, 1989; this marriage ended in divorce in 1997. There were no children from this marriage. He married Remelda Henega Buenavista on January 13, 2007.
The Robinson family continue day-to-day operations of Serenity Farm. The land is well suited to the growing of tobacco and small grains, which crops, (with the exception of tobacco) along with a flock of sheep, are cultivated there to the present time. After the crop year 2001 the Robinson family took the tobacco buyout program offered by the state of Maryland and ceased growing tobacco. Franklin is active in farming and community affairs having served on the vestry of St. Thomas Episcopal Parish, the Board of Directors of the Maryland Tobacco Growers Association (MTGA), the Board of the Production Credit Association, the Boards of three schools, Holy Trinity Day School, Queen Anne School, and Calverton School, and numerous other organizations. Currently the farm consists of approximately 275 acres. In 1981 a state agricultural land preservation district of 222.755 acres was created. This was the first such district in Charles County and one of the first in the state of Maryland.
Via Family
The Via family traces its origins to the colony of Virginia, where the probable progenitor of the line, Amer Via, a French Huguenot, settled in Manakin Town, Albemarle County between 1670-1700. It is impossible to trace the Via line definitively due to the loss of Virginia county records during the Civil War.
The Via family line covered in this collection can be definitively traced to William Via of Fredericksville Parish, Louisa (later Albemarle) County, Virginia. The William Via family lived west of the present day town of Whitehall at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, an area commonly known as Sugar Hollow. William Via III served in the Virginia Line during the Revolutionary War. He married Mary Craig, daughter of Thomas Craig and Jane Jameson, on March 17, 1784. William died on June 27, 1836, in Albemarle County (Rev. War Pension Appl. 6363, National Archives). His son Thomas married Sally, widow Griffin, on January 1, 1811 (Albemarle County Marriage Records). Their son, Hiram Karl Via (1812-1893), married Harriet Ardenia Naylor by license dated March 7, 1836 (Albemarle County Marriage Records).
Hiram and Harriet's son, Robert St. Clair Via (1844-1925), served as a private in Company I, 7th Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States Army (CSA Military Service Records, National Archives). After the war he married his first cousin, Mary Frances Naylor, daughter of Samuel Chapman Naylor and Eliza Jane Gardner, on April 3, 1866 in Rockingham County (Rockingham County, Virginia, Marriage Records). Sometime between 1870 and 1872, they moved to Linn County, Missouri, and settled about seven miles from the town of Bucklin. Their son, Hiram Chapman Via (1872-1933), was born there. In 1893, the family returned to Virginia, and settled on a farm in Greene County near the town of Stanardsville.
Hiram Chapman Via operated a mill as well as a farm. On March 15, 1899, he married Adina Eleanor Eusebia Runkle, daughter of Milton D. L. Runkle and Roberta A. Beadles (Greene County, Virginia, Marriage Records). They had three children: Bernice Olive (1902-1999), Robert Milton (1906-1983), and Deward Daniel (1909-1977).
Robert moved to Washington, D.C.. In December 1927 he began employment with the Capitol Traction Company as a streetcar conductor (Robinson and Via Family Papers). During the early 1930s, Robert rented a townhouse at 715 A St., SE, where he lived with his sister Bernice V. McMullan and her son, William C. McMullan; his brother and sister in law, and his parents. Next door, at 717, lived the Moses Albright family, including Moses's stepdaughter Ida Virginia Woods (1914-2010), daughter of Jesse Lee Woods (1894-1918) and Donna Mae Barker (1896-1928) of Frederick County, Maryland. Robert and Virginia began a courtship and on September 3, 1932 were married in Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland (Frederick County, Maryland, Marriage Records).
After their marriage, Robert and Virginia lived in various locations in the Washington metropolitan area. Their first child, Robert Delano, was born on March 24, 1933, and their second child, Adina Mae, was born on April 12, 1937. Virginia was employed outside the home while her children were in school. Her first job before her marriage had been with Woolworth's in Martinsburg, WV working the candy counter and then before the birth of her son at The Hecht Company on F St. in Washington, D.C.. After her marriage she worked briefly for the United States Postal Service in Capitol Heights, Maryland. Beginning in the 1950s, she worked first at the Hecht Company department store on 7th Street in the District and later for Charles of the Ritz as a receptionist in their beauty salon located in Woodward & Lothrop's F Street store in Washington, D.C.. She also worked as salon manager at the Charles of the Ritz salons in the Woodward & Lothrop stores in Seven Corners, Virginia, and Chevy Chase, Maryland. She retired due to health reasons in 1973.
On September 10, 1941, Robert and Virginia purchased Lot #43 in Woodlane subdivision in Prince George's County. (Book 619, pg. 12, Land Records of Prince George's County) A house was designed for them for this lot by Clyde E. Phillips. They did not construct a home on this property due to the outbreak of World War II. Robert, due to his employment in public transportation, did not serve with the Armed Services in World War II. On October 18, 1946, they purchased approximately thirty acres bordering on Burch's Creek near the towns of Clinton, also know as Surrattsville, and T.B. in Prince George's County from Joseph H. and M. Pauline Blandford. (Book 873, pg. 483, Land Records of Prince George's County) Over the next three years, hiring private contractors, doing work themselves, and with the help of Robert's brother Deward, they built the two story house designed by Phillips in 1941. They moved to the farm from Capitol Heights in 1949. Robert raised hogs, small grains and a crop of tobacco yearly on this farm and also maintained his job with Capitol Transit (formerly Capitol Traction).
In 1954, Robert and Virginia purchased a farm of approximately 150 acres in Island Creek, Calvert County, Maryland. The intention was for Robert and his son to enter into a full time farming operation on expanded acreage. Robert D. Via, known as Delano, graduated from Gwynn Park High School in June 1951. Delano was a part-time farmer and pursued a career as a country and western singer with Bashful Bob and the Rhythm Rangers, he being Bashful Bob. He was employed in various jobs, and began a tour in the Army in 1953. By the time the Via family moved to Calvert County in 1956, he decided to pursue careers other than farming. He eventually traveled and worked in various parts of the United States. He married first Delores Cooper, second Gloria J. Irick, and finally Candice Marinelli in December 1974, they had two children, Robert Marin (1975) and Kirstin Marin (1976).
On June 1, 1956 Robert resigned from his position at Capitol Transit due to health reasons. He and his family moved to the farm in Island Creek, Calvert County where he began full time farming. He and Virginia sold the thirty-acre farm in Prince George's County on June 21, 1956 to Melvin C. and Geraldine H. Rardia. (Book 2003, pg. 564, Land Records of Prince George's County) Virginia continued her employment with Charles of the Ritz. Adina, now a graduate of Gwynn Park High School, was employed by the USAF at Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs, Maryland. They both commuted daily from Calvert County to their places of employment.
Robert farmed in Calvert County, raising hogs, cattle, small grains and tobacco. Over the course of the next twenty-seven years, Robert and Virginia sold smaller parcels off the farm. In 1974, Robert and Virginia built a small retirement home designed for them by Calvert Masonry Contractors. Robert died on December 22, 1983. He was buried beside his daughter Adina in Trinity Memorial Gardens. At the time of Robert's death, the farm consisted of 28.694 acres. In 1998, Virginia deeded the remainder of the farm, then less than six acres, to her grandson, Franklin A. Robinson, Jr. who sold all but a one-acre lot in April 1999.
Virginia continued to live on the farm in Calvert County, maintaining a small herd of cattle. In the fall of 1989 Franklin, Jr. went to live with her. In 1993, the onset of Alzheimer's Disease required her to move to Serenity Farm and take up residence with her granddaughter A. Theresa. Virginia participated in various studies on Alzheimer's Disease conducted by the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland beginning in 1992. She was profiled in the September 1997 issue of Washingtonian Magazine. In October of 1998 she moved to All American Senior Care in Brandywine, Maryland and in 1999 she moved to Morningside, an elderly care facility in Waldorf, Maryland. In 2002, she moved to St. Mary's Nursing Center in Leonardtown, Maryland. The remainder of the farm was sold in 1999 and 2002. She died January 14, 2010 and was buried at Trinity Memorial Gardens in Waldorf.
Adina Mae Via was born April 12, 1937 at the Homeopathic Hospital in Washington, D.C.. Adina grew up in Washington, D.C. attending public schools. She moved with her family to the Burch's Creek farm, Prince George's County, in 1949. She enrolled in the Prince George's County school system, and graduated from Gwynn Park High School in June of 1955. After graduation, she was employed by the USAF at Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs.
In July of 1956, she moved with her family to the Via farm in Island Creek, Calvert County. On July 27, 1958 she married Franklin A. Robinson at the Chapel of the Incarnation. They had three children: Franklin Alexander (1959), Robert David (1962) and Adina Theresa (1963). In the fall of 1958, she and Franklin took up residence in the home they had built on Ferndale Farm. She resigned from her position with the USAF in 1959.
On December 14, 1966, at Providence Hospital in Washington, DC, Adina died from complications due to Hodgkin's Disease. She had been battling this disease for many years prior to her death. She was buried in Trinity Memorial Gardens, Charles County.
Related Materials:
Materials at Other Organizations
The Maryland Center for History and Culture holds items (costume, farming related implements) related to the Robinson and Via families.
The Maryland State Archives (MSA) Special Collections holds the Robinson and Conner Family Papers, MSA SC 6402.
Separated Materials:
Materials at the National Museum of American History
The Division of Work and Industry (Agriculture Collection) holds agricultural implements and artifacts associated with both the Robinson farms and the Via farm; the Division of Home and Community Life holds clothing, textiles (crib quilt), jewelry, cosmetics and Adina M. Robinson's sewing box and dress patterns; (Costume and Textiles Collection). See accession numbers: 1989.0688, 1990.0394, 1991.0010; 1991.0722, 1992.0184, 1992.0283, 1992.0321, 1992.0474, 1992.3106, 1994.0064, 1994.0304, 1997.0327, 1998.0038, 1998.0129, 2001.0196, 2002.0087, 2003.0015, 2005.0009.
Division of Armed Forces History (now Division of Olitical and Military History, National Numismatics Collection) holds the Robert M. Via Trolley Token Collection.
Provenance:
The collection was donated to the National Museum of American History, Archives Center, by Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., in November 1993.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but negatives and audiovisuial materials are stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Some papers of living persons are restricted. Access to restricted portions may be arranged by request to the donor. Gloves required for unprotected photographs. Viewing film portions of the collection and listening to LP recording requires special appointment. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Rights:
The Archives Center does not own exclusive rights to these materials. Copyright for all materials is retained by the donor, Franklin A. Robinson, Jr.; permission for commercial use and/or publication may be requested from the donor through the Archives Center. Military Records for Franklin A. Robinson (b. 1932) and correspondence from Richard I. Damalouji (1961-2014) are restricted; written permission is needed to research these files. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Washington (D.C.) -- Small business -- 20th century
Shaw (Washington, D.C.)
Washington (D.C.) -- African Americans
Date:
1888-1996
Summary:
The collection includes approximately 250,000 photonegatives, photoprints, color transparencies from the photographic business founded by Addison Scurlock in Washington, DC. Collection also includes business records and ephemera.
Scope and Contents:
Photographs includes portraits of famous African-American luminaries such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and many other artists, intellectuals, educators, entertainers, etc., as well as documentation of Washington, DC, including both the African-American community and national political life, and important photographs of Howard University; also commercial photography, including color materials.
Color separation materials include sets of black-and-white color-separation negatives, sets of matrices for the Kodak Dye Transfer process (full-color Dye Transfer prints are storied in a different series).
Business records: The photography studio records and Custom Craft records are in separate series, reflecting the fact that they were operated as separate businesses.
The collection includes all forms of photographs produced by the studio, such as prints in black-and-white and color, black-and-white and color negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white dye-transfer matrices, slides, etc.; as well as business documents, studio session ledgers, appointment books, business and personal correspondence, tax documents, and books, catalogs, and other publications. This material documents not only the photographic output of the business, both commercial and artistic, as well as the personal and business side of the enterprise.
Some photographs in the collection were not created by the Scurlocks. Some black-and-white and color prints seem to derive from assignments in the Capitol School of Photography, and are therefore student work. Also Custom Craft, the professional color processing service provided by the studio, made prints for other photographers, and samples for printing reference, as well as studio decor, have been retained in the collection. Custom Craft worked for such diverse photographers as artist Robert Epstein and well-known Washington photographer Fred Maroon, for example.
The collection numbers several hundred thousand photographic negatives, prints, and transparencies made by the Scurlocks and other staff photographers of the studio in its various Washington locations. The negatives are estimated at approximately 160,000-200,000 in number, and the prints of all sizes and types at nearly 57,000. The vast majority of the photographs are portraits of individuals, family groups, and organizations, as the primary business of the studio was portrait photography. They date primarily from the 1940s to 1990s. There are also a number of images, made for commercial clients, of building interiors and exteriors, and food. A small group of photojournalistic documentation also exists. The subjects also include architectural and industrial views, scenes in and around Washington, including children and street laborers, political events, social events, and 35mm slides of President Kennedy's funeral, 1964. There are also more personal artistic images, including still lifes with plants and flowers, and a few nudes; Robert's wartime service is also documented by his photographs, including European landscape photographs.
In addition to images taken by the Scurlock studio photographers, there are some prints, especially color, of images by other photographers who were clients, such as Fred Maroon, a prominent Washington photojournalist, and Robert Epstein, a teacher at the Corcoran School of Art. A print of one of Maroon's pictures had been displayed in the studio reception room at the time the studio was closed.
A large group of manuscript items, business documents, ephemera, and office and studio supplies constitutes a separate series from the photographs. An important adjunct to the photographs, a set of ledgers recording and identifying portrait sittings, highlights this group.
Nearly all of the photographs and documents stored in the studio and auxiliary storage locations were accepted for acquisition in order to form a complete history of this family business's production and operations over the better part of a century, whereas a selection of photographic apparatus and studio equipment was acquired by the Photographic History Collection: these items have been inventoried and catalogued separately.
Studio Portraits
The majority of the surviving photographic negatives and proof prints were made in connection with the studio's portrait work for a wide variety of clients. These portraits include images of famous people, such as political figures, entertainers, and noteworthy persons in a variety of fields, including scientists, writers, intellectuals, and academics. The majority of the figures depicted among both the famous and the not so famous are black. The greatest number of studio portraits, most of which are identified and dated, depict a general clientele who visited the studio for portrait sittings. Although the individual images in this vast quantity have limited research value in the usual sense, the aggregate represents a chronology spanning almost ninety years, which may be useful for demographic and genealogical information and as visual evidence of changing styles in clothing, hair, and accessories. It constitutes a panorama of a significant percentage of Washingtonians of the period, especially the black community.
Portraits of famous personages include George Washington Carver, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Duke Ellington, Marian Anderson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sammy Davis, Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard, Muhammad Ali, Mayor Walter Washington, and Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, Mayor Marion Barry, DC Council members, statesmen such as Ralph Bunche, and many other noteworthy figures. Of particular interest is a signed group portrait of the US. Supreme Court with Chief Justice Berger presiding. There are also large- format portraits of Justice Thurgood Marshall and J. Edgar Hoover.
Group portraits include both formal sittings and the informal documentation of banquets, convocations, and similar events. This material includes groups at Howard University; Dunbar High School; the Post Office Clerks' Banquet; the Bishops' Meeting of the AME Church; a YMCA camp, cira 1947 1949; the 23rd annual conference of the NAACP, 1932, etc.
Howard University
Several thousand black and white negatives and prints, 1930s-1960s, depict the people, facilities, and events of Howard University, with which the Scurlocks had a long business relationship. There are various portraits, including Howard University Medical School, represented by 850 negatives and 100 prints. A group of law school and medical school images numbers some 800 negatives and 200 prints. In addition, there are class portraits, as well as images of famous guests speaking at Howard convocations, such as President Herbert Hoover.
Wedding Photography
An important aspect of any portrait studio's output is wedding photography, and the Scurlock studio was no exception. Bridal portraits, group pictures of wedding parties, and the complete documentation of weddings, in both black and white and color, constitute a significant part of the collection. African-American weddings predominate and provide important insights into this aspect of the society.
Exhibitions
The studio's work was shown in special public exhibitions over the years, and several of these are included in toto. The most important was an extensive retrospective display of 121 prints of Addison's work, both vintage and posthumous, prepared by Robert for the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1976. Others include: (1) a set of 32 black and white images made by Robert at the Ramitelli Air Base, Italy, while he was a major in the US Air Force during World War II; (2) a group of portraits from a Black History Month exhibit at Woodward and Lothrop; and (3) a set of sixteen vintage and modern prints which Robert displayed in an interview on the "Today" television show in the 1980s.
Commercial Work
This category includes architectural and industrial photography for commercial clients, food and still life photographs, etc. Much of this material is comparatively recent and was made in large format color, and includes transparencies and enlargements. It is possible that some of the prints represent Custom Craft work for other photographers rather than the camera work of Robert and George Scurlock. Thus far, prints by artist Robert Epstein have been identified as extra prints of his work from orders which he placed with the firm. At least one image by Fred Maroon has been identified.
A group of color prints constitutes copies of artworks, primarily in the National Portrait Gallery, for which the Scurlocks worked. Prints in 8" x 10", 11" x 14", 16" x 20" and 20" x 24" sizes are included, and undoubtedly negatives and transparencies corresponding to these subjects will be found.
Photojournalism
In addition to the formal studio portraits and pictures documenting formal events, the Scurlocks took candid photographs of the everyday life of their city, as well as extraordinary events of local and national significance, ranging from occasions such as John F. Kennedy's funeral and the 1968 riots to political rallies and demonstrations.
Capitol School of Photography
The collection includes a variety of materials, such as books and ephemera, which document the activities of the Capitol School of Photography, a sideline of the Scurlock business. Some of the photographs apparently represent student work. The most famous student of the school was Jacqueline Bouvier (later Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis), although no documentation of her association with the school has been located thus far. There are 45 photographs, circa 1950s, showing the photography lab, men retouching prints, students with cameras, etc.
Personal Photographs
A few photographs of the Scurlock family are included in the collection in various forms and formats, including enlarged portraits of Addison and Robert. A self portrait of Addison and Mamie Scurlock is included in the Corcoran Gallery of Art exhibition series. Other photographs which represent personal artistic expression, such as a few nude studies and floral and plant still lifes, are included.
Series 6 consists of photographic materials including color transparencies, slides, film, and proofs but occasionally includes notes, forms, and envelopes associated with the orders.
Series 1: Black and White Photographs:
Dates -- 1888-1993
Extent -- 105 boxes
Contents -- Series 1: Black and White Photographs: The materials are almost entirely black and white photographs, but in the subseries of clients, there may also be job envelopes, order materials, and other photographic material types that were included in the overall order. The series is arranged into two subseries, clients and subjects, and both are arranged alphabetically. The subseries clients documents the orders made by clients of the Scurlock Studio and individuals who were or could be identified but may or may not have actually placed an order at the Studio. The majority of the photographs in the clients subseries are formal portrait sittings but there are photographs of events, organizations, and businesses. The subseries subjects are photographs that were grouped into categories because no known client or individual in the image could be identified. The subjects cover a broad array of subjects but the majority of the subjects include unidentified people in formal portrait sittings and groups. In addition, not all photographs in this series were taken by the Scurlock Studio; there are photos by Abdon Daoud Ackad and other studios or photographers that were sent in to make copies. 1.1: Clients Black and white photographs1.2: Subjects Black and white photographs
Series 2: Color Photographs:
Dates -- 1930-1995
Extent -- 113 boxes
Contents -- Series 2: Color Photographs: The series color photographs consists of color photographs and hand-colored photographs, but there are also order envelopes and materials, and other photographic material types that were part of the order. The subseries are arranged as clients, subjects, weddings, and hand-colored photographs. Clients are arranged alphabetically by last name or the first word of an organization's name. Not all individuals, organizations, or businesses necessarily represent a client of the Scurlock Studio; if an individual or organization could be identified, the photograph was placed under the identified person or organization even if ther were not a known client of the Studio. The majority of the photographs are individual portrait sittings but also included are family portraits, businesses, organizations, and informal images. The subjects are arranged alphabetically, and document images of non-humans and humans that could not be connected to a known client. Weddings and hand-colored are arranged in alphabetical order with clients preceeding subjects. The were a large subject of the overall collection and the majority of weddings are color photographs but also included in the subseries are black and white and hand-colored photographs of weddings. The hand-colored photographs largely reflect the same subject matter of the subseries clients and subjects. In addition, not all photographs in this subseries were taken by the Scurlock Studio; there are photos by Abdon Daoud Ackad and other studios or photographers that were sent in to make copies. 2.1: Clients Color photographs2.2: Subjects Color photographs2.3: Weddings2.4: Hand-colored photographs
Series 3: Framed Prints:
Dates -- circa 1979
Extent -- 3 boxes
Contents -- Series 3: Framed Prints: The series framed prints includes three framed color photographs. The framed prints are arranged by the size, from smallest to largest, of the frame. The photographs are of two important political figures: Washington, D. C., Mayor Marion Barry and Senator Edward Brooke.
Series 4: Black-and-White Silver Gelatin Negatives:
Dates -- 1900-1994
Extent -- 320 boxes
Contents -- Series 4: Black-and-White Silver Gelatin Negatives: The material type of the series is black and white silver gelatin negatives. The negatives are arranged into twelve subseries. The materials document the clients and individuals whose photographs were taken by the Scurlock Studio and a wide variety of subject matters. The subjects represented are individual portrait sittings, organizations, events, businesses, commercial ventures of the Studio, and Washington, D. C. 4.1: Black and white negatives 4.2: Black and white negatives in freezers arranged by job number 4.3: Black and white negatives in freezer storage arranged by client 4.4: Black and white negatives in freezer storage arranged by subject 4.5: Black and white negatives in cold storage arranged by job number 4.6: Black and white negatives in cold storage arranged by client 4.7: Negatives in cold storage arranged by client with index cards 4.8: Negatives in cold storage arranged by subject 4.9: Black and white negatives for publication 4.10: Glass Plate Negatives 4.11: Customcraft Negatives 4.12: Banquet Negatives
Series 5: Color Negatives:
Dates -- 1964-1994
Extent -- 72 boxes
Contents -- Series 5: Color Negatives: The series color negatives primarily of color negatives but it also includes order envelopes and materials. The series is arranged into two subseries: clients and subjects. The subseries clients is arranged by job number, and the materials document the orders placed by clients of the Scurlock Studio and identified persons and organizations. The negatives depict individual portrait sittings, groups, and informal poses. The subseries subjects is arranged in alphabetical order, and the materials document negatives that could not be connected to a client of the studio. The negatives represent subjects such as art, buildings, commercial ventures of the Scurlock Studio, and unidentified people. 5.1: Color negatives arranged by client5.2: Color negatives arranged by subject
Series 6: Color Transparencies, Slides, and Other Formats:
Dates -- 1922-1994
Extent -- 40 boxes
Contents -- Series 6: Color Transparencies, Slides, and Other Formats: The series color transparencies, slides, and other formats consists of black and white and color transparencies, color slides, film, proofs, and order materials. The materials are arranged into four subseries: transparencies, slides, film, and proofs. The subseries are arranged by clients, in alphabetical order by last name, and then subjects, in alphabetical order. The materials document the orders placed at the Scurlock Studio by clients and identified individuals and organizations, and materials that could not be identified and are categorized by subjects. The subjects represented in the materials are primarily individual, family, and group portraits, and events and places. Cut but unmounted slides were typically placed in the subseries transparencies but a small number of cut but unmounted slides are included in the slides. The subseries proofs only contains a form of proof used by the Scurlock Studio that has a fugitive image, and other types of proofs printed on low quality paper or are water-marked and have a lasting image were included in the series Black and White Photographs and Color Photographs if the proof was either black and white or color. 6.1: Transparencies6.2: Slides6.3: Film6.4: Proofs
Series 7: Black-and-White Color Separation Negatives and Matrices:
Dates -- 1955-1957
Extent -- 7 boxes
Contents -- Series 7: Black-and-White Color Separation Negatives and Matrices: The materials in the series are black-and-white color separation negatives and a booklet about how to process black-and-white color separation negatives. The materials are arranged into three subseries: clients, subjects, and the booklet. The materials document orders placed at the Scurlock Studio by clients and individuals and organizations that could be identified but not connected to a specific order. The materials also document negatives categorized by subjects because there was no known client or identifiable individual or organization. The subjects represented are individual portrait sittings and groups, and unidentified people. 7.1: Clients Black-and-White Color Separation Negatives 7.2: Subjects Black-and-White Color Separation Negatives Booklet
Series 8: Scurlock Studio Business Records:
Dates -- 1907-1996
Extent -- 66 boxes
Contents -- Series 8: Scurlock Studio Business Records: The series Scurlock Studio Business Records contains paperwork pertaining to the administration of the business, the financial documentation of the business, the reocrds of sales, the advertising signs and promotions of hte business, the files kept on employees, and other materials kept at the Scurlock Studio. The series is arranged into six subseries: administrative file, financial, sales, advertising and marketing, employee and personnel, and office files. Each subseries is arranged differently according to the types of materials predominantly found in the subseries or in chronological order. The subjects represented in the series are mostly related to the financial records of the Scurlock Studio kept and the invoices of sales records. A wide variety of other subjects relating to the the business records of the Scurlock Studio can also be found including: session registers, construction plans, advertisements for specific holidays, and product information sent to the Studio. Some materials found in this series may be marked Scurlock Studio and Custom Craft, the color division of the Scurlock Studio, and were placed with this series because the Scurlock Studio was the primary business. Other materials with an unclear origin of either the Scurlock Studio or Custom Craft were placed in this series. 8.1: Administrative Files8.2: Financial8.3: Sales8.4: Advertising and Marketing8.5: Employee and Personnel8.6: Office Files
Series 9: Custom Craft Business Records:
Dates -- 1951-1994
Extent -- 57 boxes
Contents -- Series 9: Custom Craft Business Records: The series Custom Craft Business Records consists of paper documents relating to the administrative, financial, sales records, employee and personnel, and other files about the affairs of the Custom Craft business's day-to-day operations. The materials are arranged into five subseries: administrative, financial, sales, employee and personnel, and office files. The materials within a subseries are ordered by types of documents that consisted of a large number of materials listed first and materials with few documents following the grouped materials in chronological order. The materials document the day-to-day business of Custom Craft. The subjects represented are documents relating to the administration of the business, journals kept to document finances, the order invoices, the files kept about employees, product information, and materials accumulated in the office. Some documents may list both the Scurlock Studio and Custom Craft and were kept with the business records of Custom Craft if the materials appeared to fit the activities, color photography, of that business. Other documents relating to the business affairs of Custom Craft may be in the series Scurlock Studio Business Records because these documents did not clearly indicate which business the documents belonged to; in these cases, the materials were put in the series Scurlock Studio Business Records because the business was the primary business of the Scurlocks. There business records seem to indicate that there was not always a clear differentiation between the two businesses. 9.1: Administrative9.2: Financial9.3: Sales9.4: Employee and Personnel9.5: Office files
Series 10: Capitol School of Photography:
Dates -- 1948-1954
Extent -- 4 boxes
Contents -- Series 10: Capitol School of Photography: The series Capitol School of Photography consists of paper documents, photographs, and transparencies. The materials are arranged in chronological order and document the administration of the Capitol School of Photography and the students. The subjects represented are administrative documents, student files, photographs by students, photographs of students and the space used for the School, and transparencies of the same subjects.
Series 11: Washington Stock:
Dates -- 1981-1994
Extent -- 2 boxes
Contents -- Series 11: Washington Stock: The series Washington Stock consists of order materials, orders, and published materials. The materials are arranged chronologically and document the orders placed for Washington Stock and how the materials were used and published. The subjects represented are orders, standard forms used by Washington Stock, and published materials.
Series 12: Background Materials and Publications:
Dates -- 1902-1995
Extent -- 18 boxes
Contents -- Series 12: Background Materials and Publications: The series Background Materials and Publications is composed of paper documents, published materials, and materials from exhibitions. The materials are arranged into four subseries: historical and background information, Scurlock images, reference materials, and exhibition materials. The materials document the Scurlocks, published Scurlock images, published materials lacking Scurlock images, exhibitions of Scurlock images, and other exhibitions of related material. The subjects represented are largely materials related to the Scurlocks' photography and personal interests. Images were placed in the subseries Scurlock images if the photograph was credited to the Scurlocks or was a photograph known to have been taken by the Scurlocks; it is possible that uncredited and less well known images taken by the Scurlocks are present in the subseries reference materials. 12.1: Historical and Background Information12.2: Scurlock Images12.3: Reference Materials12.4: Exhibition Materials
Arrangement:
The collection is divided into 12 series.
This collection was processed with numerous changes in arrangement and numbering of boxes. Original box numbers have been retained in this finding aid for cross-reference purposes and to assist anyone with a record of photographs according to the original box numbers.
Biographical / Historical:
The Scurlock photographic studio was a fixture in the Shaw area of Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1994, and encompassed two generations of photographers, Addison N. Scurlock (1883-1964) and his sons George H. (1920- 2005) and Robert S. (1916-1994).
The turn of the twentieth century saw a mass exodus of African Americans from the South to northern cities in search of better employment opportunities and fairer racial treatment. Although many considered Washington to be the northern-most southern city, it still offered opportunities for African Americans leaving seasonal agricultural work and racial oppression in the South. In Washington, African Americans found stable employment with the U.S. government. In addition, Howard University offered African Americans teaching opportunities, college education, and professional training as doctors, dentists, nurses, lawyers, and ministers. By 1900 a substantial African-American middle class existed in Washington. Despite the fact that Washington was a historically and legally segregated city (and would remain so into the 1960s), this middle class population continued to grow and prosper.
After graduation from high school, Addison Scurlock moved from Fayetteville, North Carolina, to Washington, D.C., with his family in 1900. With a keen interest in photography, he sought out an apprenticeship at the white-owned Moses Rice Studio on Pennsylvania Avenue. The Rice brothers (Amos and Moses) had been in Washington working as photographers since the 1860s and had one of the more prominent and better studios in the city. There Addison learned portrait and general photography. In 1904, he left Rice and began his photographic career at his parents' home. By 1911, when he opened the Scurlock Studio, he had already captured the likeness of Booker T. Washington (1910; see Appendix B), most likely his most well-known portrait. Scurlock quickly identified his market: a self-sufficient African-American community which included students, graduates, and educators affiliated with Howard University; poets; writers; intellectuals; musicians and entertainers; politicians; socialites; fraternal and religious organizations and their leaders. The Scurlock Studio, located at 900 U Street, N.W., became a fixture in the midst of the thriving African-American business community. As with his white counterparts on Pennsylvania Avenue and F Street, N.W., Addison Scurlock inspired passers-by with window displays of his photographs of national leaders and local personalities.
During the 1930s, Addison Scurlock's two sons Robert and George apprenticed in the studio. In addition to portrait and general photography, the sons learned the techniques of retouching negatives and photographic prints, hand-coloring, hand-tinting, and mat decoration. George concentrated on the commercial side of the business while Robert concentrated on the portrait side. The Scurlocks' work changed with the times. From the early 1900s until Addison's death in 1964, the Scurlock Studio was the official photographer of Howard University. In the 1930s the studio began a press service and prepared newsreels on African American current events for the Lichtman Theater chain, which offered some of the few non-segregated venues in the city. Their press service supplied the African-American press with newsworthy photographs of current events, personalities, and social, political, and religious life. Clients included the Norfolk Journal and Guide, Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Cleveland Call and Post and the Washington Tribune and Afro-American. George and Robert ran the Capitol School of Photography from 1948 to 1952. Included among their students were African-American veterans under the G.I. Bill, Ellsworth Davis, who later worked as a Washington Post photographer and Bernie Boston of the Los Angeles Times. Perhaps their best-known student was the young Jacqueline Bouvier.
In 1952 Robert opened Washington's first custom color lab. Capitalizing on his knowledge of color processing, Robert was asked to take color portraits of both noted and ordinary individuals. In addition, the studio offered color views of important Washington landmarks and monuments. By the 1960s, Robert added magazine photography to his list of talents, publishing images in Life, Look, and Ebony. Robert continued photographing Washingtonians at his studio until his death in 1994.
According to George Scurlock, the Scurlock studio never had substantial competition in the African American community. Some Washington residents remember it differently, however. Dr. Theodore Hudson, a retired Howard University professor, recalled two other black photographers: Sam Courtney and a man named Sorrell. He said Courtney photographed events in the African American community...?
The collection represents the most comprehensive record of any long-lived, let alone African-American, photography studio, in a public institution. Other twentieth century studio collections exist, such as Robinson Studio, Grand Rapids; Hughes Company, Baltimore, Md. Among African American studio collections in public institutions are James Van Der Zee (New York City, 1912-80s), P.H. Polk (Tuskegee), and the Hooks Brothers (Memphis, Tenn., 1910-1975). The Scurlock Collection covers a greater time period and provides greater depth of coverage of African-American events and personages.
A number of articles have been written about the Scurlock family. Jane Freundel Levey, editor of Washington History magazine, believes that the family went beyond the artful use of light, shadow, and composition. She wrote, "Perhaps the most distinctive hallmark of the Scurlock photograph is the dignity, the uplifting quality of the demeanor of every person captured by photographs who clearly saw each subject as above the ordinary."
Constance McLaughlin Green, one of the leading historians of Washington, D.C., talks about African-American Washington as "the Secret City," a separate world with institutions of its own that remained virtually unknown to the white majority. Addison Scurlock and his sons captured that world on film and in doing so, documented that world in the course of running his business and perfecting his art. Steven C. Newsome, director of the Maryland Commission on Afro-American History and Culture stated that The Scurlocks' photograph "Gave us connections. They tell stories. They let us remember."
The collection includes photographs of the nationally famous Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mary Church Terrell, Marian Anderson; the locally or regionally important: P.B.S. Pinchback, Judge Miflin Gibbs, Col. Jim Lewis, Ernest Just, Anna J. Cooper; and actors, artists, vaudevillians, and musicians such as Fredi Washington, Madame Lilian Evanti, Oakley & Oakley, and Duke Ellington.
Sources
George Scurlock. Interview conducted by David Haberstich and intern Lora Koehler at Mr. Scurlock's apartment, Aug. 2003.
Theodore Hudson, conversation with David Haberstich in the Archives Center, 2 February 2004.
Jane Freundel Levey, "The Scurlock Studio," Washington History, 1989, p. 44.
Robert S. Scurlock, "An Appreciation of Addison N. Scurlock's Photographic Achievements," The Historic Photographs of Addison N. Scurlock. Washington, D.C.: The Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives, 1986 (exhibition catalog).
Materials at Other Organizations:
The Historical Society of Washington, DC holds Scurlock-related materials.
The Charles Sumner School Museumn and Archives holds Scurlock-related materials.
Materials in the National Museum of American History:
Cameras and other photographic apparatus, studio furniture, and miscellaneous ephemera from the Scurlock studio are in the History of Photography Collection (now Division of Work and Industry). An adding machine from the studio is in the Museum's mathematics collection. See accessions 1997.0293 and 2010.0157.
Provenance:
The Museum purchased the Scurlock Studio Records from the Estate of Robert S. Scurlock, through Judge Marjorie Lawson in 1997. During the period of negotiation between the museum and Robert Scurlock's heirs, his widow Vivian and brother George, the collection was on loan to the Museum and was housed primarily in a closed exhibition area on the second floor. Staff of the Archives Center took physical possession of the collection long before the transfer to the Museum was final. The studio records and photographs were housed principally in the 18th Street studio and in two rental storage facilities. The primary move of the collection to the Museum occurred in September 1995. An additional pickup occurred on February 12, 1996 (on tags). There was probably one additional pickup from the studio by David Haberstich and Caleb Fey on an unrecorded date.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Series 8: Business Records, Subseries 8.1: Studio Session Registers are restricted. Digital copies available for research. See repository for details.
Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view negatives due to cold storage. Using negatives requires a three hour waiting period. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270.
Rights:
When the Museum purchased the collection from the Estate of Robert S. Scurlock, it obtained all rights, including copyright. The earliest photographs in the collection are in the public domain because their term of copyright has expired. The Archives Center will control copyright and the use of the collection for reproduction purposes, which will be handled in accordance with its standard reproduction policy guidelines. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The collection was acquired with assistance from the Eugene Meyer Foundation. Elihu and Susan Rose and the Save America's Treasures program, provided funds to stabilize, organize, store, and create digital surrogates of some of the negatives. Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Identifier:
NMAH.AC.0618
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This bulk of this collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
National Academy of Design records, 1817-2012. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
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Collection Citation:
Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
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Collection Citation:
Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
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Collection Citation:
Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
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Collection Citation:
Sidney C. Woodward papers, 1823-1963, bulk 1915-1932. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Sidney C. Woodward papers, 1823-1963, bulk 1915-1932. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Sidney C. Woodward papers, 1823-1963, bulk 1915-1932. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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There are forty-five volumes of daily diaries in which Smillie describes his paintings, drawings and prints, and references over 200 artists with whom he was acquainted. Loose items originally filed within the diaries include letters, notes, sketches, a silhouette, calling cards, receipts, printed material, and a photo of Smillie, among many other items.
See Appendix for a list of artists mentioned in the diaries from Series 1.3.
Arrangement note:
This subseries is arranged in chronological order with materials tucked into diaries at the end of the subseries and arranged by type. The loose items had been removed from the diaries at an earlier time, most likely upon microfilming, and it is not clear in which diary they were originally filed.
Appendix: Artists Mentioned in James David Smillie's Diaries, 1865-1880:
Abbey, Edwin A.: 1877 May 11, Dec 18; 1878 Jan 10, Jan 11, Jan 22, Jan 25, Jan 28, Mar 9, Mar 11, Apr 30
Anderson, A.: 1873 Feb 8
Augero, Francesco: 1867 Apr 23; 1868 Feb 10, Feb 1, Jun 5, Oct 30, Nov 17, Nov 19, Dec 4, Dec 17; 1869 Jul 10; 1870 Mar 22, Apr 9, Jun 9; 1871 Oct 3; 1872 Nov 5; 1873 Jan 8, Feb 8, Apr 18, May 13, May 23, Jun 20, Dec 19; 1875 Jun 18, Dec 6; 1876 Jan 2
Baldwin, A. H.: 1875 Mar 5; 1877 Feb 27, Mar 1, Mar 5, Mar 6, May 2; 1878 Jan 24; 1880 Apr 12
Bascom, Marie Louise (Mrs. James R. Brevoort): 1868 Dec 19; 1871 May 9, May 26; 1872 Feb 28, May 1, Nov 4, Nov 11, Nov 15, Nov 20
Beard, William H.: 1871 Nov 2, Nov 23; 1872 Jan 27, May 9; 1873 Feb 1; 1877 Jan 21; 1880 Mar 18
Beers, Julie: 1868 Jun 16, Nov 7, Nov 11; 1870 Mar 12, Mar 31; 1871 Dec 9; 1872 Oct 30; 1873 Mar 10; 1875 Dec 28; 1876 Feb 25
Bellows, Albert Fitch: 1867 Feb 6; 1868 Jan 18, Apr 16; 1871 Jan 10, Jan 16, Mar 15, Nov 23; 1872 Jan 26, Feb 1, May 7; 1873 Feb 4, Feb 13, Mar 5, May 27, Nov 27; 1874 Jan 27, Feb 5, Feb 11, Feb 25; 1875 Jan 28, Feb 3, Feb 4, Feb 6, Feb 8, Feb 17, Nov 5, Nov, 12; 1876 Jan 14, Jan 17, Mar 20, May 16, Nov 9, Nov 20, Dec 14, Dec 18, Dec 19, Dec 22; 1877 Feb 15, Mar 16, Apr 30, May 9, Oct 23, Nov 9, Nov 21, Dec 14; 1878 Feb 4, May 19, Dec 22; 1879 Jan 12, Feb 20, Mar 16, May 13, Nov 14; 1880 Jan 3, May 10, Nov 3, Nov 16
Bierstadt, Albert: 1866 May 10
Blackman, Walter: 1868 Aug 22, Aug 24, Sep 13; 1870 Oct 22; 1871 Oct 3, Oct 31
Blauvelt, Miss H. J.: 1872 Jan 22; 1876 Jan 25, May 19; 1877 Feb 22
Blodgett, William: 1871 Jan 20, Jan 26
Bradford, William: 1872 Feb 22
Brevoort, James Renwick: 1865 Apr 24; 1866 Jan 5, Jan 6, Mar 19; 1867 Jan 4, Apr 23, Oct 25, Nov 20; 1868 Feb 14, Feb 19, Feb 26, Mar 18, Apr 18, May 4, Jun 1; 1869 Oct 11, Oct 30; 1870 Oct 20, Nov 1, Dec 10, Dec 17, Dec 23, Dec 24, Dec 31; 1871 Jan 7, Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 18, Feb 22, Feb 25, Mar 22, Apr 15, Oct 3; 1872 Feb 1, Apr 24; 1873 Feb 5, Apr 8, Apr 9; 1878 Dec 18
Bricher, Alfred Thompson: 1873 Dec 27; 1875 Nov 12, Dec 2, Dec 10; 1875 Mar 20, Nov 3, Nov 30, Dec 14; 1876 Mar 1, Dec 14
Brown, John George: 1867 Feb 19; 1870 Apr 29, Dec 2; 1872 Mar 25, Nov 20; 1873 Nov 8; 1874 Jan 8, Apr 4, May 5, Jun 24, Dec 7; 1875 May 22, Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 30, Dec 14; 1876 Feb 25, Mar 1, Nov 20, Dec 18; 1877 Feb 5, Feb 15, Feb 20, Mar 16, Mar 20, Mar 27; 1878 Mar 6, Dec 7, Dec 20; 1880 Jan 31, Mar 26, Jun 5; 1880 Dec 23
Brown, Walter: 1869, Jan 27, Dec 8; 1870 Mar 10, Mar 12; 1872 Dec 10, Dec 12; 1873 Jan 21, Feb 5; 1874 Jan 3, Jan 18, Jan 20, Feb 5, Apr 3, May 12, May 14, May 15, Jun 11, Dec 5, Dec 10; 1875 Mar 24; 1878 Mar 19
Burling, Frederick Gilbert: 1867 Feb 6, Mar 6, Jun 4, Oct 24, Nov 11, Nov 25, Dec 19; 1868 Jan 31, Apr 16, May 7, Sep 14, Oct 31, Nov 2, Nov 12; 1869 Jan 11, Jan 16, Nov 12, Dec 16, Dec 16; 1870 Jan 4, Jan 10, Feb 16, May 3, Jun 6, Jun 24, Nov 1, Nov 18; 1871 Jan 31, Feb 4, Oct 3; 1873 Feb 1, Apr 22; 1874 Jan 6, Jan 17, Feb 4, Feb 9, May 20, Jun 3; 1875 Feb 8;
Butler, H.: 1872 Apr 4
Calvery, Charles: 1870 Dec 13; 1873 Feb 25, May 26; 1874 Jun 9; 1876 Jan 28, May 12, Dec 30; 1878 May 6, Oct 10; 1879 Mar 12, Apr 7
Carpenter, Francis Bicknell: 1872 Apr 10; 1873 (no date)
Casilear, John W.: 1872 Jan 27, 1875 May 22
Champney, Benjamin: 1867 Aug 1, Sep 24
Campney, [no first name]: 1879 Jan 16; 1880 Feb 4
Chase, William Merritt: 1880 Sep 11
Church, Frederick Edwin: 1877 Apr 22
Church, Frederick S.: 1879 Dec 1; 1880 Apr 14
Church, [no first name]: 1869 Dec 31; 1878 Jan 24, Jan 29
Colman, Samuel Jr.: 1867 Jan 5, Mar 6, Jun 4, Jun 27, Nov 5, Nov 25, Dec 2, Dec 18, Dec 26; 1868 Feb 2, Feb 25, Apr 16, Jun 3, Jun 9, Jul 22, Aug 8, Aug 12, Aug 13, Aug 15, Aug 26, Aug 29, Aug 30, Aug 31, Sep 1, Sep 6, Sep 7, Sep 8, Sep 10, Sep 16, Sep 23, Sep 25, Nov 2, Nov 10, Nov 12, Nov 21, Dec 10, Dec 15; 1869 Jan 17, Jan 18, Jan 21, Feb 23, Mar 8, Mar 9, May 4, May 8, Jun 2, Jul 9, Jul 16, Jul 17, Aug 16, Aug 18, Aug 19, Aug 21, Aug 23, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 28, Aug 30, Sep 4, Sep 12, Sep 13, Sep 15, Sep 16, Sep 17, Sep 19, Sep 22, Sep 28, Sep 30, Oct 28, Nov 13, Nov 16; 1870 Jan 29, Apr 30, Jun 13, Jun 15, Jun 27, Jun 29, Jul 5, Aug 14, Nov 1, Dec 13; 1871 Jan 7, Jan 24, Jun 15, Jun 16, Oct 3, Nov 14, Nov 15, Dec 1; 1872 Jan 12, Jan 26, Jan 27, Jan 30, Feb 2, Feb 19, Feb 28, Mar 28, Apr 4, Apr 11, Apr 12, Apr 13, May 6, May 17, Jun 6, Nov 25, Dec 9; 1873 Jan 15, Mar 30, Jun 12; 1874 Apr 25, May 31, Dec 3; 1875 Jun 13, Aug 12, Sep 3, Sep 14, Oct 22, Oct 26, Oct 27, Nov 2, Nov 8, Nov 22, Dec 14; 1876 Jan 11, Jan 12, Jan 29, Feb 5, Feb 15, Feb 27, Mar 3, Apr 19, Apr 20, Apr 23, May 12, May 15, May 20, Jun 18, Nov 4, Nov 10, Nov 12, Nov 14, Nov 21, Dec 10, Dec 18, Dec 22; 1877 Mar 16, Mar 28, Apr 10, May 9, Jun 20, Oct 9, Oct 24, Oct 26, Nov 2, Nov 18, Nov 21, Nov 28, Nov 29, Dec 5; 1878 Jan 3, Jan 9, Feb 6, Feb 13, Feb 14, Mar 8, Mar 12, Mar 17, Mar 20, Mar 21, Mar 25, Apr 6, Apr 8, Apr 10, Apr 16, Apr 19, Apr 27, May 4, May 23, May 27, May 30, Jun 1, Jun 5, Jun 6, Aug 9, Aug 11, Aug 12, Aug 26, Aug 29, Aug 30, Oct 10, Nov 16, Nov 22; 1879 Jan 12, Mar 4, Mar 12, Mar 23, Mar 28, May 5, May 16, May 21, Jun 10, Jun 12, Oct 12, Oct 13, Nov 18, Nov 27, Dec 8, Dec 16, Dec 21; 1880 Jan 4, Jan 9, Feb 13, Feb 25, Mar 26, Apr 12, Apr 21, Apr 30, May 18, Oct 21, Oct 26, Nov 3, Nov 6, Nov 7, Nov 28, Dec 6, Dec 27
Colyer, Vincent: 1874 Feb 25, Feb 28
Covell, Margaret: 1874 Apr 11, Jun 24
Craig, William B.: 1867 Dec 16; 1871 Nov 16; 1873 Feb 11
Cranch, Christopher Pearce: 1867 Dec 12; 1868 May 7, Nov 22; 1869 Oct 29, Dec 7, Dec 10; 1870 Jan 18, Jan 19; 1872 Feb 20; 1879 Aug 5
Cropsey, Jasper Francis: 1867 Dec 16; 1869 Nov 2; 1871 Feb 4; 1878 Mar 20
Culver, "Of Chicago": 1871 Jan 13, Jan 19, Mar 6; 1871 May 9; 1874 Mar 5, Dec 16; 1875 Mar 20; 1876 Dec 30
Culverhouse, Johann Mongles: 1870 Dec 27; 1875 Apr 29
Dana, William Parsons Winchester: 1868 Jan 24; 1870 Apr 29
Dolph, John Henry: 1876 Jan 14; 1877 Mar 14
Darley, Felix O. C.: 1869 Jan 20, Jul 3; 1873 Feb 11, Dec 1; 1874 Jan 22, Jan 26, Mar 7, Mar 29, Apr 3; 1877 Mar 13
De Forest, Lockwood: 1872 Apr 8
De Haas, Mauritz or Maurice Frederick: 1867 Dec 3; 1870 Feb 1, Apr 29; 1872 Sep 11; 1874 Apr 14; 1876 Feb 25
Delnoce, Lewis (Luigi): 1879 Jun 6; 1880 Aug 16
Dodge, W. E.: 1868 Mar 14; 1969 Nov 27
Dunn, Alexander Gordon: 1871 Feb 4
Durand, Asher Benjamin: 1866 Feb 22; 1867 Nov 4; 1868 Sep 8, Sep 10, Sep 13, Sep 15; 1870 Aug 18, Aug 21, Sep 11, Sep 16, Sep 24, Sep 26; 1872 Feb 12; 1880 Nov 5
Durfee, Rose: 1876 Dec 30; 1877 Jan 21, Mar 1, Mar 14, Apr 22, Apr 30, Jun 1, Nov 1, Nov 7; 1878 Mar 13, Apr 17, Nov 27; 1880 May 11
Eaton, Joseph Oriel: 1867 Feb 21; 1869 Feb 27, Mar 11, Mar 15, Nov 15; 1870 Feb 26, Apr 29; 1871 Dec 30; 1873 Feb 3, Dec 4; 1874 Jan 17, Dec 16; 1875 Feb 8
Eaton, Wyatt; 1878 Jun 1
Ehninger, John Whetton: 1866 Jul 1, Jul 3, Jul 16, Aug 10, Aug 14; 1867 Feb 19; 1869 Jan 20; 1880 Jan 12, Apr, 16 Apr 19, Jul 14, Jul 16, Jul 17, Jul 20, Jul 21-30, Aug 2
Fairman, James: 1866 May 16; 1867 Oct 24, Oct 26, Oct 28; 1868 Mar 6; 1870 Mar 20, Dec 13
Falconer, John M.: 1870 Apr 29; 1873 Feb 1; 1874 Jan 9, Jan 12, Jan 22, Mar 7, Apr 19, Dec 10; 1875 Jan 5; 1878 Jan 25; 1879 Jun 18, Jun 19, Nov 22, Dec 16
Farrer, Henry: 1867 Mar 6, Dec 17; 1869 Jan 20; 1871 Apr 27; 1873 Feb 3, Mar 12; 1877 Jan 8, Feb 5, Dec 10; 1880 Jun 1, Nov 3, Nov 12, Nov 16
Fenn, Harry: 1867 Mar 6; 1869 Apr 1; 1870 Jan 28; 1872 Jul 20; 1873 Mar 10, Nov 27, Dec 26; 1874 Jan 14, Dec 3; 1875 Jul 15
Ferguson, Henry A.: 1868 Aug 24, Sep 13; 1869 Oct 14; 1870 Mar 11, Mar 26, May 3, Jul 21, Sep 24; 1871 Jan 11, May 2, Sep 3; 1872 Jun 5, Aug 17; 1873 Mar 20, Aug 2, Oct 31, Nov 6, Nov 22, Dec 8, Dec 10, Dec 17, Dec 23; 1874 Jan 6, Jan 8, Jan 12, Jan 13, Jan 15, Feb 2, Feb 10, Feb 28, Mar 7, Mar 24, Jun 3, Jun 6, Jun 11, Oct 7, Oct 31, Nov 14, Dec 18; 1875 Apr 19, May 21, Jun 27, Sep 14; 1876 Jun 10; 1877 May 3; 1878 Jan 6, Jun 29, Oct 4, Dec 18; 1879 Dec 12
Fiske, Charles Albert: 1869 Nov 25; 1870 Feb 28
Forbes, Edwin: 1867 Nov 20; 1869 Mar 1
Fraser, "Of Toronto": 1869 Jun 2
Fraser, James: 1872 Apr 13
Fraser, John: 1870 Dec 2
Fredericks, Alfred: 1868 Nov 2; 1873 Dec 9
Freeborn, Miss: 1875 Feb 2
Gay, Edward: 1869 Dec 10
Gifford, [no first name]: 1867 Dec 17; 1869 Jan 20, Mar 11, Nov 22; 1874 Jun 11; 1875 May 22
Gifford, Robert Swain: 1867 Mar 26, Nov 11; 1868 Mar 23, Dec 1; 1869 Apr 15, Oct 14, Nov 13; 1870 Jan 17, Jan 20, jan 22, Feb 26, Apr 29, May 9, May 28, Jul 8; 1871 Feb 15, Apr 4, May 9, Dec 30; 1872 Feb 27, Dec 10; 1873 Jan 1, Jan 9, Feb 19, Mar 29, May 5, Dec 27; 1874 Jan 17, Jan 30, Mar 2, Mar 5, Mar 23, Apr 30; 1875 Nov 29; 1876 Jan 11, Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 20, Dec 7, Dec 14, Dec 19; 1877 May 2, May 9, Dec 10, Dec 11; 1878 Jan 25, Feb 15, Feb 23, Mar 9, Mar 11, Mar 20, Apr 18, Mar 10, May 18; 1879 Jan 26, Mar 21, Mar 29; 1880 Feb 25, Mar 26, Apr 14, May 10, May 19, Dec 27, Dec 29, Dec 31
Gifford, Sanford Robinson: 1867 Feb 19, Mar 6, Dec 4; 1869 Dec 18; 1870 May 28; 1873 Jan 4, Dec 4; 1877 Feb 21; 1878 May 25; 1879 Feb 7, Mar 23, Apr 20, Dec 11; 1880 Apr 8
Gilbert, Miss: 1873 Jan 25, Dec 18; 1874 Apr 16, Jun 24, Dec 22; 1875 Jan 22, Feb 25, Mar 1; 1876 Jan 24, Apr 4, Apr 12, Apr 13, Apr 17, Nov 13; 1877 Mar 1
Gilbert, G. A.: 1874 Jan 30
Greatorex, Eliza Pratt: 1872 Oct 30; 1873 mar 15, Apr 8; 1874 Apr 13, Jun 12, Jun 24
Greatorex, Kathleen Honora: 1866 Mar 3; 1873 Mar 6, Mar 28; 1874 Jun 8, Jun 10, Jun 12, Jun 13
Greene, Edward D. E.: 1871 Dec 18; 1872 Jan 27, May 9, May 25, Jul 14; 1873 Mar 8, Nov 17; 1874 Feb 9, Feb 23, Mar 3
Grey, Henry Peters (?): 1871 Nov 23
Griswold, Casimir Clayton: 1867 Feb 19; 1870 Jun 7
Guy, Seymour Joseph: 1868 Jan 31; 1869 Apr 8; 1872 Jan 27
Hall, George Henry: 1871 Oct 28, Nov 2; 1873 Nov 8; 1875 Apr 9; 1877 Jan 7
Hart, James M.: 1865 Mar 19, May 10, Jun 20; 1866 Jun 13; 1867 Jan 4, Feb 21, Apr 23, Aug 31, Oct 24, Nov 21; 1868 Jan 2, Apr 16, Jun 23, Nov 7; 1869 Aug 14, Aug 15, Sep 24, Oct 14, Oct 26; 1870 Mar 28, Sep 4, Oct 20, Dec 13; 1871 Feb 23, Jun 26, Oct 3, Nov 9; 1872 Feb 24, Nov 12, Dec 19; 1873 Aug 2, Nov 17; 1874 Mar 7, Nov 19; 1875 Apr 5, May 16, Oct 27; 1876 May 17, Dec 16; 1878 Jun 1
Hart, Maria Theresa Gorsuch: 1866 Jan 2; 1867 Apr 22, Oct 24; 1870 Aug 2; 1874 Jan 8; 1875 Mar 23
Hart, William: 1867 Feb 19, Oct 28, Nov 1, Nov 23; 1868 Jan 31, Feb 25, Nov 2, Nov 12, Dec 21; 1869 Nov 15; 1870 Jan 31, Feb 1, Apr 29, Jun 7, Nov 10, Dec 13; 1871 Jan 31, Feb 3, Mar 14, APr 4, Apr 25, May 1, May 9, May 12, May 15, Nov 2; 1872 Feb 1, Feb 6, Nov 9, Nov 12, Nov 25, Dec 10; 1873 Jan 9, Feb 5, Mar 29, Nov 3; 1874 Apr 30; 1875 Mar 20, Apr 3; 1876 Feb 11
Hayes [Hays], William Jacob: 1869 Mar 31, Dec 18
Heade, Martin Johnson: 1869 Sep 13; 1870 Apr 29, Jun 9, Dec 30
Hennessy, William John: 1870 APr 29
Henry Edward Lamson: 1880 Dec 20
Hepburn, William: 1875 Jan 28
Hetzel, George: 1878 May 28
Hicks, Thomas: 1876 May 1
Hill, John William: 1876 Apr 11
Hodgkins: 1868 Sep 14
Holbertson, Wakeman H.: 1873 Feb 1
Homer, Winslow: 1875 Feb 6; 1878 Mar 15
Howland, Alfred C.: 1872 Jul 10; 1873 May 1
Hubbard, Richard William: 1867 Feb 19; 1875 Feb 8, Apr 9, May 22
Huntington, Daniel P.: 1868 Apr 1; 1869 Jan 29, May 10; 1872 Mar 14; 1876 Feb 16, may 1; 1877 Fan 9; 1878 Mar 4
Innes, George: 1868 May 1, May 4; 1879 Mar 14
Jefferson, Joseph: 1870 Nov 4, Nov 9
Johns, "Of Pittsburgh": 1871 Jan 15
Johnson, David: 1874 Mar 23; 1875 Feb 4
Johnson, Eastman: 1868 Apr 1; 1869 Jan 29, Apr 4; 1878 Aug 4, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 27, Aug 26; 1879 Feb 7; 1880 Jul 21
Johnson, Samuel Frost: 1870 Jun 1; 1871 Jan 4; 1873 Jan 8, Apr 8; 1876 Dec 14
King, [no first name]: 1871 Jul 29, Aug 9; 1873 Jan 3
Kensett, John Frederick: 1866 Feb 21; 1868 Jan 29; 1870 Nov 10; 1872 Apr 23; 1873 Mar 13
Kittell, Nicholas Biddle: 1870 Feb 8, Apr 9; 1874 Jun 22
Knowlton, Miss: 1879 Aug 13
Knudsen: 1870 Mar 10
Kuntze, Edward J.: 1868 May 8, Jun 9; 1869 Apr 15, Oct 19; 1870 Mar 10, Apr 10
La Farge, John: 1869 Nov 22, Nov 25; 1870 Apr 29
Lambdin, George C.: 1868 Jan 31, Aug 13, Aug 15
Lang, Louis: 1871 Nov 16
Lawrie, Alexander: 1869 Nov 15; 1873 Oct 2; 1874 Mar 24
Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb: 1866 Feb 21
Linton, William James: 1870 Apr 29; 1873 Nov 3; 1874 Jan 13
Loop Henry Augustus: 1865 Nov 29, Nov 30, Dec 25; 1866 Feb 7; 1869 Jan 3, Oct 14
McEntee, Jervis: 1868 Jan 18; 1869 Dec 18; 1876 May 1, Jun 23; 1878 Apr 25
Magrath, William: 1870 Aug 8, Dec 19; 1871 Jan 16; 1874 Jun 6; 1875 Feb 1, Nov 6; 1876 Dec 21, Dec 22, Dec 26; 1877 Mar 28; 1878 Jan 24, Jan 29, Mar 20
Martin, Charles: 1870 May 18
Martin, Homer Dodge: 1870 Jun 17
Miller, Charles Henry: 1874 Mar 2; 1877 Dec 5; 1878 Apr 8
Moore, Charles Herbert: 1868 Mar 11
Moran, Edward: 1873 Apr 25, Nov 1; 1876 Mar 14; 1880 Mar 18
Moran, Thomas: 1873 Dec 7; 1874 May 21; 1876 Apr 6
Morse, Samuel F. B.: 1869 Mar 13; 1870 Apr 21
Mulvaney, John: 875 Jul 15, Sep 3
Nast, Thomas: 1873 Feb 9, Feb 17
Nehlig, Victor: 1870 Apr 29, Dec 27; 1871 Jan 19
Newman, Henry Roderick: 1870 Feb 17; 1873 Jan 9
Nicoll, James Craig: 1867 Oct 6; 1869 Dec 20; 1870 Feb 1, Apr 6, May 3, May 7, Dec 30; 1871 Jan 9, Jan 14, Mar 20, Oct 21; 1872 Feb 26, Dec 1, Dec 11; 1873 Jan 6, Jan 15, Feb 3, Oct 31, Nov 1, Nov 4, Nov 28, Dec 1, Dec 2, Dec 4, Dec 9, Dec 23, Dec 29; 1874 Jan 17, Jan 21, Jan 30, Feb 2, Feb 3, Feb 4, Feb 5, Feb 12, Feb 13, Apr 28, May 14, May 16, May 19, May 26, Jun 24, Oct 3, Oct 25, Nov 27, Dec 3, Dec 8; 1875 Jan 6, Jan 27, Feb 3, Feb 8, Feb 17, Mar 3, Mar 15, Mar 19, Mar 22, Apr 5, Apr 9, Apr 28, Apr 29, May 5, May 14, Jun 18, Jul 3, Nov 2, Nov 3, Nov 26, Nov 26, Nov 30, Dec 1, Dec 14, Dec 17, Dec 20, Dec 21; 1876 Jan 21, Feb 14, Mar 1, Mar 14, Mar 20, Mar 29, Apr 3, Apr 7, Apr 8, Sep 3, Nov 20, Dec 16, Dec 18, Dec 22, Dec 28; 1877 Jan 2, Jan 11, Feb 6, Feb 15, Feb 19, Feb 27, Mar 1, Mar 6, Mar 9, May 10, Jun 20, Nov 14, Nov 15, Nov 24, Dec 14, Dec 18; 1878 Jan 26, Feb 13, Mar 6, Mar 12, Mar 20, Apr 4, May 9, May 17, May 17, Jul 1, Jul 2, Nov 20, Dec 11, Dec 28; 1879 Mar 1, Mar 10, Jul 19, Nov 13, Dec 16; 1880 Mar 8, Apr 12, Apr 30
Norton, Henry: 1874 Jan 10
Ogilvie, Clinton: 1868 Apr 13, Apr 30, Jul 13; 1869 Dec 22; 1871 Jan 7; 1872 Apr 1; 1873 Mar 4; 1877 Jan 2; 1879 Apr 21
Ordway, Albert T.: 1868 Jan 18
Page, William: 1871 Nov 9, Nov 23, Dec 12; 1872 May 9, Nov 22; 1875 Feb 3
Parton, Ernest: 1871 Jan 31; 1872 Feb 5; 1874 Jan 31; 1880 Dec 20
Perry, Enoch Wood: 1868 Jan 31; 1869 Nov 10; 1870 Dec 13; 1871 Nov 23, Nov 27, Dec 5; 1872 Jan 27, Feb 5, May 9, Nov 20; 1874 Feb 6, Jun 24; 1875 Feb 6, Apr 9; 1877 Feb 9, May 2
Porter: 1871 Sep 1
Reed, T. F.: 1868 Mar 30, Apr 18, Jun 12; 1869 Feb 21
Reinhart, Charles: 1877 Dec 18; 1878 Feb 22, Mar 4, Apr 8
Reinhart, Benjamin OR William: 1870 Apr 13; 1871 Nov 14
Richards, Thomas Addison: 1868 Apr 1, Apr 17, Jun 2, Jul 3, Nov 12; 1871 Nov 20; 1872 Mar 11, Nov 25, Dec 10; 1873 Feb 20, Dec 5, Dec 9; 1874 Jan 6, Jan 12, Apr 6, Apr 21; 1875 Dec 14
Richards, William Trost: 1869 Mar 13; Apr 14, May 4m Nov 23, Nov 24, Dec 7; 1870 May 5; 1871 Jan 17, Mar 20; 1872 Feb 8, Dec 1; 1873 Jan 29, Mar 20, Jun 3, Jun 5, Jun 6; 1874 Apr 8; 1875 Jan 3, Feb 24, Feb 25, Mar 29, May 31, Nov 23; 1876 Jan 10, Apr 21, May 4, Oct 22, Oct 26, Oct 27; 1877 Jul 26; Dec 19; 1878 Mar 4
Richards, [no first name]: 1871; 1874; 1875 Jan 28
Richardson, Cora: 1873 Dec 12, Dec 13, Dec 22
Rimmer, William: 1870 Dec 6, Dec 13, Dec 21; 1872 Jan 4, Feb 1, Feb 8, Feb 15, Feb 22, Mar 29
Ritchie, Alexander Hay: 1868 Apr 17, May 12, May 20, May 23, May 25, May 26, May 28, Jun 15, Jun 22, Jun 24, Jun 25, Jun 26, Jun 27, Jun 30, Jul 1, Jul 2, Jul 3, Jul 10
Robbins, Horace Wolcott: 1869 Mar 11, Nov 22, Dec 15; 1870 Dec 12; 1873; 1874 Apr 18, Dec 16; 1875 Nov 26, Nov 30; 1876 Jan 14, Jan 17, Mar 1, Mar 12, Mar 16, Nov 20, Dec 18; 1877 Apr 18, Apr 22, Jul 26, Jul 27, Nov 8; 1878 Jan 10, Jan 18, Feb 23, Feb 24, Mar 9, Mar 20, May 1; 1879 Dec 11, Dec 12; 1880 Feb 28
Rogers, John: 1870 Nov 4; 1871 Feb 5, Mar 10, Apr 14, Dec 8; 1872 May 6; 1873 Dec 29; 1875 Mar 26, Apr 4, Nov 25, Dec 8, Dec 19; 1876; 1877 Apr 1
Rondel, Louis: 1870 Mar 3, Mar 30, Dec 12
Rondell, Frederick: 1867 Nov 28; 1869 May 29
Rood, Prof.: 1869 Feb 7; 1871 Feb 10
Ryder, Albert Pinkham: 1872 Jan 12, Feb 22, Mar 14, Mar 18, Mar 28
Satterlee, Walter: 1873 Apr 19, Nov 3; 1874 Dec 9, Dec 16; 1876 Jan 14, Mar 7; 1877 Nov 8; 1878 Feb 23
Scott, Julian: 1867 Feb 19; 1870 Apr 29
Shattuck, Aaron Draper: 1867 Feb 19, Nov 23; 1871 Nov 16, Nov 23; 1872 Feb 22
Shirlaw, Walter: 1870 Feb 17; 1878 Mar 11, Apr 8; 1880 Mar 4
Shortleffe, Roswell Morse: 1869 Aug 23, Aug 27, Aug 30; 1870 Aug 13, Aug 23, Aug 31, Sep 20-22; 1872 Feb 28, Mar 8; 1873 Mar 18; 1874 Mar 23, Dec 6; 1875 Jan 25l 1877 Jan 7, Mar 20, Mar 28, Jun 23, Nov 25; 1878 Jun 4, Dec 20; 1879 Feb 19, Apr 8, May 23, Nov 18; 1880 Apr 14
Silva, Francis A.: 1874 Jan 13, Feb 2, Jun 1, Jun 16, Jun 17; 1875 Jan 25, Jan 26, Jan 27, Feb 1, Dec 17; 1876 Feb 7, Feb 28, Mar 14, Dec 22, Dec 26; 1877 Mar 30; 1878 Mar 5, Mar 20
Slade, Helen (?): 1870 Mar 10
Smith, Francis Hopkinson: 1873 Jan 28, Jan 29; 1874 Feb 22, Dec 6, Dec 10; 1875 Jan 14, Jan 27, Feb 3, Mar 4, Mar 5, Mar 7, Mar 15-20, Mar 20, Mar 24, Apr 1, May 3, May 13, Nov 3, Nov 7, NOv 16, Nov 26, Dec 1, Dec 17, Dec 20; 1876 Jan 12, Jan 17, Jan 26, Feb 8, Feb 11, Mar 1, Mar 26, Jul 4, Dec 23; 1877 Jan 7, Jan 16, Feb 8, Feb 9, Feb 16, Mar 16, Mar 18; 1878 Jan 16, Feb 13, Mar 12, Mar 14, Mar 18, Mar 20, Apr 30, Dec 20; 1880 Jan 21, Oct 8
Smith, Thomas Lochlan: 1871 Jan 7; 1877 Nov 29
Symington: 1877 Feb 9; 1878 Mar 20
Tait, Arthur F.: 1868 Jan 17, Dec 7; 1869 Nov 15; 1870 Feb 5
Thayer, "Prof": 1879 Aug 26
Thompson, Launt: 1873 Feb 19
Thompson, [no first name]: 1873; 1875 Mar 20; 1876 Mar 7; 1877 Nov 8; 1878 Feb 19
Thurston, Frank: 1872 Apr 9
Tiffany, Louis Comfort: 1867 Jun 27, Sep 5, Nov 29; 1868 Aug 12, Aug 15, Aug 31, Sep 1, Sep 1, Sep 6, Sep 10, Nov 7, Dec 16; 1869 Mar 29, Apr 6, Apr 12, APr 26, Aug 16, Aug 18, Aug 21, Aug 23, Aug 24, Aug 26, Oct 26, Oct 27, Nov 15, Nov 22; 1870 Jan 22, Mar 10, May 9, Jun 6, Jun 30, Jul 2-5, Jul 15; 1871 Feb 11, Feb 15, Mar 13, Apr 22, Nov 23, Dec 30; 1872 Jan 8, Jan 10, Jan 17, Feb 2, Feb 16, Mar 11, Mar 14, Apr 8, May 17, Nov 12, Nov 14, Nov 25, Dec 9, Dec 19, Dec 11; 1873 Jan 1, Jan 9, Jan 17, Jan 28, Feb 1, Feb 3, Feb 7, Feb 8, Mar 10, Mar 29, Nov 3, Dec 4, Dec 9, Dec 27; 1874 Jan 15, Jan 17, Jan 20, Feb 2, Feb 3, Feb 4, Feb 11, Mar 2, Apr 14, May 5; 1875 May 18, May 21, Nov 4, Nov 7, NOv 8, Dec 16, Dec 21; 1876 Jan 29, Nov 14, Dec 22; 1877 Mar 8, May 7, Jun 4, Jun 13, Oct 26, Nov 8, Nov 21; 1878 Jan 18, Feb 25, Mar 2, Mar 5, Mar 8, Mar 20, Apr 6, Nov 18; 1879 Jan 16, Feb 7, Mar 3, Apr 22, Dec 8; 1880 Jan 3, Mar 8, Apr 12, May 8, Nov 10
Townley: 1871 Jan 16, Apr 18
Troll, Mrs.: 1870 Aug 8; 1874 Dec 16
Vaini, Pietro: 1874 Jan 7, Apr 15, Jun 17
Van Elten, Kruseman: 1867 Feb 6, Oct 6
Vedder, Elihu: 1869 Jan 27, Mar 17
Verplanck, Delancy: 1869 Jan 25, Jan 26, Nov 10; 1872 Feb 21, Jun 24, Jul 9, Jul 10; 1873 Dec 29; 1874 Feb 25
Waller: 1880 Feb 25, Feb 27, Mar 26
Walters, Josephine: 1871 Mar 6, Dec 30
Ward, Charles Caleb: 1871 Feb 4
Ward, E. M.: 1877 Jan 19, Apr 2
Ward, J. Q. A.: 1866 Dec 3; 1867 Feb 6, Feb 19; 1868 Jul 24; 1869 Jan 29, Jan 30, Feb 8; 1870 May 9; 1871 Jan 4, Nov 2, Nov 23; 1873 Nov 25, Dec 8; 1874 Jan 22, Mar 2, Mar 28; 1876 Feb 16; 1877 Nov 27; 1879 May 6
Warren, Andrew W.: 1870 May 4, May 30, Jun 7
Weir, John F.: 1878 May 1
Weir, J. Alden: 1880 Mar 3
Wenzler, Henry Anton: 1868 Mar 6, Apr 13; 1870 Nov 5, Nov 14; 1871 Jan 19, Apr 4, Apr 10
West: Feb 6
White, Edwin: 1868 Apr 1
Whittredge, Thomas Worthington: 1865 Mar 28; 1868 Mar 14m Apr 1; 1869 Jan 29, Dec 18; 1871 Jun 2-9; 1874 Jan 8, Jan 22, Jun 24; 1875 Sep 17, Sep 29, Nov 12, Nov 30; 1876 Apr 14, Apr 24, Apr 25, Apr 26, Apr 27, May 3, May 5, May 8; 1880 Apr 8
Williams, Isaac (?): 1869 May 5; 1876 Apr 27, May 3
Willis, William H.: 1869 Jan 14
Wilmarth, Lemuel Everett: 1874 Dec 4; 1877 Nov 22; 1878 Jan 14, Mar 4
Wood, George Bacon: 1868 Aug 1; 1869 Aug 14, Oct 15; 1873 Apr 23
Wood, Thomas Hosmer: 1870 Mar 4, Mar 18; 1871 Jan 19
Wood, Thomas Waterman: 1869 Jan 17, Feb 2; 1870; 1872; 1873 Mar 29; 1874 May 12; 1876 Mar 1; 1877 Feb 3, Feb 5, May 2, Jun 1, Jun 4, Jun 6; 1878 Jan 2, Jan 7, Jan 14, Jan 21, Jan 29, Feb 19, Mar 4, Mar 9, Mar 20, May 15, May 17, May 18, May 29; 1879 Feb 10, Mar 1, Jun 14, Jun 19; 1880 Jan 25, Jan 31, Dec 29
Woodward, Laura (?): 1872 Jan 22; 1873 May 20, Dec 2, Dec 13, Dec 18; 1874 Mar 7, Mar 16, Apr 11, Apr 17, May 20, MAy 25, Jun 11, Jun 17, Jun 24, Nov 13, Nov 16, Dec 22; 1875 Jan 12, Jan 21, Jan 22, Feb 3, Feb 25, Mar 1, Apr 12, Dec 3, Dec 24; 1876 Jan 9, Jan 25, May 17, May 19; 1877 Nov 8; 1879 Aug 28
Woolsey, E. J.: 1868 Apr 1
Wyatt, Alexander Helwig: 1869 Jan 9, Jan 17, Feb 3, Nov 15; 1870 Feb 4, Apr 26, May 28, Aug 8, Sep 18, Sep 20-22; 1872 MAr 8, Dec 10; 1873 Feb 5, Dec 27; 1874 Apr 30; 1877 Nov 1; 1878 Aug 17, Aug 25, Nov 22, Dec 22; 1879 Jan 26, Feb 25, Mar 12, Nov 12
Yale, Leroy Milton: 1869 Jan 13; 1870 Oct 29, Nov 29, Nov 30, Dec 13; 1871 May 15, Nov 1; 1875 Feb 26, Feb 27, Mar 8, Mar 9, Apr 12, Mar 30, May 2, May 11, Jun 27, Oct 23, Oct 29; 1878 Jan 11, Mar 11, Mar 13; 1879 May 31, Jun 3
Young, James Harvey: 1868 Apr 8
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James D. Smillie and Smillie family papers, 1853-1957. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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This series includes a scrapbook of greeting cards to family members illustrated by Clifford and Jim Berryman, but primarily contains letters written by presidents, notable politicians, and other political cartoonists, discussing Clifford Berryman's work.
See Appendix for list of notable correspondents from Series 1.3
Appendix: Notable Correspondents from Series 1.3.:
Adams, Alva B. (Senator, Colorado): 18 Oct 1938, 05 Apr 1941
Akerson, George (Secretary to the President): 10 Jul 1929
Albright, Horace M. (Director, National Park Service): 02 Dec 1932
Alexander, D. (Congressman): undated
Allen, Henry J. (Senator, Kansas): May 13, 1930
Allison, William B. (Senator, Iowa): 03 Jun 1906
Alston, Frank H., Jr. (artist): 22 Jul 1947
Anderson, Clint (Sec. of Agriculture): 13 Sep 1945
Andrews, Marietta (illustrator): undated, 05 Feb 1925 (illustrated letter), 16 Sep 1928 (illustrated letter), Jan 1930
Arnold, Oren (writer): 04 Mar 1944
Ashurst, Henry F. (Senator, Arizona): 11 Feb 1941
Astor, Vincent: undated (letter from C. Berryman), 11 Nov 1932, 12 Nov 1932 (letter from C. Berryman), 14 Nov 1932, 17 Nov 1932, 12 Apr 1933
Auchincloss, James C. (Congressman, New Jersey): 12 Nov 1947
Austin, Warren R. (Senator, Vermont): 24 Oct 1941, 28 Oct 1941, 29 Oct 1941 (letter from Mrs. Austin)
Babcock, J. W. (Congressman, Wisconsin): 12 Jun 1903
Bailey, Josiah William (Senator, North Carolina): 26 Jan 1938, 14 July 1938, 21 Jun 1939, 26 Jun 1939
Baird, G. W. (cartoonist?): 20 Jul 1914?
Baker, James M. (Senator): 05 Aug 1916
Baker, Newton D. (Secretary of War): 10 Mar 1916, 08 Jan 1917, 10 Feb 1920, 27 Mar 1920, 06 Apr 1920
Baldwin, Stanley (Prime Minister): 19 Apr 1929 (letter about him)
Ballinger, Richard A. (Secretary of the Interior): 08 Mar 1909, 23 Sep 1911, 08 Apr 1916
Barclay: undated (illustrated letter)
Barkley, Alben W. (Senator, Kentucky): 19 Feb 1943, 01 Dec 1943
Barrett, John (Director, Pan American Union): 06 Mar 1915
Barrett, Robert ( -- Evening World -- ): 07 Oct 1927
Bartlett, John H. (Asst. Postmaster General and Governor of New Hampshire): 02 Apr 1924, 11 Nov 1927, 30 Jul 1932, 15 Dec 1949
Baruch, Bernard M.: 09 Mar 1938, 16 Sep 1943
Bassford, Wallace (secretary of Speaker's Room, House of Representatives): 12 Dec 1913
Bastedo, P. H. (Rear Admiral): 09 May 1947
Beckham, J. Crepps Wickliffe (Senator, Kentucky): 07 Mar 1916, 29 Mar 1916, 20 Dec 1919
Berger, Victor L. (Congressman, Wisc.): 05 Feb 1924
Beveridge, Albert J. (Senator, Indiana): 21 Feb 1907, 30 Mar 1907, 18 May 1935
Biddle, Francis (Attorney General): 09 Jan 1942, 23 Mar 1942, 20 Apr 1942, 08 May 1942, 25 May 1942, 09 Jun 1942
Bittinger, Charles: 30 Nov 1931, 13 Feb 1938
Blackburn, J. C. S. (Senator): 09 Jan 1906
Bland, Schuyler Otis (Congressman, Va.): 30 Dec 1941
Bliss, Edward Goring: 21 Feb 1936
Bloom, Sol (Congressman, New York): 09 Apr 1928, 26 Apr 1928, 05 May 1931, 19 Feb 1932, 07 May 1932, 09 Mar 1933, 22 Oct 1934, 09 Nov 1934, 21 May 1935, 07 Mar 1936, 26 Mar 1936, 08 Jun 1936, 31 Aug 1936, 15 Dec 1936, 03 Jan 1938, 10 Jun 1940, 18 Jan 1941, 10 Mar 1941
Boardman, Mabel: 14 Apr 1912
Bolton, Frances P. (Congresswoman, Ohio): 05 Mar 1942
Bone, Homer T. (Senator, Washington): 19 Apr 1944
Bone, Scott C. (editor, -- The Washington Herald -- and the -- Post-Intelligencier -- ): 27 Jan 1908, 05 Oct 5 1911
Bone, Scott W. (son of Scott C. Bone): 10 Oct 1932
Borah, William E. (Senator): 03 Oct 1921 (letter about him)
Brayman, Harold (President, National Press Club): 07 Mar 1938, 03 May 1944
Bridges, H. Styles (Senator, N. H.): 28 Feb 1938
Britten, Fred A. (Congressman, Illinois): 25 Dec 1934
Brooke, Frederick (architect): undated, 12 May 1945
Browne, Edward E. (Congressman, Wisc.): 17 Feb 1931
Bruker, John (Governor, Ohio): 21 Feb 1944
Bryan, William Jennings: undated, 09 Dec 1907, 19 Jan 1908, 16 Jan 16 1913, 15 Aug 1914, 24 Feb 1915, 02 Mar 1915 (letter about him), 11 Feb 1917, 02 Apr 1917, 20 Mar 1919, 27 Apr 1920
Buck, Mrs. Solon J.: 08 Mar 1942
Burke, James Francis (Republican National Committee): undated
Burkett, E. J. (Congressman): 21 Jan 1905
Burroughs, Nannie H.: undated
Burton, Theodore E. (Congressman, Ohio): 25 Feb 1927
Burwell, J. Baldwin (Leader Publishing Co.): undated
Butler?, Harold H. (Senator): 10 May 1944
Butler, Hugh (Senator, Nebraska): 03 Apr 1944
Byrd, Curley (President, U. of Maryland): 10 Jun 1944
Byrd, Harry Flood (Senator, Virginia): undated, 10 Nov 1925, 27 Dec 1927 (letter about him), 17 Jun 1934, 23 May 1935, 26 Feb 1936, 25 Mar 1936, 27 Aug 1936, 10 Sep 1936, 08 Dec 1936, 19 May 1937, 07 Mar 1938, 16 Mar 1938, 05 Aug 1938, 06 Feb 1939, 18 Feb 1941, 09 Jun 1941, 16 Jun 1941, 26 Sep 1941, 02 Mar 1942, 09 Oct 1942, 29 Nov 1942, 28 Sep 1944, 28 Mar 1945, 24 May 1948, 25 May 1948, 11 Jun 1948, 07 Apr 1949, 22 Dec 1949, 02 Aug 1949, 19 Sep 1949, 21 Apr 1950
Byrnes, James F. (Senator, South Carolina): 31 Jan 1938, 02 Jan 1939 (letter about him), 08 Jun 1940, Dec 1942, 11 Apr 1944, May 1944
Cable, John L. (Congressman, Ohio): 14 Aug 1922
Calder, William M. (Senator, New York): 16 Feb 1920
Camden, Johnson N. (Senator, Kentucky): 04 Mar 1915
Campbell, L. H. (Major General): 25 Jan 1943
Caniff, Milton (President, National Cartoonists Society): 13 May 1948, 14 Dec 1949
Cannon, J. G. (Speaker of the House): 02 Dec 1910 (letter about him)
Capehart, Charles (editor, -- The Cartoon -- ): 06 Apr 1908 (C. Berryman drawing of Cannon)
Capper, Arthur (Senator, Kansas): 13 Feb 1920, 06 Dec 1935
Carlson, Frank (Congressman, Kansas): 02 Feb 1944
Carnegie, Andrew: 14 May 1911 (letter from C. Berryman)
Caughey, J. M. (cartoonist): 12 Nov 1915
Chamberlain, George E. (Senator, Oregon): 11 Mar 1916
Chamberlain, K. R. (cartoonist): 23 May 1914
Chandler, Albert B. (Senator,Kentucky): 07 Jul 1942, 11 Aug 1942 (letter from his wife), 28 Jun 1943, 30 Mar 1944, 20 Apr 1944, 26 Apr 1945, 17 May 1945
Chapple, Joe Mitchell ( -- National Magazine -- , Boston): 31 Dec 1904
Chiperfield, Burnett M. (Congressman, Illinois): 22 Apr 1916, 12 May 1916, 03 Jul 1929
Choate, H. Lawrence: 09 Feb 1939
Clapper, Raymond: 18 Jan 1939 (letter to Charles Dawes), 27 Jan 1939
Clark, Champ (Speaker of the House): 29 Jun 1906
Clark, P. L. ("Skippy" cartoonist): 25 Nov 1935
Clay, Henry: 22 Apr 1829 (letter to Mark Hardin, Shelbyville Ky), 21 Jun 1843 (letter to a gentleman)
Clements (Governor, Kentucky): 07 Jan 1948
Coffeen, R. A. (cartoonist): 09 Dec 1940
Colby, Bainbridge (Secretary of State): 01 Apr 1920
Cole, Cyrenus (Congressman, Iowa): 01 Feb 1928, 10 Mar 1936
Coleman, Harry ( -- Pontiac Press Gazette -- ): 12 Oct 1914
Collier, William Miller (President, George Washington University): undated, 12 Jan 1921, 22 Mar 1921
Connally, Tom (Senator, Texas): 06 Nov 1943
Coolidge, Calvin: 03 Mar 1927, 01 Aug 1927 (letter about him)
Cooper, Henry Allen (Congressman, Wisconsin): 14 Feb 1907, 24 Feb 1925
Corby, William Stephen: undated calling card, 20 Oct 1916 (2), 14 Feb 1920 (2), 19 Jul 1926, 13 Aug 1932
Cousins, A. G.? (cartoonist?): Dec 1904
Cousins, Robert G. (Congressman): 02 Feb 1907
Craig, Donald Alexander (author): 30 Sep 1924
Crisp, Charles R. (Congressman, Georgia): 03 Oct 1932
Culberson, C. A. (Senator, Texas): 07 Jul 1906
Cummings, Homer S. (Attorney General): 29 Sep 1933 (letter about him), 30 Sep 1933, 21 May 1934, 28 Jun 1934 (letter from his wife), 02 Jul 1934, 22 Oct 1934, 12 Mar 1945
Curran, Edward M. (U.S. Attorney, D.C.): 28 Oct 1946
Cushman, Francis W. (Congressman): 25 Dec 1899, 05 Jan 1904
Dale, Mrs. Thomas H. (Congressman's wife): 27 Apr 1906
Daniel, J. (Senator): 23 Dec 1903 (illustrated letter)
Daniels, Jonathan (son of Josephus Daniels): 15 Mar 1933, 29 Jan 1934, 16 Aug 1941
Daniels, Josephus (Secretary of the Navy): undated calling card (from Mrs. Daniels), 25 Mar 1913, 15 May 1913 (letter about him), 25 Aug 1913 (letter about him), 31 Oct 1913, 26 Oct 1914, 12 Jan 1915, 22 Aug 1916, 08 Sep 1916, 27 Mar 1917, 22 Nov 1917, 27 Nov 1917, 24 Jan 1918, 12 Feb 1920, 29 Mar 1920, 03 Apr 1920, 20 Nov 1920 (3), 11 Jan 1921 (letter about him), 02 Mar 1921, 05 Jun 1926, 05 Apr 1927 (2), 04 Aug 1927, 10 Dec 1928, 15 Mar 1933, 19 May 1934, 11 May 1937, 19 Oct 1937, 18 Nov 1937, 25 Mar 1938, 18 May 1938, 09 Aug 1941
Darling, Jay Norwood "Ding": undated (letter about him), 19 Nov 1934
Davies, Joseph E.: 09 Jun 1944, 16 Jun 1944
Davis, James J. (Sec. of Labor and Senator, Pa.): Feb 9, 1923, 24 Dec 1925, 16 Feb 1931
Davol, Ralph (Cosmos Club): 30 Mar 1920, 06 Apr 1925 (illustrated letter), 06 Apr 1930
Dawes, Charles Gates (Vice President): 19 Jan 1928 (printed invitation), 24 Jan 1939 (letter to Clapper)
Dawley, Mrs. M. Webster (League of Republican Women): 08 Feb 1938
Debs, Eugene: 17 Aug 1912
Delano, Frederic A. (Washington National Monument Society): 03 Feb 1944, 23 Feb 1944
Delano, Victor: 06 May 1941 (on USS WEST VIRGINIA, Pearl Harbor), 25 Mar 1942 (on USS SAN JUAN)
Dern, George H. (Secretary of War): 27 Jan 1935 (printed invitation)
Dewey, Thomas E. (Governor, New York): 10 Oct 1944, 23 Jun 1947 (letter about him), 21 Nov 1947
Dial, Nathaniel B. (Senator, S. C.): 17 Jan 1925
Dickinson, L. J. (Congressman, Iowa): 09 Dec 1926
Dillingham, William P. (Senator): 10 Mar 1904, 08 Mar 1916
Dirksen, Everett M. (Congressman, Ill.): 09 Jun 1942
Donahey, James Harrison ( -- Plain Dealer -- ): 02 Oct 1908, 30 Jan 1927
Doughton, Robert L. (Congressman, N. C.): 10 Jan 1948
Dowling, James J. (Democratic County Committee, N.Y.): 19 Dec 1934
Downing, Robert L.: 19 Dec 1930, 05 Nov 1932
Drewry, P. H. (Congressman, Virginia): 26 Feb 1935, 28 Mar 1935
DuBois, James T. (State Department): undated, 26 Jan 1905, 26 Feb 1905, 06 Mar 1905, 24 Nov 1905, 22 Mar 1907, 18 Jul 1917
Dugal, J. (Congressman): 19 Jan 1908
Durkee, J. Stanley (President, Howard University): 11 May 1922, 24 May 1922, 03 Nov 1924, 24 Nov 1924
Eccles, Marriner S. (Chairman, Federal Reserve System): 03 Oct 1941
Edison, Thomas: 13 Aug 1914 (letter about him)
Edwards, J. H. (Treasury Department): 18 Aug 1905
Elliott, Richard (Asst. Comptroller General, GAO): 01 Dec 1932
Ernst, Richard P. (Senator, Kentucky): 22 Dec 1922, 10 Nov 1925 (2), 15 Mar 1926, 19 Sep 1929, 15 Jun 1929
Estopinal, Albert (Congressman, La.): 21 Mar 1914
Evans, Silliman (Publisher, -- Chicago Sun -- ): 14 Apr 1942
Fall, Albert B. (Secretary of the Interior): 28 Feb 1923, 01 Mar 1923
Farley, James A.: 20 Dec 1932, 03 Jan 1934, 30 Jan 1934 (letter about him), 11 May 1934, 21 May 1934, 13 Sep 1934, 18 Oct 1934, 26 Oct 1934, 04 Dec 1935, 28 Oct 1937, 10 Aug 1940, 16 Jan 1942, 01 Apr 1942, 03 Aug 1942, 13 Oct 1942, 12 Nov 1942, 26 Feb 1943, 11 Mar 1943, 06 Jul 1943, 17 Nov 1943, 29 Nov 1943, 29 Dec 1943, 03 Jan 1944, 27 Jan 1944, 29 Jan 1944, 05 May 1944, 21 Nov 1944
Farnum Jno. (cartoonist): 03 Jun 1908
Faulkner, Robert R. (attorney): 03 Jun 1935
Fawcett, James Waldo ( -- Washington Star -- ): 02 Apr 1939
Fenn, E. Hart (Congressman, Connecticut): 09 May 1929
Fenning, F. A. (Inaugural Committee): 14 Jan 1925
Fess, Simeon D. (Senator, Ohio): 19 Apr 1928 (letter about him), 28 Apr 1934
Finch, Frank J. (cartoonist): 03 Feb 1905, 08 Apr 1910, 06 Jun 1910
Fish, Hamilton, Jr. (Congressman, New York): 19 May 1936, 22 May 1936, 04 Jan 1937
Fishback, Fred L. (Senator, Mass.): 26 Sep 1912
Fisher, Walter L. (Sec. of the Interior): 25 Jan 1912
Fitzgerald, Roy G. (Congressman, Ohio): 23 Feb 1925
Foch, Le Marechal: Jun 1906
Foley, E. H. (Asst. Sec. of the Treasury): 01 Nov 1947
Foraker, Joseph B. (Senator, Ohio): 30 Aug 1905 (letter about him), 03 Sep 1905
Frelinghuysen, J. S. (Senator, New Jersey): 04 Apr 1917 (letter about him)
Galbraith, Alfred ( -- Flint Daily Journal -- ): 02 Jun 1907
Gallinger, Jacob H. (Senator): 02 Feb 1905
Gallivan, James A. (Congressman, Massachusetts): 05 Mar 1923
Gard, Warren (Congressman, Ohio): 31 Mar 1916, 13 Feb 1917
Gardner, A. P. (Congressman, Massachusetts): 09 Apr 1910 (letter about him), 26 Jan 1911, 31 Jan 1913, 28 Jun 1916, 20 Jul 1916
Garfield, James Rudolph (Interior Dept.): 08 Nov 1907
Garner, John Nance (Congressman, Texas): 16 Jan 1930, 15 Mar 1935
Garrison, Lindley M. (Secretary of War): 19 Dec 1914, 25 Dec 1914, 11 Jan 1915, 28 Apr 1915, 30 Aug 1915
Gerry, Peter G. (Senator): 06 May 1941
Gerth, Arthur W. (President, American University): 02 May 1928
Gibson, Charles D. (Division of Pictorial Publicity): 28 Dec 1917
Gibson, Ernest W. (Congressman, Vermont): 19 Feb 1925
Gilbert, Ralph (Congressman, Kentucky): 20 Oct 1921, 07 Jan 1922
Gillett, Frederick H. (Senator, Massachusetts): 10 Feb 1928, 14 Feb 1928
Gillette, Guy M. (Senator, Iowa): 05 Aug 1943
Gittins, Robert H. (Congressman, N. Y.): 01 Aug 1914
Glass, Carter (Secretary of the Treasury): 26 Jun 1903, 20 Jan 1919, 20 Jan 1919, 11 Feb 1920, 02 Dec 1929, 09 Nov 1936, 15 Mar 1937, 05 Apr 1937 (letter about him), 10 Apr 1937, 19 May 1937 (letter about him)
Glover, Charles C. (Inaugural Committee): 09 Dec 1904, 21 Dec 1904, 20 Dec 1911
Godwin, E. ( -- Washington Times -- ): 30 Dec 1918
Goethals, General: undated (letter about him)
Goff, "Roy": Dec 1949
Gore, Albert (Congressman, Tennessee): 25 May 1942
Gorman, Arthur P. (Senator, Maryland): 03 Mar 1898, 28 Jan 1902, 07 Mar 1903, 02 May 1903, 28 Oct 1903 (letter from Mrs. Gorman)
Grant, U.S., III: 15 Mar 1926, 22 Jun 1927, 03 Nov 1927, 20 Jun 1930
Grayson, Cary T. (Inaugural Committee): 18 Feb 1933
Green, Theodore Francis (Senator, R. I.): 17 Oct 1944
[Gregory?], Tom (Attorney General): undated
Grew, Joseph: 09 Apr 1943 (illustrated letter)
Grey, Kenneth? (Dept. of the Treasury): 27 Mar 1945
Grosvenor, Gilbert (National Geographic Society): 21 Mar 1921, 27 Apr 1921, 21 Dec 1921, 15 Nov 1927, 16 Nov 1931, 15 Mar 1935, 11 Nov 1935, 04 Nov 1938, 08 Nov 1944, 23 Dec 1949
Guffey, Joseph F. (Senator, Pennsylvania): 16 Jun 1943, 29 Mar 1944
Halleck, Charles A. (Congressman, Ind.): 02 Jan 1948
Halsey, W. F. (Admiral): 24 Dec 1942
Hamilton, Ernest? ( -- Judge -- magazine): 19 Mar 1913
Hamilton, Norman R. (Congressman, Virginia): 21 Jun 1938 (3), 22 Jun 1938 (2), 02 Jul 1938
Hancock, Clarence E. (Congressman, N. Y.): 19 Apr 1941
Hannegan, Robert E. (Democratic National Committee): 01 Mar 1945
Harding, Warren G.: 06 Jan 1917, 11 May 1921 (printed invitation)
Harriman, William Averill: 03 Jan 1939
Harris, William J. (Senator, Georgia): 01 Nov 1913, 11 Feb 1920, 06 Apr 1920, 18 May 1920, 12 Dec 1922, 12 Jan 1923
Harrison, William Henry: 13 Apr 1936
Harvey, George (US Ambassador to England): 15 Oct 1914
Hatch, Carl N. (Senator, New Mexico): 06 May 1937
Hawley, Willis C. (Congressman, Oregon): 15 Mar 1929, 25 Mar 1930
Hay, John (State Department): 31 Oct 1904, 02 Nov 1904
Hays, Arthur: 27 Feb 1912
Hays, Will H. (Postmaster General and President of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America): 14 Jun 1921 (letter about him), 27 Jan 1922, 28 Feb 1922, 31 Aug 1922, 20 Dec 1922, 03 Mar 1937
Heinl, Robert D.: 05 Feb 1912, 20 Mar 1913, 28 Jan 1915, 29 Jun 1920, 04 May 1938
Hicks, Frederick C. (Congressman, New York): 19 Feb 1922, 01 Dec 1922, Nov 1923
Hildreth, Melvin D. (Inaugural Committee): 28 Dec 1948
Hilles, Charles D.: 23 Jul 1935
Hitchcock, Ethan A. (Secretary of the Interior): 28 Jan 1908, 07 Mar 1916?
Hitchcock, (Senator): undated, 10 Sep 1930 (letter about him)
Hodges, John G.: undated
Holt, Rush D. (Senator, West Virginia): 23 May 1935, 22 Nov 1937, 04 Aug 1940, 30 Aug 1940
Hoover, Herbert: 03 Jan 1923 (letter from Hoover's secretary, Richard S. Emmet), 16 Aug 1949
Hoover, J. (John) Edgar: 29 Aug 1933, 20 Oct 1934, 29 Oct 1934, 23 Mar 1936, 26 Mar 1936, 01 Oct 1936, 14 Apr 1937, 03 Feb 1942, 05 Feb 1942, 01 Jul 1942, 15 Jul 1942, 02 May 1944, 21 Jun 1949, 08 Jul 1949
Hoover, Lou Henry: undated
Hopkins, Harry L.: 10 Apr 1935, 24 Mar 1942
Houston, David F. (Sec Treas): 12 Feb 1920
Howard E. P. (N.Y. Press): 03 Apr 1927, 26 Mar 1927, 15 Apr 1927, 23 Jan 1928
Hubbard, Kin (cartoonist, -- Indianapolis News -- ): 10 Feb 1913, 15 Feb 1913, 31 Jul 1914
Hughes, Charles Evans (Secretary of State): 15 Apr 1921 (printed invitation)
Hughes, R. E. (La. Purchase Exposition): 15 Mar 1904
Humphrey, William E. (Federal Trade Commission): undated (illustrated letter), 20 Jan 1933
Hutchison, George W. (National Geographic Society): 09 Dec 1935, 01 Apr 1937
Ickes, Harold L. (Secretary of the Interior): 09 Mar 1935, 08 Nov 1935, 20 May 1936, 29 Nov 1938, 11 Dec 1939, 05 Jun 1941, 09 Jun 1941, 13 Jun 1941, 17 Jun 1941 (letter from Mrs. Ickes), 13 Feb 1942, 27 Apr 1942, 04 May 1942, 15 Jun 1943, 21 Jun 1943, 05 May 1944, 15 Dec 1949
Ireland, William A. ( -- Columbus Dispatch -- ): 21 Mar 1913, 16 Mar 1917 (letter of introduction for Will Rogers), 01 Mar 1926
Jackson, Robert H. (Attorney General): 08 Feb 1938, 05 Dec 1938, 05 Dec 1940
James, Ollie M. (Congressman?, Kentucky): 20 Jan 1910
Johnson, Albert (Congressman, Washington): 24 Nov 1913, 20 Feb 1915, 02 Jun 1926, 18 Apr 1929, 31 Mar 1932
Johnson, Andrew: 19 Aug 1861 (letter to A. M. Coffin not in Johnson's hand)
Johnson, Herbert (art editor, -- Saturday Evening Post -- ): 09 Sep 1913, 16 Sep 1913, 23 Feb 1928, 11 May 1934
Johnson, Herschel V. (US Representative to UN): 12 Sep 1937, 22 Oct 1947
Johnson, Hiram W. (Senator, California): 11 Feb 1920, 01 Nov 1940
Johnson, Nelson T. (Asst. Sec. of State): 21 Dec 1928
Johnson, Philander Chase: 03 Jan 1908
Johnston, John A. (General): 05 Apr 1919
Jones, E. Lester (US Coast & Geodetic Survey): 10 Mar 1920
Jones, Jesse H. (Secretary of Commerce): 24 Dec 1941, 29 May 1942, 13 Oct 1943, 04 Dec 1943, 02 May 1944
Jones, Marvin (Congressman, Texas): 24 Feb 1936
Jones, Wesley L. (Senator): 07 May 1920, 18 Feb 1925
Kahn, Julius (Congressman, California): 17 Mar 1920, 13 Apr 1920
Kauffmann, Rudolph Max ( -- Washington Star -- ): 05 Oct 1920, 16 Apr 1947, 12 May 1947
Kearns, (Senator): undated
Keefe, Frank B. (Congressman, Wisconsin): 29 Jul 1947
Kelly, Clyde (Congressman, Pennsylvania): 14 Feb 1928
Kelly, Hugh A. (Governor, New Jersey): 14 May 1938
Kelly, J. (editor, -- Chicago Tribune -- ): 02 Jun 1906
Kendrick, John B. (Governor, Wyoming): 30 Sep 1916 (letter about him)
Kennedy, Joseph P. (Chairman, US Maritime Commission): 24 Sep 1937
Kenyon, William S. (Senator, Iowa): 29 Mar 1916, 27 Sep 1916
Keyes, Frances Parkinson: 18 Jul 1921
Keyes, Henry W. (Senator, New Hampshire): 25 Feb 1925
King, Ernest J. (Admiral): 24 Nov 1942, 06 Nov 1944
Kitchin, Claude (Congressman): 06 Mar 1916, 31 Mar 1916
Knutson, Harold, (Congressman, Minnesota): 04 Mar 1948
LaFollette, Robert M., Jr. (Senator, Wisconsin): 03 Jul 1929, 09 Mar 1931 (letter about him)
La Gorce, John Oliver (National Geographic Society): undated, 27 Feb 1912, 18 Jun 1943, 02 May 1944, 31 May 1949
Land, E. S. (Chairman, US Maritime Commission): 10 Mar 1941
Land, George A. (Congressman): 03 Mar 1904
Landis, C. B. (Congressman, Indiana): undated, 11 Nov 1904
Landon, Alf M. (Governor, Kansas): 30 Oct 1935, 14 Jan 1936, 24 Mar 1936, 08 Aug 1936, 26 Dec 1936, 02 Feb 1937, 27 Feb 1937, 13 Oct 1943, 16 May 1944, 20 Nov 1944, 01 Apr 1948
Lane, Franklin K. (Secretary of the Interior): undated, 15 Mar 1913, 18 Mar 1913, 31 Dec 1913, 06 Mar 1916, 13 Mar 1916, 08 Jan 1917, 21 Dec 1918, 11 Feb 1920, 13 Feb 1918, 12 Mar 1918, 19 Mar 1918, 22 Mar 1920
Lansburgh, Henry: 30 Dec 1915
Lansburgh, Mark (Lansburgh & Bro.): 16 Apr 1931, 05 Nov 1932
Lansing, Robert (Secretary of State): 28 Mar 1916, 25 Jan 1917, 08 Feb 1918, 24 Feb 1920, 29 Apr 1924
Lauder, Harry: undated
Lewis, B. J. ( -- Knickerbocker News -- ): 13 Mar 1941
Lewis, Fulton (WOL Radio): 17 Aug 1938
Lewis, James Hamilton, (Senator, Illinois): 30 Mar 1916, 15 Jan 1919, 26 Feb 1919, 07 Feb 1930, 16 Feb 1933, 13 May 1937
Lewis, John L.: 17 Apr 1937
Lewis, William Mather (Pres., George Washington U. and Pres., Lafayette College): 19 Sep 1924, 11 Oct 1929, 09 Dec 1931 (letter about him), 24 Mar 1942, 31 Mar 1942, 07 May 1944
Lindsay, R. C. (British Embassy): 26 May 1939
Lineberger, Walter F. (Congressman, Ca.): 01 Jun 1926
Lobeck, C. O. (Congressman, Nebraska): 11 Mar 1916, 01 Apr 1916
Locke, M. E. (Brigadier General): 24 May 1941
Lodge, Henry Cabot (Senator, Massachusetts): 18 Feb 1907, 22 Jul 1910, 22 Jul 1942
Lohr, Lenox (NBC): 29 June 1938, 29 Jul 1938
Long, B. (Asst. Secretary of State): 11 May 1942
Loring, Paule: undated, 13 Oct 1936 (illustrated letter)
Lowden, Frank O. (Governor, Illinois): 26 Jan 1920, 14 Feb 1920
Ludlow, Louis (Pioneer Book Co.): 14 Feb 1925, 25 Dec 1926, 20 Nov 1941, 20 Dec 1941
Luther, Dr. Hans (German Ambassador): undated
MacVeagh, Franklin (Sec. of the Treasury): 18 May 1911
Mahony, Felix: undated (illustrated letter)
Maloney, Francis (Senator, Connecticut); 11 Sep 1941, 22 Sep 1941, 06 Jan 1943, 02 May 1944
Mann, James R. (Congressman, Illinois): Oct 28, 1913, 07 Dec 1918, 01 Mar 1921
Marshall, George Catlett (General): 13 Jun 1940, 01 Apr 1944 (letter from his wife)
Martin, Joseph W., Jr. (Congressman, Massachusetts): 05 Jan 1942 (letter about him), 09 Mar 1942, 17 Apr 1943, 05 May 1944
Martin, Thomas S. (Senator): 07 Feb 1912
Marvin, Cloyd H. (Pres., George Washington U.): 06 Apr 1944
Maxwell, G. T. (cartoonist?): 14 Jul 1914
McAdams, Clark (President, St. Louis Artists' Guild): 06 Jan 1914, 20 Jan 1914
McAdoo, William G. (Secretary of the Treasury): 06 Jun 1914, 11 Jan 1914, 15 Feb 1917, 02 Mar 1917 (letter about him), 03 Sep 1918, 21 Nov 1922, 09 Aug 1925
McCarran, Patrick (Senator, Nevada): 23 May 1941
McClellan, George S.: 14 Feb 1938
McClure, Samuel G. (editor, -- Ohio State Journal -- ): 23 Jul 1903
McCormack, John W. (Congressman, Massachusetts): 06 Aug 1944
McCumber (Senator, North Dakota): 29 Oct 1919
McCutcheon, John T. ( -- Chicago Tribune -- ): 02 Dec 1907, 04 Apr 1913, 30 Dec 1913
McDonald, C. P. ( -- Chicago Tribune -- ): 19 Aug 1909
McDonald, Eugene F. (President, Zenith Radio Corp.): 20 Jan 1940 (letter to R. D. Heinl re FDR), 13 Nov 1939
McDuffie, John (Congressman, Alabama): 16 Apr 1934
McKellar, Kenneth (Senator, Tennessee): 19 Mar 1942, 31 Mar 1944
McKelway, Ben M. (ed., -- Washington Star -- ): 20 Oct 1947
McKenna, Joseph (Supreme Court Justice): 27 Feb 1923
McKinley, William B. (Senator, Illinois): undated, 06 Feb 1913, 03 Mar 1913, 04 Aug 1920
McLean, Edward B. (Inaugural Committee): 23 Dec 1920
McNair, Lesley James (General): 19 Jun 1944, 19 Jun 1944 (letter from his wife)
McReynolds, James C. (Supreme Court Justice): 11 Feb 1920, 09 Feb 1937 (letter from Mrs.McReynolds)
Mellon, Andrew (Secretary of the Treasury): 13 Apr 1925 (letter about him)
Meredith, Edwin T. (Sec. of Agriculture): 13 Feb 1920
Merrick, Frank L. (Louisiana Purchase Exposition): 18 Aug 1903, 20 Aug 1927
Meyer, George von L. (Sec. of the Navy): 23 Jan 1911
Meyers, Eugene ( -- Washington Post -- ): 14 Jun 1938, 27 Feb 1941 (printed invitation), 11 May 1944, 29 Jul 1949
Michelson, Charles (Democratic National Committee): 16 Oct 1935 (2), 21 Sep 1936, 29 Sep 1936
Millard, Charles D. (Congressman, N. Y.): 21 Feb 1935
Miller, James M. (Congressman): 17 Mar 1909 (letter from Mrs. Miller)
Mills, Ogden L. (Undersecretary of the Treasury): 22 Apr 1931
Minnigerode, C. Powell (Dir., Corcoran Gallery of Art): 27 Dec 1918 (2), 18 Jun 1943 (illustrated letter)
Minor, Benjamin S. (Inaugural Committee): 15 Jan 1913
Mitchell, Mrs. William Dewitt: 02 Mar 1931
Mondell, Frank W. (Congressman, Wyoming): 08 Apr 1920
Montgomery, James Shera (Chaplain, House of Representatives): 06 Aug 1918, 19 Jul 1919, 14 Jul 1945
Moore, J. Hampton (Congressman, Pa. and Mayor of Philadelphia): 17 Mar 1905, 28 May 1908, 29 Dec 1909, 29 Mar 1910, 01 Apr 1910, 04 Apr 1910, 07 Apr 1910, 27 Apr 1911, 27 Jan 1914, 23 Feb 1914, 08 Feb 1918, 14 Feb 1923, 09 Mar 1923, 23 Oct 1923, 05 Mar 1925, 31 Mar 1925, 15 Apr 1925 (2), 28 Jul 1925, 17 Oct 1925
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. (Secretary of the Treasury): 05 Mar 1936, 10 Dec 1936, 23 Apr 1937, 12 Dec 1940, 18 Mar 1941, 22 Apr 1941, 09 May 1941, 03 Jul 1941
Moses, George H. (Senator, N. H.): 19 Jan 1922, 25 Jul 1923, 10 Feb 1927, 15 Dec 1927, 17 Dec 1927, 16 Jan 1929, 15 Aug 1929 (letter about him)
Murdock, Victor (Congressman, Kansas): undated (2), 01 Mar 1915, 18 Oct 1940
Murphy, Francis P. (Governor, N. H.): 27 Jan 1938 (2)
Murphy, J. E. ( -- Oregon Journal -- ): 14 Sep 1913
Murphy, William C. ( -- Philadelphia Inquirer -- ): 12 May 1941
Neely, Matthew M. (Governor, W. V.): 16 Jan 1941
New, Harry S. (Postmaster General): 30 Jul 1924, 10 Jan 1927
Newcome, W. A. (Ambassador to Italy): 13 Feb 1913
Nimitz, Chester W. (Admiral): 28 Nov 1942 (letter from his daughter Catherine), 15 Mar 1944
North, James (cartoonist?): 14 May 1921, 16 May 1921
Norton, Mary T. (Congresswoman, New Jersey): 09 Aug 1937, 13 Aug 1937, 06 Dec 1937, 30 Jun 1942
Noyes, Newbold: 13 Jan 1927 (letter from Mrs. Clarence Williams)
Noyes, Theodore W.: undated (3), 01 Jul 1918, 13 Mar 1920, 08 Jul 1929, 23 Apr 1930, 27 Feb 1934
O'Connor, John H. (Congressman, New York): 05 Jan 1937
Oliver, W. B. (Congressman, Alabama): 16 Feb 1924
Olney, Richard (Congressman, Mass.): 01 Apr 1920
O'Neal, Sam (Pres., National Press Club): 22 Jun 1944
Osborn, F. H. (Brigadier General): 16 Jan 1942
Ourand, Chas. H. (Isthmian Canal Commission): 20 Mar 1913
Owen, Ruth Bryan (Congresswoman, Florida): 09 Nov 1932
Palmer, A. Mitchell (Attorney General): 12 Feb 1920, 01 Apr 1920
Parsons, R. C. (editor, -- Cleveland Leader -- ): 04 Mar 1898
Patrick, Geo. H.: 01 Jun 1906 (re McClellan statue), 07 Jun 1906
Peaslee, Horace W. (architect): 25 Mar 1941
Penrose, Boies (Senator, Pennsylvania): 15 Jun 1906
Pepper, Claude (Senator, Florida): 13 Mar 1942, 03 Nov 1943, 17 Apr 1945
Perkins, Francis (Secretary of Labor): 24 Jul 1942
Pershing, John J. (General): 28 May 1945 (autographed card)
Phelan, James D. (Senator, California): 28 Jun 1918, 05 Jun 1920
Phipps, Lawrence C. (Senator, Colorado): 07 May 1920, 03 Mar 1923
Pike, Albert (Department of the Interior): undated
Poindexter, Miles (Senator, Washington): 13 Feb 1920
Polk, Frank L. (Undersecretary of State): 25 Mar 1920
Pomerene, Atlee (Senator, Ohio): 01 Jun 1911 (letter from Mrs. Pomerene), 20 Feb 1920 (letter from Mrs. Pomerene), 01 Mar 1920 (letter from Mrs. Pomerene), 08 May 1920
Porter, Laura (League of Women Voters): 28 Dec 1930
Pou, Edw. W. (Congressman, North Carolina): 30 Sep 1904, 07 Oct 1904, 10 Oct 1904, 17 Oct 1904
Powers, Samuel Leland (Congressman, Massachusetts): 17 Feb 1905, 30 Dec 1925
Proctor, Redfield (Senator): 21 Jun 1906
Radcliffe, George L. (Senator, Maryland): 15 Sep 1938
Rainey, Henry T. (Congressman, Illinois): 07 Mar 1916
Ralston, Samuel M. (Senator, Indiana): 30 May 1924
Ramspeck, Robert (Congressman, Georgia): 28 Nov 1941
Rankin, J. E. (Congressman, Mississippi): 14 Feb 1942
Rathbun, Richard (Asst. Secretary of Smithsonian): 11 Apr 1912, 07 Dec 1915
Rayburn, Sam: 24 Mar 1944
Reams, Frank (White House staff): 10 Jan 1929
Redfield, William C. (Secretary of Commerce): 31 Aug 1912, 07 Nov 1913, 07 Apr 1915, 07 Mar 1916
Reed, Daniel (Congressman, New York): Apr 28, 1920
Reed, Stanley F. (Supreme Court Justice): 13 Mar 1948
Reed, Stuart F. (Congressman, W. V.): 27 Mar 1922
Reid, Albert T. (American Artists Professional League): 02 May 1944
Rhodes, John D. (Senator): undated, 01 Nov 1943
Ritchie, Albert C. (Governor, Maryland): 15 Nov 1923 (2), 14 May 1924, 23 Dec 1925, 28 Dec 1926, 09 Jan 1927, 14 Jan 1927, 10 Feb 1927, 20 Jan 1931, 07 Aug 1931, 30 Jan 1936
Robertson, David A. (President, Goucher College): 15 Dec 1939 (letter from Anne Robertson), 19 Apr 1932, 18 Dec 1942, 14 Aug 1943
Robinson, Boardman ( -- New York Tribune -- ): 21 Mar 1913, 02 Jun 1913
Robinson, Joe T. (Senator, Arkansas): 10 Mar 1916, 29 Nov 1921, 25 Apr 1936
Rodman, Hugh (Admiral): 10 Nov 1937
Rogers, Edith Nourse (Congresswoman, Massachusetts): 15 Feb 1937, 16 Feb 1937
Rogers, W. A.: 19 Mar 1925, 10 Apr 1925
Rogers, Will: 16 Mar 1917 (letter of introduction from Bill Ireland), 19 Aug 1927 (invitation to Press Club dinner in his honor)
Roosevelt, Franklin D.: 26 Apr 1935 (letter about him), 20 Jan 1940 (letter about him), 08 Jul 1940 (photograph of letter)
Roosevelt, Theodore: 29 Dec 1902, 09 Jan 1912
Root, Elihu (Secretary of State): 14 Dec 1905
Roper, Daniel C. (Secretary of Commerce): undated, 18 Aug 1913, 16 Sep 1932, 15 Aug 1933, 07 Sep 1933, 11 Nov 1933, 14 Aug 1934, 10 Dec 1934, 18 May 1936, 16 Nov 1937, 05 Aug 1938
Ross, Nellie Tayloe (Democratic National Committee): 10 Dec 1932
Roteler, J. Allen: 23 Feb 1936 (letter re Andrew Mellon and the Corcoran Gallery)
Russell, K. L. (cartoonist?): 11 Jun 1906 (illustrated letter)
Russell, Richard (Senator and Governor of Florida): 29 Mar 1944, 22 Mar 1949
Sabath, A. J. (Congressman, Illinois): 24 Feb 1941, 19 Jan 1945
Sackett, Frederic M. (Senator, Kentucky): 24 Oct 1925
Sanders, Everett (Congressman, Indiana): 19 Feb 1925, 02 Jul 1932
Saulsbury, Willard (Senator, Delaware): 21 Oct 1918 (letter to Col. E. A. Halsey)
Scott, Hugh D., Jr. (Congressman, Pa.): 10 Oct 1949
Seger, George N. (Congressman, N. J.): 13 Jan 1925
Seton, Grace Thompson (National League of American Pen Women): 12 Mar 1927, 12 Apr 1927, 11 May 1927
Shaw, Albert P.: 08 Nov 1901, 08 Nov 1926, 09 Nov 1926, 09 Jan 1933 (letter from C. Berryman)
Shaw, Leslie M.: 11 Oct 1905 (printed invitation)
Sheppard, Morris (Senator, Texas): 08 May 1920, 10 Oct 1924, 15 Nov 1924, 05 Sep 1933, 31 Dec 1937, 13 Oct 1938, 08 Nov 1938, 10 Aug 1940, 19 Sep 1940
Sherman, Lawrence Y. (Senator, Illinois): 08 Feb 1918
Shih, Hu (Chinese Embassy): 07 Dec 1939, 27 Nov 1941
Shoemaker, Vaughn (cartoonist, -- Chicago Daily News -- ): 29 Mar 1945
Shoppell, R. W. ( -- National Tribune -- ): 02 Dec 1904
Slemp, C. B. (Congressman, Virginia): 31 Aug 1914, 10 Mar 1916
Smith, Alfred (Governor, New York): 07 May 1924
Smith, John Walter (Senator, Maryland): 11 Mar 1916
Smoot, Reed (Senator): 29 Jun 1906, 07 May 1920
Smoot, William (Governor, Pennsylvania): 13 Jan 1922
Snell, Bertrand H. (Congressman): 31 May 1929
Snow, William J. (Major General): 06 Jan 1919, 14 Jan 1921
Snyder, John W. (Sec. of the Treasury): 23 Jun 1947
Somerville, Harry P. (The Willard): 01 Apr 1936, 09 Jul 1936, 10 Apr 1942
Spooner, John C. (Senator, Wisconsin): 07 Mar 1907
Stand, Bert (Democratic County Committee): 02 Jun 1936
Stanley, Augustus O. (Senator, Kentucky): 20 Feb 1907, 25 Mar 1920, 13 Aug 1921, 19 Aug 1921, 09 Nov 1935
Stettinius, Edward R. (Secretary of State): 15 Sep 1944, 26 Oct 1944, 13 Mar 1945, 29 Mar 1945
Stimson, Henry L. (Sec. of State and Sec. of War): 06 Feb 1912, 21 Dec 1932, 29 Apr 1943
Stone, Harlan F. (Supreme Court Justice); 02 May 1944
Strick (National Press Club): undated
Sulzer, William (candidate for Governor): 21 Jul 1914 (3), 21 Jul 1914 (letter from Mrs. Sulzer)
Suter, John Wallace (Dean, Washington Cathedral): 13 Feb 1945, 12 Mar 1945
Sutherland, Howard (Senator): 10 Feb 1920, 07 May 1920
Swanson, Claude A. (Senator, Virginia): 18 Aug 1910, 15 Oct 1919
Swing, Phil D. (Congressman, California): 20 Dec 1932
Sylvester, Arthur ( -- Newark Evening News -- ): 23 Jun 1947
Sylvester, Richard (Inaugural Committee): 31 Dec 1904
Taft, William Howard: 10 May 1907, 30 Jun 1908, 18 Mar 1925 (letter about him)
Taliaferro, Sidney F. (DC Commissioner): 13 Apr 1927
Tharin, Charles E. (White House staff): 14 Jun 1905
Thomas, Elmer (Senator, Oklahoma): 02 Jul 1936
Thompson, Charles Willis ( -- New York Times -- ): 13 Mar 1905
Thornton, J. R. (Senator): 16 Dec 1910, 10 Dec 1912, 12 Dec 1912, 22 Nov 1913, 18 Mar 1914, 21 Mar 1914, 11 Feb 1915, 15 Mar 1915, 01 Jul 1916
Tilson, John Q. (Congressman, Conn.): 18 Apr 1929
Tobey, Charles W. (Senator, N. H.): 12 Jan 1948
Tony, F. A. ( -- Strand -- magazine): 06 Nov 1914
Towner, H. M. (Governor, Puerto Rico): 14 Jul 1924, 15 Apr 1925
Treadway, Allen T. (Congressman, Mass.): 25 May 1935
Trimble, South (Congressman): 24 Nov 1915, 11 Mar 1938
Trinkle, E. Lee (Governor, Virginia): 04 Feb 1925, 02 Mar 1925, 22 Jun 1925, 08 Jan 1926
Truesdell, George: 08 Jun 1906 (re McClellan statue)
Truman, Bess: 31 May 1949
Truman, Harry S: 07 Jun 1945 (copy of letter to Col. Johnson), 29 Mar 1946
Tydings, Millard E. (Senator, Maryland): 10 May 1935, 14 May 1935, 10 Jun 1938, 17 Jun 1938, 09 Sep 1938, 20 Sep 1938, 07 Mar 1944, 01 May 1944, 09 May 1944
Underwood, Oscar W. (Congressman, Alabama): 26 Feb 1912, 10 Mar 1916, 06 Jan 1917, 11 Feb 1920
Vincent, B. M. (Congressman, Kentucky): 07 Sep 1940 (letter about him)
Vinson, Carl (Congressman, Georgia): 09 Jun 1920
Wadsworth, James W. (Congressman, N. Y.): 13 Feb 1941
Walker, Frank C. (Postmaster General): 26 Nov 1941, 05 Nov 1943, 06 Jul 1943
Wallace, Henry A. (Secretary of Agriculture): undated (2), one illustrated), 01 Feb 1937, 06 Dec 1937
Ward, H. S. (Congressman, North Carolina): undated
Warner, V. (Congressman): 14 Jan 1905
Warren, Francis E. (Senator): 10 May 1920, 15 Oct 1924, 18 Oct 1924 (letter about him), 24 Nov 1924, 17 Feb 1925
Warren, Lindsay C. (Congressman, North Carolina): 11 Mar 1935, 13 Mar 1935
Webster, Harold Tucker: 17 May 1918, 01 Jul 1918, 17 Jul 1918, 29 Aug 1918 (2), 09 Oct 1918, 06 Nov 1918
Westerman ( -- Ohio State Journal -- ): undated
Wetmore, A. (Smithsonian Institution): 26 Jul 1944
Wheeler, Burton K. (Senator, Montana): undated (letter from Mrs. Wheeler), 27 Jan 1937, 05 Aug 1941
White, Edward D. (Supreme Court Justice): 06 Feb 1917
Wickard, Claude R. (Secretary of Agriculture): 30 Jan 1942, 11 Feb 1942, 16 Apr 1942
Wickersham, George W.: 23 Dec 1930, 17 Dec 1934
Wile, Frederic William: 12 May 1924 (letter of introduction for William Schofield), 15 Nov 1928
Williams, John Sharp (Senator): 14 May 1914
Willis, Frank B. (Senator, Ohio): 13 Feb 1928
Willkie, Wendell L.: 02 May 1944
Wilson, Charles R. (candidate for Mayor, Huntington West Virginia): 21 Mar 1928, 14 May 1932
Wilson, Edith Bolling: 26 Mar 1916, 10 Feb 1917
Wilson, James (Secretary of Agriculture): 30 Jan 1909
Wilson, Lyle C. (United Press Assocs.): 29 Mar 1945
Wilson, Woodrow: 04 Dec 1916
Winslow, Samuel E. (Congressman, Massachusetts): 13 Feb 1920, 20 Feb 1925
Wood, Edwin O. (Democratic National Committee): 09 Dec 1911 (2), 24 Jul 1914, 10 Sep 1914
Wood, Will R. (Congressman, Indiana): 20 Jul 1916, 03 Mar 1925
Woodin, William H. (Sec. of the Treasury): 07 Jun 1933
Woodward, Donald (Woodward & Lothrop department store): 17 Jan 1921
Work, Hubert (Secretary of the Interior): 31 Dec 1926, 12 Jan 1927, 23 Jun 1928
Works?, John D. (Senator): 29 Mar 1916
Young, George M. (Congressman, N. D.): 07 Oct 1925
Zears, Guy (Congressman): 28 Dec 1940
Zihlman, Frederick N. (Congressman, Md.): 10 Feb 1927
Zimmerman, Eugene ZIM"; (cartoonist): 02 Jul 1929 (letter about him from Freeman H. Hubbard), 05 Jul 1929 (letter about ZIM from C.Berryman)
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Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
