Collection consists of 34 pieces of correspondence, including autograph letters, postcards, and holiday cards, from O'Keeffe to Susan and Alexander Girard, and their daughter Sansi Needham Girard Agnew. The Girards were residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and most letters discuss personal topics, including plans for visits to each others' homes. Also included are invitations to openings at museums exhibiting O'Keeffe's work which were sent on her behalf. The collection holds 23 snapshot photographs of O'Keeffe, the Girards, and others at events, gatherings, and on travels, and plus some scenery in New Mexico, and a portrait of O'Keeffe in an 8 by 10 inch format bearing a studio stamp of Charles Eames; the photographs date from 1963 to 1973. and With the collection is one letter from Robert Jaffie to Thomas Needham, dated March 10, 1959, discussing a recent visit with O'Keeffe.
Description:
Alexander Girard (1907-1993), American designer, art collector., Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), American artist., Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Memorial Fund, 2009., and Susan Needham Girard (1910-1996), American art collector.
Subject (Name):
Girard, Alexander, Girard, Susan Needham, 1910-1996, and O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
Subject (Topic):
Artists--United States and Painters--United States
Curtis Granville Jackson scrapbook and papers relating to the Boy Scouts
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Collection consists of a scrapbook and other papers. The scrapbook, "My Scouting History," contains autograph and typescript entries, photographs, merit badges and awards, correspondence, and printed ephemera documenting Jackson's membership in an African-American boy scout troop, Troop 42 of Camden, New Jersey from 1937 to 1943. Other papers include one letter, photographs, scarves, and printed material, dating from 1946 to 1965, relating chiefly to Jackson's involvement in Troop 43 of the Boy Scouts of America.
Description:
Purchased from Swann Galleries on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2010.
Subject (Geographic):
Camden (N.J.) and Camden County (N.J.)
Subject (Name):
Boy Scouts of America and Jackson, Curtis Granville
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--New Jersey--Camden, Boy Scouts of America--African American membership, and Boy Scouts--New Jersey--Camden
Contains photographs of Baldwin by Walter Daran (one of which was published in 1964) for Playboy.
Description:
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was an American author and activist in the American civil rights movement. and Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)
Photographs of the Menominee Warrior Society armed occupation of the Alexian Brothers Novitiate, Gresham, Wisconsin, January-February 1975. Images include interiors and exteriors of the monastery, portraits of Menominee Warrior Society wearing ski masks, portraits of Wisconsin National Guard Colonel Hugh Simonson, a children's sweat lodge, and members of the Menominee Warrior Society hand-cuffed to members of the Shawano County Sheriff Department. Group portraits include members of the Menominee Warrior Society, Wisconsin National Guard soldiers, and supporters Dennis Banks of the American Indian Movement and actor Marlon Brando. Incidental images include a portrait of Stanley Holder and a Tlingit woman scraping a deer hide with an ulu knife.
Description:
Photographs signed by the photographer on verso, often with accompanying manuscript captions., Prints created by the photographer ca. 2000., Purchased from Owen Luck on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2001., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Gresham (Wis.)
Subject (Name):
Alexian Brothers Novitiate (Gresham, Wis.), American Indian Movement, Banks, Dennis, Brando, Marlon, Luck, Owen Craig,--1947-, Menominee Warrior Society, Simonson, Hugh, and Wisconsin.--National Guard
Subject (Topic):
Indian children--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Portraits, Menominee Indians--Government relations, Menominee Indians--Pictorial works, Prisoners--Wisconsin--Shawano County, Sheriffs--Wisconsin--Shawano County, and Tlingit Indians--Pictorial works
Box 1 contains the correspondence, photographs, family records, the bulk of the military records, and the circa 2013 genealogical material and typescript. Box 2 contains Francis Marion Gibson's Army promotion certificates. and Family correspondence, photographs, and military records documenting the lives of family members of Francis M. Gibson. Gibson's military service in the Seventh Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army in Montana in the Battle of the Little Bighorn is particularly well documented. The papers include Gibson's military and family records, including his marriage certificate to Kate Garrett, Army promotion certificates, and burial plot records for Washington National Cemetery, 1869-1894, with a letter from Katherine Gibson Fougera about the marriage certificate, circa 1940; letters from Donald McIntosh to Mary Garrett McIntosh, 1876; letters from George Armstong Custer's widow, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, to Katherine Garrett Gibson, circa 1919 and undated; letters from General George H. Cameron to Francis Marion Gibson and Kate Garrett Gibson, 1916-1919; and letters concerning Gibson family history from E. S. Luce, Superintendent of the Custer Battlefield National Cemetery, to Katherine Gibson Fougera, 1941-1955, with four photographs of the park enclosed. Accompanied by later genealogical material compiled by descendants and transcript of notes made by Kate Garrett Gibson in 1924, circa 2013.
Description:
Gift of Margaret Christensen, 2013.
Subject (Name):
Cameron, George H., Custer, Elizabeth Bacon,--1842-1933, Fougera, Katherine Gibson,--1882, Garrett family, Gibson family, Gibson, Francis M, Gibson, Kate Garrett,--1853-1934., Luce, E. S.,--active 1941-1955., McIntosh, Donald,--1838-1876., McIntosh, Mary Garrett,--1853-1910., and United States.--Army.--Cavalry, 7th
Subject (Topic):
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 and Soldiers--West (U.S.)