Finding Guide to the Chesterwood Archives

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Finding Guide
to the
Archival Collections
of
Chesterwood
Compiled by:
Linda W. Jackson
Heather MacIntosh
Rodney G. Obien
Wanda M. Styka
National Trust for Historic Preservation
December 1995
Emended First Edition June 1996
Second Edition October 1997
Third Edition December 1999
Revised February 2007
Further Revised 2011
Further Revised 2016
Table of Contents
1.
Preface .............................................................................................................. 2
2.
Introduction ........................................................................................................ 4
2.1 Brief Overview: Chesterwood ...................................................................... 4
2.2 Description of Archival Holdings .................................................................. 7
2.3 Access to Holdings ...................................................................................... 7
3.
French Family Collection ................................................................................... 8
3.1 Daniel Chester French (DCF) Series ........................................................... 9
DCF Photographic Materials ................................................................. 10
DCF Sculpture Photographs ....................................................... 10
DCF Research Photographs ...................................................... 35
DCF Family, Friends, Places, Chesterwood Photographs.......... 47
DCF Copper Plates .................................................................... 55
DCF Daguerreotypes, Cartes de Visite ...................................... 56
DCF Tintypes ............................................................................. 56
DCF Oversize Photographs ........................................................ 57
DCF Glass Plate Negatives ........................................................ 64
DCF Autochromes ...................................................................... 64
DCF Architectural Drawings, Maps & Posters ....................................... 66
DCF Papers & Manuscripts ................................................................... 89
DCF Albums/Scrapbooks/Bound Materials ........................................... 99
DCF Sketchbooks ............................................................................... 102
DCF Awards, Certificates & Diplomas ................................................. 103
DCF Ephemera ................................................................................... 105
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
Margaret French Cresson (MFC) Series ................................................. 110
Mary Adams French Series ..................................................................... 163
Henry Flagg French Series ...................................................................... 172
Henry French Hollis Series ...................................................................... 173
William Penn Cresson Series .................................................................. 175
Helen Douglass French Series ................................................................ 187
4.
Supplementary Gifts Collection ...................................................................... 188
5.
The Trustees of Reservations Collection ....................................................... 188
6.
Daniel Chester French Foundation Collection ............................................... 193
7.
Rosamond Sherwood Collection ...................................................................... 20
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Preface
In 1969, ownership of Chesterwood, with the exception of the Residence, passed to the
National Trust. Included was the studio of Daniel Chester French, built in 1898, which
contained many of its original contents of sculpture and furniture, books and an abundance of
historical documents consisting primarily of photographs, architectural drawings, albums, and
scrapbooks. The material, with little exception, related either specifically to the work of French
or to art in general. The photographs were in the drawers of two tall chests and a cabinet; the
architectural drawings were for the most part either rolled or folded and were also stored in
drawers; apparently a few stood upright in large ceramic jars. Two albums were displayed in
the Studio, several bound items were stowed in the shelves of a pedestal in the Reception
Room, and the cabinet in the Studio enclosed some bound items as well.
The tall chests were emptied and the contents were removed to the collections storage of the
museum. In 1973, accession numbers were assigned to each item and most of the
architectural drawings were flattened and filed in map cabinets. Archival boxes stored the
remainder of the collection. This first step in the organization of the archives was overseen by
Susan Frisch, its first archivist, who became Manager of Education and Visitor Services. Also
in 1973, Margaret French Cresson, the daughter of the sculptor, passed away and by bequest
left the Residence and its contents. Included was the archival material of D.C. French, as well
as his daughter, his wife, and his son-in-law. Much of this historical material belongs to the
period of French’s lifetime, but a considerable amount belongs to the forty years following his
death.
Beginning in about 1961 and in following years, Mrs. Cresson gave to the Library of Congress
papers belonging to her father and various members of his family, including those of her own
and of her husband, which comprise approximately 93 containers. The holdings of
Chesterwood, namely those that were kept in the Studio and in the Residence, complement
those in the Library of Congress. The former has a substantial photographic record, whereas
the latter collection consists mostly of correspondence.
For the1976-77 major retrospective exhibit of the work of Daniel Chester French, and before
an inventory could be made, the files mostly those stored by M.F. Cresson in the Residence,
were disturbed. The restoration of their organization, a potential difficulty and part of the
current project, was ensured by the careful trail of notations put in these files by 1975-76
exhibit assistant Lillian H. Peck.
Many documents stored in the house, which included the working papers of Mrs. Cresson,
were left in place until 1984-85 when they and the remainder still in the Studio were
systematically removed, inventoried, boxed and stored with the full collection and accessible to
the Chesterwood staff.
The archives are used extensively by staff members and by outside researchers. Numerous
requests for information and for photographs are processed each year. With the completion of
this Finding Guide the full collection will be at last be truly accessible, both physically and
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intellectually. For this achievement we are indebted to: Barbara Martin, past National Trust
Senior Curator; the initiator of this project; Rodney G. Obien, past National Trust Archivist,
whose help and support have been of inestimable benefit; and to Linda Wesselman Jackson,
Chesterwood Manager of Collections and Interpretation, who continues to meet the goals of
this project.
Looking back, I reflect on how great is the debt that everyone who uses this archive owes to
Margaret French Cresson, who preserved a treasury of historical documents and who chose to
give it to the National Trust to carry on the work of preservation and presentation. Our ultimate
obligation is, of course to French not only for the beauty and inspiration of his sculpture but
also for his having made and kept a record of his long and productive life and career.
Looking ahead, I anticipate that many historians, of art, landscape, and architecture and other
disciplines, such as sculpture conservation, will make use of the archive with greater efficiency
and with significant productivity. We have this project to thank for this future goal.
Wanda Magdeleine Styka
Archivist
Chesterwood
August 18, 1995
[Preface revised by :
Linda W. Jackson
Manager of Collections and Interpretation
March 8, 2007]
Acknowledgement
I should like to thank Rolaine Devoe Ball, former Chesterwood Administrative Assistant, for
adding her expertise to the completion and appearance of this, the first edition of the Finding
Guide to the Archival Collections of Chesterwood: she helped unify the fonts and checked the
entire Guide for typographical errors.
Note on the 2016 Revision
Williams College student Qiana Yang has compared the previous version of this document
against the Chesterwood Archives as currently held in the Chapin Library at Williams College,
Williamstown, Massachusetts, and has added further details of content and quantity. The
document is now much enlarged, but should still be considered a work in progress.
Wayne G. Hammond
Chapin Librarian
September 1, 2016
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Introduction
This finding guide was created to help staff and researchers locate documents found in
Chesterwood's archival collections. The guide begins with an overview of the history of
Chesterwood. This is followed by a brief description of the Chesterwood's archival holdings,
and a note regarding access.
This guide is organized by collection. Each collection has a formal title, a collection number,
the extent of the collection (number of items and/or linear feet) and a scope note. The
collections are further divided into series. Each series has a formal title, a series number,
reference to arrangement (alphabetical, chronological, etc.), reference note and a folder-level
listing of the series' contents. The finding guide is a document on one of Chesterwood’s
shared computer drives.
Notes on acronyms:
CH = Chesterwood room numbers (HABS format)
NAN = no assigned number (ie. accession number)
Brief Overview: Chesterwood
For 33 years, sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) spent his summers living and
working in the idyllic setting of the Berkshires. Primarily a sculptor of public monuments,
French is best known for creating two of our nation's most powerful symbols; The Minute Man
(1875) in Concord, MA and the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln (1922) for the Memorial in
Washington, DC.
D.C. French was one of the most important artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a
period which saw an explosion of civic art and architecture. The years after the Civil War
witnessed enormous change as America became more urbanized, industrial and diverse.
There was an increasing demand for public art expressing the country's emerging wealth and
power and commemorating its heroes. In response, architects and artists were commissioned
to create buildings and monuments that linked America with other great nations and
civilizations. The legacy of the "American Renaissance" can still be seen in public buildings
and sculpture as well as urban parks throughout the country.
An extremely successful artist, D.C. French created more than 100 works of public sculpture.
His sculpture still embellishes major buildings and organizes the landscape in many cities.
French's career spanned half a century, and his work is fascinating for what it tells us about
taste and values as America entered the 20th century.
Born in Exeter, NH, French resided in New York City, but beginning in 1897 moved from May
through October yearly to the rural environment of the Berkshires. His country home and
studio were designed by Henry Bacon, the architect of the Lincoln Memorial, while French
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himself laid out the gardens and woodland walks. Here he executed many commissions and
enjoyed the social life of the resort community.
In 1969, Margaret French Cresson, donated the property to the National Trust for Historic
Preservation. Today, Chesterwood houses what is probably the largest collection of a single
American sculptor, including molds, life casts, and maquettes.
Visitors particularly enjoy viewing French’s spacious Studio (1898) and learning about his
sculpture and how it was made. The site also features the Residence (1900), exhibits in the
Barn Gallery, the gardens and woodlands, and mountain vistas. Chesterwood guides welcome
visitors and interpret the site and its collections through guided tours. An excellent museum
shop in the Gallery features gifts relating to the site’s mission.
ANNOTATED SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR RESEARCHERS
BOOKS
Adams, Adeline. Daniel Chester French: Sculptor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932.
Out of print, this is a good biography by an art writer and sculptor’s wife who also lived
near the Frenches in New York.
Cresson, Margaret French. Journey into Fame: The Life of Daniel Chester French.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947.
Out of print, this is an excellent reminiscence by the sculptor’s daughter
Craven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1968; reprint ed.,
1984.
A classic survey of American sculpture and Chapter 11 focuses on French and several
of his contemporaries in the art world.
Emmet, Alan. So Fine a Prospect: Historic New England Gardens. Hanover, NH and London:
University Press of New England, 1996.
In Chapter 13, Mrs. Emmet focuses on French’s garden design at Chesterwood.
French, Mary Adams. Memories of a Sculptor’s Wife. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928.
Out of print, this informative narrative has firsthand experience of the sculptor’s life and
work.
Goldstein, Ernest. The Statue Abraham Lincoln: A Masterpiece by Daniel Chester French.
Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Co., 1997.
Written for young people, this book about the statue’s creation is informative for all
ages.
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Richman, Michael T. Daniel Chester French, An American Sculptor. Postscript by Paul W.
Ivory. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art for the National Trust for Historic
Preservation, 1976; reprint ed., 1983.
No longer in print, this definitive catalogue of the 1976 retrospective exhibition of the
sculptor’s work describes the breadth of French’s career.
Thomas, Christopher A. The Lincoln Memorial & American Life. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2002.
This account traces the history of the Lincoln Memorial from the first plans to
memorialize the slain President to a place for modern day public rituals.
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Gillette, Jane Brown. Chesterwood. Washington, DC: The National Trust for Historic
Preservation, 1997.
Reprint of a 1992 Historic Preservation article in a handsome booklet format includes
nice photographs of the museum.
A biography of Daniel Chester French is being written by Harold Holzer.
.
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Description of Holdings
Chesterwood’s archival holdings date from the 1840s to today. Measuring about 150 linear
feet, the holdings consist of family papers, including letters, literary manuscripts, legal papers,
financial papers, scrapbooks, diaries, engagement calendars, guest books; photographs;
photograph albums; negatives; sketchbooks; drawings; blueprints and architectural drawings;
audio recordings; and ephemera. The holdings cover, but are not limited to the following
subjects: Daniel Chester French; Mary Adams French; Margaret French Cresson; the Lincoln
Memorial statue and other works by D.C. French; the American Renaissance; American
sculpture; the era of the Country Place; domestic life at Chesterwood; landscape design and
architecture of Chesterwood.
Currently, the holdings are organized into four collections: the French Family Collection; the
Daniel Chester French Foundation Collection; the Rosamond Sherwood Collection and the
Helen Douglass French Collection. Descriptions of these collections are provided in this guide.
Future collections set for inclusion in the next edition of the guide are: The Trustees of
Reservation Collection; the Supplementary Gifts Collection; and the Don Miller Collection.
Access to Holdings
In 2010, most of the papers in the Chesterwood Archives were transferred by the National
Trust for Historic Preservation to the Chapin Library at Williams College, Williamstown,
Massachusetts, for the sake of improved preservation, security, and access to researchers.
Papers related specifically to Chesterwood itself – its land, buildings, collections, and activities
– are retained on site at Chesterwood in Stockbridge. Access to the holdings is available by
appointment in the Chapin Library. Please consult the Chapin Library website
(http://chapin.williams.edu) for hours and directions, or telephone 413-597-2462.
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FRENCH FAMILY COLLECTION
NTARC.CH.1.1-7
1870 - 1973
app. 100 linear feet
When Margaret Cresson French gave Chesterwood to the National Trust in 1969, she also
transferred the contents of the estate. Among these artifacts were documents which were
arranged and described in what is presently the French Family Collection.
This collection measures approximately 100 linear feet and dates from 1870 to 1973. It
consists of: papers; manuscripts; albums; scrapbooks and bound materials; awards;
certificates; diplomas; newspapers, magazines, and clippings; photographic materials;
architectural drawings; audio recordings; and ephemera. The materials cover the subjects of
Daniel Chester French; the French Family; American sculpture; the American Renaissance;
landscape architecture; the Lincoln Memorial; Henry Bacon, twentieth-century social and
domestic life, and Berkshire history.
The collection is currently divided into 7 series: Daniel Chester French Series; Margaret
French Cresson Series; Mary Adams French Series; Henry Flagg French Series; Henry
French Hollis Series; William Penn Cresson Series; and Helen Douglass French Series.
Descriptions of each series are provided on the following pages.
Summary of Photographic Accessions
NT69.38.
Group of historic photographs
D.C. French Foundation
NT69.38.
DCF so-called “working” photograph
collection, ie. photographs collected
for reference and research by him
D.C. French Foundation
NT73.10
Collection of snapshots mostly
taken by Margaret French and
some by DCF (apprx. 2065)
Gift of Margaret F. Cresson
NT73.13
Collection of 42 photographs
Gift of Margaret F. Cresson
NT73.36
Black and white photographs
Gift of John Kappes
NT73.42
Collection of 35 photographs of
Chesterwood Residence
Purchase from Mark Mitchell
NT73.43
Collection of 12 photographs of
Chesterwood springhouse
Gift from Robert Hatch
NT73.45
Group of historic photographs, misc.
Bequest of Margaret F. Cresson
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Daniel Chester French Series
NTARC.CH.1.1
c.1870 - 1931
app. 50 linear feet, arranged by document type
Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is known by many art historians as the dean of American
sculptors. Although no small number of fine and respected sculptors preceded French, it was
not until the American Renaissance (1870s to 1930s) that American sculptors developed a
style and tone which reflected the civic pride typifying this period in American history. French,
along with Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies, and others, articulated this new
sense of collective self awareness in sculptural form.
French was born in Exeter, NH in 1850. After an unsuccessful year at MIT, he returned to his
parent's home in Concord, MA. There, artist Abigail May Alcott fostered his interest in
sculpting, and French began modeling busts and reliefs of friends. His first public commission
came in 1873 from the town of Concord, for which he produced The Minute Man, one of his
most famous works. During the next half century, French would produce over one hundred
public works, including the statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Memorial in Washington, DC, a
work he designed with architect Henry Bacon.
This series consists of approximately 50 linear feet of photographic materials, architectural
drawings, correspondence and manuscripts, albums, scrapbooks and bound materials,
sketchbooks, certificates, awards and diplomas, dating from c.1870s to 1931. Many of the
materials in the series were used by French in the design of his many projects, some
unexecuted. The materials in this series were part of the donation and bequest made to the
National Trust by Margaret French Cresson.
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NTARC.CH.1.1
Photographic Materials:
DCF Sculpture Photographs
Photographs and Prints
- organized by accession number
Boxes 1 through 30, Oversize Boxes I - III, Double-oversize Boxes I and II, and Flat File
Cabinet Drawer 11 (eleven) contain DCF's sculpture photographs. Boxes 31 - 50 & Oversized
Boxes IV - V contain DCF's working (research) photographs. All DCF sculpture photographs
were originally housed in the north tall chest of the Studio and, according to the first director of
Chesterwood, Mary Flynn, they were in no particular order; at the request of (and perhaps
according to the desired arrangement of) Mrs. Cresson, Mary Flynn subsequently arranged the
contents of the north chest. Their accession numbers reflect this arrangement. [Note: There is
also documentation that Helen Douglass French rearranged the photographs in the chests at
one time.] All photographs of works by other artists were originally housed in the south tall
chest of the Studio. Their accession numbers may reflect the way French had arranged them
in their respective drawers. The curatorial arrangement of oversize DCF sculpture photographs
and of DCF working photographs is, respectively, alphabetical and often according to the types
of their mounts. Boxes 51-77 contain an assortment of photographs and photographic
materials, such as images of family friends and associates to professional photographs of
places in the United States and around the world; they include daguerreotypes and tintypes, as
well as some proofs and copper plates. Not boxed, but presently in filing cabinets are DCF’s
glass plate negatives, autochromes, and a few prints.
Box 1: NT 69.38.1275-1281
Anderson Memorial: "The Student" "The Student Blacksmith," 1905 (Carnegie Library,
Allegheny, PA) [.1275.1; .2.1-.2; .3.1; .4.1-.2; .5.1; .5; .9; .10; .6; .7]
- Architectural model (Bogart Studio)
- Sketch (4 count)
- Full-size clay model (6 count, 2 by Peter A. Juley & Son, 2 by Bogart)
- Additional photos (2 count)
Ball Brothers Memorial: "Beneficence," 1930 (Ball State University, Muncie, IN)
[.1276.1-.2, .4-.7, .9, .11-.21; NT 69.38.3498]
- In situ (8 count)
- Full-size clay model (De Witt Ward)
- Working model (De Witt Ward)
- Sketch (2 count, De Witt Ward)
- Architectural model (10 count, 2 by De Witt Ward, 6 by Shapiro Studio)
- Additional photo (oversize) [NT69.38.3498] (oversized sheet protector)
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Clark Memorial: "Kneeling Angels," 1895, 1905 (Forest Hills Cemetary, Boston,
MA) [.1277.1-.8; NANs]
- Photos of the right angel (8 count)
- Photos of the left angel (12 count, 2 by Bogart Studio)
.
Milmore Memorial: "Death & the Sculptor" (Forest Hills Cemetary, Boston, MA)
[.1278.3-.4, .6-.7, .9-.10; NT 73.13.29-30; NANs]
- Sketch (2 count)
- Full-size CH plaster (MFC) (3 count)
- In situ (3 count)
- DCF originals (6 count; NT73.13.21 temporarily removed)
.
Russell A. Alger Memorial: "Michigan" (Commission for Detroit, MI. Second cast,
Greenfield, MA) [.1279.2-.9; .1399.1; NAN]
- Completed statue front view (4 count)
- Additional models (9 count)
.
Butt-Millet Memorial fountain (Washington, D.C.) [.1280.1-.11; NANs]
- Architectural models (3 count)
- Sketches (4 count)
- Full-size clay models (2 count)
- In situ (4 count)
.
Chapman Memorial (Milwaukee, WI) (8 count) [.1281.1-.5]
Box 2: NT 69.38.1282-.1288
.
Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, 1918 (Also “Black Angel,” “Dream Angel,” “The
Water of Life”; Council Bluffs, IA) (5 count) [.1282.1-.4, .7; NAN]
.
Newcomer Memorial, 1906 (Also “Newcomer Fountain”; Emmanuel Church,
Baltimore, MD) (6 count) [.1283.1-.2; NANs]
.
Field Memorial, Marshall: "Memory," 1911 (Graceland Cemetary (Chicago, IL)
[.1284.1-.6; NAN]
- Sited (3 count)
- Full-size plaster (2 count; De Witt Ward and Peter A Juley & Son)
- Full-size clay (4 count; 2 by Bogart)
.
Hazard Memorial: "Life, Time and the Weaver," 1920 (Peacedale, RI) [.1285.1,
.3-.8; NT 73.13.23; NANs]
- In situ (4 count)
- Clay model (image temporarily removed)
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-
Sketch (5 count)
Plaster full-size model (5 count)
.
Kinsley (Hutchinson) Memorial, 1910-11 (Woodlawn Cemetery, Queens, NY)
[.1286.1, .3-.4; 1426.1.2; NT 73.36.1(10)]
- Preliminary sketch (2 count)
- Full-size clay (5 count, 1 linen-mounted)
.
Hunt [Richard Morris] Memorial: "Architecture" and "Painting & Sculpture," 1898-1900
(Fifth Ave., New York City); Folder I: Copy prints and later prints [.1287.5, .12, .16-.19,
.21; NANs]
- Study – Carlotta (4 count)
- Sketches (5 count)
- In situ (2 count)
- Additional photos (4 count, 2 by Bogart)
.
Hunt Memorial: "Architecture" and "Painting & Sculpture"; Folder II: DCF period,
unmounted (6 count) [.1287.5-.7, .13, .15, .20; NAN]
.
Hunt Memorial: "Architecture" and "Painting & Sculpture"; Folder III: DCF period,
mounted (12 count) [.1287.1-.4, .9-.11]
.
August Robert Meyer Memorial, 1908? (Kansas City, MO) [.1288.1]
Box 3: NT 69.38.1289-1294
.
Parkman Memorial, Francis, 1906 (Jamaica Plain, MA) [.1289.1-.3, .6-.7, .9;
NANs]
- Full-sized model: NT.69.38.1289.2.2, by Bogart Studio.
- In situ: Four photos, two by Bogart Studio, include NT.69.38.1289.9
- Working model or full-sized model in progress: NT.69.38.1289.5 and
NT.69.38.1289.6
- Preliminary sketches: NT.69.38.1289.3 (Bogart), NT.69.38.1289.7.1,
NT and 69.38.1289.7.2
- Portrait relief: two photos, include NT.69.38.1289.1.1 and NT.
69.38.1289.1.2 (copy of .1), both by Bogart Studio.
.
Russell Memorial: "The Angel of the Flowers," 1927 (Greenfield, MA) [.1290.1-.3,
.5-.7]
- Five small photos in an envelope: NT.69.38.1290.1-5
- Sketch and working models: NT.69.38.1290.2.3-5, NT.69.38.1290.3.1,
all photographed by De Witt Ward.
- Other photos: NT.69.38.1290.1.1, NT.69.38.1290.1.2,
NT.69.38.1290.1.5 (De Witt Ward), NT.69.38.1.6 (De Witt Ward),
NT.69.38.1.8 (De Witt Ward), NT. 69.38.1290.4-7 (.5 and .6 by De Witt
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Ward)
.
Slocum Memorial, 1910 (Boston, MA) (2 count) [.1291.1-2]
.
"Industry" (See Williams Memorial to which this is related.) [.1292.1-.5]
- Five photos, NT.69.38.12.1292.1.1 (De Witt Ward),
NT.69.38.12.1292.2-5 (2, 4, 5 by Bogart Studio).
.
Stuyvesant Memorial, "Angel of Peace," 1913-14 (Allamuchy, NJ) [.1293.1-.5;
NANs]
- Full-sized clay model: NT.69.38.1293.3 (Bogart), NT.69.38.1293.1.8,
NT.69.38.1293.1.6 (Bogart), NT.69.38.1293.1.7
- Working model (clay): NT.69.38.1293.2.2-4 (Bogart), NT.73.13.1
(image temporarily removed)
- Other photos: NT.69.38.1293.4, NT.69.38.1293.6, NT.69.38.1293.7,
NT.69.38.1293.1.1, NT.69.38.1293.1.3, NT.69.38.1293.1.4
.
White Memorial, Alfred Tredway, 1922 (Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY) [.1294.1.5; NT 73.36.1(2)]
- Clay in progress; finished clay: NT.69.38.1294.1.1-2,
NT.69.38.1294.4.1-2, all photographed by Alfred M. Costello
- Other photos: NT.69.38.1294.2 (Bogart), NT.69.38.1294.3,
NT.69.38.1294.5.1-2 (Bogart), NT.73.36.1(.2)
Box 4: NT 69.38.1295-.1296
George Westinghouse Memorial; Folder I: Live Models (15 count) [.1295.1-.9,
.16, .18-20, .31-.32]
George Westinghouse Memorial; Folder II: Live Models (15 count) [.1295.40-.47,
.54-.57, .59, .77; NT 73.45.5074]
Westinghouse Memorial; Folder III: Clay and Plaster Models, Front Reliefs (10
count, De Witt Ward) [.1295.10-.11, .17.1-.4, .37.1-.3, .58.1-.2]
Westinghouse Memorial; Folder IV: Clay and Plaster Models, Rear Reliefs (13
count, De Witt Ward) [.1295.12, .13.1-.13.2, .15, .35.1-.2, .36.1-.4, .78]
Westinghouse Memorial; Folder V: Clay and Plaster Models (oversized sheet
protector) [.1295.33.1-.33.2, .34] [.51-.52, .61-.62, .64-.66]
- Westinghouse portrait relief (3 count, De Witt Ward)
- Clay figure model (7 count, De Witt Ward)
- Plaster figure model (5 count, De Witt Ward)
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Westinghouse Memorial; Folder VI: in situ, Pittsburgh, PA (12 count) [Statue: .1295.25 .26, .60, .74] [Overall: .22, .23, .27, .29, .38, .39, .48]
Westinghouse Memorial; Folder VII: in situ, Pittsburgh, PA (8 count) [Overall: .1295.49,
.50, .67, .75, .79, .80, .81, 82, .83]
Westinghouse Memorial; Folder VIII: in situ, Pittsburgh, PA [Plans: (2 count).1295.71.72] [Pre-installation: (3 count) 1295.24, .28, .30]
Westinghouse Memorial; Folder IX: in situ, Pittsburgh, PA (3 count) [Unveiling:
.1295.76, .84, .85]
Westinghouse, George: bronze bust, 1925 (Washington, D.C.) (5 count + empty
envelope) [.1295.68-.70, .73]
John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial: "Erin and Her Sons, Patriotism and Poetry," 1897
(Boston, MA)
Folder I: [.1296.1-.3, .7-.8, NT 73.45.5045, .5104]
- Clay model (5 count)
- Additional photo (3 count, 1 in envelope)
Folder II: (3 count) [1296.4-.6]
Box 5: NT 69.38.1297-.1298
.
George Robert White Memorial: "The Sower" or "The Spirit of Giving" fountain statue,
1922 (Public Gardens, Boston, MA); Folder I: in situ (13 count) [.1297.1, .4, .6-.7, .10,
.17, .29]
.
George Robert White Memorial: "The Sower" or "The Spirit of Giving" fountain statue;
Folder II: solar print in situ (7 count) [.1297.2-.3, .5, .13-.14]
.
Folder III: architectural and working models (8 count, 2 by De Witt Ward; 3 period prints
[NT69.38.1297.26.1-3] removed and filed with studio (CH) interior prints) [.1297.8, .19,
.23-.28, .30, .32]
.
Folder IV: full-size model [.1297.9, .11-.12, .15-.16, .20-.22, .31, .33-.34; NT 73.10(737)]
- Early stage of full-size model/clay model in process (3 count)
- Plaster full-size model (18 count; NT73.10.737 relocated to the NN
files)
.
White, George Robert, 1919, portrait relief: Sheppard Library, Massachusetts
College of Pharmacy, Boston, MA (1 count) [.1297.35]
15
.
George R.White Memorial: "Angel of Peace", (Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica
Plain, MA) (10 count) [.1298.2-.4]
Box 6: NT 69.38.1299-.1302
Spencer Trask Memorial: "The Spirit of Life," 1915 (Saratoga Springs, NY); Folder I:
DCF period and DCF copies [.1299.1.1-.2; .2; .3; .4.1-.2; .5; .6.10; .7; .18.1; .21.1; .22.1.3; .23; .26; .27; NT 73.45.A117-.A119]
- Sketch (2 count)
- Working model (1)
- Full-size model (10 count)
- Dedication (1 count)
- In situ (7 count)
Spencer Trask Memorial: "The Spirit of Life," Saratoga Springs, NY; Folder II: MFC
period copy prints and later photos (28 count) [.1299.6.1-.9; .11.4; .17.1-.18]
Spencer Trask Memorial: "The Spirit of Life," Saratoga Springs, NY; Folder III: MFC
period copy prints and later photos (29 count) [.1299.18.2-.3; .19.1-.11; .20.1-.15; .21.2]
Spencer Trask Memorial: "The Spirit of Life," Saratoga Springs, NY; Folder IV: mounted
and large unmounted (11 count) [.1299.11.1-.3; .12.1-.3; .13.1-.3; .14; .15; NT
73.45.A120]
Marquis de Lafayette, 1921 (6 count) (Lafayette College, Easton, PA) [.1300.1-.6]
John Adams, 1889 (Gallery of the Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C.) (4 count;
1 in a large black envelope) [.1301.1-.4]
Jesse Parker Williams Memorial: "Achievement" (Atlanta, GA) [.1302.1; 2.1-.3;
.3; .5.1-.2]
- Large mounted marble (1)
- Small unmounted marble (2)
- Preliminary sketch (1)
- Full-size clay model (1)
Box 7: NT 69.38.1303-.1304
Senator George Frisbie Hoar, (bronze statue); Folder I: [.1303.4; .6; .7; .8.1-.3;
.9.1-.5; .10; .11; .12]
o Full-size model, 10 count, include NT.69.38.1303.12 (Bogart).
o DCF or MFC copy prints: 4 count
16
Senator George Frisbie Hoar (bronze statue); Folder II: large mounted (Bogart, 3 count)
[.1303.1-.3]
Sherman Hoar, photo by A. Joyce Jr. (oversized sheet protector) [.1303.14]
Lincoln, Abraham (standing), 1911 (State House, Lincoln, NE); Folder I: DCF period
(includes mounted) [.1304.1; .2; .5.1-.2; .6.1-.8; .7.1-.2; .8.1-.3; .10.1-.4; .11.1-.4; .12;
.13.1-.2; .15]
o Full-size plaster cast, bust: 7 count (De Witt Ward).
o Full-size plaster cast, complete: 9 count (oversized sheet
protector).
o Working model: 4 count.
o In situ: 7 count.
o Working Model NT.69.38.1304.1
o Clay Model NT.69.38.1304.2 (Bogart)
Lincoln, Abraham (standing), Lincoln, NE; Folder II: copies and later photos [.1304.9.1.2; .14; .16; .17]
o Standing portrait by Peter A. Juley & Son: NT.69.38.1304.9.1-2,
NT.69.38.1304.14 (oversized sheet protector)
o Administrative copy print? NT.69.38.1304.4
o Other photos: NT 69.38.1304.16-17
Lincoln, Abraham (standing), Chesterwood; Folder III: copies and later photos
[.1304.18.1-.2; .19.1-.9; .20; .21; .22; .23; .24; .25]
o Standing portrait by Eugene Mitchell: 13 count.
o Other photos: Different angles of Standing Lincoln (3 count);
Senator Brooke, at unveiling of Standing Lincoln.
Box 8: NT 69.38.1305.2-.55, etc.
Lincoln, Abraham (seated), Washington, DC; Folder I: 7-foot model [.1305.2; .6.1-.9; .7;
.20-.21; .54] DCF period
- Folder 1: Prints of 2 images (3 count)
- Folder 2: Prints of 1 image (10 count; 4 by De Witt Ward)
Lincoln, Abraham (seated), Washington, DC; Folder II: Plaster working model (4 count)
[.1305.3; .11.1-.2] DCF period
Lincoln, Abraham (seated), Washington, DC; Folder III: Lighting (10 count, by De Witt
Ward) [.1305.4.1-.7 (.1305.4.3 is matted, oversize); NT 73.13.25; NT 73.45.5284-.5286]
DCF period
Lincoln, Abraham (seated), Washington, DC; Folder IV: Bronze head (2 count)
17
[.1305.9.1; .55]
Lincoln, Abraham (seated), Washington, DC; Folder V: Statue/ pedestal [.1305.12] DCF
period
Lincoln, Abraham (seated), Washington, DC; Folder VI: Clay working model
[.1305.13.2] DCF period
Lincoln, Abraham (seated), Washington, DC; Folder VII: Working model/ plaster
presentation model (3 count) [.1305.14; .15; .17] DCF period
Lincoln, Abraham (seated), Washington, DC; Folder VIII: Drawing images of veiled
statue (2 count) [.1305.16; NT 73.13.28] DCF period
Lincoln, Abraham (seated), Washington, DC; Folder IX: 10-foot model (4 count)
[.1305.18.1-.3; NT 73.45.5146] DCF period
Lincoln Memorial; Folder X: building whole view (5 count) [.1305.19; .24; .45; .49; NT
73.13.14] DCF period
Lincoln, Memorial; Folder XI: Assembling statue (6 count; 4 by De Witt Ward; 2 by Peter
A. Juley & Son) [.1305.43.3-.9; NT 69.38.3315; NAN] DCF period
Lincoln Memorial; Folder XII: postcards sent to DCF, 1914-1930 [NT 73.45.A135 (Henry
Bacon); .A136 (Henry Bacon); .A137 (Malvina Hoffman); .A138 (Alfred Lenz); .A139
(M.F. Jameson)] DCF period
Lincoln, Memorial; Folder XIII: Watercolor rendering by Jules Guerin (oversized sheet
protector) [.23.2] DCF period
Lincoln, Memorial; Folder XIV: Architectural model (2 count) [.50; .51] DCF period
Lincoln Memorial; Folder XIV: photos of early renderings by Bacon and Guerin, image
copies from DCF paper files [unnumbered]
- Copies of architectural drawings, photographed by Bernie Cleff,
previously collected by Chesterwood Museum (8 count)
- Numerous photos of early renderings
- Numerous paper copies of photos of early renderings
Box 9: NT 69.38.1305.6-.1306.1
Lincoln, Abraham (seated) statue and statue in situ, Washington, DC; Folder I:
[.1305.6.4; .6.6; .6.8; .6.11; .9.2, .9.3; .28.2; .37.1-.5]
- 7-feet plaster model: copy prints of DCF period prints: 7 count
(oversized sheet protector)
18
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Photos of statue before dedication: 3 count
Lincoln Memorial interior showing: 5 count
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC; Folder II: MFC period copy prints of DCF period
photographs
- Under construction (9 count) [.28.1-.2; .30; .35; .36; .38; .39; .40; .41;
.43.1-.2; NT 73.45.A64]
- Pre-dedication (missing) [NT69.38.1305.19.1-2]
- Dedication (7 count) [.22; .29; .32; .33; .34; .57; NT 73.45.A156.2]
Lincoln Memorial; Folder III: [.26; .56; NT 73.45.A89; .A90.1-.2; .A94.1-.2]
- Paper print of Lincoln Memorial
- Head photos by Jerry L. Thompson (4 count)
- Numerous photographic films of Lincoln construction
- Phots of plaster life mask of A. Lincoln (2 count)
- Other photos: 9 count, include 1 oversized
Lincoln Memorial; Folder IV: Statue in situ (11 count) [.1305.8.1; .47; .48; .59; NT
73.45.A81; .A82; .A83; .A84.1-.2; .A85.1-.2]
Lincoln Memorial; Folder V: building whole view, MFC period photographs (9 count)
[.1305.52; .53; .58; NT 73.45.A74; .A75.1-.5; A80]
Copy print of historical photograph of A. Lincoln (only his head visible) seated amidst
milling crowd, at Gettysburg, 1863, mounted, c.1960 [.1306.1]
Additional photo: Lincoln Statue sideview [NT69.38.1305.8.1]
Box 10: NT 69.38.1307-.1310
Cass, Lewis, 1889 (Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.) (3
count) [.1307.1-.2; NAN]
General George Washington, 1900 (Place D’Iena, Paris): Folder I [.1308.1-.4, .7, .26;
NANs]
- Sketch (1 count)
- Dedication (1 count)
- In situ (5 count, include 3 postcards)
- Working model (5 count)
General George Washington: Folder II: Full-size model (18 count) [.1308.5-.6, .8-.13,
.15, .25, .27; NANs]
Daniel Webster, 1931 [.1309.1-.7; NT69.38.3154; NT 73.36.1(3)-(5)] [note on
19
standing figure says “Sketch completed by Margaret French Cresson.”]
- Statue figure (18 count)
- Statue bust (8 count, De Witt Ward)
Dewey Arch, Admiral George: "Peace," 1899 (12 count) [.1310.1, .5; NANs] [group by
DCF; heroic bust by MFC (1932?) in folder.]
Dewey Medal, Commodore George (8 count, 4 by Bogart Studio) [.1310.2-.3, .6.7; NANs]
USS Olympia Relief (Bogart) [.1310.4]
Box 11: NT 69.38.1311-.1315
Statue of Governor Walcott, Boston, MA (10 count; include 7 by Bogart Studio, 2 by T.
E. Marr) [.1311.1; .2; .3.1-.2; .4; .5; .6; .7 .8; .9]
William Henry Seward Bust Model, Florida, NY, 1900 [.1312.1.1-.3; .2; .3; .4.1-.3; .5; .6]
- Plaster bust: 5 count (De Witt Ward)
- Architectural model: 6 count (5 by De Witt Ward)
Statue of Thomas Starr King, San Francisco, CA (2 count) [.1313.1-.2]
Statue of Governor Pillsbury, Minneapolis, MN (4 count, 3 by Bogart Studio)
[.1314.1-.4]
The Minute Man; Folder I: working model, 1873 [.1315.2]
The Minute Man; Folder II: full-size plaster cast, DCF originals, 1874 (3 count) [.1315.8;
.25.1; .2]
The Minute Man; Folder III: in situ (12 count) [.1315.1, .5, .7, .9, .11-.13, .17-.18; NT
73.45. (A161-A163)]
The Minute Man; Folder IV: The Concord Minute Man of 1775 (1889) and its reduction,
DCF originals (10 count, include 3 by Bogart Studio, 1 by Milton J. Washburn)
[.1315.3.1-.3; .10; .14; .15; .16; .19; .20; .21]
The Minute Man; Folder V: The Concord Minute Man of 1775 as the S.L. Guggenheim
Trophy (1917) [.1315.6.1-.5; .7-.11]
- MFC period copy prints: 8 copies (Mrs. Charles Davis Jameson)
- Other photos: 2 count, NT69.38.1315.6.1-2
The Minute Man; Folder VI: copy prints of historic photos [.1315.2.2; .7.3; NT
73.45.A96; .A98; A148]
20
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Handwritten drawing (Shapiro Studio) [NT73.45.A148]
MFC copy print (A. Hosmer) [NT73.45.A98]
MFC period copy [N73.45.A96]
MFC period copy of DCF Per. Print (Shapiro Studio)
[NT69.38.1315.2.2]
MFC copy print (Peter A. Juley & Son) [NT69.38.1315.7.3]
The Minute Man; Folder VII: MFC period, including postcards: (10 count) [.1315.4.1-.2;
.22; .23; .24]
Box 12: NT 69.38.1316-.1318
.
Statue of General Oglethorpe, 1910 (Chippewa Square, Savannah, GA)
[.1316.1-.8; NANs]
- Clay model (3 count, Bogart)
- Additional photos (9 count; 5 by Bogart Studio, 1 by Peter A.
Juley & Son)
.
Statue of Commodore Perkins, 1901 (Concord, NH; replica, NYC) [.1317.1-.7]
- Architectural models (2 count, Bogart)
- Replica (4 count)
.
Melvin Memorial: Mask of "Mourning Victory," 1909: Folder I: [.1318.1-.3, .7, .10.11, .13; NANs] DCF period
- Full-size unfinished clay model (3 count)
- Full-size finished clay model (6 count; 4 by Bogart Studio)
- Study for the head (4 count)
- In situ: two photos and a paper copy
- Photo of marble replica
- Photo of white marble
- Plaster model (2 count, Bogart)
.
Melvin Memorial ("Mourning Victory"), 1909 (Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA):
Folder II: [.1318.5-.9, .12; NANs] MFC period prints
- Study for the head (12 count)
- Full-size finished clay model (2 count)
- In situ (3 count)
Box 13: NT 69.38.1319-.1324
Benediction, Cambridge, MA, 1923; maquette, working model, bronze cast of detail of
unexecuted monument (see foll.) [.1319.1-.2, .5-.6, .8; NANs]
- Sketch (10 count)
21
-
Clay working model (7 count)
Additional photo (1 count, unnumbered)
.
Massachusetts War Memorial Project ("Benediction"), St. Mihiel, France; design model
of whole monument (see preceding) [.1319.3-.4, .7, .9]
- Design model (5 count)
- Central portion – design model (5 count)
.
Exeter War Memorial (Soldiers Monument), Exeter, NH [.1320.1-.20]
- In situ (27 count)
- Sketch (2 count)
.
Rouget de Lisle Memorial ("The Marseillaise"), 1920 (Strasbourg, France) (8 count)
[.1321.1-.2]
.
General Joseph Hooker, 1903 (Boston, MA); Folder I: equestrian portrait (9 count)
[.1322.1-.5; NT73.45.5191.1-.2, .5192-.5193]
.
General Joseph Hooker, Folder II: include stereoviews and period photographs of Gen.
Hooker (c.1863) and of an Arab horse (1900), used by French for the equestrian statue
(15 count total) [NANs]
.
General Charles Devens, Worcester, MA (8 count) [.1323.1-.5]
.
General George Meade, Philadelphia, PA: periodic photo and architectural model
(3 total) [.1324.1]
Box 14: NT 69.38.1325-1327
General William Draper, 1912 (Milford, MA) [.1325.1-.2, .4-.5, .7-.9]
- In situ (4 count)
Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont Memorial, ("Sea," "Wind," and "Sky"/"Stars"), 1920
(Washington, DC); Folder I (12 count; 7 by De Witt Ward, 4 by Commercial Photo
Co.) [.1326.1-.2 .5 .10-13] DCF period
Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont Memorial ("Sea," "Wind," and "Sky"/"Stars")],
Washington, DC; Folder II: [.1326.4, .7, .13-.19; NT 73.45(A103)-(A110)] MFC
period
- Later photos (30 count)
- MFC copy prints of DCF originals and DCF period (10 count)
22
Saint Paul's School War Memorial ("Death and Youth"), Concord, NH; [.1327.1-.5, .7,
.9-.13; NANs]
- Sketch (16 count)
- Architectural model (3 count, De Witt Ward)
- In situ (2 count)
- Plaster model (9 count, 2 by De Witt Ward, 1 by Peter A. Juley & Son)
General Sheridan [73.45.5114]
Box 15: NT 69.38.1328-.1332
.
First Division Memorial ("Victory"), 1921; Folder I: Later prints [.1328.1, .4-.5, .12.13, .15; NANs]
- In situ (6 count)
- Sketch (25 count)
- Elevation (1 count)
- Working model (18 count; NT73.10.899 relocated to the NN
files)
First Division Memorial ("Victory"); Folder II: [.1328.1-.2, .6, .8, .10-.11; NANs]
DCF period
- Statue overview (5 count; De Witt Ward)
- Architectural model (3 count; 2 by Bogart)
- Working model (15 count; 12 by De Witt Ward)
.
First Division Memorial "Victory"; Folder III: detail, "Head of Victory" (17 count) [.1328.3,
.7; NANs]
.
General Ulysses Grant, 1894 (Enfield, MA; Philadelphia, PA) (6 count) [.1329.1.2; NANs]
.
Duryea War Relief Statuette ("Pour la France" or “War Sufferer”) (5 count)
[.1330.1-.2]
.
General William Francis Bartlett, (statue) (6 count; 3 by Bogart Studio) [.1331.1.2, .4-.6]
Grave Marker of Edward Jarvis Bartlett, bronze tablet, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery,
Concord, MA, 1914 [.1331.1.2] [sic]
.
Buttrick Memorial, 1915 (Concord, MA) (5 count) [.1332.1-3]
Box 16: NT 69.38.1333 -.1345
23
.
Milton War Memorial ("In Flanders Fields"), 1925, (Milton, MA) (9 count) [.1333.1,
.3-.5; NANs]
.
Marquis de Lafayette Memorial, 1915-17 (Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY)
(oversized sheet protector) [.1334.2-.5, .7-.9; NT 73.13.1(15); NT 73.45.5201.5206; 5229.91.4]
- Full-size plaster model (6 count)
- Working model, 1915 (2 count)
- Sketch (2 count)
- Full-size clay model in process (1 count)
- In situ (14 count; 9 by Bogart Studio; NT73.13.15 temporarily
removed)
.
Bowles, Samuel (Springfield Republic Building, Springfield, MA) (4 count, 2 by
Bogart Studio) [.1335.1-.3]
.
Bishop Phillips Brooks, 1899, (Trinity Church, Boston, MA; Hall of Fame) (9
count; 6 by Bogart) [.1336.2-.5; NANs]
.
Reverend Arthur Brooks (Church of the Incarnation, New York City relief) (2 count)
[.1336.6-.7]
.
J. Elliot Cabot, (bust), 1880 [.1337.1]
.
Dr. Samuel Cabot, (bust), 1885 [.1337.2]
.
Dean, Bashford (plaque), 1930? (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (4 count) [.1338.1.2]
.
Choate, Rufus (standing figure) (oversized sheet protector) [.1339.1]
.
Delano, Jennie Walters (relief), 1898 (2 count) [.1340.1; NAN]
.
Forbes, John Murray (bust), 1888 (2 count) [.1341.2]
.
Phillips, Wendell (standing figure), 1915 (Boston, MA) (4 count) [.1342.1; NT 73.45
(A166-A168)]
.
Dr. Stephen Rainsford, (bust), St. George's Church (2 count) [.1343.1]
.
Spencer, Samuel (seated figure), 1910 (Atlanta, GA) (10 count; 3 by Bogart
Studio) [.1344.1-.7]
.
Swasey, Ambrose (bust), 1922 (6 count) [.1345.1]
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Note: Studio views include Div. I Victory
Box 17: NT 69.38.1346-.1349
.
Hon. Henry White (National Cathedral) (7 count, De Witt Ward) [.1346.1]
.
Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White (Mrs. Henry White) (National Cathedral)
(3 count, De Witt Ward) [.1346.2, .4]
.
Emily Vanderbilt White (Mrs. Henry White) (marble at Chesterwood) [.1346.3]
.
Cornelia Fanning Gay (bust) (3 count) [.1347.1]
.
Julia Worthington, (Mrs. Charles Campbell Worthington) [.1347.2-.3; NT
73.45(A111); NANs]
- Bust (5 count)
- Photos picturing Julia Worthington (4 count)
.
Florence Hoar, (Mrs. Moses Bradford; bust) [.1347.4]
.
Susie Taft, 1885 (relief of New York; 3 count) [.1347.5]
.
French, William Merchant Richardson (plaque), 1916 (St. Paul’s Evangelical Church,
Beverly Hills, Chicago) (Bogart Studio) [.1348.1]
.
French, Elizabeth Richardson [“Bessie French,” Lady Cheylesmore] (bust), 1885 (4
count) [.1348.2; NANs]
.
French, Francis Ormond (“Frank”; bust) [.1348.3]
.
Judge Henry Flagg French, (1878, bust; 3 count) [.1348(.4?); NANs]
.
Judge Henry Flagg French, (1869; bust) [note: DCF’s first bust of his father] [NAN]
.
Life cast of hand of Daniel Chester French, 1921 (16 count) [note: limited to ten
copies; $1000) [.1349.1; NAN]
Box 18: NT 69.38.1350-.1354
.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, bust, 1879 (28 count) [note: different mediums] [.1350.1.8, .17, .19; NANs]
.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Concord, MA, statue (23 count; 8 by Bogart Studio)
[.1350.9-.16, .18; NANs]
25
.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (bust, 1923; Peter A. Juley & Son) [NAN]
.
Washington Irving Memorial, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY [note: image of DCF in
NYC, Emerson in background] [.1351.1-.2, .4, .6-.8; NAN]
- Statuette (8 count)
- Bust (1 count, by De Witt Ward)
- Full-size model (8 count, 4 by De Witt Ward)
- In situ (DCF originals only) (2 count, De Witt Ward)
- 1 additional photo by De Witt Ward
.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Memorial, Cambridge, MA (9 count) [.1352.1, .9;
NAN]
.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Project, Minnehaha Falls Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
unrealized, 1891 [.1352.6]
.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (bust), Hall of Fame, City University of New York (2 count, De
Witt Ward) [.1353.1.1-2]
.
Edgar Allan Poe (bust), Hall of Fame, City University of New York (4 count)
[.1354.1; NANs]
Box 19: NT 69.38.1355-.1360
.
Harvard, John (statue), Cambridge, MA [.1355.1, .3-.4; NT 73.13.1(19); NT
73.45.4982; NANs]
- In situ (5 count; NT73.13.19 temporarily removed)
- 21 additional photos (oversized sheet protector)
.
Alma Mater (statue), Columbia University, New York, NY [.1356.1-.2, .4-.5; NANs]
- Working model (3 count; 2 by Bartlett Hendricks)
- Head (5 count; Bartlett Hendricks)
- Reduction (1 count)
- In situ (2 count)
- Full-size plaster (18 count)
Thomas Gallaudet Memorial ("Gallaudet and his First Deaf-Mute Pupil") (statue),
Washington, DC [.1357.1-.6, .8-.10; NANs]
- In situ (5 count)
- DCF originals (7 count)
William Earl Dodge Memorial, (var. "The Student-Athlete," "The Christian Student,"
"The Princeton Student") (statue), Princeton, NJ (10 count; NT73.13.4 temporarily
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removed) [.1358.2-.3, .5-.10; NT 73.13.4; NAN]
.
Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial, Wellesley, MA (11 count) [.1359.1-.4, .6-.7;
NANs]
.
Dean James Woods Green, University of Kansas (2 count) [.1360.1-.2]
Box 20: NT 69.38.1361-.1365
English High School Group, Boston, MA [.1361.1-.3, .5-.10]
- Sketch (15 count)
- Full-size plaster model (7 count, 5 by De Witt Ward)
.
Spirit of the Waters, Grenvillle Winthrop Collection, Cambridge, MA (Lenox?)
[.1362.2-.8; NANs]
.
Memory, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Folder I: DCF originals [.1363.1-.4, .6, .10; NT
73.13.16, .22, .26; NANs]
- Marble (8 count; .16, .22, .26 temporarily removed)
- Full-size clay (12 count)
- 1 additional photo
.
Memory, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Folder II: MFC (perhaps DCF) photos (12 count)
[.1363.7-.9, .11; NANs]
The Sons of God Saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fair ("Immortal Love")
(Corcoran Gallery) [note: with Yellowstone photo]; Folder I: DCF period [.1364.1-.2, .4,
.6, .8-.9]
- Marble (10 count)
The Sons of God Saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fair (“Immortal Love”);
Folder II: Later prints [.1364.3-.5, .7, .9-.11; NT 73.45(A112); NANs]
- Geyser photo (2 count)
- Sketch (10 count)
- Marble (8 count)
.
The Awakening of Endymion (9 count) [.1365.1-.4; NT 73.45 (A153-A155)]
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Box 21: NT 69.38.1366-.1370
.
Andromeda; Folder I: 5 views of the marble (De Witt Ward) (see also Folder III) [NANs]
.
Andromeda (Chesterwood, DCF originals); Folder II [.1366.1-.6]
- Sketch (1 count)
.
Andromeda; Folder III (37 count, De Witt Ward) [.1366.7-.13; NANs]
.
Andromeda; Folder IV (7 count, Clemens Kalischer) [NANs]
.
Disarmament (24 count) [.1367.2-.7; NANs]
.
Greek Lyric Poetry, Brooklyn Museum, Attic story (3 count) [.1368.2-.3]
.
Greek Religion, 1908, Brooklyn Museum, Attic story (3 count) [.1369.1-2]
.
Greek Epic Poetry, Brooklyn Museum, Attic story (2 count; 1 by Bogart;
NT73.13.24 temporarily removed) [.1369.3-.4; NT 73.13.24]
.
Saint Valentine's Day, 1869 [note: AKA “Honeymoon,” “Matchmakers”] (11 count)
[.1370.1; NT 73.45.5246.7; NANs]
.
Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness [.1370.2]
.
Sairy Gamp (“Sara”) [.1370.3]
.
Reveries of a Bachelor (“Lonely Owl”) [.1370.4]
Box 22: NT 69.38.1370-.1373
.
What Next? [.1370.5]
.
Tired Out (2 count) [.1370.6]
.
Joe's Farewell (3 count) [.1370.7; NAN]
.
History, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (4 count) [.1371.1; NANs]
.
Herodotus, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (6 count) [.1371.3-.4; NAN]
The Republic, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; Folder I: prints of maquettes,
working model, c. 13-foot model, 65-foot, and the reworking; [.1372.1-.16; NANs] DCF
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period
-
Sketches (2 count)
Working model (2 count)
13-feet model (3 count)
65-feet model (6 count)
Reworking (11 count)
.
The Republic, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; Folder II: Later copies and photos
of the replica (6 count) [.1372.1, .4, .17; NANs]
.
Agriculture, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; Folder III [.1373.2-.6; NANs]
- The farmer (5 count)
- Indian corn (9 count)
- The teamster (5 count)
- Wheat (2 count)
- Additional photo (5 count)
.
The Triumph of Columbus, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; Folder IV (5 count)
[.1373.9; NANs]
Box 23: NT 69.38.1374-.1375
.
Sculpture, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904, St. Louis (14 count) [.1374.]
.
Napoleon, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904, St. Louis (7 count) [.1375.]
Box 24: NT 69.38.1376-1377 [Note: Includes images from DCF’s funeral
.
The Genius of Creation, Panama-Pacific Exposition; Folder I (12 count) [.1376.2, .5, .7.8; NANs] Post and probably post-DCF period
.
The Genius of Creation, Panama-Pacific Exposition; Folder II: [.1376.2, .5-.8, .11-.12,
.18-.19; NT 73.36.1(8); NANs] DCF period
- In situ (1 count)
- View #1 (3 count)
- View #2 (6 count, Bogart)
- View #3 (2 count)
- View #6 (3 count)
- View with Chesterwood studio visible in background (5)
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.
The Genius of Creation, Panama-Pacific Exposition; Folder III: Tan mount, DCF period
(7 count) [.1376.2, .7, .18-.19]
The Genius of Creation, Panama-Pacific Exposition; Folder IV: Gray and black mounts
(10 count) [.1376.2, .5, .7, .17; NAN] DCF period and later
.
Andover Memorial Project, c.1926; Folder I: Maquette (13 count) [.1376.13]
.
Andover Memorial Project, c.1926; Folder II: Matted, linen-backed photo
[.1376.16]
.
Manhattan Bridge Groups (Brooklyn Museum); Folder I: Manhattan [.1377.1-.3, .7-.10;
NANs] DCF and MFC period
- MFC copy prints (5 count)
Manhattan Bridge Groups; Folder II: Manhattan: MFC period (5 count) [.1377.5.6, .14-.16]
.
Manhattan Bridge Groups; Folder III: Brooklyn [.1377.11-.13, .17; NANs] DCF
and MFC period
- MFC copy prints (7 count)
Box 25: NT 69.38.1378-1381
.
Commerce and Jurisprudence, 1907 (Federal Building, Cleveland, OH) [.1378.1-.11,
.14; NT 73.45(A67)-(A71); NANs]
- Commerce (17 count)
- Jurisprudence (14 count)
- In situ (4 count)
.
Edward I, 1908 and John Hampden (Cuyahoga County Court House, Cleveland, OH)
[.1379.1-2]
.
Knowledge and Wisdom, Boston Public Library Doors (bronze) [note: includes 1902
photos of nude model posing] (7 count) [.1380.1-.5; NANs]
.
Truth and Romance, Boston Public Library Doors (bronze) (4 count) [.1380.7-.8;
NAN]
.
Music and Poetry, Boston Public Library Doors (bronze) [.1380.9-.15; NANs]
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.
Additional photos (9 count; NT73.13.37 temporarily removed)
Labor Sustaining the Family and the Arts and Science Controlling the Forces of
Electricity and Steam, Boston Post Office (folder missing) [.1381.1-.4; .1411.1-.3]
A pencil sketch of a woman to DCF from Violet Oakley (unnumbered)
Box 26: (overstuffed) NT 69.38.1382-.1384; .1386-.1395
Modern and Ancient History Flanking the Seal of the New Hampshire Historical
Society (5 count) [.1382.1.1-.1.2; .2; .3; .4]
Appellate Court House Model of Justice, Madison Square, New York, NY (2
count, Bogart) [.1383.1-.4] [note: only .1 and .2 in file]
Wisdom, Courage, Bounty, Truth, Integrity, Prudence, statues, Minnesota State Capitol,
St. Paul, MN [.1384.1; .2; .3; .4; .5; .6.1-.2; .7; .8; .9.1-.2; .10; .11.1-.2; .12.1-.2; .13;
.14.1-.2; .15; .16; .17.1-.2; .20]
- Folder I (13 count)
- Folder II (“bounty” 3 count; “Truth” 2 count; “Integrity” 2 count;
“Prudence” 3 count; “Bounty and “Prudence” 1 count)
Quadriga, Progress of the State, Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul, MN (3 count)
[.1384.18; .19; NT 73.45.5020]
Wisconsin (7 count; 3 by Bogart Studio) [.1386.1; .2.1-.4; .3; .4]
Peace and War, Vigilance, U.S. Custom House, St. Louis, MO (4 count) [.1387.1-.4]
Labor Sustaining the Family and the Arts and Science Controlling the Forces of
Electricity and Steam, Boston Post Office [.1381.1-.4; .1411.1-.3]
- Preliminary sketch of group for Boston Post Office (3 count)
Law, Prosperity, and Power [.1388; NAN only]
Mistletoe (5 count) [.1389.1-.2]
President Garfield [.1390.1]
Head of Angel (three-quarter medallion) (2 count) [.1392.1-.2]
Head of Angel (profile relief medallion) [.1392.3]
Joseph Pulitzer Medal, (with Augustus Lukeman) (4 count) [.1393.1, .4]
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American Red Cross Medal (4 count) [.1393.2; .3, .11, .12]
Visit to New York of the French and British War Commissions, 1917 Medal (reverse by
Evelyn Beatrice Longman) (Bogart) [.1393.5]
Patriot Half Dollar [.1393.6]
Completion of the Catskill Aqueduct Medal (2 count) [.1393.7]
Guggenheim Trophy Medal, S.R. (oversized sheet protector) [.1393.8]
Dewey Medal [.1393.9]
Architectural League of New York Medal [.1393.10]
Framed Display of Medals, (Medallic Art Company) [NT 73.45(A62)]
Joy, 1917 (7 count + 1 paper copy) [.1394.1.1-.7; .2]
His Majesty, statuette [.1395.1-.3]
- Clay model (3 count, De Witt Ward)
- Mother facing left – plaster model (8 count)
- Mother facing right – plaster model (8 count)
Box 27: NT 69.38.1385
Section A:
.
Continents; Folder I: "Asia" (26 sketches; 5 additional photos) [.1385.1-.2, .4; NANs]
later prints
.
Continents; Folder II: "Africa" (15 sketches; 3 additional photos) [.1385.5, .9, .11; NANs]
later prints
.
Continents; Folder III: "America" (14 sketches; 6 additional photos) [.1385.12, .16, .17;
NT 73.45(A204-205)] later prints
.
Continents; Folder IV: "Europe" (15 sketches; 7 additional photos) [.1385.18, .25, .27;
NANs] later prints
.
Continents; Folder V: U.S. Custom House (in situ) (4 count) [NT 73.45(A130)-(A133)]
later prints
Section B:
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Continents; Folder VI: DCF Originals: "Asia" (7 count) [.1385.3-.4; NANs]
Continents; Folder VII: DCF Originals: "Africa" (12 count; clay) [.1385.6-.8, .10-.11; NT
73.36.1(9); NAN]
.
Continents; Folder VIII: DCF Originals: "America" (1 sketch + 11 completed) [.1385.12.13, .15, .17; NT73.45 (A55); (A201-203)]
Continents; Folder IX: DCF Originals: "Europe" [.1385.19, .21-.24, .26; NT73.36.1 (1);
NANs]
- Sketch (1 count)
- Half-size model before revision (3 count)
Box 28: NT 69.38.1396-.1404
.
The Offering, maquette (12 count) [.1396.1]
.
Cup of Life, maquette (15 count) [.1397.1-.5; NAN]
.
White Project, George Robert ("Knowledge") Massachusetts College of Pharmacy,
maquette, 1919 (19 count) [.1398.1-.2] [Ivan]
.
Memorial Project ("Chemistry"), maquette, 1922 (oversized sheet protector)
[.1400.1]
.
Vanity (“Narcissa”), 1900 (7 count; NT73.13.18 temporarily removed) [.1401.1-.2; NT
73.13.1(18); NAN]
.
Artemis (12 count) [.1402.1-.2]
.
Artemis (torso) (20 count) [.1402.3; NANs]
.
Arethusa (9 count) [.1403.1]
.
Solicitude (11 count) [.1404.1; NAN]
Box 29: NT 69.38.1405-1429: Those accession number which are absent from this sequence
either do not pertain to historic DCF sculpture photos or belong to photos of maquettes
(sketches) now filed above in main entries
Hebe (7 count) [.1405.1-.2]
Passing of Time (“Whence, Whither, Wherefore?”) (14 count) [.1406.1]
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Muted Strings (15 count) [.1407.1]
Harmonis B.Duryea Memorial Project, ("Wonder" [MFC title] and "The Threshold"
[another title]), 1916-1917 (unrealized project; 10 count) [.1408.1-3]
.
Glass Blower (10 count) [.1409.1; NAN]
“Boy with Plough” and “Allegorical Female Figure”, a study for a concept later
utilized for the Exeter War Memorial, 1915 [.1410.1]
.
Child of the Putnam Family, 1879 [.1412.1]
.
Master Franklin ("Frankie") Ward, [note: child of Lt. Aaron Wood; Green-Wood
Cemetery, 1882] [.1413.1]
.
Design for a Battle Monument, 1885 (photo by A.W. Hosmer) [.1414.1]
.
The Chicago Incendiary, 1870 (3 count) [.1415.1; NANs]
.
Annie Shepard Keyes (later Mrs. Edward Waldo Emerson), bas relief, 1870 [.1416.1]
.
Reverend John H. Morison, 1880 (oversized sheet protector) [.1417.1]
.
James Russell Lowell, [.1418.1]
.
Harvest (2 count, De Witt Ward) [.1419.1]
Dana DeCordova, 1881 (4 count, 2 mounted) [.1420.1]
.
Edward Mallinckrodt (with M.F. Cresson) (Harvard) (6 count, De Witt Ward)
[.1421.3; NAN]
.
Relief panel, created as a decorative fireplace frieze, 1886 (oversized sheet
protector) [.1423.1]
.
Mary Fay, 1872 [.1425.1]
J.P. Morgan Memorial: a study by DCF (the memorial was executed by Paul Manship),
1913 [.1427.1]
.
Elsie Venner, “Florence, 1878”; relief portrait (3 count) [.1429.1-.2; NAN]
.
King Fountain Competition, ca. 1891 [.1640]
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.
University Club of Milwaukee (2 count) 1921 [.2271-.2272]
.
“Hurry Up”: WWI poster design by DCF (image temporarily removed) [NT 73.13(10)]
.
Retribution, 1870 [NT 73.45.4981]
.
Gaylord Blair Clark, 1903 (2 count) [NT 73.45.4987; NAN] [Acc. List states was
misnumbered]
Imposing on Good Nature, 1870 [NT 73.45.5275]
.
Disconsolate Hound, ca. 1869 (2 count) [NANs]
Box 30: Broken sequence; some with no accession numbers
.
Brewster, William, pastel by DCF, [Note: duplicate entry in finding aid and in box 29][NT
69.38.799]
Photos of Laurel Hill Seat (Stockbridge), designed with Augustus Lukeman (2 count)
[NAN]
.
Musica (De Witt Ward), [NAN]
.
Theresa (mask form), [NT69.38.1; NANs?] [See Acc. List, misassigned acc.no.]
o 10 small-sized portrait, unnumbered
o Large portrait: study of head, bronze: NT69.38.1
Post cards of works by DCF and of views of Chesterwood, all but one printed by
Meriden Gravure Company, c.1965? (25 count) [NANs]
Unidentified sculpture/ Questions [.1302.4; 1642, .1646; .2506, .2507; NANs]
- Unidentified, as of Nov. 1988, when examined by M. Richman; actual
plaster sketch in CH college, no longer identified with Williams
Memorial: woman with outstretched arms [NT69.38.1302.4]
- Sculpture of young woman by DCF (Chesterwood),
NT69.38.1641 (photocopied).
- Sculpture of a hawk, NT69.38.2507
- Sculpture of a man holding a book, NT73.45.5021.1-2 (Bogart).
- Sculpture of a woman holding a bowl with snakes: Michael
Richman, at Chester wood on June 21, 1985, conjectures that
this figure may be by Andrew O’Connor, a pupil of DCF. (2
counts) [NT69.38.1646] (Bogart)
- Caproni cast, NT69.38.1642
- Sculpture of a teen standing on a turtle, may be related to
Burnside Fountain in Worcester, MA (2 counts, Bogart).
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Sculpture of a riding soldier (mounted) [NY73.45 A134].
.
Fountain, Chesterwood: Folder I (15 count, unnumbered)
.
Fountain, Chesterwood: Folder II (15 count, unnumbered)
.
French, Margaret, by Chesterwood fountain, 1913 (unnumbered)
.
Lamond, Marjorie, by Chesterwood fountain, 1913 (unnumbered)
.
National Sculpture Society, one exhibit, 1898 (16 images, NAN)
.
National Sculpture Society Special Exhibit in Baltimore, 1908 (2 images, NAN)
.
Memorial Exhibit, D.C. French, Century Association, NYC, 1932 (6 images, NAN)
DCF Research Photographs
Note: This collection informally called “Working Photographs” in past collections
assessments, is more properly called “Research Photographs of DCF”.
Box 31: Photographs of ancient European sculpture, mounted (39 count) [NT 69.38.2280;
.2491; .2744, .2770-.2780, .2782-.2785; .2809, .2820(2), .2822, .2853, .2855-.2864, .2872;
.3126-3127, .3129, .3132, .3134]
Box 32: Photographs of ancient European sculpture, unmounted, broken sequence (66 count)
[NT 69.38.2176; .2281; 2800s]
Box 33: Photographs of ancient sculpture, linen-mounted (28 count) [primarily NT 69.38.2800s]
Box 34: Contains three folders and unfoldered photographs; all but one are mounted.
Renaissance sculpture (unfoldered; 13 count) [NT 69.38.2403-.2406(1), .2412, .2416,
.2420, .2446(2), .2449, .2488-.2490(2); .2502; .2781]
.
Medici Chapel by Michelangelo (11 count) [NT 69.38.2147; .2417(1)-(2), .2418,
.2427(1)-(2), .2428(1)-(2), .2432(1), .2436, .2440-.2441]
.
Fontaine des Innocents by Jean Goujon (3 count) [NT 69.38.2253; .2448, .2496]
.
Works by other French sculptors (3 count) [NT 69.38.2414, .2429, .2452]
Box 35: Photographs of Florentine Renaissance sculpture, mounted (29 count) [NT 69.38.2406
in broken sequence to.2464; .2503-.2505; .3125, .3128, .3130]
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Box 36: Photographs of Renaissance sculpture, unmounted (43 count) [NT 69.38, .2219,
.2278, .2282--.2285; .2423(2)-broken sequence-.2499; .2501; .2690, .2692; .2847; NAN]
Box 37: Photographs of Renaissance sculpture, linen-mounted (16 count) [NT 69.38.2451,
.2455, .2457-.2461, .2463, .2483-.2487, .2490; .2500; .2828, .2878]
Box 38: Photographs of European (mainly French) sculpture, mounted and unmounted, 17th20th cent., broken sequence [NT 69.38.2676-.2769; .3121; .3123; .3131; 3202-.3209]
- Medals (8 count) [.3202-.3209]
- Miscellaneous sculpture (45 count)
Box 39: Photographs of 19th Century European sculpture, mounted (31 count) [NT 69.38.2318.2319; .2688-broken sequence-.2698; .2700-broken sequence-.2762; NAN]
Box 40: Photographs of 18th-19th Century European (mainly French) sculpture, linen-mounted
(32 count) [NT 69.38.2127; .2212-broken sequence-.2287; .2676, .2683-.2684, .2687.2; .2742,
.2747, .2876]
Box 41:
Photographs of American sculpture, inscribed, signed, or dedicated to DCF, sculptors A
to Z (unmounted; unnumbered; 8 count)
Photographs of American sculpture, sculptors A to K [NT 69.38.2506-.2675]
- Adams, Herbert (3)
- Ball (1)
- Barnard, George Grey (1)
- Barnhorn (1)
- Bartlett, Paul Wayland (6)
- Bitter, Karl (1)
- Borglum, Solon (2)
- Brown, Henry K. (3)
- Calder (1)
- Cecere (4)
- Conkling (1)
- Couper, William (2)
- Cotter (1)
- Crenier (3)
- Cresson, Hilborn T. (5)
- Cresson, Margaret French (1)
- Del Piatta (7)
- Dietrich, Hunt (1)
- Duveneck (2)
- Elwell #1 (6)
- Elwell #2 (1; linen-mounted)
- Fraser, James. E. (3)
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Fraser, Laura Gardlin (2)
Fry (2)
Garett (1)
Gelert (6)
Greenough (1)
Hart (1)
Harvey (1)
Haseltine (1)
Huntington, Anna Hyatt (1)
Hyatt (1)
Illava (3; Bogart)
Jennewein (1)
Kern (2)
Box 42: Photographs of American sculpture, sculptors L to Q [NT 69.38.1432; .2506-.2675]
- Laessle #1 (2)
- Laessle #2 (1; linen-mounted)
- Linder, Henry (3; on the same piece of paper)
- Lober, Georg (1)
- Longman (11)
- Lukeman (5)
- MacMonnies (4)
- MacNeil #1 (4)
- MacNeil #2 & 3 (each 1; linen-mounted)
- Manship (3)
- Miranda, Fernando (1)
- Marshall (1)
- Morris (1)
- Mullins (3)
- Niehaus (2)
- O’Connor #1 (12)
- O’Connor #2 (1; linen-mounted)
- Palmer, Erastus Dow (2)
- Piccirilli (4)
- Piccirilli, Attilio (6)
- Potter, Edward Clark (6)
- Potter, Nathan D. (20)
- Powers (1)
- Pratt (1)
- Quinn (2)
Box 43: Photographs of American sculpture, sculptors R to Z
- Recchia (2)
- Rimmer, William (3)
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Rosales, Emanuel de (2)
Roth (2)
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus (6; in 2 files)
Saint-Gaudens, Louis (4)
Sanford, Jr. (2)
Scudder (3)
Sears (1)
Sharwood (1)
Shrady, Henry M. (1)
Taft (3)
Vedder (1)
Vonnoh, Bessie Potter (6)
Ward (2)
Whitney, Gertrude (1)
Unidentified (approximately 58; in separate files)
Photographs of New England sculpture taken in 1948(?) by photographer Samuel
Chamberlain (39 photos; plus the envelope from Chamberlain to Mrs. William Penn
Cresson) [NT 69.38.2506 -.2675; .3135; .3137; NANs]
Box 44: Photographs of Models (human) [NT 69.38.3141-.3275; NANs]
.
Photographs, Models at Chesterwood (19 count) [NT 69.38.3142.1-8; .3143.2; NANs]
.
Photographs of subjects and models relating to portraits by DCF (12 count) [NT
69.38.3144-.3147; .3150; .3268]
.
Period copy prints, tearsheet, of portraits and formal photographs of Daniel Webster (21
count) [NT 69.38.3152.1-.21]
.
Photograph, mounted, Life casts of Hands of Mary A. French [NT 69.38.3153]
.
Two photographs of African and African American [NT 69.38.3155; .3188]
.
Portrait of a Mexican girl [NT 69.38.3156]
.
American Indians [NT 69.38.3157-.3161; .3163-.3172; .3174-.3187; NAN]
- 3181-3187: seven small-sized portraits photographed by J. Loeffler’s.
- Seven photos, torn from Everyday’s Magazine.
- 17 photos by F. A. Rinehart, copyright in 1898.
.
Models posing (large-sized paper boards, three count) [NT 69.38.3189-.3191]
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.
Other artists with work relating to work by DCF [NT 69.38.3192; NANs]
- Persee Delivrant Andromede
- Rubens, Andromeda
- Petit, Le Sphinx
.
Photograph, mounted, photographer DuMont, Expectation, model posing with hands
behind neck, wearing hat, dress, and stole, c.1885? (12 count, photos of various sizes)
[NT 69.38.3193]
.
Spanish-American War soldier models (to be sleeved) [NT 69.38.3195.1-.4; .3196.1-.2]
Box 45: Photographs of models [NT 69.38.3141-.3275; .370; NANs]
- Furniture (1)
- Miscellaneous animals (photos; 20)
- Miscellaneous animals (newspaper clips; 5)
- Looms (4)
- Eagles (6)
- Horses (4)
- Cows and dogs (10)
- Cattles and dogs (6)
- Costumes (6)
- Artifacts (16)
Box 46: Photographs of Italy, also Greece; of Ornaments, in/from Italy, Greece, and Spain;
commercial, except two snapshots (of unidentified places); unmounted and mounted [NT
69.38.3210, 3210.11, 3210.12, 3210.13]
- Rome, Venice, Monreale, Athens, unid. (16 count) [NT 69.38.2937.2944; .2946-.2952; .2984]
- Bagnaia, Italy [NT 69.38.3004]
- Florence, Italy (4 count) [NT 69.38.2957-.2958; .2992; .2995]
- Naples, Italy (3 count) [NT 69.38.2971-.2972; .2989]
- Rome, Italy (7 count) [NT 69.38.2956; .2990; .2996-.2997; .3008.3009; .3015]
- Turin, Italy [NT 69.38.3007]
- Fountains in Viterbo, Italy (2 count) [NT 69.38. 3000; .3002]
- Girgenti (Agrigentum), Sicily [NT 69.38.2953]
- Messina, Sicily (2 count) [NT 69.38.2975-.2976]
- Monreale, Sicily (7 count) [NT 69.38.2959-.2964; .2973]
- Palermo, Sicily (12 count) [NT 69.38.2965-.2967; .2977; .2981-.2983;
.2985; .2988; .3011-.3013]
- Segesta, Sicily (3 count) [NT 69.38.2978-.2980]
- Syracuse, Sicily (3 count) [NT 69.38.2945; .2974; .2993]
- Taormina, Sicily (5 count) [NT 69.38.2954; .2970; .2987; .2991; .3016]
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Unidentified places, Italy (3 count) [NT 69.38.2969; .3003; .3014]
Cephalonia, Greece [NT 69.38.3010]
Mosaic floors, Italy (2 count) [NT 69.38.2955; .2986]
Paintings, Italy (2) [NT 69.38.2897-.2898]
Ornaments, Italy (9 count) [NT 69.38.3019-.3020; .3041; .3058; .3064;
.3099; .3103; .3133; .3200]
Ornaments, Rome, Italy (4) [NT 69.38.3017; .3061; .3063; .3067]
Ornaments, Venice, Italy (2) [NT 69.38.3091; .3106]
Ornaments, Greek (4) [NT 69.38.3060; .3093-.3094; .3096]
Ornament, Cordoba, Spain [NT 69.38.3018]
Box 47: Photographs of Italy and of Ornaments; linen-mounted (37 count) [NT 69.38.2968;
.2994; .2998-.2999; .3001; .3005-.3006; .3021-.3040; .3042-.3049]
Box 48: Photographs of Ornaments, linen-mounted (51 count) [NT 69.38.3050-.3059; .3062;
.3068-.3083; .3085-.3090; .3092; .3095; .3097-.3098; .3100-.3102; .3104- .3105; .3107-.3114]
Box 49: Photographs of Architecture [NT 69.38.2103; .2340-.2349; .2351-2364; .3292-.3296]
- Venice (12 count; mounted)
- France (2 count, mounted)
- Congregational Church, Franklin, NH (3 count)
- Rome (3 count)
- Milan (4 count)
- Lisbon, Portugal (2 count)
- Additional photos (6 count, 1 is linen-mounted)
Box 50: Clippings (from periodicals and newspapers); printed Material; for first six folders,
broken sequence from NT 69.38.2549 to .2658.
.
Clippings of Works by American Sculptors: A – C
o Akeley, Carl. Lion and Buffalo. The Patriarch. At Bay. The Old
Man of Mikeno.
o Adams, Herbert. Model for McMillan Fountain, Washington DC.
Bronze Doors.
o Bartlett, Paul W. Sculptures for New York Public Library.
o Brenner, Victor D. Fountain in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, PA.
o Burroughs, Edith Woodman. Youth.
o Crunelle, Leonard. Hixon Memorial, LA Crosse, Wis.
o Calder, Alexander Stirling. Man Cub.
.
Clippings of Works by American Sculptors: D – F
o Duveneck, “Emerson.”
o Elwell, F. Edwin. General Steele Memorial.
o Fraser, James Earle. Arlington National Cemetery, Washington
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DC.
o Frishmuth, Harriet W. Sundial.
o Fry, Sherry E. “Spartan Mother” or the Wonder of Motherhood.
o Dallin, Cyrus E. Massasoit.
.
Clippings of Works by American Sculptors: G – L
o Harvey, Eli. An American elk.
o Huntinkton, Anna Hyatt. Medalist Series.
o Hyatt, Anna Vaughn. “Diana.”
o Laessle, Albert. Thanksgiving is here!
o Lukeman, Augustus. The Hebrew Psalmist.
.
Clippings of Works by American Sculptors: M – O
o Macmonnies, Frederick. Quadriga for Soldiers’ and Sailors’
Memorial Arch, Brooklyn, NY.
o MacMonnies. George Washington.
o MacNeil, Herman A. The Statue of Washington, New York City.
Memorial to William McKinley, Columbus, Ohio.
o Manship, Paul H. The Civic Forum Medal of Honor for
Distinguished Public Service.
o Mestrovic, Ivan. Madonna.
o O’Connor, Andrew. A New Equestrian Statue of Lafayette.
.
Clippings of Works by American Sculptors: P – T
o Pietro, C. S. “Inspiration.”
o Polasek, Albin. Fountain Figure.
o Pratt, Bela. Statue of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
o Ruckstuhl, F. Wellington. Figure of “Victory” for a Soldier’s
Monument.
o Mother Monument.
o Equestrian Statue of General John A. Logan.
o Saint-Gaudens, Augustus. Phillips Brooks Memorial, Boston,
MA. Abraham Lincoin Statue, Chicago, IL. Robert Louis
Stevenson. Angel, with Tablet.
o Simmons, Franklin. Monument to Major-General John A. Logan.
o Taft, Lorado. The Solitude of the Soul. A Picturesque Fountain
in the City Park, Denver.
o (A memorial statue with the figure of “victory” and a riding
soldier.)
o (Christopher Columbus on a coin.)
o (Sculpture of a sitting lady.)
.
Clippings of Works by American Sculptors: U - Z (incl. unidentified sculptors)
o Vonnoh, Bessie Potter. (Sculpture of a leaning lady.)
o Walker, Nellie V. The Young Donatello.
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o
o
o
o
o
The Gilbert Memorial, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Crouching Figure.
The Beautiful Children’s Fountain, Denver, Colo.
Workers in Bronze.
(A torn piece of newspaper that contains no useful information.)
.
Trimmed tear sheets, photograph, newspaper clipping, mostly of funerary monuments,
mainly from The Monumental News (later The Monument and Cemetery Review),
c.1909-c.1930 [NT 69.38.2550-broken sequence-.2600s, .2901-.2935]
.
Clippings of Renaissance Sculpture (from old newspapers) [NT 69.38.2124; .2428.3,
.2442-.2443]
.
Clippings of European Sculpture (from old newspapers) [NT 69.38.2316, broken
sequence of .2600s and .2700s]
.
Clippings of Ancient Sculpture [NT 69.38.2810-.2812, .2867]
.
Clippings of Paintings [NT 69.38.2432.2, .2936]
.
Clipping, “Cleveland Upholds City’s Tradition,” The Art Digest, p. 10, illus., mid-May,
1928 [NT 69.38.2896]
.
Tearsheets, pamphlet with cover not extant, showing reproductions of ornaments [NT
69.38.3065-.3066, .3201]
.
Reprints (8 copies) of tribute, by Daniel Chester French, ”Augustus Saint-Gaudens
(1848-1907),” from the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Vol. 53, No. 10, pp. 859-861, September, 1918 [NT 69.38.2102(1)-(8)]
.
Catalogues (2 copies), An Exhibition of American Sculpture, 24 p., illus., New York: The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, March, 1918 [NT 69.38.2509; .3214]
.
Booklet, Medallic Art in Commerce, Civics, Philanthropy, Letters and Science, 39 p.,
illus., New York: Medallic Art Company, 1927 [NT 69.38.2512]
.
Quasi-reprint of article by Joseph Breck, “A Terra-Cotta Bust by Chinard,” Art in
America, pp. 161-164, one plate, 1919(?) [NT 69.38.2556]
.
Catalogue, Exhibition of Sculpture by Gutzon Borglum, Avery Library, Columbia
University, preface by George Luks, 45 p., illus., February 28, 1914 [NT 69.38.2642]
.
Tearsheets of article excerpted from The American Architect, “The National Sculpture
Society’s Exhibition at Baltimore,” Architects and Builders Journal, pp. 22-27, illus.,
[month?], 1907 [NT 69.38.2900.1]
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Box 51: Contains framed and glazed photographs of sculpture:
- Annie Shepard Keyes, 1870, perhaps framed by DCF [NT
69.38.702]
- Greek Epic Poetry and Greek Lyric Poetry on Lower Studio
tracks, 1908, probably framed by Margaret French Cresson [NT
69.38.3496]
- Father and Son, 1924, by Margaret French Cresson, perhaps
framed by Daniel Chester French [Inv. 1979: CH002823]
Box 52:
Photographs and documents from the cabinet with shelves in the Studio; all items found there
[Boxes 52 to 63] are to be assigned accession numbers before substantial segregation is
undertaken; some of the WPC items have been removed and placed in the WPC Series Box
28; these removed items are to be included in the assignment of accession numbers; their
examination will assist in the segregation of DCF material from that of WPC and that of MFC.
These items appear to be one-third DCF, one-third MFC, and one-third WPC; there is a distinct
problem in determining the ownership, such as loose photographs. Those items of clear
ownership (preferably with inscriptions) will be of significant help in the segregation of these
series, which are intermingled. The accession numbers will implicitly record original
associations and therefore preserve the opportunity for revision of attributed ownership. When
the items were removed from the cabinet where they had been stored by DCF and by MFC,
care was taken that there would be only minimal disturbance of associations and sequences;
also, folders were inscribed with original drawer locations. (N.B.: The French and Cresson
families toured Europe separately, but at about the same times, visited with scant exception
the same places, and made photographic purchases that duplicate or supplement each other.)
(N.B.: Bracketed items have been removed to WPC Series Box 28 and will be listed there in
this Finding Guide after they have been assigned accession numbers.) (N.B.: MFC Series Box
45 contains Studio cabinet items; these should be assigned acc. nos. as part of that sequence
along with Studio cabinet photos in oversize boxes. Some of these photos have been
assigned acc. nos., but these nos. are given only for Box 52 in the 3rd ed. [??? What about
others]
Photographs of Renaissance and Baroque Paintings, etc.
.
Photographs (18), mounted, of Renaissance and Baroque paintings [NT
69.38.3835-.3851]
.
Envelope, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Daniel Chester French, 1930
[NT 69.38.3852]
.
Items used for scrap paper, including a sample sheet of yellow paper from pad
still in drawer, by Daniel Chester French when at work on English High School
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group; also sample red border gummed label [NT 69.38.3853.1-.9]
Box 52A: album, belonging to DCF, of photos of ancient and Renaissance sculpture and
paintings, Italy, 1875, from S. Hutch, 4th tier, left drawer [NT69.38.3855]; 3
additional mounted photographs of Renaissance sculpture (loose; unnumbered)
Box 53: Items from the Studio cabinet; contains items also belonging to Margaret French
Cresson and William Penn Cresson [note on box states: “Unfinished accession numbers tier 5
and tier 7]
.
Adm. List of Removed Archival Material: one book only
.
Menus (9), Italian Transatlantic ship "Augustus", trip from Italy to New York,
January 10- January 20, 1933
.
Advertising leaflet, owned by Daniel Chester French, for Students Reference
Work by Albert Arthur Allen consisting of 100 photographs of studies of the
female form, c. 1920
.
Bound materials, Daniel Chester French, Alo Studies, by Albert Arthur Allen
(booklet of female figure photographic reproductions), c. 1920
.
Folio/ Bound Material, Daniel Chester French, Poses of Children Photographed
from Life, 32 plates of photographs, published
.
Photograph, mounted, owned by Daniel Chester French, of equestrian statue of
Colleoni in Venice, c. 1900
Box 54: (Items from the Studio cabinet) Photographs of Models, Armor, etc.
.
Photographs, of sculptor Lorado Taft's studio used for recreations including
recreation of Donatello's 1425 studio, c. 1930 (2 count)
.
Photograph, mounted, of unidentified refectory having murals with German
inscriptions, c. 1900
.
Advertising folder, for Alo Studies from the original negatives by Albert Arthur
Allen, c. 1920 (kept by DCF because of the photo on the cover)
.
Photographs, of models, draped and undraped, male and female, c. 1890s –
1927 (19 count)
.
Working photographs of Moorish armor, for reference for "Boabdil," the last King
of Granada, for the Washington Irving Memorial, c. 1925
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From Metropolitian Museum of Art (9)
From various other sources (5)
.
Photographs, suit of armor owned by MFC (and by DCF before her?), c. 1940s (4
count)
.
Mounted photographs of draped models, c. 1898 (3 count)
.
Mounted photograph of a baby girl and boy, c. 1900
.
Mounted photographs of European armor (8 count)
Box 55: (Items from the Studio cabinet)
Picture of Models, Paintings, Sculpture, Places
.
Portfolio, belonging to William Penn Cresson (?): Photos of European places and
art (42 linen-mounted; 3 mounted; numerous unmounted photos of sketches,
including a pen & ink drawing by H.T. Cresson, 19th century; 1 empty envelope
and the hardcover of a sketchbook)
.
Photograph, carte-de-viste, of painting "Gothe-Gallery by Kaulbach," "Dora"
Box 56: (Items from the Studio cabinet with shelves above) Photographs of Paintings and
Sculpture
.
Photographs, many reproduced by Alinari, Old Master Paintings, c. 1910 (?),
Folder 1 (30 count)
.
Photographs, many reproduced by Alinari, Old Master Paintings, c. 1910(?),
Folder 2 (26 count)
.
Photographs, many reproduced by Alinari, Old Master Paintings, c. 1910(?),
Folder 3 (28 count)
.
Photographs, sculptor William Couper, photographer A.B. Bogart, Te Deum
Laudamus (Richard H. Couper), 1901, and drawing by Rembrandt(?),1901-1920
.
Photographs, Renaissance, Roman, and Greek sculpture, c. late 1800s-1910(?)
(8 unmounted, 4 linen-mounted)
.
Photographs, cabinet cards and postcards (27), Dutch paintings, Flemish
Painting and Sculpture, German Painting, Roman, Greek, and French Sculpture,
c. 1884-1921
Box 57: (Items from the Studio cabinet) Photographs of Places
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.
Envelope, from Atlantic Terra Cotta Co. to Daniel Chester French
.
Photographs of places (Holland, Greece, England, Italy, Belgium, France,
Germany), late 19th- early 20th cent. (40 loose photos; 2 envelopes filled
additional photos, 1 big +1 small)
.
Photograph of Mexico, belonging to Daniel Chester French; [photographs of
Russia and James Monroe death mask, belonging to William Penn Cresson, c.
1904-1920s] (8 count)
.
Photographs of Italy, c.late 19th cent.-1910(?) (22 count; 11 linen-mounted)
.
Photographs of France, c. 1900 (23 count; paper print)
.
Postcard, picturing Le Temple de l’Amour, Parc du Petit Trianon, Versailles, from
Nellie L. Miller to Daniel Chester French, from Paris, re: sailing soon with Rosalie
Miller back to U.S., dated September 28, 1925
.
Photograph, linen-mounted, Le Boudoir de Marie-Antoinette, Petit Trianon,
Versailles, late 19th cent.
.
Photographs, linen-mounted, places of interest in Belgium (Antwerp and Bruges),
1890s (14 count)
.
Photographs, places of interest in Germany and in Russia, 1890s - 1910s (7
count; paper print)
Box 58: (Items from the Studio cabinet) Pictures of Places, Paintings, and Sculpture
.
Photographs of Gloucester, England, contained in envelope (2 sets)
.
Photographs of Evesham, England, contained in envelope
.
Photographs of Tintern & Neighbourhood, England, contained in envelope
.
Photographs of Italy, contained in envelope labeled "de Witt Ward," collected by
Mrs. Hillborn T. Cresson in 1896
.
Postcards (5) contained in printed envelope, George Vaux Cresson (1836-1908),
collotype pictorial, "Warwick & District," England, c. 1900
.
Photographs, many laid down on linen, of European and ancient classical
paintings and sculptures (76 count); photographs of models in 17th- century
costume (3 count)
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.
Photograph of "La Foire de Nijny-Novgorod"; mounted photograph of horses,
Persian (?) horse handlers and riders on beach
.
Portfolio, "Photographs of Painting & Sculpture--Antique," containing only photos
(2) of James Monroe death mask and one mounted art card
Box 59: (Items from the Studio cabinet) Mounted photographs of Ancient, Renaissance, and
Old Master Paintings c. 1900 (?), Folder I (28 count)
Box 60: (Items from the Studio cabinet) Mounted photographs of Ancient, Renaissance, and
Old Master Paintings, c. 1900(?), Folder II (17 count); Photographs of Paintings, primarily
Academician, late 19th century (9 count)
Box 61: (items from Studio Cabinet)
.
Photographs of contemporary paintings, contained in envelope, from Father
Flanagan's Boys' Home to M.F. Cresson (20 in small envelope, 5 in big
envelope)
.
Photographs, mostly cabinet-size, primarily Academic Paintings, c.1890s, paper
print (loose; linen-mounted; 13 count)
.
Photographs of paintings by Old Masters, ancient Romans, Renaissance
painters, and Academicians, c. 1884 - c. 1910 (linen-mounted; 43 total)
- Academician (4)
- Ancient paintings (12)
- 16th-17th Century Dutch Italian and Flemish paintings (27)
- Paper print (32; placed in a separate file)
.
Photographs of Italy, France, Greece, Belgium, Holland, England and Spain, c.
1885 - c. 1920
- Paper print (15 count)
- England, Spain (2; linen-mounted)
- Holland (2; linen-mounted)
- Belgium (5; linen-mounted)
- Greece (9; linen-mounted)
- France (13; linen mounted)
- Italy (43; linen-mounted)
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.
Photographs, of South Sea Islands, c. 1904 (26 total; 25 rolled; 1 flat in sheet
protector)
.
Envelope, from the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company to Daniel Chester French,
inscribed "Pictures of Carcassonne"
.
Photographs, of Carcassonne, France, 1920s (16 count)
Box 64: (items from north tall chest) [this box should be placed in north chest sequence]
.
Photographs (33), mounted, D.C. French, Renaissance drawings [NAN]
.
Removal list (admin.)
DCF Family, Friends, Places, Chesterwood Photographs
Those historical photographic prints with accession numbers beginning with NT 73.10 belong
to a snapshot collection given to Chesterwood by MFC. The collection consists of
approximately 2000 prints and approx. 1800 nitrate negatives (the latter have been duplicated
and the duplicate negatives have been printed). Some of the prints are period prints of
negatives in the collection and were produced with MFC's camera; some are period prints of
the glass plate negatives produced with DCF's camera, some of which survive; some prints
originate outside of the immediate French family and have no extant negatives. There are also
one or more photographs of, for example, the Ball family or the Powers family et al. As of
2007, the NT 73.10 numbered sequence images photocopies are filed in numerical order in
binders and the copy prints are organized by order of date.
The following sub-series of historical photographs is the last of seven. The filing organization
for the groups of photos is in the following order:
1. DCF
[Box 67]
2. CH studio interiors
[Box 72]
3. CH buildings and grounds
[Box 72]
4. MFC
5. French family members
[Box 71]
6. Places (includes events at them)
[Box 68, Box 69]
7. Friends and acquaintances
[Box 73]
The two following boxes contain framed photographs and one framed holograph owned by
DCF and kept by MFC in the Chesterwood Residence. One of them is documented [source of
infomation?] to have been kept by DCF on the third floor of the Residence.
Box 65 (fragile)
.
Autographed poem by John Boyle O'Reilly, "What is Good?", late 19th century [NT
73.45.1446]
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.
Opaltype of two women in 19th century dress, late 19th century (?)
[NT 73.45.1633]
.
Tintype, MAF standing, 1863 [NT 73.45.2026]
.
Photographic print, professional model Jessica Penn Deutz in mid-19th century
costume, c.1900 [NT 73.45.2032]
Box 66 (fragile) Framed photographs (3) from the Chesterwood Residence (CH207)
.
Photograph, photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals (her JTB monogram), Margaret French
seated on fur rug looking at pictures in DCF's New York town house library, 1909 [NT
73.45.1943]
.
Photographic print of detail of 1854(?) daguerreotype, child Daniel French smiling, late
19th century, perhaps framed by MFC [NT 73.45.1966]
.
Photograph, Julia Worthington, c.1898, passe partout type of frame [NAN]
Box 67 (overstuffed)
Photographs Picturing DCF
An artificial (ie. by administrative creation) file, organized by decade, of loose photographic
prints and images dating from the 1850s to the 1930s, consisting of original prints and period
copy prints originally found in the Studio among DCF sculpture photographs and in the
Residence in CH207 in MFC’s Journey into Fame files. MFC prints had not been segregated
from those of DCF; doing so would distort the photographic record, but photocopies of them
will replace images that should be filed elsewhere. Photographs of portraits of DCF, both
paintings and sculptural, are included. Prints with NT 73.10 accession numbers are now
removed and filed separately together as a collection in chronological order.
No date
35 paper copies of photographs, unnumbered
1850s
DCF photo prints (3) NT 69.38.1430; NT 69.38.3425; NT 73.45.5042
1860s
Photographic prints, DCF in picture (2) NT 73.45.5041; [NAN]
1870s
DCF pictures (11) NT 69.38.3420; NT 73.45.5028; NT 73.45.5043; NT
73.45.5062; NT 73.45.5064; NT 73.45.5095; NT 73.45(A128); [NANs]
1880s
DCF photo prints (11) NT 73.45.5039; NT 73.45.5101; NT
73.45.55221.9.1; NT 73.45 (A149); NT 73.45 (A151); NT 73.45 (A152);
[NANs]
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1890s
DCF copy prints (13) NT 69.38.1372.17.3; NT 73.45.5208; .5212.1;
.5223.30.2; NT 73.45(A7); 73.45(A65-A66); [NANs]
1900s
DCF copy prints (20; in two files) NT 69.38.1303.5; .1303.9.2; NT
73.45.4970; .4971; .4973; NT 73.45.5025; NT 73.45.5032; NT 73.45(A48),
(A56); NANs]
1910s
Friends and acquintances (3); DCF photos (13+31; 2 files); Committee of
Fine Arts (1). NT 73.36.1.6; NT 73.45.4975 [actual #= NT 73.10.881];
.5000; .5001; .5006; .5012; .5040; .5100; .5143.1-.3; 5144; 5209.1-.4;
5229.3.3; NT 73.45(A11, A12), (A63), (A121, A122); [NANs]
1920s
1922 (9); Tiffany Foundation (3); 1924 (2); additional photos of DCF (10
total). NT 69.38.1297.14.3; .1297.37; .1320.8; .3151; NT 73.13.7, .8, .42;
NT 73.45..3208; .5002; .5051; .5145; 5210; NT 73.45(A116); (A141);
(A160); [NANs] [One found inserted in period publication in former adm.
office and sim. to others] (also includes: NT73.45.5229.99.5,
NT73.45.5209.8, and NT69.38.3151)
1920(?)
Photographic prints (9) of one passport photograph, D.C. French, frontal
head and shoulders, 1920(?) [NANs] [From Parlor east wall commode]
1930s
Photos of DCF (8) NT 73.36.7; [NANs]
BOX 68: (Overstuffed) An artificial file of Photographs of Places [domestic and international]
consisting of: DCF historical prints and MFC period prints and copy prints, arranged by
geographical location; both professional photographs and snapshot. This box also contains
images of homes where DCF lived [some with NT#s and some NANs].
Alexandria, VA: interior of Christ Church (1)
Amherst, MA: French House (1)
Athens, Greece: The Parthanon (2)
Beverly Hills, CA: view from MFC’s window (4)
Boston, MA: public garden, White Memorial fountain in situ (2)
Cairo, Egypt: snapshots (6)
Cambridge, MA: Longfellow Park, unveiling of Longfellow Memorial (1)
Chester, NH: Richardson House (1)
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Concord, MA: Sudbury Rd, DCF Studio, interior and exterior (6); Sudbury Rd, French
House (5); Alcott House (2); Concord River (2); Emerson House (2); North Bridge (2);
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (3); Walden Pond (2); unidentified house and surroundings of
French family relative (1)
England, UK: Rabesshop House (home of friend of MFC; 2) Santa Cruz, CA: a giant
conglomerate redwood tree (1)
Florida, NY: unveiling of William Henry Seward portrait bust (4)
Glendale, MA: Aerial view of CH property (1); Dormouse (38; in 2 folders); Dugway (2);
Meadowlark (6)
Grand Canyon, AZ (photo by Margaret French; 6)
Greece and Italy: snapshots by Julia Worthington (35)
Lake George, NY (2)
Lenox, MA: Lenox Flower Show at Lenox Park (2)
Mexico: marketplace (1)
Peace Dale, RI: Hazard Memorial in situ (1)
San Francisco, CA: Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915) (3)
Sarasota, FL: 3900 Shell Rd, unidentified house (1)
Scottsdale, AZ: garden of Virginia French Crispelle (1)
Washington, DC: 23 B St. etc. snapshots by Margaret French (4); 137 East Capitol St,
residence of DCF’s uncle, B. B. French (2); 1727 19th St (13 images + 1 envelope);
Lincoln Memorial (3)
Venice, FL: house of Prentiss French (1)
Unidentified places (5)
BOX 69: An artificial file of Photographs of Places consisting of: DCF historical prints and MFC
period prints and copy prints, arranged by geographical location; both professional
photographs and snapshot. For example, Henry Bacon, D.C. French, and E.B. Longman are
in one of the Lincoln Memorial snapshots. In The Dormouse folder 2 are snapshots (NANs) of
a Laurel Hill Association meeting in Stockbridge, with its president, WPC, speaking, and MFC
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in picture, taken on same day as those taken at The Dormouse, c.1927; 1878-1960s. All items
which were in other collections have been removed. Photographs of Places (nonChesterwood).
Exeter, NH: French house (where DCF lived until the age of ten; not born there), one
early 20th-century print and MFC copy prints (10) [NANs]
Glendale, MA: Warner Farm (bought by DCF in 1896 and the antecedent of
Chesterwood), 1896-1900 and 1960s copy prints (11) [NT 73.45(A1)-(A6) (A8)-(A10);
NANs]
New York, NY: 125 West 11th St. Reception room (2) [NT 73.45.5211.1 and .2]; library
(2) [NANs]; Studio (before DCF turned it into a music room), probably MFC prints of
c.1900 images (2) [NANs], and rear studio, 1896 (1) [NT73.45.5072]
Box 70: Photographs Picturing French Family Members or MFC?
Photos belonging to DCF and MFC and MAF are currently in this box and in the following box;
those belonging to MFC include at least one original DCF period photo as well as late copy
prints; minus photos picturing DCF and MFC; included are 2 folders of photos picturing MAF:
these should perhaps be filed in MAF Series as they will surely have been hers and some are
inscribed by her; very likely an artificial file; arranged alphabetically by name. (In the Henry
Flagg French folder is a photo of French Hall in the now University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
showing DCF's bust of HFF on the mantel; because the photo has no acc. no., it was probably
kept by MFC in the Residence and previously kept by DCF among his personal possessions,
not with his sculpture photos.)
.
Bartlett, Sarah (Sallie) French (Mrs. Edward J. Bartlett; sister of DCF; copy prints),
c.1940 [NANs] [NT73.45 (A59)-(A61)]
.
Brady, Sarita (DCF’s aunt’s half-sister, later Mrs. Stilson Hutchins), 1866 [NAN]
.
Brown, Ann Caroline (Mrs. Simon Brown; nee Anne Caroline French; aunt of DCF),
1897 [NAN]
.
Bush, Mrs. and Mrs. Robert (DCF's financial adviser and the brother-in-law of Anne
French Bush, niece of DCF), c. 1940(?) [NT 73.10.820]
.
Chase, Sarah French, c.1880 (?) [NANs]
.
Chilton, Jr., William Edwin (infant; DCF's niece's half-sister's son), 1922 [NAN]
.
Clark, Mrs. James (nee Margaret ["Daisy"] Brady French, DCF's sister-in-law, MFC's
aunt), c.1910 (?) [NAN]
.
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Clark, Richard G. and Elise Fullerton (MFC's cousin and his wife) 1950, 1952 [NANs]
.
Clark, Sarita (child; niece of DCF, with Marguerite), c.1900 (?) [NT 73.10.821]
.
Cresson, Jr., Caleb (relative, perhaps a nephew, of WPC [? - this man is WPC.s
brother]), 1936 [NT 73.10.829]
.
Cresson, William Penn (DCF's son-in-law), 1919, 1928, 1930, (?) [NT 73.10.792-.794,
.800, .801, .811, .822]
.
Fletcher, Laurence Brown (descendant of DCF's aunt; distant cousin of MFC), c.1950
(?) [NAN]
.
French, Amos Tuck (DCF's cousin's son), 1921 [NAN]
.
French, Mr. and Mrs. B.B. (nee Mary Ellen Brady; uncle of DCF; group and individual
photos), 1860s and early 20th-century copy prints of 1860s images [NANs]
.
French, Daniel (grandfather of DCF; c.1810 hatless silhouette), 1880s (?)
[NT 69.38.3421]
.
French, Edmund (brother of MAF), c.1910 and copy print [NANs]
.
French, Elizabeth Richardson (Bessie French, DCF’s cousin’s daughter)
.
French, Ellen Tuck (Mrs. Francis Ormond French, wife of DCF's cousin), 1865, and
MFC copy print [NANs]
.
French, Francis (Frank) Ormond (DCF's cousin), 1865 and MFC copy prints [NANs]
.
French, Frank and Eleanor (grandson of Francis Ormond French, DCF’s cousin, with
his wife), ca. 1918 [NT73.10 (798)]
BOX 71: Photographs Picturing French Family Members continued.
.
French, Amos Tuck, photocopies of NT73.10.1745-54, 73.10.2003-04
Folder 1: French, Elizabeth (Bessie) Richardson (Lady Cheylesmore, DCF's cousin's
daughter), 1880-1931 (and 1960s) [NT73.45.5014] (1)
.
Folder 2: Judge Henry Flagg French (DCF's father), c.1876-c.1884 (c.1910 interior) [NT
69.38.3422; NANs] [NT73.45.5013, 73.45.5013.2] (6)
.
Folder 3: Louise French (DCF niece; in three-window small red leather frame; likely
belonged to MF), c.1905 [NANs (?)] [Reverses not inspected] (1)
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Folder 4: French, Mary Adams (French, Mrs. Daniel Chester); small prints, 1863-1927
and copy prints [NT 69.38.3419; NT 73.10.1970; NT 73.45(A123)-(A127); NT
73.45.5215.9; 5216.28; NANs] (10)
.
Folder 5: French, Mary Adams (Mrs. Daniel Chester); large prints, c. 1885-1912 (and
c.1939) [NANs] (4)
.
Folder 6: French, Mary Ellen (Mrs. Benjamin Brown); carte de visite [NT 73.45.5047] (1)
Folder 7: Pamela Prentiss French (Mrs. Henry Flagg; DCF's stepmother), 1865 (?);
1880s [ NT73.45.5068, NT73.45.5219.3; NAN] (3)
.
Folder 8: Prentiss French (DCF's brother's son), 1918 [NAN] (1)
.
Folder 9: Prentiss French family (his wife, daughter, granddaughter, brother-in-law, et
al.), 1933-1969 (15)
.
Folder 10: Sarah Wingate Flagg French (DCF's grandmother), c.1860?, c.1875? [NANs]
(2)
.
Folder 11: Brady, Sarita (later Mrs. Stilson Hutchins; DCF's aunt's half-sister), 1866 [NT
73.45.5057; NAN] (1)
Folder 12: William Merchant Richardson French (DCF's brother), 1913 (copy prints of
various images, 1960s) [NANs] (11)
Folder 13: Major Abijah Hollis (brother-in-law of DCF; photo inscribed to MF), 1907 or
earlier [NAN] (1)
Folder 14: Hollis, Harriette French, (Mrs. Abijah, sister of DCF), c.1900 (?) copy prints of
c.1865 image [NT 73.45(A57), (A58)] (3)
.
Folder 15: Mary Brooks Hollis (baby daughter of DCF's sister's son's second wife's),
1921 [NAN] [snapshot collection?] (1)
.
Folder 16: Alice Keyes (Mrs. George Keyes) and infant son Daniel French Keyes (greatgrandson of DCF's father's sister’s daughter’s grandson), 1914 [NAN] (1)
.
Folder 17: William Merchant Richardson (DCF's grandfather, photo of oil portrait),
1905? [NANs] (2)
Folder 18: D. C. French, relatives at Chateau Vert Mont in France, 1917, 1922, 1925
[NANs] (3)
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Box 72: Photographs (historic) of Chesterwood Buildings and Grounds, including Studio
interiors. All with one exception are DCF historical prints, 1896-c.1927; they have been
segregated from MFC and administrative prints; an artificial file arranged chronologically by
decade; Studio interiors, although few in number, are foldered separately by year and are also
useful to view sculpture commissions in progress.
.
Buildings and grounds, 1890s; Folder I (11 count) [NT 73.45.5190; 5224.20; NANs]
.
Buildings and grounds, 1900s; Folder II (12 count) [NT 73.45(A49); (A50); (A191);
(A192); (A193); (A194); (A195); (A196); (A197); (A199); (A200); NANs]
.
Buildings and grounds, 1910s; Folder III (10 count) [period print of CHP-GP.24; NT
73.45(A51); (A52); NT 73.45.5207.1-.2; NANs]
.
Buildings and grounds, 1920s; Folder IV (8 count) [NT 73.45(A53), (A54); NANs]
.
Studio interiors, 1898-1923 (8 count) [NT 73.45.5109; .1297.26.1; 28.2; 28.3 NANs]
Box 73: Photographs of friends and acquaintances, sorted by date; with the exception of
several MFC copy prints, all appear to have belonged to DCF. [1 1/2 inches]
- No dates (6; unnumbered)
- 1860s (3) [NANs]
- 1870s: Powers family (8) [NT 73.45.5067; .5093; NANS]; Ball family (8)
[NT 73.45.5038; .5046; .5059; .5244.1-.2; NANS]
- 1880s (2) [NANs]
- 1890s (6) [NANs]
- 1900s (5) [NT 73.45.5031; .5060; .5147;NANs]
- 1920s (5) [NT 73.45.5003; .5007; .5171; .5172]
Box 74: One inch
.
Proofs, DCF-inscribed envelope, photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals (?), photographs of
Chesterwood buildings, grounds, and interiors, 1914
.
Proof, unidentified photographer, D.C. French working on Milmore Memorial with DCF's
head toward camera, not in profile, 1891(?) [From beneath back cover of DCF Sculpture
Album "Book X"] also in Box 67
Lincoln Memorial Blueprints
Blueprint (in yellow), Lincoln Memorial, main floor plan, File #1, Sheet #12, June 1, 1913
Blueprint (in yellow), Lincoln Memorial, north elevation, File #1, Sheet #15, June 1, 1913
Blueprint, Lincoln Memorial, longitudinal section (looking east), File #1, Sheet #18, June
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1, 1913 [NT69.38.1533.3]
Blueprint (in yellow), Lincoln Memorial, longitudinal section (looking east), File #1, Sheet
#18, June 1, 1913
Blueprint, Lincoln Memorial, longitudinal section (looking west), File #1, Sheet #19, June
1, 1913 [NT69.38.1533.6]
Blueprint, Lincoln Memorial, longitudinal section (looking west), File #1, Sheet #19, June
1, 1913 [NT69.38.1533.10]
Blueprint (in yellow), Lincoln Memorial, transverse section, File #1, Sheet #20, June 1,
1913
Blueprint (2 copies), Lincoln Memorial, transverse section, File #1, Sheet #20, June 1,
1913
Blueprint, Lincoln Memorial, transverse section, File #1, Sheet $21, June 1, 1913
[NT69.38.1533.12]
Blueprint, Lincoln Memorial, transverse section, File #1, Sheet #22, June 1, 1913
[NT69.38.1533.5]
Blueprint, Lincoln Memorial, draft, drawing of a laurel
Blueprint (2), Lincoln Memorial, elevation of east wall
Blueprint (2), Lincoln Memorial, elevation of north wall
Blueprint (3; 1 in yellow), Lincoln Memorial, elevation of west wall
Blueprint (2), Lincoln Memorial, plan showing floor slabs, steps and platforms, File #5,
Sheet #42, August 21, 1914
Blueprint, small, Lincoln Memorial, plan of section taken at level A. A, File #15, Sheet
#4, August 18, 1911
Printing (Copper) Plates
Box 75: Printing plates (copper or zinc mounted on wood) of photographs of sculpture by DCF;
all found in association with MFC sculpture printing plates in CH103, in the right cupboard of
the secretary; still in their original enclosures (two are mailing envelopes), one of which
inscribed and dated by DCF, the remainder inscribed by MFC; in her early and later hands.
.
Plate of photograph, D.C. French's DuPont Memorial fountain in operation, 1920s
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.
Plates (2) of photographs, DCF's Memory and Hazard Memorial, 1920s (?)
.
Plates (2) of one (?) photograph, DCF's "Spirit of Life" from the Trask Memorial, 1927
and before 1931(?)
Miscellaneous
Box 77 (Blue label): photographic enlargement of General George Washington, full-size plaster
[NT 69.38.3306]
Box 78 (Blue label): Unnumbered box of unfiled and/or unnumbered and/or misfiled images
Letter from E. B. Longman to M. F. Cresson regarding transcripts of DCF letters to
Longman which she has made to send to Cresson engaged in writing Journey into
Fame, early 1940s (?)
MFC period copy of letter from Royal Cortissoz to H. P. Caemmerer, regarding his
inscription for the Lincoln Memorial, January 28, 1938, from MFC’s Journey into Fame
files
Photograph, mounted, DCF, portrait in oil of “Judge William Merchant
Richardson/Chester N. H.”, c. 1905 (?)
Photograph of Quadriga, Minnesota; see also “The Triumph of Columbus,” World’s
Columbian Exposition
Archival photos [69.38] [73.45] [73.45A]
An empty envelope that once contained sketches of Lincoln Memorial
Folders of miscellaneous photos need to be filed
Box 79 (Blue label): oversized newspaper clippings of Italian and Dutch paintings in New York
Times, from CH207 A or D
- “The Holy Family” by Andrea Mantegna (2)
- “Yonker Ramp and His Beloved” by Franz Hals
- “The Lady with a Pink” by Rembrandt
- “The Betrothal of St. Catherine” by Memling
- “Old Woman Cuttnig Her Nails” by Rembrandt
Box 80 (Blue label): photograph series [NT 73.13.1-42] (many photos missing)
Box 82 (Blue label): miscellaneous collection
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Account statements (2)
Postcard of the Prancing Pig Reproduction
Snapshots of Parian ware in CH collection of works by DCF, c.1960 (?)
Collection of photos from CH270 (unsorted, in separate folders)
Box 101 (Blue label): DCF sculpture dedication books
The Grant Monument, Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia, PA, 1899.
Dedication of the Equestrian Statue of Major-General Charles Devens, Worcester, MA,
1907.
A Record of the Dedication of the Statue of Major General William Francis Bartlett,
Boston, MA, 1904.
Myers, Robert Henry. Beneficence. Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 1972.
The Fountain, in Memory of Francis Davis Millet and Archibald Willingham Butt.
Washington, 1913.
Dedication of the Weaver, by Daniel Chester French in Memory of Rowland Hazard and
His Sons at the Hazard Memorial Peace Dale October 23, 1920.
Box 102 (Blue label): DCF sculpture dedication books
The Lincoln Memorial. Washington, 1927.
The Melvin Memorial. Concord, MA. June 16, 1909.
The Equestrian Statue of Major General Joseph Hooker. Boston, MA. 1903. [NT
69.38.426]
Box 103 (Blue label): DCF sculpture Dedication books
Dedication of the Statue of Commodore George Hamilton Perkins, Concord, NH, April
25th, 1902.
Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of Concord Fight, April 19, 1875 (dedication
of the Minute Man). [NT 73.45.345]
Dedication of the Statue of Wendell Phillips, July 5, 1915.
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In Memoriam: Samuel Spencer. Atlanta, Georgia. May 21st, 1910.
Chapin 1: photographs (2), of paintings by Samuel T. Shaw, gift to DCF from “Shaw Fund”
Society American Artists, 1897.
Chapin 2: photograph, Lincoln Memorial, framed and mounted, 1922.
Chapin 3: Book plates (28) and pages of text (18), in two separate folders, original owner DCF,
publishers Meguignon Marvis and Germer Bailliere, unidentified book, 2nd edition, Paris,
France, anatomy drawings.
Chapin 4: miscellaneous
Dedication of the Weaver (Hazard Memorial), Oct. 23, 1920.
Snapshots, Spring House, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, 1971 [NT 73.43.1.1-12]
Letter and envelope, DCF to Bertie Schoonmaker, sympathy over death of her daughter
Louise Schoonmaker Chiston, July 5, 1928 [NT 78.29.1]
Dedication of a Statue of General Franklin Pierce, Concord, NH, Nov. 25, 1914.
Snapshots, Mission House and elsewhere, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, c.1923 (14)
Folder, miscellaneous collection of newspaper clippings and letters.
Correspondence, between DCF, MFC, and others, 1924, 1949, 1969, 1970.
Christmas card from DCF and MAF, c.1926-1931
Cummingham scrapbood pages (2).
Letter from DCF to Mr. Reuben Rice, regarding delay in receipt of amrble bust
[Emerson] carved in Italy, Nov.16, 1883 [NT 73.15.1]
Letters from M. F. Cresson to Mabel B. Bartlett, From Glendale and from Boston, on two
of her recent portrait busts, 1932 and 1934 [NT 79]
Letter from DCF to Miss Durant, Aug. 26, 1918.
Letter from DCF to Isabella S. Gardener, 1905.
Letter from DCF to Vincent Russo, June 27, 1910, from Venice, Italy.
Letter from DCF to Mrs. Barnes and Spaulding, Oct. 31, 1913.
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Letters from DCF to Jessica Penn Evans, 1913 and 1924.
Letters from DCF to Prentiss French and to Helen, 1926 and 1927.
Letter from DCF to Edwin Gay, describing the “waste mould” and “gelatin mould”
operations, June 13, 1885 [NT 73.15(2a)]
Letters (3) from DCF to John Kappes, from Chesterwood, regarding studio shipments,
Nov. 15, 1929, May 16, 1930, and May 24, 1931 [NT 73.36.2.1-3]
Letter from Mary Adams French to Mrs. George Bartlett, from Glendale, thanking her for
her recent book review in the Berkshire Eagle, Nov. 6, 1928.
Newspaper clipping of poem on DCF by Frank Parker Stockbridge, c. 1931.
Letters (3) from DCF to Jessica Penn Evans, one of his former models, on manuscript
of her memoirs, 1913 and 1924 [NT 73.16.2.3-5]
Stockbridge Magazine, April 1914 – December 1915.
Unnamed folders of miscellaneous collections.
Chapin 5:
Yellow envelope, unopened (On Tuesday, October 13, 1987, upon receipt of
authorization from Cynthia K. Sam, the envelope containing xerographic copies of
letters from French to Pratt and sealed in her presence was opened and the contents
were removed, photocopied, returned, and re-sealed in a larger envelope by the
Chesterwood archivist, Wanda Magdeleine Styka. One copy only was made and sent to
Michael Richman. Mrs. Sam’s original letter of permission, dated October 9, 1987, to do
so is enclosed together with the original copy and envelope bearing her inscription.)
Casettes (7), in a box from National Trust for Historic Preservation, containing Nancy
Richards explaining Selgem, 1977 and Paschkoff interview, 1989
Chapin 6: (oversized): photograph of Chesterwood, framed and glazed.
Chapin 7: (oversized)
Newspaper clipping, dry-mounted, sculptor Augustus Lukeman’s WWI memorial,
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, design model
Dr. William Rimmer’s Art Anatomy, given to John J. Kappes by DCF, 1928
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2 additional photos, Alma Mater and Clark Memorial
Chapin 8: miscellaneous
Book, Collection of the Georgia Historical Society: Oglethorpe Monument.
Letters, from Dorothy to her mother, 1913.
Correspondence fragments and newspaper clippings, relating to DCF.
Photograph, Chapman Memorial, framed.
Postcards, Lincoln Memorial (9 count).
Photographs, Chesterwood (in 3 small envelopes).
Period postcards, The Minute Man (4 count).
Newspaper clippings, relating to Chesterwood.
Gift to Chesterwood from Lillian M. Asselin, 1996 (2 folders): containing
Letter from MFC to Nathan R. Einhorn, May 20th, 1970
List of preceding, consisting of 26 items, most of which were given to MFC by
descendants of DCF’s sister, Mrs. Harriet V. M. Hollis
Carbon copy, letters from MFC to Helen and P. French, 1952-1958
Typed copy, letter from Coline Woodworth to Donald Douglass, regarding
disposition of MFC’s possessions, Nov. 31, 1973
Photocopy, letter from Paul W. Ivory to Helen French, regarding decision to keep
MFC’s engagement pads and papers in Chesterwood Collection, Jan. 22, 1974
Photocopy, letter from Helen French to Paul W. Ivory, regarding her views on
whether MFC’s things should be sent to the Library of Congress or kept in
Chesterwood Collection, Jan, 29, 1974
Dedication program, 2 snapshots, typescript of “The Chesterwood Circle.”
Letter, from Mary Hollis to Lillian Asselin, April 5, 1974
Letter, envelope, from Mary Hollis to Lillian Asselin, regardin gMFC’s intention to
send the B. B. French diaries Xerox copies to the NH Historical Society, Nov. 11,
1973.
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Letter, from Coline Woodworth to Lillian Asseline, of thanks and appreciation and
of MFC’s devotion to L. A., Oct. 7, 1973
Letter, from Coline Woodworth to Lillian Asselin, regarding MFC estate and the
difficulty with Donald Douglass, Dec. 6, 1973
Note, enclosure, envelope, Helen French to Lillian Asselin, regarding itineraries
of Frenches and Hoys, Aug. 1, 1975
Postcard, Helen French to Lililan Asselin, regarding her visit to NH, Aug. 1975
Photograph, Andromeda by DCF, belonged to MFC, c.1960s (?)
Typed transcript of words by Thomas Jefferson, occasion of giving his desk to
Cooledge, 1825
Letter from Mabel Choate to MFC, regarding propsed membership of MFC in
Cosmopolitan Club, Oct. 4 1954 and Dec. 12, 1955
Printed synopsis of the work of Prentiss French, post-1957
Retained copy of letter from MFC to Mr. and Mrs. William Vanderbilt, Jan. 15,
1955
Letter from Anne Vanderbilt to MFC, Jan. 22, 1955
Retained copy from MFC to Anne Vanderbilt, Feb. 9, 1955, regarding opening of
Chesterwood to the public
Letter from Anne Vanderbilt to MFC, regarding MFC’s recent article, March 5,
1952
Letter from Anne Vanderbilt to MFC, regarding MFC’s forthcoming trip, May 17,
1952
Letter from P. French to MFC of thanks, Jan. 4, 1954
Carbon copy of letter from MFC to P. French, regarding recent sale of
Medowlark, dtc. Jan. 13, 1955
Letter from WPC to MFC, regarding geneology, June 3, 1964
Carbon copy, letter from MFC to WPC, regarding Cresson family, June 10, 1964
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Letter from Geogina Wetherill (Mrs. Webster K. W.) to MFC, regarding accurate
Cresson dates, May 2, 1965(?)
Letter (2) from William M. White to MFC and enclosure of photo of part of his
gardon, 1968
Memorial to Dr. William Mansfield White, dedication ceremonies, Silver Hill
Foundation, May 20, 1972
Letter from Pierre G. T. Beauregard III to MFC, regarding his leaving from NT,
May 28, 1973
Photograph, formal, of DCF in his NY Studio, unglazed, matted, and framed.S
Chapin 9:
Photos of DCF and family and friends from Europe trip, 1910-1911
Box, containing miscellaneous collection (letters, flyers, etc.)
Chapin 10:
War propoganda poster, titled “For Freedom’s Sake – Buy War Bonds,” full-size color
photocopy, 1943 [NT 69.38.3799]
Pencil sketches (9)
Letter from DCF to Raymond Emerson, sending condolences for the death of Edward
Waldo Emerson, Feb 9th, 1930.
Letters relating to the Milmore family and a book titled “Pepita Milmore”
Photograph, Melvin Memorial, framed and glazed (removed from loose photographs of
DCF sculpture) [NT 79.40]
Chapin 11:
Photograph, Retribution [NT 83.14.3]
Letters from DCF to Charles Dupuy, on the care of Chesterwood, 1923-1931;
photocopies of originals in private collection [NT 86]
Postcards, the Minute Man; Bartlett Statue; and Spencer Trask Memorial.
Letter from DCF to Frederic H. Chase, reminiscences for his memoir of George
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Augustus King of Concord, MA, from Glendale, Sep.29, 1922 [NT 81.31]
Photocopies of letters, DCF to Paul W. Bartlett, regarding latter’s sculpture for
Metropolitan Museum of Art, an article by PWB, and Sculpture Society’s involvement
with WWI special event, 1910-1918, given to CH in 1986 (private collection).
Photo album, D. C. French, at Chesterwood
DCF US Postage Stamp on First Day Cover Envelope, 1940 (there are two separate
files) [A2002.M.1-5]
Margaret French’s picture book, summer of 1900 [NT 81.18.5]
2 stereoviews, gift of Linda W. Jackson, Sep.4, 1990
Photographic prints, clay head of woman modelled by John Kappes, 1916-1931 (3
count) [NT 81 or 83]
Letters from DCF to Eugenio Contini, his plaster caster, 23 pieces of correspondence
and 2 photographs, 1900-1916.
Photographic prints, mostly of sculpture by DCF, c.1895?-1934 (26 count) [NT 83.]
Receipt of Miller-Hazard Memorial Dedication being in temporary custody of the national
trust.
Copy of a note from DCF to New England Trust Company, Aug. 31, 1885 (original
adhered to page of Memories by MAF, Chesterwood Collection)
Copy of a letter from DCF to Mrs. Grattan, Nov. 9, 1929.
Letter from DCF to George Keyes, mentioning recent visit of Mildred, June 29, 1927,
and adhering autograph admission card to the National Academy of Design’s 104th
annual exhibition, 1929.
Copy of letter from Harriette French Hollis to her son Thomas Hallis, March 8th, 1909.
Copy of letter from Mary French to Miss Cummings, thanking her for flowers and
describing service, Jan. 9, 1932.
The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, June 15, 1916, containing
article by Selwyn Brinton on recent sculpture by DCF.
Copy of letter from DCF to Lawrence Tenney Stevens, July 16, 1921, from Glendale, on
why Stevens did not win the prix de Rome and encouraging him to try again.
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Correspondence between DCF and Hillis family members, especially his nephew
Thomsa Hollis; also letters of Mary A. French and M. F. Cresson on family matters,
1910, 1916, 1917, 1921-1928, 1930, 1932, 1963 [NT 81.18.6(1)-(47)]
Handmade sign, “Fire Hydrants,” on back of fragment of Stockbridge Theatre poster.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens US Postage Stamp, issued in 1940.
Chapin 12: Photos of DCF sculptures
- Anderson Memorial (7)
- Butt-Millet Memorial (8)
- Alger Memorial (5)
- Clark Memorial (8)
- Ball Brothers Memorial (1)
- Numerous others, temporarily unidentified.
Box, red, labeled Salvage 3: magazines
The Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Nov 20, 1909; 1 without
cover.
National Sculpture Review, summer, 1953; spring, 1956; summer, 1956; spring, 1957;
summer, 1957; fall, 1957; winter, 1957-58; winter, 1958; fall, 1958; spring 1959; 1
without cover.
Ethel Barrymore: a Souvenir, New York, 1903.
Academy Architecture, November 1907.
American Homes and Gardens, January 1909.
Box 1, Van Slyke: 3 photographs, framed and glazed
Three generations: Mrs. DCF’s mother, grandmother, and great grandother)
Clark Memorial New Year greeting from MFC
Silhouette of Daniel French (1769-1840)
Box 2, Van Slyke: 3 photographs, framed and glazed
Mr. and Mrs. DCF by Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. WPC
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Last photograph of MFC, seated in her bedroom
Unlabled Box: same shelf as the MFC series
Photographs of Chesterwood (24) [NT73.45.4970; .5025; .5016; .5058; .5069;
NT73.10.919; .379; NT73.13.1 (3); CHP-GP.11-2; .17; .19-21; .23; .25; .31; NANs;
unknown]
Items enclosed in envelope: plaster cast of fountain at Chesterwood (cast, 1909; photo,
1910), one view; plaster cast of fountain at Chesterwood (cast, 1909; photo, 1910),
another view; parlor at Chesterwood, 1939-1960
Unlabeled Box: same shelf as the MFC series and the above unlabeled box
Correspondences with the Medallic Art Company
Enhibit catalogue, MFC
Notes on committee meetings, “Minutes of the Annual,” DCF annual conference,
transcribed by Anna W. Braman, Secretary, 1957-1959
Correspondences with Michael Richman
Correspondences, regarding Stockbridge Library
Correspondences, regarding Architectural League
Correspondence with Municipal Art Society
Correspondences, regarding DCF medal
Sale receipts, letters, invoices, etc. of Roman bronze works
DCF Daguerreotypes, Cartes de Visite
Box 76: (enclosed in flat box labelled DCF 76 + 77) All of the following were removed from the
secretary in the Parlor (CH102).
.
Daguerreotype, small case, picturing Henry Flagg French (?), MFC memo
.
Daguerreotype, large case, picturing Henry Flagg French (?), MFC memo
.
Daguerreotype, picturing Pamela Prentiss
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.
Painted photograph, printed on paper, picturing Mary Adams French when a child,
glazed and held together with an easel clamp
.
Carte-de-visite photographs (9), picturing Henry Flagg French (6) and Pamela Prentiss
French (3), his wife, in period box
.
Carte-de-visite photographs (10), picturing unidentified people (7) and one each of
Kenilworth Castle, England; the Duomo, Florence; and Pompei
DCF Tintypes
Box 77: (enclosed in flat box labelled DCF 76 + 77) Tintypes only [do these have acc. #’s?]
.
Tintype, picturing Judge Henry Flagg French, in metal frame with oval mat, MFC
notation [from Parlor secretary]
.
Tintype, picturing William Merchant Richardson French, DCF's brother
.
Tintype, picturing D.C. French, at about ten years of age, c.1860
.
Tintype, picturing Charles Carter, Will Brewster, and Dan French, all holding hunting
rifles, with hunting dog, Rye Beach, NH, 1867 or 1868
.
Tintype, picturing unidentified little girl with brown(?) bangs and shoulder-length curls,
wearing hat, coat, and ankle(?) boots, holding sand bucket and standing in artificial sea
environment, mounted in original, colored paper folder, no inscriptions, late 19th century
.
Tintype, picturing D.C. French, looking up, in group of three women and four men,
c.1885 (?)
.
Tintype, picturing Biemer, Thilda (Tillie) Nilson, Margaret French, and Anna Winberg (?),
posing formally, Great Barrington Fair, October 1, 1898
.
Tintype, picturing unidentified man, Anna Winberg, Margaret French, and Thilda (Tillie)
Nilson, posing formally, September 1900 [NT 73.10.886]
.
Tintype, picturing Mary Adams French, standing left, in group photograph, 1902
.
Tintype, picturing unidentified young girl, Margaret French, Lizzie Leahy, and Dorothy
French Schoonmaker, June 1904
.
Tintype, picturing Jack Morse and Margaret French, 1909(?)
Also enclosed in Box 76 + 77:
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MAF (“Madame Daniel Chester French”): Document, with 1918 engraving by Besnard,
recording that the Medaille de 2’ Classe de la Reconnaissance Francaise was conferred
in 1921 upon MAF by the President of the French Republic. She “has been during the
entire duration of the war and since the armistice one of the most active members of the
‘Duryea War Relief Committee’…”
Photograph, rolled, cotton-mounted, of a sculpture
DCF Oversize Photographs
Oversized Box I: (blue label 83) Oversized photographs of DCF's works (oversized sheet
protector)
.
Alger Memorial [NT 69.38.1279.1]
Alma Mater [NT 69.38.1356.5]
.
Anderson Memorial [NAN]
.
Ball Brothers Memorial (photos, mounted, of one rendering by Chester B. Price) [NT
69.38.3502.1-.3]
.
Rufus Choate [NT 69.38.1339.2; NAN]
.
Clark Memorial [NT 69.38.1277.9]
.
The Continents [NT 69.38.1385.11, .20, .27]
.
General Devens [NT 69.38.1323.6-.8; NAN]
.
Dewey Medal [NT 73.45.5283]
.
Earl Dodge Memorial [NT 69.38.1358.4]
.
Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial [NT 69.38.1282.5, 6, .8]
Oversized Box II: Oversized photographs of DCF's works. (Heavy)
.
Gallaudet Memorial [NT69.38.1357.7 and NAN]
.
Genius of Creation [NAN]
.
Jurisprudence [NT69.3813.78.13]
.
Lafayette Memorial [NT69.38.1334.1]
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.
Law, Prosperity, and Power [NT69.38.1388.1.1-3]
.
Lincoln, Abraham (Nebraska, standing) [NT69.38.1304/3/1-2, NAN]
.
Lincoln, Abraham (Lincoln Memorial) [NT69.38.1305.1, .3, .4, .10, .25]
.
Longfellow Memorial [NT69.38.1352.4, .7, .8, .10]
.
Melvin Memorial [NT 69.38.1318.15; NAN]
.
Meyer Memorial [NAN]
.
Milmore Memorial [NT69.38.1278.1-2, .5, NAN]
.
Milton War Memorial (World War Memorial) [NT69.38.1333.7.1-2]
Oversized Box III (heavy) Oversized Photographs of DCF's works.
.
Newcombe Memorial [NAN]
.
O'Reilly Memorial (6 count) [NT69.38.1296.9-13]
.
Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial (2 count) [NT69.1359.3.2.1, NAN]
.
Boston Public Library Doors (6 count) [NT69.38.1380.5.2, 7.2, 8.2, 9.2, 13.2, 14.2]
.
The Republic (4 count) [NT69.38.1372.17.1, NT69.38.1312.18, and IVANs] (installed at
WCE, 1893)
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Saint Bartholomew’s Church, central portal bronze doors (oversized sheet protector)
[NAN]
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DCF working on bust of Ambrose Swasey, 1922 (2) [NANs]
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Spencer Trask Memorial (5) [NT69.38.1299.8-10, .16; NT1299.24, IVAN]
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General George Washington (9) [NT69.38.1308.14, .17-.18, .19, .20, .21, 22.1-2, 23.1]
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Webster Memorial, Daniel (photograph of rendering by S. Lewis) [NAN] [From Studio
north wall tall chest third-tier drawer]
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White Memorial (Angel) (9) [NT 69.38.1298.1, .2, .3, .5-.10; NAN]
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White Memorial (Fountain) (oversized sheet protector) [NT 69.38.1297.35]
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Oversized Box IV: (Blue label 86) photographs of models, paintings of Napoleon, Native
Americans, etc.
Models in classical dress at one sculpture society exhibit, 1898 (?) (9 count) [NANs]
One professional model, relating to Boston Public Library Door, removed from acid free
box No. 35 (9 count; unnumbered) [NANs]
Model in classical Greek apparel (1; unnumbered) [NAN]
Female models, mostly actresses (29 count) [NT 69.38.3218-3223; 3226-3242; 32443248]
Male models (11 count) [NT 69.38.3224; 3225; 3243]
Model, draped, kneeling, and holding lily, in studio, c.1898 [NAN]
Children modeling [NAN]
Clara modeling (see also GP. 77-80, models in DCF studio adm. Prints made from
glass plate negatives) [NAN]
Clippings of paintings of Napoleon, glued to paper boards (9 count; unnumbered)
Printed page of pictures, American Indians, “Some Types of Uncle Sam’s Indian
Wards,” The New York Times-Illustrated Magazine, p.3, October 16, 1898 [NT
69.38.3162]
Pictures, DCF, American Indians, late 1800s – 1901 (10 count) [NANs]
Models in classical dress at one sculpture society exhibit (see smaller prints of same
models and exhibit) 1898 (?) (3 count) [NANs]
Book plate (pages) of chin and nose types, from William Rimmer’s Art Anatomy,
portfolio 4th (?) edition, 1889 (?) [NT 69.38.1647]
Oversized Box V:
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Bookplate from Rimmer’s Art Anatomy, p.8, chin and nose types [NT69.38.1647]
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Architecture and Sculpture, Munich (2 count) [NT 69.38.2262; NT 69.38.2350; from
Studio south wall tall chest]
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Renaissance Sculpture (3) [NT 69.38.2421-.2423]
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Antique Sculpture (4) folio [NT 69.38.2824-26; NT 69.38.2868; NAN]
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Photos of Places (8) folio [NT 69.38.3115 - NT69.38.3124]
Oversized Box VI: Photos and Book Plates of Ornaments (35), folio [NT 69.38.2365.191, NT 69.38.2393, NT 69.38.2396.1-.99, NT 69.38.2400-2]
Oversized Box VII:
Photograph of a drawing of The Fencer by artist Dr. William Rimmer, late 19th century
[NAN]
Photograph of the chapel door of United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland,
by artist Evelyn Beatrice Longman [NT 69.38.2288]
Photograph of Amateis Doors in the House Wing of US Capitol, by artist Louis Amateis,
1908 [NT 69.38.2261]
Folder, photographs of modern European sculpture (5 count) [NT 69.38.2254-2855;
2260; 2264; 2265]
Folder, photographs of a sculpture by C. Monteverde (Rome, 1877) and one other work,
originally from DCF Studio, south wall, tall chest; later stored in acid-free box containing
photographic reproductions of “American Sculpture”, owned by DCF (2 count) [NT
69.38.2304-2306]
Clippings of works by American sculptors, kept by DCF, early 20th century [NT
69.38.2649; 2679]
Photographs of Christ the King, by artist Andrew O’Connor (3; unnumbered)
Photographs of Porteuse de Pain, by artist Jules Coutan, late 19th century [NAN]
Photograph of a painting of a lady, dedicated to DCF [NT 69.38.3489]
Photograph of a painting of a lady and a child, dedicated to DCF, signed by many
people [NT 69.38.879]
Photographs, loose, unidentified, some unnumbered (13) [NT 69.39.2251; 2252; 2256;
2257; 2298; 879; 967; 2303; 2305; 2307]
Oversized Box VIII:
Photograph, framed and glazed, of sculpture by Ivan Mestrovic, dedicated to
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Daniel Chester French [NT 69.38.552]
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Frame for photograph [NT 69.38.3489] stored in oversized box VII
Oversized Box IX: (fragile)
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Photographs (3), framed and glazed, inscribed by Auguste Rodin and the
Duchesse de Choiseul to Daniel Chester French, his wife, and his daughter, July
1910 [NT 69.38.540, NT 69.38.553, NT 73.45.1980]
Oversized Box X:
Photographs, framed and glazed: Milton Memorial; formal photograph of Daniel
Chester French; Daniel Chester French working on Swasey bust, 1922 [NT
69.38.583; NT 69.38.629; NT 69.38.3483]
Oversized Box XI: (Items from the Studio Cabinet)
Photographs, probably of Cresson family house, contained in an envelope (2 count)
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Photographs, mounted, of Russia, slave hauling, Persians and horses (7 count)
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Portfolio, Watercolor painting, unfinished, Venetian scene, c. 1930s, and Cresson
family house photograph
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Portfolio, inscribed "Photographs of Places", containing photographs of various
European places and postcards of Exposition
Oversized Box XII: (Items from the Studio Cabinet)
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Photographs, mounted, of models in Greek robes (8) [NT 69.38.3967-3974]
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Photograph reproductions and prints, of paintings of Academicians (including one
Old Master Painting,) stained glass (oversize), and architectural model of building
(9 total; unnumbered)
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Portfolio, inscribed "Ancient Painting", containing 17 mounted photographs of
paintings from Renaissance to 19th century
Oversized Box XIII: One inch
Photos of people; original location: the Residence (CH207 and CH102) (2 of DCF, 1 of William
Brewster)
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Photographs (2 discrete), formal, D.C. French seated, photographer Purdy, Boston, one
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three-quarter, one frontal, c. 1905(?) [NT 69.38.2895.1-.2] [need to be re-assigned NT
73.45 accession numbers because were in CH207 and were bequeathed]
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Photograph, formal, of William Brewster (life-long friend of DCF), photographer Notman
Studios, Boston and Cambridge, 1916 or earlier [NAN] [From CH102 secretary, with
many photos, belonging to MFC, of friends]
Double-Oversize Box I: Oversized Photographs of DCF's works
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Mantel Frieze, by DCF, period photograph, c.1886 [NAN]
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Milton War Memorial [NT69.38.1527.7]
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Saint Bartholomew's Tympanum (DCF: dir.) [NAN]
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Science and Art (DCF: dir.) [NANs]
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General George Washington [NT 69.38.1308.16, .23]
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White Memorial (1924) [NT 69.38.1557.3-.4]
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Republic World’s Columbian Exposition (1893) [NT 69.38.3484(a)]
Double-Oversize Box II: (2 inches) Framed and glazed photographs
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Milton War Memorial (“In Flanders Fields”) [NT 69.38.?] [CH003928]
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Two models in classical dress at sculpture exhibition, late 19th century [NT 73.45.1196]
Double-Oversize Box III: (2 inches) Photographs of works by other artists
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Mounted photograph, belonging to DCF, of a full-length portrait of an unidentified mid19th century portly man; on verso, caliper measurement notations for "Portrait of Rufus
Choate" by DCF, 1850-1898 [NAN] [From Studio south wall tall chest 2nd tier drawer]
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Photograph of Der Dornauszieher, inscribed to DCF by sculptor G. Eberlein, published
in 1904 [NT 69.38.2258]
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Rotogravure picture section, kept by D.C. French, showing works by other American
sculptors on three of four pages, The New York Times, May 10, 1931 [NT 69.38.2650]
Flat File Cabinet
Drawer 11 (eleven)
[This drawer, which begins here with Folder 4, holds more than is indicated here because it
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contains mixed types and mixed Series. The sequence of the folders is based on the physical
characteristics of the contents and not by title in alphabetical order.]
Folder 4
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Photograph, triple-oversize, mounted, sculptor D.C. French, photographer A.B. Bogart,
preliminary clay sketch of angel at door, Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial, Wellesley
College, MA, 1907(?) [NT 69.38.1359.6.1]
Folder 5
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Newspaper clipping, triple-oversize with folder, full-page reproduction of Abraham
Lincoln, "Painted and Engraved by William E. Marshall," cover of Picture Section, The
New York Times, February 7, 1909 [NT 69.38.1696]
Rolled
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Photograph, quadruple-oversize when eventually unrolled, panoramic view from Lincoln
Memorial overlooking reflecting pool with Washington Monument in background,
dedication day, May 30, 1922 [NT 73.13.41]
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Photograph, triple-oversize, linen-mounted, rolled, sculptor D.C. French, unid.
Photographer, clay sketch of girl and woman, Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial,
Wellesley College, MA, 1908(?) [NAN]
Cross References
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For enlarged copy print of daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, see DCF Architectural
Drawings, Maps & Posters: Rolled Oversize: Oversize Box 1.
Bins in CH303 [To be entered]
DCF Glass Plate Negatives
The Glass plate Negative Collection was created by D.C. French with his own camera, which
produced 5 x 7 plates, although there are a few larger plates in the collection. They are
individually enveloped and stored vertically. [Refer to loose-leaf notebook holding finding
guide and catalogue sheets and stored with administrative prints in flat box atop 2-drawer file
cabinet in CH304.] For period prints of some of these negatives and for period prints no longer
extant in the collection of negatives, see DCF photo album NT 73.45.5224.
Drawer 1 - 2-Drawer file cabinet in CH304
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Glass plate negatives (86), photographer D.C. French, views of Chesterwood and family
and friends at Chesterwood only, including Studio garden; buildings, including Warner
farmhouse and outbuildings; grounds; and a few interiors; c.1900-c.1917 [CHP-GP.1.86]
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DCF Autochromes
The autochrome images have been duplicated in the form of film 4 x 5 color transparencies.
Because the autochromes are light-sensitive, access to them is only through the color
transparencies or through color Xeroxes of the transparencies. [Refer to loose-leaf notebook in
flat box atop 2-drawer file cabinet in CH304.]
Drawer 2 - 2-Drawer file cabinet in CH304
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Autochrome, photographer Thomas Shields Clarke (1860-1920), Margaret French by
fountain, Nellie and Rosalie Miller (in purple) and Mary Adams French seated on
exedra, Studio Garden, looking NW, September 1914
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Autochrome, photographer Thomas Shields Clarke, Studio Garden, looking north,
fountain and exedra, Straight Vista Walk, and, in distance, standing near pillars,
Margaret and Mary French, September 1914
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Autochrome, photographer Thomas Shields Clarke, Nellie and Rosalie Miller (in purple)
seated on exedra, Studio Garden, looking NE, September 1914
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Autochrome, photographer Thomas Shields Clarke, sculptor D.C. French and
ornithologist William Brewster standing on east path of Studio Garden, beneath boughs
of green apples, beside mauve phlox; in background, in brilliant sunlight, the fountain
spouting a high column of water, Sunday, August 1(?), 1915
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Autochrome, photographer Thomas Shields Clarke, young opera singer Rosalie Miller
wearing hat, veil, and dress with black bow, leaning over fountain and reflected in its
glassy surface, Studio Garden, looking west, Sunday, August 1(?), 1915
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Architectural Drawings, Maps & Posters
Flat File Cabinet
Drawer 1
Folder 1
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Genealogical Chart of Margaret French, b. Concord, MA, Aug. 3, 1889, unid. compiler,
designer and publisher H.R. Stratton, "Ancestral Chart," has printed fan-shaped format-paternal on left, maternal on right--radiating by generation from first (MF) to ninth, 511
spaces, c. two-thirds filled-in, 1889-1920 [NAN 21]
Folder 2
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Newspaper Page, George Dewey, Victor, D.C. French, Sculptor, article "Fighter
Fitzsimmons as a Peace Statue on the Dewey Arch," Illus., page 11, The New York
World, September 24, 1899 [NAN]
Folder 3
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Poster, Citizen's Trust Company, Buffalo, New York, "What does the `Minute Man'
mean?," commercial bank advertisement, includes quotation by D. C. French on his
statue, a depiction of it at top of poster and on bank’s seal, 12 features of the bank’s
service, and its financial statement, 1922 [NAN 34]
Folder 4
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Maps (5), color printed, of New York, NY, Committee on Regional Plan of New York and
its Environs, key map for principal communities, general plans of highway, park, and
railroad systems and land uses, scale 1 in.=7.5 miles, dated 1928, copyright 1929 [NAN
35.1-5]
Folder 5
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Poster, Stockbridge Art Association in cooperation with Grand Central Art Galleries,
annual art exhibition, at Williams High School, incorporates photographic print of detail
of plaster seated Abraham Lincoln, by DCF, August 11-30, 1931(?) [NT 73.45.979]
DCF Foundation disbursements book, August 1965 – December 1966 (25 collection analysis
pad; 16 inscribed pages)
Posters, Laurel Hill Association (1926 (1), 1928(7), 1929(1), 1930(4), 1931(9)), total 22
[NT73.45.978 (1-22)]
Floorplan of Chesterwood house, by architect H. D. French, elevation looking west, 1 original
and 2 photocopies [NAN]
Lithograph, Matthew Brady, 1912
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Book jacket, Journey into Fame, on exhibition in Skylight Gallery until July 1989
Drawer 2
Folder 1
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Blueprint, of landscape & site plan, drawn by Prentiss French, designed by D.C.
French, "Chesterwood...Country Residence of Daniel Chester French", shows
part of woods and grounds, formal garden, studio and house, scale 1"=20',
c.1925 [NT 73.45.4990]
Folder 2
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Blueline print, film negative, plastic positive, of "Ancestral Chart" of Margaret
French, all are full-size, 3 items, copy of NAN 21 [NAN 22]
Folder 3
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Map, color printed, "Railway...of the famous Berkshire Region...", shows all of
Berkshire County, by Walter Watson, C.E., for the Berkshire Life Insurance
Company..., Scale 1"=11,800, 1883-1892
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Graphite drawing of Reconstruction of Exedra
Graphite on linen—planetable map, by Prentiss French, “Map of Area around
Barn at Chesterwood”
Blueprints of layout grading plan, Residence for Verling, by Helen Douglas
French
Drawers 1, 2, and 3 (this was a box that was labeled this way)
*items kept at Chesterwood were put in Drawer 1
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2002 positives and enlargements of NT69.38.1562.1-9
“Woodshed at Chestwerood”—1986
Photocopies of Barn drawing, plan of first floor, adapted from NT69.38.1570
Photocopies of Lincoln Memorial elevations
Longfellow Park topographical blueprint (copy print, 1992) (NT69.38.1535.1)
Reprint of panoramic view, 1890, of Glendale, MA
1942 aerial survey photograph (1994 copyprint) (A1994.G)
Photoprint of plant plan, Crystal Wiley, “Chesterwood Long Border,” 1976
9 color photocopies of NT69.38.969 (20) (Buy War Bonds), made 1999?
Descendants of Edward French genealogical chart
Photocopy, garden of Charles Robinson Smith, designed by DCF, 1925
Photocopies of Bacon plans for DCF studio
Administrative photocopies of 1964 (?), made from Photostats given to LOC, house
plans by Bacon, 1900
Plans drawn by Sean Cross, 1990, of house, Meadowlark, woodshed, and barn
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“Glendale Rd., rte 183”—plan of road by William A. Heaphy, 1976
Ink and pencil on mylar of Chesterwood property drawn by Sarah Collins la Cour, 1997
Blueprints, “New Studio Roof at Chesterwood: Roof Plans and Details,” James Daly
Toobin, 1983
MA National Guard calendar, 1975, featuring the Minute Man
Forest Hills Cemetery map
Layout for Chesterwood pamphlet? (2)
1983 article on Chesterwood garden
1982 Goodyear poster calendar with image of Lincoln Memorial
Topographical maps (geodetic), MA, quadrangle of East Lee, G.B., Pittsfield East,
West, and Stockbridge (1973)
Andromeda poster for Chesterwood, 1979
proofs and materials for Andromeda poster
posters relating to Chesterwood
from Millmore Memorial file, Forest Hills Cemetery map
Drawer 4
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French family tree by Susan Frisch Lehrer
4 copies of he first draft repot for the master site plan of Chesterwood by Jan Hird
Pokorny Assoc., Inc, 2002
3 copies, Plan of Land in Stockbridge, MA, surveyed for NTHP, 1980
Chesterwood Studio, drawn by Boris T. Stahel, Nov. 1984 (9 drawings: North, East,
South, and West elevations; Reflected Ceiling plan, Main floor plan, basement plan,
north-south section, east-west section)
Chesterwood Historic Landscape Report 1994: figures 76-84 (contains 9 plans, all of
which have reductions and 4 drawn to scale)
Tax maps (aerial)
Marlar blueprints: Site plan/ Existing conditions, NTHP, Kane, Carruth & O’Brien, 1972;
General Area Plan, Kane and Carruth, 1980; Landscape Recommendations for Historic
Core, Kane and Carruth, 1981
Technical Review of Proposed Sewage Treatment Facilities and Collection System for
the Town of Stockbridge, 1981 (map)
1974; 1982 DCF Minute Man Iconography (contains poster)
Brochure Map of Chesterwood by Vaughan Gray, revised 1987
Vaughan Gray map (original), Paschal map (carbon), and small Xerox of left side of
Gray map (note says that the Paschal map has been removed to Paschal folder)
Map by Ann Paschal, 10 copies in various stages of development (all related to nature
walk, 1977)
Administrative? Copy of Plan of Chesterwood with “Information from DCF Garden
Notebook” inscribed
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Blueline of site plan , with 2 sets of typescript observations by horticulturalist William U.
Massey, prepared by NTHP, “Site plan, semi-circular garden,” Woodland Walk, CW,
1973-1974
Also fragments from docs. In drawer 4
Drawer 5
Folder 1
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Electrostat(?), of charcoal sketch rendering and blueprints (II) of preliminary
landscape plan and of memorial plan, elevation and section, Andover War
Memorial Project, by Coolidge Shepley, Bullfinch & Abbott, sculptor D.C.
French...from Genius of Creation statue, Scale 1-1/25"=1', c. 1927 [NT
69.38.1523.1-3]
Folder 2
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Blueprint, of detail, Ball Brothers Memorial, Muncie, IN, by R. Dana, Jr., sculptor
D.C. French, Scale 1-1/2"=1' and full-size, April 25, 1930 [NT 69.38.1505]
Folder 3
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Blueprints (5), of elevations, section, detail, Brooklyn Institute, last with
annotation, some pieced to together, by McKim, Mead & White A.D. Baird &
Company [construction engineers], subsequent D.C. French et. al., shows from
north facade...specified as "Not Included in Contract"...supervised by French,
from delineation of pediment, Scales 1/8"=1' and "=1', 1893-1901 [NT
69.38.1509.1-5]
Folder 4
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Graphite Drawings (3), of front, side elevation and plan, and blueline prints (2) of
front elevation and plan, by Thomas Hastings and Carrere & Hastings, D.C.
French, sculptor, Major Archibald Butt-Francis Davis Millet Memorial,
Washington, DC, fountain, graphite scale 1"=1', print scale 1-1/2"=1'..., 1912 [NT
69.38.1510.1-5]
Folder 5
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Blueprints (3), of landscape plan of park and plan and elevation of memorial
department, Department of Parks, Bureaus of Brooklyn and Queens, City of New
York, by Henry Bacon, Cuyler Monument, Cuyler Park, Brooklyn, New York, New
York, Scales 1"=10' and "=1', February 8, 1910 [NT 69.38.1513.1-3]
Folder 6
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Blueprints (2), of front elevation and side elevation, by Henry Bacon, Danville,
Illinois Fountain, with sculptor by Paul Manship, supervised by sculptor D.C.
French, Continental Solider, Scale "=1', c. 1913
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[NT 69.38.1613.1-.2]
Folder 7
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Blueprint, of front elevation and plan, by Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French, Earl
Dodge Memorial, “The Student Athlete”, “The Princeton Student”, pedestal for
statue to be erected at Princeton, Scale "=1', April 10, 1912 [NT 69.38.1543]
Folder 8
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Graphite drawing (4), preliminary (4), of plan and elevations, by Henry Bacon,
sculptor Daniel Chester French, General William F. Draper, equestrian statue
pedestal, Scale "=1', 1910-1912 [NT 69.38.1516.1-5]
Folder 9
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Blueprints (2) of plans and elevations, by Walker, Walker & Kingsbery, English
High School, "Existing Conditions of Lobby & Corridors", and "Revised Scheme
for Entrance Lobby", "=1'; Graphite sculptural detail on orange notepaper,
sculptor D.C. French, English High School Group (Alma Mater...), c. 1927 [NT
69.38.1518.1-3]
Folder 10
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Ink on linen drawings (3), of original of design and blueprint of revised design,
both designs show planned elevations, by Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French,
Marshall Field Monument, Memory, Chicago, seated statue pedestal, Scale
1"=1', February 1908, July 1909 [NT 69.38.1519.1-4]
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Alma Mater, graphite drawing, studies
Drawer 6
Folder 1
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Ink on linen map of site and blueprints (7), of inscriptions, preliminary elevations,
plans, sections and details..., by Charles A. Platt, sculptor D.C. French,
Washington Irving Memorial, Irvington, NY, drawings scale 1"=20' and 1/8"=1',
linen map, scale 1/8"=1' and 1-1/2"=1' and full-size, 1924-1927 [NT
69.38.1528.1-8]
Folder 2
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Blueprints (2) of combination of landscape plan/topographic map and of plan and
section, by Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French, Longfellow Memorial, Longfellow
Park, Cambridge, MA, scale 1-1/2"=1', September 13, 1913 [NT 69.38.1535.1-3]
Folder 3
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Blueprint, of elevation, by Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French, August Robert
Meyer Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri, c. 1907 [NAN 10]
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Folder 4
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Blueprints (7), annotated, of front elevation, side elevation, plan and section, by
Coolidge & Shattuck, sculptor D.C. French, Milton War Memorial, In Flanders
Fields, Milton, MA, pedestal, scale 1-3/4"=1' and 1"=1', "=1', 1923-1924 [NT
69.38.1527.1-.3.2.6]
Folder 5 *was missing, found later and put in drawer 18
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Blueprint, of front elevation and side elevation, by Guy Lowell, "Main Entrance:
N.H. Historical Society B'L'D'G' ", Concord, NH, scale "=1', June 29, 1909 [NT
69.38.1537]
Folder 6
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Blueprints (4), with crayon annotation and graphite drawings (2), of elevation and
plan, of niche and tablets, by James Gamble Rogers, sculptor D.C. French, St.
Paul's School War Memorial, “Death and Youth”, “Death and the Young Warrior”,
Concord, NH, scale "=1', "=1', full-size, June 1926; blueprint, with crayon
annotation, plan, sections and elevations, by Cram & Ferguson, "Design for
Chantery Adjoining Tower, Chapel of St. Paul's School", scale "=1' [NT
69.38.1514.1-7]
Folder 7
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Blueprints (7), of landscape plans, memorial plan, elevation, section, detail and
inscription, some with graphite annotations, by R.H. Dana, Jr., sculptor D.C.
French, William Henry Seward Memorial, Florida, New York, "=1', full-size, 1930
[NT 69.38.1545.1-7]
Folder 8
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Blueprint, of inscription, elevation and section, by Henry Bacon, "Full-size of
Bronze Tablet to be placed in Granite Platform of Sheridan Mon.", sculptor J.Q.A.
Ward, General Philip Henry Sheridan, Albany, New York, August 24, 1916 [NT
69.38.1546]
Folder 9
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Blueprints (2), of plan, elevations and sections, by Henry Bacon, sculptor D.F.
French, Spencer Trask Memorial (“The Spirit of Life”). Congress Park, Saratoga,
NY, October 9 - October 11, 1913
[NT 69.38.1551.2-3]
Folder 10
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Blueprints (16), graphite or crayon sculpture studies on tracing paper (3) and
mailing envelopes (2), with annotations, with plans of site, landscape, plot,
foundation and memorial and elevations and sections, by H. Hornbostel, sculptor
D.C. French, George Westinghouse Memorial, Pittsburgh, PA, 1926-1929 [NT
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Drawer 7
Folder 1
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Blueprints (2), annotated of front elevation with cross-sections, by Charles A.
Platt, sculptor D.C. French, probably for DCF's Emily Vanderbilt White (and Mrs.
Henry White [Margaret Rutherfurd]), "Walnut Frame for Marble Tablet," c. 1924
[NT 69.38.1522.1-2]
Folder 2
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Blueprints (2), of site plan and sections, by Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French,
George Robert White Memorial Fountain, “The Sower”, “The Spirit of Giving”,
Boston, MA, March 15, 1923 [NT 69.38.1557.1-2]
Folder 3
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Blueprints (2), of elevation and sections, and of inscriptions, by Charles A. Platt,
sculptor D.C. French, Henry White, National Cathedral, Washington, DC,
January 27, 1928 [NT 69.38.1558.1-2]
Folder 4
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Architectural drawings (8), unidentified, dealing with architecture, gardens and
sculpture
Folder 5
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Blueprint, of front elevation and plan, section and elevation of details, by Henry
Bacon, The Hawkins House, Chesterwood, Glendale, MA, August 18, 1911 [NAN
3]
Folder 6
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Blueprints (9), graphite drawing on tracing paper, and graphite sketches on note
paper (2), of all elevations, sections and plans of site, foundation and floors, by
Edward L. Tilton, site plan designer D.C. French, "Alternations to Stockbridge
Casino," Stockbridge, MA, 1927 [NT 69.38.1549.1-12]
Folder 7
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Blueprints (4), of cellar, basement, first to fourth floor plans, 8th Street elevations,
MacDougal Alley elevation, longitude and transverse sections, firm(?) New Work
Hatched, "Alternations & Additions to Building at 12 W. 8th St. for Daniel Chester
French, Esq., NY City," April 24, 1912 [NT 69.38.1502.1-4]
Folder 8
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Graphite on heavy stiff paper of sectional elevation with small elevation, half of
plot and half plan base, unidentified draftsman or architect, ultimate architect,
Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French, "Cement Bird-Basin for Daniel C. French,
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Glendale, MA," (Fountain at Chesterwood), August 2, 1909 [NT 69.38.1576]
Folder 9
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Photo Print of plan, with pencil annotation by D.C. French, and elevation of side
walls of balcony, unidentified architect, "Hall of Sculptures", Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, January 1908 [NT 69.38.1524]
Drawer 9
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Nonprint tax maps of aerial photographs, American Air Surveys, Inc., “Town of
Stockbridge,” 1960-1971 (NT69.38.1560.1-.6)
Maps of Chesterwood (NT69.38.1571.1-.6)
Site plan of existing conditions at Chesterwood, prepared for NTHP (NY69.38.1563.1.12) (note: should it be NT73.45?)
Sepia photographic print, unknown photographer, Milton War Memorial (In Flanders
Fields), 1925 (NT69.38.1527.8)
Various maps and surveys of the area (NT69.38.1574.1-) (note: should it be NT73.45?)
Map on transparency (?). physical changes to Chesterwood, 1898-1971
(NT69.38.1561.1-.3)
Maps of Chesterwood property (1950s), some labeled with MFC’s name
(NT.69.38.1604.1-4.10)
Drawer 10: (labeled French, Prentiss A Dutil collection)
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Plan of land of Stockbridge, MA, prepared for NTHP
Lincoln Memorial 75th Anniversary poster
Administrative, MFC (?), Miscellany: pencil garden plan drawings, Chesterwood land
use plan, 1973; blueprint of parking area and cutting garden, 1976
Blueprint of Chesterwood property (?), 1979 (?)
2 practically illegible copies of Chesterwood property maps
Plan of land, Stockbridge, MA, prepared for NTHP, 1983
Photocopy of map “Nature Trails Known by DCF,” drawn by Jonathan Gray, 1971
NTHP drawing of Chesterwood plans, based on drawings by DCF and Prentiss French,
1975
NTHP drawing, Chesterwood Garden Proposal for Restoration, based on 1898 and
1924 garden plans, 1975
Xerox, map of the site of the Washington Irving memorial, 1984
Xerox of original, Preliminary Elevations and Profiles for a Memorial to Washington
Irving by DCF
Xerox, Contour Map of Site of the Washington Irving Memorial in the Village of
Irvington, 1924
3 blueprints, Drainage System and Roadway Improvements, Chesterwood, prepared for
NTHP by Edward Keegan Associates
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National Lampoon’s Senior Trip movie poster, featuring the Lincoln Memorial
Chesterwood Historic Landscape Report, 1994 (figs. 81-83) Existing Conditions Plans,
For use by A.D. Dutil
Map of Chesterwood, traced from a Plantable Map made by Prentiss French, landscape
architect in July, 1981
Drawer 11
[N.B.: This drawer holds more than is recorded here: it holds mixed types and mixed Series. All
contents, with one exception, are noted in this Finding Guide, in various sections.]
Folder 1
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Watercolor and graphite on drawing paper of landscape plan, landscape architect D.C.
French, "PLAN OF GARDEN AT GLENDALE," Mass., future Chesterwood,
Stockbridge, MA, design of studio garden showing all main elements, lawn and trees in
green, sand-colored walks, scale 1 in.=16 ft., 1898 [NT 73.45.4989]
Folder 3
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Watercolor and graphite landscape drawing of elevation with plan, architect Charles A.
Platt, sculptor D.C. French, graphic artist Francis Lloyd, "A MEMORIAL TO
WASHINGTON IRVING, IRVINGTON, N.Y.," scale  in.= 1 ft., 1926 [NT 69.38.3504]
 Blueprint of landscape elevation and of landscape plan, Henry Bacon, Trask Memorial,
1913 (NT69.38.1551.1)
 Charcoal drawings (2) on drawing board of renderings, landscape artist P. French,
Griswold Garden, Stockbridge, MA (2 items, 1933)
 Photograph, photo by A.B. Bogart, prelim. Clay sketch of angel, Kinsley Memorial,
Bronx (NT69.38.1359.6.1) (note: check on this—Palmer?)
Drawer 12
Folder 1
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Blueprint of elevation, architect Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French (signed May 27,
1920), "Alger Fountain" [Russell Alger Memorial, Detroit, MI], allegorical statue,
medallion portrait relief, and basin, scale  in.= 1 ft., 1920 [NT 69.38.1500]
Folder 2
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Graphite on tracing paper (7) of sculptural detail, each encapsulated, book plate, and
envelope inscribed by D.C. French "Drawings by H. Bacon for Chair of Alma Mater,"
studies for klismos chair of DCF's seated statue Alma Mater, Columbia University, New
York, NY, one is  full size, 9 items, 1902 [NT 69.38.1501.1,.2,.4,.6,.7,.9-.12]
Folder 3
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Blueprint of elevation, architect Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French, "Du Pont Fountain,
Washington, D.C.[Dupont Memorial]," scale  in.= 1 ft., July 28, 1918 AND DCF note
85
on orange paper, found in Unknown Folder, possibly related measurements and
calculations, July 30, 1918 [NT 69.38.1517.1-.2]
Folder 4
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Blueprint, graphite on paper, blackline print of elevation and grounds plan, architect
Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French, Exeter War Mmemorial, "Soldiers and Sailors
Monument, Exeter, N.H.," describes landscaping, details of monument, scales 1/16
in.=1 ft.,  in.=1 ft., 1 in.=10 ft., 3 items, 1920-21 [NT 69.38.1548.1-.3]
Folder 5
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Photographs of building model (.1) and of rendering (.2), architects D.H. Burnham &
Co., unidentified sculptors, FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY [1902-1912],
Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, show side corner of model in 2 pt perspective (.1) and
entire main elevation (.2), including entablature statues and caryatids, scale 1/16 in.=1
ft, 2 photographs, no dates given (c.1905?) [NT 69.38.1520.1-.2]
Folder 6
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Blueprint of elevation/detail, architects McKim, Mead & White, "Detail of Typical
Bust and Pedestal, HALL OF FAME, New York University," The Bronx, NY [(?)
pertinent to D.C. French's Edgar Allan Poe bust (1921-1922), Hall of Fame, etc.],
elevation of base, pedestal, and generic bust, scale 1 in. = 1 ft. and full size, 1
sheet, January 21, 1922 to April 22, 1922 [NT 69.38.1515]
Folder 7
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Graphite drawing on tracing paper of detail, sculptor and draughtsman D.C.
French, Washington Irving Memorial, shows Rip Van Winkle relief figure drawn
on grid, no specified scale, c.1925 [NT 69.38.3500]
Folder 8
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Graphite sketch of elevation and plan, architect and draughtsman C. Harold
Walker (?), sculptor D.C. French, "Sketch for Fountain at Albany, N.Y.," King
Fountain Competition entered by DCF but won by J. Massey Rhind, shows
female figures, garlands, rosettes, two-tiered basin, scale "about "=1 ft.," c.1890
[NT 69.38.1521]
Folder 9
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Graphite preliminary sketch of elevation, architect and draughtsman Henry
Bacon (?), sculptor D.C. French, "Hutchinson Mon.," Kinsley Memorial,
Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY, relief of angel in profile leaning over body
of deceased, scale 1 in.=1 ft., 1911(?) [NT 69.38.1526]
Folder 10
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Blueprints (2) of one grounds plan, architect Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French,
"Plan of Lafayette Monument," Marquis De Lafayette Memorial, Prospect Park,
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Brooklyn, New York, NY, describes space surrounding the relief, scale 1/8 in.=1
ft., 2 copies of 1 drawing, 1915(?) [NT 69.38.1529.1-.2]
Folder 11
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Blueprint of front elevation, architect Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French,
Lafayette Memorial, Easton, PA, statue, pedestal, and base, scale  in.=1 ft.,
April 19, 1921 [NT 69.38.1530]
Folder 12 (see following)
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Graphite, some with crayon, on tracing paper (7) and ink on tracing paper (1), all
encapsulated, of pedestal elevations, landscape elevations, and landscape plan,
architect Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French, Massachusetts War Memorial
Project (“Benediction), St. Mihiel, France, some include delineation of statue of
the angel, scales  in.,  in., 1/16 in., 8 pieces, 1921-1922 [NT 69.38.1506.1-.8]
Folder 13 (see preceding)
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Blueprint of entire front elevation, architect Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French,
Massachusetts War Memorial [Project], St. Mihiel, France, includes delineation of
statue of the angel and of sculptural ornament, scale  in.=1 ft., June 23, 1923
[NT 69.38.1506.9]
Folder 14
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Ink on drawing paper of preliminary rendering and of preliminary sketch and
graphite on tracing paper of preliminary architectural detail, all encapsulated,
architect C. Howard Walker (?), sculptor D.C. French (who drew the last), John
Boyle O'Reilly Memorial (“Erin and Her Sons”, “Patriotism and Poetry”), Boston,
MA, scale  in. (on one), 3 pieces, 1892(?) [NT 69.38.1540.1-.3]
Folder 15
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Blueprint of elevations and plans, architect Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French,
"Monument to Wendell Phillips, Public Garden, Boston, Mass.," excludes
delineation of portrait statue, includes lettering on base and backing wall, scale 
in.=1 ft., one print, March-December 1914 [NT 69.38.1542]
Folder 16
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Graphite sketch of elevation and plan, encapsulated, architect Henry Bacon,
sculptor D.C. French, The Republic, Jackson Park, Chicago, IL, concentrates on
pedestal and stepped base of 24-foot replica, no scale, 1915(?) [NT 69.38.1544]
Folder 17
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Graphite and crayon sketch on tracing paper of detail, encapsulated, architect
Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French, "Spencer Chair," Samuel Spencer, Atlanta,
GA, consists of section, side elevation, and rear elevation of chair in seated
portrait statue, no scale, 1909(?) [NT 69.38.1612]
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Folder 18
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Photographic print of a frontal rendering, signed and dated Parker, Thomas &
Rice, Architects 1929, of the State House, Boston, MA, incorporating a proposed
(?), unexecuted design for a gateway featuring a wall bearing alternating plaques
and sculptural reliefs, 1929(?) [NT 69.38.1508]
Folder 19
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Blueprint of landscape drawings, [landscape] architect Henry Bacon, sculptor
D.C. French, "Elevations of White Memorial," Alfred Treadway White Memorial,
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY, looking south at front of relief, east at its
side, and north at confronting bench, pencil-inscribed as no. 6, scale  in.=1 ft.,
one print, April 22, 1921 [NT 69.38.1556]
Folder 20
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Blueprint of plan and elevation, architect Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French,
Jesse Parker Williams Memorial (“Achievement”), Westview Cemetery, Atlanta,
Georgia, allegorical sculpture of woman in niche-like setting, signed and dated
(March 15, 1917) by sculptor and signed by patron(?), scale  in.=1 ft., one print,
1917(?) [NT 69.38.1559]
Drawer 13
Folder 1
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Graphite sketch on tracing paper of elevation, plan, detail, and site, architect Henry
Bacon, sculptor D.C. French, unidentified fountain, drum-shaped, shows street lamps
and triple-intersected circular site, scale 1/8 in., date (?) [NT 69.38.863]
Folder 2
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Blueprints of rubbings of Roman and Greek lettering, unidentified rubber, Roman
monuments and buildings, Column of Trajan, the Vatican, text, show 7 sheets of
watermarked drawing paper some inscribed with dates in May 1900 (the
blueprints themselves are not dated), perhaps(?) pertinent to lettering on doors
(1894-1904) by D.C. French of BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY or on his FIRST
DIVISION MEMORIAL (1921-1924)(?), full scale, 6 prints, 1900 or later [NT
69.38.1532.1-.6]
Folder 3
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Anatomy chart of muscles, J.-B. Leveille, "Anatomie et Proportions du Corps Humain, a
L' Usage des Artistes," three male figures, Plate II, 1869 or soon thereafter [NT
69.38.1504]
Folder 4
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Mailing label from Fottler-Fiske-Rawson Co., Boston, MA, addressed to Daniel C.
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French, Glendale, Mass., NURSERY from which DCF ordered more than once,
imprinted, glued to wrapping paper fragment, postage stamp, mid-1920s [NT
69.38.1609.2]
Folder 5
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Blueprint and photocopies (2) of landscape plan, designer D.C. French,
draughtsman Prentiss French, "GARDEN OF CHARLES ROBINSON SMITH,
Glendale, Massachusetts," shows tripartite garden of flower beds , lawns, and
summer or tea house, between garage driveway and dwelling place, scale 1
in.=20 ft., one original and 2 copies, January 1925 (and pre-1974) [NT
69.38.1547.1-.3]
Folder 6
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Graphite on drawing paper of landscape plan and elevations of details,
landscape architect D.C. French, "LENOX FLOWER SHOW," Lenox, MA,
includes layout of tents, columns, seats, tubs, pedestalled pots, etc., elevations
of trellised gateway, pedestalled pot, and entrance columns, scales 1 in.=20 ft., 
in.,  in.=1 ft., 1 sheet, 1922 [NT 69.38.1531]
Folder 7
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Graphite sketches on orange notepaper(2), original graphite drawing on drawing
paper, professional graphite copy on tracing paper, and blueprints (3) of one plan
of grounds, landscape architect D.C. French, draughtsmen DCF and unidentified,
"BERKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE," Stockbridge, MA, scale 1 in.=16 ft., 7 items,
c.1927-1928 [NT 69.38.1507.1-3.3-.5]
Folder 8
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Blueprints (2) of elevations, sections, and plan, architect Henry Bacon, for
landscape architect D.C. French, for Mrs. Felix Lamond, "TEA HOUSE," for
garden at estate Fair Acres, Stockbridge, MA, show arched broken pediment
surmounting two columns at entrance, originally included full size details, scale 
in.=1 ft., incomplete (historically documented) set of 2 sheets, September 30,
1915 [NT 69.38.1550.1-.2]
Folder 9
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Watercolor on drawing paper of interior wall decoration, artist Margaret French,
architect Henry Bacon for landscape designer D.C. French for Mrs. Felix
Lamond, colorful sketch of WREATH OF FRUIT AND FRUIT FESTOONS for tea
house in garden at Fair Acres, Stockbridge, MA, September 1916, [NT
69.38.1512]
Folder 10
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Blueprints, with crayon annotation, of plans (4), elevations (4), and cross section,
architect Henry Bacon, Brite & Bacon Architects, "HOUSE for D.C. French, Esq.,
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Glendale, Mass.," include cellar, first floor, second floor, and attic plans, scale 
in., set of 9 sheets, November 22, 1900 [NT 69.38. 1562.1-.9]
Folder 11
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Graphite, on back of blueprint fragment, of floor plans (.1) and 2 photocopies of
one landscape-site plan, designer D.C. French, draughtsmen D.C. French (.1)
and Prentiss French, "THE GEORGE WARNER HOUSE / PROPOSED
ALTERATIONS / APRIL -- 1920" and "THE DORMHOUSE / [resident] WILLIAM
PENN CRESSON / GLENDALE MASSACHUSETTS," "drawn from planetable
survey made in September 1924," show the house, bought by DCF in late 1919
and lived in by his daughter and son-in-law from 1921, and the garden that DCF
designed for it, preliminary LINCOLN MEMORIAL eagle pedestal blueprint on
back (.1), scales  in.=1 ft. (.1) and 1 in.=20 ft., 3 items of 2 drawings, 1920 and
1925(?)(i.e., pre-1974 copies) [NT 69.38.1553.1-.3]
Folder 12
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Ink on linen, with pencil annotation, of floor plans (3) and cross section, architects
Brunner & Tryon, patron D.C. French, "HOUSE No. 125 WEST 11th ST," New
York, NY, show townhouse having attic, full third and second storeys, a first
storey with its rear floor removed to accommodate a high ceiling for the studio
built at rear of basement and out into yard at rear of house, a basement having,
front to rear, the kitchen, studio, and little studio, and a cellar beneath the kitchen
and studio, apparent total of 8 rooms, pencil annotations relate to 1908
alterations, scale  in.=1 ft., set of 4 sheets (held by 2 brass prong fasteners),
[1888,] [NT 69.38.1525.1-.4]
Folder 13
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Graphite, one with crayon, on tracing paper of floor plan, details, and south, west,
and east elevations, architect Henry Bacon (?), sculptor/owner D.C. French,
[ALTERATIONS TO STUDIO AT 125 WEST 11th STREET, New York, NY],
show new staircase, new doors, new corner seat, new floors in south and north
studios, and addition of fireplace (2 designs) on west wall of south studio [to be
transformed into music room], names of 2 wood suppliers, scale  in. (specified
on one), set of 5, 1908 [NT 69.38.1538.1-.5]
Folder 14
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Blueprints (5) of floor plans, elevations, sections, and detail, unidentified
architect, "OFFICE AND STUDIO OF MACK JENNY & TYLER, DECORATORS,
142 [?] E. 30th ST. N.Y.C.," house, intervening yard, and studio, 3 floors, rooms
for reception and telephone, bookkeeper, superintendent, furnace, storage,
library, studio, drafting room; front (north) facade of house includes ornate cast
iron balcony on second floor; show also "Possible Alterations to Afford Living
Accommodations [sic]" consisting of livingroom, dining room, pantry, 2 bedrooms
and 2 bathrooms; address pencilled large on side as 140 East 30th Street; scale
90
1 in.=4 ft., set of 5 numbered sheets, n.d. [NT 69.38.1539.1-.5]
Folder 15
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Print of survey map, Henry Gannett, chief geographer, Marcus Baker,
geographer in charge, topography by E.W.F. Natter and C.C. Bassett,
"MASSACHUSETTS -- NEW YORK / PITTSFIELD SHEET," "Preliminary Edition,
Subject to Corrections," U.S. Geological Survey, shows circled in pencil the area
south of Williamsville Road between the quarry lot and the Little Studio, scale 1
in. 1 mile, surveyed in 1885-1888, no other date [NT 69.38.1575]
Folder 19
Recommendation of award [from the Architectural League, NY, NY] to DCF, the
[First] Medal of Honor, “for examples of his work shown at the present exhibition,
and in consideration of the distinguished character of his life work,” signed by
members of the jury on the Medal of Honor for sculpture, January 26, 1912
[NT69.38.1593]
Drawer 15
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Folder 1: graphite sketch of pedestalled bust of a woman, MFC (?) (NT69.38.866)
Folder 2: Map and fragment on drawing paper of measured property lines—shows 1896
property lines (NAN3)
Folder 3: Confirmations of telegrams from landscape architect Dorothea K. Harrison for
MFC, 1937 (NT69.38.1609.1)
Folder 4: Carbon copy of text by P. French, “Notes on Improvement to the Grounds of
Chesterwood” (NT69.38.1610)
Folder 5: Graphite sketchs of planting plan, CW gardens (1950s? 60s?)
(NT69.38.1573.1-.3)
Folder 6: negative photocopy of landscape plan by DCF, “Plan of garden at Glendale”
(1970s) (NT69.38.1566.1-.6)
Folder 7: graphite on tracing paper with ink—“Plan of barn, CW” 1959-1962 (7)
(NT69.38.1570.1-.8.2-.11)
Folder 8: blackline print reductions of plans, “Alterations to Hayloft, CW barn”
(NT69.38.1611.1.1-1.7; 2.1-2.9; 3.1-3.8)
Folder 9: blackline prints of landscape plan, “Plan for Development of Area near the
barn” (1962) (NT69.38.1568.1-.7)
Folder 10: Ammonia blueline print and 14 blackline prints of floor plans, “Remodling for
the Canary” (1954) (NT69.38.1608.1.1-1.15)
Folder 11: 8 blackline prints—“Pedestals and their foundations at CW”
(NT69.38.1606.1.1-1.8)
Folder 12: 6 blueline prints—“Studio for D.C. French (NT69.38.1569.1-.7)
Folder 13: blueline print of elevations, woodshed at CW (NT69.38.1607)
Posters (4) for U.S. Savings Funds. Show logo of Minute Man for DCF Official U.S.
Treasury posters. 1946, 1947.
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Drawer 17
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Blueprint, “Plan showing floor slabs, steps, and platforms,” Lincoln Memorial,
Washington, D.C., Aug. 21, 1914, by Henry Bacon (NT69.38.1533.1)
Elevation of West Wall, Showing Tablet and Platform for Lincoln Pedestal, Lincoln
Memorial, Aug. 24, 1914 (NT69.38.1533.19)
Blueprint and copy of Plan for Reconstruction of Exedra at Chesterwood, plans by
Prentiss French, Dec. 12, 1966
Drawer 18
Folder 1
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Bluelines, LINCOLN MEMORIAL, 1913 [NT 69.38.1533.17, .19(sic)]
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Blueprints, graphite drawing, Henry Bacon, LINCOLN (standing), 1911 [NT
69.38.1534.1-.5]
Folder 5 *originally in Drawer 5
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Blueprints (3), of landscape plan of park and plan and elevation of memorial
department, Department of Parks, Bureaus of Brooklyn and Queens, City of New
York, by Henry Bacon, Cuyler Monument, Cuyler Park, Brooklyn, New York, New
York, Scales 1"=10' and "=1', February 8, 1910 [NT 69.38.1513.1-3]
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Envelope of blueprint fragments
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Lincoln Memorial blueprints (3/4 scale drawing showing the relation between the bronze
plinth of statue and the granite pedestal below, 1911; transverse section, 1913 [file 1,
sheet 20]) (NT69.38.1533.17 and .19)
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NT69.38.1534.1-.5: 1.5 inch scale drawing of pedestal, Lincoln Monument, Lincoln, NE,
April 4, 1910 (note: original); blueprints (2), Lincoln Monument, Nebraska, File 15, sheet
2, Jan. 1911; front elevation
Drawer 19
Folder 1
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Set of drawings, LINCOLN MEMORIAL [NT 69.38.1533.1-24] [See above and
below; require inspection but in very poor condition.]
Flat Cabinet Oversize
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Graphite drawings, encapsulated, Henry Bacon, ALMA MATER, studies of chair for
figure [NT 69.38.1501.13-.15]
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Drawings, all but one encapsulated, LINCOLN MEMORIAL [NT 69.38.1533.1, .9, .11,
.18, .19; NAN]
Box labeled as “box 2”
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Map labeled as folder 4—“The Bay Cuircuit” by Trsutees of Public Reservations
(1930s?) (Note: part of listing in guide?)
map of Concord MA (1965, NAN)
from MFC file folder, “For my scrapbook, Jan. 1970, Feb. x March 1970”—pamphlet on
Abe Lincoln
blueprint of plans and sections, “Monument Slabs” for DCF and WPC, 1933 (NAN#39)
map of Lenox, Lee, and Stockbridge, 1964 (NAN #38)
map of Stockbridge, 1940 (NAN #37)
graphite on tracing paper of landscape and planting plan, “Lot of DCF” Sleepy Hollow
Cemetery, Concord, MA (1933, NAN #32)
Road map, Esso Pet. Co., “Ireland,” notes on back by MFC, 1959 (NAN #19)
Tourist map of CA and Oakland, “CA Automobile Tours,” 1914 (NAN #17)
Book frontispiece an watercolor chart, “Frontispiece of Miss Caroline L. Ransom’s book
on Ancient beds, couches, etc. 1905” (NAN #14)
Award for U.S. savings bon program, shows Minute Man (NAN #16)
Graphite and ink sketch, The Circle along woodland walk, Chesterwood (NAN #12)
Graphite sketch, survey, and drawings on tracing paper of memorial plaque and
landscape plan, relating to The Circle (NAN #13)
Blueline prints of foundation plans, sections, elevations, and details, “Chesterwood
Barn,” design for adaptation as gallery, 1962 (NAN #15)
Newspaper page relating to Trask Memorial
Unlabeled box
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3 photocopies and blueprint, “Chesterwood, Residence of DCF, Glendale MA”—
drawn by Prentiss French from plantable survey, 1924
Box labeled as oversize folder, rolled
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Site map, NTHP 1972 of Chesterwood
Dowel (?) labeled “Inscribed artifact: ‘Use for rolling up tracings which are to be sent
to E.G. Soltman…” [OBJECT]
Poster roll labeled “to be mailed to Boris Stahel w/letter of explanation”
Poster with photos of sculptures, including Standing Lincoln
Sketches (elevations?) of Troy, NY (?)
Gravestone rubbings
Eagle St. 1890 elevations (more Troy?)
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3 inscribed empty cardboard rolls
Blueprint on canvas—drawing of gateway, William Hall Walker, Great Barrington
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Rolled Oversized
Double-oversize Box 1: (kept as four rolls)
[The enlarged copy print is placed here for want of a place in the subseries of Photographic
Materials. After the latter has been assigned an accession number, it ought to be physically
placed among correspondence in the Papers & Manuscripts subseries. Also because of space
constraints are four items belonging to the MFC Series; the full entries are given here; the
cross references, in the MFC Series.]
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Enlarged copy print of daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, unidentified
photographer, unidentified printer, referred to by sculptor D.C. French for his
portrait bust EDGAR ALLAN POE, Hall of Fame for Great Americans, Bronx
Community College, City University of New York, Bronx, N.Y., 1921(?) (original,
1840s) [NAN 26]
Blueprint of lettering, architect Henry Bacon, sculptor D.C. French, "[GEORGE
ROBERT] WHITE MEMORIAL," Public Gardens, Boston, Mass., Roman lettering
around basin of fountain statue, "IN MEMORY OF GEORGE ROBERT WHITE -1847-1922," V-cut lettering of I in IN, scale full size, August 21, 1924 [NT
69.38.1557.5]
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Graphite on drawing paper of floor plans, by W.D. Hawkins, for D.C. French, HAWKINS
HOUSE (later, THE CANARY), Glendale, Mass., includes first and second floors and
marginal plan of house with six auxiliary structures, sent with letter, n.d. [1911(?)] [NAN
39.1]
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Letter, from W.D. Hawkins to D.C. French, accompanying and explaining drawing of
plans above of the HAWKINS HOUSE (later, THE CANARY), Glendale, Mass., n.d.
[1911(?)] [NAN 39.2]
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Photographic enlargement of daguerreotype of Daniel Webster in his prime,
photographer Mathew Brady, enlarging photographer Levin C. Handy, referred to by
sculptor Margaret French Cresson for portrait bust, begun by D.C. French, in DANIEL
WEBSTER MEMORIAL, Franklin, NH, shows oval head and shoulders, 3/4 proper left
side of face, copy-printed March 1932 [NAN 31.1]
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Photographic enlargement of daguerreotype of elderly Daniel Webster, photographer
Mathew Brady, enlarging photographer Levin C. Handy, referred to by sculptor Margaret
French Cresson for portrait bust, begun by D.C. French, in DANIEL WEBSTER
MEMORIAL, Franklin, NH, shows head and shoulders, 3/4 proper left side of face,
copy-printed March 1932 [NAN 31.2]
.
Planetable map in ink and graphite on drawing paper, landscape architect Prentiss
French, [PARTIAL SURVEY OF CHESTERWOOD PROPERTIES,] Stockbridge, Mass.,
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shows area from western part of field south of Williamsville Road (public road) to The
Dormouse on east, from woods north of chauffeur’s house to Housatonic River on
south, includes table of trees, BL, does not include Chesterwood proper, survey
notations on reverse, light greenish blue paper, no scale specified, one of two discrete
maps,1932 [NAN 28.1]
.
Planetable map in ink and graphite on drawing paper, landscape architect Prentiss
French, [PARTIAL SURVEY OF CHESTERWOOD PROPERTIES,] Stockbridge, Mass.,
shows area of land (rising to elevation of 1027 ft.), lying southwest of Chesterwood
proper and south of public road, having period name of Brewster Park, survey notations
on reverse, light greenish blue paper, no scale specified, one of two discrete maps,
1932 [NAN 28.2]
Quadruple-oversize Box 1
[Most have a large diameter. Only the first belongs to the DCF Series; the remainder belongs
to the MFC Series but, because of space constraints, is stored here and is cross-referred.]
.
Graphite with crayon on drawing paper of center of CEILING PLAN, with sections
of molding, and adhering small graphite on tracing paper of the whole plan,
architect Henry Bacon, draftsman Berg (?), "Details of Ceiling Battens of [West?]
Piazza for D.C. French Esq. Glen. Mass., scales full size and  inch, June 9,
1911 [NAN 9]
.
Working drawing in graphite on drawing paper of elevation including text, architect
Helen Douglass French, sculptor Margaret French Cresson, DANIEL CHESTER
FRENCH GRAVESTONE, Concord, Mass., shows somewhat tentative delineation of
laurel wreath with one modelling tool at its base, crisply drawn text of name, dates, and
epitaph (A HERITAGE OF BEAUTY), and no indication of wife’s name, scale full size,
September 1934 [NAN 30]
.
Graphite on drawing paper of elevation including text, architect Helen Douglass French,
sculptor Margaret French Cresson, WILLIAM PENN CRESSON GRAVESTONE, Oaks,
Pennsylvania, shows laurel wreath, name, 1873-1932, epitaph, MFC name and date
1889, for horizontal gravestone, scale full size, 1934 [NT 69.38.1511.14]
.
Map in ink on drawing paper, landscape architect Prentiss French, PLANETABLE MAP
OF CHESTERWOOD, Stockbridge, Mass., shows detailed landscape plan, with contour
lines, from The Circle on the north to both sides of the public road on the south, 5
sheets of green paper pieced and glued together, black and red ink, scale 1 in. = 20 ft.,
July 1941 [NT 75.38]
.
Topographical map in graphite and crayon on tracing paper, landscape architect
Prentiss French (?), WORCHESTER (?), shows contour lines, trees and shrubbery,
rectilinear plots of land defined by vegetation, specified on reverse as having no title but
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faintly inscribed in long hand on obverse Worchester (with an “h”, perhaps a tracing of
an aerial photograph, no scale, date? [NAN 29]
Quadruple-oversize Box 2
.
Enlargement of photograph of Abraham Lincoln, photographer Mathew B. Brady,
gift of Arno B. Cammerer to sculptor D.C. French, who referred to it for his
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., March 1916 (original
February 9, 1864) [NAN 27]
.
Graphite on drawing paper of plan, architect Henry Bacon, draftsman Berg,
sculptor D.C. French, "Kansas City Mon.," [AUGUST ROBERT MEYER
MEMORIAL,] Kansas City, Missouri, shows "Section through Balustrade," refers
to an elevation sheet for one section, scale  in.=1 ft., one sheet, October 23,
1907 [NAN 8]
.
Solar print of statue, sculptor D.C. French, photographer A.B. Bogart (?),
architect Henry Bacon (?), COMMODORE GEORGE HAMILTON PERKINS,
Concord, N.H. and replica at Annapolis, Maryland, scale full size, c.1901 or, if for
replica, c.1910 [NT 69.38.3518]
.
Blueline print of elevation, [architect R.H. Dana, Jr., sculptor D.C. French,
WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD MEMORIAL, Florida, N.Y.] shows pedestal with its
inscription giving name, dates, political offices, and dates of tenure of Lincoln's
secretary of state, scale full size, [1930] [NT 69.38.1545.8]
.
Solar print of upper half of one statue, sculptor D.C. French, photographer De
Witt Ward, architect Henry Bacon, "The Sower," GEORGE ROBERT WHITE
MEMORIAL, Public Gardens, Boston, Mass., upper half of winged female figure
printed horizontally, scale full size, 1 of set of 3, third missing, scale full size,
October 1923 [NT 69.38.3517 (A of A and B)]
.
Solar print of lower half of one statue, sculptor D.C. French, photographer De
Witt Ward, architect Henry Bacon, "The Sower," GEORGE ROBERT WHITE
MEMORIAL, Public Gardens, Boston, Mass., lower half of female figure printed
vertically, missing third part of set (the pedestal), scale full size, October 1923
[NT 69.38.3517(B of A and B)]
.
Graphite sketch on drawing paper of tablet, sculptor and draftsman D.C. French
[MARGARET STUYVESANT RUTHERFURD WHITE (MRS. HENRY WHITE)
TABLET, National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.], scale approximately full size,
August 1927 [NAN 23]
.
Solar print of tablet, architect Henry Bacon (?), sculptor D.C. French, client Henry White
(?), MARGARET STUYVESANT RUTHERFURD WHITE (MRS. HENRY WHITE)
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TABLET (?), National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., preliminary (?) design of mounting
for marble portrait tablet, including scrolled pediment, flaming urn, foliate scrolls,
rosettes, cyma reversa fluted base, pinecone pendant, cut along full outline, scale full
size, 1917-1918(?) [NAN 25]
Bins in CH303
.
.
[Requires re-checking] COULD NOT FIND THESE
Graphite drawings, Henry Bacon, ALMA MATER, of chair, 1902, all glazed by adm. for
exhibition in one frame [NT 69.38.1501.3, .5, .8]
Blueprint of front elevation, side elevation and plan, architect Henry Bacon, sculptor
D.C. French, MELVIN MEMORIAL, specification drawing, pencilled emendations
reproduced from the original drawing, scale  in.=1 ft., 1907, framed and glazed [NT
69.38.1536.1]
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Papers & Manuscripts
Document Box 1:
.
Letters, from Pamela M. French to Francis Parkman, on gift of shrubs and on
forthcoming visit to Concord, from Concord, MA, May 24, 1868 and Sunday, July
22, year (?)
.
Small drawing with description, William Merchant Richardson French (?), sent to
DCF by HFF(?), kept by DCF in his pocket (source?), of the "General
arrangement of decoration for the Centennial" of the Battle of Concord, 1875
.
Letters and period copies of letters from, to and about Daniel Chester French's
friends to and from various artists, relatives, and friends, various topics, 1875,
1897, 1914, 1919-1921, 1925, 1929, 1931; from Margaret French Cresson's
Journey into Fame book files
.
Period copy of letter from Emily Dickinson to Daniel Chester French,
complimenting him apparently with regard to his John Harvard, April 1884
.
Extract from Deed, in hand of Daniel Chester French, of land of the future
Chesterwood, November 30, 1897
.
Copy in hand of Daniel Chester French of a poem by Sarita M. Brady, late 19th
century
.
Letter, from Daniel Chester French to Helen Cochran, from Rome, Italy, on his
trip to Europe, May 19, 1900
.
Letter, from Daniel Chester French to William Merchant Richardson French, on
guests at Chesterwood, August 22, 1902
.
Letters (4), account records (3), safe deposit removal receipt, D.C. French, include
correspondence with H.S. Babcock, re Andrew J. Knight mortgage on Knight farm in
Glendale, MA, 1903-1917; from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Post card, from Nicolas Sigalas to D.C. French, from Athens, Greece, picture of the
Acropolis, greetings from the courier of DCF's 1900 trip in Greece, New York postal
date of January 5, 1905; sole DCF item in MFC coll. of foreign addresses in CH103
secretary drawer
.
Postal card, from Daniel Chester French to Newton Mackintosh, March 13, 1905
.
Postcard, Envelope, from Daniel Chester French to Rosalie Miller, c. 1910
99
.
Letter, from Edwin Howland Blashfield to Daniel Chester French, giving a
suggested itinerary for French's coming visit to Italy, May 31, 1910
.
Transcripts by Evelyn Beatrice Longman of letters, from Daniel Chester French
to her, mainly regarding his work in progress, 1911-1912, 1914, 1916, 1917,
1921(2); from Margaret French Cresson Journey into Fame files
.
Letter, from Daniel Chester French to Mrs. Woodward Hudson, on a work by
Voltaire and another by Cyrano de Bergerac, December 8, 1911
.
Letter, from Robert Underwood Johnson to Daniel Chester French, on revision of
open letter by Daniel Chester French soon to be published, January 16, 1912
.
Letter, from Frank Crowinshield to Daniel Chester French, on DCF's open letter
on "The Presentation of Music," January 19, 1912
.
Period copy of letter from Daniel Chester French to Evelyn Beatrice Longman,
from Glendale, MA, congratulating her on winning an important sculpture
competition, October 24, 1912
.
Letters, from Daniel Chester French to a relative and to a fellow artist, expressing
various thanks, 1912 - 1914, 1922; plus envelope from Daniel Chester French to
Richard Clark, October 1921; from Second Floor Study, DCF Letters File
.
Letters, from Daniel Chester French to Milton H. Bancroft, regarding portrait,
June 25, 1912; July 2, 1913
.
Photograph Postcard from W.M.R. French to Daniel Chester French, from
Chicago, referring to photograph of himself in costume of a Greek patriarch,
February 1913
.
Postcard, unidentified to D.C. French, from Athens, touring Greece on way to Italy,
picture of relief of Nike, March 13, 1913
.
Correspondence, from Daniel Chester French to Rosalie Miller, 1913
.
.
Postcards (3), imprinted envelope, from Henry Bacon, W.M.R. French, Emma Gates
Armstrong, respectively, to D.C. French re General Oglethorpe, pedestrian Abraham
Lincoln, and seated Abraham Lincoln, March 19, 1914, April 30, 1914, and May 30,
1924; kept together by DCF in "Commission of Fine Arts" envelope
.
Letter, from Cass Gilbert to Howard Childs, regarding invitation to dinner in honor
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of Daniel Chester French, November 18, 1914
.
.
Letter, from Daniel Chester French to Mr. Blodgett, from Chesterwood, in
response to his request for an addition to his collection of autograph letters, July
17, 1915 [note: from second floor study, DCF letters file. Apparently brought by
MFA from Goodspeed’s Book Shop, Boston, MA]
.
.
Correspondence, from Daniel Chester French to Mrs. [Albert] Miller, 1917; from
Journey into Fame Files
.
.
Correspondence, from Daniel Chester French, from Samuel Merwin to Rosalie
Miller, 1918
.
Poem, by Katrina Trask, "O Sing unto the Lord a New Song," printed on a folder
inscribed to "Mr. & Mrs. French," Thanksgiving Day 1918
.
Correspondence, between Daniel Chester French and Charles Robinson Smith,
regarding a telephone line agreement, including envelope, May 8, 1918
.
Correspondence of Daniel Chester French relative to the Ruth Anne Dodge
Memorial, 1918 - 1919
.
Retained copy of letter from Daniel Chester French to Anne Dodge, regarding his
statue Memory and that for The Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, February 25, 1919;
from Margaret French Cresson Journey into Fame files
.
Letter, from Henry B. Rankin to Daniel Chester French, from Springfield, Illinois
[August] 18, 1919 [insert from NT 73.45.272] [Lincoln, by Henry B. Rankin, c.
1916]
.
.
Margaret French period copies of letter from Daniel Chester French to Robert
and Marguerite Bush, on his statue Memory and on his daughter's wedding; 1919
and 1921 – 1922 [note: from MFC Journey into Fame files]
.
Correspondence, from Daniel Chester French, from Emma Eames de Gorgoza to
Rosalie Miller, 1920 (2 letters)
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.
Letter, from Harriet E. Fitch, regarding photograph of the Marseillaise Memorial
Tablet, 1920
.
Letter from DCF to Alice French (Mrs/ WMR French), wedding of daughter MF,
from Taormina, Sicily, January 21, 1921. From MFC scrapbook I, p. 96, in
envelope adhering to page in association list, in MF hand, of wedding guests
folded [NT73.45.5241.96.1]
.
Envelope, sent by D. C. French to M. F. Cresson, from Cairo, Egypt, to American
Consul, Seville, Spain, imprinted and inscribed, stamped with postal cancellation date
February 24, 1921; from CH207A or D Journey into Fame files
.
Correspondence, from Daniel Chester French to Rosalie Miller, 1921 (4 letters)
.
Letter, to Daniel Chester French from Richard Clark, regarding plasteline,
October 23, 1921
.
Documents relative to a mortgage held by Daniel Chester French on real estate
of Lewis E. Munn in Interlaken, Massachusetts, 1921(3), 1928
.
Correspondence, from Daniel Chester French to Rosalie Miller, 1922 (2 letters)
.
Post card, from F.(?) J. Madden to D.C. French, from Edinburgh, Scotland, regards,
postal cancellation date July 13, 1922; from among MFC material in CH102 west
commode
.
Margaret French Cresson period copy of letter from Daniel Chester French of the
Art Committee to the Executive Committee of the American Academy in Rome,
recommending appointment of Wheeler Williams as Fellow in Sculpture,
November 14, 1922
.
Letter, from Daniel Chester French to Margaret French Cresson, regarding
personal business, February 4, 1923
.
.
Letter, from Daniel Chester French to Margaret French Cresson, regarding
personal business, February 22, 1924
.
Two letters, to Daniel Chester French from John Carroll Chase, president of New
England Historic Genealogical Society, regarding engraver, September 15, 1924;
September 30, 1924
.
Letter, Envelope, Program, to Daniel Chester French from Metropolitan Museum
of Art, regarding Daniel Chester French's 75th birthday, April 20, 1925
102
.
.
.
Copy of letter, from Robert W. de Forest to Trustees of Metropolitan Museum of
Art, regarding "Death and the Sculptor”, April 23, 1926
.
Postcard, Cass Gilbert to D.C. French, from Paris, picture of Victory of
Samothrace, praises French’s high standard of beauty, June 25, 1927
.
Letter, Daniel Chester French to Rosalie Miller, September 19, 1927
.
Letters, H. Hornbostel to Daniel Chester French, regarding Westinghouse
Memorial figures, November 8, 1927 - April 9, 1928 [NT69.38.1555.2 and .3]
.
.
Letters (3), from financial adviser George S. Keyes to his client and relative D.C.
French, re investments, 1928-1929; from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Letter, from Daniel Chester French to Alfred R. Kimball, recollections and thank
you letter, March 22, 1929
.
Retained copy of letter, from D.C. French to William F. Hayden, re former's real estate
in Aurora, CO, April 9, 1929; from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Note, from Daniel Chester French to Sheppart Butler, regarding article, May 11,
1929
.
Letter, from George S. Keyes to D.C. French, re his wife's trust, June 12, 1929; from
MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Letter, from Daniel Chester French to Rosalie Miller, October 11, 1929
.
Contract, envelope, D.C. French and Ball Monument Association, for Ball Memorial, Ball
State University, Muncie, IN, December 10, 1929; from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Letters, from Piccirilli Bros., from Gozo Kawamura to Daniel Chester French,
1930 - 1931; from First Floor Office filing cabinet third drawer [They ought to be
returned or photocopies ought to replace them there.]
.
.
Letter, from Frank J. Gurcak to D.C. French, at request of Henry Hornbostel, encloses
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100 shares Grant Building, probably relative to WESTINGHOUSE MEMORIAL,
Pittsburgh, PA, March 6, 1930; from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Letter, from Daniel Chester French to Ms. Eberle, thank you letter, April 1930
.
Letter, from A.A. Godard, attorney, the Colorado Marble Company, to D.C. French, re
shares of stock of same company, September 24, 1930; from MFC papers re. DCF
estate
.
Letter, Envelope, Daniel Chester French to J. Randolph Anderson, model for the
Oglethorpe, regarding wedding invitation, December 17, 1930
.
Correspondence from Daniel Chester French, regarding Andromeda statue,
October 1930 - August 1931
.
Letters (2), D.C. French, correspondence re balance due on Irving Memorial, March
1931; from MFC papers re. DCF estate
.
Letter, from A.H. Dalrymple, trust officer, to D.C. French, regarding making his 1930
indenture (trust) for his daughter irrevocable, May 4, 1931; from MFC papers re DCF
estate
.
Letter, from Daniel Chester French to Rosalie Miller, June 16, 1931
.
Letter, from Alman & Co. photographers to D.C. French, re proofs (2 images on one
sheet of paper enclosed and not returned, NT69.38.2120) and re negatives to be
destroyed, show c.1911(?) formal photographs of DCF, October 20, 1931
[NT69.38.2121]
Document Box 2:
.
Holographs (6), transcripts (5), clipping, letter, kept, or presumed to have been kept, by
D.C. French, of poems, written by friends, relatives, poets, DCF(?), include timely and
timeless topics, 1874-c.1925; from CH103 secretary cupboard, intermingled with poems
belonging to MFC
.
Poem and drawing, ink on a telegraph message form [and adm. transcript with notes],
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, kept by D.C. French, on front and back, respectively,
perhaps a political cartoon, perhaps an April Fool's Day one involving a restaurant, April
1, 1883 [NT73.13.9]; see Oral History Notes, MFC Interview by Paul W. Ivory, March
23, 1973
.
Manuscript of essay, authored and written in ink by Newton Mackintosh, emended in
pencil by D.C. French, on Chesterwood, concentrates on garden and woodland, 988
words, 6 p., c.1901-1907; from CH207A or D, Journey into Fame files, in MFC 1897
104
folder [note: interesting description of Chesterwood]
.
Holograph label with autograph, D.C. French, on Chesterwood stationery, "This doll was
dressed by Mary Adams French in 1904 / Daniel Chester French / November 2, 1906";
from CH102 west commode drawer, in association with doll
.
List of current national and international issues, in hand of D.C. French, on orange
notepaper, inserted in one of his books, c.1914 (?); from CH103
.
Carbon copy of biographical tribute, author D.C. French, subject William Brewster,
published as introduction to October Farm from the Concord Journals and Diaries of
William Brewster, Smith O. Dexter, ed., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1936, 8 typed p., 1931
Contents of foll. four folders are from slide-top wooden box having several inscriptions,
including "Autographs / D.C.F." in DCF hand on red-border label:
.
Canceled checks, D.C. French, kept for signature, April 2-September 24,
1923.................................FOLDER 1
.
Canceled checks, D.C. French, kept for signature, February 29-October 25,
1924...................................FOLDER 2
.
Canceled Checks, D.C. French, kept for signature, February 1-September 28,
1927.................................FOLDER 3
.
Signature of D.C. French, cut from letter written in Glendale, MA, July 4,
1930.......................................FOLDER 4
.
Copy of trust agreement (indenture) by D.C. French with Central Union Trust Company
of New York, for daughter Margaret French, November 17, 1920; from MFC papers re
DCF estate
.
Copy of trust agreement (indenture) by D.C. French with The New England Trust
Company, Boston, for wife Mary A. French, December 3, 1924; from MFC papers re
DCF estate
.
Fragmentary (?) unidentified legal document, D.C. French(?), consisting of "Point
III"(carbon copy) and a "Statement" (original and carbon copy), naming one David
Gardiner, the Bank of New York and Trust Company, and attorney George W. Martin, re
a trust property and contention that no tax be levied on it, 3 p., June 3, 1930; from MFC
papers re DCF estate, all 3 pages paper clipped together
.
Copy of trust agreement (indenture) by D.C. French with The New England Trust
Company, Boston, for daughter Margaret French Cresson, August 26, 1930; from MFC
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papers re DCF estate
.
Carbon copy of list of documents, D.C. French(?), last page (p.8?) only, names two:
declaration by him dated April 2, 1928 and agreement between him and the New
England Trust Company dated August 26, 1930, typed on legal paper, 1931(?), perhaps
later
.
Receipt, D.C. French, for removal of stock certificate from safe deposit company, March
14, 1927; from MFC papers re DCF estate, loose
.
Notice, Department of Taxes and Assessments, City of New York, to D.C. French, re
assessment of his personal property for 1930 for two thousand dollars, October 1, 1929;
from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Copy for D.C. French files, New York State Income Tax Resident Return, typed,
includes list of contributions, for calendar year 1930; from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Income tax records, envelopes (3), D.C. French, include ms. monthly statements, typed
list of donations, ms. list of stocks, and letter from his accountant, January-July 1931;
from MFC papers re DCF estate, all in larger DCF-inscribed envelope
.
Letter, affidavit, memo, statement, notarized directive, envelope, D. C. French, previous
mortgagor and new mortgagee; Title Guarantee & Trust Company, previous mortgagee
and current escrow agent; Marion Lake May, new mortgagor; Robert M. Bush, DCF sale
agent; re purchase (1888) and sale (1924) by DCF of his townhouse at 125 West 11th
Street, New York, NY, 1888-1925; from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Discharge of mortgage by D. C. French, successor in title from mortgagor George H.
Warner, to Helen C. Butler, re house and property of the future Dormouse, Glendale,
MA, February 1920; from MFC papers re DCF estate
Contract of sale, Julia Murray Cuddihy to D.C. French, counselor at law Walter J.
Vreeland, for 105 shares Gramercy Park Club, re purchase DCF apartment at 36
Gramercy Park, New York, NY, June 13, 1924; from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
.
Real estate documents (2): Contract for sale of lease-hold and Assignment of lease and
consent, D.C. French to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, re sale of his studio at 12 West
8th Street, New York, NY, 1930; from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Typescript and carbon copies (2) of mortgage, assignee D.C.French, 1928 mortgagors
Albert F. Sadler and Frances Ida Sadler, on property in Yonkers, Westchester County,
New York, July 17, 1929; from MFC papers re DCF estate, paper clipped
.
Carbon copies (2) of transcript of certificate, D.C.French (?), Clerk of the Superior
Court, Greenfield, Franklin County, MA, Hugh E. Adams, authenticates signature of
Notary Public on deed-related document and certifies that said instrument is executed
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and acknowledged, certificate dated October 5, 1931; from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Inventory of furniture, in hand of D.C.French, and M.F.Cresson ms. list of 1920 values,
Chesterwood house, Glendale, MA, 4 p. on orange notepaper and one slip,
respectively, July 26, 1920 and perhaps c.1940; from MFC file folder "Inventories /
1920-1967"
.
Inventory of furniture, typed, D.C.French, annotated by M.F.Cresson, Chesterwood
house and studio, 5 pages, November 4, 1929; from 1941 MFC envelope containing
silver inventory in MFC hand, n.d.
.
Copy of promissory note, typed on letterhead of Clark & Clark, attorneys at law, from
William D. Hawkins to D.C. French, for $650, issued in 1911, paid April 8, 1931, copy
probably 1931; from MFC papers re DCF estate, loose
.
Copy of last will, envelope, D.C.French, executor, Pamela M. French (1821-1895),
testator and his stepmother, typescript, will dated 1894, copy made probably in 1895;
from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Receipt-and-waiver-and-general-release by remainderman Reginald Earle Wells to
trustees/executors D.C. French and George S. Keyes, re estate of DCF relative Mary E.
Wells, June 4, 1928; from MFC papers re DCF estate
.
Personal (?) copy of last will and testament of D.C. French (1850-1931), attorney
Warren A. Mayou, dated April 25, 1930; from MFC papers re DCF estate, one of 2
copies
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Albums/Scrapbooks/Bound Materials
Box 1: Family Photograph Album, NT 73.45.5215 [note: mostly DCF’s works]; inserts from the
back of large silver-edge photo album, contained in an envelope.
Box 2: Family Photograph Albums (2 count) [NT 73.45.5216-5217]; inserts and fragment and
carte-de-visite which were removed from but belonged to this album, contained in an envelope.
Box 3: Family Photograph Albums (2 count) [NT 73.45.5218-5219]
Box 4: Travel Album of souvenir photographs of Broadway, England, 1896. [NT 73.45.5234]
Box 5: Travel Album of European art, compiled by DCF, c. 1900 [NT 73.45.5235]; Scrapbook
of pictorial art of late 19th century [NT 73.45.5238]
Box 6: Scrapbooks
Scrapbook of beautiful women, c. 1893 - c. 1897 [NT 73.45.5239]
DCF birding book, 1865-69, Cambridge, Concord [NT69.38.3417]
Box 7: Scrapbooks
Scrapbook of beautiful women, early 20th-century [NAN]
Scrapbook of photographs of Broadway, England, 1896 [NAN]
Empty scrapbook containing inscribed calling card, possibly belonging to DCF [NAN]
Box 8: albums
Album VI: Mexico, 1904 [NT 73.45.5230]; a separate file of Album VI inserts
Album of postcards of trip to Mexico, 1904 [NT 73.45.5236]
Box 9: albums
Large album of postcards of New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah and Colorado, 1915
[NT 73.45.5237]
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Box 10: albums
Album I: Europe, 1910 [NT 73.45.5231]
Album II: Panama, 1913 [NT 73.45.5232] (note: building of Panama Canal)
Album IV: Western State, 1915 [NT 73.45.5233] (probably belongs to Margaret
French Cresson)
Loose photos in files, originally in albums (3 separate files)
Box 11: From STUDIO reception room player-piano roll cabinet
Pamphlet, The St. Paul’s School War Memorial, c.1926 or later [NAN]
Exhibition catalogue, The Bachstitz Collection of Renaissance Bronzes, 1923
Handbook of the Anatomy of Animals for Artists, Vol.1: The Horse. 3rd Ed.
Photographic reproduction of a painting by artist Fortuny, belonged to DCF, PasseTemps de Gentilshommes, c.1890 (?) [NAN]
Record book for accounts, DCF, empty with first 12 pages torn out, c.1900 (?)
Box 12: albums
Album VII: Chesterwood, 1896 - 1899 [NT 73.45.5223]
Album of prints from glass plate negatives [NT 73.45.5224]
Box 13: Guest books
DCF Concord guest book [NT 73.45.5373]
Chesterwood guest books, 1911 - 1924 [NT 73.45.5374] (probably belongs to Mary
Adams French)
Chesterwood guest books, 1925 - 1933 [NT 73.45.5375] (probably belongs to Mary
Adams French)
Box 14: Checkbook registers (4), belonging to Daniel Chester French, 1925-1926, 1929-1931
Box 15: (Documents from player piano roll cabinet in Studio reception room)
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.
Paperback music books (6), Bach, Chopin, Grieg, Jensen, etc.., 1895, 1916
.
Musicbook, Chopin Polonaises, vol. 29, Schirmer's Library, 1908
.
Musicbook, "Schrimer's Music Spelling-Book," by Anice Terhune, 1912
.
Musicbook, Practical Method for the Pianoforte, by Louis Kohler
.
Sheet Music, 15 publications, 1890 - c. 1913
Oversize Box I: (blue label 121) albums, including several loose photos
Photograph album of DCF sculpture, 1868 – 1893 [NT 73.45.5220]
Photograph album of DCF sculpture, 1870 – 1885 [NT 73.45.5221]
Photograph album of DCF sculpture, 1870 - 1890 [NT 73.45.5222]
Oversize Box II: (blue label 122) Photograph Album of DCF Sculpture, 1870-1903
[NT69.38.445]
Oversize Box III: (blue label 123) Photograph Album of DCF Sculpture, 1902-1925
[NT69.38.446]
Safe
DCF Account Book of Sculpture Commissions, c. 1902 - c. 1931
Sketchbooks
To be processed.
Awards, Certificates, and Diplomas
Flat Files
Drawer 8
Folder 1
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Diploma of award of GRAND PRIX to D.C. French, Group II, Class 9,
EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, Paris, August 18, 1900 [NT69.38.1599]
Folder 2
110
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Reproduction of photographic print, "Les Membres de l' Ordre National de la
LEGION D' HONNEUR. II. a l' Occasion du Centenaire de l' Ordre," 654
"medallion" photographs of all current members including D.C. French (no. 467,
6th row from bottom, 14th person from left), 1902 [NT69.38.1603]
Folder 3
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Certificate of life membership, on vellum, for Daniel Chester French, signed by
Charles F. McKim, president, and Frank D. Millet, secretary, THE AMERICAN
ACADEMY IN ROME, April 25, 1905 [NT69.38.1577]
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Folder 9: ammonia blueline print of landscape and topographic map. “Map of CW”
traced by P.D. from traceable map, 1941 (NT69.38.1564.1-.11)
Folder 7: blueline prints and negative photoprint drawn by P.F. “Chesterwood…”
shows area of formal garden (prints, 1960s) (NT69.38.1567.1-.4)
Folder 8: blueline prints of topographic map, “Plantable map of Chesterwood,” 1932
(NT69.38.1565.1-.2)
Folder 5: blueprints of plant elevations, Daniel Webster Memorial, 1931
(NT69.38.1565.1-.2)
Folder 6: graphite drawings and blueprints of elevations, Cresson and French
gravestones and Cresson memorial tablet (NT69.38.1511.1-.13)
Folder 10: ammonia blueline prints, “Planting Design for Long Border at
Chesterwood” by Dorothea Harrison (NT69.38.1572.1-.2)
Folder 4: graphite setch of front elevation, “Mass Ave. Elevation” for townhouse in
Washington, D.C., 1905 (?) (NT6.38.966)
Drawer 13 & Drawer 14
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Beginning with Drawer 13 Folder 16 and ending with Drawer 14 Folder 18, there
are 23 half folders containing DCF awards, certificates or diplomas, 1892-1924.
Included, for example, are materials relating to DCF's honorary degrees from
Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Lafayette; membership in the
Commission of Fine Arts; the decoration of the Legion of Honor; various wareffort association memberships; various appointments; many sculpture awards;
his life fellowship in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Blueprints (5), by William Penn Cresson, Alterations to Residence at 1727 19th
St. NW, Washington D.C., NT 69.38.1503.1-.5
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Blueprints (2), by Hardie Phillip, sculptor MCF, “Approved Forms for Triptychs for
Citizens’ Committee for Army and Navy.”
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112
Ephemera
Box 1:
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Programme, printed, for amateur theatricals, designer and perhaps player D.C. French
et al., tableaux vivants for "Tennyson's Dream of Fair Women" and for statuary and
comedietta of "Court Cards" in two acts, Concord Town Hall, April 2, 1873; from
CH207A or D, Journey into Fame files
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Lists (2), handwritten by D.C. French, of titles of tableaux vivants, probably staged in
Concord, MA, 1870s (?)
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Rosters (2), handwritten by D.C. French, of tableaux vivants titles and performers (DCF
friends and relatives), on long narrow scrolls made of glued-together sheets of paper,
Concord, MA, c.1880(?); rolled
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List, handwritten by D.C. French, of tableaux vivants titles, on orange notepaper,
Chesterwood, September 29, 1912
Box 2:
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Invoice, invitations (2 discrete), Town of Concord, Henry F. French, D.C. French (?), for
transporting full-size plaster cast of his MINUTE MAN and for dedication of bronze
statue and following ball, September 11, 1874 and April 19, 1875
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Printed folder of list of principal works, sculptor D.C. French, for "convenient reference
in correspondence," Concord, Mass., August 8, 1885; from CH207A or D, Journey into
Fame files
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Epigram cards (2), printed, kept by D.C. French, one (always kept by DCF in his
Chesterwood desk drawer) begins "I expect to pass through this world but once" and
the other, a Sanskrit poem, received as a Christmas card from Mary [Hollis(?)], "Look to
this Day!"; c.1900 and 1927; from CH103 secretary desk drawer
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Invitation, printed and inscribed, from the Academy of Saint Luke (Reale Insigne
Accademia Romana di S. Luca) to its members, for the seating of D.F. French on
Sunday, May 27, 1900; perhaps from Journey into Fame files, CH207A or D
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Transatlantic baggage stickers (3 discrete), D.C. French (?), White Star Line, first class,
New York, Paris, fragmentary and adhering to one another, early 20th century; from
CH214
Marriage announcement, engraved, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Chester French, their daughter
Margaret to William Penn Cresson, wedding in Taormina, Italy, Monday, January 10,
1921; from CH207A or D, Journey into Fame files
.
113
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Newspaper clipping, "Favorite Bible Passages / of / Daniel Chester French / Eminent
Sculptor," compiled by the Bible Guild, 3 selections, newspaper(?), 1909(?); From
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Newspaper clipping, kept by D.C. French (?), re Stockbridge Art Exhibition, early 20th
century
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Newspaper clipping, D.C. French (?), unidentified British newspaper, funeral service of
painter William Holman Hunt ( - ). n.d.; from CH103B
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Newspaper clipping, kept by D.C. French (?), George Bernard Shaw, "G.B.S. on Rodin;
Describes Rodin at Work Modeling His Portrait Bust," The New York Times, December
1, 1912, p. 732; inserted in book belonging to MFC
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Newspaper clippings (4) from the rotogravure picture section, kept by D.C. French,
showing his THE SONS OF GOD . . ., IN FLANDERS FIELDS, and IRVING
MEMORIAL, the New York Times and Washington Star, 1925-1926
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Newspaper clipping, envelope inscribed by D.C. French, article "A Sculptor's
Reminiscences of Emerson by Daniel Chester French," Berkshire Courier (?), p.1,
September 21(?), 1926; from CH207A or D, Journey into Fame files
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Magazine clipping, D.C. French humorous anecdote quoted with cartoon-like illus. of
him as "yankee sculptor" in column "[. . .] Fun," Hearst's Magazine, 1900(?); from
.
Tear sheet, from publication "American Art in Bronze and Iron," pp.19-20, p. 20 shows
illus. of Boston Public Library door plaster mold at Jno. Williams bronze foundry, date
(?), publication copyrighted 1914; from CH207A or D, Journey into Fame files
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Magazine clipping, kept by D.C. French (?), dated by M.F. Cresson in pencil, shows
illus. of his GENERAL DRAPER, publication of the Dodds Granite Co., c.1915 (?)
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Pictorial reprint, D.C. French, sculptor, 2 statues "Painting and Sculpture" and
"Architecture," for RICHARD MORRIS HUNT MEMORIAL, New York, NY, The
American Architect, February 9, 1901
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Reprints (6), author D.C. French, "On Certain Obstacles to the Highest Enjoyment of
Music," written to editor, The Century Magazine, and published in 1912, reprinted c.
1915(?)
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Reprint, author D.C. French, "Augustus Saint Gaudens (1848-1907)," 3 p., from the
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, September 1918
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Travel guides (7), belonging to D.C. French, M.F. Cresson (one definitely to DCF;
another definitely to MFC; otherwise, difficult to segregate), on Carcassonne, New
Mexico, Egypt, Utah, Rome, Yosemite, New York City, 1910(?)-1927
[NT73.45.585,.586,.687,.707,.708,.709,.791]; from CH103B
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Association booklets (3), belonging to D.C. French, W.P. Cresson (?), contain statutes,
membership lists, etc., of Academie royals Des Sciences, Des Letters, Des Beaux-Arts
de Belgique, Brussels; Societe "Autour du Monde," Paris; National Institute of Arts and
Letters, New York [NT73.45.457,.500,.913]; from CH103B
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Newsletter (?), kept by D.C. French, published by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Co., 1170
Broadway, New York, an architectural ornament firm, Atlantic Terra Cotta, vol. IV, no. 6,
4 leaves only, issue on capitals, with illustrations of jardinieres and pedestals like those
at Chesterwood, April 1917; with MFC printed material in CH103
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Political pamphlets, D.C. French (?), W.P. Cresson (?), author Stephen Sanders, "If the
Kaiser Governed Britain: The Lesson of Germany," author Karl Sapper, "Die Volker und
Staaten Europas" (Schutzengrabenbucher fur das deutsche Volke, no.98), 3 copies,
both relative to World War I propaganda, both 1918 [NT73.45.501,.598,.876,.877]; from
CH103B
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Magazine, New England Magazine, contains article on D.C. French by Mrs. Helen B.
Emerson, May 1897
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Magazine, American Art in Bronze and Iron, pamphlet (i.e., issue) no.10, "Sculpture by
Daniel Chester French Cast in Bronze by Jno. Williams, Inc.," 3 copies, copyright 1914
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Magazines (4 copies), mid-1970s adm. note, American Art in Bronze and Iron, pamphlet
(i.e., issue) no 10 devoted to Sculpture by Daniel Chester French Cast in Bronze by
Jno. Williams, Inc. copyright 1914 [perhaps originally in Studio]
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Magazine, The Connoisseur (the first issue published both in America and in England,
see p. IV), cf. p.98 for silhouette portrait of Daniel Webster, February 1926
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Invitation, card giving particulars for acceptance, tissue cover for card, envelope
addressed to Mr. Follin, from the Lincoln Memorial Commission in possession of MFC,
perhaps originally a gift to French from addressee to ceremony attending dedication of
the memorial to Abraham Lincoln, May 30, 1922
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Book, soft bound, Bronze Tablets, The Gorham Co., New York, NY, 59 p., 1927
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Catalogue, probably belonging to D.C. French, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of
Abbott Handerson Thayer, introduction by Royal Cortissoz, 1922 [NT73.45.921]
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Reprints (32), from The Century Magazine article (1912) by D.C. French, "On Certain
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Obstacles to the Highest Enjoyment of Music," brown covers, c.1915 (?) [From the
Studio south wall tall chest first-tier right drawer] [The other items in Box 2 are from the
House]
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Catalogue, "Stockbridge Twenty-Second Annual Show of Paintings and Sculpture,"
1930
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Catalogue, "Hope's Leadwork for the Garden," Henry Hope & Sons, 101 Park Ave.,
New York, NY, catalogue no.200, April 1931
Oversize Box I: The item in the first folder shows some jardinieres resembling those at
Chesterwood.
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Sales catalogue, Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Co., "Some Vases / Jars / and / Flower
Pots," illus., prices, 4 p., 1898 [From CH103, secretary, left cupboard]
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Magazine, containing article by Barr Ferree (pp.2-10), "HOMES OF AMERICAN
ARTISTS - 'Chesterwood,' the Country Home of Daniel Chester French, N.A., Glendale,
Massachusetts," American Homes and Gardens, January 1909 [NAN] [perhaps
originally in Studio]
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Programs (2), envelope, probably belonging to D.C. French, for Lincoln Memorial
dedication, May 30, 1922
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Newspaper, The Art News; An International Pictorial Newspaper of Art, New York,
whole issue, 14 p., January 24, 1925
Oversize Box 2:
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Mailing tube, addressed in black ink, in very neat, perhaps architects, unid. hand,
to”D.C. FRENCH ESQ / GLENDALE / MASS” and in same hand [PHOTOGRAPHS]”,
inscribed in pencil in unid. Hand”Greek Tombs / in Turkey”; early 20th century (?) [NAN]
[From Studio Cabinet 7th tier drawer]
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Mailing tube, from The Cotton States and International Exposition Co. to Daniel C.
French, 1895(?) [NT69.1591.3]
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Diploma case, for diploma of honorary degree (A.M.), given by Harvard College to D.C.
French, 1917 [NT69.38.1600.2]
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Outer diploma case holder, perhaps makeshift, 1917 or later [NT69.38.1600.3]
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Tube, covered with off-white glossy paper and open at one end only, 1920s (?)
[NAN26a]
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Tube, inscribed by D.C. French, “State House / Boston” c.1929(?) [NT69.38.1508.2]
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Tube, inscribed by D.C. French, “Regional Plan Association / Plans of New York / 1930"
[NAN35.6]
Please note that a DCF subseries exists that has not been specified or processed. It is DCF's
library book insert collection and consists primarily of newspaper clippings, letters, and memos
inserted by DCF usually under the front covers; they generally relate to the book, for example,
a letter from the author, a book review, a pertinent article, etc. The DCF book collection was
catalogued more than twenty years ago and the presence of inserts, which to date remain
where DCF placed them, was noted on respective catalogue cards. Therefore, working from
the catalogue cards, one will be able to determine the existence and locations of, and remove,
folder, and box, the inserts in order to effect their ready accessibility. A very rough estimate of
quantity would be about two hundred items. Included in DCF's library are books that belonged
to his father and stepmother. Inserts, therefore, date from c.1850 to c.1931.
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Margaret French Cresson Series
NTARC.CH.1.2
c.1898-1973
app. 30 linear feet
- to be arranged by document type
Margaret French Cresson was born in 1889 at Concord, MA, the only child of Daniel Chester
French (1850-1931) and Mary Adams French (1859-1939). She was educated at the Brearley
School and the New York School of Design in New York City. Like her father, she pursued a
career in sculpting, and is known for such works as the bronze bust of Daniel Chester French,
the bust of Adm. Richard Bryd, and the bronze relief of Frank Fuller Murdock. In addition to
sculpting, Mrs. Cresson was a writer and wrote several pieces on variety of art related topics,
and authored a biography of her father entitled, Journey Into Fame. In 1921, she married
William Penn Cresson (1873-1932), and was active in many artistic and historical
organizations, such as The Berkshire Museum, the Saint-Gaudens Memorial Museum and the
Concord Art Association. She was also a fellow of the National Sculpture Society, and served
as vice president of the Architectural League of New York. In 1969, Mrs. Cresson donated
Chesterwood to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to preserve and maintain as a
historic site. She passed away in 1973.
The series contains approximately 30 linear feet of materials, dating from c. 1920 to 1973. The
content--photographs, albums and scrapbooks, correspondence, manuscripts, architectural
drawings, newspaper and magazine clippings--of the series reflects her pursuits and interests
in art, architecture and history. For example, there are several feet of manuscripts and
transcripts for the many essays and publications she authored, e.g., The Journey Into Fame.
A large portion of the series deals with the maintenance of Chesterwood, its designation as a
memorial for her father, and its subsequent transfer to the National Trust.
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N.B.: Box 139 contains two address books which ought to be placed with other MFC address
books.
For ring-binder [NT73.45.5246] holding DCF sculpture photos for 1947 publication, see temp.
F298.S.
Box 1 - Photograph Albums, Small [Flat Box]
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Photographic album III [NT73.45.5225]
Album III [NT73.45.5225] inserts: photograph of MFC and friend at Stockbridge,
found loose in album, 1919
Photographic album B [NT73.45.5226]
Box 2 - [Oversize Flat Box] [note: box marked NTARC.CH.1.2, Margaret French Cresson]
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Album, relating art, containing clippings, photographs, art reproductions, c.
1950s, including NYT clip re: Chesterwood, June 30, 1963
Box 3 - [Oversize Flat Box]
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Wedding Photographs (9; without frame; no need for an oversized box) [NT
73.45.1450.1-13, NT 73.45.1035]
Box 4 [Document Box]: drafts for MFC writings
Folder I: “Chesterwood – the Studio of Daniel Chester French – Stockbridge,
Massachusetts,” “the Strength of the Hills,” “New England Sculptor,” “the Chesterwood
Studio”
Folder II: “the Chesterwood Garden,” “the Strength of the Hills”
Folder III: article, in New York Times Magazine, on Chesterwood studio (untitled)
Folder IV: article, handwritten, regarding DCF and France
Folder V: “Strength of the Hills,” mostly handwritten
Folder VI: photos of DCF, first sheets pulled from press, enclosed in Harvard University
Press envelope, 1947
Folder VII: “Daniel Chester French 1850-1931,” handwritten, for the Abigail
Webster chapter of the Dictionary of American Artists, Oct 24, 1944
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Proofs for Journey into Fame, in envelope
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Loose miscellany without folder
Box 5 [Document Box]: Captions for "DCF Picture Book," by Margaret French Cresson,
handwritten and typed, contained in numerous folders; binded with pink tie
Box 6 [Document Box]
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Correspondence, Margaret French Cresson, with various art magazines
concerning subscriptions, change in address, articles, etc., 1939-1964
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Correspondence, Margaret French Cresson, concerning various registers [Who's
Who, Social Register], 1940-1959
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Correspondence, Margaret French Cresson, with various art societies, museums,
etc., 1922-1941, Folder 1
.
Correspondence, Margaret French Cresson, with various art societies, museums,
etc., 1942-1959, Folder 2
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Correspondence, Margaret French Cresson, concerning book purchases, 19391962
Box 7 [Document Box]: Documents relating to travel articles and pictures
Typescript, draft, “City of Statues,” by MFC
Draft, typed and handwritten, “the Little Bronze Horses,” by MFC
Travel note, typed, Spain, by MFC; postcards (5) of European paintings
Travel note, handwritten, Spain and Algierias; photos (3), of Granada; draft, “Forty
Winks in Spain,” by MFC; pictures of Spain, enclosed in envelope
Draft, “Thorns and Roses,” “the Roses of Granada”; Bulletin of the Garden Club
Draft, “the Price of Perfection”; photographs, Roman sculpture
Travel note, typed, Servilla; photographs, of Italian ruins
Draft, “Oppurtunity in Rome,” by MFC; postcards, American Academy in Rome
Draft, “Georgetown, D. C.” by MFC
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Photographs (5), gates and doorways
Draft, “Rome in a Week,” by MFC
Draft, “Savannah – 1970,” by MFC
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Draft, uncut, “Life of Daniel Chester French” by MFC, Chapter I to XXIV, with
black hardcover
Draft, incomplete, “Life of Daniel Chester French”
Correspondences, between MFC and DuPuy, 1944-47, 1949, 1950, 1952-54,
and 2 undated
Draft, “DuPuy” by MFC
Magazine clipping, “the Jumping Frenchman,” Yankee Magazine, Nov 1957;
letters to DuPuy; draft, typescript and handwritten, “DuPuy” by MFC
Contains draft of "Journey into Fame" by Margaret French Cresson, also included are
notes, article on Dupuy
Box 9 [Flat Box]
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Photograph albums [NT73.45.5227-.5228]; typescript: “Reminiscences of Old Concord,”
1902 (dated 1867 in pencil); “Swords and Plowshares,” by WP Cresson, 1931 (folder
unnotated)
Box 10 [Flat Box]
Empty letter box, titled “Writings of Margaret Cresson,” with locked alphabetic
dividers.
Picture of mount Ghent, found in folder inscribed by MFC “Writings of DCF,
copies of letters, etc.”
Typescript, W. M. R. French, “Reminiscences of Old Concord (Mass.)” (17 pp.).
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Brochure, titled “Bronze Tablets”, Providence, 1927 (inscribed “E. Yandell” on cover).
Box 11 [Flat Box]
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Correspondence, concerning the Antoniazzi's purchase of land, 1957
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Household effects moved from 36 Gramercy Park to Chesterwood, 1932-1937
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Correspondence, concerning the dedication of the Barn Gallery, 1963
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Essay by Margaret French, “Debarkation No. 3,” her personal account regarding
returning soldiers in WWI hospital in New York, NY, where she volunteered, 69p. typescript, 1919
.
Photographs, mounted, probably used in Margaret French Cresson's "Journey
Into Fame" and other images of D.C. French's war memorials and other works
.
Correspondence, concerning Nicolaus Koni, 1945-1949
.
Correspondence, concerning the Berkshire Industrial Farm (Home & School for
problem boys), 1950
.
Correspondence, with Henry Cabot Lodge & other members of the U.S.
Government, 1941-1956
.
Papers, concerning Mr. Herbert Staub's immigration procloures top enter the
USA, 1941
.
Correspondence, concerning real estate and Margaret French Cresson's
apartment in New York, 1940-1943
.
Poems, by Margaret French Cresson (Xmas messages, etc.), including many
undated articles, 1940-1958
.
Letters, concerning photographs of various pieces of art or photographs relating
to the French family, 1939-1956
.
Correspondence, with associations & societies not connect with art, 1938-1946
.
Miscellaneous documents, 1931-1950
.
Correspondence, concerning Coline Woolworth (Mrs. Stewart Woolworth),
reference to John Amors, 1950
.
Correspondence, concerning fallen stone in French's grave and other
correspondence concerning D.C. French's grave, 1942-1950
.
Correspondence, concerning shipment, packing, etc. of various art pieces, 19431959
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Box 12 - Writings: Family, Friends, Dupuy, D.C. French, etc. [Flat Box]
.
Letter, from articles editor of American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., to Margaret
French Cress, March 10, 1972; transcript, 11 pages, entitled "The Lincoln
Memorial" by Margaret French Cresson
.
Typed manuscript, "The Lincoln Memorial", by Margaret French Cresson
.
Folder containing documents relating to article on "Lincoln Memorial"
.
Draft of fragment of article of Chesterwood Studio by Margaret French Cresson
.
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Correspondence, brochure relating to article on Lincoln Memorial
Manuscripts, typed and handwritten, relating to article on Lincoln Memorial
.
Folder labeled "Stefan Lorant" containing newspaper clippings
.
Transcript, typed and handwritten, of essay, "The Impetuous Rough-Rider" by
Margaret French Cresson, also included are newspaper clippings relating to
Theodore Roosevelt and documents relating to D.C. French; excerpt from MAF’s
“Memories of a Sculptor’s Wife,” p. 195-99
.
Article about Chesterwood Studio by Margaret French Cresson, 11 pages
.
Envelope containing document covered with clear tape, referring to William
Merchant Richardson [NT 73.45.2 (72)]
.
Manuscript, handwritten, relating article on statue of John Harvard
.
Manuscript, typed, entitled "Random Reflections: Fairfield Osborne"
.
Magazine clipping, 2 copies, "Down with Statues…or Up?" by Leslie Lieber, This
Weekley Magazine, January 21, 1962
.
Manuscripts, draft, "Our Lost Immortals", "The Shrine of American Tradition", by
Margaret French Cresson
.
Manuscript, typed, of essay entitled "The Statue of Count Rumford"
.
Manuscript, typed and handwritten, entitled "Phoebe-Phoebe" by Margaret
French Cresson
.
Newspaper clippings, notes, photographs and other documents relating to the
Vanderbilts
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Box 13 [Flat Box]
Brochures, from National Scultpure Society, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and
Humanitites Cultural Resources and Chester Studio.
Admission tickets to Chester Studio.
Piece of paper, on which writes “Restoration of the enius of Connecticut by Casimer
Michakzyk (Randolph Rogers).”
Photograph of a Native American.
Box 14 - Chesterwood, Dormouse, Meadowlark, Stockbridge area [Flat Box]
.
Correspondence, concerning maintenance of Chesterwood, 1919-1939, Folder 1
.
Correspondence, concerning Dormouse, 1935-1961
.
Correspondence, with Chas DuPuy, concerning Chesterwood, 1934-1943
.
Correspondence, concerning "Meadowlark" 1940-1956
.
Correspondence, concerning maintenance of Chesterwood, 1940-1959, Folder 2
.
Correspondence, with various associations (e.g., Stockbridge Golf Club, Library
Association, St. Paul's Church) in the Stockbridge area, 1939-1951
.
Newspaper clippings, "Gift of Noted Sculptor's Stockbridge Studio Includes
Colorful Gardens, Unspoiled Woods" by Walter Prichard Eaton; newspaper
clipping of front page of Berkshire Eagle, caption reads "French Studio to
become Public Memorial, December 30, 1954
Box 15 [Flat Box]
Drafts of an article by MFC, titled “Augustus Saint-Gaudens,” typed, with handwritten
marks.
Collection of materials related to Saint-Gaudens, including brochures, articles,
newspaper clippings, photographs and correspondences (in 2 separate folders);
additional draft of the article by MFC on Saint-Gaudens.
Portrait reliefs (5 count).
Page torn from a book, showing a painting of a woman in black gown.
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Collection of photos and newspaper clippings of statues (5 count).
Collection of materials related to Palais de Chaillot, including museum brochures,
handwritten notes, newspaper clippings and photographs.
Photographs of Venus, by different sculptors (6 count).
Drafts of an article by MFC, titled “The Italian Washington,” on Canova’s sculpture of
Washington; collected materials include correspondences, brochures, and photographs
of Canova’s other sculptures.
Photographs of animal sculptures (11 count).
Photographs of busts.
Drafts of an article by MFC, titled “City of Statues,” containing both typed and
handwritten versions.
Box 16 [Flat Box]
Drafts of an article by MFC, titled “Art and the Emperor’s New Clothes,” containing
typed and handwritten versions.
Collection of newspaper clippings, magazine clippings and handwritten articles on art
fakes.
Collection of newspaper clippings, magazine clippings and handwritten articles for
“Beauty in Art” (in 2 separate files).
Drafts of an article by MFC, titled “The Cult of Ugliness” (final typescript in a separate
file).
Lecture notes, titled “Search for Beauty” (in 2 separate files).
Lecture notes, on Renaissance sculpture.
Drafts of an article by MFC, titled “Hooray for Tradition,” containing typed and
handwritten versions (additional typed drafts in a separate red binder).
Drafts of an article by MFC, titled “THe Triumph of Chaos,” containing typed and
handwritten versions.
Drafts of an article by MFC, titled “Beauty for Ashes,” containing typed and handwritten
versions.
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Box 17 Cookbooks [Document Box]
Add to book Collections
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Cookbook, the I Hate to Cook Book, by Peg Bracken, 1960 [NT73.45.3803]
.
Cookbook, Cooking for Two, by Janet McKenzie Hill, 6th ed., 1968, of 1909
original [NT73.45.3811]
.
Cookbook, Clementine in the Kitchen, by Phineas Beck, 1946 revised ed. of
1943 original [NT73.45.3809]
.
Cookbook, Low-Fat Cookery, by Evelyn S. Stead and Gloria K. Warren, 1956
[NT73.45.3804]
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Cookbook, The Back to Cooking, by Ceil Dyer, c.1971 [NT73.45.3812]
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Magazine, Gourmet, April 1973 [NT73.45.3808]
.
Cookbook, The Orchard Sampler, by Marjorie Page Blanchard, c.1971
[NT73.45.3802]
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Cookbook, Angel's Food, by Women's Auxiliary, St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
1956 [NT73.45.3813]
.
Cookbook, fragile, inside acid-free tissue: The Williamsburg Art of Cookery, by
Helen Bullock, 1952 [NT73.45.3806]
.
Cookbook, Anybody Can Cook, by Gwen French, c. 1954 [NT73.45.3805]
Box 18 Documents relating to National Trust [Document Box]
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"Chesterwood, Gen.", 1964-1973
- Typescript, “Activities of Margaret French Cresson at
Chesterwood in 1964,” photocopy
- Correspondences regarding Chesterwood
- Natinoal Gallery of Art News Release
- Interview script (2 copies), conducted by Mitchell Shapiro,
regarding DCF, transcribed by Susan Frisch, 1973
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Correspondences regarding Chesterwood, Acquisitions, 1969
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Correspondences, news release, manuscript, regarding "Opening Chesterwood",
1969
- Article, “Famed Sculptor’s Studio Opened as a Property of the
National Trust,” National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2006
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Order of events, Chesterwood Dedication, 1969
Correspondences with National Trust for Historic Preservation
Flyer, the Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, MA
Flyer, Bershire Natural Resources Council
Brochure, the Berkshire Challenge, Berkshire Natural
Resources Council, Pittsfield, MA
Newsletter, the Berkshire Eagle
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"National Trust for Historic Preservation Properties Consideration Repart",
numerous copies, 1966-1967
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“Dedication of Chesterwood, a National Trust Property,” 1969
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Contains Margaret French Cresson's writing relating to religion, sculpture, artists,
other museums (Williamsburg, Mt. Vernon, American Academy of Rome) [note:
partial]
Contents of envelope labeled “Mrs. Cresson/ Thank-Paul [Ivory]” on
Chesterwood Studio: draft, “the Studio Museum of Daniel Chester French,” by
MFC, 1965; draft inventory, “Works of Margaret French Cresson, Sculptor”; draft,
“the Chesterwood Studio,” 1955; draft, handwritten, “the Studio Museum of David
Chester French,” 1965; draft, “Chesterwood opening,” 1965
Miscellaneous items: draft, “a Genius Come to Town”; photograph, sculptore of
hand stretching from a flower; introduction to points of interest in London;
correspondence with MFC; “Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture at Harvard:
a Glance at the Collection,” Harvard Library Bulletin, 1970; draft, “Lincoln –
French – Lorant” by MFC
Draft, “the Bells of Mount Vernon” by MFC; photograph (3), of Chesterwood
Draft and materials related to, “the Bells of Mount Vernon” by MFC
Brochure, “In Brookgreen Gardens/ Some of the Works of Anna Hyatt
Huntington”; correspondence, National Sculptor Society; photographs (9),
Brookgreen sculptures in situ
Draft, “My Hand in the Hand of God”
Draft and materials related to, “a Star to Steer by”
Photographs (6), of European towns and paintings; magazine and newspaper
clippings
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Materials related o the Amerian Academy in Rome
Photographs and caption, paintings by El Greco
Notes on Greenough’s Washington
Photographs and newspaper clippings, related to Goya
Draft and materials related to, “Donald DeLue” by MFC
Photographs (11), of paintings by Velazquez
Draft, “the White Lighting,” by MFC, 1955
Correspondence, between MFC and Kenneth B. Chorley, 1955
Materials related to “the Cloisters,” by George Grey Barnard
Materials related to Williamsburg, enclosed in envelope, from Malvina Hoffman to
WPC
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Contains alphabetic eye charts
Box 21 [Flat Box]
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Bound Materials, Margaret French Cresson, Check Registry, September 7, 1931
- January 9, 1932
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Bound Materials, Margaret French Cresson, Check Registry, November 29, 1930
- April 8, 1931
Box 22 [Flat Box]: Contains drafts of "Journey into Fame" by Margaret French Cresson & Title
Page Mock-Ups
Handwritten drafts of bibliographies, titles, and lists of architects.
Typescripts, copies of chapter 6, 7 and 8.
Cover sample and drafts.
Typed drafts, including DCF biography, lists of works, awards and honors.
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Handwritten draft, lists of picture books of DCF.
Loose drafts, handwritten or typed, of chapters 2, 4, 6, 7, 13, etc.
Box 23 [Flat Box]: Contains (overflow) notes, writings by Margaret French Cresson,
relating to travel, sculpture, sculptors
Holiday Magazine, April 1955.
Photographs and lecture notes, European fountains.
Photographs and lecture notes, European female busts.
Photographs of Madonna and Child by different sculptors.
Postcards and travel journals by MFC, of Santillana del Mar, Spain.
Lists of New England Sculptures, typed and handwritten.
Typescript by MFC, titled “Flower Painting.”
Encyclopedia entry on Frederick W. McMonnies, written by MFC, for the
Dictionary of American Biography.
Collections of newspaper and magazine clippings relating to Ivan Mestrovic, a
Yugoslav sculptor.
Drafts of an article by MFC, titled “Mestrovic, Titan among Sculptors,” including
typescripts, handwritten drafts and research materials.
Box 24 Margaret French Cresson Books about Paintings [Flat Box] Add to book Collections
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Essay, the Unknown Solider, by MFC, printed as brochures (14 count)
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Book, Frogonard
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Book, Chardin
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Book, Eduardo Rosales
.
Book, Miguel Viladrich
.
Book, Federico de Madrazo II
.
Book, Making the Brush Behave, by Eliot O'Hara
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Book, Ramon Casas
.
Book, Santiago Rvsinol
.
Book, Aguafortistas
Box 25 Photographs of Margaret French Cresson's Works [Flat Box]
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Portfolio, sculptures by MFC
Photographs, sculpture frieze of Mary Adams French (3)
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Photographs, statue of Dr. George Merrill (10) [NT 69.38.1391.1]
.
Photographs, sculpture of "Girl with the Curls" (3) [NT 69.38.1424.1.-.1.4]
.
Photographs, sculpture of Dr. Courtnay Baylor (4)
.
Photographs, sculpture of Richard Cutts Fairchild (3)
.
Photographs, sculpture of Daniel Chester French (1)
.
Photographs, sculpture of James Monroe (4)
.
Photographs, sculpture of Henry Woodbridge Parton (2)
.
Photographs, sculpture of "the Unknown Soldier" (2)
Box 26 [Flat Box]
Draft, “On Lost Immortals,” by MFC; map of historic Concord
Materials and drafts related to “the Battle Monuments,” by MFC
Materials and drafts related to “Bombshells for Beauty,” by MFC
Draft, “Barbecues for the Dead,” by MFC
Draft, “Beuaty for Ashes,” by MFC
Draft, incomplete, “Christopher Columbus,” by MFC
Bookkeeping note, trust fund information, 1933-1971
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Box 27 Margaret French Cresson, Gardens & Trails [Flat Box]
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Notes by MFC, regarding gardens and trails of Chesterwood (2 pink slips)
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Photocopy of Margaret French Cresson's article "Chesterwood Garden", Bulletin
of the Garden Club of America, March 1956
.
Correspondence, of Margaret French Cresson and Prentiss French, relating to
grounds
.
National Trust Report, Chesterwood Landscape Recommendations, 1970-1971
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National Trust Report, Chesterwood Landscape Recommendations, 1972
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Garden and grounds, research and documentation, 1964-1971 (sorted by year)
Box 28 Margaret French Cresson Correspondence [Flat Box]
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Correspondence, concerning lectures, commissions, exhibits, interviews, articles,
etc.1918-1947, Folder 1
.
Correspondence, concerning personal business, 1929-1947, Folder 1
.
Short article, published by Margaret French Cresson
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Articles, written by Margaret French Cresson, 1940-1950
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Correspondence, concerning lectures, commissions, exhibits, interviews, articles,
etc.1948-1964, Folder 2
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Correspondence, concerning personal business, 1949-1950, Folder 2
Box 29 [Flat Box] Contains Margaret French Cresson's files, articles and pictures,
relating to war memorials [note: two oversized folders removed in April, 1997]
Draft, typed and handwritten, “War Memorials”
“Report on War Memorials,” National Commission of Fine Arts, Washington DC
Magazine and newspaper articles, related to War Memorials: “War
Memorials/What Aesthetic Price Glory” by Philip C. Johnson; “ ‘Worthy of Their
High Mission’” by Fiske Kimball; flyer, the Sperry Memorial Competition, 1945;
draft, “War Memorials” by MFC
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Newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs of European war memorials
Draft and materials related to “War Memorials”
Box 30 [Document Box] [note: this box is empty]
.
Contains printed ephemera on art, patriotism, D.C. French, politics: booklets,
exhibition catalogues, essays
Box 31 [Document Box] [note: this box is empty]
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Contains printed ephemera on art politics, Berkshires, etc.: catalogues, bulletins,
journals, leaflets, mimeographs
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(4 folders, 1 magazine) Contains miscellaneous writings by Margaret French
Cresson; photo requests on DCF sculpture for book; contains 1945 printer’s
proofs for Journey into Fame; 1957 NYT article on Lincoln; copy of Holiday
magazine, Rome
Box 33 [Document Box] Contains printed ephemera on various topics
.
Architecture (brochure)
.
Annual Report of Stockbridge, 2 copies, 1965
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Art Catalogues (5), stained glass, published by Demott; Winkle, Vedder, Eakins,
Sculptor’s Guild, 1941 [NT73.45.597]
.
Brochure, Associations, with lists of members, The Cosmopolitan Club 1970-71;
brochure, Arch. League of NY 1970
.
Conservation, 3 pamphlets: “Poverty or Conservation/Your National Problem” by
Jay N. “Ding” Darling, 2 copies; “Forest Owner Characteristics and Attitudes in
Berkshire County, Massachusetts”
.
Materials relating to D.C. French or pupils, 73.45.458 “Let Freedom Ring”
Pamphlet; 73.45.715; 73.45.509—St. Bartholomew Church, NY, Detroit Institute
of the Arts
.
Period History Pamphlets (4 total): “Drama in Wartime Russia” by Henry
Wadsworth Longhellow Dana; “Germany and the Germans” by Charles Sumner
Bird; “the Truth about Pearl Harbor” by John T. Flynn; “the Eighth Army,” Sep
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1941 – Jan 1943
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Miscellaneous (5 total: 73.45.542; 73.45.596; 73.45.475; 73.45.731; 73.45.471):
1946 Calendar Engagement Book – uninscribed; magazine, Breck’s, 1966; “the
True Story of Greyfriars’ Bobby” by Henry T. Hutton; Journal of the American
Institute of Architects
.
Peace, civil disobedience pamphlets: Pacifist Handbook, 1939; “the Morals of
Extermination” by Lewis Mumford; “How to Prevent War” by Emmet Fox;
“Choose You this Day –” several copies; Fellowship, November 1951; Moral
Rearmament/the Battle for Peace by H. W. Austin; Civil Disobedience by Henry
David Thoreau, 4 copies; Steps to Peace/A Quaker View of US Foreign Policy
.
Religious Pamphlets: “the Philosophyof Quaker Servic” by Rufus M. Jones;
“What the Bible Means to Me” by Horace Westwood; “Bread and Roses,”
“Compassion,” “Responsibility,” “Life’s Wages,” “Sentiment,” “the Tower Room,”
“Chances and Changes,” “the Voices of the World,” “Beauty,” “the Grandeur of
Simplicity,” “Tolerance,” “Forgiveness,” “the Soul’s Symphony,” “Sufficient Unto
the Day,” by Elisabeth C. T. Miller; “the Divine Plan” by Glenn Clark; “the Art of
Spiritual Healing” by Carrie F. Munz; “Flashes of Truth,” November 1938;
“Gaining a Radiant Faith” by Henry Hallam Saunderson; “When and How…” the
Anglican Church; “Your Own Path”; Divine Science Monthly, May, 1948 and
August, 1945; Truth Digest, January 1939, May 1939, November 1938; the
Golden Key by Emmet Fox (2); “the End of the World” by Emmet Fox; “the
Guidance of God” by Eleanor Napier Forde (2); “Sharing” by J. P. ThorntonDuesbery; “Our Future Life” by Elwood Worcester; “the Message and the
Mission of Universalism” by Frank Oliver Hall; “Universalists of Today” by John
van Schaick, Jr.; “the Man Who Talks with the Flowers” by Glenn Clark; “How to
Find Reality in Your Morning Devotions” by Donald W. Carruthers; Future
Harvest by Jaco Hauser; the Prophets Still Speak; the Make up of he Bible;
Christ in the Bible; the Ministry of Christ; God in the Bible; the Historical Destiny
of the United States by Emmet Fox; God’s Law of Adjustment and Other Articles
.
Four service programs of the Church of the Healing Christ, 1939-1940
.
"Basic Principles for the Divine Science," typescript – author not given, table of
contents of 15 lessons followed by only 5 lessons
.
3 folders of sermons preached at Emmanuel Church, Baltimore, MD, 1973 [note:
3 objects in one folder]
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Universities [2 pamphlets total]: Harvard University the Graduate School of
Design course catalog; Bulletin of Duke University/ Views on Two Campuses,
Jan 1951
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Box 34 [Document Box] [1 envelope, 6 folders] Contains historic house and travel
brochures (probably collected as she prepared to make CH an historic house
museum)
Van Gortlandt Manor, by Charles H. Brown, 1965
Materials related to Coopertown: “Through the Little White House”; “Tryon Palace/New
Bern,” issued by the Tryon Palace Commission; flyer, “Old Sturbridge Village”; flyer,
“Henry Ford Museum”; map, Greenfield Village; flyer, the Corydon Capitol State
Memorial; flyer, the Marine Historical Association; flyer, George Rogers Clark State
Memorial; flyer, Guide to the Museums, New York State Historical Association; flyer,
Cooperstown, New York; “Criteria for Evaluating Historic Sites and Buildings,” National
Trust for Historic Preservation; flyer, “When Your Group Visits,” Mystic Seaport, CT;
Sotterlye – 1730; Hampton House; Constable Hall, Constableville, New York; the J. F.
D. Lanier State Memorial; the Hammond-Harwood House; “Historic Sites of New York
State”; the Counting House, Mystic, CT; Hampton-National Historic Site, ML; brochure,
the St. Augustine Historical Society; Family History Research, 3 pp. stapled;
bibliography, 3 pp. stapled; historic house keeping, 1956, 8 pp. stapled together
(mimeograph)
“The Owens-Thomas House Museum” by P. C. Coad (Savannah – 1959) (a booklet)
Materials related to travel, regarding Sea Island, Georgia, 1935
Travel brochures, folder I: Richmond, Virginia; Charleston; Jamestown, Williamsburg,
Yorktown; Tidewater, Virginia; Miles Brewton House; Beaufort, South Carolina; Lady
Baltimore Tea Room and Women’s Exchange; Garden Week in Virginia; Independent
Presbyterian Church; the St. Augustine Arts Club; Hotel Ponce de Leon; Stratford Hall;
Bremo; Ash Lawn, Charlottesville, VA; Castle Hill, Albemarle County, VA; Michie’s Old
Tavern; St. Augustine, Florida; Cypress Gardens, Charleston, SC; the Nautilus; the
Riviera; Cannes; Vizcaya; Governor’s Palace; Farmington Country Club, 1934
Travel bruchures, folder II: Charleston; Denmark; Guatemala Yucatan; Cruise trip from
New York to Guatemala; Posada Santa Rosa; English Lakeland; East Anglia and East
Midlands of England; South West of England; Lowlands of Scotland; Sweden;
Portsmouth; Norway; Vacation and Hotel Suggestions; Dalecarlia; Visby; Jamaica;
Washington DC; Rouge; Beaufort County, SC
Travel brochures, pamphlets and magazines, folder III: Valley Forge Park; Virginia;
House and Gardens; Hawthorne at the Old Manse by Allen French; Richmond; Historic
Houses and Museums of New England; Charleston; Colonial Williamsburg; Savannah;
Mount Vernon; Historical Gardens in Virginia; Albemarle County; Jamestown; Berkshire
History
Box 35 [Document Box] [4 folders] Contains ephemera, i.e., padded envelopes from
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various organizations, businesses, etc.; almost exclusively empty padded
envelopes, florist’s paper, empty store bags, blank bank deposit tickets
Envelope, padded, empty, from Carlton Book Shop, Inc.
Envelope, padded, empty, from Hathaway House Bookshop
Envelope, padded, empty, from the Vermont Country Store
Envelope, padded, empty, from Bfanden Press
Stationery, florist gift wrap, Hallmark paper bag, etc., engraved, printed and
watermarked
4 MFC checking account deposit ticket booklets (3 are complete; none are handinscribed) [NT73.45.695 (4)]
MFC period envelopes (a flat portfolio, an expanding one, a manila, all 3 inscribed; and
an imprinted one for professional photos)
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"Old Inventory" of Chesterwood [9 folders]
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Associations: "National Sculpture Society/National Academy/Architectural
League" et al.; includes 1943 plea to assist widow of Henry Bacon
.
"Caproni Galleries of Amedeo 1939-1944"—deals with DCF reproductions, 1944
.
"Travel:/Garden Club Letters, etc./passport/birth certificate" [MISSING], 19291952 [note: passport year 1932, year of WFC’s death; Richman took birth
certificate copy, 10/78]
.
"Insurance 1941-1950"
.
"Washington Property", 1941-1942
.
"Yonkers Property, 1941-1943" [note: item noted as DCF from year after death,
but issued before in 1929]
.
Canceled checks and bank statements, 1949; personal stationery samples; 2
personal letters, 1930, 1942
.
1930 Exhibition Catalogues (2) and M.F. Cresson period Chesterwood
brochures, assorted (3)
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Box 37 [Document Box] [12 folders]
.
National Trust Membership Application; Booklet on Deerfield; 5 MFC Barn
Gallery Catalogues; empty "Treasurer's Report"...; Trustees of Reservation
Bulletin and five copies of MFC exhibition in barn gallery, n.d.
.
Preservation News (10 issues)
.
Issues of Periodicals
.
Pamphlets of New England and Stockbridge—Laurel Hill Association, Historic
Houses and Museums of N.E. [lists Chesterwood with hours, fees]
.
National Sculpture Society Index of Supplies, 1971
.
Printed sermons (20), preached at Emmanuel Church, Baltimore, MD, 1971-1973
.
Seed and Bulb Catalogues, 1973
.
National Trust Material (Annual Report, 1971-1972); application for annual
membership flier; properties publication, May 1973
.
Newspaper Tear Sheet, Berkshire Courier, February 15, 1973, newsletter of
Massachusetts Audubon, February 1973; 1973 invitation from Gore Place
Society
.
Chesterwood assorted brochures and catalogues, c. 1962-1973
.
Supply of DCF Foundation letterhead and carbon paper. Empty steno notebook,
empty envelope
Box 38 [Document Box] Contains postcards to Margaret French Cresson from friends
and acquaintances, 1963-1973 [note: some of these relate to dedication of Barn
Gallery, some are images of DCF, MFC sculpture, and Chesterwood, all in 1966
envelope]
Postcards to MFC, 1970-73, enclosed in separate envelopes: 3 postcards
inscribed by MFC and one neither by nor to MFC, 1963-1973; postcards to MFC,
1972 and 1972?; uninscribed fragments of occasional cards, 1963-1973;
postcards to MFC, 1970 and 1970?; 2 MFC inscribed labels found with postcards
and occasional card fragments: “for children at hospital”; postcards to MFC, 1973
and 1973?; uninscribed postcards, 1963-1973; inscribed occasional card
fragments, 1963-1973; undated postcards and get-well card, 1963-1973, all
inscribed; postcards to MFC, 1971 and 1971?
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Postcards to MFC, 1963-69, enclosed in separate envelopes
Box 39 [Document Box] Contains postcards to Margaret French Cresson and other
miscellaneous items
Envelope I: Christmas card halves (one salutation is t oMrs. French) (all but one
are inscribed); 2 postcards to MFC, m.d. (found in close association, which fact
may be helpful in dating); postcards (1950, 1957, 1958); postcards (1956, 1962);
postcards to MFC and one Christmas card half (1956, 1962); postcards (1961); 2
postcards, m.d.; postcards (1960, 1961); postcards (1955, 1956, 1959, 1960,
1962) and one Christmas card half (uninscribed); 3 postcards (large) found
together one above another: 2 bland and 1 to HDF (1958); postcards (1962) and
calendar (1962-63)
Envelope II: postcards (primarily 1956, 1957, 1958); halves of 2 Christmas cards
to MFC; postcards (c.1914, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1960); postcards, all
apparently dating from 1961 (correspondence to MFC); postcards (1959, 1960,
1961, 1962); postcards (1960, 1961, 1962)
Envelope III: postcards (1952, 1953, 1954, 1955), hound held together by a
rubber band, still in the order in which found; postcards to MFC (1952, 1969)
Box 40 [Document Box] [8 folders total and 1 with no designation] Contains MFC
Address Books and clippings about friends and acquaintances and inserts found
in these books; business cards
Personal address book, inserts, belonging to MFC, originally (now faded to
brown on cover) red leather; all inserts (68), consisting of personal names and
addresses on slip, visiting card, lists, etc., have been separated from the book (a
few are epistolary), 1956 on, c.1950?-1973
Personal address book, holding as well a pocket address book (in a slit in the
inside back cover)
Business address book, yellow, white, and blue “daisyette” pattern on covers
Inserts, loose, found under “C” in MFC business address book: rhapsodie
(candy); “Cavalcade”; and list of autographs
Late 1940s and 1950s business addresses: on odds and ends of paper (e.g.
locksmith; maintenance); on business cards (Washington DC and New York);
letterhead (1948: regarding maintenance); bronze tablet advertisement; Halian
invoice (1952); book purchase receipt
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Telephone-address book: primarily a telephone number book; very few
addresses are specified, names and telephone numbers, and two inserts,
c.1963?-1973, personal and business
Two MFC address books, small (1952; 1960), both green leather, entries are
cheeked off and were apparently transposed to another book
Address books, c. 1964 (one foreign, one domestic)
Issues of "Historic Preservation,” 23 total, 1907, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1969, 1970,
1971 (some issues missing)
Box 42 [Document Box] MFC unfinished business
Correspondence relating to Chesterwood and miscellaneous papers relating to
Chesterwood (1957; 1971-1973)
Flower seed germination data
Letters regarding MFC article in “Historic Preservation” (1973) (10 count)
from Biddle, James; Chitton III, Mrs. Edwin; Hancock, Walker; Johnson,
Meredith; Massey, James; Mollenhaver, Mrs. Lorraine; Morton, Terry B.;
Prentiss, Miss Mary Eleanor; Sanborn, Margaret; Truran, Margaret
Proposed reprint correspondence (1971-72) (MAF volume), 5 letters and 2
responses
Letter and response, regarding Flagg geneology, 1972
Letter, regarding blanket cover, 1973
Copy of MFC letter and response found in envelope of response, 1973,
regarding new biography on DCF
MFC copy of letter and Oct. 4, 1972 response, regarding beneficence
Pages inserted in folder (bicentennial): 2 painting report forms and 2
letters (1972)
Letter, regarding the Garden Club meeting, 1973
Letter, from Alva Museum Replicas Inc., 1973
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Letter, from Modern Art Foundry, 1973
Letter, from Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 1973
Letter, from and to Miss Hood, 1973
Letter, Davenport, 2 letters and response et al., 1972
Letter, handwritten, from John Bayley, 1973
2-page stapled Xerox of typescript and MFC notes on 7 small pages in
following sequence: “Parian Owls,” “Sketches,” “Busts,” “3 [sic] plasters,”
“Reliefs,” “equestrian,” and “large size heads”
Taxes, 1971-1973
Route 7 – expressway Plans (Xerox and newspaper clippings_, c.1972
Invoice, 1957
Letter, regarding plaster of Lincoln Mask (Recchia and Jackson), 1973
Newspaper clipping of letter to the editor by Stefan Lorant, 1973?
Address (business)
Letter to MFC from William A. H. Birnie of Reader’s Digest and Xerox of his
memorandum to another and envelope, 1973
Daniel Chester French Foundation letterheads (11 sheet samples; remainder left
for display)
Birthday cards (2), 1973
Chesterwood special exhibit catalogue (2 copies; Paul Manship Memorial
Exhibition; 1966; remainder left for display)
Chesterwood brochures (3 varieties) (2 of each; remainder to be left on display,
c.1962-1973)
“Historic Preservation,” Vol. 23, No. 3, July-September 1971
“National Trust for Historic Preservation: Annual Report, 1971-72” (uninscribed)
“National Academy of Design: Annual Report,” 1969-1970
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“National Sculpture Review,” 2 issues: Winter 1972-73 and summer 1973
Periodical loaned to MFC by Don in 1971 (inscribed)
Newspaper clippings, MFC, regarding Stockbridge
Newspaper clippings, regarding Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant”
Box 44 [Document Box] Contains MFC last notes, reference items, letters received and
sent: business and personal (folders A-D belong to folder 1)
Folder A, inscribed: “MFC business or relative to Chesterwood or DCF, c.19671973”: MFC notes regarding 4 points concerning DCF (including reproduction
possibilities and Hall of Fame); list of book publishers (including their art
directors); quotations and MFC hand: “People to Invite, Occasions/Studio”; loose:
many MFC notes; p.7 of unidentified letter; “gold horses” story; MFC trust ID no.;
suggestions for housekeeping duties for studio and barn, 1968, typescript, 2 pp;
regarding MFC watch, 1969; notes regarding furniture, DCF quotation, WPC’s
Washington Address; sorting labels; correspondence, 1967 (2) and 1969
Folder B, inscribed: “MFC business or relative to Chesterwood or DCF (1866;
1964; 1967; 1969; 1973): B. B. French reference to Lincoln; Italian purchases,
1964; correspondence between MFC and Lucien Algner, April, 1967;
correspondence, regarding Shrubland Park, 1969; letters (2) to MFC from
Richard H. Recchia, 1973
Folder C, inscribed: “MFC personal”: recipies (4), various sourees, and an
uninscribed art card (Brueghel); document, July 10, 1973; postcard, late
September 1973; delivery note, 1973; letter, Sept. 8, 1971; letter, Sunday (in
Sept.) 1973; letters (5) from or pertaining to Stanley Loomis, 1970-1973[?]
Folder D, inscribed: “personal (c.1971-1973)”: subfolder, inscribed: “personal –
non-correspondence: both loose and paperclipped (c.1972-1973) (notes,
snapshots, prayers, sermons, newspaper clipping, advertisement)”: two-page
prayer of faith (typescript), 1973, with reference to V. Loomis; 3 sermons (1972;
1972; 1973) N. B.: annotations and underscorings; loose newspaper clippings;
correspondence, Sept. 27, 1973; Apr. 20, 1973; Sept. 19, 1973; May 27, 1973;
Sept. 1973 (4); Dec. 6, 1971; Mar. 10, 1972; Sept. 8, 1973; July 3, 1973; June.
21, 1973; July 5. 1973
Folder 2, inscribed “business or relative to Chesterwood or DCF (carbon
typescript of DCF’s “achievement” article; c.1962; 1972-1973)”: letters and
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correspondence
Folder 3, inscribed “personal (c.1970-1973)”: 2 recipes (magazine clipping on
how to make Irish coffee and printed card on same topic); aluminum clip,
Longfellow quotation, written and typed; note from L. to MFC, two mailing labels
from Alamo, Texas; sermon (1972), gift order forms (c. Easter), holiday greeting,
sorting label, and phonograph owner’s guide; 3 copies of sermon (Easter, April
19, 1970, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Stockbridge); letter, name, address and
telephone number of Rev. Alfred B. Starrat (in MFC hand) on sepaate card, Jan.
21, 1970; page on Dover Coloring Books and envelope of Dover Publications
Box 45 [Flat Box]: Contains MFC Sketchbooks
Sketchbook, Margaret French, charcoal drawings, 1903
Drawing block, Margaret French, inscribed on back, blank on front, 1910s (?)
Sketchbook, MFC, containing graphite, watercolor, DCF’s Andromeda, dancing
figurines after Canova, fruit, flowers, still lives, 1930s-1950s (?)
Sketchbook, MFC, charcoal studies, 1940s (?)
Box 46 [Flat Box]: Contains MFC miscellany
Book jacket for Journey into Fame, 1947.
Snapshot (print) of Dupuy, MFC, and Billy Boulton, October, 1954
Letter from Prentiss French to Leon Henry Zach regarding membership of
Gordon Woodberry in A.S.L.A, 1934.
Birthday cards (3), 1973, and postcard, 1964.
Notes on French Vocabulary, lists and lesson of words, phrases, idioms,
paragraphs on 13 sheets.
Album containing a few magazine cuttings, c. 1910 (ownership unidentified)
Printed material, regarding peace, politics, art, travel, etc. including 2 pamphlets
on Pearl Harbor (1944); pamphlet on NY travel (1944); MOMA art catalog (1944);
political letter and response (printed, 1943); newspaper clipping and reprints
regarding Lindlergh article (1941); MFC lecture on DCF (1938); MFC exhibition in
Berkshire, MA (1945); booklet and letter regarding changing ribbon on typewriter
(1942).
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Printed material, including visiting card of WPC; postcard of WPC and MF’s
wedding; MFC exhibition catalogs (3) (1930); touch typing pamphlet open to
“Selection for Speed Practice”; newspaper clippings regarding MFC 1945
exhibition; advertisement regarding book by F. H. Taylor (1948); art reproduction
of More by Holbein; photograph reproduction of Madonna and Child.
Box 47 [Flat Box]
.
Contains Large Snapshot Photo Album, c.1914 - c.1925 (including photos of
Chesterwood grounds, DCF sculptures) [NT73.45.5229]
Where are the15 packets or series of photographs of male models used for sculpting; the
negatives of Margaret French Cresson's sculptures, and taken by her; and the typewritten
excerpts on Green sculpture? They were recorded as being in Box 47 in the 2nd ed. of this
Finding Guide.
Box 48 [Document Box] Contains postcards, souvenir and epistolary, 1927-1969
Postcards (243) of England, Ireland, Scotland, France, America including the
West, New Orleans, assorted: postcards (17) and label inscribed by MFC
“assorted”, souvenir, epistolary (1956, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1967, undated);
postcards (34) and label inscribed by MFC “Ireland”, souvenir (1959), epistolary
(1963, 1966, 1967, undated); postcards (29) and label inscribed by MFC
“Scotland”, souvenir only; postcards (17) and label inscribed by MFC “New
Orleans”, souvenir only; postcards (60) and MFC label “America-/ the West-“,
souvenir (Feb-Apr 1963; 1952; 1957; undated), epistolary (1952, 1958, 1962-64,
1966, 1967, 1969, undated) (1927 from WPC to MFC); postcards (6) (sourvenir
and epistolary) and MFC label “France” (1966-67); postcards (80) and label
inscribed by MFC “England”, souvenir (some inscribed by MFC), epistolary
(1960, 1963, undated)
Postcards (210) of Italy (Assisi, Bologna, Ferrara, Florence, Garda, Genoa,
Locarno, Mantua, Naples, Pavia, Perugia, Passagno, Raverona, Rimini, Rome,
Sicily, Venice, Verona, Vicenza, Viterbo) and the Republic of San Marino (still in
original 15 MFC groupings plus new additional one): postcards (24) and MFC
label “Vicenza”, only souvenir; postcards (23) (some inscribed by MFC)
(souvenir, not epistolary) Italy (Vicenza); psotcards (19) and label inscribed by
MFC “Rome”, souvenir (some MFC inscribed), epistolary (1953, 1955, 1964-66,
undated); postcards (7) (Italy: Florence, Garda, Genoa, Genoa, Locarno, Pavia,
Perugia), souvenir, epistolary (1953, 1963, 1964); poscards (46) and labels
inscribed by MFC “Florence”, souvenir, epistolary (1965-67; undated); postcards
(14) and envelope inscribed by MFC “Ravenna/and/Bologna”, souvenir only;
postcards (16) and envelope inscried by MFC “Rimini/and/San Marino”, souvenir
only (some inscribed by MFC); postcards (7) and envelope inscribed by MFC
“Ferrara”, souvenir only; postcard and envelope inscribed by MFC “Mantua”,
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souvenir (inscribed by MFC); postcards (7) and envelope inscribed by MFC
“Assisi” and Perugia, color souvenir only; postcards (5) and envelope inscribed
by MFC “Viterbo” (Italy), souvenir only; postcards (9) of Italy: Possagno and
imprinted envelope, souvenir only; postcards (11) and label inscribed by MFC
“Venice”, souvenir, epistolary (1965, 1967, undated); postcards (4) and label
inscribed by MFC “Sicily”, epistolary only (1963, 1966, 1967); postcards (5) and
label inscribed by MFC “Southern/Italy”, souvenir, epistolary (1951, 1966);
postcards (12): “Verona/and/Lake Garda” and Mantua, souvenir only
Box 49 [Document Box] Contains MFC travel brochures, booklets, photographs of
historic and artistic interest home and abroad
Address on the Presentation of the MFC bust of DCF, Hall of Artist, University of
the City of New York, May 26, 1934, 4 copies by Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck
(primary source on DCF)
Sketch by MFC (?) of two men, one smoking a pipe, seated at small circular table
(? Café scene in Greece?) (Pencil and paper – abbreviated sketch), 1957?
Photographic reproductions (6) of Greek Sculpture (probably acquired by MFC
while travelling in Greece in 1957), one is a war memorial
Chesterwood exhibition catalogue: Paul Manship Memorial exhibition of sculpture
(10 copies), July and August, 1966
“Breakfast orders” pads (3 slightly different samples), imprinted
“Samples of colored papers” (MFC hand) (white, cream, gray, orange, yellow)
(fiery rag content) and envelope
Occasional card fragments, etc. probably used as separators
Snapshots of barn and studio areas (14 prints of 11 shots; 12th negative not
printed; developed Sept. 1969) and development envelope
Jottings (MFC list of personal names beneath heading “Pres[ervation] News”; 3
pads with at least one word written by MFC; and one empty envelope addressed
to “Pegsie”
MFC ephemera (2 items; imprinted hand blotter and imprinted plant care
instrictions on picture tag, 1969?)
Brochures, booklets, leaflets, etc., on places of interest in England, 1959: “See
Britain first…by rail,” “Britain,” “London,” “Come to Britain,” “Bllenheim,” “National
Trust Properties” Spring 1955, “Stoneleigh Abbey,” “Haddon Hall,” “Hardwick
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Hall,” “Penshurst Place,” “Mompesson House,” “the Cotswold Country,” “hiswick
House,” “Bodiam Castle,” “Shopping in London,” “Longleat,” “Blenheim,” leaflet
on Bath, England, 4 colors postcards of Warwick Castle, “the Historic City of
Bath, England,” “Royal Crescent Guest House,” “the Pictorial History of Wells
Cathedral,” “the Pictorial History of Salisbury Cathedral,” “the History and
Treasures of Wilton House,” “a Brief History of the Tate Gallery,” “the Cathedral
City of Winchester,” “Chatsworth,” “Trust House Hotels 1958-1959,” “Ashford
Castle Cong,” “Syon House”
Brochure, booklets, leaflets, etc. on places of interest in Ireland (1959), Scotland
(1959?), Italy (1950s), USA (1957; 1958; 1959-1973?): including Quarterly
Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, Vol. XII, No. 1, Jan-Mar 1969, “Castletown:
Co. Kildare” booklet by the Hon. Desmond Guinness and Chares Lines, etc.
Box 50 [Document Box] Contains MCF (and DCF?) travel guides, roadmaps, leaflets,
etc. Box I
Cultural and road maps (1935-1973) (MFC markings): National Geographic maps
(5) (c.1970?-1973) (Mexico, Middle East, Mainland Southeast Asia, Northwest
USA, Great Lakes Region USA); road maps of Eastern USA except New
England (Southeast states (2), New York (3), New Jersey (3), Delaware (2),
Maryland (2), Virginia (2), West Virginia (2), North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama (2), Florida (1937-c.1969); road maps of New England (1935c.1970?) and 2 maps compliments Red Lion Inn, total of 9
MFC road maps (18), and travel leaflets (c.1920-c.1970): National Geographic,
Map of the Heavens; maps: Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, DC (4
total); maps: 1950 NY to FL; 1951 NY to FL; 4 maps, assorted, of Pennsylvania;
maps, (AAA, Shell) (Eastern US; New Jersey); maps, Washington DC (3); 1950
map: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia; mobil map, New Jersey,
Delaware, etc.
Historic places and resort leaflets, brochures, etc.: Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, and Perugia, Italy (c.1920-1970)
Box 51 [Document Box] Contains MCF (and DCF?) travel guides, leaflets, etc. II
Travel guides, leaflets, brochures, poster-like maps, scenic routes, etc. (NY, FL,
VT, MA, CY, RI, Eastern USA) (1939-c.1964), total of 6 maps, including Trustee
of Reservation mapped locations spiral notebook
Road maps of New England (c.1950-c.1970; marked and unmarked; not fully
segregated), total of 39 maps: 5 road maps of New England, with routes traced
out: Pittsfield via Bennington to Concord, NJ; Stockbridge via Cornish, NH, to
Gloncester, MA (1960); Pittsfield to Old Deerfield (1962); S. Sudbury, MA;
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Eastern MA area (1966); road maps of New England (c.1950-c. 1970; more than
several are marked: e.g. route traced out from Stockbridge via Cornish, NJ, to
Gloucester, MA, total of 34 maps
Maps (1923-1973): pre-1932; cultural (National Geographic); road mpas of
Europe and of USA except New England, total of 26 maps: 1923 map of USA
and 1931 reprint of geodetic map of Stockbridge et al. (2 maps); 2 road maps,
Britain and Northern Ireland (c.1959), Italy (1955, Esso), both mapped out,
encircled cities coincide with cities in which MFC bought the postcards and
printed matter elsewhere in Chesterwood collection; 10 road maps of Eastern
USA (minus New England), routes to Florida, etc.; 12 National Geographic maps
(1940-1973), only one marked: 1959 Southwestern US: Phoenix and Santa Fe
encircled
Box 52 [Document Box] Contains MCF (and DCF) miscellany part I: pictorial clippings
and Dale Carnegie Course
Pictorial clippings of: Gardens; living rooms; halls; dining rooms; details; garden
sculpture; bedrooms; porches, kitchens, etc.; costumes
Dale Carnegie Course notes
Box 53 [Document Box]: Contains MFC miscellany part II: poetry, prayer, correspondence,
documents, ephemera, exhibitions, travel
Folder I: transcripts, clippings, holographs, and correspondence relating to poetry, kept
by MFC, written by poets, friends, and MFC, inspirational subjects with regard to death,
love, courage, etc., 1910s-1950s
Folder II: poetry continued: typescript and clipping of “the Hield-Stone Head”; “all
passes”; 2 typescripts of “Your House of Love”; 2 typescripts of “the Fairing”; newspaper
clipping of “the Day”; newspaper clipping of “Hi! Handsome Hunting Man…”; original
typescript of “I am what I believe…”; 3 typescript copies of “let two men stand…”;
newspaper clipping of “Beauty-Wise”; newspaper clipping of “Blessed are They”;
“poems by Gertrude B. Huntress”: “Wanderer’s Return”; “No Time”; “the Changeless”; 3
typescripts and one newspaper clipping of “Song for a Poet”; “Sharper Stones” (2
copies); “the Walk in Meadows”; “Betrayal”; “What Courage is”; “I go alone”; “To a First
Aider”; “How Many New Young Angels”; “the Lost Heart”; “Change of Season”; ”If love
should count you worthy”; “Who Speaks of Death”; “Bird in the Lemon Tree”; “Search
the Heart” c.1938; “the Act of Living”; 2 typescript copies of a prayer by MFC (1937);
“Mood”; “Fulfillment”; “Relativity”; “High Flight”, “Sonnet to the Sky” and “Who Ride?”
(1927); “From the Fire-Bringer”; “Whistler’s Ten o’ Clock”; “Prayer out of Georgia”; “Give
Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother”; “the Gentlest Merey”; “the Great Adventure”; “Pity”
(1933); “I have found happiness”
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Prayer talk, in red folder
Sculpture exhibitions, MFC, in yellow folder
Travel documents and brochures
Box 54 [Document Box] Contains MFC miscellany: CH-docent notebook, albums,
National Trust publications, catalogues, art publications, telephone directory
MFC period Chesterwood guide notebook, in black binder
MFC period typed labels and address label
MFC sign: “Please Walk/In!!!” (In red crayon on white paper with masking tape at
top: was perhaps taped to the door)
Exhibition catalogue: “A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture by Paul Manship”,
Feb 23 – Mar 16, 1958, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and of works
not only at exhibit
Various art publications (including bulletin of Irish Georgian Society, July – Dec
1969)
MFC and daughters of William H. Vanderbilt (2 items and inscribed envelope;
regarding provenance of Richardson portrait)
Excerpt of a letter to Helen French from Stanley Loomis, Sept 8, 1969, regarding
MFC (typescript) and her 80th Birthday gathering
CHesterwood Studio album containing 49 pictures and one insert, 1955 (c.1940c.1962) (leather cover gold stamp imprinted “M. F. C. / Chesterwood”)
(photographs and snapshots)
National Trust Property Booklets (Belle grove; Decatur House), unknown whether
belonged to MFC
Telephone directory, Great Barrington Area
Box 55 [Document Box]: Contains MFC miscellany: autographs, fan mail, bookplates,
bookmark printing samples
Letters to MFC, c.1931-1970:
Autographs: letters to MFC numbering no more than one from each individual
(with envelopes) (1951-1969)
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Autographs: letters to MFC found unenveloped and numbering no more than one
from each individual (7) (1950-1962)
Autographs: letters to MFC from Cleveland Amory (3) (1951; 1951; 1955)
Autographs: letters to MFC from Marchette Chute (2) (1951; 1953)
Autographs: letters to MAF and to MFC, memorial tribute to DCF, from Royal
Cortissoz (c.1931; 1933; 1941; 1941)
Autographs: letters to MFC from James Earle Fraser Family (2) (1951; 1953)
Autographs: letters to MF from Malvina Hoffman (2) (1953 ;?)
Autographs: letters to MFC from John C. Johnasen (2) (1953)
Autographs: letters to MFC from Lee Lawrie (2) (1952; 1954)
Autographs: letters to MFC from Reinhold Niebuhr (2) (1962; 1967)
Autographs: letters to MFC from Norman Rockwell (3) (1954; 1954; 1958)
Autographs: letters to MFC from Ellery Sedgwick (11) (1951-1958)
Autographs: to MFC from Andrew Wyeth (2) (1958)
Fan mail to MFC on Journey into Fame (all 1953), on Laurel Hill (1953-1954), on
“Paul Manship” article (1966), on modern art (c.1954), and on other (1953; 1970)
Miscellaneous mail to MFC (sympathy, 1939; shower, 1942; et al.) (4)
Bookplate (“Chesterwood” and “In memory of William Penn Cresson”…) and bookmarks
(“In Memoriam/Daniel Chester French/ 1850-1931/by Frank Parker Stockbridge”, a
poem) (mourning)
MFC personalized New Year cards (picture of MFC in Chesterwood Studio for 1939, of
MFC bust of “Pamela” for 1938) (3 – 1938 inscribed by MFC)
MFC miscellany (c.1939-1973): brochure, “Choose you this day –“; “National Family
Budget Book”; birthday cards; photograph of Laurence Gourlay’s apartment (1952) with
painting by MFC; “A Greeting and a Guide”
MFC exhibit catalogues (1930; 1941; 1943) and “the Unknown Soldier” by MFC
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Mimeographed poem by MFC: “the Little Bronze Horses”, written for the dinner meeting
of the Architectural League, Thursday, March 13, 1941
Paper samples (merrimade, Inc. and the Burleigh Press) (for personal stationery,
napkins, etc. plus forms and catalogue)
Printing samples of paper and type for “Unknown Soldier” card and various other
samples including assorted exhibit leaflets (all but one in large, thin stationery box –
whiting’s polo cloth)
Reprints of DCF’s publication on music (yellow cover and brown cover)
Copper plate of diplomatic carte de viste, c.1912
Letter to WPC from Charles Warren, March 17, 1927 (signed)
Box 56 [Document Box] MFC notebooks; loose material re addresses: objects in collection,
etc.; lists; stationery; and misc. From desk
Guest lists (1963; 1966); foreign addresses (Italy, Spain, France, US, England) (1910,
1915, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1933, 1964) (primarily business cards and invoices); list of
antique furniture (Chesterwood collection) (small); 4 small photos (WPC, c.1923; MFC,
1929; MAF, 1932); and miscellaneous (envelope; label)
Letter to MFC from Michael Richman (1972) (its large envelope – National Gallery of Art
– holding two corrugated boards – left in place)
List of Chesterwood donors (amounts and purposes) (in MFC hand) (found on top);
trove of scrap paper (much of it engraved, many of it invitations; some uninscribed
samples have been removed for their watermarks or as types; otherwise, blank pieces
and artifacts [including a packet of plain correspondence paper with a paper band]
remain in drawer); one Correspondence manifold book (all used pp. torn out); used
carbon paper beneath back cover
MFC miscellaney: 3 receipts for insured mail (1968, 1972), 3 prayer cards, wallet
calendars (1970, 1972), 2 MFC sorting labels (“personal”; “business”), 2 Mrs. WPC
address labels, MFC jotting regarding barn dimensions, pamphlet given to MFC in 1951,
fuel tank guarantee
Chesterwood invitation and tea advertisement with its envelope
“St. Christopher be My Guide” card; on reverse: “Traveler’s Daily Prayer”, c.1950
Copper plate print of bust of Richard Hale by MFC
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Stringed tag inscribed “Cresson” and imprinted with name and address of Mrs. Walter
Hoving
Assorted sheets of stationery (one sample of each removed: the Cosmopolitan Club,
Cristoforo Columbo, DCF Foundation, Jamaica Inn) and Chesterwood envelope (white
with green print)
Sample of green CHesterwood stationery (one sheet and envelope)
Supply of empty addressee – imprinted and handwritten envelopes and DCF foundation
envelopes (one of DCF envelope removed; remainder still in drawer)
Chesterwood, Washington, and 72nd Street (NY) Stationery (all green; by Merrimade)
(sample of each plus one plain) (sheets only)
“Italia” transatlantic line envelope, empty (1964?) (Uninscribed)
Monarch-size envelope (self-seal, empty, unused, and imprinted on back: “Roger E.
Abbott/Twelve North Eastwood/Scranton, Pennsylvania” in gold)
Christmas list book (1923-1973?); exhibition book (1921-1960); membership cards
3 small A to Z indexed notebooks: domestic addresses (c.1964?); foreign addresses
(1964), and 1972 contributions; 5 pocket-size calendar notebooks (1961 [unused], 1966
[unused], 1968-1970)
Christmas list book, one insert, belonging to MFC, n. p. names and addresses, 19231973?
.
Five-Year Diary, 1905-1909; travel log “My Trip Abroad, 1910; travel log “My American
Trip”, 1915; all of Margaret French, 1905-1915
.
Dance List (1908) and Party List (1909) Book, Margaret French; Engagement Calendar,
Margaret French, January 13 - December 25, 1908
.
Engagement Calendars of Margaret French Cresson, 1909-1929 (no 1923)
.
Engagement Calendars of Margaret French Cresson, 1930-1959
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.
Engagement Calendars of Margaret French Cresson, 1960-1973
Box 60 [Document Box] MFC Misc. including latest snapshots, interior shots of Chesterwood,
and clippings relating to Chesterwood, friends and works of DCF
Snapshots (late 1950s; 1962; 1972 [most]) (MFC; Chesterwood house interiors;
Madame Koussevitzky; Mr. Loomis) with slip inscribed: “10 ea /# 9” (No. 9 is of MFC
stated in her bedroom, Christmas 1972; nine of these prints are present) (envelope
remains.)
Chesterwood printed material (2 copies of special exhibition catalogue, 4 of invitations,
brochure, and letter with return envelope: all 1973; one poster probably of same date)
St. Paul’s Church Sunday service programs, May 20 (2 copies), June 10, June 24, July
22, Sept 16, Sept 23, Sept 30 (2 copies), 1973 (Stockbridge)
National Trust Properties Newsletter (August 1972, 2 copies; October 1972; January
1973; March 1973) (all include Chesterwood current news; frequent MFC
underscorings) and membership application
Obituary of Friend of MFC: Maud C. Senior (see letter from her daughter, Mary Fearey,
to MFC) (June 2, 1973), newspaper clipping (2 copies)
National Sculpture Review, Vol. XXII, no. I, spring 1973
7 copies of Memorial Service for Anne Totten Elder, mother of Susan Rockwell,
Saturday, Mar. 3, 1973, St. Paul’s Church, Stockbridge. One copy is inscribed by MFC:
a description of the service.
Cards received; invitation; acknowledgement of contribution; life-membership
enrollment card (all probably 1973)
DCF Minute Man on bicentennial material and magazine cover
National Academy of Design annual exhibition prospectus and National Sculpture
Society newsletter (both 1973)
One issue of the Saturday Evening Post, winter 1973, inscribed on cover: “pages 1013”: an article: “a Norman Rockwell Idyll: Stockbridge, Mass.”
Clippings (mostly newspaper) relating to works of DCF, Chesterwood or MFC friends,
1973
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Scrapbook of MFC’s One-Man Exhibit c. 1930 [NT73.45.5247]
Box 62 [Document Box] Periodicals containing articles on Chesterwood, misc.
Article on Chesterwood in “the American Way”, April, 1971, p.25 (4 copies of magazine)
Manship exhibit catalogue (Chesterwood, 1966) and one period NTHP legal-size
envelope
“A Visit to Chesterwood” by Mary Stoll in “the Orange Disc”, May-June, 1968, Vol. 18,
No. 6 (the magazine of the Gulf Companies), pp. 12-15 (15 copies of magazine)
Art News Annual, 1951
House and Garden, June 1939, inscribed “Save” by MFC (New England section) (no
apparent reference to Chesterwood)
MFC ephemera, miscellaneous: handwritten “Private” sign; MFC handwritten labels
pertaining to Chesterwood; printed phonograph record order cards (2)
MFC ephemera: reprint of the Hanuary 1963 issue of the Journal of the American
Institute of Architects devoted to the city of Washington: Washington in Transition
3 Kennedy Memorial issues: Post, Look, and Life Magazines. MFC ephemera: printed
and unprinted regarding death of Kennedy (1963)
MFC ephemera: Look Magazine, October 20, 1964: article on Norman Rockwell
3 lists of records for the phonograph (in MFC hand) (records were in the collection of
DCF)
Box 64 [Document Box] MFC Miscellany
Among lost notes of MFC (on small note pads and slips; for Paul Ivory regarding Barn
and Studio; for herself regarding whom to write to [many were written to], flowers for
garden, and French vocabulary)
Letter to MFC from Miss Jessie M. Cushman, September 4, 1973, regarding her great
uncle helping to pose for the Washington Equestrian
Irish Georgian Society material: lecture notice (Feb. 23, 1973) and Quarterly Bulletin,
July – September, 1973
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Lenox Library Association: Annual Report (1973) (marked by MFC)
Newspaper cipping: biographical article on Rufus Choate (portrayed by DCF; mention of
this statue) and its xerox
Letter to MFC from Christopher B. Curren, May 5, 1973 (response to MFC inquiry
regarding transcendental meditation) and three pamphlets on meditation
Minutes of Chesterwood council meeting, August 7, 1973
Lincoln Memorial material: booklet, “the Seated Lincoln” by John G. W. Mahanna (1968)
and postcard (large)
National Trust for Historic Preservation: Historic Preservation, Jan – March, 1973; April
– June, 1973 (2 copies; MFC article; American Landscape Design article)
Garden publications (3; all either inscribed or marked by MFC; 1973)
Commercial catalogues: Alva Sculpture Replicas (1970), Borghese (1966-1967), and
“News Bulletin” of the Society of Medalists (1973)
The Orange Disc, May – June 1968, containing article on Chesterwood
Chesterwood special exhibit catalogues and invitation (1973 and MFC exhibit in Barn
Gallery)
Chesterwood brochures, 2 types
Chesterwood notices (50th anniversary of Lincoln Memorial Dedication, 1972; and
school group tours)
National Trust for Historic Preservation Material: Properties newsletter, July, 1973; copy
of the proposed bylaws, 1973
Miscellaneous periodicals, pamphlets and junk mail from CH103 on table at time of
MFC’s death; one item with WPC signature on cover
Misc. Materials from CH103 mostly empty mailing envelopes, folders and old photo
backings/mounts
Box 67 [Flat Box]
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Contains box with MFC card file of Christmas addresses (Christmas List)
Box 68 [Flat Box]: Publications found in CH103 kept by MFC
Play script, 1932 Stockbridge Art Assoc. Program, issues of Concord Journal
Exhibit catalogue, Stockbridge Art Association, 24th Annual Exhibition of Painting and
Sculpture, Williams High School, Stockbridge, MA.
The Concord Journal, Concord, MA, Oct 15th, 1931.
Box 69 [Flat Box]: Copper plates of MFCs (from CH103) (6)
Box 70 [Flat Box]: Materials immediately following DCF’s death
Booklet, from American Academy in Rome, commemorating DCF.
Newspaper clipping, from New York Herald Tribune, regarding DCF’s funeral.
Booklet, from Yaddo Corporation, commemorating DCF.
Box 71 [Flat Box]: Stamps
“Win the War,” United States Postage (8 count).
DCF stamps, United States Postage, First Day of its Issue (framed and glazed, from
Studio northeast wall) [NT69.38.499]
Box 72 [Flat Box] Miscellaneous items
Tintype of group photo including MAF, 1902.
Page penciled “22” to which adhered two period photos of Chesterwood garden.
Photograph, Chesterwood garden, fountain area, looking northeast (loose).
Snapshots, of DCF’s trip to Greece and Italy, 1900 (in double-envelope folder).
Box 73 [Flat Box]
Photographs of Margaret French, as an infant (7 count).
Photographs of Margaret French, as a child (16 count).
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Photographs, portraits of Margaret French (8 count).
Photographs of Margaret French, as a young adult (3 count).
Photographs of MFC, formal (7 count).
Photographs of MFC, at her wedding (20 count).
Photographs of MFC, as a mature woman (25 count).
Photographs of MFC, older (19 count).
Photographs of MFC, c. 1940-1971 (19 count).
Box 74 [Flat Box]: Photographs assembled by MFC, exteriors and some interiors of historic
buildings
Box 75 [Flat Box] Photographs assembled by MFC of family, friends and Chesterwood;
ephemera
Miscellaneous snapshots, c.1900-1969, in 5 MAF AND MFC inscribed period
envelopes:
“Misellaneous pictures/ Mostly of the family [in MAF hand]/ Snapshots [In MAF
hand]”: c.1900-1950 (none of DCF, a few may have belonged to him, e.g. one of
a Piccirilli with Bacon; unveiling of Seward Bust; many post-1931 photos of
friends, diplomat WPC, and MFC, in portfolio.
Film development envelope wrapped in acid-free tissue: MFC in Florida in 1952
“My godchildren/1961”
Photographs in small photographic enlargement envelope, 1917-1969 (MFC,
Chesterwood, friends, CHesterwood Studio and garden after 1948 record
snowfall; 1949; 1952; 1961; 1969)
HDF letter to MFC, 1968; snapshots taken in Mexico, late 1967
Miscellaneous pictures, mostly snapshots of family, friends, estates, Chesterwood,
godchildren, c.1933-1973, including one Mexican postcard, one commercial photo of
Californian monastery, and three Christmas card photos.
Snapshots of studios and miscellaneous, including: DCF’s Concord Studio and family
house and “Endymion” in the garden (5); studio of ___; Chesterwood Studio in film
envelope (6).
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MFC Exhibit Catalogue and Invitation, 1930; MFC handwritten identification of painter of
painting hanging above the commode (Giorgio Vasari Aretino) (3).
Postcard photos of English actresses, c.1906.
Snapshots, primarily of Chesterwood house interiors in 3 inscribed enclosures, c.19621969, and miscellaneous item, including: “Helen’s interiors/Chesterwood/about 1962”;
interiors of Meadowlark and DCF’s suite except bedroom, 1969; “photos of
Chesterwood/colored”; empty envelope addressed to Mrs. WPC, postdated Dec 15,
1972.
Snapshots and small professional photos, mostly of the Barn Gallery, in three inscribed
period envelopes, 1963-1986, including: “Barn Dedication, 1963” (2 different sets);
“Bill’s pix, Barn/-summer, 1963” (color prints mostly of Barn: interiors and exteriors);
“Paul Manship Exhibition/ of sculpture’ Chesterwood/ Julyl-August/ 1966” (16
professional photos in black and white).
Color reproduction of MFC standing in Chesterwood garden in 1958 (?)
DCF period photos of family, friends, and DCF, c. 1900-1917, including: miscellaneous
photos (wedding reception, Chesterwood gatherings, Eberle Studio, etc.); one print of
Chesterwood tennis players at rest, c.1912 (?); 6 miscellaneous photos in envelope;
Alice Helm French, profile-photo portrait.
Photographs, DCF’s funeral, Chesterwood, Oct 11, 1931.
Photograph, rolled, of Red Cross staff at USA Debarkation Hospital No. 3, April 1919
Formal snapshot of MFC, 1961.
Box 76 [Flat Box]: MFC Sculpture: Photograph Album (NT 69.38.3516) and Portfolio
Box 77 [Flat Box] Photographs assembled by MFC including Cressons, family, friends, and
places
Box 78 [Flat Box] Photographs assembled by MFC including family, friends, and places
Photographs of WPC (in expanding tie envelope)
Photographs of friends + a sculpture + a ptg of WMR + correspondence
Photographs, mounted, taken of WPC
Photographs, MFC, of unidentified place
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Empty inscribed envelopes + glassine envelope
Photograph of Dorothy Schoonmaker Van Slyke, Mary Carroll Chilton
Box 79 [Flat Box]: Photographs assembled by MFC
Photographs of Chesterwood, containing: studio interior (6); studio exterior (19); interior
and porch, with MFC in it (2); garden (6); view from house (6); main studio/’Seated
Lincoln’ (12); Barn Gallery: north room (2); house terrace (3); Barn Gallery: small north
room (4); Barn Gallery: exterior (16); Barn Gallery: Yellow Loggia (8); Barn Gallery:
interior (3); Barn Gallery: Minute Man room (4); Barn Gallery: Skylight Room (11); studio
interior c. 1961 (?).
Photographs of works by MFC, containing: photos originally in “Harvard” folder (12);
photos originally in folder “sculptures, by MFC” (9); Dr. George G. Merrill; “the Unknown
Soldier” (7); bust of James Monroe; “the Unknown Soldier” and “Mrs. Frederick
Schaefer” (11 total).
Photographs of works by DCF, containing: General Bartlett in situ; head of the seated
statue of Lincoln (2).
Photographs of various subjects, containing: miscellaneous (3); DCF family and
ancestors (4); William Sansom (1).
Photographs of works by others, containing: works by John Clalabro (7); James
Madison by Hancock Walker (1); E. B. Longman by Hancock Walker (3); Sculptor of
Washington Cathedrao Reredos (4); paintings by John Sloan and Andrew Wyeth (2).
Photograph of Howard Sanden, standing beside his portrait of DCF, c. 1961?
Photograph of the head of Queen Nefertiti by Dhutmose, given to MFC in 1927.
Box 80 [Flat Box]: Misc. Printed Material including MFC, Mestrovic, and Chesterwood
Jardineres
Empty envelopes and portfolio frames.
Poster, Chesterwood Exhibition (2 copies) (c.1962-1973).
Photograph of 2 paintings, one by Renoir, the other unidentified.
Art reproductions, probably belonged to DCF (5 count).
Printed ephemera, MFC, New York Herald Tribune, Jan 25th, 1965.
156
Newspaper clippings, regarding MFC’s sculpture The Unknown Soldier.
MFC Exhibition Invitations (2), 1941 (?).
Pamphlet, Alva Reproductions, c.1954-1973.
Exhibit cataloges and biographical folder (c.1935-1948; MMA Exhibition of plaster
reproducions of work of Mchelangelo; Berkshire Museum Exhibition of Ivan Mestrovic,
1948; sketch of life of same sculptor, c. 1948)
Pamphlets, on politics (2), religion, and sculture (total 4 count); and leaflet, on NY
museums (1939) (2 copies)
Conservation material, reprint of an address given in 1946 and art reproduction of
Pheasants, copyright 1943.
Reprint, of newspaper article on MFC, 1938 (3 count)
Newspaper clipping, of cartoons, New York Times Magazine, May 12, 1946.
Box 81 [Flat Box]: Distinctions, Contour Maps and Misc. (some rolled may need flattening and
moving)
Certificate, MFC, Associate of the National Academy of Design, Apr. 6, 1942
Certificate, of fellowship in National Sculpture Society, New York, of MFC (class of
1926), dated Jan. 29, 1958 , in its mailing roll
Certificate, of MFC’s appointment as a member of the National Advisory Committee on
Women’s Participation for the State of Massachusetts by the Worlds Fair, 1939
Diploma, MFC, Dale Carnegie Institute of Effective Speaking, issued March 10, 1938
MFC Exhibition Catalogue of portrait sculpture, Feb.11-22, 1930
Inscribed slip of paper, labelling 1941 survey and 1962 map and plan for barn area
(unidentified hand and hand of MFC)
Letter, from MFC to Allied Artists of America, June 22, 1965
Letter, from Mrs. John Calabro to MFC, Sept. 8, 1971 (plus its envelope minus its
photographs)
Letter, from Alfred W. Jacob to MFC, Oct. 15, 1956
157
Christmas, Easter cards, postcards and note received, belonged to MFC, 1965
Postcard, sent to Chesterwood Studio Museum in 1965 (self-advertisement)
MFC “Write” list, in association with 1973 items
Medallic inscription on large envelope, probably by MFC
Fur storage receipts, Ried’s Cleaners, Great Barrington, MA, May 16, 1969, for sheared
raccoon coat (2)
“The Unknown Soldier” by MFC (7)
Dormhouse Contour Map, on scrap, inscribed: “This shows contour lines at Dormhouse
revised and corrected.”
Photograph, Minute Man, “Tableau Vivant” float by G.E. in WWII parade, mounted
Box 82 [Document Box] MFC’s Miscellaneous Files from CH207 Filing Cabinet- A-Com
Correspondence, articles, materials, etc. regarding the following:
ADA World
The Alliance – Archibald Roosevelt
Amherst – University of Massachusetts
Anti-Defamation League
Associations – Societies – Congregations
Attorney General’s List
Awards
Books
Books – Vanguard Press
Brooks, General Edward
Bryan, Joseph
Buckley, William F, Jr
158
Budenz, pamphlet, “Attack Communism!”
Cecil, Russell
Chicago Tribune – Eleanor Jewett
Education – Colleges
Committee of 100
Communism
Communist Manifesto
Box 83 [Document Box] MFCs Miscellaneous Files from CH207 Filing Cabinet- Con- L
Congressman
Conservation
Cosmopolitan - 1956
Grasp the Weapon of Culture
Cunard Steamship
Curtis Tavern
Dallas
Department of Justice
“The Dog is dead” story
Editorial, New York Times, 1944
Education – schools
FBI, magazine clippings
Howard Fast
William Z. Foster
159
Foundations
Freedom forum
Hardware
Alger Hiss – Anderson
Katherine Hobson
Heroes Commission
Housatonic River School
“Intrepid Airman”
Jenner, William E.
Major Jordan
Corliss Lamont – Schuman – Lattimore
Lenox Garden Club
Libraries
Box 84 [Document Box] MFC’s Miscellaneous Files from CH207 Filing Cabinet- M-So
General MacArthur
Senator McCarran
McCarthy
Movies
Music
National Republic
New Orleans, 1958
Mrs. Endicott Peabody
160
Prayer for middle-aged
Radio – Television – movies
Letter, on raising hogs
Reds and Our Churches
Religion
“A Republic” by Nina Larrey Duryea
Roads and highways
Bill Roth
Segregation
Socialism
Box 85 [Document Box] MFC’s Miscellaneous Files from CH207 Filing Cabinet- Su-Z
Subversive Organizations and Publications
Interlooking subversion
Taxation
Theater – Ballet
Trees
Secretary Udall
Un-American activities
United Nations
Unknown political prisoner competition
US government
UNESCO
161
Waldorf Conference
Waste
White, Harry Dexter
Who’s who
World government
Wrecking companies
Box 86 [Document Box] MFC’s Art and Artist’s Files from CH207 Filing Cabinet- A-B
Abstract art
Academy in Rome
“Achievement”, DCF
Alcott House
Allied Artist of America, Inc.
American Artist, November 1954 (3 copies); April 1955
American Artists Professional League
American Federation of Arts
American Heritage, articles in
Ancient sculpture, newspaper clippings
Appellate statues
Architecture, newspaper clippings
Arlington Bridge
The Armory Show, 1913
Art critics and criticisms
162
Art in hospitals
Art Institute of Chicago
Artists’ equity
Barr, Alfred H, Jr., author of articles
Berkshire Museum
Berkshires
Biddle, George, author of articles
Boscobel, author of articles
Box 87 [Document Box] MFC’s Art and Artist’s Files from CH207 Filing Cabinet- C-G
Carnegie Institute of Art
Clark Art Institute
Commission of Fine Arts
Communism and the fine arts
Concord Antiquarian Society
Cortissoz
DeLue
Demetrios, George – Modernistic art
Devree, Charlotte – articles about sculpture
Emily Dickinson
Dondero, George A. -- speeches
Dondero, speeches on museums – communism in museums
Duchamp, Marcel – Dadaism
163
Professor Faison
Federal art, correspondence, article and clippings
Federal art bills, Congress and Senate
Fraser, James Earl, author of articles
Gassett, Alice, author of articles
Garth, John, author of articles
Genauer, Emily, author of articles
Gibbes Art Gallery – Dali
Goodrich Report, article and replies in American Artist Magazine
Goodrich Report, material for article in American Artist Magazine
Grecian notes, 1900
Greylock Protective Association
Guggenheim Museum
Box 88 [Document Box] MFC’s Art and Artist’s Files from CH207 Filing Cabinet- H-L
Hall of Fame
Huntington Hartford
John Harvard + President Lowell – Prentiss’s story
Harvard School of Architecture
Hoffman, Malvina
Hoving, Thomas P. F.
Jacob’s Pillow
Jennings Brothers, Inc.
164
Bernard, Kamins (Liberty Park Advisory Council)
Kress Collection
“Laurel Hill” by MFC, abridged
Laurel Hill Association
Laurel Hill Book
Leger, Fernand
Letters regarding my [MFC’s] articles
Letters to newspapers and magazines
Lipchitz
Box 89 [Document Box] MFC’s Art and Artist’s Files from CH207 Filing Cabinet- M
Manship
Manuscript – Historical Society
Metropolitan Museum
Metropolitan Museum show and letter
Mexican painters
Milles, Carl
“Minute Man” – Kamins, BF letters
“Minutes of a Communist Cell on Art”
Miscellaneous
Mission House
Modern art
Modern painting
165
Modern sculpture clippings
“James Monroe”
Moore, Bruce
Moore, Henry
Moscow Art Show 1959
Museum of Art, Science and Industry
Museum of Modern Art
Museum directors
Museums
Box 90 [Document Box] MFC’s Art and Artist’s Files from CH207 Filing Cabinet- N-R
National Academy of Design, government and art
National Institutes of Arts and Letters
Naumkeag
New York Times
New York Times articles
Old Sturbridge Village
Palladio
Pennsylvania Academy
Philadelphia Manufacturing Company
Philadelphia Museum
Picasso
Postage stamps
166
Stewart Preston
Publications, by Museum of Modern Art
Raleigh Museum
Reader’s Digest
Refregier
Memorandum, from Whitfield Reid to MFC, regarding necessity of having a Boston
bank, 6 pages, July 9, 1962
Rockwell, Norman
Rodin
Roszak, Theodore
Box 91 [Document Box] MFC’s Art and Artist’s Files from CH207 Filing Cabinet- S-Y (end)
Sargent
Sayings
Schools – letters amd compositions regarding studio
Shahn, Ben
Sterner, Albert
Sweeney, James Johnson
Traditional painters and paintings
Traditional sculpture
US Capital
US Information Agency Exhibitions
Univesity of Chicago
Washington DC, Sculpture
167
Whitney Museum
Wheeler Williams
Woolf, S. J.
Wyeth
Yellow Shed
Box 92 [Document Box] Printed Ephemera including newspaper clippings, exh, catalogues and
political booklet from desk in CH101
Exhibition catalogue, Department of Fine Arts – Carnegie Institute
Exhibition catalogue, Society for Sanity in art, Inc., oil and water color paintings,
sculpture, miniatures and etchings
Pamphlet, the United States was betrayed into the World War
Berkshire Eagle, July 26, 1939
Box 93 [Document Box] MFC files relating to NT with added material of Paul Ivory. Sketch and
obituary
Box 94 [Document Box] MFC papers relating to French family geneology including letters of
inquiry, Family Tablets, bound volume and typescript of Richardson family in America
MFC period genealogical material: Richardson family; Chester, NF; etc.
Ancestral Tablets – A Collection of Diagrams for Pedigrees
Geneology inquiries concerning the French-Cresson Families (1942, 1944-1945, 1948,
1956)
Box 95 [Flat Box] Catch-All of Historical Items- MFC and MAF
Letters, from Malvina Hoffman to MFC, Nov 6, 1953 and May 20, 1951 (?)
Letter, from WPC to DCF, 1925
Letters, to and from MFC, with handwritten marks by MFC, “gifts to Chesterwood-/PreNational Trust”
168
Typescript, “My Hand in the Hand of God” by MFC (not the original copy, badly printed)
Photographs of a living room, from adm. Box, probably from MFC period (8 count)
DCF folio tie, preserved in an envelope
Notebooks, empty, belonged to MAF, with inscribed labels in MAF hand (3 spiral; 2
stitched)
Binder, containing newspaper clippings, programs and playbills regarding the Carolers
Box 96 [Flat Box]
Photograph, framed, of Castello La Zisa, Palermo, Sicily, c.1921 [NT73.45.1451]
Box 97 [Flat Box]
Photograph, framed, of Margaret French as Diana, Chesterwood, 1913 [NT73.45.1753]
Photograph, framed, of Marjorie Lamond as a Bacchante, Chesterwood, 1913
[NT73.45.1754]
Photograph, framed, of Mary C. Chilton, c.1930 [NT73.45.2016]
Photograph, framed, of DCF, New York, 1905 [NT73.45.4783]
Box 98 [Flat Box]
Photograph, framed, of bust of DCF by MFC, post-1932 [NT73.45.1033]
Photograph, framed, of silhouette of DCF, c.1955 [NT73.45.1253]
Photograph, framed, of Sen. Brooke beside Lincoln statue replica, 1966?
[NT73.45.1602]
Photograph, framed, of Anne French (Mrs. Simon Brown, c.1955 [NT73.45.1961]
Box 99 [Flat Box]
Photograph, framed, of Hannah Pitson Flagg (Mrs. Gersham Flagg), by Robert Feke,
c.1965 [NT73.45.1560]
Photograph, framed, of Gersham Flagg IV, by Robert Feke, c.1965 [NT73.45.1743]
Photograph, framed, of William Penn Cresson (WPC’s grandfather), copy print, c.1950
169
[NT.73.45.1962]
Box 100 (Red label 99) [Oversize Flat Box]: Framed certificates and related items [NT
69.38.693, .703, .805, .806]
Certificate, framed, of Chesterwood as a registered National History Landmark
Certificate, framed, of MFC as an Acadamian of National Academy of Design
Letter, framed, from Governor Endicott Peabody to MFC, regarding Chesterwood and
an engraving of the State House
Framed engraving of the State House, gift from the State House of Masachusetts to
MFC
Box 101 [Flat Box]: Portfolio of Mounted Photographs of Sculpture by MFC
Box 102 [Flat Box]: 3 Albums of Sculpture by MFC- NT73.45.5248-.5250
PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Boxes 103 -111 contain photographs from the Studio south-wall tall chest; one photograph
was found in the north-wall tall chest.
Box 103
(In this box and the following one, both containing small photographs of uniform size, the
original arrangement by individual is maintained; the sequence has been alphabetized.)
.
Photographs (12), MFC sitter, Pamela French (Miss Pamela Prentiss French; later, Mrs.
Raymond Charles Hoy), 1935 or earlier
.
Photographs (22), MFC sitter, Frances Frick
.
Photographs (24), MFC sitter, Richard Hale, 1935 or earlier
.
Photographs (21), MFC sitter, George Merrill, 1927 and 1937
.
Photographs (23), MFC sitter, George Merrill (alone and beside clay bust), 1937
.
Photographs (28), MFC sitter, George Merrill, 1940s
Box 104
.
Photographs (30), MFC sitter, George Merrill, photographer Shapiro Studio, 1947(?)
170
.
Photographs (6), MFC sitter, Natalie Merrill (later, Mrs. Henry Howard; Mrs. Kenneth D.
Robertson), 1939 or earlier
.
Photographs (6), MFC sitter, Frank Fuller Murdock, 1922 or earlier
.
Photographs (20), MFC sitter, Nathalie Osborn, 1934 or earlier
.
Photographs (8), MFC sitter, Laura Stewart, 1931(?)
.
Photographs (8), MFC sitter, Dorothy Van Slyke (Dorothy Webster French
Schoonmaker Van Slyke, Mrs. William Hoag Van Slyke), 1939 or earlier
.
Photographs (23), MFC sitter, Master William H. Vanderbilt III, 1947
.
Photographs (15), MFC sitter, Dr. Carl Voegtlin, 1940 or earlier
.
Photographs (11), MFC sitter, unidentified baby girl
Box 105: Photographs of MFC sitter, semi-processed
Photographs (13), of MFC subjects
Photographs (2), MFC sitter, Master William Leonard Bangs, 1926 or earlier
Photographs (10), MFC sitter, Henry Parton (1858-1933), photographer De Witt Ward,
1929 or earlier
Photographs (4), in individual cutout window envelopes, MFC sitter, Margaret Harder
Photographs (3), MFC sitter, Frances Thankful Warner, 1929 or earlier
Photographs (numerous) and agenda note, sculptor MFC, sitter Richard Hale, pictures
of him and of clay model of his portrait head (1935), 1930s
Photographs and adm. photocopies of clippings, sculptor MFC, sitter Richard Evelyn
Byrd, pictures of him studied by her hor his portrait head (1927), 1923-1929 [NAN]
Box 106: Photographs of MFC sitters, to be processed
Photograph, of Mary Fay
Photographs (6), of sitters of MFC
Photographs (numerous), of MFC, sitter Stefan Lorant, 1950s
171
Box 107: Photographs of MFC works, to be processed
Photographs (33), sculptor MFC, her works, 1920-c.1927
Photographs (36), sculptor MFC, her works, 1925-1929
Photographs (43), sculptor MFC, her works, 1924-1932
Photograph, portrait by MFC of Joseph P. Day (faded)
Photographs (numerous), MFC, of busts (Penn Cresson, Baron Kroff, Dickie Fairfield,
Dr. Voegtlin, Margot Voegtlin, George Merill, Dr. Baylor, Rickard Hale, “Unknown
Soldier”, Porton Prince, Mallinckrodt, Kingston Garden, Alicia, Pamela, Nathalie and
Natalie Merrill)
Snapshots, of a young girl and busts
Photographs (numerous), memorials by MFC (include WPC memorial)
Box 110: Photographs to be processed
Photographs (3), of sculptures by other artists (Talbot, Marden, Manship)
Photograph, MFC collection, of a portrait of unidentified woman by Ellen Emmet Rand
(1926)
Photographs (14), sculptor MFC, exhibitions of her works, 1930-1939
Color cover, of Ball State University 1967-68 Directory: Ball Brothers Memorial by DCF
Photograph, MFC, sculptor M. Lantz, titled “Stefan Lorant” (portrait relief), photographed
by Shapiro Studio
Photographs (numerous), of MFC and portraits of her
Photographs (8), of drawings (MFC’s?)
Box 111: Photographic proofs belonging to MFC, to be processed
Photographs (25), of a young girl
172
Photographs (22), of MFC and a woman
Box 112:
The following two containers hold Photographs of Chesterwood Buildings and Grounds,
1900s-1970s
[For the Ch Buildings and Grounds photographs, Ellen Fladger recommended segregating
Studio interiors as a discrete sub-subseries and arranging the two resulting sub-subseries in
respective chronological order. After the cataloguing, as opposed to the bulk cataloguing, has
been accomplished and the date of each photograph is therefore known, the above
arrangement can be effected. Until then, the present sequence and contents of folders will
facilitate cataloguing.]
Chesterwood Buildings and Grounds, 1900s-1950s
[On the folders the dates immediately precede the acc. nos.; here it seemed more appropriate
to place them first.]
.
1900s Snapshots, belonging to M.F. Cresson, showing Chesterwood buildings and
grounds, sometimes as background [NT73.10 (678)-(683), (685), (687),
(688), (744); NANs]
.
1910s [NT73.10 (116.2), (276.2), (514.2), (655.2), (658.2), (659.2), (668.2), (757), (760),
(767), (919); NANs]
.
1920s [NT73.10 (670), (673)-(676), (691), (694)-(696), (698), (855), (891)]
.
1931 Studio interior: south wall: D.C. French funeral service on October 11, 1931
[NANs]
.
1931-1932 Prints (24) of two 1931 images, studio interior, south wall, DCF funeral
service [NANs]
.
1930s Photographs, buildings and grounds, including studio reception room [NT73.10
(704)-(707), (882); NT73.45.5200]
.
1933 Snapshots, photographer (of one and likely of all) Freddy Blaine, studio interiors
(more properly, backgrounds) [NT73.10 (762), (795)-(799); NT73.45.5194-.5199]
.
1940s Photographs, inscribed envelopes (3), CH buildings and grounds
[NT73.10 (700)-(702), (709)-(720), (775), (776), (807), (808), (857)-(861), (864),
(865); NANs]
.
c.1945? Snapshots, studio interiors [NT73.10 (699), (708)]
173
.
c.1947 and later Photographs, postcard, photographers Robert D. Wild; Clem Moore;
studio interiors and exterior, garden [NT69.38.1326.3, .6, .8, .9; NANs]
.
1950s? Copy prints of 1910s photos showing CH buildings and grounds, often as
backgrounds [NT73.10 (153.2), (153.3), (154.2), (154.3), (155.2), (161.2),
(162.2), (162.3); NANs]
.
1950s Photographs, snapshots, Polaroids, postcards, CH buildings and grounds
[NT73.10 (761), (866), (867), (893)-(898), (900)-(912); NANs]
.
1956? Photographs, contact prints, photographer Lucien Aigner, studio interiors,
exteriors, garden [NANs]
.
1956? Snapshots, postcard, studio interiors [NANs]
.
1956 Photograph by A.W. Jacob, Pittsfield, MA, Stamp Exhibit in Chesterwood Studio
in 1956 [NAN]
.
Late 1950s? Photographs, photographer Gordon Tenney, studio interior and railroad
track [NANs]
.
1956-1960 (earliest and latest possible dates) Photographs by Tassone Studio, for M.F.
Cresson or The Trustees of Reservations, studio interior (background) and
piazza [NANs]
Box 113
Chesterwood Buildings and Grounds, 1960s-1970s
.
1960 Copy prints (10), inscribed envelope, inscribed labels (4), for MFC, of photographs
(1960) by Eugene Mitchell, house interiors [NANs]
.
1960 Photographs, contact prints, photographer Eugene Mitchell, house interiors and
exteriors [NANs]
.
1960 Photographs, photographer Eugene Mitchell, house interiors, taken October 18,
1960 [A1989.G.2-A1989.G.9]
.
1960 Photographs, contact prints, note from Mark Mitchell (son of Eugene Mitchell) to
CH administrator Paul Ivory, mailing envelope, curatorial notes (3), photographer
Eugene Mitchell, Chesterwood house interiors of all floors [NANs]
.
1960s Snapshots, postcards, transparency [NT73.10(733)-(736), (847), (849), (851),
(852), (869), (892), (996)-(998); NT73.45(A22)-(A31); NANs]
174
.
1960?, 1969 Copy prints of period photographs, ordered by M.F. Cresson, Chesterwood
buildings and grounds, sometimes as backgrounds [NT73.10(140.2); NT73.13(1),
(3), (13), (17); NT73.45.5209.5; 5212.2; NANs]
.
1961 Snapshots, studio casting room, Civil War Exhibit, Mary Flynn and M.F. Cresson
[NT73.10(991)-(995); NAN]
.
1961 (earliest possible date) Contact prints, studio interiors, Roll 28 and Roll 29 [NANs]
.
c.1963 Photographs, for M.F. Cresson, photographer Eugene (Gene) Mitchell, studio
interiors and piazza [NANs]
.
1963-1964? Photographs, contact prints, envelope, for MFC, photographer Eugene
(Gene) Mitchell, barn interiors and exteriors, studio interiors and piazza, garden
[NANs]
.
1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 or later Photographs, photographer Eugene (Gene) Mitchell,
barn interiors and exteriors [NANs]
.
1967?, 1972? Photographs, sheet of discrete contact prints, for MFC, by unid.
photographers, Barn Skylight Gallery, various barn interiors and exteriors, Roll 38
[NT69.38.1305.37-.42; NAN]
.
1968 or later Color snapshots, Barn Carriage Room where Exhibit of MFC Sculpture
[NANs]
.
Late 1960s Photographs, for MFC, photographer Bartlett Hendricks, Barn Carriage
Room, woodland [NANs]
.
Late 1960s Photographs, for MFC, photographer Shapiro, Barn Carriage Room [NANs]
Box 114: (1  inches) Photographs, belonging to M.F. Cresson, of Friends and Acquaintances
[the preceding heading is on each foll. folder]
.
1900s (1) [NAN]
.
1910s (2) [NT73.10 (759); NANs]
.
1920s (3) [NT73.10 (783), (787), (788), (816), (817), (841)-(843); NANs]
.
1930s (2) [NT73.10 (772); NANs]
.
1940s (4) [NT73.10 (789), (802)-(804), (813); NANs]
.
1950s (11) [NANs]
175
.
1960s (13) [NANs]
Box 115: (One inch) Photographic Proofs
.
Proofs of formal photographs of M.F. Cresson, one by Underwood & Underwood, 1910s
and 1920s [NANs] (light-sensitive; now no longer visible)
.
Proofs of formal photographs (c.1911?) of D.C. French by Alman & Co. photographers,
New York, two images on one sheet: DCF seated in chair, rounded collar, straight tie,
stick pin; in left image, his left hand on chest; in right image, left hand on armrest,
frontal. Sent with letter [NT69.38.2121] dated October 20, 1931 [NT69.38.2120]
.
Proofs (12), mailing envelope, sent from Underwood & Underwood photographers, New
York, to M.F. Cresson, of photographs picturing D.C. French: two formal photos: a
three-quarter and a profile, 1916; ten of DCF at Chesterwood, 1925(?); all but two have
adm. prints (elsewhere in the archives): one at west end of garden and one at lily pond
not apparently printed; 1930s [NANs] [Part of the Underwood & Underwood collection is
in the Smithsonian; these images are not there according to an answer to an inquiry
made by Chesterwood in early 1990s.]
Box 116
.
Draft layout of photographs, typescript of captions, 1976 NT memo, original black
container box [to be stored elsewhere], author M.F. Cresson, Pictorial Life of Daniel
Chester French (book as yet unpublished), black-and-white glossy copy prints of
historical photos, 90 p. of captions, c.1960
Box 117 [flat oversize]
.
Same type and format as above, with edited typescript of captions but fewer
photographs, which are not always identical to those in Box 116, apparently incomplete,
c.1960
Box 118
.
Small scrapbook, M.F. Cresson, dated 1924 [NAN] [From CH207D]
.
Small scrapbook, M.F. Cresson, 1934 [NAN] [From CH415 pedestal cupboard]
Box 119 [oversize]
.
Scrapbook III, M.F. Cresson, large, 1949-1959 [NT73.45.5243] [From CH207E]
Box 120 [oversize]
176
.
Scrapbook IV, M.F. Cresson, large, 1959-1967 [NT73.45.5244] [From CH207E]
Box 121 [oversize]
.
Scrapbook V, M.F. Cresson, large, 1968-1973 [NT73.45.5245] [From CH207E]
Box 122 [double-oversize]
.
Scrapbook I, M.F. Cresson, very large, 1900-1923 [NT73.45.5241] [From CH207E]
Box 123 [double-oversize]
.
Scrapbook II, M.F. Cresson, very large, 1922[correct]-1949 [NT73.45.5242] [From
CH207E]
NTARC.CH.1.2.4
MFC Papers & Manuscripts
Estate Papers of DCF, WPC, and MAF
The following four containers hold a discrete collection of papers accumulated, and to a lesser
extent created, by MFC, who presided over the settlements of all three estates. Documents
that belonged to DCF have during processing been removed to his Series and notations have
been left in their place recording their removal. An attempt to segregate WPC estate papers
from those of DCF proved impossible because, for example, MFC correspondence with her
attorney often refers to both estates in the same letters; WPC died seven months after DCF,
and MFC was preoccupied with both estates at the same time. Her mother, who was coexecutor (with DCF's financial consultant) of his estate, died eight years after DCF. The papers
as a whole constitute a significant biographical source on MFC; she is their unifying factor, and
much of her life during the 1930s was absorbed in matters pertaining to these estates. She
was chief heir to her father's estate, the settlement of which was long drawn and complicated
mainly because the estate tax was disputed.
BOX 124 [of consecutive MFC box nos.] [4 inches] [1 of 4 document cases] DCF estate; 1931
correspondence; 1931 to 1935 miscellaneous documents; all were generated after the death of
D.C. French on October 7, 1931.
.
Transcript of last will and testament (1930) of D.C. French (2 copies) and
correspondence between William A. Mayou and William F. Hayden re DCF's Aurora,
Colorado property, 1931
.
Probate documents and correspondence re estate of D.C. French, October-December
1931
177
.
Duplicate, individual income tax return, M.F. Cresson, form 1040, in pencil, not in hand
of MFC, for calendar year 1931
.
Carbon copy of itemized list, appraiser Samuel Marx, Inc., estate of D.C. French at
Galleries in New York and carbon copy of list, M.F. Cresson(?), furniture at Dormouse,
1931 and n.d.
.
Appraisals, inscribed envelope, DCF estate, 1931-1932
.
Tax forms and returns, DCF estate, 1931-1932
.
Correspondence between M.F. Jameson and Warren A. Mayou, re DCF estate details,
bills, etc., 1931-1932
.
Mayou's handwritten notes and figures, 1931-1933(?)
.
Miscellaneous legal documents, 1931-1933
.
Bush-Mayou Correspondence, 1931-1933
.
Paid Bills, 1931-1933
.
Correspondence between M.A. French and Warren A. Mayou, CH 1970s adm. notation,
re DCF estate, Chesterwood ram and plumbing, etc., 1932
.
Permits (2) to distribution of D.C. French property at Chesterwood and in galleries in
New York, listing of deeds and mortgages from 1903 to 1928, receipt, envelope, 1932
.
Correspondence between Warren A. Mayou, for DCF estate, and James H. Punderson,
re insurance on Chesterwood, with reference to lightning rods, September-October
1932
.
Transcript of last will and testament, testator D.C. French, attorney Warren A. Mayou,
certifier Clerk of the Surrogate Court, will dated and proved April 25, 1930 and October
21, 1931, respectively, transcript certified October 27, 1932
.
Receipt signed by M.F. Cresson of legacy payment on account, copies of return and
schedules filed on behalf of executors Robert M. Bush and Mary French re appraisal of
DCF estate, 1932
.
.
Letters (3) to DCF estate attorney and to executor, 1932-1933
Affidavits, waivers, newspaper clipping, protest and statement, brief, letters, envelope,
and statement of receipts and payments re D.C. French estate and re tax protest, 19321935
178
.
Admin receipt, c.1980 (?)
Box 125 [2 inches] DCF Estate (1932); WPC Estate (1932-1945); correspondene sorted by
date:
Jan 1932; Feb 1932; Mar 1932; Apr 1932; May 1932; June 1932; June - Oct 1932
(retained copies of letters (8), Margaret F. Jamson to John Kappes and to Myron H.
Gray regarding transportation of DCF sculpture from New York to Chesterwood and
regarding Ball Memorial; July 1932 (letter regarding distribution of Cresson hamily
heirlooms); August 1932; Sep 1932 (WPC inventory); Oct 1932 (WPC inventory, DCF
will); Nov 1932; Dec 1932; WPC Philadelphia property willed to MFC, 1932-1945
Box 126 [3 inches] Correspondence regarding DCF stock holdings, DCF estate, 1932-1933
(In addition to the information contained in each folder, the remainder of information
about the handling of each account is listed on the front of the original file folders, which
are stored in the last two folders in Box C; the contents of the original folders are stored
in folders headed by numbers only)
.
Folder list for this box, an adm. master sheet (dated 1982) listing original folder numbers
and corresponding names of 33 companies
.
1. Bradstreet Company of Maine
.
2. Galveston-Houston Electric Company
.
3. Abington Textile Machinery Works
.
4. Boston Wharf Company
.
5. Eastern Utilities Associates
.
6. Fall River Electric Light Company
.
7. Stone and Webster Service Corp.
.
8. Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company
.
9. Haverhill Gas Light Company
.
10. Lowell Electric Light Corporation
.
11. Ludlow Manufacturing Associates
.
12. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
179
.
13. Old Colony Railroad Company
.
14. State Street Trust Company
.
15. New England Trust Company
.
16. Waltham Watch Company
.
17. Western Massachusetts Companies
.
18. Electric Bond and Share Company
.
19. General Electric Company
.
20. American Sugar Refining Company
.
21. United Fruit Company
.
22. Curtis Publishing Company
.
23. Fidelity Trust Company
.
24. Pennsylvania Railroad Company
.
25. General Foods Corporation
.
26. Virginia Electric and Power Company
.
27. Savannah Electric and Power Company
.
28. Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stockyards Company
.
29. Chicago and North Western Railway Company
.
30. Northern Pacific Railway Company
.
31. Great Northern Railway Company
.
32. Southern California Edison Co., Ltd.
.
33. Gramercy Park Club, Inc.
.
Original file folders, nos. 1-17, inscribed, 1932
180
.
Original file folders, nos. 18-33, inscribed, 1932
Box 127 [2 inches] Estates of DCF, WPC, and MAF continued
1933-1947 (complete explanation of DCF income tax protest in February 1933 folder;
MAF estate accounting in 1940 folder): January 1933; February 1933; March 1933; April
1933; May 1933; June 1933; July 1933; August 1933; September 1933; October 1933;
November 1933; December 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940;
1942-1947 [no apparent 1941]
Papers & Manuscripts
Inventories Pertaining to Chesterwood [in 2 document cases]; in Box 129, in 1960s inventories
folder is a handwritten transcript by MFC of a first-person inventory by DCF
Box 128 [4 inches]
.
Original file folder, inscribed by M.F. Cresson et al., Chesterwood Inventories, "19201967," holds adm. photocopy of DCF 1920 ms. inventory, 1930s-1960s?
.
One (1935?) of three discrete inventories and correspondence re MFC's townhouse at
1727 Nineteenth Street, Washington, DC, 1932, 1934, 1935 (?), 1939, 1940, 1957
.
Inventory of Silver, handwritten by MFC, 5 sheets, n.p., n.d., earliest possible date
1928, perhaps relative to inventory of 1940 [Found with 1929 DCF CH furniture
inventory]
.
Inventories with inserts, of premises at 1727 Nineteenth Street, Washington, DC, two of
three apparent discrete originals, one copy, and list of articles to be sent to MFC, the
owner, 1935 and c.1935
.
Inventory of Chesterwood, compiled by Marion Buck for MFC, typescript, 99 p., some
annotations handwritten by MFC, many adm. revisions hand-copied from 1964 revised
edition by MFC, c.1937
.
Original (?) copy of Chesterwood Inventory, 80 p., annotations only regarding totals of
values, 1940
.
Photocopy of original (?) copy of Chesterwood Inventory of 1940 by Miss Marion Buck,
80 p., no inscriptions, c.1970 (?)
.
Studio copy of 1940 Chesterwood Inventory, insert, 80 p., not a photocopy, 1940s (?)
.
Photocopy of studio copy of 1940 Chesterwood Inventory, but having 92 p. with pp.8188 missing, no inscriptions, c.1970 (?)
181
Box 129 [2 inches]
.
Originals and copies of inventories of painting and sculpture at Chesterwood by Marion
Buck, Mary V. Flynn, M.F. Cresson, house, studio, and later barn, 1940-c.1965
.
Inventory of Chesterwood house, MFC annotations on typescript, June 1954
.
Inventories of Chesterwood, including one (1965-1966) by Marion Buck and an
annotated list (1960) of articles to be sold, c.1960 (?)-c.1967
.
Inventory of Chesterwood Barn, handwritten by MFC, details, for personal reference, 11
p., 1964
.
Inventory of Barn and of Studio, handwritten by Mary V. Flynn and by M.F. Cresson,
1965 and c.1965
.
Photocopies, 1964-1966 Chesterwood inventories, barn, studio, and grounds, adm.
annotations, c.1970 (?)
.
Photocopy of manuscript of Chesterwood inventory of dining room china closet, dining
room including table linen, and butler's pantry, annotated, Helen D. French one of
cataloguers, sectionalized pagination totaling 27 p., c.1967(?)
NTARC.CH.1.2.5
Audio Recordings
The five following document cases contain materials relating to recordings made from 1970 to
1992; the sixth holds untaped oral history material. [The significance of this series merits
folder-level description.]
Box 130 [of MFC continuous run]
Audio Recordings: transcribed tapes, 1970-1971
.
Transcribed reel-to-reel tape, Oral History Interview of Mary V. Flynn by Peter H. Smith,
transcript in CA, summer 1970
.
Transcribed reel-to-reel tape, Oral History Interviews by Jonathan V. Gray of Prentiss
French and of M.F. Cresson, transcripts in CA, July 26 and 27, 1971
.
Transcribed reel-to-reel tapes (2), Oral History Interview of M.F. Cresson by John
Pearce, transcripts in CA, September 8 and 9, 1971
.
Transcribed reel-to-reel tapes (2), Oral History Interview of photographer Mitchell
182
Shapiro by Administrator Paul W. Ivory, transcripts and cassette copies in CA, August
17 and 20, 1971
Box 131
Audio Recordings, miscellaneous, all but one side untranscribed, 1971-1987
.
Untranscribed reel-to-reel tapes (2), Oral History Interviews of T. Cunningham, M.
Lantz, and C. Morse on one, 1971; Lincoln Memorial Ceremony, May 27, 1972, and
Oral History Interview of Mrs. Fairfield Osborn on other, 1972; no transcripts made;
1971-1972
.
Untranscribed reel-to-reel tape, Oral History Interview of M.F. Cresson, on NT73.10
photographs (includes images of Nitrate Negative collection), April 2, 1973
.
Untranscribed reel-to-reel tapes (3) and cassettes (5), M.F. Cresson's Memorial Service
and Oral History Interviews of John Kappes and of Mrs. Edgar Helbing, no transcripts
made with one exception, 1973-1981, FOLDER 1: Reel No. 1: side one: MFC's
Memorial Service, Oct. 5, 1973; Side two: John Kappes, Part 1, Oct. 24, 1973
(transcribed); Reel No. 2: side one: John Kappes, Part 2, Oct. 24, 1973; Side two:
John Kappes, Part 3, June 19, 1974
.
Same heading as preceding, FOLDER 2: Reel No. 3: side one: John Kappes, Part 4,
June 19, 1974; Also (?) side one: Mrs. Edgar Helbing, Sept. 14, 1974 (Vincenzo
Russo's daughter)
.
Same heading as preceding, FOLDER 3:
Cassette No. I: both sides: John Kappes, Sept. 14, 1978
Cassette No. II: side A only: John Kappes, Sept. 14, 1978
Cassette No.III: both sides (1&2): John Kappes, April 21, 1980
Cassette No. IV: one side only (3): John Kappes, April 21, 1980
.
Same heading as preceding, FOLDER 4: Cassette No. V: both sides: John Kappes,
April 27, 1981
.
Untranscribed cassettes (3), so-called ID Tea Party, a collective Oral History Interview
of 3 groups totaling 15 people, on identities of DCF and MFC sitters in paintings,
pastels, and busts in CH collection, conducted by Collections Care Specialist Barbara
Stevens Roberts with Archivist Wanda M. Styka, and, for a while, with Director Paul W.
Ivory, in 3 parts, Sept.-Nov. 1987
Box 132
Mrs. William Van Slyke (1890-1984) (Dorothy French Schoonmaker, DCF's niece) Oral History
Interviews, Audio Recordings, Transcripts, Correspondence. Until all the tapes in this
183
particularly important sub-subseries have been transcribed, it seems advisable to leave the
mixed-media contents as they are. [In order to transcribe the tapes, a master copy of them will
need to be made so that a duplicate copy of the master copy can be used by the transcriber.
There is a very sketchy incipient adm. index for the February 1978 transcript.
.
Cassettes (8), sides 1-16, Oral History Interview of Mrs. William Van Slyke by Michael
Richman and Paul W. Ivory; transcript of sides 1-7 in CA; sides 8-10 may have been
transcribed but no transcript in Ca; no transcripts made of 11-16; February 21-22, 1978
FOLDER 1: Cassettes (4): sides 1-8, February 21, 1978
.
Same heading as preceding, FOLDER 2: Cassettes (4): sides 9-16, February 21-22,
1978
.
Cassettes (3), Oral History Interviews (2) of Mrs. William Van Slyke, no transcripts
made, September 16, 1978 and September 25, 1983: Cassettes (2): side I-IV, Sept. 16,
1978; Cassette: both sides, Sept. 25, 1983
.
Transcript, Oral History Interview of Mrs. William Van Slyke by Michael Richman and
Paul W. Ivory; incomplete: of 16 sides of tape recorded, only sides 1-7 are here
transcribed; sides 8-10 may have been transcribed (transcript not in CA); sides 11-16
have not been transcribed; sides 1-7 consist of 2 sections: pp. 1-6 (sides 1 and 2) and
pp. 1-44 (sides 3 to 7)(note repeated pagination); February 21-22, 1978
.
Correspondence between Chesterwood Administrator Paul Ivory, National Trust
headquarters and Dorothy Van Slyke et al., 1973-1984
.
Memoranda by Paul Ivory of telephone conversations with Dorothy Van Slyke re her
reminiscences, not taped, 1977-1984
.
Admin notes, receipts, and copy negatives (4), regarding transcribing of February 1978
audio recordings of Van Slyke interview by P. Ivory and M. Richman and re 1913
Panama snapshots and identifications, 1978
.
Letter and enclosure, Louise S. Keeley (Mrs. Robert V. Keeley; niece of Dorothy Van
Slyke) to CH Director Paul W. Ivory, enclosed catalogue includes illus., with text, of
DCF's c.1909 oil portrait of Dorothy French Schoonmaker, June 12, 1987
.
Letter, Dolly Sherwood to Chesterwood Director Paul W. Ivory, re MFC and re Van
Slyke audio recordings, June 1989
Box 133: Audio Recordings, untranscribed, 1990-1992 [i.e., to present]
.
Untranscribed microcassettes (5), Oral History Interview of Helen D. French with
daughter Pamela Prentiss French, conducted by Chesterwood Buildings and Grounds
184
Superintendent Arthur D. Dutil, Assistant Director Susan Frisch Lehrer, and Archivist
Wanda M. Styka, no transcripts made, September 24-26, 1990
.
Preparatory notes, memos, and field notes of CH Archivist Wanda M. Styka with
Curator Linda W. Jackson re untranscribed oral history interview of Helen D. French,
1990
.
Untranscribed microcassette, Oral History Interview of Harry Sermini, mason contractor
at Chesterwood, by A. Dutil, L. Jackson, and P. Ivory, both sides, March 30, 1992
.
Photocopy of letter from Director Paul W. Ivory to Harry Sermini re their recent, taped
oral history interview, April 2, 1992
Box 134: Transcripts of Oral History Interviews, 1970-1973
.
Transcript, Oral History Interview of former Chesterwood director Mary V. Flynn by
Peter H. Smith, on Studio, 7 p., summer 1970
.
Transcript, Oral History Interview of Prentiss French by Jonathan V. Gray, 13 p., July
26, 1971
.
Transcript, Oral History Interview of M.F. Cresson by Jonathan V. Gray, 29 p., July 27,
1971
.
Typescript transcript, Oral History Interview of photographer Mitchell Shapiro by Paul W.
Ivory, in 2 parts, pp. 1-18 and pp. 1-27, August 17 and 20, 1971 FOLDER 1
.
Manuscript transcript, Oral History Interview of photographer Mitchell Shapiro by Paul
W. Ivory, August 17 and 20, 1971 FOLDER 2
.
Transcript, Oral History Interview of M.F. Cresson by John Pearce, includes Studio
reception room, from 2 tapes, Reel No. 1 in typescript, Reel No. 2 in manuscript only,
September 8-9, 1971
Transcript, Oral History Interview of John Kappes, Studio Assistant of Daniel Chester
French, by Paul W. Ivory, typescript, Part 1 only, October 24, 1973
Box 135: Untaped Oral History Interviews and Notes, 1970 to present.
.
Untaped Oral History Interview of M.F. Cresson by John Pearce, contract cataloguer for
NTHP, on artifacts in the Barn Loggia, South, North, and Skylight Galleries, 9 p., 2
copies one of which inscribed, 1970
.
Untaped Oral History Interviews, sculptor Walker Hancock, 1972; neighbor Mrs. Vaughn
Gray, 1975; letter from local high-school DCF-hired hand James S. Hennessy, 1975;
185
DCF's studio assistant's daughter Mrs. Edgar Helbing, 1976; DCF model Ethel
Cummings, 1976
.
Untaped Oral History Interviews and Working Notes, by Paul W. Ivory, sources M.F.
Cresson (April 1971-July 1973), P. French (1971; 1975), and H. French (1974-1975),
typescript and manuscript, no tapes made, 1971-1975
.
Oral History Notes, M.F. Cresson Interview by Paul W. Ivory, untaped, ms., March 23,
1973
.
Memos to the Oral History Files, re DCF with Prentiss French as source, re Pamela
Prentiss, 1976-1977
.
Oral History Notes, Paul W. Ivory, source John Kappes, DCF's 1920s studio assistant,
re Chesterwood studio furnishings, September 25, 1979
.
Memos to Oral History Files, miscellany, 1984 to present
.
Note from Dan Clark to NT President J. Jackson Walter and response, re John Kappes,
December 1985-January 31, 1986
.
Memo from Susan Frisch Lehrer to Paul W. Ivory re her telecon with Letitia Cahill (Mrs.
Daniel Cahill) of Stockbridge re relative: DCF's neighbor, the farmer Andrew J. Knight
and "Knight Papers," 1995
Box 136 [document case] Papers and miscellaneous, including Debarkation Hospital
miscellaneous; from CH214 fire-proof cabinet
Manuscript, MFC, notes as worker In WWI Debarcation Hospital, literary production,
typescript in CA, and its identification, 1930s?
Records on loose-leaf pages, MFC, DCF bronze coastings, 86 p. removed from
notebook, regarding 81 small and large bronzes, annotated typescript giving number,
title, height, foundry, cost, photographer; inserts separately foldered; c. 1932-1940s,
FOLDER I
Exhibit catalogue and lists (2), inserted in records of DCF bronze castings, kept by
MFC, catalogued with MFC-annotated prices and typescripts of DCF works, c. 19471950, FOLDER II
Letter from Vernon Baily to MF regarding nothing in particular, personal matters, Sep
26, 1948
Letter from Luigi Rossi to MFC, regarding cards of villas of Palladio under separate
cover and prices of sculpture (?) of pineabble, dog with basket, etc., July 30, 1957
186
Letter, Joseph G. E. Hopkins to MFC, regarding Charles Serilmer’s Sons Publication,
Nov 21, 1969
Bronze casting estimates, in MFC hand, on back of program, regarding Immortal Love,
an insert, 1947 (?), FOLDER III
Lists (5 discrete), originating from or annotated by MFC, works by DCF, one of paintings
and pastels, one of works in Massachusetts, one cross index by title and subtitles, one
chronological, and one geographical, typed, carbon copies and photocopies only,
1960s?
Christmas lists, handwritten and checked by MFC, of names of friends and ifts
presented to and received from them, on backs of invitations, etc., for 15 consecutive
Christmases excluding 1964 and 1970, FOLDER I: 1956 – 1962
Christmas lists continued, by MFC, FOLDER II: 1963, 1965-1969, 1971-1972
Box 137 [document case] Papers and miscellaneous
Place card, MFC, gift-edged with MFC, blank, c.1910s (?)
Book inserts, MFC, 1914; 1950s (?)
Certificate of birth, of Margaret French (born in 1889), made by Town Clerk of Concord,
MA, after examining Record of Births, shows Minute Man seal of town, August 17, 1920
Soft-bound resolution (2) and letter from H. W. Kent, Secretary of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, to MFC regarding enclosed, adopted by the Board of Trustees as a
memorial tribute to DCF, his museum history, Oct 26, 1931
Parchment resolution, from the National Sculpture Society to family of DCF, memorial
tribute, Nov 10, 1931
Parchment resolution, envelope, card board, from the Architectural League of New York
to the family of DCF, memorial tribute, Nov 19, 1931
Letters (6) and one enclosed photograph, to and from MFC, Emma Barrett Lothrop, and
Marian E. Kent, regarding Minute Man clothing, powder horn, and musket, January 19 –
April 29, 1940
List of complaints, MFC, regarding State of Townhouse, 225 East 62nd Street, New
York, NY, when she moved there, 8 handwritten note pages, lease Nov 10, 1942 to May
10, 1944, probably written end of November 1942
187
Reply postal card, from Lenox Garden Club to MFC, regarding June 13 meeting, 1951
Note from MFC to MR. Lober, regarding enclosed 1901 reprint illustration, the Hunt
Memorial figures, 1901; 1960s (?)
Newsletter (the Kearnygram, 1971); inserts (1971 cover letter to MFC from Ellen); 2
types of Chesterwood folders (monotone; color); remainder of square note pad with
spiral green edge, c.1971
Inventory of drawers, by Helen French, studio photos (?), 1942
List, annotated by MFC, “List of Photos of Sculpture in Book/The Works of Daniel
Chester French,” in 1947 book of only illustrations of DCF sculpture, c.1947
Luggage tags, etc. 1950s – 1960s
Notes, MFC to Chesterwood staff, regarding maintenance, etc. 1970s
Memos (4) from MFC to Paul Ivory, regarding maintenance, c.1971-1973
MFC list of important telephone numbers, 1972-1973
Sorting label, storage envelope, fact slip, all inscribed by MFC, probably artificial
miscellany, 20th century
Notes, handwritten by MFC< regarding bronzing plaster cast, mid-20th century
Box 138 [document case] Ephemera, printed material
Address, in pamphlet form, by Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck, on presentation of a bust of
DCF by MFC, Hall of Artists, University of the City of New York, includes biographical
material, May 26, 1934 (9 copies, 1 inscribed)
Invitation, MFC, to the official opening by the President of the United States of the New
York World’s Fair on Sunday afternoon, April 30, 1939
Invitation, printed, MFC (?), exhibition of sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, “Men of the
World”, 1942
Carbon copy transcript of 3 September 1940 newspaper articles regarding DCF studio
and issurance of postage stamp honoring DCF, typescript, 1950s (?)
Typescript, MFC (?), excerpts from Pliny the Elder, Plutarch, and Furtwangler, on Greek
sculptor Phidias, 1950s (?)
188
Catalogue, leaflet, cover letter, “Adams Memorial,” “the Adams Memorial: a
Reproduction,” “William Platt of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial at Cornish, NH, to MFC,
Aug 1, 1969
Clippings, collected by MFC, regarding Chesterwood and regarding work of DCF, 19541972
Scrapbook material and label inscribed by MFC, for Library of Congress and for her
scrapbook (i.e. 2 groups), 1966, 1969-1971
Wall calendar (tear-page type) for 1946: “Pictures of Switzerland” (uninscribed and
unused; good condition; more than 150 photograph illustrations), 1946
Book jacket of Journey into Fame; brochure-catalogue of “Dream Auction, Aug 18,
1973, Interlaken, MA
Book jacket, MFC, Journey into Fame, 1947
Seasonal cards and fragments of same, inscribed or imprinted (MFC) for the most part,
plus commercial (?) photo
More card fragments (without significance)
Clipping of article emended by MFC, “Concord’s Minute Man Erected in 1875” by R. R.
W., the Patriot, pp. 7, 31, 32, Thursday, April 7, 1960
Congressional Record (89th Congress), Washington, Monday, February 15, 1965,
includes article on Lincoln Memorial
Personal copy, MFC, Historic Preservation, containing 2 articles scored by her:
“General Grant Architecture in Jeopardy!” by Lawrence Wodehouse (pp. 20-26) and
“Daniel Chester French and Chesterwood” (pp. 27-36) by Dr. William H. Gerdts, JanMar 1970
Flower catalogues, MFC period (c.1966, 1968, 1973)
MFC tag, Railway Express, unknown date
“The Unknown Soldier” by MFC (one copy of folder), inscribed by MFC “1945”
Pamphlet, “The Unknown Soldier”, MFC, c.1940 (?)
DCF Centennial Exhibit Catalogues (19); MFC exhibit catalogues (5); invitation, 1950
A programme of tours and cruises for 1968
189
Wildlife Christmas stamps, c.1970
Notice to employees, employer MFC, regarding Workmen’s Compensation Act,
imprinted and typed, dated July 28, 1971
Box 139 [document case] Bound materials; including MFC notebook listing sayings of DCF,
some humorous
(5 wire-bound notebooks [A-E], from same location, mostly of excerpts from French
family letters and oral history transcribed by hand by MFC for use in her Journey into
Fame biography on DCF. N. B.: entries crossed out with a single diagonal stroke
indicate material used in the book (or expected to be so used). All inserts have been left
in place as found during initial processing. A few notebooks at the back have a small
bibliography of citations regarding DCF, mostly period. Notebook [D] has an MAF
inserts.
Wire-bound notebook [A], primarily 1870s, mostly passages from DCF sister Sarah
French’s letters and from DCF’s letters from Italy, inserts, 1940s (?)
Wire-bound notebook [B], primarily 1870s, including passages from DCF’s letters from
Italy continued, inserts, 1940s (?)
Wire-bound notebook [C], MFC, mostly 1880s, inserts, 1940s (?)
Wire-bound notebook [D], MFC, sayings of DCF and family members, miscellaneous
facts, inserts, 1940s (?)
Wire-bound notebook [E] of MFC, originally belonged to MAF, holds inserts only, the
majority handwritten by MAF, c.1920s (?)-1940s (?)
Postage stamp carrier, in form of small dark brown leather book, gold-tooled with initials
“MFC”, still holding stamps and inscribed ships, c.1920s (?)-1970s
Telephone address book and 2 envelopes of inserts used as an alphabetical listing for
articles by MFC, including to whom submitted, 1948-1958 [NT73.45.3077]
Personal telephone book with inserts as found, mFC< many local numbers, few
addresses, pale green, 1970s
Address book and inserts (15), MFC, for business, gold-tooled olive green leather,
1970s
Box 140 [document case] Bound materials
190
Small wire-bound notebook, MFC, regarding colors of the painter’s palette, 1930s (?)
Notebook, MF, lists of DCF works arranged by title and by location, spiral bound, 1950s
(?)
Sketch book, MFC, spiral bound, drawings of Chesterwood, c. 1940 (?)
Box 141 [flat] Bound materials
.
Notebook filled by Margaret French with her fern collection, c.1898
.
Notebook filled by Margaret French with her flower collection, c.1898
.
Album of Margaret French's leaf collection, c.1898
Box 142 [flat]: Caliper notations for portrait sculptures
Writing tablet of DCF; on back, caliper notations of facial features of Helen [French] and
of those of DCF
Caliper notations by MFC, measurements for Admiral Byrd portrait
Measurement notations by MFC, on 3 paper boards
Measurement notations by MFC, on 5 paper boards
Box 143 [flat]
Framed photograph, of the bust of Rainsford (1902), inscribed in 1925 [NT69.38.3311]
Oversize Box 144: Photographs [NANs]
Photograph, Lincoln, standing (replica, 1966)
Photograph, found among photos of Stefan Lorant, in an envelope
Photograph, MFC (?), unidentified artist, painting of profile portrait of older Thomas
Jefferson
Oversize Box 145
Photograph, Old Faithful Geyser, framed and glazed [NT69.38.549]
Photograph, Benediction for Chesterwood (1969) [NT73.45.1445]
191
Oversize Box 146
Certificates of award (6) and of appointment (2), publications (3), and an advertisement,
MFC collection, issued by US Treasury Department, for war bonds and US Savings
Bonds, show logo of Minute Man by DCF, uninscribed, 1943?-1961 [NT69.38.968
(1,2,4-6,9,10,15-19); NANs]
Poster, showing DCF’s Minute Man, “For Freedom’s Sake…Buy War Bonds,” 1943
[NT69.38.968 (20)]
Poster, MFC, showing DCF’s Minute Man, red and green colors, “For Defense Buy” US
Savings Bonds and Stamps, small cardboard table-top type, 1951 [NT69.38.968 (21)]
Brochure, showing Minute Man, “US Savings Bonds Mat Service”, summer-fall
1961[NAN]
Minute Man Award, issued by US Treasury Department, show logo of Minute Man, date
unknown [NAN]
Flat Cabinet File
Drawer 15
.
Posters (4), MFC collection, for U.S. Savings Bonds, show logo of MINUTE MAN by
DCF, official U.S. Treasury posters, 3 discrete, one duplicate, 1946 and 1947
[NT69.38.968(3,11,13,14)]
Oversize Box 147: Printed material
Newspaper clippings, regarding Commander Byrd
The Concord Journal, Concord, MA, October 15, 1931.
The Washington Post and Times Herald, Sunder, March 18, 1956. Special section on
great art: in color rotogram from the new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, pp. k1-k8.
Newspaper clipping, “Famous US Lady Sculptor in Ireland”, April 27, 1959 (Irish
genealogy of MFC)
Box 148 [document case] Journey into Fame Chronological Files [From CH207A or D], c.1932c.1947
The files, first of all, have been disturbed. The original MFC-inscribed folders are not
preserved. The acid-free ones presumably duplicate hers. There are occasionally more than
one folder for the same year. Not every year is represented. The files may also be intrusive:
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i.e., one or two folders may have been introduced that were not there originally. All DCF's
letters were removed c.1975 to DCF correspondence acid-free boxes; only adm. inscriptions
on the folders indicate their original location within this file. Some folder years may be missing.
Remaining DCF material was in 1995 removed to his series and replaced with photocopies.
For years represented, see inventory sheet in CA. [Used by MFC when writing her biography
of DCF, this file will be useful if her book is reprinted and footnoted.]
.
DCF 1850: handwritten notes
DCF 1850: newspaper clipping, regarding House in Exeter
DCF 1867: page from Dan’s Bird Book, Concord, 1868
DCF 1869: (empty)
DCF 1873: program, Amateur Theatricals, Concord Town Hall, April 2, 1873
DCF 1874: (empty)
DCF 1874: letter to DCF from Thomas Ball
DCF 1875: photographs and photocopy of “An Oration” by George William Ourtis,
Harper’s Weekly, May 1, 1875
DCF 1876: (empty)
DCF 1877: (empty)
DCF 1878: (empty)
DCF 1879: handwritten notes, regarding Emerson
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DCF 1884: (empty)
DCF 1885: photocopy, list of DCF works
DCF 1885: (empty)
DCF 1886: Handwritten notes
DCF 1887: (empty)
DCF 1888: letter to DCF from Henry Hames, Mar 20, 1889
DCF 1888: (empty)
DCF 1892: letter to MFC from Adelene Adams
DCF 1892: (empty)
DCF 1893: handwritten and typed notes
DCF 1897: essay (c.1901-1907) by Mackintosh
DCF 1898: (empty)
DCF 1899: newspaper article on Dewey
DCF 1899: letter to MFC from Margaret Bush
Academy of Saint Luke, Rome (1900) diploma
DCF 1900: letter from DCF to Aunt Helen, Rome, Mar 19, 1900
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DCF 1901: (empty)
DCF 1902: newspaper clippings
DCF 1902: typed letter from DCF to Will, Glendale, MA, Aug 22, 1902
DCF 1908: (empty)
DCF 1909: newspaper article DCF’s favorite Bible passages
DCF 1912: letter from DCF, La Mia Casa
DCF 1914: letter from DCF to Evelyn B.
DCF 1915: photocopy of photograph, group of prominent persons attending the Trask
Memorial exercises
DCF 1916: letter from DCF to Beatrice
DCF 1917: letter from DCF, Aug 22, 1917
DCF 1919: letter from DCF to Margaret
DCF 1921: many letters from DCF, members of the family following Margaret’s
wedding, also letters to Mary and Margaret from Cairo
DCF 1923: handwritten notes and postcard
DCF 1924: letter from DCF to Margaret, Feb 22, 1924
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DCF 1925: letter, from the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to DCF
DCF 1929: telegraph from DCF to Liberty Weekly also letter from Abastenia Eberle to
DCF and DCF’s answer
DCF 1930: MFC’s note
DCF 1931: DCF obituary, the Concord Journal, Oct 15, 1931
Box 149 [document case]
.
Catalogue (88 copies), exhibition, Portrait Sculpture by Margaret French Cresson,
Grand Central Galleries, New York, February 11-22, 1930
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Catalogue (45 copies), exhibition, Portrait Sculpture by Margaret French Cresson,
Grand Central Galleries, New York, February 11-22, 1930
Box 151 [document case] MFC printed material on anti-Communism
Pamphlets (10), printed transcript of US Congressional hearings, regarding antiCommunism, 1948-1959
Report on the Congress of American Women (2 copies) prepared and released by the
Committee on Un-American Activities, US House of Representatives, original and later
release date, 1949 and 1950
Pamphlets (4), published by United Nations, on world citizenship; influence of home and
community on children; teaching geography; genocide, 1949-1952
Pamphlets (5), small paperbacks (2), assorted, regarding human rights, General
George Marshall, income tax, modern art, 1937, 1950-1953
Soft-cover book and special issue of monthly publication, regarding McCarthyism, pro
and con, 1952 and 1954
Pamphlet, issue of monthly magazine containing article, newspaper clipping inserted, all
on McCarthyism and Communism, 1954
Quarterly Publication, one proof and two copies of its first issue, Reality: A Journal of
Artists’ Opinions, regarding painting and the right of the artist to the control of his
196
profession, spring 1953
Report, by the Commission of Fine Arts to the president, “Art and Government,” on
activities of the Federal government in the field of art, scred by MFC, 1953
Transcript, US Senate hearing regarding Federal Advisory Council on the arts, includes
statement of MFC as a member of the National Academy Design, Apr 14, 1956
Speech, excerpt of Congressional Record, Representative George A. Dondero of
Michigan, “Communism under the Guise of Cultural Freedom – Strangling American
Art,” 62 copies numbered 1-63, delivered June 14, 1956, FOLDER I
Michigan, “Communism under the Guise of Cultural Freedom – Strangling American
Art,” June 14, 1956, FOLDER II
Speech, excerpt of Congressional Record, Representative George A. DOndero of
Michigan, “UNESCO – Communism and Modern Art,” 57 copies numbered 1-59,
speech delivered Friday, July 20, 1956, FOLDER I
Michigan, “UNESCO – Communism and Modern Art,” 57 copies numbered 1-59,
speech delivered Friday, July 20, 1956, FOLDER II
Box 152 [document case] (to be filed)
Volume slipcase, of book Great Houses of American History, showing Chesterwood on
the cover
Letters (6) from and to MFC, regarding acquiring for Chesterwood collection The
Chicago Incendiary, The Parian by DCF, 1962-1964
Newspaper, Lloyd Post, Monday, September 19, 1938. Special section on Lincoln
statue.
Program (2), of Flag Raising “Break of Dawn,” comprised of invocation, presentation of
flag, address, asalute, flag raising, and benediction, July 4, 1960, found inserted in The
Minute Man dedication book [NT73.45.345 (c) and (d)]
Bookmark, inscribed by MFC and found inserted under front cover of THe Minute Man
dedication book [NT73.45.345 (b)]
Magazine, The Orange Disc, May June 1968; newspaper clipping; photos (2) of
Chesterwood; the Unknown Soldier by MFC
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Newspaper clipping, publication unknown, regarding Stockbridge House
Letter, from “Bill” to MFC, regarding Chesterwood, Sep 4, 1960
Pass, for guest of patron Mrs. William Penn Cresson, to Jacob’s Pillow, admission to
lecture, rehearsal, or two classes, valid September 1, 1972 – August 31, 1973
Acceptance of invitation, MFC to Mrs. [James B.] Ludlow (Louisa Geary Ludlow), to
debutante party of her daughter Louisa, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1928 [HA2000.C.1]
Newspaper clipping, New York Herald Tribune, DCF’s obituary
Invitations (2), from Mr. and Mrs. Cass Gilbert
Piece of brown paper, inscribed “Margaret French, Capitol Grounds, Washington, 1893”
Poster, MFC, issued by US Government Printing Office, illustrates DCF’s Minute Man in
foreground, New England scene in background, in color, ‘For Freedom’s Sake/Buy War
Bonds,” 1943
Thank you card, to MFC, thanking her for her generous donation to the Gore Place
Society, 1972
Florence letter 1870s: carriage
Letters, flyers, cards, etc. regarding Medalic Art Company
Letters (8) and one enclosure, between MFC et al. regarding gift from and exchange
with Concord Art Association of works by DCF: Florence Hoar, Cornelia Fanning Gay,
and Hebe (?), 1962-1963
Newspaper clippings about DCF and MFC; map of the Southern Berkshires
Yellow piece of paper, regarding Elliot Cabot, 1962
Newspaper clippings, regarding MFC
Article, on Concord, MA, clipped and annotated by FC, by Christopher Brooks,
illustrating statue, Captain Parker, by H.H.Kitson in Lexington, MA, “Concord-the
Birthplace of America’s Freedom,” Holiday Inn Magazine, date?
Letters (5), from and to Mary Flynn, Director of Chesterwood
Book jacket, flap advertisement, charter, citation, and decal, probably collected by MFC,
relating to US savings bonds and each bearing a representation of DCF’s Minute Man,
198
blank and unused (except the first), 1940s
Clippings kept by MFC o obituaries (9) of DCF, 1931
Newspaper page in color, kept by MFC, DCF’s Minute Man in autumn on far side of
“Concord’s ‘Rude Bridge,’” photographer Arthur Griffin, Boston Sunder Globe, p.34, Oct
6, 1963
Magazine Article, “British Pageantry is painted by Molly Guion” American Artist,
September, 1952 [NT69.38.2899 (1)-(3)]
Typed excerpts, on MFC stationery, Henry Flagg French to Gail Hamilton, regarding
DCF, his interest in natural history, his gentlemanly manners, April 22, 1866 and August
1, 1867
Photocopy of a letter, regarding the publication of “Amer, Homes and Gardens”
Book jackets and fragments, etc.
- Leather binding fragment (rddish brown) (stamped in gold: “Edition…”)
- Fragment, book jacket: Cleveland Amory’s The Last Resorts
- Fragments of backing of NT69.38.3485 (1)-(3)
- Fragment, found in copy of National Sculture Review, winter 1969-70
- Fragment of book jacket (part covering lower spine)
Packing slip (MFC period?)
Photograph, portrait of a young woman
Document Box 153: (to be filed)
Newspaper clippings, in the book jacket of Journey into Fame, MFC items
Travel guide, Welcome to Stockbridge, 1979-1980
Photograph, of gardening
Pamphlet, On Certain Obstacles to the Highest Enjoyment of Music by DCF
Flyer, An American Sculptor-II, published by Finch Paper Honors, photograph of Lincoln
statue on the cover
Letters and correspondences regarding Chesterwood, and photograph of the statue of a
young boy leaning against a tree trunk
Entry on DCF, from encyclopedia Fine Art Identification and Price Guide, third edition,
199
edited by Susan Theran, 1996
Newspaper clippings, miscellaneous, in 5 separate files
Preparation material for the meeting of Chesterwood Council, October 22, 1974
Document Box 154: (removed from MFC NTARC.CH.1.2 Box 29 because it is oversize)
Articles and pictures related to “War Memorials”, essay by MFC, including typescript
drafts, newspaper clippings, etc.
Pamphlet, Lest We Forget, American Monument Association, 1945
Document Box 155: (items from MFC bedroom)
MFC address book (small), pink with gold tooling, inscribed by MFC on first page:
“Margaret Cresson/203-966-2598/New Canaan,” c.1967
MFC personal telephone book (large), “address” on cover, pale pink covers
MFC birthday book, in 1911 standard diary, c.1912-c.1973
Box 156: Correspondence, miscellaneous, and items for filing
Bill of sale, annotated newsletter, and miscellaneous list of books dating from 1796 to
1931
Draft holograph of a poem by MFC on Fairfield and Majories Osborn visit to
Chesterwood
Manuscript of inspirational writing, typescripts of poems, tearsheets of magazine
articles, brochures, newspaper clippings, exhibit catalogue, circular notice, foldered by
MFC for filing, 1947 (?), 1960s
Excerpts, handwritten by MFC, from the Communist Manifesto, c.1950 (?)
Typed copy, made probably by MFC, of text of talk by Wheeler Williams, “Recapitulation
of My Remarks on Behalf of His Fellow Sculptors upon the Occasion of the Dedication
of the Studio of Daniel Chester French, ‘Chesterwood,’ Stockbridge, MA, June 25,
1955,” 3 pages, 1950s
Typescript of booklet, writer MFC, St. Paul’s Church, Stockbridge, MA, a list of the
memorials and the people who made them, Dec. 1950, carbon copy, 34 pages, revision,
June 25, 1960.
200
List, handwritten by MFC, of bulk quantities of archival material given to the Library of
Congress, no itemization, 1960s
Correspondence, MFC and Museum of the City of New York, regarding manikins,
including biography sketch, professional record, and [photocopied] newspaper clipping,
1962-1964
Letter and envelope, from the American Artists Professional League Inc., to member
MFC, scored and inscribed by her, Dec 1967
Christmas card, inscribed by MFC, confronting “Kneeling Angels” of the Clark Memorial
by DCF, c.1970
Birthday card, from Dorothy S. Van Slyke to MFC, signed “Dottie,” commercial of cute
variety, c.1970
Letters (3), Harvard University Press to National Trust, NT to MFC, MFC to attorney
Stephen Hibbard, regarding reissuing Jouney into Fame, 1970-72
Letter, two enclosed photocopies of photographs, from Raymond Linder to MFC,
regarding identifications of sculptors in two contemporaneous group phtogoraphs, Nov
10, 1972
Double-oversized Box 157: MFC writings, book review scrapbook, ephemera, etc.
Scrapbook of newspaper reviews of Journey into Fame (1947), black three-ring binder;
tucked inside cover of scrapbook: MFC jottings and index-card notes regarding Civil
War Exhibit in studio in 1961?
Curatorial photocopies of newspaper clippings found insterted next to back cover of
MFC’s book-review scrapbook, 1947 (2 separate folders in another envelope)
Three yellow and one salmon-colored index cards inscribed by MFC regarding good
newspaper reproductions of DCF works (1947, 1959, 1962)
Dining paper placemat, from the Colonial Inn, Concord, MA
Exhibit noes, most handwritten by Mary Flynn, regarding Civil War Exhibit in
Chesterwood casting room, on index cards, 1961
Photos and cards, belonged to MFC, in folder inscribed “for scrapbook”
Two little newspaper clippings, humorous, on female priests and on de Gaulle (1967)
Loose newspaper clippings, regarding Chesterwood
201
MFC 1953 coronation notebook (her trip to Ireland and England, genealogical
information, quotations, etc.)
New reprint of DCF article on music and Chesterwood literature
Ephemera, invitations (1969, 1970, et al.); Barye booklet; brochure on Ireland, 1973;
scrap paper – MFC notes regarding Provenance and typing
Newspaper clippings, miscellaneous, including 1947 article by MFC regarding sculptor,
1969 MFC letter to editor, 1970 articles regarding Stockbridge, 1971 article regarding
DCF war memorial-Exeter
Writings, MFC, “My Hand in the Hand of God”, drafts and final copy; folder, green, large,
with Persian painting on cover
Revision of MFC article: “The Chesterwood Garden,” c.1970; book jackets of Jouney
into Fame (3); MFC list of birthdays on pink note; piece of MFC stationery
Article by MFC, “Memorials Symbolic of the Spirit of Man,” New York Times, July 11,
`945, pp.14ff; newspaper clippings, paper-clipped together in the following order:
“Salute to Lincoln,” “Lighting the Lincoln Statue,” “Build Thee More Stately Mansions,”
(all by MFC) and 1947 newspaper clipping regarding Lincoln Memorial
Typescript, “John Harvard” by MFC
Typescript, “the Little Bronze Horses” by MFC, 1940
Typescript, “Bormbshells for Beauty” by MFC
Typescript, Art and the Emperor’s New Clothes” by MFC
Typescript drafts (2) and final copy, “DuPuy,” authored by MFC, regarding DCF’s
headman at Chesterwood
Typescripts (2) of letters from B. B. French to his half-brother Henry Flagg French,
regarding Abraham Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln, excerpts only, 1860-1866, transcribed,
1960s (?)
Photographic reproduction (Sepia), Self-Portrait by Durer
Document Box 161: (from MFC bedroom and office; to be inventoried)
Postcards (27), loose, of Greek islands, Egyptian and Latin American ruins, cruise
ships, Greek sculptures and ruins, etc.
202
Postcards (8), enclosed in envelope, white with blue stripes, inscribed: “postcards,
Delphi, the islands, etc.”
Postcards (35), enclosed in envelope, inscribed: “postcards 2 albums.”
Postcards (7), enclosed in envelope, white.
Letter, enclosed in envelope, from Makanna Inc. to MFC, regarding fabric materials
(with samples), March 26, 1966
Travel itinerary, for MFC, visiting England, Scotland and Ireland, from Ober Steamship
and Tourist Agency, Inc., 1959
Brochure, Country Houses and Gardens in Britain, British Travel and Holiday
Association
Flyer, Trust Houses/Over 200 Good Hotels in Great Britain 1958-1959
Flyers (2), the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, 1959
Travel guide, England, British Travel and Holiday Association
Magazines (4), titled Stately Homes in Britain; the Inns of Britain; Historic Houses and
Castles in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Portrait of Britain.
Flyer, travel guide to Longfeild House, Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland
Travel guide, Come Hitha Touring in Ireland, Historic Irish Tourist Houses and Gardens
Association, 1972
Letter paper (5; 4 small and 1 large), empty, light blue, from Chesterwood
Brochure (3), sculptures by Paul Manship, 1885-1966
Double-Oversized Box 162: DCF scrapbook material
Clippings, belonging to DCF, New York Times, reproductions of Old Master paintings
from the Altman collection given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, date (?)
Newspaper text, kept by DCF, orator George William Curtis, April 19th 1775-1875. An
Oration delivered at Concord, MA, on the 19th of April, 1875, the one-hundredth
anniversary of “Concord Fight,” pp.369-372, Harper’s Weekly, Supplement, May 1,
1875.
203
Newspaper, belonging to MFC, the Concord Journal, a weekly, contains DCF obituary
and tributes, October 15, 1931
DCF Scrapbook Material (pictorial clippings, photos, articles) including picture of Poe
and Leyendecker illustrations after DCF (Immortal Love and perhaps Kinsley Memorial
sketches) plus many items having relevance to Chesterwood (e.g. colonial architecture,
Italianate fireplace frame, glade steps, tester bed with dormer ceiing and floral wapaper,
Ionic columns, ancient garden architecture, reception room bed) and to DCF sculptures
(e.g. Andromeda and Perseus by Lord Leighton and Old Faithful Geyser), c.1895-1920s
Architecture plates (illustration), two English country houses, both in Surey, from the
Mansions of England in the Olden Time by Joseph Nash (1904)
An insert from MFC’s book-review scrapbook, Berkshire Evening Eagle, May 29, 1947,
p.5.
Newspaper clippings, regarding Institute of Pacific Relations, 1953-54
Newspaper clippings, regarding the press, March 21, 1954
Clippings (5), writer Marion Clyde McCarroll, “Margaret French Cresson, Exhibiting Her
Portrait Busts at Grand Central Galleries, Was Dared into Her Career,” New York
Evening Post, Feb. 15, 1930.
Centerfolds (13), on MFC, by Anne Hard, “A Biographer in Stone,” New York Herald
Tribune, pp.16-17, Sunday, January 26, 1930.
Newspaper clippings, kept by MFC, for filing, 1961-67
Newspaper clippings, kept by MFC, New York Times, regarding re-burying, at home,
service men buried overseas; and atomic testing, 1946
Newspaper clippings, kept by MFC, mostly New York Times, at least one New York
Herald Tribune, on and against war, 1939-40
Newspaper clippings, kept by and some inscribed by MFC, on anti-war sentiments,
solely New York Times, 1937, 1940-41, 1945-46, and 1948
Newspaper pages (8), kept by MFC< New York Times and Berkshire Evening Eagle,
regarding war, some inscribed by MFC, 1941, 1945, 1946
Box 163: stamp album, CH inventories, letters, ephemera, etc.
Notebook, MFC, floral pattern on cover, containing notes for astronomy lesson
204
Pamphlet, by Roland Wells Robbins, “the Story of the Minute Man”
Correspondence of MFC with the National Portrait Gallery, and filing label, regarding
portraits at Chesterwood, 1969
Household label, typed and signed by DCF
Typescript, “Inventory of Chesterwood”
Typescript, inventory and appraisal, by Robert Herron
Tearsheets of article (5 copies), kept by MFC, writer Alfred H. Barr Jr., “Is Modern Art
Communistic?” The New York Times Magazine, pp.22ff, Dec 14, 1952
Sorting label, inscribed by MFC “save for filing,” on back of wedding reception card,
1970s (?)
Holy card, belonging to (?) Marie Zimmermann Malblanc, in French, 1930s?
Correspondence of MFC, regarding Cresson family and heirlooms, 1968
MFC stationery, letter paper and envelopes, Chesterwood, green
Photograph, sculpture of two owls
Album, of “stamps based on the works of DCF,” 1925-1954 [NT73.45.5214]
Magazine, American Homes and Gardens, January 1909
Address, by Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck, on presentation of a bust of DCF by MFC, MFC
ersonal copy bearing her underscorings, delivered at the Hall of Artists, University of the
City of New York, May 26, 1934
The Trustees of Reservations Annual Report, 1954
Letter (4 copies), from DCF Foundation, thanking Chesterwood members for their
support
Newspaper clippings regarding DCF, letters, programs, flyers, etc. from DCF
Foundation, clippings from magazine Ford Times, July 1965
Double-oversized Box 164:
Notebooks, small, contained in floral envelope, pink, with laces, inscribed by MFC
“Notebooks – M. F. C”
205
Analects (2), collected by Prentiss L. Coonley
Telephone directory, Great Barrington Area
Paper strips, clippings of typescript and handwritten drafts, in elastic band
Typescript drafts, of “Fifty Years Ago”, essay by Henry F. French
Inspirational quotations, handcopied, contained in white envelope
Photographs (3), framed and glazed (1 broken)
Order forms, empty, contained in small box, inscribed “Saks Fifth Avenue”
Purse, leather, brown, containing two photographs of WPC
Empty envelopes, notebook clippings, miscellaneous
Double-Oversized Box 165: Pink room closet items, stored immediately following MFC’s death
Empty envelope, inscribed “Certificate/ the Flag of the United States of America”
Miscellaneous stationery
Floral notebooks (numerous)
Writing drafts by MFC
Double-Oversized Box 166: photos, mostly framed, and commercial reproductions of paintings
Photograph, formal, mounted, showing David R. Francis, inscribed to WPC, taken in
ambasador’s office in Petrograd at height of Revolution, March 1-15, 1917
[NT73.45.4830]
Wedding photograph of Miss Louise ____, framed and glazed, 1920
Photograph, framed and glazed, to WPC from his friend, 1912
Commercial reproductions (16) and portfolio, belonging to MFC, of paintings,
Renaissance to current representational, with many Post-Impressionist, engraved or
color-printed, c.1910-c.1970 (1960s?)
Double-Oversized Box 167: Drawings
206
Graphite drawing by Julia T. Manning, framed and glazed, given to DCF, c.1883
Portrait place cards (7) by Margaret French, among those depicted: Helen and Mildred
Harbeck, perhaps Lilla Renshaw, c.1915
Fragment of inside covers of a book
Graphite drawings and watercolors (15), by Margaret French, of flowers, 1912-14
Graphite sketches (2; in separate folders), MFC, “Daniel Chester French Award for
Sculpture in the Classic Tradition”
Watercolor drawings (4), patron MFC, artist Kay Petersen Parker, Chesterwood barn
interior designs (not executed), 1959
5 sheets of 9 graphite on tracing paper drawings, artist sculptor Donald Delue, sent to
MFC regarding obverse and reverse of Daniel Chester French Memorial Award for
Classical Sculpture, 1959
Box 168:
Loose-leaf notebook, black, containing photographs of works by DCF, selected by MFC
for little “fuschia” booklet on DCF, i.e. photograph album, DCF sculpture, for 1947 and
1963 publication [NT73.45.5246]
Snapshots (14), originally in albums
Clipping of newspaper reproduction, showing Seth Low, DCF, George Forster Peabody
et al. at Trask Memorial unveiling, June 26, 1915
Tearsheets of articles (3) and photographic print, kept by DCF or MFC (?), or WPC (?),
provide samples of lettering, c.1920
Clippings, belonging to DCF, New York Times reproductions of Old Master paintings
from the Altman collection given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, date (?)
Clippings, belonging to DCF, portraits by painters of 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, cut
from auction catalogues, 1920s (?)
Photographs (2), MFC or perhaps DCF, frontal and profile of barley sugar twist turned
cane armchair, early 20th century [NANs]
Book plate, periodical clipping, stereograph, belonging to DCF (?), 17th century armchair
(passiflora cerulean), and Native American, late 19th-early 20th century [NANs]
207
Photographs (2), MFC (?), WPC (?), or DCF (?), published and numbered, Raphael’s
Tablet in Pantheon, Rome, and Roman catacomb tablet, both stone inscriptions, early
20th century [NANs]
Photograph, belonging to MFC (?), sepia of tall water lilies, mounted, early 20th century
Stationery fragment, M. A. French, half of an “informal,” imprinted “Mrs. Daniel Chester
French,” early 20th century
Newspaper and magazine clippings, form letters, invitation, membership notice, New
Year card and book jacket, kept by MFC to give to New York Public Library, of articles
on Chesterwood and on DCF and of mostly dCF Foundation material, 1960s
Photostat copy, MFC, letter from DCF to her, regarding sale of Memory and its
presentation to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 21, 1919
Place cards (14), inscribed by MFC with first names, mostly, of friends invited to a
Christmas dinner, probably 1940 or 1941
Box 169:
Album, DCF sculpture photos, 1907 or later, DCF personal copy [NT73.45.5240]
Sequence of mounted photographs: Mildmore, Alma Mater, Clark, Anderson, Hunt,
Continents, White Memoral angel, O’Reilly, Washington, Washington and DCF
outdoors, Boston Public Library Doors, Minnesota statues (6), First Federal Bilding (2
groups) (1906), Hooker, Republic of Siegel-Cooper, Choate (1898), Bartlett statue
(1903?), Gallaudet, Chapman, Phillips Brooks, Minute Man, Perkins, Harvard,
Newcomer (1904), Carlotta, Woleott (1906), Artemis (inside of back cover).
Photograph, mounted, Miss Wyman, friend of Daniel and Mary French, 1897 [NT73.45
(A165)]
Magazine, kept by MFC, THe Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1898.
Album, scrapbook and contents of leather folder, including: MFC essay “I Like to Work!”
“A Genius Come to Town”; personal letters 1960-1973; personal mail 1972-1973;
carbon copy of typoscript of literary preview, unidentified reviewer, author MFC,
collaborator Stefan Lorant, her pictorial biography on DCF, 1962 (?); full-page spread,
newspaper article, writes MFC, “Sculptor’s Sculptor,” Ivan Mestrovic, New York Times
Magazine, pp.20-23, April 6, 1947; photographs (3) of artwork, artist Epstein, Feininger
and of Easter Island, Museum of Modern Art collection or film library, 1950s; color
reproductions (13), belonging to MFC, mostly Old Master, some Moderninst, 1950s-60s;
art reproductions (2), belonging to DCF, 1920s-30; photograph, sculptor Villa,
photographer A. Noack, Monumental Pienovi (1879), Genoa, Italy, c.1900, numerous
newspaper clippings and flyers.
208
Scrapbook, beloned to Gertrude Robinson Smith, clippings dated 1912-1954
[NT73.45.981]
Double-Oversized Box 170:
Miscellaneous newspaper clippings
Box 171: [Document Box] MFC ephemera
Telephone address book and record of alcoholic beverages ordered in June and
September of 1973 [F29.MFC]: invoice for alcoholic beverages ordered in June, 1973;
small list, in hand of MFC, of alcoholic beverages ordered on September 29 [1973] +
plain fragment pink notepaper + envelope (plain)
Gift coupon, c.1968
Typewriter purchase slip and guarantee (1968) and exercise example and inscribed
envelope (note from Coline Woodworth to Lillian)
Printed sermon (Emmanuel Church), March 11, 1973
Box 172: [Doument Box] MFC ephemera
Tearsheet of color reproduction, Jack Zehrt colorphoto (Shstal), Lincoln Memorial statue
viewed by 3 children, perhaps from calendar, 1950s
Printed transcript of congressional speech (6), circular letters (4), tearsheet of magazine
article, kept by MFC, regarding anti-Communism, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1968
(?)
Soft-cover booklet (6 copies), writer and compiler MFC, St. Paul’s Church, Stockbridge,
MA, a list of the memorials and the people who made them, Dec. 1950, 3 discrete
covers, printed 1951, revised 1960
Printed sermon (7), St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1971-72
Menus (5) with lithographed covers (7), kept by MFC, of dinners aboard Grace Line S.
S. Santa Rosa, scenes of northern South America, July 5-12, 1952
Newspaper clippings (3) [photocopied], filed by MFC, regarding Institute of Pacific
Relations, 1953-54
Newsletter and newspaper clippings (5) [photocopied], filed by MFC regarding Federal
Bureau of Investigation, 1954-55
209
Newspaper clippings [photocopies], reprint, weekly newsletter, filed by MFC, regarding
the press, c.1954
Poem, “In Flanders Fields” by Lieut. Colonel John McRae, numerous copies
Reprints, brochures, leaflet, newspaper advertisement, printed by America First
Committee, against the war, 1940-41
Pamphlets, folders, printed excerpts, reprints, weekly digest, kept by MFC, against and
on war, on Pearl Harbor, civil disobedience, atomic war, tribute to Winston Churchill,
1940-41, 1943-45, 1947
Notes (3) and transcripts (2), typed and handwritten by MFC, she, Lew Ayres, and
Norman Vincent Peale, on war, 1942 and undated
Slips (8) of paper inscribed by MFC with quotations on war, 1930s or 1940s?
Collection of printed pages torn from various religions publications, mostly of daily
biblical passages and comments, with marginal scorings by MFC on war, 1930s-1950s?
Newspaper clippings, kept by MFC, expressing anti-war and anti-atomic bomb
sentiments, some inscribed by MFC, mostly New York Times or Berkshire Eagle, 194042, 1945-47, 1952
Newspaper clippings, miscellaneous, kept by MFC, Berkshire Eagle and New York
Times, regarding sharing atomic secret; chemical warfare; and three patriots, 1945,
1946, and undated
Periodic clippings (2), Kept by MFC, against war, 1946, c.late 1940s
Clipping, reprint, printed folder, kept by MFC<against US military conscription, 1951-52
Double-Oversized Box 173:
Photograph of a bust [NT69.38.971]
Oversize Box 174:
Photographs (5), loose, Baylor statue
List of portraits by MFC and her biography (numerous copies), for Chesterwood
exhibition
Letter, from Audrey’s Asthetics, enclosed with two photos of a bust
210
Photocopy, quotations from DCF’s correspondence, handcopied in notebook
Writings of MFC, including “the Strength of the Hills,” “the Chesterwood Garden,” “Art
and the Emperor’s New Clothes,” “Beauty for Ashes,” “Bombshells for Beauty,” “Salute
to Lincoln,” “Build Thee More Stately Mansions,” “the Unknown Soldier,” “John
Harvard,” “My Hand in the Hand of God,” “Lighting the Lincoln Statue.”
Photographs with no numbers: Raphael’s Cherubs, linen-mounted, in use by MFC;
print, sculptor Paul Manship, girl and satyr; Raphael’s Cherubs, original WPC series,
linen-mounted
Letters (numerous), printed, from David Meschutt to Susan Frisch Lehrer, regarding
portraits of President James Monroe
Flyer, St. Paul’s Church
Writings of Susan Frisch Lehrer, “Reminiscences of a Sculptor’s Daughter,” 1989;
sources for MFC biography, MFC photos, brochures, etc.
Unnumbered Box: [oversize] (labeled MFC ephemera – clippings)
Mailing tube from Frank Crownninshield addressed to MFC, 1940s
Empty roll-mailer addressed to “Mrs. Penn Cresson c/o Mrs. Daniel Chester French”
from Frank Cronninshield
Mailing tube, addressed in unidentified hand to “Mrs. Wm Penn Cresson/ 225 # East
62nd Street/ New York City/ N. Y.” (1940s)
Envelope of “Curtis Bell photographer,” photographer of DCF and of Margaret French,
who stocked her drawings of flowers in it (1912-1914: date of drawings)
Empty envelopes and photo frames
Unnumbered Box: [oversize] (labeled MFC Misc.)
Contains empty envelopes, mailing tubes, etc.
Unnumbered Box: [double-oversize]
Photograph, opening of Washington Conference, Nov 11, 1921
“Springfield Republican”, June 5, 1946, a few pages; page 2 shows cutout: significance
unknown
211
Book jacket for Yesterday is Tomorrow by Malvina Hoffman (c.1965)
Patriotic-theme art reproductions (one composition includes DCF Minute Man; another
gives text of “In Flanders Fields”)
Panoramic photos of Russia
Hardcover of album
Poster: Jacob’s Pillow, 1968 (1)
Chesterwood Poster, c. 1960?
Photographic reproductions: portraits by MFC
Book jacket and letter to Mrs. Cresson
Posters (2) (identical) for Jacob’s Pillow, 1966, apparently kept in case needed for use
as backing
Illustrated lecture by MFC on DCF, Berkshire Museum Auditorium, Sep. 13, 1938
Unnumbered Box: MFC clippings
Clippings, from MFC’s book-review scrapbook, 1947
Clippings, from New York Times, about Lincoln Memorial, James Monroe, American
sculptors, etc. 1947
Clippings, from MFC’s book-review scrapbook, inserted next to back cover, 1947
Herbarium Box 1: Slides and supplies and texts and specimens
“Chesterwood Herbarium and Flora Map Key” (1982) by Kristin Taylor (list of plants
only, i.e, no map key) (8 pages + title page + forenote)
“Chesterwood gardens” (1982) by Kristin Taylor (4 pages + title page)
Fragments of studies by Kristin Taylor (1982)
Specimens
Stationery
212
Herbarium Box 2:
Pinus strobus; pinus resinosa; pices abies; tsuga canadensis; juniperus virginiana; salix
babylonica; populous deltoides; carya ovata; betula papyrifera; castanea dentate;
quercus rubra; berberis thunbergil; liriodendron tulipifera; calycanthus florida;
philadelphus inodorus; hydrangea sp; hamamelis virginiana; prunus virginiana; rubus
oderatus; amelanchier Canadensis; gleditsia tricanthos; acer pensylvanicum; acer
platonoides; acer rubrum; acer saccharum; aesculus hippocastanum; parthenocissus
inserta; cornus alternifolia; kalmia latifolia; vacciniumm corymbosum; rhododendron
maximum; syringe vulgaris; ligustrum vulgare; lonicera tatarica; viburnum acerifolium;
sambucus pubens; polypodium vulgare; adiantum pedatum; asplenium filix-foemina;
dryopteris spinulosa var. intermedia; dicksonia pilosiuscula; onoclea sensibilis; aspidium
noveboracense
Herbarium Box 3: Chesterwood Herbarium
Aspidium acrostichoides; Thelypteris Phegopteris; Osmunda Claytoniana; Osmunda
Struthiopteris; Hemerocallis fulva; Erythronium americanum; Trillum erectum; Uvularia
sessifolia; Polyenatum pubescens; Similacina racemose; Maianthemum canadense;
Asarum canadense; Ranunculus acris; Actea pachypoda; Thalictrum dioicum;
Sanguinaria Canadensis; Chelidonium majus; Fragaria virginiana; Malva neglecta;
Caulophyllum thalictroides; Barbarea vulgaris; Hesperis matrionalis; Saline cucubalus;
Dianthus armeria; Stellaria graminea; Sedum sarmentosum; Mitella diphylla; Tiarella
cordifolla; Oxalis stricta; Zizia aurea; Daucus carota; Cicuta macaulata; Ceranium
robertianum; Geranium maculatum; Trifolium agrarium; Viola conspersa; Viola
papilionacea; Viola pubescens; Viola rostrate; Viola rotundifolia; Gaultheria
procumbens; Trientalis borealis
Herbarium Box 5: Chesterwood Herbarium album, 1982
Unlabeled Box: Sepia print of young woman, wearing veil of tulle, inscribed “Lucy Fay Barrett/
Wedding picture/ Married/ John H. Chapman/ grandmother of/ Lydia B. Chittenden (Smith)/
Alice F. Chittenden (Smith) [sic?]”
Filing Cabinet
List of file folder headings
Drawer One - "Chesterwood Studio" (labelled Box 158)
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List of files in this cabinet
Architectural Drawings - see also Maps and Surveys:
213
Photocopy, blueprint, pedestals and their foundations, Chesterwood, Sep
1964
Blueprint, in pencil, book shelves under stairs, Chesterwood main house,
July 1967
Blueprint, 3 copies, book shelves under stairs, Chesterwood main house,
July 1967
Blueprint, wood shed at Chesterwood, August 1964
Blueprint, yellow shed, new setting for ‘Lady of the Waters’ at Barn Gallery
Chesterwood, Sep 1964
Photocopy, Blueprint, yellow shed, new setting for ‘Lady of the Waters’ at
Barn Gallery Chesterwood, Sep 1964
Photocopy, plan for development of area near the barn, October 1962
Blueprint, plan for barn, Chesterwood, Oct 1959
Photocopy, blueprint, Chesterwood barn, Aug 17, 1962
Map, Lyndhurst as received by the National Trust for Historic
Preservation, 1964
Blueprint, 2 copies, reed matting for background, May 2, 1963
Drawings and measurement for Chesterwood Studio Museum, July 16,
1962
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Administrators - N.T. (and other Officials), correspondence
Letter, from Peter H. Smith to MFC, regarding Chesterwood
administration, Aug 17, 1970
Resumes, of Paul Ivory, administrator of Chesterwood
Correspondence, between James Biddle, Paul Ivory, Chesterwood
Trustees and Council, and MFC, regarding resignation of Kenneth Pendar
and Paul Ivory’s appointment as administrator of Chesterwood, 1970-71
News, National Trust for Historic Preservation, regarding Kenneth
Pendar’s resignation and Peter H. Smith’s appointment as temporary
administrator of Chesterwood
214
Resume, of Ralph Grayson Schwarz
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Agreement - NT (this file is empty 1995)
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American Association of Museums - 1963-1964, correspondence and brochure
Letter, from American Association of Museums, regarding retirement and
insurance plan for its employees, May 4, 1959
Letter, from American Association of Museums, regarding survey
questionnaire, June 22, 1959
Letter, from Robert K. Wheeler to Mrs. William Hunt, regarding the annual
meeting of X Society at Chesterwood, Nov 29, 1963
Letter, from Etta Falkner to Mrs. William Hunt, regardint the annual
meeting of the New England Museums Conference, Jan 17, 1964
Letter, from Mrs. William Hunt to MFC, regarding the annual meeting of
the New England Museums Conference at Chesterwood, May 16, 1964
Notes, handwritten, schedule for the annual meeting of the New England
Museums Conference, Sep 25 and 26, 1964
Letter, from F. J. Dallett to MFC, appreciating her work with the
Chesterwood Museum, Sep 29, 1964
Letter, from Douglas E. Evelyn to MFC, regarding charitable contribution
deductions for museums, Oct 20, 1965
Brochure, So You Want a Good Museum: A Guide to the Management of
Small Museums, by Carl E. Guthe, reprinted 1964
Brochure, Museum Training Courses in the United States and Canada,
American Association of Museums, Washington DC
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Appeals – DCF, 1956-1968, correspondence
Notice of membership, Friends of Chesterwood, 1963
Letter, from Daniel Chester French Foundation, asking members for
financial support, Oct 30, 1965
Appeal, from Daniel Chester French Foundation, reporting on events of
215
the past year, Nov 1, 1966
Letter, from MFC to Mrs Hellmut Wohl, regarding Appeals of former years,
Oct 10, 1968
Appeal, from Daniel Chester French Foundation, reporting on events of
the past year, November 1968
Appeal, from Daniel Chester French Foundation, asking members for
financial support, Sep 27, 1963
Letter, from the Trustees of Reservations to MFC, regarding list of
contributors to Chesterwood Studio
Draft, of article for Chesterwood membership brochure
Draft, of 1962 Annual Report of Daniel Chesterwood French Foundation
Letter, from the Trustees of Reservations, asking residents of Berkshire
for financial support, 1956
Program, Dedication of Chesterwood, June 9, 1969
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Appeals – National Trust of Historical Preservation, 1969
Appeal letter, from Chesterwood Council, asking for financial support from
Chesterwood donors, 1969
Letter, from Chesterwood Council to MFC, regarding conservation of
Chesterwood studio and collections
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Awards and Citations - See also "Historic Sites", correspondence
Letter, from Thomas G. Lo Medico to MFC, regarding Award and Citation to
Daniel Chester French Museum and Augustus Saint Gaudens Museum, Nov 2,
1964
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Bacon, Henry – MFC correspondence regarding Lincoln Memorial (1970, 1971, 1972,
1973)
Correspondence, between Leslie N. Boney Jr., John F. Harbeson, Michael
Richman, and MFC, regarding information about Henry Bacon, 1970
Letter, from John Pierce and Peter H. Smith to MFC, regarding blueprints of
Bacon’s design for the Lincoln Memorial, Aug 14, 1970
216
Survey of information on Henry Bacon, Jr, from Leslie N. Boney
Letter, from MFC to National Sculpture Society, requesting help with finding
plaster copy of Lincoln mask, March 20, 1973
Letter, from MFC to William Henry Zwiesler, thanking the latter for his help with
her previous request, July 9, 1973
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Nathan Bates
Correspondence, between Nathan Bates and MFC, regarding bills, taxes,
employment rates of workers and general housekeeping, 1955-1958
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Berkshire Museum
Letter, from Catherine E. Gatti to MFC, regarding photography competition of
Berkshire Museum Camera Club, Aug 25, 1970
Letter, from MFC to Nartlett Hendricks, apologizing for the mistake about
Berkshire Museum Camera Club, June 12, 1970
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Bequests, “Chesterwood Studio”
Letter, from MFC to Edward Bartlett, regarding sculpture donation to
Chesterwood, Dec 3, 1968
Letter, handwritten, from Edward Bartlett to MFC, regarding sculpture donation to
Chesterwood, Dec 5, 1968
Letter, from MFC to Edward Bartlett, regarding sculpture donation to
Chesterwood and other miscellaneous, Dec 30, 1968
Letter, from Edward Bartlett to MFC, suggesting her take life easy, Dec 30, 1968
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Biographical Sketch – MFC (empty)
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Boney, Leslie N - see under Bacon, Henry (empty)
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Books - Old Bookshops for Locating Journey into Fame
Letter, from Jane L. Wright to MFC, regarding sale of Journey into Fame, Jan 5,
1966
Letter, from MFC to Jane L. Wright, declining the latter’s offer, Jane 13, 1966
217
Old envelopes and receipts, from the Seven Bookhunters; Argosy Book Stores;
the Coventry Bookstore; the Gateway, etc.
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Borghese Art Mfgs.- Re: Owls – Brackets
Letter, from MFC to Borghese Art Manufactures, regarding Owl figurines, Jan 18,
1966
Letter, from L. J. McCullough to MFC, responding to the latter’s request, March 3,
1966
Letter, from MFC to L. J. McCullough, regarding details on Owl figurines, 1966
Letter, from MFC to L. J. McCullough, regarding more details on Owl figurines,
Sep 15, 1966
Letter, from L. J. McCullough to MFC, responding to the latter’s request, Sep 19,
1966
Letter, from MFC to L. J. McCullough, regarding her recent orders, Sep 26, 1966
Invoice, of wall brackets in antique gold, requested by MFC
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Chesterwood - History of
Letter, from George A. Warner to MFC, regarding information relative to the early
history of Chesterwood, March 3, 1971
Letter, from George A. Warner to Harold F. Goggins, regarding a deed by which
Marshall Warner property was transferred to DCF, Feb 6, 1971
Letter, from MFC to George A. Warner, commenting on the information sent by
the latter, May 7, 1971
Letter, from George A. Warner to Paul W. Ivory, regarding a deed by which
Marshall Warner property was transferred to DCF, May 12, 1971
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Chesterwood - taxes/ Report from Tax Collector: List of token gifts to the Town of
Stockbridge
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Concord Public Library
Correspondence, between Marcia E. Moss and MFC, regarding DCF
photographs, 1968
218
Letter, from Thomas Hollis to MFC, regarding his memories of Chesterwood
house, Dec 28, 1967
Correspondence, between David B. Little and MFC, regarding bust of Simon
Brown, 1962-66
Letter, from MFC to the Concord Library, regarding bust of Simon Brown, Oct 10,
1962
Letter, from Alessandro Macone to MFC, regarding permission to use the latter’s
voice on record, Nov 17, 1969
Letter, from MFC to Alessandro Macone, regarding her voice on record, Jan 14,
1970
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Conservation
Newspaper clipping, “Udall urges a ‘New Wave’ of US Conservationists”
Newspaper clipping, “Value vs. Cost in Environment”
Remark, by Alan S. Boyd, prepared for delivery to the Transportation Task Force
for the State of California, Sep 6, 1967
Document, annual meeting of Municipal Art Society, August 1966
Newspaper clipping, “Program to Save Historic Sites Urged in Report to White
House,” New York Times
Newsletter, Housatonic River Watershed Association, August 1967
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Correspondence, between Pierre Beauregard and National Trust, regarding:
.
Budget, maintenance, Board report, etc., Jan 27, 1967
Information on Chesterwood residence and adjacent properties, Feb 21, 1967
Report to Executive Committee of National Trust, March 2, 1967
Consideration of Chesterwood be accepted as a property of the National Trust,
March 30, 1967
Status of Chesterwood following the previous letter, April 26, 1967
219
Status of Chesterwood following the previous letter, May 15, 1967
Exchange of pictures, maps, survey and letters, March 3, 1967
Visit by Trustees, Feb 15, 1967
Members of Chesterwood Council, Nov 6, 1968
Recommendation of ideal Chesterwood Council members, Nov 22, 1968
Council members, dinner meeting, ex-officio, Nov 26, 1968
Council members, dinner meeting, ex-officio, Dec 4, 1968
Council members and meeting, Jan 28, 1970
Possibility of making a token gift to the town of Stockbridge in lieu of taxes, Apr 6,
1970
Problems of Chesterwood expenses, June 19, 1970
Chesterwood funding, Oct 29, 1970
Chesterwood expenses, July 21, 1970
Routine maintenance list for Chesterwood, March 12, 1971
Bill from Blue Whistle for repairs to the Standing Lincoln Statue, June 30, 1969
Correspondence, between James Biddles/National Trust and MFC, regarding:
MFC’s contribution to National Trust, July 7, 1972
Arrangement to visit Chesterwood, Aug 2, 1972
Meeting with MFC at Chesterwood, Apr 21, 1971
Preservation of Chesterwood collections, Nov 8, 1970
Budget of annual maintenance of Chesterwood, March 6, 1968
Deficit and funding, March 8, 1968
Court action and signing of documents, Sep 18, 1968
220
The Seated Lincoln by John G. W. Mahanna, Oct 15, 1968
Studio skylight and safety of statues, Oct 30, 1969
Studio skylight and safety of statues, Nov 5, 1969
John Pierce’s resignation as Curator of Historic Properties, July 22, 1970
Christmas blessings, Dec 16, 1971
Memorial service at Chesterwood barn, Aug 24, 1971
Exhibition of Chesterwood house, Feb 26, 1971
Administrative direction, trust headquarters interpretive work with properties, Jan
7, 1969
Problems of decisions of National Trust, Aug 12, 1972
List of DCF works related to American Revolution, June 22, 1971
Interpretation of Chesterwood studio, July 1, 1971
Interpretation of Chesterwood studio, July 17, 1971
Will of MFC, Dec 14, 1971
Correspondence, between MFC and National Trust, regarding:
Need of adjustment to Chesterwood garden, Sep 29, 1972
Perpectual preservation of studio museum, Sep 26, 1966
National Trust vs. National Park Service, Oct 5, 1966 and Jan 16, 1969
Chesterwood studio logistics, Feb 28, 1967
Chesterwood photos, Apr 24, 1967
Historic preservation legislation, Sep 14, 1967
Consideration report on Chesterwood, Oct 3, 1967
Finance operations, National Trust lawyers, Nov 14, 1967
221
Procedure of property transfer, Sep 11, 1968
Newspaper release, Sep 30, 1968
Chesterwood photos, Nov 6, 1968
Property transfer to National Trust, Nov 8, 1968
Photoduplication of DCF’s leather notebooks at Library of Congress, Aug 18,
1969
National Trust office at Chesterwood, Oct 8, 1969
Transparencies of photographs, Dec 2, 1969
Mrs. Willadene Price, biographer, Feb 3, 1970
Transparencies of photographs, Feb 4, 1970
Transparencies of photographs, Apr 8, 1970
Transparencies of photogrpahs, Apr 9, 1970
Reprinting of Jouney into Fame, Apr 28, 1970
Reprinting of Jouney into Fame, May 25, 1970
Appreciation for Mr. Michael Lantz, President of National Sculpture Society, May
27, 1970
Problem with financing the reprinting of Jouney into Fame, June 1, 1970
Dr. Gertz’s article about Chesterwood, June 1, 1970
Chesterwood garden bills, June 15, 1970
Chesterwood garden maintenance and tax exemption, June 25, 1970
Invitation for overnight visit at Chesterwood, July 15, 1971
Paul Ivory’s tenure appointment, Feb 26, 1971
Red meat diet and artistic advice on Pierce’s beard, Aug 31, 1971
Exhibition, interview, editing, Jan 13, 1972
222
Arrangement of furniture, Feb 22, 1972
Missing book of photographs, July 26, 1972
Correspondence, between Helen Bullock and MFC, regarding newspaper article on
Ford Foundation (July 25, 1967; photocopy of article attached), Sep 6, 1967 and Dec 1,
1967
Correspondence, between Donald C. Douglass and National Trust, regarding National
Trust’s ownership of Chesterwood, March 7, 1967
Correspondence, between Helen French and National Trust, regarding Chesterwood
heating, Oct 31, __
Correspondence, between Gordon Gray and National Trust, regarding:
Property transfer logistics, June 21, 1967
Property transfer logistics, July 25, 1967
Date of Trustees Meeting, Aug 5, 1967
MFC’s reluctance to commit her funds irrevocably, Aug 1, 1967
Meeting schedule (newspaper clipping on James Biddle attached), Sep 19, 1967
Correspondence, between Frederick Haupt III and National Trust, regarding:
Chesterwood brochure (brochure attached), Feb 7, 1972
Interview with the producer of the “Today” show, Jan 6, 1972
Medal for the 50th Anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial, Dec 20, 1971
Medal for the 50th Anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial, Jan 7, 1972
Restoration of the casting room at Chesterwood studio, Dec 17, 1971
Chesterwood promotional series, July 16, 1971
Brochure editing, July 26, 1971
Brochure pictures, Sep 25, 1971
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Brochure pictures, Oct 1, 1971
Final proof on Chesterwood brochure, Nov 5, 1971
Final brochure editing (brochure attached), Nov 9, 1971
Final brochure editing, Nov 18, 1971
Correspondence, between Stephen Hibbard and National Trust, regarding:
Problems with Chesterwood administration, May 27, 1968
Transfer of DCF Foundation property to National Trust, Apr 25, 1968
Logistics of property transfer, Sep 26, 1968
Chesterwood administration, July 26, 1968
Correspondence, between MFC and Phelps Warren, regarding recommendation for
Paul Ivory, Administrator of Chesterwood, Jan 3, 1973
Correspondence, between James C. Massey and MFC, regarding:
Cattle grazing and fencing at Chesterwood, Apr 4, 1973
Cattle grazing and crop rotation, Apr 10, 1973
Environmental impact of cattle grazing, March 27, 1973
Bypass of Stockbridge, March 12, 1973
Funding of exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb 16, 1973
Funding of exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb 22, 1973
DCF works in sculpture collection of the Brookgreen Garden, July 25, 1972
Possibility of exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 28, 1972
Possibility of exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Aug 12, 1972
Possibility of exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Aug 23, 1972
Visit to Chesterwood, April 19 and 28, 1972
224
Visit to Chesterwood, Sep 14 and 19, 1973
Correspondence, between Steve Morris and National Trust (file empty 1995)
Correspondence, between J. N. Pearce and National Trust, regarding:
Consideration Report, corrected, Oct 13, 1967
Photograph of DCF’s “The Republic” for Arts in America series, July 25, 1968
Meeting schedule, Oct 30, 1968
Film catalog and supplements, Sep 23, 1969
DCF sculpture reproduction, Nov 3, 1969
Photographs of high quality art casting, Dec 19, 1969
Book and catalog sale, Nov 26, 1969
Chesterwood Council meeting schedule, March 31, 1970
Invitation to visit Chesterwood, Apr 28, 1970
Future Chesterwood plans, June 26, 1970
Administration of Chesterwood trying weeks, Aug 18, 1970
Furniture catalog, Nov 16, 1970
Correspondence, from and to Kenneth Pendar, regarding:
Chesterwood Opening plan, Feb 6, 1969
Chesterwood property transfer to National Trust, Jan 23, 1969
Update on Chesterwood life, March 1, 1969
Canary Cottage, March 1, 1969
Canary Cottage, March 23, 1969
Council meeting plan (Chesterwood quarterly report attached), June 12, 1969
Correspondence, from Joseph Prendergast, regarding:
225
Budget and figures for Chesterwood operations, March 7, 1968
Preparation of legal documents, July 1, 1968
Correspondence, between Ralph Schwartz and National Trust (file empty 1995)
Correspondence, between Leila/Peter Smith and MFC, regarding:
Article on Chesterwood in National Sculpture Review and Chesterwood
administrator, Jan 25, 1971
Minuteman and design for stained glass windows at National Cathedral, Feb 2,
1971
Articles on Chesterwood, Jan 2, 1971
Visit to Chesterwood, Oct 23, 1972
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Council Meetings & Calendar of Events
Letter, from MFC to the Committee for Chesterwood, regarding property transfer
to National Trust, Nov 8, 1968
Letter, to the Board of Trustee, regarding Board of Trustee’s May meeting in
Stockbridge, Jan 2, 1969
Letter, from Pierre Beauregard to Chesterwood Council, regarding plan for future
Council Meetings, May 1, 1969
List of members of Chesterwood Council and Ex-Officio
Chesterwood Dedication schedule, June 9-10, 1969
Chesterwood Dedication program, June 9, 1969
Letter, from James Biddle to MFC, regarding resolution of September 9 Board
meeting, Sep 15, 1969 (resolution attached)
Agenda for Chesterwood Council meeting, Sep 18, 1969
List of potential members for the Chesterwood Council
Agenda for Chesterwood Council meeting, March 26, 1970
226
Calendar of Trust events, April – December, 1970
Agenda for Chesterwood Council meeting, June 1, 1970
Calendar of National Trust events, July – December, 1970
Calendar of National Trust events, September – December, 1970
Calendar of Naional Trust events, July – December, 1971
Notes, on characteristics of a good hostess, Stockbridge Area Museum Guide
Meeting
List of members of Chesterwood Council and Ex-Officio
Calendar of National Trust events, April – December 1971
Agenda for Chesterwood Council meeting, April 6, 1971
Agenda for Chesterwood Council meeting, Sep 14, 1971
Calendar of National Trust events, October - December, 1971
Agenda for Chesterwood Council meeting, Nov 16, 1971
Letter, from Gordon Gray to John S. McLennan, inviting the latter to join
Chesterwood Council, Nov 24, 1971
Letter, from Gordon Gray to Mrs. William Felton Barett Jr., inviting the latter to
join Chesterwood Council, Nov 24, 1971
Letter, from Gordon Gray to Albert B. Wolfe, inviting the latter to join
Chesterwood Council, Dec 23, 1971
Brochure, Historic Settings, National Trust for Historical Preservation
Brochure, The National Trust Fights for Historic Preservation – Join Us!
Brochure, Guarding America’s Landmarks
Calendar of National Trust events, January – December, 1972
Agenda for Chesterwood Council meeting, April 4, 1972
227
Calendar of National Trust events, May - December, 1972
Agenda for Chesterwood Council meeting, Nov 14, 1972
Chesterwood budget summary, Chesterwood Council, Nov 14, 1972
Letter, from Pierre Beauregard to Steve Morris, regarding nomination of
Chesterwood Council members, Sep 21, 1972
Letter, from James Biddle to MFC, regarding duplicate mailings, Oct 31, 1972
Letter, from Paul Ivory to Ingersoll Cunningham, regarding memorial for Mrs.
Theresa I. Cunningham, Sep 16, 1972
Agenda for Chesterwood Council meeting, May 22, 1973
Letter, from Gordon Gray to Mrs. John Church, inviting the latter to join
Chesterwood Council, July 30, 1973
Cresson Room
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Theodora Morgan, regarding Cresson Sculpture Room
and its paragraph in Sculpture News, Aug 2, 1968
Letter, from MFC to Mr. Frank Eliscu, inviting the latter to visit Chesterwood, July
31, 1968
Letter, from MFC to Katherine Hobson, thanking her for her visit, July 31, 1968
Letter, from MFC to Vaughn Gray, thanking him for his patience of job, July 31,
1968
Letter, from MFC to Wayne N. Aspinall, regarding Redwoods National Park, July
23, 1968
Letter, from MFC to Mr. Chazey, regarding material for upholstery, Oct 9, 1967
Letter, from Robert Worthington to MFC, regarding Cresson room decoration,
July 13, 1967
Letter, from John Terken to MFC, regarding work schedule, May 11, 1967
228
Draft, biography of Theresa Cunningham, July 28, 1968
List of names of donors for Cresson Room
Documents regarding Mr. H. Wickliffe Rose’s proposal for opening the carriage
room (Cresson Room) of the Barn Gallery for public exhibition
Cunningham, Theresa (Memorial)
Letter, from Bernhard Zuckermann to Michael Lantz, regarding expenses for
Chesterwood fountain, May 12, 1970
Letter, from Ingersoll Cunningham to James Biddle, regarding funding for
Chesterwood fountain, Jun 12, 1972
Draft, memorial for Theresa Cunningham, by MFC
Letter, from James Biddle to Ingersoll Cunningham, regarding transformation of
Chesterwood fountain, June 27, 1972
Letter, from James C. Massey to Ingersoll Cunningham, regarding memorial for
Theresa Cunningham, July 25, 1972
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Dedication
Program, Dedication of Chesterwood, June 9, 1969
Newspaper clipping, “Chesterwood Gallery Dedicated,” Berkshire Eagle, Aug 21,
1963
Newspaper clipping, “Sculptor and Historian Speaking at Chestewood,” Aug 16,
1963
Newspaper clipping, “Golden Age of Stockbridge Art Gleams Again at
Chesterwood,” July, 1963
Newspaper clipping, “200 Attend Dedication at Chesterwood Barn,” Berkshire
Eagle, Aug 21, 1963
Letter, from MFC to Roger Greeley, regarding repair of studio cellar, July 18,
1955
Invitation to Dedication of the Studio of Daniel Chester French, June 25, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Governor Christian A. Herter, thanking the latter for his
229
telegram, July 15, 1955
Letter, from Robert Walcott to MFC, regarding arrangement of the Dedication,
July 12, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Frederick Rath Jr., thanking the latter for his letter, July 15,
1955
Letter, from MFC to R. W. Vail, thanking the latter for his letter, July 15, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Judge Robert Walcott, regarding arrangement of the
Dedication, Juyl 15, 1955
Letter, from MFC to John Mahanna, thanking the latter for his contribution to the
Dedication, July 9, 1955
Letter, from Donald B. Miller to MFC, regarding Mr. Osborn’s speech at the
Dedication, July 6, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Wheeler Williams, thanking the latter for his speech at the
Dedication, June 28, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Wheeler Williams, regarding transcript of the latter’s speech
at the Dedication, July 5, 1955
Letter, from Jack Leather to MFC, regarding the invocation at the Dedication,
June 27, 1955
Program, the Dedication of the Daniel Chester French Studio, June 25, 1955
Letter, from Frederick L. Rath Jr. to MFC, declining the invitation to the
Dedication, June 17, 1955
Letter, from R. W. G. Vail to MFC, regarding his delight upon receiving the
invitation to the Dedication, June 17, 1955
Letter, from [President of New York Zoology Society] to MFC, regarding the
Studio Committee on June 24, June 7, 1955
Letter, from Laurence B. Fletcher to Stephen W. Cooney, regarding directional
signs for Chesterwood, May 31, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Judge Robert Walcott, regarding improvements to
Chesterwood garden, annual meeting of the Trustees, news publications, Jan 22,
1955
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Transcript of speeches at the Dedication
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Department of the Interior
Brochure, Sites Eligible for the Registry of National Landmarks
Brochure, National Capital Parks
Brochure, Lincoln Memorial
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DeLue, Donald
Letter, from MFC to Donald DeLue, regarding names for the nominating
committee, Oct 14, 1968
Letter, from MFC to Donald DeLue, regarding pictures and draft of the article for
the Sculpture Review, June 9, 1967
Letter, from Donald DeLue to MFC, regarding the Lincoln statue, Sep 13, 1965
Letter, from MFC to Donald DeLue, regarding the Lincoln statue, Sep 18, 1965
Letter, from MFC to Donald DeLue, regarding grants from the Society of Arts and
Letters, June 4, 1964
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Douglass, Don
Letter, from MFC to Don Douglass, regarding the proof for the Chesterwood
Appeal, pictures, check to the Boston Printing Company, etc. Nov 10, 1962
Letter, from Don Douglass to Walter Hoving, regarding Trustee group in DCF
Foundation, organization of an Executive Committee, advertisement “Can Taste
Survive in America,” etc. Nov 21, 1962
Letter, from Don Douglass to Scott Pecker, regarding visit to Chesterwood, Sep
20, 1967
Letter, from Don Douglass to MFC, regarding life of old people, Feb 19, 1973
Eagle Engraving Company
Letter, from Frank W. Root to Eagle Engraving Company, regarding estimate on
printing one thousand copies of “Daniel Chester French,” June 19, 1962
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Letter, from Robert K. Wheeler to Eagle PENgraving Company, regarding cost
and proof for printing Chesterwood fliers, Nov 23, 1960
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Exedra
Letter, from Douglas McGregor to John H. Cunningham, reporting on the exedra
project, Feb 23, 1967
Letter, from Prentiss French to Douglass McGregor, regarding comparison of
estimated costs of marble, March 6, 1967
Document, “Exedra at Chesterwood,” Dec 21, 1966
Blueprint, preliminary plan for reconstruction of exedra at Chesterwood, Sep 14,
1966
Blueprint, plan for reconstruction of exedra, Dec 12, 1966
Letter, from Prentiss French to MFC, regarding reconstruction of the exedra in
Chesterwood garden, Aug 11, 1966
Letter, from Prentiss French to Mrs. John H. Cunningham and Mrs. Stewart
Woodworth, regarding costs of marble, Oct 11, 1966
Letter, from Benjamin F. Roeder to MFC, regarding rosemary, exedra project,
Christmas, etc. Dec 8, 1966
Letter, from MFC to Prentiss French, regarding rosemary, Chesterwood
treasurer, Christmas, etc. Dec 8, 1966
Letter, from MFC to Richard Murphy, regarding marble for the exedra, May 1,
1967
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Exhibitions and Suggestions
List of sculptures and their address, handwritten
Torn page, art catalog for November, 1965
Clipping, Metropolitan Museum of Art special exhibitions, December 1965
Letter, from MFC to Andrew Wyeth, regarding future plans, Jan 29, 1966
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Lawrence Grant White, regarding Stanford White’s
drawing and exhibition catalog, July 18, 1963
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Letter, from Roy Davis to MFC, regarding Stanford White’s drawing for the
exhibition, July 9, 1963
Letter, from MFC to Mr. Laurence G. White, requesting Standford White’s
drawing for Chesterwood exhibition, June 27, 1963
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. H. Goerge Wilde, requesting Benjamin Porter’s drawing
for Chesterwood exhibition, June 27, 1963
Flyer, “Special Exhibition at the Bennington Museum,” 1963
Letter, from MFC to Allan McNab, regarding Louis Betts’s portrait of M. R.
French, Jun 10, 1963
Writing, by MFC, titled “Parties”
Letter, from MFC to Davis Galleries, thanking the latter for sending Standford
White’s drawing, July 18, 1963
Exhibition catalog, “Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by the Artist
Friends of Mr. French,” 1963
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Fan Mail, Studio
Thank you letter, from Mr. and Mrs. L. Luot to MFC
Thank you letter, from MFC to Mr. and Mrs. L. Luot, July 23, 1968
Letter, from Ron Miller to MFC, regarding newsletter and his admiration for DCF,
Jun 23, 1965
Letter, from Gary Norman Paul to MFC, regarding his undergraduate thesis, Sep
24, 1964
Letter, from MFC to Miss Rosamond Wilde, regarding Mr. Ball, Jun 27, 1963
Thank you letter, from Mrs. Caleb Wheeler to MFC, Oct 14, 1963
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Gertrude Lee Turner, regarding DCF’s Andromeda, Oct
8, 1963
Letter, from James H. McKoy to MFC, regarding autograph copies of “Journey
into Fame,” July 1, 1963
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Letter, from Sumner G. Whittier to MFC, regarding his admiration for DCF, Oct
17, 1955
Photocopy, quotation from writing of a 17-year-old student from Wahconah
Regional High School, regarding his admiration for DCF, 1966
Letter, from Henry N. Flynt to MFC, regarding DCF’s picture in National Sculpture
Review, May 27, 1968
Letter, from MFC to Henry N. Flynt, regarding DCF’s picture in National Sculpture
Review, June 5, 1968
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Films and Exhibit Suggestions, by Joseph Prendergast, Sep 30, 1970
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Flynn, Mary, Director
Annual Report for Chesterwood, 1968, owned by Miss Flynn
Document, “Duties of Director,” 1962-63
Writing, “He Who Keeps Alive”
Writing, “Whence, Inspiration?”
Notes, handwritten, “Impressions of Chesterwood – September 1965”
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Foundations - (Various)
Clipping, announcement, regarding Ford Foundation grants, July 25, 1967
Writing, “On Seeking Foundation Support,” from a philanthropic foundation
executve, reprint from Historic Preservation, spring 1957
Writing, “Old Economy, Ambridge, Pennsylvania”
Writing, by Robert Porterfield, regarding grants for Barter Theatre of Virginia from
the Old Dominion Foundation, 1957
Letter, from MFC to Craig R. Smith, thanking the latter for his book “Historic
Museums,” Mar 14, 1956
Clipping, obituary of Samuel H. Kress, Oct 1955
Note about James Foundation
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Letter, from Eleanor Nissley to MFC, regarding directory of foundations, Jan 10,
1956
Letter, from MFC to the Russel Sage Foundation, regarding reports of other
foundations, Jan 7, 1956
Letter, from (?) to MFC, regarding grant from the Sloan Foundation, Nov 10, (?)
Clippings, regarding Ford Foundation grants
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D.C.F.- Financial Reports
Chesterwood Advertising Expenses, 1959
Chesterwood Project Cash Report to Central Office Month Ending October 29,
1962
Chesterwood Project Cash Report to Central Office Month Ending September 29,
1962
Chesterwood Project Cash Report to Central Office Month Ending November 30,
1962
Daniel Chester French Foundation Final Report for Year 1964
Daniel Chester French Foundation Report on Cost of Barn, Aug 27, 1964
Daniel Chester French Foundation Monthly Report, July, 1964
Daniel Chester French Foundation Monthly Report, August, 1964
Daniel Chester French Foundation Monthly Report, January, 1965
Daniel Chester French Foundation Monthly Report, March, 1965
Daniel Chester French Foundation Monthly Report, April, 1965
Daniel Chester French Foundation Monthly Report, May, 1965
Daniel Chester French Foundation Summary of Final Report for Year 1965 and
Saving Bank Accounting
Daniel Chester French Foundation Financial Report for the Period January 1,
1966 through December 31, 1966
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Restricted gift report, for grounds, 1966
Daniel Chester French Foundation 1966 1st Quarterly Report
Daniel Chester French Foundation Financial Report, January 1, 1967 through
December 31, 1967
Letter, from Douglas McGregor to the Trustees of Daniel Chester French
Foundation, regarding account balance, Sep 25, 1967
Letter, from Douglas McGregor to the Trustees of Daniel Chester French
Foundation, regarding financial statement and checkbook balance, Sep 22, 1967
Daniel Chester French Foundation Financial Report, Monthly Report and Year to
Date July 1967
Letter, from Douglas McGregor to Robert K. Wheeler, regarding Assistant
Treasurer Miss Joanne Zele, May 14, 1968
Daniel Chester French Foundation Financial Report 1968
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French, Prentiss- Cross Reference- Landscaping- Barn- Grounds (file empty
1995)
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Friends – Chesterwood files
Letter, from Howard Sanden to MFC, thanking the latter for the invitation to the
opening of Mr. Rockwell’s exhibition, July 10, 1964
Letter, from George Hearl Hamilton, regarding phtoographs of the Republic, Jun
13, 1964
Letter, from James Wines to MFC, regarding Italian trip, Mar 27, 1956
Letter, from MFC to James Wines, regarding modern art, Mar 14, 1956
Letter, from MFC to James Wines, regarding life in Italy, Feb 8, 1956
Letter, from John Christian to MFC, regarding gold medal and wedding
celebration, Feb 29, 1964
Letter, from Berkshire Art Association to MFC, regarding sculpture prizes, July
29, 1957
Letter, from Howard Sanden to MFC, regarding the new Sculptor Gallery, Jan 9,
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1964
Letter, from MFC to Richard Hale, regarding Kennedy’s death, Jan 1, 1964
Thank you letter, from MFC to John Carroll
Letter, from MFC to New York Public Library, regarding research on J. L. Banks,
C. Loekle, and H. D. Saunders, Nov 14, 1963
Letter, from MFC to Blair Clark, complimenting the latter for his television report
on Kennedy’s funeral services, Dec 13, 1963
Letter, from MFC to Mrs Warfield T. Longcope Lee, regarding material for album,
Mar 22, 1956
Letter, from MFC to Lawrence Roes, regarding bust of President Monroe, Jan 23,
1956
Letter, from MFC to Lawrence Roes, regarding photographs of sculptures, Jan
19, 1956
Letter, from Lawrence Roes to MFC, regarding a booklet containing pictures of
sculptures, Jan 11, 1956
Letter, from MFC to Anna Dunbar, regarding Mrs. Milton’s home exhibition,
March 26, 1956
Letter, from MFC to Charles Borst, regarding copy of “Farm Drainage,” July 15,
1955
Letter, from MFC to Mathilde Rochon, regarding collection of Lincoln postcards,
May 26, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Robert B. Kimball, regarding prize for the Berkshire Art
Association, May 26, 1955
Letter, from Ann Sterling to MFC, regarding paper order, May 10, 1955
Letter, from Stuart C. Henry to MFC, regarding Paul Bartlett Sculpture, Mar 5,
1959
Letter, from D. L. Salisbury to MFC, regarding his appreciation for Chesterwood
and Lincoln memorial, Sep 16, 1958
Letter, from MFC to D. L. Salisbury, regarding the latter’s Lincoln birthday
celebration, Sep 20, 1958
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Letter, from MFC to Library of Congress, regariding data on Peter Brady, Nov 29,
1958
Letter, from Mildred Steinbach to MFC, regarding list of works of art in
Chesterwood, Mar 31, 1958
Letter, from MFC to Katherine Knox, regarding painting photographs, June 5,
1958
Letter, from Mrs. Henry W. Howell Jr. to MFC, regarding painting photographs,
June 10, 1958
Letter, from William A. Hosmer to MFC, regarding Rotary Meeting, July 14, 1958
Letter, from Charles Thomae to MFC, regarding photographs of his work, July
18, 1958
Letter, from MFC to Richard Howland, regarding miscellaneous affairs, July 25,
1957
Letter, from MFC to Lawrence K. Miller, regarding Congressman Dondero’s
speech, July 25, 1956
Letter, from MFC to Sarah White Robinson, regarding life in New York and
Rome, Aug 22, 1956
Letter, from Cleveland Amory to MFC, regarding an article from the Berkshire
Eagle, (?)
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Donald DeLue, regarding Congressman Dondero’s
speech, July 27, 1956
Letter, from Mrs. Helen Duprey Bollock to MFC, regarding meeting at Historic
House Keeing, Aug 14, 1956
Letter, from MFC to Helen Bullock, regarding meeting at Coopertown, Aug 9,
1956
Thank you letter, from John H. G. Pell to MFC, July 23, 1956
Thank you letter, from Mrs. J. Watson Webb to MFC, July 23, 1956
Letter, from MFC to Miss Bertha Mahan, regarding recipes, Sep 28, 1955
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Letter, from MFC to Mrs. John Kennedy, regarding appointment of member of art
committee, Sep 14, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Miss Maxine Tull Boatner, regarding information on Francis
LeBaron, Aug 16, 1955
Letter, from Maxine Tull Boatner to MFC, regarding information on Francis
LeBaron, Aug 6, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Paul Douglas, regarding admiration for DCF, July 21,
1955
Letter, from Horace M. Bond to National Sculpture Society, regarding location of
an Abraham Lincoln statue, Apr 5, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Horace M. Bond, regarding Lincoln statues, Mar 26, 1955
Letter, from Horace M. Bond to MFC, regarding Lincoln statues, Mar 8, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Richard Borden, declining her request to collect DCF
archives, Jan 13, 1955
Letter, from Walter Sharp to MFC, regarding paintings by Robert Loftin Newman,
July 11, 1954
Letter, from Maxine Tull Boatner to MFC, regarding information on Francis
LeBaron, April 5, 1954
Christmas card, from the queen of the Netherlands
Torn page, “The Gettysburg Hymn,” from The Hymn, October 1963
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Friends of Chesterwood
Letter, from Paul H. Ruesch to MFC, regarding car reparir bills, Sep 2, 1959
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes, regarding grant from the Garden Club
of America, Sep 13, 1956
Letter, from MFC to Ron Miller, regarding book recommendations, Jan 22, 1968
Letter, from Ron Miller to MFC, regarding writing about Chesterwood, Dec 21,
1967
Draft of what appears to be a speech for Miss Sherwood, regarding
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administration of Chesterwood
Document, notes of Fundraising Panel Session, Historic House Keeping, Sep 23,
1955
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Garden
Shopping lists
Garden diagram on scrap paper
Letter, from William H. Vanderbilt to MFC, regarding flower order, Aug 8, 1963
Letter, from Harold Calverley to MFC, regarding flower order, Apr 1, 1964
Letter, from MFC to the Arnold Arboretum, regarding the Smoke tree, Jun 8,
1965
Letter, from MFC to Richard A. Howard, regarding the Ssmoke tree, Jun 22,
1965
Letter, from Richard A. Howard to MFC, regarding the Smoke tree, Jun 15, 1965
Advertisement brochure, gardening products
Transcript, “Prayers at Dedication of Tablet for Charles Dupuy in the Garden at
Chesterwood”
Advertisement brochure, Paradise Gardens
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Garden Clubs
Booklet, list of delegates, 49th Annual Meeting, Garden Club of America, 1962
Thank you letter, from the Garden Club of America to MFC, Jun 30, 1962
Thank you letter, from Lenox Garden Club to MFC, Oct 17, 1962
List of delegates, the Lenox Garden Club, Committees for House and Garden
Tour on July 8th, 1964
Letter, from Lenox Garden Club to MFC, regarding meeting arrangement, Apr 3,
1962
Letter, from Mrs. Thomas E. Donovan to MFC, regarding meeting arrangement,
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Mar 23, 1959
Letter, from Berkshire Museum Garden Club to MFC, regarding meeting
arrangement, June 30, 1959
Letter, from Mrs. Harold Clark to MFC, regarding flower arrangement, Oct 13,
1958
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Harold Clark, regarding meeting date, Aug 25, 1958
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Ellwood P. Burdsall, regarding cooperation, Dec 9,
1958
Letter, from Mrs. Alexander Euston to MFC, regarding flower arrangement, Oct
21, 1958
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Arthur E. Crane, regarding date of flower arrangement,
Oct 25, 1958
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. B. Holly Rose, regarding meeting arrangement, Sep 29,
1969
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. B. Holly Rose, regarding meeting arrangement, Oct 1,
1969
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Hepburn, Andrew/ "Homes of History"
List of distinguished guests at Chesterwood through the years
Correspondence, between Andrew H. Hepburn and MFC, regarding materials
and plans for writing and publishing “Homes of History,” 1966-1972
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Historic Sites – Massachusetts
Letter, from Donald C. Douglass to Richard Hale, regarding Trustee deeds and
evaluation form, Aug 12, 1965
Letter, from MFC to Richard Hale, regarding photographs of Chesterwood, Aug
19, 1965
Letter, from Richard Hale to MFC, regarding photographs of Chesterwood, Aug
20, 1965
Letter, from Anne R. Wardwell to MFC, regarding Historic Landmark certification,
Oct 3, 1968
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Document, Massachusetts Historical Commission Consent to Certification
Transcript, “Landmark Presentation ‘Chesterwood’ Danel Chester French Home,”
July 16, 1966
Document, Massachusetts Historical Commission, draft evaluation, Jan 1966
Clipping, “National Historic Trust Acquires Chesterwood,” Berkshire Eagle, June
10, 1969
Clipping, “Data on Fire Prevention”
Clipping, “Chesterwood Dedicated National Trust in Ceremony,” June 19, 1969
Letter, from George A. Palmer to MFC, regarding Historical Landmark certificate,
July 11, 1967
Letter, from Alan Burnham to MFC, regarding synopsis of DCF’s occupancy in
Greenwich Village, June 29, 1967
Letter, from Robert M. Utley to MFC, regarding Landmark recognition of DCF
Home and Studio, Jan 27, 1966
Letter, from Donald C. Douglass to Anne E. Wardwell, regarding Consent to
Certification, Feb 4, 1966
Letter, from Donald C. Douglass to Stephen B. Hibbard, regarding Consent to
Certification, Feb 4, 1966
Document, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, finance and
description of individual projects
Letter, from Donald C. Douglass to Douglas McGregor, regarding certification of
Chesterwood, June 30, 1967
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Insurances
Letter, from Donald C. Douglass to Robert K. Wheeler, regarding insurance for
statuette of “Sleeping Infant Faun” by Edward Potter, Nov 29, 1965
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Landmarks
Letter, from Anne R. Wardwell to Richard Hale, regarding Standards for Care
and Management of Massachusetts Landmarks, Oct 7, 1964 (document
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attached)
Letter, from MFC to Landmarks Preservation Committee, regarding synopsis of
DCF’s occupancy of Greenwich Village, Jun 14, 1967
Letter, from Erwin S. Barrie to MFC, regarding data on DCF, Jun 12, 1967
Letter, from MFC to Erwin S. Barrie, regarding synopsis of DCF’s occupancy of
Greenwich Village, Jun 14, 1967
Landscaping – Margaret French
Letter, from Prentiss French to MFC, regarding, matting and placement of
hemlocks, May 2, 1963
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Lincoln Head
Letter, from Monroe H. Fabian to MFC, regarding plaster head of Abraham
Lincoln, Sep 22, 1969
Letter, from MFC to Monroe H. Fabian, regarding plaster head of Abraham
Lincoln, Sep 29, 1969
Letter, from George W. Cherkis to MFC, regarding plaster head of Abraham
Lincoln, Oct, 1970
Letter, from MFC to George W. Cherkis, regarding plaster bust of Lincoln, Oct
15, 1970
Letter, from MFC to George W. Cherkis, regarding plaster head of Lincoln, Nov
24, 1970
Letter, from George W. Cherkis to MFC, regarding meeting arrangement, May
11, 1971
Letter, from MFC to George W. Cherkis, regarding plaster head of Lincoln, May
19, 1971
Photocopy, photograph of the original working model of DCF’s Lincoln head used
for the Linoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
Photocopy, brief resume of John Calabro
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Lincoln memorial - 50th Anniversary
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Letter, from James Biddle to Edward W. Brooke, inviting the latter to the 50th
Anniversary of Lincoln Memorial at Chesterwood, Feb 11, 1972
Writing, “the Lincoln Memorial,” from Journey into Fame, by MFC
Clipping, “Lincoln’s Memorial is Tired,” S. F. Chronicle, Feb 12, 1972
Letter, from MFC to National Park Service, regarding photographs of the erection
of Lincoln Memorial, Oct 18, 1971
Letter, from MFC to George Pettingill, regarding material about Henry Bacon,
Dec 15, 1971
Thank you letter, from MFC to George Pettengill, Jan 7, 1971
Letter, from MFC to Edmund Rubacha, regarding materal about DCF and Henry
Bacon, Oct 18, 1971
Letter, from Edmund Rubacha to MFC, regarding Henry Bacon materials, Nov
12, 1971
Letter, from MFC to Edmund Rubacha, regarding Henry Bacon materials, Nov
26, 1971
Letter, from MFC to Charles B. Atherton, regarding dedication photographs, Dec
14, 1971
Letter, from MFC to Donald Myers, regarding material about DCF and Henry
Bacon, Nov 26, 1971
Letter, from James Biddle to Luther H. Foster, inviting the latter to the Golden
Anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial at Chesterwood, Mar 27, 1972
Letter, from Robert M. Utley to MFC, regarding photographs of construction and
dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, Nov 18, 1971
Letter, from MFC to Robert M. Utley, regarding photographs of construction and
dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, Dec 14, 1971
Thank you letter, from Paul W. Ivory to MFC, Jun 2, 1972
Letter, from Paul W. Ivory to Dr. Richard H. Howland, regarding ceremony
arrangement, Apr 26, 1972
Letter, from MFC to Dr. Richard H. Howland, regarding ceremony arrangement,
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May 1, 1972
Letter, from MFC to Dr. Luther H. Foster, regarding ceremony arrangement, May
1, 1972
Agenda, Lincoln Memorial ceremony
Thank you letter, from MFC to James Biddle, Jun 1, 1972
Thank you letter, from MFC to Richard C. Frank, Jun 1, 1972
Thank you letter, from MFC to Dr. Luther Foster, Jun 1, 1972
Letter, from G. Douglas Krumbhaar to MFC, regarding transcript of prayers used
at the Chesterwood celebration, Jun 6, 1972 (prayers attached)
Letter, from L. H. Foster to MFC, regarding copy of Tuskegee Institute Annual
Report, Jun 6, 1972
Thank you letter, from Richard C. Frank to MFC, Jun 1, 1972
Thank you letter, from L. H. Foster to MFC, May 8, 1972
Letter, from Silvio O. Conte to MFC, regarding copy of remarks for the 50th
Anniversary of Lincoln Memorial, Jun 6, 1972
Thank you letter, from James Biddle to MFC, May 30, 1972
Lincoln, standing, bronze casting
Clipping, “Art Fund Inquiry Urged in Chicago,” 1964
Letter, from Roman Bronze Works to MFC, regarding bronze casting of Lincoln
statue, Sep 11, 1962
Letter, from MFC to Cesare Contini, regarding bronze casting of Lincoln statue,
Sep 5, 1962
Letter, from MFC to the director of Cincinati Museum, regarding plaster cast of
Lincoln statue, Sep 5, 1962
Letter, from MFC to the Chamber of Commerce, regarding dimension of Lincoln
statue, Sep 5, 1962
Letter, from R. C. Newell to MFC, regarding exact measurements of Lincoln
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statue, Sep 11, 1962
Flyer, “the Nebraska State Capitol”
Letter, from MFC to Pierre Ruedin, regarding negatives of the Standing Lincoln,
Oct 5, 1966
Document, Copyright information, Library of Cogress, Nov 28, 1962
Letter, from John W. Hossack to MFC, regarding permission to reproduce Lincoln
statue, Nov 28, 1962
Letter, from Cesare A. Contini to MFC, regarding estimate of costs of
reproducing Lincoln statue, Oct 20, 1962
Thank you letter, from MFC to R. C. Newell, Sep 18, 1962
Correspondence, between John E. Carlson Jr., Donald C. Dougalss, Mrs. Coleen
Woodworth, Paul H. Douglas, and MFC, regarding costs and funding for the
Lincoln project, 1965
List of organizations to which appeals for bronze casting of Standing Lincoln
were mailed, December, 1965
Correspondence, between Allan McNab, Governor Frank B. Morrison, and MFC,
regarding permission to recast Lincoln statue, 1962-63
Receipts of raised funds
Chesterwood brochure
List of members of the Chesterwood Council
Letters, from James Parton, Bettye Lynch, R. Gerald McMurtry, Bruce Crane, C.
E. Geary, Stephen P. Mugar and Robert Winthrop Kean to MFC, declining to
contribute to DCF Foundation, 1965
Letters, from various organizations or individuals to MFC, contributing to the
“Lincoln Standing Fund”
Correspondence, between Woodruff Smith, John Terken, John Spring, Richard
Murphy, Philip R. Adams, Joseph Rassy, Caroline R. Shine, and MFC, regarding
bronze casting, shipping, and unveiling of Lincoln statue, 1962-1966
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Lists of Names, Christmas, 1971
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Loans- Sculpture/ Paintings
Loan receipt, Art Institute of Chicago, July 15, 1963
Letter, from MFC to Frederick Sweet, regarding loan of portrait of William M. R.
French by Louis Betts, July 29, 1963
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Letter, from MFC to Douglas McGregor, regarding bill reimbursement, Oct 18, 1966
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Meadowlark - Mrs. Woodworth's File
Clipping, “Another French Studio Acquired by Chesterwood,” Berkshire Eagle,
Jan 7, 1970
Clipping, “Chesterwood Story,” Berkshire Eagle, Jan 12, 1970
Photographs of MFC
Writing, regarding acquisition of Meadowlark
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Metropolitan Museum
Invoice, two photos of Emerson bust, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sep 25, 1969
Letter, from Helmut Nickel to Mrs. Kitchell M. Boorman, regarding the plaque of
Dr. Bashford Dean, Apr 8, 1969
Correspondence, between Lily Gantz, Robert Hale, Lawrence B. Fletcher, Robert
K. Wheeler, and MFC, regarding loan and transportation of statues for exhibition
at Chesterwood, 1955-56
Correspondence, between Aurthur A. Houghton Jr. and MFC, regarding news of
MET, 1969
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Miscellaneous – 1: reminders – sculpture
Letter, from MFC to Clyde Schneyer, regarding tree cutting, Aug 9, 1956
Brochure, Stockbridge Water Company Schedule of Rates
Letter, from William A. Heaphy to MFC, regarding Chesterwood deeds, Nov 17,
1954
Letter, from William A. Heaphy to MFC, regarding Chesterwood property
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compiled plan, Jan 25, 1955
List, “Daniel Chester French’s Casts Destroyed”
Letter, from Robert Walcott to MFC, regarding article about DCF in New York
Times, July 18, 1955
Document, “Suggestions for the Future of Chesterwood”
List of Trustees, handwritten on scrap paper
Letter, from MFC to Agnes Virginia Troy, regarding a sample of Minute Man
chintz and miscellaneous items, Apr 5, 1956
Clipping, regarding a certain Mr. Moses and his radical idea on vandalism
Letter, from Harvey M. Saltzman to Chesterwood gentlemen, regarding visit to
Chesterwood, Sep 12, 1958
Letter, from MFC to Lynn Chapman, regarding piano tuning, Oct 9, 1958
Letter, from Kathryn Farrell to MFC, regarding book membership, Sep 23, 1958
Letter, from MFC to James L. Winans, regarding manuscript corrections, Aug 14,
1958
Letter, from MFC to Charles Bittinger, regarding plaster casts, Oct 11, 1962
Letter, from MFC to Joseph A. Patterson, regarding gift tax, Oct 18, 1965
Letter, from Elizabeth N. Davis to MFC, regarding psychic readings, Nov 26,
1965 (attached is a kind response letter from secretary of MFC)
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Miscellaneous – 2
New Year cards, several count
Document, meeting, Chesterwood Local Committee, Jun 2, 1960
Writing, “Minutes of the Annual Meeting,” Oct 7, 1960
Draft, handwritten, “the Chesterwood Studio”
Agenda, handwritten, Trustee meeting, Aug 30, 1964
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Letter, from Donald C. Douglass to Mrs. John H. Cunningham, inviting the latter
to become a Trustee of DCF Foundation, July 24, 1965
Writing, “Mrs. Cresson’s Report”
Writing, “Daniel Chesterwood Foundation/ Trustees Meeting ‘Chesterwood’” Nov
26, 1965
Writing, “Committee for Chesterwood Annual Meeting” Oct 20, 1965
Letters, from Donald C. Douglass to Robert Prochaska, Gordon Beebe, John
Francese, Mrs. William H. Ryan, Stuart C. Henry, Stewart C. Woodworth, inviting
them to become members of Chesterwood Committee, 1965-66
List of members of Chesterwood Committee, 1966
Letter, from Donald C. Douglass to MFC, regarding meeting date, Apr 9, 1966
Letter, from MFC to Miss Rosamond Sherwood, regarding Chesterwood
administration, June, 1966
Document, Chesterwood Committee annual meeting, Oct 29, 1966
Letter, from Donald C. Douglass to Elizabeth H. Smith, regarding the latter’s
resignation as assistant treasurer, Nov 12, 1966
Letter, from MFC to Mrs Carrington Weems, regarding the latter’s resignation
from Chesterwood Committee, Oct 23, 1967
Notes, Trustees Meeting, July 28, 1867, written by Donald Douglass
Writing, “Margaret French Cresson’s Report,” 1967
Letter, from Douglas McGregor to Robert K. Wheeler, regarding the former’s
resignation as treasurer and a trustee of DCF Foundation, Nov 13, 1967
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National Historic Landmarks (see under "M" for sites)
Writing, “On Seeking Foundation Support,” by a philanthropic foundation
executive, from Historic Preservation, spring 1957
Correspondence, between John Littleton, Stewart L. Udall, Jackson E. Price, Mr.
And Mrs. Robert K. Wheeler, Richard Howland, Robert M. Utley, and MFC,
regarding Chesterwood’s designation as a National Historical Landmark, 1965-66
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Transcript, Landmark Presentation, Chesterwood, July 16, 1966
Correspondence, between Donald C. Douglass, Anne R. Wardwell, Kevin H.
White, Robert K. Wheeler, and MFC, regarding arrangements for registering
Chesterwood as a National Historical Landmark, 1965-66 (consents to
certification attached)
Correspondence, between Richard H. Howland, Donald C. Douglass, Edward W.
Brooke, George B. Hartzog Jr., Steward L. Udall, and Robert K. Wheeler, 1966
.
National Trust - Chesterwood Writings by MFC, including “Daniel French’s Heaven”
Correspondence, between Wendy Adler, Mrs. Terry B. Morton, and MFC,
regarding MFC’s article for Historic Preservation, 1972-73
Document, captions for MFC’s article for Historic Preservation, Sep 18, 1972
Article, “Daniel French’s Heaven,” by MFC
.
National Trust - Old Data
Registration list, annual meeting, Oct 12, 1956
Correspondence, between Helen Bullock and MFC, regarding member
organizations, Historic House Keeping, house restoration, special events, and
general administration, 1956-57
Correspondence, between Louis C. Jones and MFC, regarding registration for
Historic House Keeping, 1956
Postcard, Barter Theatre
Letter, from Richard H. Howland to MFC, regarding his inability to visit
Chesterwood and possible meeting date, Aug 1, 1957
Correspondence, between Frederick L. Rath Jr. and MFC, regarding data on
estate care taking, 1955
.
National Trust - Printed Matter (Old)
Brochure, report of David E. Finley at the annual Meeting of the National Trust,
Oct 21, 1955
Writing, “History of Woodlawn Plantation”
250
Invitation, National Trust for Historic Preservation membership
Geographical directory, members and member organizations of the National
Trust for Historic Preservation, Jan 1956
Report, Criteria for Evaluating Historic Sites and Buildings, by the Committee on
Standards and Surveys
Clipping, “What’s Worth Saving? Gauge for Preservation”
Geographical directory, member organizations of the National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Oct 1958
Writing, “Preserving our Historic Heritage,” by Richard Hubard Howland
Writing, “On Seeking Foundation Support”
Writing, “Policies for Operation of National Trust Properties,” Jan 1, 1958
List of names, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Eleventh Annual Meeting,
Oct 10-13, 1957
Historic Preservation, fall 1954, spring 1955, fall-winter 1955, spring 1956,
summer 1956
Clipping, “To Save the Houses of Our Heritage,” by Aline Louchheim, New York
Times Magazine
Clipping, “Fifty Years of Achievement,” by Brenda Bendixsen, Dec 22, 1945
Brochure, “Protecting Our Heritage”
.
National Trust Staff - Biographies
.
Nature Trail – Chesterwood
Correspondence, between Thomas Smith and MFC, regarding nature trail signs
and plants, 1963-69
.
Newsletters – Chesterwood, 1962, 4 drafts
.
Open House Day – Hostesses
Note, information for hostesses
251
Open House notice
Letter, from MFC to Mary Flynn, regarding preparation for Open House, Apr 30,
1958
Letter, from MFC to Donald C. Foster, regarding preparation for Open House,
Mar 20, 1957
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Foster, regarding Sloane Foundation, Metropolitan
Museum, and plants, Nov 20, 1955
.
Parrish/ Maxfield Parrish Show – 1965
Letter, from Robert C. Vose Jr. to MFC, congratulating the latter on the quality of
the ladies she has as guides, July 26, 1965
Letter, from Robert C. Vose Jr. to Alan Thielker, regarding pictures for exhibition,
July 8, 1965
Invoice, paintings by Mxfield Parrish, July 8, 1965
Letter, from Christi Cook to MFC, regarding catalog for Maxfield Parrish
exhibition, Apr 18, 1970
.
Personal Letters - M.F.C.
Letters, from MFC to Mrs. Prentiss French, regarding family and personal life,
1955-57
Letter, from MFC to Will Bartlett, regarding her gift to Concord Library and
personal life, Jan 25, 1955
Letter, from MFC to “Becky and Osborne,” regarding articles, children, Native
Americans, etc. Sep 28, 1955
Letter, from MFC to “Frank and Sunny,” regarding the Vanderbilts, Aug 13, 1956
Letter, from MFC to William H. Vanderbilt, regarding letters, National Trust,
Benjamin Franklin, etc. Oct 31, 1956
Letter, from MFC to Osborne Cresson, regarding friends and family, Aug 13,
1956
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Thomas Hollis, regarding vacation plan, Oct 26, 1956
252
Letter, from MFC to “Stuyve,” regarding wedding, journals, family, etc. Dec 11,
1962
Letter, from Alfred Byron Starratt to MFC, regarding personal life, Jan 2, 1966
Letter, from MFC to Philip N. Guyol, regarding family geneology and personal
life, Mar 16, 1966
Letter, from Mrs. N. B. Lacy to MFC, regarding correspondence between Henry
Flagg French and Major Benjamin Brown French, Mar 31, 1966
Letter, from Richard H. Howland to Donald C. Douglass, regarding speech and
trip to Stockbridge, July 26, 1966
Letter, from MFC to Margaret Rosalie, regarding memories of the latter’s
grandmother, Nov 16, 1966
Letter, from MFC to David Braman, regarding home address, Mar 27, 1967
Letter, from MFC to Brearley School, regarding dedication of Standing Lincoln,
Memorial loan exhibition, etc. Mar 23, 1967
Letter, from MFC to W. H. Smith & Son, regarding a picture book, Mar 10, 1967
Letter, from MFC to the Museum of the City of New York, regarding dues
payment, Apr 2, 1967
Letter, from MFC o Society of Architectural Historians, regarding her
membership, Jan 17, 1967
Extract from Hon. Benjamin B. French’s “Journal,” Feb 2, 1864
Letter, from MFC to Joseph G. Coleman, regarding personal life, Feb 13, 1967
Letter, from MFC to Countess Farrante Capponi, regarding personal life, Feb 6,
1967
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Stacy Farrell, regarding personal life, Mar 3, 1967
Letter, from MFC to the editor of Berkshire Eagle, regarding cable routes, Sep
15, 1967
.
Photographs
Clipping, “Lightning Rods Should Be Checked for Effectiveness”
253
Photos, selected color photos, Oakley Plantation House
Letters, from MFC to Peter Juley and A. B. Bogart, requesting prints of sculpture
by DCF, 1955
Correspondence, between Rene Brequet and MFC, regarding prints of sculpture
by DCF, 1955
Letters, from MFC to Samuel Chamberlain, Anthony Rud, Lucien Aigner,
Clement Moore, Allen Ralph Zenowitz, regarding photographs of Chesterwood,
1956
Letter, from A. C. Adams to MFC, regarding contact information of a
photographer, Nov 2, 1962
Letter, from MFC to Free Lance Photographers Guild, regarding picture of
Lincoln statue, Nov 10, 1962
Guild of American Prehistorians International Memo, April, 1965
Correspondence, between Mrs. Alcott Farrar Elwell and MFC, regarding
photograph of Frank Edwin Elwell’s “The Dispatch Rider,” 1965
Letter, from MFC to Eugene Mitchell, requesting photographs, Jun 16, 1965
Letters, from MFC to Helmut Wohl, Pierre Ruedin, Peter Juley, Lucian Aiger, Mr.
Carleton, Wickliffe Rose, Mark Mitchell, Mitchell Shapiro, regarding photographs
of Chesterwood, 1966-1968
.
Porches
Correspondence, between Mr. Hunt and MFC, regarding bill for repairing the
porches, 1962
Checks, Berkshire Housatonic Trust Company
.
Princeton Student ("It's Survival")
Clipping, Princeton Mini Weekly, Feb 11, 1964
Letter, from MFC to President Goheen, regarding “Princeton Student” statue,
Aug 8, 1962
Correspondence, between Dan D. Coyle and MFC, regarding costs of statue
254
transporatation and loan, 1963
Correspondence, between Harold H. Wilcox and MFC, regarding Loyal Legion
Ceremonies at Lincoln Memorial, 1964
Letter, from MFC to Cleveland E. Dodge, regarding expenses of Princeton
Student statue, Jun 22, 1965
Correspondence, between Charles D. Brodhead and MFC, regarding Princeton
Student statue, 1966
Blueprint, pedestals and their foundations, September, 1964
Correspondence, between William Henry Deacy, Woodruff Smith, and MFC,
regarding costs of statue transportation, 1963-64
Letter, from MFC to John Terken, regarding tablet with the inscription of
Princeton Student, Apr 22, 1968
.
Printing Samples
Bill, 8000 folders – Chesterwood, 4 pages, to Robert K. Wheeler, Han 31, 1961
Letter, from Eagle Engraving Co. to MFC, regarding new price on printing copies
of “Daniel Chester French,” Aug 17, 1962
Letter, from Charles D. Gilson to MFC, regarding estimate of costs for printing
1000 copies of “Daniel Chester French,” Jun 19, 1962
Open house notice, Goodrich House
Announcement, 7th Annual Williamsburg Antiques Forum
Invitation, Exhibition of Portrait Sculpture by MFC
Flyer, “Richmond, Massachusetts – The Story of a Berkshire Town and its
People”
Wedding announcement, Clemens and Angela Kalischer, May 27, 1956
Invitation, exhibition of watercolors by Harry Gage and oil paintings by Ken Gore,
Roger Curtis and Gunnar Bjareby, May 31, 1964
Catering advertisement
255
Announcement, the Washington Society of the Fine Arts
Article, “The Friends of Music in the Library of Congress,” Bulletin, Dec 1, 1960
Catalog of exhibition, Ethel Haven
Flyer, George Wythe House
Advertisement, Ferrucio Dini of Florence – Hand-made Jewelry
Announcement, Christmas Sale
Invitation, Folger Shakespeare Library
Announcement, Community Christmas Celebration, December, 1954
Menu, King’s Arms
Brochure, “Books published by Colonial Williamsburg”
Menu, Chowning’s Tavern
Flyer, “Dining in Wililamsburg”
Flyer, “Los Angeles County Museum Guide and Information”
Invitation, Diplomat magazine subscription
.
Publicity- D.C.F.
Correspondence, between MFC and Ruth V. Noble, regarding photographs of
Chesterwood for the 1958 Berkshire Calendar, 1957
.
Publicity- National Trust
Letter, from MFC to Melville Bell Grosvenor, complaining about omission of
Chesterwood in National Geographic, Aug 18, 1970
Letter, from MFC to Grant Bowden, regarding photographs of Chesterwood, Feb
4, 1970
.
Signs to Studio
Correspondence, between Board of Selectmen and MFC, regarding erections of
signs to Chesterwood, 1955-1963
256
.
"Sleeping Faun," by Edward C. Potter (file empty 1995)
.
Spinney, Frank
Correspondence, between Frank Spinney and MFC, regarding meeting
arrangement, 1965
.
Stationery
Correspondence, between Maybel Company and Mrs. David E. Braman,
regarding sketch of First Congregational Church in Stockbridge, 1958
.
Stowe Property
Writing, “A Dream Which Might Come True”
.
Thielker, Alan (1930-1973)
Correspondence, between Alan Thielker and MFC, regarding recruitment and art
restoration, 1964
.
Town of Stockbridge
Letters, from MFC to fire departments and schools, announcing Chesterwood’s
annual free-of-charge day, 1958
Correspondence, between Board of Selectmen and MFC, regarding preservation
of various town items, 1968-70
.
Transparencies
Color transparencies of Barn, Main Room, Studio Fountain, and Seated Lincoln
.
Trucking Statues
Correspondence, between Bahr Trucking Corporations and MFC, regarding
transportation of the Milmore Memorial, 1956
Trustees of Reservation
Bank receipts and correspondence, between MFC and various trust companies,
regarding stock holding, 1942-1954
Letters and documents, from Lawrence B. Fletcher, about Trustee meetings
257
Chesterwood receipts and expenditures
Documents of Trustee meetings
U.S. Treasury Deptartment
Correspondence, between Marjorie L. Gilchrest and MFC, regarding Minute Man
Posters, 1962
Vanderbilt gifts
Correspondence, between William Vanderbilt, Lawrence B. Fletcher, Stuart C.
Henry, and MFC, regarding Vanderbilt’s gift to Chesterwood, 1956
Wheeler Correspondence 1955-1968
With MFC: regarding Trustee administration, Chesterwood treasury, and
preservation of art
With Lawrence Fletcher and Nathan Bates: regarding Trustee budgets and
finance
.
Wyeth, Andrew
Correspondence, between Andrew Wyeth and MFC, regarding loan exhibition of
paintings by the Wyeth family, 1965
Drawer Two- "M.F.C. Business"
.
Activities of MFC at Chesterwood, 1964
Barn
Diagram, Chesterwood Restroom, Oct 17, 1959
Correspondence, between Victor Pellizzaro and MFC, regarding carpenter work,
1960
Correspondence, between Robert K. Wheeler, Helen Douglass French, John T.
Tryon, Prentice Bradley, Kinsley M. Goodrich, Frank E. Beattle, Kay Peterson
Parker, Prentiss French, and MFC, regarding barn repair, 1962
Documents, regarding barn repair: proposal for the installation of plumbing,
contract draft, estimate of costs, bracket diagrams, receipts, etc.
258
.
Bedi - Rassy Bronze Foundation
Correspondence, between Joseph Rassy and MFC, regarding bronze casting of
standing Lincoln, 1963
.
Berkshire Bank & Trust (empty)
.
Berkshire Eagle/ Writings by M.F.C.
Letters, from Robert B. Kimball to Robert M. Boland and Louse Tate, regarding
eligibility for sculpture competition, 1970
Writings for Berkshire Eagle by MFC, regarding wildlife preservation, Vanderbilt
gifts, and Chesterwood as National Historic Landmark, 1956-1970
.
Blue Cross – Shield – Medicare forms
.
Books – Dealer + Orders
Correspondence, between MFC and Charles E. Tuttle Company, New England
Books, Colonial Book Service, Roadside Bookshop, Marboro Book Corporation,
Argosy Book Stores, the Seven Book Hunters, Fine Book Studios, Harcourt
Brace and Company, Goodspeed’s Book Shop, the Weyhe Gallery, Old Corner
Book Store, the Vanguard Press, John Peterson & Son, the Country Booksotre,
Victor Stammer, Mary-Zell Shop, Macmillan Company, W.W. Norton & Company,
Charles E. Lauriat Company, regarding book sale and book order, 1955-1966
.
Peter Brady
Records of Peter Brady at Library of Congress, photocopies
Correspondence, between MFC and Cogressional Cemetary and Library of
Congress, regarding records of Peter Brady, 1956-1958
.
Brooke, Sen. Edward
Correspondence, between Edward W. Brooke and MFC, regarding tablet at the
base of Lincoln statue, 1968
.
Cherkis, George - Cross reference: Lincoln Head – Andromeda
Correspondence, between George Cherkis and MFC, regarding sale of
Andromeda, 1972-1973
259
.
Chesterwood Dedication
Thank you letters, from Donald C. Douglass, Mrs. M. H. Horton Jr., Helen
Bullock, and James Biddle to MFC, 1969
.
Cresson, Margaret French - Biographical Sketches
.
M.F.C. Sculpture & Writings
Correspondence, between Esward Connery Lathem and MFC, regarding bust of
Daniel Webster, 1954
National Sculpture Review, summer 1967, spring 1973
Writing, “New Gallery for the Daniel Chester French Museum”
Correspondence, between Theodora Morgan and MFC, regarding articles for
National Sculpture Review, 1963-1973
.
(Old) Deeds
Correspondence, between Loring Conant, Winthrop Dakin, Stephen B. Hibbard,
and MFC, regarding old deeds to Chesterwood dated around 1800 and signed by
Native Americans, 1963
Photocopy, Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
.
Dartmouth College – Webster Bust
Correspondence, between Dartmouth College and MFC, regarding repair of
Webster bust, 1962
.
Estimates- Barn / Woodshed repair
E. Flagg Bureau
Correspondence, between Wheelwright House, Mrs. Thomas Hollis, Mrs.
Margaret B. Little, and MFC, regarding Reverend Ebenezer Flagg’s drawers,
1964
.
Family
Correspondence, between Mrs. Walter M. Bush and MFC, regarding MFC’s
family geneology, 1960-1962
260
Family tree diagram
Writings, about figures from the French family
Documents, about the French family, from Congressional Cemetery, Dictionary
of National Biography, etc.
.
Flyers
National Portrait Gallery, Lyndhurst, Concord Antiquarian Society, Vizcaya,
Historical Museums of South Carolina, New York Aquarium, Naitonl Society
Museum: Daughters of American Revolution, Circle Tours in the Beautiful
Berkshire Hills, Alta Mira, Shelburne Museum, Sterling Forest Gardens,
Berkshire Hills, Spring Suggestion from the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture by Paul Manship
.
Foreign Letters
Correspondence, between Lorenzo Rubelli & Figlio and MFC, regarding fabric
order, 1966-1973
Correspondence, between Roberta – Leather Goods and MFC, regarding order
of leather goods, 1972
Correspondence, between Fratelli Alinary and MFC, regarding Della Robbia
relief, 1972
.
French, Major B.B.
Correspondence, between William A. H. Bernie and MFC, regarding B. B.
French’s diaries, 1973
Correspondence, between Library of Congress and MFC, regarding information
about B. B. French, 1972
Letters, from MFC to National Archives, National Headquarters, Mayor Walter
Washington, and the Public Library, inquiring about President Lincoln’s gift to B.
B. French, 1971
.
D.C.F. Autograph Letters
From Thomas Hastings to DCF, regarding music, Nov 23, 1918
From DCF to Miss Regina Collier, regarding Washington Irving Memorial, Feb
20, 1926
261
From DCF to A. B. Bogart, regarding photographs, Han 6, 1919
From DCF to William B. Bartlett, regarding personal life, Jun 16, 1930
From DCF to Dr. George F. Kunz, regarding Dr. Rimmer’s drawings, Jan 19,
1922
.
D.C.F. Letters
Resolutions written for the Sculpture Society by DCF
Letters, to or from MFC, about miscellaneous casual matters
.
Letters from H. & P. French (handwritten; illegible handwriting; 1967-1970)
.
French, Stuyvesant LeRoy
Correspondence, between John C. Broderick and MFC, regarding
photoduplication of Chesterwood notebooks, 1972
Correspondence, between Stuyvesant LeRoy French and MFC, regarding
personal casual matters, 1970-1972
.
Frick Art Reference Library (including photographs of paintings)
Correspondence, between Frick Art Reference Library, Mrs. Henry W. Howell Jr.,
Mrs. Thurman Rotan, and MFC, regarding photographs of portraits of French
family members, 1966-1970
Photographs of portraits of French family members, 33 count
.
Gifts to National Trust from M.F.C. – receipts
.
Glendale Union Chapel
Correspondence, between John Miller and MFC, regarding funding for the repair
of Glendale Union Chapel, 1972
.
Griffen, Dorothy (see B. Kulp) (empty)
.
Gulf Oil Magazine
Correspondence, between Gulf Oil Corporation and MFC, regarding magazine
copies, 1965-1968
262
Gulf Oil Magazine, May/June 1968 (special issue on Chesterwood)
.
Historic Housekeeping
Flyer, Historic Housekeeping – A Short Course
Brochure, Primer for Preservation: A Handbook for Historic House Keeping
.
Insurance
Document, Survey of Insurance for Mrs. Margaret French Cresson
Inventory – Chesterwood
Writing, “Chesterwood Studio Museum Annual News Letter for 1963”
Inventory of Chesterwood, June, 1954
.
Landgren, Marchal
Correspondence, between Marchal L. Landgren, Joshua C. Taylor, and MFC,
regarding Newman paintings, 1972-1973
Exhibition form, National Collection of Fine Arts
.
Lantz, Michael
Correspondence, between Michael Lantz, Kenneth Pendar, John C. Gardner,
and MFC, regarding repair for Alma Mater, Borghese catalogue of 1966,
sculpture protection and restoration, pictures of sculptures, etc. 1970-1971
.
Library of Presidential Papers
Correspondence, between Henry O. Dormann and MFC, regarding plaster cast
of Lincoln head, 1967
.
Lincoln- Seated- 3D photograph of seated Lincoln
.
Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace (Savannah, Georgia)
Correspondence, between Robertine K. McClendon and MFC, regarding booklet
of Chesterwood for the Gordon House, 1969
.
Mahanna, John G.
263
Letter, from John G. Mahanna to MFC, regarding publication of Lincoln Memorial
booklets, Jun 30, 1970
.
"Minute Man"
Brochure, the Pleasure Book of the Litchfield Hills and the Berkshires
Brochure, the Story of the Minute Man, by Roland Wells Robbins
Brochure, Concord Free Public Library Seventy-Fifth Anniversary October 1,
1948
Correspondence, between George T. Nelson and MFC, regarding transportation
of “Minute Man,” 1956
Clipping, “Topics of the Times,” May 25, 1953
Clipping, “Americans at War: Those Who Came for Freedom Fight to Preserve It”
Clipping, “Minute Man Re-enlists”
.
"Minute Man"- Controversy
1957 Berkshire Calendar
Massachusetts Picture Book
Writing, “The Minute Man”
Photographs of the Minute Man
Clipping, “The Minuteman Becomes Center of Controversy,” “Where is Minute
Man, Lexington or Concord?” “”In Public Domain,” “Lexington Historic Society
Enters Minute Man Dispute,” “Battle at Lexington, Concord Is in the Mainking
Over a Statue”
Correspondence, between Harvord Powel and MFC, regarding Minute Man
essay contest for high school students, 1956
Correspondence, between Jarvis N. Morse and MFC, regarding Minute Man
publicity, 1956
Correspondence, between Treasury Department and MFC, regarding Minute
Man publicity, 1956
264
Letters, from MFC to Berkshire Hills Conference, Chamber of Commerce, the
American Heritage Magazine, Berkshire Evening Eagle, Second Bank-State
Street Trust Company, clarifying information about Minute Man and the statue of
Captain Parker, 1955-1956
.
Miscellaneous
Letter, from Homer C. DeWalt to MFC, regarding sculpture commission, Nov 6,
1964
.
Name Plates for Paintings
List of names, handwritten
Correspondence, between J. S. Packard Inc. and MFC, regarding name plates
order, 1958-1963
.
National Academy of Design
Correspondence, between National Academy of Design and MFC, regarding
MFC’s admission to National Academy of Design and amendments to the
Constitution of the Academy, 1959-1962
.
National Sculpture Review
Correspondence, between National Sculpture Review and MFC, regarding
subscriptions and photographs for publication, 1962-1972
.
National Sculpture Society
Price chart
Annual Exhibition Calendar of Events 1973
Correspondence, between Theodora Morgan and MFC, regarding photographs
and articles for publication, 1961-68
Correspondence, between Mrs. Katherine T. Hobson and MFC, regarding
presentation on Chesterwood, 1967
Correspondence, between Laci de Gerenday and MFC, regarding presentation
for National Sculpture Society, 1964
.
N.Y. Times
265
Correspondence, between New York Times Large Type and MFC, regarding
subscription of Large Type Weekly, 1971
Correspondence, between Beatrice K. Brown and MFC, regarding plaster cast of
“Angel of Death,” 1969
.
Nurses, list of, handwritten
.
Painting- Interior/ Exterior/ Studio
Letter, from Thomas P. Moran to Clement M. Farrell, regarding painting of
galvanized gotters, Sep 4, 1963
Correspondence, between William A. Caligari, George Bynack, and MFC,
regarding painting of exterior trim on Studio work shop, 1963
.
Pantry
Diagram, Changes in Pantry/ Residence Mrs. W. P. Cresson, July 1961
.
(D.C.F.) Picture Book, also correspondence from W. Price with biography
Correspondence, between H. Wickliffe Rose, Cass Canfield, Fairfield Osborn,
Burton Cumming, John D. Barrett, J. C. Shenck, and MFC, regarding
arrangements for publication of MFC’s biography on DCF, 1961-1967
.
(MFC's File -) Willadene Price
Correspondence, between Willadene Price and MFC, regarding Mrs. Price’s plan
for writing DCF’s biography, 1961-68
Correspondence, between Marie Fraser and MFC, regarding information about
“Beneficence,” “Spirit of life,” etc. 1968
.
Roland Robbins, "Minute Man"
Brochure, “the Story of the Minute Man”
Writing, “the Story of the Minute Man Statue”
Correspondence, between Roland Robbins and MFC, regarding the Minute Man
story in the Concord papers, 1945
.
Saint Gaudens Memorial
266
Brochure, “Augustus Saint Gaudens” by DCF
Flyer, “the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site at Cornish, New Hampshire”
Brochure, “Saint-Gaudens”
Correspondence, between William Platt and MFC, regarding administration of the
Trustees for the Saint Gaudens Memorial, 1962-1971
Correspondence, between John Dreyfhout and MFC, regarding photographs in
the catalogues of Saint Gaudens’s work, 1970
Correspondence, between Frank Spinney and MFC, regarding exhibition of Saint
Gaudens, 1962-63
Correspondence, between Russell Kirk and MFC, regarding on-site sculptor,
1967
Brochure, “the Saint-Gaudens Memorial”
Writing, “A Brief Story of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial”
Flyer, “Visit the Saint-Gaudens Memorial”
Report, for the annual meeting of the Trustees of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial
.
Senators
Correspondence, between Sen. Pat McNamara, Sen. Herbert H. Lehman, Lister
Hill, and MFC, regarding proposed Federal Advisory Commission of the Arts,
1956
Correspondence, between Claiborne Pell, John G. Stewart, Joseph S. Clark, and
MFC, regarding opposition to Bill S-1316 which provides for the establishment of
a National Council on the Arts, 1963
Correspondence, between Sen. John W. Bricker, Donald DeLue, and MFC,
regarding MFC’s dissenting view on the Goodrich report, 1955
Correspondence, between Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, JFK, Styles Bridges, Joseph
Martin, and MFC, regarding opposition to Bill H. R. 452 which encourages
socialization of the fine arts, 1953
.
Smithsonian Institution
267
Correspondence, between Smithsonian and MFC, regarding catalogue of
exhibition of medals produced by the Medallic Art Company and the National
Sculpture Society, 1968
.
Stockbridge Cemetery
Report to Accompany Plan for Improvement of the Stockbridge Cemetery, by
Prentiss French, January 1954
.
Stockbridge Library
Correspondence, between William A. Selke and MFC, regarding display of art in
Stockbridge Library, 1962
Correspondence, between Mrs. Nesbitt H. Bangs and MFC, regarding book
selection, 1955
.
Stockbridge - Town Matters
Report on the Improvement of the Town of Stockbridge, by Harold Hill Blossom
Brochure, “A Guide to Stockbridge”
Brochure, “Stockbridge”
Brochure, “America the Beautiful”
Report, “Gifts Made by Individuals and Organizations for the Benefit of the Town
of Stockbridge, the People of Massachusetts and of Our Country”
Correspondence, between Jack P. Ricciardi and MFC, regarding improvement of
local roads, 1963
Clipping, “Town Beautification Prject Set in Motion by Garden Club,” Berkshire
Eagle, Dec 2, 1954
Clipping, “‘Freeze’ Put on Ice Glen by Mrs. Rockwood’s Fence”
Clipping, “US Bishop at Stockbridge”
Clipping, “Northerly By-Pass is suggested”
Clippings, numerous, about road conditions, 1955
268
Correspondence, between B. F. Roeder and MFC, regarding MFC’s vote to sell
the building (but not the land) of the Glendale school property to the highest
bidder, 1956
Correspondence, between John van Burk, Willard J. Buckler, Oliver E. Hanna,
and Robert T. Capeless, regarding establishment of repair shop in residence
district, 1953
Correspondence, between Board of Selectmen and individual Stockbridge
residents, regarding road change and other town matters, 1965-1970
.
Stockbridge Water Company
Correspondence, between Stockbridge Water Company and MFC, regarding the
latter’s water troubles, 1966
.
John Terken
Correspondence, between John Terken and MFC, regarding mending and sale
of DCF’s plaster casts, 1965-1972
.
Thefts
Letters, from MFC to Florentine Craftsman, Stuart Henry, Roman Bronze Works,
George Hamilton, Helen D. Bullock, American Association of Museums,
Commissioner of Police, Graham Galleries, and Peggy Miller, regarding theft of
DCF’s works, 1967-1969
.
Trees
Clipping, “Toying with the Elms”
Clipping, “State to Avoid Cutting Trees on Castle Hill”
Clipping, “The Flaws in Chapter 90”
Correspondence, between Robert Elliott and MFC, regarding condition of trees
on Stockbridge Main Street, 1968
Letter, from MFC to R. Minturn Sedgwick, regarding cemetery treessituation, Nov
13, 1968
.
Unity School of Christianity (found loose without a folder)
Letters, from Unity School of Christianity, regarding religious matters, 1967-1968
269
.
Washington Statuary
Correspondence, between Stewart L. Udall, D. E. Finley, and MFC, regarding
preservation of Washington statuary, 1961
Wien, Lane, Klein and Purcell – “Seated Lincoln”
Correspondence, between Alvin S. Lane, Lawrence A. Wien, and MFC,
regarding transaction of Seated Lincoln, 1956
.
Rene Wormser
Correspondence, between Rene Wormser and MFC, regarding MFC’s will, 1965
Drawer Three- "D.C.F. Sculpture"
.
Albany Institute, regarding 3’ Lincoln Statue
Correspondence, between Robert G. Wheeler and MFC, regarding controversy
about destruction of DCF’s statues, 1954
Correspondence, between Janet R. MacFarlane and MFC, regarding return of
the plaster cast of Lincoln statue, 1956
Alma Mater
Clipping, “Bomb Damages Statue Done by Stockbridge Sculptor,” Berkshire
Eagle, May 16, 1970
Letter, from Dorothy W. Philips to MFC, regarding return of the miniature Alma
Mater, July 11, 1961
Letter, from MFC to Grayson L. Kirk, regarding a letter to New York Times, Nov
10, 1962
Clipping, “Columbia Divided over Recoloring Alma Mater Statue”
Letter, from Grayson Kirk to MFC regarding damage to Alma Mater, Nov 14,
1962
Correspondence, between Andrew W. Cordier and MFC, regarding damage to
and restoration of Alma Mater, May 20, 1970
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Alva Studios – replicas
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Brochure, the Catalog of Museum Sculpture Reproduced by Alva Studios, Inc.
Correspondence, between MFC and Virginia Morris Pollak, regarding retail of
sculpture replicas, 1956
Writing, “’Seated Lincoln’ by Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)”
Correspondence, between Alfred Wolkenberg and MFC, regarding retail of
seated Lincoln and John Harvard replicas, 1956-1963
Order receipts, Alva Studios
Clipping, “Sculpture Finds its Niche in Today’s Home”
Letter, from MFC to Reed T. Recknagel, regarding model of Lincoln statue, Nov
3, 1956-1958
Letter, from Irving Shechtan to Alva Studios, regarding retail prices, Apr 1, 1957
Letter, from MFC to Robert O. Parks, regarding exhibition of Paladio
photographs, Mar 15, 1958
Letter, from Robert O. Parks to MFC, regarding reference to “the May Queen,”
Mar 18, 1958
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Hunt, regarding book about William Penn, Aug 14, 1958
Brochure, Lincoln in Sculpture
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American Academy in Rome (Sculpture Soc.)
Book, American Academy in Rome, 1951-1955
Clipping, “Haven of Art and Study”
Clipping, “Fifth President Named by American Academy”
Letter, from Donald DeLue to Lee Friedlander, regarding MFC’s will about
Amercian Academy in Rome, Dec 9, 1955
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Encyclopedia of American Biography
Letter, from Patricia Ellsworth to MFC, regarding the latter’s article about DCF for
American Oxford Encyclopedia, Jun 21, 1961 (article attached)
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Andromeda
Correspondence, between Norman Boris and MFC, regarding sale of Andromeda
to target museums, 1968-1971
Clipping, “Whole Playground is Sculpted for Fun”
Letter, from MFC to James Graham, regarding sale of Andromeda, May 7, 1969
Letter, from MFC to Mitchell Shapiro, regarding photographs of Andromeda, Oct
28, 1968
Correspondence, between Howard M. Kuehner and MFC, regarding sale of
Andromeda, 1968
Letter, from John Walker to MFC, regarding National Gallery of Art’s decision not
to purchase Andromeda, Oct 18, 1967
Correspondence, between George Heard Hamilton and MFC, regarding sale of
Andromeda, 1967
Correspondence, between George Cherkis and MFC, regarding sale of
Andromeda, 1971
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. John Calabro, regarding the latter’s offer to carve DCF’s
name on the base of Andromeda, Jun 16, 1971
Letter, from MFC to John Terken, regarding photographs of Andromeda, Jun 26,
1968
Avery gallery
Correspondence, between Sondra C. Schrieber and MFC, regarding antiqued
reproduction of items (e.g. drawing of a bird and ‘Embattled Farmer’), 1963
Correspondence, between Marshall J. Stewart and MFC, regarding working
sketch of Lincoln statue, 1962
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General Bartlett Bust: contains correspondence between Edward R. Clark and MFC,
regarding identification of bust of General Bartlett, 1963
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Brooklyn Museum
Clipping, “Beauty is Expendable”
272
Clipping, “To Preserve Plaza Arches”
Letter, from MFC to Paul Jennewein, regarding Mr. Moses’s proposal to demolish
the architectural plaza entrance to the Manhattan Bridge, Jun 1, 1961
Clipping, “New York Devours Itself”
Letter, from John F. Harbeson, regarding preservation of sculptures from public
threat, Jun 7, 1961
Letter, from Newbold Morris to MFC, regarding preservation of DCF’s sculptures
from public threat, Jun 12, 1961
Letter, from David E. Finley to Mr. Moses, regarding proposal to demolish the
architectural plaza entrances of the Manhattan Bridge, Jun 14, 1961
Clipping, “City Delays Moses on Plan to Denude Manhattan Bridge”
Letter, from National Sculpture Society to the Art Commission of the City of New
York, regarding proposal to demolish the architectural plaza entrances of the
Manhattan Bridge, Jun 22, 1961
Letter, from Robert R. Garvey Jr. to MFC, regarding information on Manhattan
Bridge for immediate release, Jun 23, 1961
Letter, from MFC to Brooklyn Institute of Fine Arts, regarding DCF’s sculptures
for Manhattan Bridge, July 18, 1962
Letter, from John D. Cooney to MFC, regarding DCF’s sculptures for Manhattan
Bridge, July 24, 1962
Letter, from MFC to John D. Cooney, regarding information about DCF’s
sculptures for Manhattan Bridge, Aug 1, 1962
Letter, from Thomas S. Buechner to MFC, regarding DCF’s Manhattan Bridge
sculptures in Brooklyn Institute, Aug 10, 1962
Letter, from MFC to Thomas S. Buechner, regarding documents on history of the
building of Brooklyn Institute, Aug 21, 1962
Letter, from Thomas S. Buechner to MFC, regarding documents on history of the
building of Brooklyn Institute, Aug 28, 1962
Letter, from MFC to Thomas S. Buechner, regarding print of DCF’s statue of
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Greek epic poetry, Sep 5, 1962
Letter, from Thomas S. Buechner to MFC, regarding list of sculptors who
completed the existing sculptures for Brooklyn Museum, Sep 14, 1962
Letter, from MFC to Thomas S. Buechner, regarding list of sculptors who
completed the existing statues for Brooklyn Museum, Sep 18, 1962
Letter, from Thomas S. Buechner to MFC, regarding print of “Epic Poetry”and
pages from DCF’s ledger, Sep 20, 1962
Letter, from MFC to Mr. McEvoy, regarding DCF’s groups for the Manhattan
Bridge, Nov 6, 1963
Letter, from MFC to Thomas S. Buechner, regarding Manhattan and Brooklyn
groups by DCF, Jun 4, 1964
Letter, from Thomas S. Buechner to MFC, regarding Manhattan and Brooklyn
groups by DCF, Jun 15, 1964
Letter, from MFC to Thomas Buechner, regarding photographs of DCF’s groups
in process of erection, Jun 24, 1964
Thank you letter, from Thomas S. Buechner to MFC, July 2, 1964
Letter, from MFC to Thomas S. Buechner, regarding pictures of “Manhattan” and
“Brooklyn,” July 4, 1964
Letter, from Thomas S. Buechner to MFC, regarding threat to Customs House,
Oct 1, 1965
Letter, from MFC to Thomas S. Buechner, regarding threat to Customs House,
Oct 30, 1965
Letter, from Thomas S. Buechner to MFC, regarding threat to Customs House,
Nov 8, 1965
Thank you letter, from MFC to Thomas S. Buechner, Nov 24, 1965
Thank you letter, from Thomas S. Buechner to MFC, Nov 29, 1965
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Brookgreen Gardens
Correspondence, between Brookgreen Gardens and MFC, regarding sale of
bronze casting of Disarmament, 1950
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Correspondence, between A. J. Rainwater and MFC, regarding sale of
Disarmament statue, 1950
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W.S. Budworth & Son Inc.
Correspondence, between C. W. Johnson and MFC, regarding packing and
shipping of Minute Man and Seated Lincoln, 1955-1959
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Capitol – Photo - D.C.F.
Letter, from J. George Stewart to MFC, regarding biographical material and
photograph of DCF, May 20, 1958
Letter, from MFC to J. George Stewart, regarding biographical material and
photograph of DCF, Jun 12, 1958
Letter, from MFC to J. George Stewart, regarding biographical material and
Letter, from J. George Stewart to MFC, regarding biographical material and
Letter, from MFC to J. George Stewart, regarding photograph of DCF, July 1,
1958
Letter, from J. George Stewart to MFC, regarding photographs of DCF, July 14,
1958
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Cemeteries – Concord – Washington – Oaks (this file contains all correspondence
between Mr. Getulio and MFC, mostly handwritten, illegible handwriting; letters below
are typed)
Letter, from MFC to “Caleb,” regarding Penn’s gravestone, Jun 8, 1934
Letter, from MFC to Mr. Getulio, regarding gravestone for the cemetery, Jun 8,
1934
Diagram of cemetery lot at the Episcopal Church, Oaks, PA
Letter, from Prentiss French to MFC, regarding personal life, Dec 14, 1935
(photos of Oaks cemetary attached)
Letter, from MFC to Superintendent of Congressional Cemetery, regarding list of
names of the persons buried in the French family lot in the Congressional
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Cemetery, Mar 10, 1956
Letter, from Mrs. Walter M. Bush to MFC, regarding the tombstone list requested
by the latter, Mar 14, 1956
Letter, from A. R. Johnson to MFC, regarding Margaret R. Clark plot in
Congressional Cemetery, Mar 16, 1956
Rainsford’s listing of stones in the cemetery, done around 1932
Clipping, “Landscaping project that the Stockbridge Town Cemetery…” Berkshire
Eagle, 1957
Advertisement Letter, from Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Committee to lot owners,
regarding Perpetual Care of lot
Letter, from Fauline M. Alessi to MFC, regarding cost for perpetual care of
cemetery lot, Aug 21, 1957
Letter, from MFC to Town of Concord, regarding bill for upkeep of cemetery lot,
May 6, 1958
Receipt, cemetery care, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, to Town of Concord
Letter, from MFC to Town of Concord, regarding bill for upkeep of cemetery lot,
Sep 1, 1965
Letter, from MFC to Charles W. Dee, regarding Daniel Chester French lot, Oct
28, 1965
Document, “Trustees of Town Donations,” received of MFC the sum of $200 as a
donation in trust for the perpetual care of lot of Daniel Chester French
Correspondence, between Thomas Hollis and MFC, regarding installation of
markers near DCF’s grave, 1966-1967
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Centennial - D.C.F., brochure, 1850-1950
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Chicago Art Institute
Clipping, Allan McNab
Clipping, Venice Notes, June, 1956
Clipping, “88 Years Ago Fire Raged in Chicago,” New York Times, Oct 9, 1955
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Clipping, “Lookie-Talkie”
Clipping, “Art Expert Quits Chicago Institute,” Apr 29, 1958
Brochure, “Art Notes…February 1946”
Clipping, “Art News from Chicago,” by A. James Speyer, spring, 1956
Clipping, photograph of Corrado Marca-Reilli’s untitled collage, December, 1954
Letter, from Eleanor Jewett to MFC, regarding communism, Feb 4, 1953
Letter, from Daniel Catton Rich to MFC, regarding destruction of DCF’s plaster
casts, Mar 24, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Daniel Catton Rich, regarding destruction of DCF’s plaster
casts, Apr 18, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Eleanor Jewett, regarding destruction of DCF’s plaster casts,
Apr 18, 1955
Letter, from Daniel Catton Rich to MFC, regarding destruction of DCF’s plaster
casts, Apr 22, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Donald Delue, regarding destruction of DCF’s plaster casts,
Apr 25, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Eleanor Jewett, regarding Mr. Rich’s letters, Apr 26, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Daniel Catton Rich, regarding list of DCF’s plaster casts
destroyed, Aug 4, 1955
Letter, from Daniel Catton Rich to MFC, regarding list of DCF’s works eliminated
from collection, Aug 15, 1955
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Concord Antiquarian Society
Letter, from Mrs. K. Schuyler McCarthy to MFC, regarding questions about
DCF’s studio, Dec 6, 1968
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. K. Schuyler McCarthy, answering the latter’s questions
about DCF’s studio, Dce 30, 1968
Letter, from C. R. Jones to MFC, regarding Judge French’s mahogany lap desk,
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Nov 11, 1966
Letter, from Mrs. Howard W. Kent to MFC, regarding DCF’s recognition in
Concord, Mar 14, 1960
Letter, from Mrs. Howard W. Kent to MFC, regarding Minute Man, Apr 6, 1960
Letter, from MFC to C. L. Jones, regarding Judge French’s mahogany lap desk,
Nov 16, 1966
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Defense Bonds, statue, "Minute Man"
Correspondence, between Jarvis M. Morse and MFC, regarding replicas of
Minute Man, 1957
Letter, from Jacob Mogelever to MFC, regarding update on Minute Man status,
Jan 24, 1957
Correspondence, between Harford Powel and MFC, regarding Minute Man at
Concord, 1956
Correspondence, between Charles Villency and MFC, regarding copy of Savings
Bond advertisement, 1956
Letter, from Edmund J. Linehan to MFC, regarding photograph of DCF, Feb 13,
1956
Advertisement, US Savings Bonds
.
Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial - Council Bluffs
Correspondence, between Eleanor Baptist and MFC, regarding information about
Dodge matieral, 1964
General Draper
Correspondence, between Howard S. Kneedler Jr. and MFC, regarding
photographs of General Draper, 1965
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Fogg Art Museum
Correspondence, between H. Wade White and MFC, regarding loan of
“Benediction,” 1962
Works by DCF owned by Harvard University by 1962
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Forest Lawn Park
Letter, from MFC to Hubert Eaton, regarding restoration of Republic, July 6, 1948
Letter, from MFC to Hubert Eaton, regarding condition of Republic, July 22, 1948
Letter, from Hubert Eaton to MFC, regarding condition of Republic, Jun 30, 1948
Correspondence, between Roy W. Donley and MFC, regarding restoration of the
Republic, 1948-49
Letter, from MFC to Grace M. Mayer, regarding information about Republic, July
29, 1955
Thank you letter, from Patricia Pulling to MFC, Aug 2, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Forest Lawn Cemetery, regarding picture of statues at Forest
Lawn, May 13, 1958
Letter, from Frederick Llewellyn to MFC, regarding photograph of Republic, May
16, 1958
Correspondence, between Robert H. Cumming and MFC, regarding sale of
bronze Lincoln and other DCF sculptures, 1961
Correspondence, between Vera Oldham and MFC, regarding the “Republic,”
brochure of Forest Lawn, “Pictorial” publication, and travel schedules, 1961-63
Letter, from MFC to John O. Littleton, regarding replica of Lincoln statue in
marble, July 18, 1963
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D.C.F.'s Equestrians
Correspondence, between Michael T. Richman and MFC, regarding list of
American Civil War Eauestrians, Nov 15, 1967
D.C.F.’s Miscellaneous
Letter, from Sidney Kaplan to National Sculpture Society, regarding picture of
DCF’s Teamster, Sep 22, 1970
Letter, from MFC to Randolph A. Swart, regarding the Seagull Monument, Oct
30, 1965
279
Letter, from Robert F. Westervelt to MFC, regarding regarding painter Robert L.
Newman, Oct 30, 1965
Letter, from MFC to Robert F. Westervelt, regarding information about Robert L.
Newman, Nov 13, 1965
Letter, from Bruce D. Hooton to MFC, regarding letters of DCF, Jan 22, 1965
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Alcott F. Elwell, regarding the Elwells and the
Emersons, Dec 13, 1963
Letter, from Mrs. Alcott F. Elwell to MFC, regarding Colonel Alcott F. Elwell’s
family history, Nov 8, 1963
Letter, from MFC to Mr. Seidman, regarding bust of DCF, Aug 5, 1964
Letter, from MFC to Sushil Mukerjee, regarding the latter’s suggestion to write
about DCF and his work, Jun 10, 1964
Letter, from Pascal M. Gatterdam to MFC, regarding copies of Lincoln bronzes,
Nov 3, 1956
Thank you letter, from MFC to Charles H. Wachob, Jan 27, 1956
Letter, from MFC to Walter A. Harper, regarding photographs of statue of
“Africa,” Jan 14, 1956
Letter, from MFC to Helen Pringle, regarding copy of Dolly Varden, Feb 1, 1957
Letter, from MFC to Mr. Fisher, regarding work schedule, Nov 30, 1950
Letter, from MFC to Madeline Park, regarding idea of annual medal, Nov 30,
1950
Letter, from C. Dichiara to MFC, regarding work schedule, Nov 27, 1950
Letter, from MFC to E. A. Fisher, regarding work schedule, Nov 22, 1950
Letter, from MFC to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, regarding article on Lincoln Memorial
in Reader’s Digest, Feb 4, 1950
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D.C.F. Sculpture
Letter, from MFC to Robert Hunter, regarding information about DCF’s
“Narcissa,” Jan 6, 1969
280
Correspondence, between MFC and George A. Gilboy, regarding DCF’s “Joe’s
Farewell,” 1969
Letter, from Erwin S. Barrie to MFC, regarding sale of bronze duplicates, Nov 9,
1968
Letter, from MFC to Miss Marie Fraser, regarding photograph of “Beneficence”
newspaper article about Chesterwood, Oct 11, 1968
Letter, from Joseph G. E. Hopkins to MFC, regarding photograph of “the
Republic,” Sep 9, 1968
Letter, from Patricia A. Murray to MFC, regarding photograph of “the Republic,”
July 8, 1968
Letter, from Robert Hunter to MFC, regarding DCF’s “Narcissa,” Dec 31, 1968
Correspondence, between Mrs. Sophie D. Baldus and MFC, regarding complete
list of DCF’s sculptures, 1968
Letter, from Erwin S. Barrie to MFC, regarding payments for Seated Lincoln, Oct
29, 1968
Correspondence, between Wayne Craven and MFC, regarding manuscript on
history of American Sculpture, Mar 28, 1968
Letter, from Steven L. Carson, regarding DCF’s busts for American Hall of Fame,
Aug 27, 1961
Letter, from Robert R. Garvey Jr. to Architectural Forum, regarding preservation
of the old Post Office in St. Louis, May 26, 1961
Letter, from MFC to J. Stewart Lacey, regarding sale of copies of DCF’s bronzes,
Apr 23, 1955
Correspondence, between MFC and Kersey M. Woodard, regarding bronze
masks from Melvin Memorial, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Mr. Markel, regarding photograph of Lincoln on the cover of
the Times Magazine, Feb 12, 1955
Letter, from Bryant Baker to MFC, regarding photographs of religious sculpture,
Jan 18, 1955
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Correspondence, between Miss Grace Mayer and MFC, regarding information
about DCF’s “Republic,” 1954-55
Letter, from Donald R. Davis to MFC, regarding plan for memorial exhibition of
sculpture, July 13, 1954
Letter, from Miss Mary Rotondo to MFC, regarding DCF’s name on the Melvin
Memorial, Jun 1, 1954
Letter, from Eliot Clark to MFC, regarding exhibition and “Alma Mater,” May 27,
1954
Letter, from T. N. Hurd to MFC, regarding information about statues removed
from the Capitol, Apr 21, 1954
Letter, from Keith A. Hinsman to Wheeler Williams, regarding plaster model of
“Miss Forward,” Apr 19, 1954
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Nerney, regarding pieces of Parian made by DCF, Nov
30, 1950
Brochure, Centennial/ Daniel Chester French/ 1850-1950
Clipping, “First Division Resumes Its Battle to Oust Government ‘Tempo’ at
Monument Site”
Correspondence, between MFC and New York Custom House, regarding
preservation of DCF’s Four Continents, Jun 4, 1964
.
James Graham and Sons – Galleries: contains all correspondence between James
Graham and MFC, regarding sale and purchase of DCF’s sculpture duplicates, 19621965, checks enclosed
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Grand Central Art Galleries
Correspondence, between Erwin S. Barrie and MFC, regarding sale, casting, and
storage of DCF sculpture (mainly bronze casting of Lincoln heads), 1950-1972
Correspondence, between MFC and George L. Nilson, regarding inventory of
sculpture for sale, 1955
Harvard, John
Clipping, “Harvard Commemorates Supporter’s Baptism,” Nov 30, 1957
282
Correspondence, between Nathan M. Pusey and MFC, regarding protection of
Harvard statue, 1970
Clipping, “Harvard’s Harvard” by Barney Letterts, New York Times Magazine
Hunt Memorial
Letter, from MFC to Adoph Block, regarding bronze relief of Richard Morris Hunt,
Oct 6, 1957
Correspondence, between Robert Moses, John Gregory, Karl H. Gruppe and
MFC, regarding the cleaning and repair of Hunt Memorial, 1957
Correspondence, between Newbold Morris and MFC, regarding theft and
rehabilitation of Hunt Memorial statues, 1962
Correspondence, between Walter Barretta and MFC, regarding rehabilitation of
Hunt Memorial statues, 1965
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Jug End Barn, 1964
Correspondence, between Mimi L. MacDonald and Donald C. Douglass,
regarding MFC’s approval of the décor of the DCF Room at Heritage House, Aug
4, 1964
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Peter Juley, D.C.F. photos
Correspondence, between Peter Juley and MFC, regarding photographs of DCF,
1955-1956
List, photographs of works by DCF at Peter Juley’s
.
Lincoln Kirstein- (Dr. Rimmer)
Correspondence, between Lincoln Kirstein and MFC, regarding information about
Dr. Rimmer and DCF’s sketch book that contains relevant information, 19451950
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Kneeling Angels
Correspondence, between W. S. Budworth and MFC, regarding packing and
shipping of marble reliefs of Kneeling Angels, 1956
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Letters to Newspapers
Letter, from Mrs. Howard W. Kent to MFC, regarding corrections of the sketches
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at Concord Antiquarian Museum, Aug 15, 1963
Letter, from MFC to Miss Clarice Garrison, regarding the omission of DCF’s
name in the article about Lincoln Memorial in Life Magazine, Feb 20, 1952
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Library of Congress
Correspondence, between David Mearn and MFC, regarding arrangements for
the collection of DCF archives at Library of Congress, 1951-1962
Document, Daniel Chester French Family Papers, Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
Correspondence, between Jennings Wood and MFC, regarding collection of DCF
archives at Library of Congress, 1961-1966
Letter, from MFC to Murray Howder, regarding statue of History, Sep 11, 1963
Correspondence, between Sarah Orne Jewett and Anna Dawes, regarding DCF
as a child, from Library of Congress, Nov 1876
Letter, from MFC to Stuyvesant LeRoy French, regarding Major French’s journal,
Aug 1, 1962
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Library of Congress II
Correspondence, between David Mearn, Jennings Wood and MFC, regarding
arrangements for the collection of DCF archives at Library of Congress, 1966
Correspondence, between John C. Broderick, Nathan Einhorn and MFC,
regarding DCF archives and William Penn Cresson archives at Library of
Congress, 1968-1971
.
“Lincoln mask” by Leonard W. Volk, Tradition: the Montly Magazine of America’s
Picturesque Past, February, 1961
Lincoln
Brochure, “Lincoln Memorial”
Writing, “Daniel Chester French: Sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial” by Susan
Womer, American Art, Apr 17, 1963
Clipping, “Lincoln Statue Fund”
284
The Lincoln Sesquicentennial, Intelligencer, a newsletter highlighting events in
the observance of the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, March, 1959 (attached
with a letter from MFC to Dr. Baringer, regarding requests received for bronze
reproductions of Lincoln statue)
Letter, from Robert W. Kean to MFC, inquiring about the number of Lincoln
Nebraska statues and Lincoln Memorial statues cast, Dec 6, 1960
Letter, from Carl Haverlin to MFC, regarding lighting system at the Lincoln
Memorial, Feb 1, 1961
Letter, from Frieda Tenenbaum to MFC, regarding information about bronze cast
of Lincoln statue at Heckscher Museum, Apr 4, 1961
Letter, from Francis S. Ronalds to Eric Gugler, regarding a portion of an account
of an interview with British Actress Dorothy Tutin, Apr 12, 1963
Letter, from Ruth P. Higgins to MFC, regarding Dr. Warren’s book “Lincoln’s
Gettysburg Declaration,” Nov 2, 1964
Correspondence, between Sargent Child and MFC, regarding reproduction of
Lincoln statues, 1959
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List of D.C.F.'s Works
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Longfellow
Correspondence, between Felicia Geffen and MFC, regarding placement of
DCF’s Longfellow bust at Fairleigh Dickinson University, May 5, 1959
Letter, from MFC to Prentiss French, about personal life, Nov 21, 1956
Correspondence, between J. L. Nevins and MFC, regarding condition of
Lonfellow bust, 1956
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List, major works of D.C.F.
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Met. Museum Letters – 1968
Correspondence between Mrs. Kitchell M. Boorman and MFC, regarding Gulf
Company’s article about DCF, Dr. Bashford Dean, and the owl tucked in the skirt
of Alma Mater, 1968
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Milmore
Map of Forest Hills Cemetery
Correspondence, between Henry L. Milmore and MFC, regarding the latter’s
request to borrow Milmore statue for Chesterwood, 1955
Correspondence, between Laurence B. Fletcher and MFC, regarding
preservation of “Death and the Sculptor,” 1956
Clipping, “the Sculptor French,” by William A. Coffin
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Minute Man
Clippings, war comics, featuring Minute Man statue
Correspondence, between E. Ray Leomazzi and MFC, regarding replica of
Minute Man, 1966
Correspondence, between Bernard F. Kamins and MFC, regarding replica of
Minute Man, 1966
Photocopy, US Savings Bond advertisements
Correspondence, between Robert L. Giannetti and MFC, regarding replica of
bronze Minute Man, 1973
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Modern Art Foundry, Inc.
Correspondence, between John Spring and MFC, regarding bronze casting of
Lincoln statue, Sep 12, 1962
.
"The Golden Girls" - National Academy
Correspondence, between Lawrence Grant White and MFC, regarding
restoration of the paster casts of Hunt Memorial statues at National Academy,
1955
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National Gallery of Art (empty file)
National Gallery – Washington
Clipping, “National Galelry Celebrates a Birthday”
Writing, “Kindness of David Edward Finley” by Joseph and Stewart Alsop,
286
Washington Post and Times Herald, Mar 18, 1956
Correspondence, between John Walker, George Hamilton, David Finley, and
MFC, regarding National Gallery of Art’s decision whether to acquire Andromeda,
1967
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NY Historical Society
Correspondence, between R. W. G. Vail and MFC, regarding transportation and
restoration of DCF statues sent to NY Historical Society by MFC, 1947-1953
Correspondence, between Thomas G. Lo Medico and MFC, regarding
restoration of DCF statues at NY Historical Society, 1953
Correspondence, between NY Historical Society and MFC, regarding return of
paster casts of DCF statues sent to NY Historical Society, 1962
Loan receipt, 3 sculptures by DCF at NY Historical Society
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N.Y. Public Library
Correspondence, between NY Public Library and MFC, regarding DCF collection
at the Art Division of NY Public Library, 1948
.
Oglethorpe
Correspondence, between Roman Bronze Works, Savannal Machine and
Foundry, and MFC, regarding bronze recasting of Oglethorpe statue, 1957-1958
.
Parians - D.C.F.
Correspondence, between Holland Mold Shop and MFC, regarding replicas of
molds of parian owls, 1963
Correspondence, between George A. Gilboy and MFC, regarding DCF’s original
parian sculptures, 1960
.
Photos - D.C.F/ Works
Letter, from Bogart Studio to MFC, regarding report of collection of photographs
of DCF’s works, Oct 28, 1942 (list attached)
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Photographs
Correspondence, between George Nelson and MFC, regarding photographs of
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Lincoln heads, 1956
Letter, from Library of Congress, regarding information about “History,” Dec 19,
1957 (photographs attached)
Miscellaneous letter, from MFC to F. G. Flannagan, Enid Belle Palanchian, Peter
Juley, etc., inquiring about photographs of DCF works, 1956
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Plaster Casts
List of DCF’s plaster casts, handwritten
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Bust, Benjamin C. Porter
Correspondence, between W. Franklyn Paris and MFC, regarding Hall of
American Artist’s acquisition of DCF’s bust of Benjamin C. Porter, 1947
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Post Office, St. Louis
Correspondence, between Buford Pickens and MFC, regarding preservation of
sculpture at the Old Post Office of St. Louis, 1964 (relevant article and
photograph attached)
Letter, from Robert Garvey to Austin Leland, regarding preservation of sculpture
at the Old Post Office of St. Louis, 1964
Letter, from Gordon Grey to Bernard Boutin, regarding preservation of sculpture
at the Old Post Office of St. Louis, 1964
.
Howard Sanden
Letters, from Howard Sanden to MFC, regarding his admiration for DCF, 19581961 (in a religious folder)
.
Sebastian Studio
Correspondence, between Marjorie K. Baston, Prescott W. Baston and MFC,
regarding sale of miniature of Seated Lincoln, 1957-1962
Writing, “Art that Pays Commercial Dividends,” by John Hamilton
.
Stamp - D.C.F.
Correspondence, between Alvin R. Witt and MFC, regarding photograph of DCF
that was used for stamps, 1968
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Statues by D.C.F. (In Museums)
Correspondence, between John Gordon and MFC, regarding the whereabouts of
DCF’s plaster casts at Brooklyn Museum, 1955
Correspondence, between Charles Nagel and MFC, regarding the whereabouts
of DCF’s plaster casts at City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1956
Correspondence, between Wilbur D. Peat and MFC, regarding the whereabouts
of DCF’s plaster casts at the John Herron Art Institute, 1956
Correspondence, between Richard S. Davis and MFC, regarding the
whereabouts of DCF’s plaster casts at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1956
List of DCF’s casts destroyed
Thayer, Abbott H.
Correspondence, between Thomas B. Brumbaugh and MFC, regarding
information about Abott H. Thayer for a biography project, 1968
Trask
Correspondence, between Robert N. McKelvey and MFC, regarding preservation
of Trask Memorial, 1962
Correspondence, between Helen Bullock, Mrs. Walter A. Britten and MFC,
regarding preservation of Trask Memorial, 1957
.
Untitled Folder - Sayings by DCF
.
U.S. Treasury and "Minute Man"
Correspondence, between Jarvis M. Morse and MFC, regarding collection of
materials for the Minute Man room at Chesterwood, 1956
.
"Dolly Varden"
Letter, from Mrs. F. C. Mabe to DCF Foundation, regarding market value of Dolly
Varden statute, Mar 22, 1959
Letter, from MFC to the Misses Harrington, regarding donation of Dolly Varden
statute, Aug 6, 1962
289
.
Paul Venzes
Correspondence, between Milton Kessler and MFC, regarding bronze casting of
Standing Lincoln and Minute Man for a client of Paul Venzes, 1964
.
"The Weavers"- Wellesley
Correspondence, between J. W. McBrine, R. Minturn Sedgwick, John Coolidge,
M.A Fraser, and MFC, regarding transportation of “the Weaver” from Wellesley to
Chesterwood, 1956
Invoice and Certification of Insurance, Fraser & Walker Inc. Brookline, Mass.
.
Daniel Webster
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Carol S. Moffatt, regarding manuscrips and letters of
Daniel Webster, Nov 21, 1966
.
Westinghouse, Swasey or Mallinckrodt
Correspondence, between M. L. Wood and MFC, regarding acquisition of bronze
busts for display in a laboratory, 1955
White, Emily Vanderbilt
Correspondence, between Mrs. Francis H. Lenygen and MFC, regarding
information about DCF’s bas relief of Mrs. Henry White, 1960
Letter, from Mrs. Blake L. Lawrence to MFC, regarding bas relief of Mrs. Henry
White, 1961
Correspondence, between W. Donald Nyland, Loring Conant, and MFC,
regarding estimate of value of the bas relief of Mrs. White, 1963
Clipping, photocopied, “Chesterwood Installs Bust of Mrs. White”
.
Wisconsin Statue
Correspondence, between Mrs. James Skogstad and MFC, regarding “Journey
into Fame” and information about DCF’s Wisconsin statue, Nov 20, 1956
.
Works of Daniel Chester French
List of DCF photographs at Peter Juley’s
290
Correspondence, between Mrs. Roger C. Wilde and MFC, regarding DCF’s
Parian dogs, 1969
Correspondence, between Mrs. A. M. Huntington and MFC, regarding DCF’s
bust of Washington Irving, Feb 17, 1956
Letter, from MFC to Lamar Dodd, regarding replicas of DCF sculptures for the art
school of University of Georgia, Dec 5, 1955
Letter, from MFC to Mrs. Charles A. Righter, regarding information about “Joe’s
Farewell,” Aug 2, 1955
.
Writings about D.C.F.
Correspondence, between Michael T. Richman and MFC, regarding bibliography
of “Journey into Fame” and photographs of DCF, 1969
291
Albums/Scrapbooks/Bound Materials
NTARC.CH.1.2.2
Box 1
.
Snapshot photograph album, 1901 - c. 1906, NT 73.45.5225
.
Snapshot photograph album, 1905 - c. 1906, NT 73.45.5226
292
Architectural Drawings, Maps and Posters
NTARC.CH.1.2.3
The Margaret French Cresson subseries of architectural drawings, maps, and posters range in
date from c. 1915 to 1973 and are located in map cabinet drawers 1, 2, 8, 14, and 15; those
that are rolled are in four administrative boxes all in CH302. They pertain primarily to the
grounds and buildings of Chesterwood and consist of blueprints, bluelines, and drawings on
tracing paper and on heavy drawing paper. They include three key maps of the Chesterwood
property made in the 1930s and 1940s, posters of D.C. French's Minute Man as a logo for U.S.
War and Saving Bonds, architectural drawings of the adaption of the barn, and planting
designs for the long bed in the Chesterwood garden.
Drawer 15 - of map cabinet in CH302
.
Posters (4), MFC collection, for U.S. Savings Bonds, show logo of MINUTE MAN by
DCF, official U.S. Treasury posters, 3 discrete, one duplicate, 1946 and 1947
[NT69.38.968(3,11,13,14)]
Cross References
For two photographic enlargements of daguerreotypes of DANIEL WEBSTER and two 1932
planetable maps of Chesterwood properties, all belonging to the MFC Series, see DCF Series:
Architectural Drawings, Maps, and Posters: Rolled Oversize: Double-oversize Box 1.
For two architectural drawings of gravestones, a 1941 planetable map of Chesterwood, and a
topographic map, all belonging to the MFC Series, see DCF Series: Architectural Drawings,
Maps, and Posters: Rolled Oversize: Quadruple-oversize Box 1.
N.B.: Several boxes of material from CH207 await completion of processing. They include ring
notebook NT73.45.5246.
293
Mary Adams French Series
NTARC.CH.1.3
1900 - 1930
2.86 linear feet
- arranged in original order
Mary Adams French (1859-1939), was the wife of celebrated American sculptor Daniel
Chester French. As many wives of artists of the American Renaissance, she herself was an
artist, a writer of short stories, plays, and novelettes, and the author of the autobiography,
Memories of a Sculptor's Wife (1928). She rarely published her fictional writings.
These works, dating from 1900 to the late 1930's, were stored for many years at Chesterwood,
where she summered from 1897 to 1939. This series is primarily composed of final and rough
drafts of literary manuscripts and criticisms in the form of letters from editors of magazines and
writing services.
Please note the letter of non-literary nature that is in Box 6, as well as the check registry in Box
1.
Box 1
.
Bound Materials. Check Registry, Mary Adams French, March 1, 1938 December 29, 1938
.
Literary Typescripts Packet, Mary Adams French, containing short stories: "The
Interlude," "As Told at Monte Carlo," "Miss Mil'cent's Boots," "The Painted Lady,"
"The Man They Wouldn't Believe," "The Child Who Never Knew," "The Old
Actor," "A Romance-Over-the-Way," A Little Lonely Soul," "The Brothers," and
"Poor Little Jock"; letter to Mrs. DCF; and printed article; c.1930s
.
Painted Lady," "Seldom Fed"; "The Circus Girl" play fragment (?) (pp. 1-19);
notes; and chapters (including 3-8, 10, and 11) of "The Wisdom of Pamela
Prentiss"; 1920s-1930s, plus inscribed folder (folder 1)
.
Painted Lady", "Seldom Fed"; "The Circus Girl" play fragment (?) (pp.1-19);
notes; and chapters (Including 3-8, 10, and 11) of "The Wisdom of Pamela
Prentiss"; 1920s-1930s, plus inscribed folder (folder 2)
.
Painted Lady", "Seldom Fed"; "The Circus Girl" play fragment (?) (pp. 1-19);
notes; and chapters (including 3-8, 10 and 11) of "The Wisdom of Pamela
Prentiss," 1920s-1930s, plus inscribed folder (folder 3)
294
Box 2
.
Literary Typescript Packet, Mary Adams French, containing novel "Murder by
Moonlight" and critique by her literary advisor, October 5, 1934 (folder 1)
.
Literary Typescript Packet, Mary Adams French, containing novel "Murder by
Moonlight" and critique by her literary advisor, October 5, 1934 (folder 2)
.
Literary Typescript, neat draft, found in stringed envelope, Mary Adams French,
containing novel "Murder by Moonlight", 1923-1939 (folder 1)
.
Literary Typescript, neat draft, found in stringed envelope, Mary Adams French,
containing novel "Murder by Moonlight", 1923-1939 (folder 2)
Box 3
.
Newspaper Clippings, collected by Mary Adams French, of early Washington,
DC, in inscribed expanding tie envelope, c.1927 - 1931
.
Literary Typescripts and Manuscript of Short Stories and a Play, in inscribed
folder, Mary Adams French, containing "The Bareback Rider"; one-act play in
four scenes " Charity Rose"; rough draft of a short story of an American in
Mexico (untitled?); early version of "Never the Time -- and the Place" (5000
words); "Their Own Lives"; "The Sophistication of Anne"; 1900s - 1910s(?)
.
Literary Typescripts of Short Stories, Mary Adams French, "Never the Time -and the Place --" with note on location of other stories; "The Bareback Rider";
"Getting Ahead of Sister"; "The Sophistication of Anne"; 1900s - 1920s(?)
.
Literary Draft Fragment, typed, Mary Adams French, "Pamela Prentiss," pp. 4044, 1920s - 1930s
.
Literary Typescript Page, p. 8, Mary Adams French, of unidentified writing, with
character names of Dudy, Elenor, Laurie, Scar; date?
.
Literary Manuscript Fragments, Mary Adams French, of "The Stratagem of Jane,"
"The Clown and his Offering," "Betsy," 1920s - 1930s?
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, of short story "Seaweed," 1920s 1930s?
.
Literary Typescripts, Mary Adams French, of short story "Cynthia's One Chance"
and fragment from unidentified novel, with characters Ella, Nancy, Jack, Cynthia;
authors name given as Mary French-French; 1910s?
295
.
Literary Typescripts and Manuscripts, Mary Adams French, of short stories "The
Heart that Would A-Wooing Go"; "An Innocent Little Walk in the Woods; "Ole Al
and Patricia"; and variation; 1900s - 1910s?
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story "The Admiral's Choice," two
variant copies, 1900s - 1910s?
.
Literary Typescripts and Manuscripts, Mary Adams French, mostly short stories:
"Mystery of the Baboon Man"; "Claudia's Boomerang"; "Ratsy"; "Charity-Rose. A
Comedy-Drama. In Three Acts and an Epilogue" or "For Mistress Marjory"; "The
Circus Girl," a play; "The Golden Bird," two copies; "Hands Off! two copies;
"Maxine of the Follies," earlier (?) version of the preceding; ". . . and Business";
1900 - 1930(?) Folder 1
.
Literary Typescripts and Manuscripts, Mary Adams French, mostly short stories:
"Mystery of the Baboon Man"; "Claudia's Boomerang"; "Ratsy"; "Charity-Rose. A
Comedy-Drama. In Three Acts and an Epilogue" or "For Mistress Marjory"; "The
Circus Girl," a play; "The Golden Bird," two copies; "Hands Off!” (2); "Maxine of
the Follies," earlier (?) Version of the preceding; ". . . and Business"; 1900 1930(?) Folder 2
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, of short story, “ignominy and the Baby,"
one draft and one copy, 1930s
Box 4
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, farce-comedy in four acts, "The Folly of
Fools," 1930s (?)
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, farce-comedy in four acts,"The Folly of
Fools," 1930s (?)
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, chapters XI-XVII of unnamed novel,
chapters 1-5 of "Pamela Prentiss," chapters 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 of unnamed novel,
1930s
.
Literary Typescripts, Mary Adams French, chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 of unnamed
novel, "Pamela Prentiss," chapters 2, 3, 4, 1930s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, chapters 9-17 of unnamed novel, 1930
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, miscellaneous notes and chapters from
"The Wisdom of Pamela Prentiss,” 1930s
.
Literary Typescript, miscellaneous notes and chapters from "The Wisdom of
296
Pamela Prentiss," 1938
.
Literary Manuscript, Typescript, Mary Adams French, pages of chapters of novel, short
story "Ratsy," 1930s
Box 5
.
Lists (2) of Literary Works of Mary Adams French, discrete; from CH304 closet,
in large sole carton of her works there: the lists were found very near the bottom
of the carton and therefore beneath many manuscripts.
.
Literary Manuscript, Mary Adams French, short story "The Mother Superior's
Secret,” 1920s-1930s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "The Christening,” 1920s1930s
.
Literary Manuscript Draft Fragments, Mary Adams French, relating to her
"Pamela Prentiss,” 1920s-1930s, originally paper clipped; and three photographic
prints, mounted on sheet inscribed "6", of drawings of the White House in 1789
and 1800 and of Duddington Manor-House
.
Literary Manuscript and Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "Dat No
'Count Da-w-g!" 1920s-1930s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, suggestion for short story, "One Year:
The Wind Bloweth over It, and It Is Gone," 1920s - 1930s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "The Ladder," 1920s-1930s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story,"The Stratagem of HateEvil,” 1920s-1930s
.
Literary Manuscript and Typescript Fragments, Mary Adams French, pages (2)
from short stories found inserted in "Pearls from a Woman's Throat," 1920s1930s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "They Say," two
copies,1920s-1930s
.
Literary Manuscript and Typescript, Mary Adams French, play, "Violet Bride,"
1920s-1930s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "The Wicked Skipper,"
1920s-1930s
297
.
Literary Manuscript and Typescripts, Mary Adams French, short stories, drafts
and final, "Mr. Bunker’s Weekend," "Mr. Billy Bunker and the Ladies," "The
Humor of Billy Bunker," 1920s-1930s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "Luddington's Quest,"
1920s-1930s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "Little Mis'tis," 1920s-1930s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, novelette, "The Mission of PansyEmma," 1920s-1930s
.
Literary Typescripts, Mary Adams French, short story, novelette, "The Inspiration
of Mr. Hinkey-Jones," inscribed by MAF near name of latter is that of Billy
Bunker; "The Mission of Pansy Emma," 1920s-1930s
.
Literary Manuscript andTypescript, Mary Adams French, novel draft, "The
Adventure of John J.," 1920s-1930s
Box 6
.
Letters, editor, The Atlantic Monthly; Walter B. Pitkin; Arthur Sullivant Hoffman;
Donald MacCampbell; Elliott Blackiston to Mary Adams French, literary criticisms
of specific works by her, 1912-1938
.
Literary Manuscripts, Typescripts, Drafts, Mary Adams French, excerpts various
works, untitled short stories, poetry, "The Outsider," "Country Girl," and "A
Reverie of the North Pole," 1920s -1930s
.
Literary Manuscript, Typescripts, Mary Adams French, short stories, play; In a
Castle Yard, "The Brothers," "Little Lonely Soul," "Poor Little Jock," "The
Magician," and play "The Smile of Twenty Years," 1920s-1930s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "The Silver Frame," 1920s
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story,"The Manicured Romance",
1920s-1930s
.
Literary Typescript and Manuscript Drafts, Mary Adams French, of short story
"The Plans of Mrs. Parker," packeted in inscribed folder, 1910s (?)
.
Letter, Laurence B. Fletcher to Mary Adams French, from Boston, regarding the D.C.
French pastel portrait of William Brewster, November 19, 1931
298
Box 7
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "The Clown and the Affinity"
by Mary French-French (typescript; 2 copies; inscribed by MAF; one is neater;
"about 2500 words") from red room closet, labeled carton, rougher typescript was
paper-clipped to "The Elusive ___"; each copy was paper-clipped but not to one
another
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "Cold as Ice!"
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, novelette, "The Dresden Lady"
.
Literary Manuscript, Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "The Elusive
_____"
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "Her Beloved Roadster,"
rough and final typescript, latter 20 pp.; inscribed; each found paper clipped
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, "The Lady and the Goya", 27 pp.
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, novel, "Mee-too", 16 folders
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, short story, "Moods - On the Riviera",
11 pp.
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, novelette, "A Mother to Peggy," earlier
draft, 1910s (?)
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, mystery novelette, "Pearls from a
Woman's Throat"
.
Literary Typescript, Mary Adams French, play, "Tanya: a Romantic Drama in
Four Acts," 76 pp.
Box 8
The literary manuscripts in this box [once consisted of MFC Series Box 4 and were moved
here because they] are by MAF only; they were found in MFC's office (CH207), which used to
be MAF's. Therefore they were a vestige or more probably something MFC was contemplating.
They are from the SW closet, shelf 2. Also in this box are the contents of a file folder from the
CH207 filing cabinet (MFC's) and the contents of a ring book; they constitute another work by
MAF: "Mary's Menu Book."
.
Literary Typescript Packet, Mary Adams French, containing historical writing
299
(non-fictional) "Lincoln", 1920s-1930s, Folder 1
.
Literary Typescript Packet, Mary Adams French, containing historical writing
(non-fictional) "Lincoln", 1920s-1930s, Folder 2
.
Literary typescript of novelette, Mary Adams French, “A Mother to Peggy,” folder
inscribed by MFC with title “Peggy and Dot,” fictionalized story, final draft, 200
pp., 1910s (?), Folder 1
.
Literary typescript of novelette, Mary Adams French, “A Mother to Peggy,” folder
inscribed by MFC with title “Peggy and Dot,” fictionalized story, final draft, 200
pp., 1910s (?), Folder 2
.
Culinary manuscript consisting of typescript of introduction and text, ms. of preface,
typescript of recipes, inscribed envelope, inscribed file folder, author Mary Adams
French, editor M.F. Cresson, "Mary's Menu Book; Housekeeper's Assistant," missing
pp.2 and 17 from 27p., 1920s(?)-1960s (?)
.
Typed loose-leaf pages, ring book, author Mary Adams French, editor M.C. French,
"Mary's Menu Book," 1920s (?)-1950s
.
Inserts (15) of menus, recipes, please-copy label, letter with enclosure, envelopes,
handwritten or typed by M.A. French (?) and by M.F. Cresson, removed from "Mary's
Menu Book" ring book, 1880s (?)-1973
Mary Adams French Series
Ephemera
Box 9:
.
Mailing tube, from Frank Crowninshield to Mrs. Daniel Chester French, affixed handaddressed yellow mailing label printed with his business address, 1930s (?) [NAN]
[From STUDIO south wall tall chest 5th tier drawer]
.
Mailing tube, from Frank Crowninshield to Mrs. Daniel Chester French, affixed handaddressed yellow mailing label printed with his business address, 1930s (?) [NAN]
[From STUDIO Hutch 5th tier drawer]
300
Award
- Flat File Cabinet Drawer 11 (eleven)
[After conservational unrolling, it should be in a halfsize folder.]
Rolled
.
Award, with 1918 engraving by Besnard, from the French government to Mrs. Daniel
Chester French, the MEDAILLE DE LA RECONNAISSANCE FRANCAISE, for her work
throughout the war and thereafter, as one of the most active members of the Duryea
War Relief Committee, 1921 [NAN 40]
Photographic Materials
In CH Barn Storage area are the copper plates that were used to make reproductions in MAF's
book, Memories of a Sculptor's Wife (1928). These constitute a separate subseries and are
extremely heavy; they have not been inventoried. There are 27 illustrations in her book.
301
Henry Flagg French Series
NTARC.CH.1.4
April 8, 1866 - April 24, 1883
2.5 inches
Henry Flagg French (1813 - 1885), was Daniel Chester French's father. Although a
lawyer and judge, Henry French was an exceptionally outspoken proponent of landscape
design, and communicated often with renowned landscape designer and writer Andrew
Jackson Downing. Author of Farm Drainage: Principles, Processes and Effects of Draining
Land (1882), Henry French was the first president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College at
Amherst (the University of Massachusetts). French was appointed to the post of assistant
secretary of the treasury in 1876, a position he held until a year before his death in 1885.
This series is composed of a volume of letters written to Gail Hamilton from April 8,
1866 to April 24, 1883. Hamilton was a writer whose works include, Sermons to the Clergy
(1876) and Skirmishes and Sketches, both in the collection at Chesterwood.
Box 1:
Notebook, belonged to Henry Flagg French
Box 2: [Oversized]
Photograph, portrait of Henry Flagg French, framed and glazed, in exquisite antique
frame, round
302
Henry French Hollis Series
NTARC.CH.1.5
Early July - December 29, 1918
1.5 inches
Henry French Hollis (1869-1949) was Daniel Chester French's nephew, son of Harriet
French, the eldest of the sculptor's siblings. Hollis enjoyed a varied, if not initially successful
political career. He was New Hampshire's democratic candidate for Congress in 1900, and
campaigned for the governor's seat in 1902, but was unsuccessful in both efforts. He went on
to become New Hampshire's first democratic US senator since 1852 in 1913, a post he held
until 1919. He moved to Europe after the First World War
This series contains a typescript of Hollis' diary entitled Europe in 1918, which was
found in William Penn Cresson's miscellaneous papers. This collection is now housed within
the William Penn Cresson Series [removed from WPC series].
BOX 1
.
Journal, Henry French Hollis (Senator), "Europe in 1918", early July (in New
York) - "July 16." [Paris.] pp. 1-18
.
"July 18, 1918, Thursday" - "Saturday, July 20, Paris." pp. 19 - 34
.
"Hotel Claridge, London, July 21, 1918." - "July 25, London." pp. 1-16
.
"July 27, 1918, London." - "Paris, July 30, 1918." pp. 1-4
.
"San Sebastian, Spain, Wednesday, August 1, 1918." - "August 15, Monday." pp.
1-14
.
"Santander, Spain, August 7, 1918." - "August 11, Madrid." pp. 1-12
.
"Madrid, August 11, 1918." - "San Sebastian, August 19." pp.1-14
.
"San Sebastian, August 21, 1918." - "Paris, August 28." pp. 1-8.
.
"Paris, France, August 31, 1918." - "Sunday Morning, Sept. 8, Paris." pp. 1-18
.
"September 10, Paris." - "September 11." pp. 1-4
.
.
"September 12, Paris." - "September 18." pp. 1-7
"Sunday, September 22, 1918, Paris." - "September 23, Paris." pp. 1-6
303
.
"Wednesday, Evening, Sept. 26." - "Paris, Oct. 6." pp. 1-14
.
"October 8, 1918, Paris." - "October 13." pp. 1-8
.
"October 15." - "October 20." pp. 1-13
.
"October 21." - "October 23." pp. 1-4
.
"Madrid. October 26." - "October 31." pp. 1-11
.
"November 1, 1918. Madrid, Spain." - "November 6. Paris." pp. 1-6
.
"Paris, Nov. 9. 1918." - "Nov. 21, 1918. Thursday."
.
"November 23, 1918."--"Nov. 27." pp. 1-7
.
"November 29, 1918."--"Dec. 4. Wednesday." pp. 1-6
.
"Paris, Dec. 5, 1918."--"December 10, 1918." pp. 1-10
.
"December 13, 1918. Paris."--"Dec. 29, 1918 [on board the Mausetania]." pp. 19
.
Envelope, inscribed "Senator Hollis Journal"
304
William Penn Cresson Series
NTARC.CH.1.6
c.1842 - 1983
8.7 linear feet
William Penn Cresson was born on 1873 in Claymount, Delaware. Cresson studied at
the University of Pennsylvania and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He received a Ph.D.
from Columbia University in 1922. He practiced architecture in Washington, DC before
perusing a diplomatic career. He served as Secretary of the American Legation at Lima, Peru
(1909-1912), and later as secretary at the American embassies in London, Petrograd and
Lisbon. From 1924 to 1927, Cresson lectured in diplomatic history at Georgetown University,
and from 1924 until 1927, held the Fletcher professorship of international law and diplomacy at
Tufts University. He was widely known as an author, and was married to Margaret French
(1889-1973), the daughter of Daniel Chester French (1850-1931). Cresson died in 1932.
Wherever William Penn Cresson served as a diplomat he studied the history of the
region and wrote on it. Dating from c. 1942 - 1983, the series consists of 8.7 linear feet of
notes, photographs and other materials he used to studied a region or collected while serving
in that area. In addition, there are manuscripts and transcripts of the books he authors, i.e.
Persia--The Awakening East, 1908, The Cossacks--Their History and Country, 1919, The Holy
Alliance--The European Background of the Monroe Doctrine, 1922, and Diplomatic Portraits,
1923.
Box 1 [Record Box]
.
This carton contains some of his typescripts, manuscripts, and a notebook as
well as transcripts of works by others including a history of Peru and a work on
Incan exploitation by Aljandro Gasland (1896), one on Illicit Commerce in the
New World by Ulloa (c. 1740). Among topics covered are Old Lima Ecuador, the
Caucasus, Russia, the Cossacks, "The Holy Alliance and the United States: In
the Light of Unpublished Documents from the Russian Imperial Archives," "the
1923 Pan American Conference and Present Day Cis-Atlantic Relations," his
address (1928) on U.S. Relations with Nicaragua and the other South American
Countries. Other topics include "The Receipt of Belgium", "Armenian Volunteers,
and the U.S. Emigration problem (from Sicily). Also notes on new edition of his
book on Persia, c. 1901-1928.
“NOTICIAS/ SECRETAS/ by ULLOA/ about 1740” (pp.a1-a5; B1-B41; 1-27; 73
pages plus title page; English translation; typescript) (breaks off)
Writing, “Los Tesoros Ocultos En El Peru,” by Alejandro Garland, Lima, 1896
“P. V. #1/ History of Peru after the/ Conquest (Based on/ Prescott’s last chapters/
Lorente – etc.)/ the “Golden Prince” etc.” Typescripts with pages in the same
305
sequence as found (WPC in Peru, 1909-1912), 2 folders
Typescript as found between its covers (pertains to history of Peru; sequence of
pages preserved as found), unsorted
Typescript, inscribed envelopes, relating to dissertation, articles, and books by
WPC, on topics pertaining to Russia (holy alliance, famine, the Cossacks), the
Caucasus (its land, new republics), and US emigration problem (with reference to
Sicily), several Russian booklets, also information regarding new edition for his
book on Persia (1st ed, 1908), c.1901-c.1922
Miscellany mostly of writings by WPC, typescripts, manuscripts, transcripts and
notebook, c.1910-c.1928
Contents of one package: typescripts: writings of WPC and others on Ecuador,
16 folders:
Label/Support inscribed by WPC: “History Quito/ Translation Wolff-/
Cotapaxi etc.”
“A History of Quito/ Largely drawn from ‘da Historia de Quito’ by Father
Juan/ de Velasco/ by W. P. Cresson.” (pp.HQ [1]-90; typescript)
“Among the Volcanos of Ecuador/ by W. P. Cresson.” (37 – p. typed draft)
(Uninterrupted text: pp.1-[13] following by pp [#1]-23a)
“HQ [‘A History of Quito’ by WPC]/ Religion” (1 p. typescript and carbon
copy)
“HQ/ Ecuador/ Towards San Domingo de los Colorados” [by WPC] (5 p.
typescript and carbon copy, interleaved) (pp.1-5)
“E PC/ Paromos of Cotapaxi.” [By WPC] (11 p. typescript and carbon
copy, interleaved) (pp.1-11) (1st person account)
“Guayaquil/ October 23, 1913” [by WPC] (11 page typescript and carbon
copy, interleaved) (pp.1-G11) (1st person account)
“GQ [typewritten]/ Hway to Land of Fire and Snow [handwritten]” [by WPC]
(pp.10-27; 18 page typescript and carbon copy, interleaved) (1 st person
account)
“Earthquakes/ from wolf[f]’s ‘Geografia y Geologia del Ecuador’” (5 page
typescript and carbon copy, interleaved) (pp.[E-1]-E-5)
306
“Humming Birds/ from Whymper’s ‘Travels amongst the Great/ Andes of
the Equator’ (page 209.” (1-p. typescript and carbon copy) and
calculations
“Topography Ecuador/ beginning page 15. [by] Wolff” (pp.1-4; typescript
and carbon copy, interleaved)
“Wolff, birds/ page 458.” (2-p. typescript and carbon copy, interleaved)
(pp.1-2)
“H. Q. [Inscribed]/ Political Institutions/ Wolff’s, p.519 [typed]” (pp.1-8;
typescript and carbon copy, interleaved)
“From Wolf[f]’s…” regarding indigeneous race of Indians of Ecuador
(introductory page plus pp.a-j; typescript and carbon copy, interleaved)
“HQ/ Wolff, page 498/ Historical Resume.” (pp.1-2; typescript and carbon
copy, interleaved)
“History of Ecuador” (pp.1-3; typescript and carbon copy)
Box 2 Cresson Family Travel Photos [Flat Box]
.
Small Album, of trip in Spain, c. 1900 (snapshots)
.
Mounted Souvenir Photos of Europe: of Versailles (1876); of European cities
(1894)
.
Mounted Snapshots, of trip through Persia, 1900
.
"Penn's Trip through Persia & India," 1900
.
Photograph and correspondence, of Mr. Burde, Minister of Portugal, with note to
William Penn Cresson written by Mr. Burde
Photographs, of Zuni Cliff Dwellings (handwriting of EVC on identifying
cardboard) (c.1907?)
Photogrpahs, of Mevada (Goldfield) (Specifically related to: Goldfield, Nevada,
c.1905; one photo portrait: “Scotty the Desert Mystery”)
Box 3 Travels of William Penn Cresson [Flat Box]
.
Photograph, of Far East: Burma, Ceylon and Mandalay (in scribed period
envelope “Burma/Ceylon”)
307
.
Photographs of Europe, in 9 period envelopes, i.e. Spain, Netherlands, Italy,
Greece, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Belgium, c. 1873 –
1901
- “Cherbourg./Chantilly./etc.” (those 2 only-1901)
- “Corfu &/ Greece” (Albania, Corfu, Ahens, Corinth, Olympia,
Epidaurus, Mycenae, Trieste)
- “Europe” (c.July – c.Oct 1900) (North Africa: Algiers, Tangier;
Europe: Seville, Madrid; Angers, Le Mans, Poissy: July 1900;
Anvers, Bruges, Ghent, Waterloo, Asterdam, the Hague: August
1900; Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Neissen, Potsdam:
c.September 1900; Prague; Switzerland; Venice: Oct 1900
- “Greece, Italy/etc.” (Corfu; Corinth, Olympia; Pompeii; Bruges,
1900; Venice, 1900)
- “Italian Types, etc.” (In heavy-duty russet env.) (many initiated
EGV, hand-painted mounted poket souvenir photos of Italy,
Sicily, Scotland, royal personnages, places of interest;
Stockholm, Vienna, Ghent, Geneva, Antwerp, etc.; one dated
1873)
- “Izy/France” (photos of woman: Isabelle [?]) (c.1900?)
- “Paris/1897 [& 1895]”
- “Paris/Bruges-Ostende” (includes Paris Exposition of 1900)
- “Rottenburg/& Wurzburg/Bavaria”
.
Photographs (snapshot & professional) of Russia in 3 period envelopes,
inscribed, c. 1900 - 1917
- “Russia” (russet portfolio containing 2 period envelopes of
snapshots; and loose professional photos, both plain and period
tissue-covered)
- “St. Petersburg/Revolution of 1917” (includes photo of
Ambassador Francis), snapshots
- “Yalta-Crimea” (Tiflis; Yalta) (snapshots)
.
Photographs, relating to Russia which belonged to William Penn Cresson
.
Photographs (6), of Algiers which belonged to William Penn Cresson, c. 1900
.
Photographs, of Birmingham, England (not of smapshot variety)
.
Photographs (2, linen-mounted), of Empress Elizabeth's Villa in Corfu
.
Colored photographic print of Amalfi, Italy (belonged to WPC or MFC or DCF?)
.
Photographs (2) of Spain
308
Box 4 Travels of William Penn Cresson [Flat Box]
.
Photographs of Nevada, in 3 period envelopes, c. 1907
- “Nevada”
- “Ranching in Nevada”
- “Mr. W. P. Cresson/Commercial Hotel/Elks, Nevada” (8 prints;
10 negatives removed; c.1907)
.
Photographs, primarily of Persia, in 4 period envelopes, c. 1900-1915
- Black period envelope: subdivided with acid-free tissue: Persia;
Caucasus and Georgia (USSR); India (only 1 photo: Taj Mahal)
- “For/the Messrs. Cresson,/English Hotel,/Teheran./Persia”
(includes photo of Grand Vizier of Persia with WPC; of Shal with
WPC)
- “Persia” (period Kodak envelope with date of “1900” inscribed
- “Persia” (National Geographic Magazine envelope: Persia;
Tibet? And letter to WPC [1915]; Ecuador
.
Photographs, of Lima, Peru, in 2 period envelopes, c. 1910: well-done snapshots
of WPC, friends, monks; monastery, city, etc.
.
Photographs, of Panama Canal, c. 1913, snapshots and souvenir photos
.
Photographs, map, postcard, of Ecuador (loose, in 5 period envelopes)
.
Photographs, of India, Egypt, China, France, etc.
Photographs, of Persia
.
Photographs, of India
Box 5 William Penn Cresson in Belgium and Russia, 1918 [Flat Box]
.
Photographs, (2), relating to William Penn Cresson's Prisoner of War Inspection
Tour in Russia, 1918
.
Photographs, relating to World War I, with William Penn Cresson and various
officers and dignitaries including American Senator Hollis, Isable Anderson, the
Belgian Queen; ceremony at Belgian Headquarters, La Panne, July 4, 1918
.
Printed Manuscript, copy of Muirhead Bone's The Western Front, 1917
Box 6 Cresson Family Photographs (Cartes de Visite): Four Albums [Flat Box]
309
.
Small album (tan) of photographs, belonging to W. P. Cresson (1814-1892), of Cresson
Family and many ministers of the day et al, 1842-c.1889
.
Small album (brown) of photographs, almost entirely of Cresson Family, 1842, 1860s1880s
.
Small album (black) of Cresson family photographs, belonging to W.P. Cresson (18141892), and two inserted photographs belonging to his namesake, including images of
Phillips Brooks, S.F. du Pont, c.1860s, c.1900, c.1919
.
Small album (black with clasps) of photographs, perhaps belonging to Elizabeth Vaux
Cresson, mother of WPC, picturing Cresson family members, including a young H.T.
Cresson, 1842, 1860s, 1874
Box 7 Snapshots of William Penn Cresson Travels: Algeria and Spain, 1900 [Flat Box]
.
Small Album of Snapshots of Brittany (maroon leather album is identical to
another holding WPC and EVC snapshots of Algeria and Spain)
.
Small Album of Snapshots of Alberia and Spain, 1900 (maroon leather album is
identifical to another holding WPC snapshots of Brittany)
.
Large Pile of Snapshots, mounted, of "Penn's Trip/through Persia," 1900 (tied
together with white woven ribbon)
Box 8 Album of Photographs, 1900-1901: India, Burma, Persia and Europe [Flat Box]
Box 9 William Penn Cresson Misc. Materials [Flat Box]
.
Mail roll, addressed to Dr. William Penn Cresson and registered from Columbia
University (empty), c. 1920s
.
Printed Manuscript, duplicate copy (proof sheets, uncorrected) of Three Books of
Embassies, by Alberico Gentili, 1594, with introduction of 1920 by Ernest Nys
[NT73.45.856]
.
Architectural Notebook, 1899-1900, MS
.
Letter, from WPC to his mother from Tientsin, China, April 17, 1896
Box 10 Cresson Family: Letters and Travel Snapshots [Flat Box]
.
Photographs, many inscribed on back, of trip through England; several of
Europe, 1900
310
.
Album of Photographs of trip through England: Emlen Cresson with Uncle
George and Aunt Mary Cresson (with envelope of additional photos, many
inscribed on back; also a few of Europe, 1900)
.
Notebook of carbon copies of letters (7) from Elizabeth (Lillie) Vaux Cresson to
relatives including her mother and her husband, Hillborn (Hill) T. Cresson, from
England, July 5 - August 2, 1880
.
Letter book, belonging to William Penn Cresson (1814-1892), copies of letters
from him with at least one from his wife, Susan Vaux Cresson, 1879-1884
Box 11 William Penn Cresson Misc. Papers [Flat Box]
.
Ledgers, 1900-c. 1919, and inserts; 5 notebooks, c. 1915-1917, relating to
Armenia, Georgia, South Russia and Persian Musicians
WPC notebook: “Notes/ S. Russia People: problems” (c.1915-c.1917)
WPC notebook inscribed “Erivan” (Armenia) and inserts (c.1916-1917)
WPC notebook inscribed “Erivan K.” (Armenia)
WPC notebook inscribed “Tiflis” (Georgia) and one insert
WPC notebook inscribed “Some Musicians of the East” (Persian)
WPC Ledger: 1900 – c.1919
WPC Ledger (1900 – c.1919) and inserts: trust estate of Elizabeth V.
Cresson; real estate from Est. E. V. Graham; Eliz. V. C.’s interest in land;
WPC real estate interests: 1919; Elko Nevada
.
Miscellaneous Papers, including material regarding four of William Penn
Cresson's publications: Cossacus, 1919; Monroe Doctrine, 1922; Francis Dana,
1930; and article on the Caucasus
Notebook (black) (at one end Cossack material at other end Monroe
Doctrine material) and inserts (card of fingerprints found next to page
headed “Platoff Matafai Ivanovitch”)
Notebook (on the Ukraine) and inserts (printed) (probably material for his
book on the Cossacks), published in 1919
A Report on the State of Spain (19th century?)
311
Map of South Ameircan exports
Two financial reports (1912-1914)
Russian publication (1917) (see page 245 and refer photos in WPC
collection) and inserts
Printed page in Russian (c.1917?)
WPC to editor of National Geographic Magazine, June 26, 1919,
regarding his article on the Caucasus
Memorandum regarding article by WPC on the Caucasus, May 18, 1920
Typescript of captions for photographs (Caucasus)
Typescript fragment (p.9)
Ink sketch (pen and ink illustrations on one sheet)
The Caucasus, c.1920
Pages from the New York Times Current History; in particular, articles,
“bagdad under British rule” and “Persia and the young Shah”; also,
incomplete regarding Georgia (c.1920)
Bibliography on the murder at Sarajevo of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
(c.1925)
Report on proposed International University (c.1925?)
To WPC regarding burial lot, July 18, 1925 (letter)
Literary contract for “a Puritan Diplomat: Francis Dana at the Court of
Catharine the Great,” December 28, 1929, by WPC with Dial Press
Box 12 Cresson Genealogy [Flat Box]: Contains only one thin folder of material accumulated
by MFC
.
Correspondence and other documents relating to Cresson genealogy, 1931-1971
Box 13 WPC [Flat Box]
312
.
Photographs (2), snapshots, one of two women posing in front of stairs, the other
of one women holding umbrella in garden, c. 1895 ; photographs found inside
front cover of A Short History of Italy, by H.D. Sedgwick, belonging to William
Penn Cresson
.
William Penn Cresson's London Diary, 1912-1913
.
Cover for book, Persia: The Awakening East, by William Penn Cresson,
containing unbound photographic prints of Persia
.
Manuscript, "Le Manuscrit autographe: Revue Paraissant Tous les Trois Mois,
Directeur: Jean Royers," Paris, April-September 1955
.
Section of Book, first chapter of John La Farge: Artist and Writer, by Cecilia
Waern, London, 1896
.
Enclosure, "Portraiture of William Penn"
.
Typed Manuscript, possibly William Penn Cresson's journal
.
Portfolio, "John Singer Sergent," Grand Central Art Gallery, New York
Box 14 [Flat Box]
.
Photograph, framed, of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, Ambassador to England, taken by
Elliot T. Fay?, 1912
.
Photograph, framed, of Maxwell Struckers Burt?, April 22, 1920
Box 15 [Flat Box]: writings; originally contained in letter file box, now labeled Box 16 (green)
Brochure, “Memorial Exhibition of Sculptures by Paul Manship…July and August, 1966,”
numerous copies
Small notebook, belonged to WPC, inscribed “Essay on Silence/Fra Elbertus”
Writing, drafts, and correspondences, relating to “Swords and Plowshares” by WPC
Box 16 [Flat Box]: .75 inch
.
Photographs, of William Penn Cresson (7 count), 1895, 1918, c.1925-1927
.
Photographs and silhouette, of Cresson-Vaux Family, c.1835, 1860s, 1880s,
1890s (12 count) [NT73.45 (A115); NANs]
313
Double-Oversized Box 17 [Flat Box]
.
"Disziplin" Notice
.
Scrapbook, containing images of buildings, structures and architectural details
Box 18 William Penn Cresson Memorabilia [Flat Box]
.
Certificate, rolled, William Penn Cresson's appointment by President Woodrow
Wilson to be Secretary of the U.S. Legation at Panama, Panama, 1914
.
Doctor of Philosophy Diploma from Columbia University, awarded to William
Penn Cresson, 1922
.
Certificate, rolled, appointment to be Secretary of Embassy or Legation of Class
Three, signed by Woodrow Wilson, February 22, 1915
.
Architectural Renderings, framed, of residence of Dr. F. D. Owsley, Greenwood,
Virginia, by Wyeth & Cresson Architects, c. 1905-1907
.
Photograph, framed, of William Penn Cresson ranching in Nevada, c. 1908
.
Notebook, of "U.S. Geological Survey, 1909-1919
.
Certificate, appointment of William Penn Cresson as Captain of the Aviation
Section of the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army, January 19, 1918
.
Certificate, for H.T. Cresson, of Election to Membership in the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, January 30, 1883
Box 19 William Penn Cresson Items [Flat Box]
.
Sketchbook, France, 1893
.
Miscellany of pencil sketches, watercolors, plate illustration of French
architecture
.
Student Notebooks (2), Paris, 1897
.
Scrapbook, c. 1893
Box 20 Heinz Oven Baked Beans Carton (1 of 2) [Record Box] (Contents originally in Heinz
Oven Baked Beans Carton, label by Margaret French Cresson "W.P.C. Misc. Papers")
.
"Material to be censored in USA"
314
.
"W.P. Cresson--/Prisoner-of-War Inspection/1915."
.
"M/ss of W.P.C./ `Among the Volcanoes'; `Old Lima'; `Sheep's Clothing;
`Monasteries of Lima'; English Commercial Expansion and the Spanish Colonial
System in American During the 17th Century'; the 'Caucasus'; the Troubadour of
the Yellowstone'"
.
"W.P. Cresson/ Nevada/ 1908"
.
"Belgium--1918"
.
Loose material miscellany
.
"Russia--1915"
.
"Persia--1901"
.
"Panama--1914"
.
"Geo. V. Cresson Co."
.
"Correspondence/W.P. Cresson & E.V. Cresson/Nevada & London, 1912"
.
"Cossacks"
.
"Ballooning in France"
.
"Swords and Ploughshares"
.
Loose material of letters printed material
.
"Manuscript--Alexander First, etc."
.
"Belgium, 1917-1918"
.
"Miscellaneous/ W.P.C."
Box 21 Heinz Oven Baked Beans Carton (2 of 2) [Document Box] (Contents originally in Heinz
Oven Baked Beans Carton, label by Margaret French Cresson "W.P.C. Misc. Papers")
.
"Manuscript of W.P. Cresson" [Persia]
.
German program of music, 1916 and military printed notice...
315
.
"Cresson & Wyeth/Architects--1908"
.
Miscellany of publications, 1903-1924: the Geographical Journal; Czechoslovaks
as Americans; the Belgian Front; (something in Russian); Le Monde Illustre
.
WPC notebooks
.
Letters, book synopsis submission, literary fragments, 1929 and military aerial
photographs of World War I
.
"Mss & clippings/re W.P.C."
.
Diplomatic & literary manuscripts, transcripts, and printed material, 1910s 1920s
Box 22 [Flat Box] (items from "White Rose" carton)
.
Sketchbook, 1901
.
Notebook, contents relating to American U.S. history, c. 1928
.
Notebook, relating to U.S. State Department
.
Sketchbook, France, c. 1902
.
Checkbook register, 1907-1911
.
Memoirs, of Tifhes, Russia, etc.., 1917
.
Pouch of notes, containing interesting remarks about Chesterwood, 1920s
.
Writing case, c. 1918
.
Notebook, Spain, 1923
.
.
Notebooks (2), on Russian language, phrases, vocabulary, etc., 1917
One empty linen note pouch
.
Diary, includes travel in Ecuador, 1914
.
Diary, Persia, July 1900-February 1901
.
Diary, Persia to India, February 1901-April 1901
.
Diary, Petrograd, 1915
316
.
Notebook, Petrograd, c. 1915
.
Agenda Notebook, November - December 1918
.
Agenda Notebook, includes travel through Europe to Middle East, 1900
.
Holograph, by William Penn Cresson, "Midas Wish" (8 pages), removed from
green leather pouch
.
Green leather pouch
.
Loose-leaf notebook, misc. historical notes, 1920s
.
Black loose-leaf notebook of historical notes, regarding James Monroe, 1920s
.
Notebook, listing several England and French pensions and hotels, 1896
.
Agenda Notebook, 1916
.
Agenda Notebook, 1913
.
Small diary (agenda notebook), 1912
Box 23 [Document Box] (Items from "White Rose" carton)
.
Lecture Notes, W.P. Cresson, on index cards, many still paper clipped, no attempt to
arrange them, 1920s, FOLDER 1
.
Lecture Notes, W.P. Cresson, on index cards, including holograph page on PanAmerican Conference, 1920s, FOLDER 2
Lecture notes on index cards, many typed, c.1928, and holograph (one page) on
Pan-American Conference
.
Lecture Notes and imprinted envelope, W.P. Cresson, on very small notepaper, 1920s,
FOLDER 3
Lecture notes on very small notepaper and envelope, Tufts College, imprinted
.
Labels (2), affixed to corrugated board, cut from mailer, sent to W.P. Cresson, preserve
one printed, one typed, and two hand inscriptions, 1920s, FOLDER 4
.
Newspaper clippings, saved by W.P. Cresson, and inscribed envelope, regarding
317
Russia, c.1915-c.1918
.
Military papers and inscribed envelope, W.P. Cresson, include his promotion to grade of
"Major, Military Intelligence," 1919-1932
.
Magazine, owned by W.P. Cresson, contains his article "How Americans Fought in
Belgium," pp.113-120, Current History, January 1920
.
Canvas-back manual, owner W.P. Cresson, A Guide for Military Attaches, issued by
authority of The Director, Military Intelligence Division, Washington, DC, 1921
.
Mimeograph, W.P. Cresson, author(?), "Spain," estimates of the military, economic,
political-military, and psychological situations, pp. 4750-52, 4760-61, 4770-71, 4780-82,
dated 1921-1922
.
Book, author W.P. Cresson, The Holy Alliance, the hand-corrected copy (cover and first
leaves missing), 1922
(The following two boxes contain framed photographs kept by MFC at Chesterwood, namely,
in her first and second floor offices and the Red Room, all on display with the exception of one
kept in a drawer in the Parlor.)
Box 24 [Flat Box]
.
Photograph, framed, William Penn Cresson at the American Embassy, London,
England, about 1912, perhaps framed by order of MFC [NT73.45.1449]
.
Photograph, framed, WPC and his mother, Elizabeth Vaux Cresson, 1874
[NT73.45.1963]
.
Photograph, framed, Mary Bevan Cresson (Mrs. George Vaux Cresson), hand-colored
(?), c.1860 [NT73.45.1967]
.
Photograph, framed, painter Thomas Sully, SARAH CRESSON, portrait of great aunt of
WPC, 1923 or later [NT73.45.2054]
.
Photographs (3), framed, of William Penn Cresson in Belgium, 1918 [NANs]
Box 25 [Flat Box]
(The first three photographs probably belonged to MFC during the lifetime of WPC.)
.
Photograph, framed, WPC, at age of 55, Baden-Baden, Germany, 1929 [NT73.45.1443]
.
Photograph, framed, WPC, Washington, D.C., about 1928 [NT73.45.1447]
318
.
Photograph, framed, WPC at age of 54, reading a book, Boston, 1928 [NT73.45.1454]
.
Photograph, framed, kept by WPC or DCF or MAF, head and shoulders of two women,
mat inscribed with ship (?) name "Gerhilde" between two flags, perhaps transatlantic
souvenir, 1890s, [NAN]
Box 26 [Large Flat Box]
.
Photograph, framed in Pittsfield, MA, by perhaps MFC in frame bought by WPC in
Persia or India, Belgian official (left) and Major W.P. CRESSON (Pershing's special
representative and Chief of American Military Mission at Belgium Headquarters)
reviewing American troops at La Panne, Belgium, July 4, 1918 [NT73.45.1444]
.
Photograph, framed in Constantinople by WPC, sculptor Daniel Chester French, Earl
Dodge Memorial, bronze statue in situ, on grounds, Princeton University, c.1915 [acc.
no.?, CH003927]
Box 27 [Flat Box]
(Photographs, mainly ambrotypes and tintypes, belonging to and perhaps belonging to WPC
and kept by MFC in the Chesterwood house, in the Parlor secretary interior upper left drawer,
in association with French family encased photographs; the penultimate in the following list,
however, was kept by MFC in her first floor office secretary, in its right pigeonhole's left
section; the last was loose among Cresson family photographs in an acid-free box.)
.
Ambrotype, WPC (?), unidentified child, standing, 1850s (?) [NAN]
.
Ambrotype, WPC (?), unidentified child, seated, 1850s (?) [NAN]
.
Tintype, framed, and MFC identification slip, William Penn Cresson, grandfather of
WPC, flanked by WPC and his brother Emlen Cresson, and backed on right by his
daughter Elizabeth Vaux Cresson and on left by unidentified woman, late 1870s [NAN]
.
Photograph (paper print), WPC, head of his mother Elizabeth Vaux Cresson, in oval
blue velvet case with "push-button" opener, October 18, 1868 [NAN]
.
5 stamp-size tintypes, all WPC (?), 4 of individual images of unidentified women and
one of 3 young women, 1860s-1870s [NAN]
.
Tintype and MFC identification slip, WPC, profile of his grandfather William Penn
Cresson, father of WPC's mother, the wife of H.T. Cresson, WPC's father, c.1880(?)
[NAN]
319
.
Tintype, in original pink embossed paper mat with cover, Elizabeth Vaux Cresson and
Hillborn T. Cresson and family (Emlen on his mothers lap: Willie leaning on his father),
1881 [NT73.45 (A113)]
.
Tintype, poorer virtual duplicate of preceding, 1881 [NT73.45 (A114)]
Box 28 [Flat Box]
(All removed from the cabinet in the studio: see DCF Series: Photographic Materials: Boxes 52
to 63, for bracketed entries; those entries in brackets are in this box; when they have been
assigned accession numbers, they will be listed here)
Photograph, King of Spain at Bailey exhibit, Madrid, 1928
Photograph, of cover letter written in the third person from Thomas Jefferson to James
Monroe in 1806, perhaps belonged to WPC, 1920s?
Envelope, addressed to WPC
Photographs (3), belonged to WPC, of places in Europe, c.1900 [NT69.38.3904-.3906]
Photographs (19), linen-mounted, belonged to WPC, of places in Europe, late 19th
century [NT69.38.3884-.3903]
Photographs, including snapshots, belonged to WPC, of Persia, some for book which
he published, photos c.1900 [NAN]
Photographs, linen-mounted, of Persia, owned by WPC, c.1900 [NT69.38.3859 - .3865]
Album, H. T. Cresson, collection of professional photographs of “Paris churches, public
buildings, fountains,” (stitched only, no covers; photos slit-fitted, no glue), c.1878
Sketchbook, WPC, Spain, 1923
Photograph, of rissia and James Monroe death mask, WPC, 1904-1920s
Photograph, belonged to WPC, “Sarcophage dit d’Alexandre” (ancient sarcophagns)
Box 29 [Flat Box]: commercial photo album, etc.
Notebook, international law, c.1920? [NAN]
Baggage tag, stringed
Railway Express label for “W. P. Cresson/132 East 36th St./ New York/ N. Y./ Value
320
$600” from “same”
Notebook, of H. T. Cresson, Paris, 1884
Letter, from Francis H. Allen, of Houghton Mifflin Co., to WPC, regarding proofs of
portraits of Napoleon and Talleyrand, Oct 24, 1923
Commercial album, mass-produced, “the James W. Morse Collection of Photographs, of
the Limitation of Armaments Conference at Washington, DC, 1921-1922” (copyrighted
1921) Washington, DC: the Capital Advertising Company, Inc.
321
Helen Douglass French Series
NTARC.CH.1.7
c. 1954-1994
.25 linear feet
A member of the American Institute of Architects from 1922 until her death in 1994, Helen
Douglass French was a working architect for many years during the mid-twentieth century. She
lived in Florida for a time and later in San Francisco and summered in Glendale, MA, for many
of the years between 1932 and 1981. She appears to have specialized in residential
architecture. Her professional name was H.D. French.
Helen Louise Douglass graduated from the Cambridge School of Architecture and the Ecole
des Beaux Arts Architectural School in Fontainebleau, France. She married the landscape
architect and land planner Prentiss French (1894-1989) on November 30, 1927. He was a
nephew of the sculptor Daniel Chester French. After DCF’s death in 1931, she and her
husband, at the urging of Mrs. French and her daughter, transformed French's little studio in
the meadow south of the Chesterwood studio into a residence,“The Meadowlark," where they
summered for a number of years. Later they remodelled the Hawkins house where French's
chauffeur had lived on the Chesterwood property for summer use; it was christened "The
Canary," and painted yellow. They were beloved relatives of their cousin Margaret and, after
her death in 1973, continued to come to Glendale annually until 1981. Prentiss to served on
the Chesterwood Council. Mrs. Cresson called upon H.D. French's professional advice
repeatedly regarding a number of alterations at Chesterwood, both minor and major, especially
in the 1950s and 1960s. H.D. French took an active interest in the physical stewardship of the
property. She adapted Chesterwood’s early 19th-century barn into a gallery for exhibiting
sculpture in 1962.
The series consists of notes, one notebook, and letters, dating from c.1954 to 1994. Some of it
was bequeathed by Mrs. Cresson to the National Trust, a part was given after her death by
H.D. French, and the rest was accumulated between 1973 and 1994 by the Chesterwood
administration and by NT headquarters.
In the Margaret French Cresson series of the French Family Collection, there are architectural
drawings by H.D. French and letters from her to Mrs. Cresson, c.1930-1973, concerning family
and Chesterwood matters. Her letters to the administration, shortly after Mrs. Cresson's death,
relate to the latter's estate and are filed with estate papers; Helen French was an executor of
MFC’s estate.
Series currently being processed.
Estimates, notations, specifications, letters, invoices, advertisement, collected by Helen
D. French mostly from MFC, regarding Canary, 1954-1972 (?)
322
Estimate, collected by Helen D. French from MFC, for excavating and grading
Chesterwood house (?) drive, 1955
List of bills, menus, Helen D. French, regarding the Trustees of Reservations, regarding
her birthday celebration, 1955, 1975
Notations, Chesterwood Studio Museum Newsletter issue, collected by Helen D.
French, includes one item from MFC, all regarding barn, 1962-1968 (?)
Estimate, collected by Helen D. French (?) from MFC, for rebuilding the glade steps on
the Woodland Talk, 1966
Notes on general maintenance, Helen Douglass French, regarding Chesterwood, 1967
Conference notes, invoices, estimates, specifications, letters, notations, envelopes,
snapshot, collected by Helen Douglass French from MFC, regarding house, mainly
regarding painting of Chesterwood house, one reference to Red House, 1962-1975
Green spiral notebook, descriptive notes, inserts (2 composed of 4 pieces), Helen
Douglass French, “Notes on Work Done at Chesterwood,” covers studio, barn, and
house (house pages begin on p.17), 1963-1966
Letter with enclosures of original or photocopied slips, from Helen D. French to Paul W.
Ivory, regarding Chesterwood, NT, Meadowlark, Great Depression, encloses 3 discrete
sets of Chesterwood house paint slips, c.1959-1965, refarding porches, etc., and
Meadowlark material, May 15-16, 1978
Letters (3), posal card, envelope, Helen Douglass French and Paul W. Ivory,
correspondence regarding Chesterwood house and its painting, Jan 30, Mar 4, Mar 1820, 1978
Studio: Helen Douglass French papers, 1968-1969
Note, enclosures, envelope, from Helen D. French to Paul Ivory and Susan Frisch,
regarding MFC and Crowninshield Award, photography at Chesterwood, CH
administration, 1968-1972
Oral History, Helen D. French to Paul W. Ivory, regarding Studio Gutters per telephone
conversation, July 15, 1975
Correspondence with Chesterwood, Helen D. French, NT, staff, 1975-1993
Letter from Prentiss French to Authur Dutil, regarding color of Chesterwood house
shutters and pre-MFC house, with its envelope, March 19, 1977
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Letter from Helen D. French to Paul W. Ivory, rearding use of residence, color of
Chesterwood house shutters, and period postcard, March 28, 1977
Postcard, form HDF to Paul Ivory, shows Richardson House in Chester, NH, April 10,
1977
Correspondence between Helen Douglass French and Chesterwood and NT, regarding
the 200 letters (1920s) from Prentiss French to Helen French, transferred to CA in 1991
from Chesterwood Director’s Office, 1983-1985
Letters from Helen Douglass French regarding Meadowlark, 1984 (2)
Correspondence, Helen Douglass French, with paul Ivory, Arthur Dutil, Richard Moe,
Frank E. Sanchis III, regarding various CHesterwood matters and her wish for a plaque
there, Feb 1993-Jan 1994, originals, copies, drafts, faxes (18 items)
Cards, photos, envelopes, etc. from descendent of Helen Frenchf
Supplementary Gifts Collection
NTARC.CH.2
To be processed
The Trustees of Reservations Collection
NTARC.CH.3
1950-1962
2.25 linear feet
- segregated from the Daniel Chester French Foundation Collection, with a few exceptions
which are noted below
This collection contains the records and materials relating to the administration of
Chesterwood by The Trustees of Reservations from 1954 to 1962. The collection consists
primarily of business correspondence, receipts, invoices, advertisements, financial reports,
ledgers, bank statements, cancelled checks, check books, curatorial correspondence,
interpretive notes, visitor register, exhibit labels and exhibit photographic enlargements,
housed in five document cases, one flat box, and one quadruple-oversize box.
In 1962, the Daniel Chester French Foundation succeeded The Trustees of Reservations in
the administration of Chesterwood. Both organizations, however, appear to have coexisted in
the affairs of Chesterwood during 1962. The differentiation of the two collections one from the
other is often unclear and therefore separating the material dating to 1962 is frequently
arbitrary.
One file folder in Box 3, "Stamp Exhibition - Studio," relates to a Chesterwood exhibit of 1956.
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The file was used by its creator/compiler, Margaret French Cresson, through 1965. It appears
that by 1969, she had entrusted it to National Trust Chesterwood Administrator Kenneth
Pendar. It was found with DCFF and NT CH exhibit folders as part of the NT CH museum
records. It belongs to the collection of TTOR because M.F. Cresson generated it for a
temporary exhibit installed in the Studio during the administration of TTOR.
For photographs of the Civil War Exhibit (1961-1962) installed in the Studio Casting Room, see
the French Family Collection, the MFC series, Photographs, Chesterwood Buildings and
Grounds, 1960s-1970s, NT73.10.991-.995 and NAN.
N.B.: For more material relating to the period of TTOR, as well as that of the DCFF, see the
Chesterwood records group created or compiled, from 1954 through 1976, by National Trust
for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C., and stored with the institutional records of
Chesterwood {where?] as administered by the Trust from 1968.
Box 1
.
"Chesterwood Studio '55 . . . Receipts"
[1955]
.
"Meriden Gravure Co - re postcards - "
[1955]
.
"Trustees of Reservations / Chesterwood Studio"; on front cover:
" '55-'56 File" [1955-1956]
.
"Postcards Studio"
.
Chesterwood Studio, Financial and Attendance Reports, 1955-1961
.
"Studio Bills" [inscribed "For Betty Smith (from MFC files)"]
[1955-1961]
.
Publicity
[1955-c.1962]
.
"Flyers - Studio" [inscribed by MFC]
[c.1955-c.1961]
.
"Chesterwood Studio . . . '56 Receipts"
[1956]
.
"Purchasers" [1956 and c.1956]
.
"Chesterwood Studio '56 - '57 File Receipts"
[1955-1959]
[1956-1957]
Box 2
325
.
"1957"
.
"1958"
.
"Lantern Slides"
[1958-1961]
.
Publicity
c.1958-c.1961
.
"1959"
[1959, Jan.-June]
.
"1959"
[1959, July-Dec.]
.
Friends of Chesterwood Note Book, small spiral, 1959-1961
.
"1960"
Box 3
.
1960 - Correspondence
.
1960 - Orders
.
1960 - Publicity
.
Publicity - Clippings - Folders 1960-1961
.
"Anne Braman - local Treasurer"
.
"1961"
.
"1961 - Correspondence"
.
"1961 - Orders"
.
"1961 - Publicity"
[1960-1962]
.
"[imprinted on tab of commercial file folder:] POLECAT . . . EXHIBIT
. TIMBER-TOPPER" [c.1961]
.
"Chesterwood Studio Receipts . . . 1962"
.
Annual Reports, TTOR, 1954, 1960
[from CH110, CH Secretary's Office in 1985 when found]
IDEA FILE . .
326
.
List, handwritten by MFC, of works of art, on engraved notice, post 1949 [from adm.
desk in CH110]
.
"Stamp Exhibition - Studio [handwritten by MFC]," in 1956 [1955-1965][from CH
Museum Exhibit Files]
.
Certificate of active membership, for years 1959-1964, from the National Trust for
Historic Preservation to the Chesterwood Studio Museum, administered by The Trustees of
Reservations, 1959(?)
[from adm. box]
.
List, handwriiten by Mary Flynn, of D.C. French works arranged by category
(mythological, etc.), 1950s-1960s(?)[from Studio, north wall, tall chest, 2nd tier, left
drawer, in terra cotta tie envelope having red-border gummed label inscribed by MFC
"Lists"]
.
Interpretive notes, handwritten by Mary Flynn, "Notes on Daniel Chester French and His
Works," include information on works displayed in Studio, on index cards, 43 p.,
c.1960(?) [from Studio, north wall, tall chest]
.
Interpretive notes, handwritten by Mary Flynn, on works by D.C. French, include
geographical list emended by MFC, on index cards, 109 p., c.1960(?)
[from Barn, Main Gallery, guide's desk drawer, rubber-banded, probably separated from
those in Studio after Barn Gallery was opened to the public]
.
Labels, used in Civil War Exhibit in Studio Casting Room, on blue index cards, in Mary
Flynn's handwriting, 1961 [from Studio, north wall, tall chest]
BOX 4
.
Bank statements and cancelled checks, 1955
.
.
.
.
.
.
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.
.
Box 5
.
Bank deposit slip carbon copies and bank deposit notation, for deposits derived from
Studio receipts from admissions and sales, July - October 1957
[found paper-clipped to Check Book 2]
.
Bank deposit slip carbon copies, for deposits derived from Studio receipts from
admissions and sales, October 1959 - October 1960
.
Bank deposit slip carbon copies and period notation of missing one, for deposits derived
from Studio receipts from admissions and sales, June - November 1961
.
Bank deposit slip carbon copies, for deposits derived from Studio receipts from
admissions and sales, June - October 1962
.
Bank deposit slip booklet of carbon copies, for deposits derived from gifts, September
1958 - March 1961
.
Bank deposit slip booklet of carbon copies and bank deposit receipts in leatherette
holder, for deposits derived from gifts, March 1961 - October 1962
.
Check books (#1-2), November 1955 - April 1958
.
Check books (#3-4), April 1958 - June 1960
.
Check books (#5-6), June 1960 - June 1962
.
Check books (#7-8), June - December 1962
.
"Accounts for the Daniel Chester French Studio" (2 account books), June - October
1955 to June - October 1958
.
"Accounts for the Daniel Chester French Studio" (2 account books), June - October
1959 to June - October 1962
Box 6 [flat]
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.
Guest Register and insert, names and towns of visitors to Chesterwood, in record
account book, 300p., last entries on inserted sheet, June 1955 - August 1961
Quadruple-Oversize Box I
.
Photographic enlargements (11), displayed in Civil War Exhibit, show sculptures by
D.C. French: Bartlett (statue), Devens, Draper, Dupont Memorial fountain (.813), Grant,
Hooker, Lincoln (seated), Melvin Memorial ("Mourning Victory"), Perkins (.1038),
Phillips, and Seward, were mounted on vertical panels in Studio casting room, 1961
[NT69.38.813 and .1038; NANs]
Daniel Chester French Foundation Collection
NTARC.CH.4
1950-1969
6 linear feet
- arranged in modified original order
This collection contains the records of the Daniel Chester French Foundation, the organization
that oversaw the preservation and management of Chesterwood from 1962 to 1968. The
collection consists primarily of business correspondence, receipts, invoices, advertisements,
financial reports and ledgers, bank deposit slips and receipts, statements and cancelled
checks, Friends of Chesterwood records, printed material, visitor registers, certificates, as well
as exhibit files, housed in two record center cartons, six document cases, four gallery boxes,
and two oversize boxes, with a few items stored in the map cabinet.
The National Trust began administering Chesterwood late in 1968. Several items in the DCFF
collection date to 1969. As was the case with the previous administration, the transference
appears to have been somewhat gradual. A few items, however, have been removed from this
collection for placement with National Trust Chesterwood museum records; they date to 1969
and 1970; a folder containing a list of them has been placed in Box 6 by the processor.
The original order of the files was disturbed, probably when the collection, which then included
The Trustees of Reservations Chesterwood records, was stored away in three large nonarchival corrugated cartons, inscribed "D.C.F. Foundation," during or after the term of NT CH
administrator Peter Smith (whose name was inscribed on the cartons), about 1970 or shortly
thereafter. The files appear to have been completely or largely dormant until 1985 when they
were removed from the Attic, placed in archival records center cartons (in the order in which
they were found) and inventoried. (The date of 1970 is based on the fact that a few of the
items found in the collection date from that year and no later.)
The current arrangement is according to the order as found in the cartons, with modifications
made subsequent to the removal of files belonging to the period of TTOR in order to
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reconstitute that collection. During processing, a few folders containing both TTOR and DCFF
material were split. The remaining folders and materials constituted the bulk of the DCFF
collection, which was then consolidated. Virtually no attempt was made to restore the original
sequence of the folders in Boxes 1 and 2. The modifications are based on size and on
category; for example, all bound materials have been grouped together. DCFF items which
had been stored by the NT CH administration separately from the above administrative records
have been added to Boxes 6 to 8 and Oversize Box II. Part of these records were in packets
which have now been given a folder format.
Snapshots taken at Lyndhurst in 1967 are in Box 6, in the Donald Douglass folder.
The seven exhibit folders in Box 6 contain DCFF-generated material which the NT CH
administrator Paul Ivory foldered in the early 1970s and kept with early NT exhibit files. He
inscribed the headings of the folders. Only one item postdated the DCFF time frame.
For a list of items removed from the DCFF collection, during processing, for placement with NT
records, see Box 6.
It may be desirable to review architectural drawings in the MFC series in order to note those
specified as commissioned by the DCFF.
N.B.: Boxes 1 and 2 hold three or more folders containing only printed material.
Box 1
.
Daniel Chester French Foundation/Stockbridge, Mass.: "Pd. Bills/1965-"
.
"Chesterwood File"
.
"Correspondence '64-'64 inc./(except tax & financial)"
.
"Mrs. Cresson/ R. Wheeler"
.
"Neighborhood/Youth Corps" (1967)
.
"Financial '64 - '66"; on front cover: "Mrs. John H. Cunningham, 52 Seaver St.,
Brookline, Mass."
.
"1967/1968/ Financial/ Reports"
.
Poster (2 copies), Exhibit Catalogue, NTHP certificate (all Chesterwood):
Brochure (N. Eng. museums); Mimeograph (self-guided tour of St-G. National
Historic Site); Program (Jacob's Pillow) (1964-68) (plus inserts in place)
.
"Labels"
330
.
"Donations, Mrs. Woodworth, Etc."
.
"Daniel Chester French Foundation, Stockbridge, Mass.":"Pd. Bills - 1964";
"Certain bills relating to Insurance, removed to '64-'66 Correspondence file."
.
Poster and Exhibit Catalogue (both Chesterwood); Program (Boston Auditorium
dedication)(1964-66)(plus one insert in place)
.
"Complete file of A. Braman, asst. Treas. except pd. bills file"
.
"Anne Braman - Local Treasurer" [inscribed "Take to Barn"] [1962-1964]
.
"Current Events - Jan. 67"
.
Bulletin: Graduate Studies: Central Connecticut State College: 1968-1969 (plus
one insert in place)
.
"Flyers - Studio" [Folder 1]
.
[Flyers - Studio, Folder 2]
.
". . . Exhibit Idea File . . ." [c.1963]
.
"Notes Payable"
.
"Summer Deposit 1967...Mary Flynn"
.
"Reports 1967"
.
"Contracts"
.
"Studio Expenses," 1965-1966
.
"Tax Matters '64 - '66"
.
"Daniel Chester French Foundation, Pd. Bills - 1966"
.
"1964/re: Employees" [1964-1966]
.
"Re: Insurance" [1964-1966]
.
Re: Committee for Chesterwood Roster (1966)
.
1962-63 Appeal
331
.
1962 Correspondence
.
Folders - Berkshire Press, Mr. Pomrance, 1962
.
1962 Orders
.
1962 Publicity
.
1962 - Tours - Groups
.
Chesterwood Reports - 1964
.
.
1963 - Orders
.
1963 - Publicity - Advertisement
.
1963 - Studio Guides Personnel
.
.
1963 - General Information
.
Chesterwood - Attendance & Financial Reports [1963]
Box 2
.
.
1964 - Orders
.
1964 - General Information
.
1964 - Studio Guides Personnel
.
.
.
Chesterwood Director's Annual Report, 1964
Correspondence - 1965
.
Chesterwood, Annual Report, 1967
.
Guides - 1965
332
.
Miscellaneous - 1965
.
Orders - 1965
.
Publicity - 1965
.
Tours - 1965
.
Chesterwood - 1965
.
Correspondence - 1966
.
Guides - 1966
.
Inventory - 1965 - 66
.
Miscellaneous - 1966
.
Orders - 1966
.
Tours - 1966
.
Chesterwood, Annual Report, 1966
.
.
1967 - Guides
.
1967 - Orders
.
1967 - Publicity: Cultural Foundation
.
Tours - 1967
.
Annual Report - 1967
.
"Camps" (1968)
.
.
1963 - Advertisement
Advertising - 1964
.
1964 - Publicity
.
Chesterwood Report - 1964
333
.
Advertising - 1965
.
Advertisement - 1966
.
Publicity - 1966
.
Advertising - 1967
.
Publicity - 1967
.
Advertisement - 1968
.
Publicity - 1968
.
Publicity by M.F. Cresson - 1968
.
Chesterwood - 1968
.
Letter Received: Request for copy of Journey into Fame, 1968
.
"Guides - 1968"
.
"Miscellaneous - 1968"
.
Passbook, etc., 1964-1969, canceled
.
"Correspondence - 1968"
.
"Orders - 1968"
.
"Sales - 1968"
.
"Tours - 1968"
.
IRS Account Adjustments - Bill Notice (1968) with Envelope
.
"Paid Bills - 1967" [January-June 1967]
.
.
"Paid Bills - 1967" [July-December 1967]
"Paid Bills - 1968" [January-June 1968]
.
"Paid Bills - 1968" [July-December 1968]
.
"Paid Bills - 1969"
334
.
"1967 - Correspondence"
.
"[Paid Bills -] 1963" [January-June 1963]
.
"[Paid Bills -] 1963" [July-December 1963]
.
Publicity, includes MFC notes, c.1967
.
"Federal Taxes/State Taxes/Social Sec./Withholding," 1966-1969
.
Bank Deposit Slip Booklet and Deposit Receipts for Contributions, envelope,
June 1962 to July 1963
.
Bank Deposit Slip Booklet and Deposit Receipts for Contributions, Deposit Slips and
Deposit Receipts for Museum Admissions and Sales, envelope, label, July 1963 to
August 1964
.
Bank Deposit Slip Booklet and Deposit Receipts for Contributions, Deposit Slips for
Museum Admissions and Sales, envelope, label, September 1964 to June 1965
.
Museum Admissions and Sales, envelope, label, June 1965 to March 1966
.
Museum Admissions and Sales, envelope, March 1966 to November 1967
.
Bank Deposit Slip Booklet with Deposit Receipts for Contributions and Deposit Slips
with Deposit Receipts for Museum Admissions and Sales, November 1967 to April 1969
.
Bank Deposit Slip Booklet and Deposit Receipts for SPECIAL PROJECTS, December
1965 to November 1967
Bank Deposit Slip Booklets (2) (blank)
.
.
Bank Statements, Cancelled Checks, envelope, April-December 1962
.
Bank Statements, Cancelled Checks, January-December 1963
.
335
.
Bank Statements, Cancelled Checks, envelope, January-December 1965
.
Bank Statements, Cancelled Checks, envelope, label, January-December 1966
.
.
.
Bank Statements, Cancelled Checks, January-March 1969
.
Publicity, 1962-c.1965
.
Publicity - Clippings - Folders, c.1965-c.1968
.
"Chesterwood Studio Receipts . . . 1962"
.
Friends of Chesterwood, Completed Notices of Membership Dues for, 1963
.
.
Friends of Chesterwood, Completed Notices of Membership Dues for, sorting label,
1967
.
.
Friends of Chesterwood, Completed Notices of Membership Dues for, several index
cards of names and amounts donated, 1969
.
Index Cards (14), each typed with one name and address, 1960s
.
Index cards (17) of "Misc. Restricted Gifts" and of Rosters of Local Donors, 1964-1966
.
Sorting Label, 1960s(?)
.
"Restricted Gifts - Grounds/ Misc.," 1966
.
"Appeal - 1963"
.
"Friends of Chesterwood/ 1964 Appeal" [1964-1965]
.
"Annual Appeals '64 - ['66]"
336
.
"Friends of Chesterwood - 1965" [1965(?),1969]
.
"Friends of Chesterwood - 1968" [1968-1969]
.
Friends of Chesterwood: List: Names and Addresses (139) and Amounts of
Contributions with Sum Total (no date)
.
[Removal List of Items Found in the DCFF Coll.]
.
Invoice, 1965
.
Letter from MFC to Berkshire Eagle editor re: submission of 1967 article by MFC
on Chesterwood antique furnishings, June 18, 1968
.
Papers, 1968
.
"Federal &/State/Financial/Statements/1965-66-67-68/From D.D." [Donald
Douglass, 1965-1968]
.
List, handwritten by Mary V. Flynn, of photographs(?) of sculptures by D.C. French,
1960s [From CH516, north wall, tall chest, third tier drawer, inscribed file folder]
.
Interpretive Notes (2), handwritten by MFC and by unidentified, post 1962 [From
CH516, north wall, tall chest, pinned together]
.
Transcript, article by Adrienne Metcalf Weinman, great-great granddaughter of Herman
Melville, typescript, author's name inscribed by Mary Flynn, 1962-1968
.
Exedra Project, Marble, 1966-1967
.
Letter, accompanying magazine, from CH Director Mary V. Flynn to L.B. Prince re
proposed post cards of CH made from two illus. in Gulf's The Orange Disc, May-June
1968, letter dated October 24, 1968
.
"Daniel C. French Foundation": Stationery (letterheads, envelopes); typescript of
instructions for guides re cash box procedures [c.1966?; 1963-1968][This and all foll. in
Box 6 from CH306A]
.
"DC French Foundation": Correspondence, photocopies of documents, 1962-1969
.
Daniel C. French Foundation: Lists, handwritten, of Recipients of Preservation News,
337
1960s
.
Daniel C. French Foundation: Rosters of Supporters of Chesterwood, 1966-c.1969
.
[Daniel C. French Foundation:] Correspondence, etc., including negotiations with the
National Trust, 1966-1968
.
"Douglass, Donald," 1966-1969
.
"Bank Account: Chesterwood: National Trust [and DCFF]," 1968-1969
.
Exhibit: Artist Friends of Mr. French, 1963
.
Exhibit: Norman Rockwell, 1964
.
Exhibit: Maxfield Parrish, 1965
.
Exhibit: Paul Manship, 1966
.
Exhibit: Winterfest '67 (material dated 1966-1967)
.
Exhibit: Tanglewood Glass House, 1967
.
Exhibit: Cresson Room (opened in 1968), 1966-1967
Printed Material
.
Tax Forms and Guide for 1968
.
Payroll Deductions Pad (blank)
.
.
Flyers (4 discrete), Central Connecticut State College, 1967-68
Membership Card Pads, Daniel Chester French Foundation, for Friends of
Chesterwood, text in brown on bright yellow ground, 1960s [From CH110, found in desk
of adm. assistant to the Director]
.
Brochures, Chesterwood, 2 discrete types, 1962-1968
.
Business envelopes (2), DCFF stationery, legal size, green print, 1960s
.
Newspaper Clippings re Chesterwood, 1963
338
.
Invitation to Dedication of the Chesterwood Studio Museum as a National Historic
Landmark, with Manship memorial exhibition through August, on Saturday, July 16,
1966
.
Exhibit Catalogue (240 copies in 2 adm. expanding envelopes), Memorial Exhibition of
Sculpture by Paul Manship, with Paintings by John Manship, in Barn Sculpture Gallery,
Chesterwood, The Daniel Chester French Studio Museum, July and August 1966 [From
Attic, in corrugated box inscribed "Catalogues - Paul Manship - M.F. Cresson - Lincoln
Memorial 50th Cel."]
.
Magazine, containing article by Mary Stoll, "A Visit to Chesterwood," pp.12-15, illus.,
The Orange Disc, the Magazine of The Gulf Companies, May-June 1968
.
Chesterwood Folders (many copies of one brochure), 1960s
.
Exhibit Catalogue (14 copies), "Portraits by Margaret French Cresson, N.A.," The
Chesterwood Studio Museum Barn Gallery [Carriage Room, 1968] [From CH214, fireproof file cabinet, dr. 3]
.
Exhibit Catalogue (60 copies), same as preceding [From same box as above Manship
catalogue]
Bound Materials
Box 9 [gallery box]
.
Check Books (#1-2), April 1962 - July 1964
.
Check Books (#3-4), July 1964 - November 1965
.
Check Books (#5-6), November 1965 - August 1967
.
List (1965) of Friends of Chesterwood(?) Donations for year of 1964(?) [Check Book #3
insert]
Box 10
.
Check Books [#7-8], August 1967 - August 1968
.
Check Books [#9-10], August 1968 - April 1969
.
Account Books (3), "Accounts for the Daniel Chester French Studios [sic]," June339
October 1963 to June-October 1968
.
Inventory, Chesterwood museum store, October 1968 [1967-1968 Account Book insert]
.
Spiral Notebooks (5), "Barn Gallery Accounts," 1964-1968
.
Payroll Book, 1963-68
Box 11
.
Spiral Notebooks (5), insert, "Friends of Chesterwood," rosters of members, 1964-1969
.
"Guest Book," for special events at Chesterwood, 1963-1965
.
Visitor Book (large spiral notebook), "Visitors at Chesterwood Exhibit - Winterfest, 1967"
.
Visitor Book, Chesterwood, August 1968 - October 1969
.
Roster of Visitors,, headed "Visitors' Book - 1968," typed transcription of names and full
addresses found on pp.1-16 [1968-1969 Visitor Book insert]
Box 12
340
Framed and glazed
.
Certificate of the certification of Chesterwood as a Massachusetts Historic Landmark,
1966 [NT69.38.808]
Oversize Box I
Columnar pads
.
"Breakdown Pad," for W/H Taxes, Projects, Special Events, and Fund
Raising/Appeals, including inserts re Cresson Room Project, 1963-1967
.
"Receipts Book / Book 3," August 1965 - December 1966
.
"Receipts Book / Book 4," January 1967 - June 1968
.
Two Concurrent (Side-by-Side) Expenditures Books having a total of 27 columns (13
cols. in "Book 1" and 14 columns in "Book 2"), January 1967 - April 1969
Oversize Box II
Framed and glazed
.
Award of the Herbert Adams Memorial Medal from the National Sculpture Society to
DCFF, "for outstanding service to American Sculpture," 1965 [NT69.38.809]
.
Citation, from National Sculpture Society, on the Committee for Chesterwood, April 13,
1965 [NT69.38.811]
Map Cabinet
Drawer 17
.
Brownline of plan, by Prentiss French for DCFF, "Plan for Reconstruction of Exedra,"
December 12, 1966 [NAN] [from “Exedra Project, Marble”, folder now in Box 6]
.
Blueline of same [NAN] [from same original location]
Rosamond Sherwood Collection
NTARC.CH.5
1955-1988
1.17 linear feet
Original chronological arrangement with three exceptions: the copies of the Development Plan
were grouped at the end in respective mailing envelopes; several of the dated folders
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contained material covering two years and have now mostly been given individual folders; and
loose items have been foldered.
Collection created by Rosamond Sherwood, a longtime Council member and friend of
Chesterwood. Her special interest was the Studio Garden. She and Mrs. Rodney Procter
restored the garden prior to 1971 and were awarded a medal from the Garden Club of America
for their achievement. She died on January 28, 1990. Mainly items sent to her by the
Chesterwood administration: Museum Trustees Records; a few personal letters; for letter from
Beatrice Procter to her, 8 pages (4 of which missing) re. projected plantings for Chesterwood
long flower beds, n.d.[late 1955], ms. plant list, and ms. CH Garden Report, see folder for
1955-1956. R. Sherwood was also on the board of the Norman Rockwell Museum at the Old
Corner House; hence a few materials relative thereto are found here.
Folder headings:
.
Chesterwood, 1955-1956
.
"
1957
.
"
1958
.
"
1959
.
"
1960
.
"
1961
.
"
1962
.
"
[1963-1966]
.
"
1967-1968
.
"
1969
.
"
1970
.
"
1970-1972 & Council Charter
.
"
1973-1974
.
"
1975
.
"
1976
.
"
1977
342
.
.
.
"
1978
Chesterwood 1979
"
1980
.
[Copy of "Preliminary Report Property Development Plan for Chesterwood."
October 3, 1980, in original prong-fastener binder, and inserts of one letter and
two folded plans]
.
[Copy of "Final Draft Property Development Plan for Chesterwood," January 3,
1981 and Minutes of Chesterwood Council Meeting, October 25, 1980]
.
[Copy of "Property Development Plan for Chesterwood," prepared by Building
Conservation Technology, Inc., April 1981]
.
Chesterwood 1981
.
"
1982
.
"
1983
.
"
1984
.
[Chesterwood 1985 (3 pieces of correspondence and 1 undated clipping)]
.
Chesterwood 1986
.
Chesterwood (small collection of National Trust and CH printed material, foldered by
RS, 1959-1969)
.
[Cover memorandum and 23-page worksheet from Peter van S. Rice, Chairman,
Chesterwood Council, to members of CH Council et al., re updating CH long
range plan, September 4, 1986]
.
[Instructions and two separate mailing lists (Friends '86 and Lapsed 1985) sent from CH
to Council members, re Friends mailing, December 1986]
.
[Instructions and four separate mailing lists (Prospects, Friends '87, Lapsed 1986, and
Lapsed 1985) sent from CH to Council members, re Friends mailing, December 1987]
.
[Letter and enclosed snapshot, from John ("Jerry") Davis Hatch to R. Sherwood,
identifies snapshot as taken (date?) during lunch for CH trustees, February 8,
1988]
343
.
[Small collection of Chesterwood brochures and postcards, 1955-1970s]
.
[The Old Corner House, trustees records, a few, 1980]
.
[The Norman Rockwell Museum at the Old Corner House, trustees records, a few,
1984]
Russo: Box I
Letter, from __ Morris (daughter of Margaret Russo), explaining the collection in this box
Glass plate, photograph of Mrs. Russo seated on piazza with two children
Glass plate, photograph of Chesterwood fountain and exedra, facing north
Glass plate, formal photograph of Vincent Russo
Glass plate, photograph of a woman and two children by Chesterwood fountain (2)
Glass plate, photograph of lay model of Eve by DCF, New York studio
Glass plate, photograph of two women and two children seated on bench beneath
mulberry tree, Chesterwood garden
Glass plate, photograph of a woman standing by Chesterwood exedra
Green folder, belonged to Vincent Russo, containing photos and magazine clippings of
sculptures
Photograph, of sculpture
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Finding Guide to the Chesterwood Archives

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