Murphy, Katharine Prentis, 1882-1969
type Collector
dates 1882-1969
city Westbrook
stateCT
other citiesConcord, NH; New York, NY;
sex F
history Katherine Prentis Murphy collected, Americana, high-style seventeenth- and eighteenth-century furniture, ceramics, textiles, brass, and pewter.

Her husband, David Murphy a proprietor of a dry goods store in Concord, N.H., when she was still young.

decades1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
updated 03/22/2024 12:09:30
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Repository Description Links
Columbia University Libraries
Butler Library, 6th Fl. East,
Reminiscences of Katherine Prentis Murphy : oral history, 1957. see details...
Shelburne Museum
U.S. Route 7, P.O Box 1D
Electra Havemeyer Webb Papers, 1893-1966 (bulk 1947-1960). see details...
University of Texas at Austin
Ima Hogg Papers, 1824-1977. see details...

see alsoPrentis, Edmund Astley b. 1883