Arthur Woods Wang photographs and profiles of authors and ranchers
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
A collection of 78 photographs, in three volumes, of authors, including Mark Van Doren, Roland Barthes, Elie Weisel, Arna Bontemps, Alger Hiss, Wole Soyinka, Arthur Kopit, and Eric Bentley. A fourth volume contains 17 photographs of Montana ranchers and their family members. Three typescript profiles by Wang - of Wesley Towner, Kingsley Martin, and Ted Joans - are included in a separate box.
Scrapbook made by Libbie Maltbie following a vacation trip to Alaska in August, 1909. Maltbie and her husband, Arthur L. Maltbie, and two friends, Hiland P. and Mary Lockwood, travelled to Alaska on the steamship City of Seattle, leaving Seattle, Washington, on August 4, 1909, passing among the islands of southeastern Alaska to Skagway, and returning on the Pacific side, stopping at Sitka, and reaching Seattle on August 15. The scrapbook contains mostly postcards, printed illustrations, and photographs taken by Arthur L. Maltbie, showing towns visited, buildings, natural features, and Indian totem poles and other aspects of Indian life. Photographs, some with the travelers pictured, are captioned in holograph by Libbie Maltbie. Also present are a printed map showing steamship routes, published by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company; a few printed items relating to the City of Seattle; and a narrative written by Maltbie, holograph, 15 p., briefly describing the trip.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
City of Seattle (Ship), Lockwood, Hiland P, Lockwood, Mary, Maltbie, Albert L.,--b. 1866, Maltbie, Libbie, and Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Subject (Topic):
Alaska--History--Pictorial works and Postcards--Alaska--History--20th century
Album wrapped in tissu de Provence; contains photographs of Murphy family in Antibes, Saint-Tropez, Villard-de-Lans (France); Montana-Vermala (Switzerland); Ramgut (Austria); Baoth at school in Neubeuern, (Rosenheim, Germany); Gerald, Sara, Honoria and Ba
Subject (Name):
Murphy, Baoth, Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964, Murphy, Honoria, Murphy, Patrick, 1920-1937, and Murphy, Sara
Album wrapped in tissu de Provence; contains photographs of Murphy family at Hôtel Cap d'Antibes and Villa America, Saint-Cloud (France); Chateau-d'Oex (Switzerland); Madeira (Portugal); Baden-Baden (Germany); Beverly Hills (California); attending Antonia
Description:
Photographs of Hemingway, Hadley, and Bumby removed by Murphy family.
Subject (Name):
Murphy, Baoth, Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964, Murphy, Honoria, Murphy, Patrick, 1920-1937, and Murphy, Sara
Correspondence, photographs, and an incomplete catalog raisonné related to the work of artist Charles Demuth, which Richard W. C. Weyand collected and compiled from 1940 to 1955, as well as auction catalogs related to Weyand's estate, 1957-1976. Correspondence in the collection documents artwork created by Demuth and owned by different persons and institutions, while circa 125 photographs document work created by Demuth, circa 1906-1934.
Description:
Charles Demuth (1883-1935) was an American watercolor artist who turned to oils late in his career and developed a modern art movement known as Precisionism., Folios 203, 207, 209-10, 213, 216, 218, 220, 227-229, 244, 250-260, 272-276, 287-289, 291-292, and 298 are missing., Gift of Ann Grether Hill, 1988., and Richard W. C. Weyand (1905-1956), born Richard Conklin Weyand, was the son of Edwin Stanton Weyand (1863-1913) and Wilhelmina Thompson Weyand (1873-1943). He had two sisters, Dorothy Adams Weyand Grether (1897-1982) and Louise Victoria Weyand White (1899-1924), as well as two brothers, Edwin Stanton Weyand (1903-1973) and William Rodgers Weyand (1908-1970). Weyand served in the United States Navy during World War II, 1942-1945. Weyand and Robert Evans Locher (1888-1956), a close friend of artist Charles Demuth, operated an antique store and lived in the former home of Demuth in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1943-1956.
Subject (Name):
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935, Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Catalogs, Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Pictorial works, Locher, Robert Evans, 1888-1956, Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946, and Weyand, Richard W. C., 1905-1956
Subject (Topic):
Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster, LGBTQ resource, and Precisionism--Pennsylvania--Lancaster