Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913
| title | Newspaper clippings : J. Pierpont Morgan, 1910-1912. | repository | Pierpont Morgan Library Archives |
| description | Consists of clippings from American and foreign newspapers that reflect the press coverage of J. Pierpont Morgan from 1910-1912. The clippings primarily document the growth of his art collection, but also include reports related to his travel and relationships with national and world leaders. Many of the clippings feature Morgan as a caricature or in a cartoon. From the library of J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) with inscription "J. Pierpont Morgan from J.R. Ward, April 7, 1912." |
| extent | 1 v. (50 leaves) ; 28 cm. |
| formats | Clippings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://corsair.morganlibrary.org |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:53 |
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| title | J. Pierpont Morgan Letter: to Mrs. Cornwallis-West, 1912 April 21. | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Pierpont Morgan writes to Mrs. Cornwallis-West (formerly Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill) from Aix-les-Bains in Southern France, where he spent his yearly spring vacation. Morgan cannot lend her any miniatures as they are being shipped to America. He adds "I take great interest in your movement in connection with Shakespeare’s England, and regret that it all happens as it does." Biographical or Historical Notes: American financier and art collector. |
| extent | 1 item (1 p.) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat133057 |
| record source | http://library.getty.edu/vwebv/searchBasic |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:51 |
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| title | Newspaper clippings : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1924. | repository | Pierpont Morgan Library Archives |
| description | Consists of clippings from newspapers throughout the United States and England that document the establishment of the Pierpont Morgan Library as a public institution. Many of the clippings detail both the announcement of the Library's opening, made by J.P. Morgan on February 16, 1924, and a description of its collections. They also include background on the collecting interests of J. Pierpont Morgan. Hemstreet Press Clipping Bureau stamped in gold on bottom of inside front cover. |
| extent | 1 v. (ca. 200 leaves) ; 31 cm. |
| formats | Clippings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://corsair.morganlibrary.org |
| acquisition information | Originally shelved as part of the Morgan Family Collection. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:51 |
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| title | Morgan family trusts and estates papers, ca. 1867-1950. | repository | Pierpont Morgan Library Archives |
| description | Family trusts and estates papers, formerly housed in the Trust and Investment Division at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, regarding property of the Morgan family, notably J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) and J.P. Morgan Jr. (1867-1943). Included are detailed estate appraisals and family trust documents. |
| extent | 4 cubic feet |
| formats | Estate Papers |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://corsair.morganlibrary.org |
| finding aid | This collection is unprocessed. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:52 |
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| title | Pierpont Morgan Papers, [ca. 1850-1913], [ca. 1850-1890] (bulk). | repository | Pierpont Morgan Library Archives |
| description | Papers consist primarily of correspondence which dates from his early years and concerns school and family matters. Of note is correspondence, ca. 1850-1880, with Junius S. Morgan, his father. Letters dating from approximately 1890 until his death in 1913 are sparse and concern his activities in banking and art collecting as well as family matters. Some school report cards and miscellaneous documents are also included. Notes: Financier, banker, art collector. |
| extent | ca. 8 cubic ft. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://corsair.morganlibrary.org |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:58 |
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| title | Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 1906-1977 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Personal papers of Aline and Eero Saarinen, and Aline Saarinen papers relating to her unpublished biography of architect Stanford White, her published book The Proud Possessors, and her work as an NBC Television correspondent. Papers relating to Stanford White and to Proud Possessors contain primary source material gathered by Saarinen during her research on White and collectors Edward Wales Root and John Quinn. REELS 2074-76, and 2064 (photos): Biographical material; Eero Saarinen's sketches, notes and letters; correspondence between Aline and Eero; Aline Saarinen's correspondence, including letters from John McAndrews, Clifford Odets, Robert Osborne, Frank Lloyd Wright, Joseph Louchheim, and her children; awards; files on her involvement with the Fine Arts Commission, Yale University, and the Design Advisory Committee of the Federal Aviation Agency; speeches, articles on art and architecture; television scripts; clippings and printed material; notes; and photographs and slides of the Saarinens (2 copyprints are also microfilmed on reel 1817 fr. 1054-1058), Charles Alan, and other family members, friends, works of art, and architecture. REELS 2069-2072 and 2084 (photos): Research material, 1903-1960, relating to Saarinen's book The Proud Possessors (1958). Included are notes, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and printed material on art collectors Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Dr. Claribel and Etta Cone, Katherine Sophie Dreier, Charles Lang Freer, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Thomas Gilcrease, Peggy Guggenheim, Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Havemeyer, Joseph Hirshhorn, R. Sturgis Ingersoll, John G. Johnson, J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. Potter Palmer, John Quinn, the Rockefeller family, Edward Wales Root, Gertrude, Leo, Michael and Sarah Stein, and Electra Havemeyer Webb. Among the correspondents is Bernard Berenson. The material on Edward Root contains letters to Saarinen from Grace Cogswell Root; correspondence between Root and his father Elihu, 1903-1936; one or more letters to Root, 1909-1936, from Charles Culver, Robert De Forest, Frederick James Gregg, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Duncan Phillips, and Grace Root; copies of 2 letters to Edward Christiana, 1949; a catalog for a Root memorial exhibition, 1957; Saarinen's notes; and a photograph of Root, one of his home, and photographs of works of art in his collection. Copyrpints also available. Material on John Quinn includes correspondence between Saarinen and Jeanne Robert Foster; letters to Foster from Quinn and his sister, Julia Anderson; a copy of a letter to Foster from William B. Yeats and a drawing of Quinn possibly by Yeats; material relating to Roger Casement; and photographs of Quinn and Foster, and Quinn with Constantin Brancusi, Picasso and Mme. Picasso, Henri Pierre Roche, and Erik Satie. REELS 2072-2073 and 2064 (photos): Research material for Saarinen's unpublished biography of Stanford White. Included are: notes, drafts; correspondence with her publisher, scholars, friends and relatives of White, architects, and others; printed material, 1896-1968; McKim, Mead and White memoranda and correspondence, 1887-1906, much of it with Whitelaw Reid; a letter from Charles Lang Freer, 1900; contracts; architectural descriptions and copies of blueprints; a record book; and miscellaneous letters and documents. Letters from White's father, Richard Grant White, to his daughter-in-law Bessie, Bessie White's reminiscenses of Stanford, and her scrapbook on the Washington Centennial and White's Washington Arch are also included. Photographs include over 300, 1878-ca. 1970, of White, his wife; his father and mother; Evelyn Nesbit; his clients, Anne, Louise and Robert Cheney; and 280 photographs of buildings and residences designed by White or McKim, Mead and White, many photographed by Wayne Andrews. UNMICROFILMED: Primarily papers kept by Aline Saarinen while a NBC television correspondent reporting on mainly art related topics. Included are correspondence, printed material, notes, scripts, clippings, kinescope motion picture film, including "Eyes Opening", transferred to VHS, and photographs. Also included are printed material on Eero Saarinen, and photographs of his work. ADDITION: Notebooks containing Aline Saarinen's notes on architecture, art collectors and Stanford White; printed material; Saarinen's journal, 1928-1932; a guest book; photographs; scripts for Venus in Venice (1964), The American Image and other writings. Three phonograph recordings (33 1/3) of a discussion on opera between Eero Saarinen, Professor H. Ingham Ashworth and Professor Leslie Martin on the Australian Braodcasting Commission, January 29, 1957 are not available for research use. |
| extent | 13.5 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 10 reels) |
| formats | Correspondence Notes Sketches Photographs Clippings |
| access | Collection is being processed and digitized, and is closed to researchers. Access is to microfilmed material only. NBC TV material: Authorization to quote from scripts or film prepared for television must be cleared for rights with: NBC Studios, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/aline-and-eero-saarinen-papers-5589 |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated in 1973 by the Aline Saarinen estate via Charles Alan, art dealer and brother of Saarinen. The NBC TV material was donated 1974 by NBC Studios. Additional material donated 1991 by the Parrish Art Museum, who had received it from Aline Saarinen. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner papers, 1860-1974. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Diaries, writings, correspondence, scrapbooks, printed material, and photographs. REEL D31: Diary entries, 1914-1957, describing his service in the German army, 1914-1918, with the War Information Office in Berlin, the overthrow of the monarchy and German politics, relations between Germany and Russia and communist activity in Germany, the administration of Berlin museums and radical artists' activities, his work with the L.A. County Museum, Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and private collectors, impressions of friends, including Henry Ford, Carl Hamilton, the Hohenzollerns, Franz Marc, Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter Rathenau, Helen Wills, Benjamin Altman, J. Pierpont Morgan, and recollections of women art collectors, including Mrs. August Belmont, Rita Lydig, and Mrs. Leonard Thomas. REELS 272-276: Documents; correspondence with Valentiner's family, E. Colin Agnew, Chester Holmes Aldrich, William von Bode, Duveen Brothers, Max J. Friedlander, Walter Gropius, John Johnson, John McIlhenny, Erich Mendelsohn, M. Perzynski, Edi Redslob, the Rockefeller family, Maria Sarre, Albert Souvier, and C.F. Williams. Correspondence prior to 1920 concerns World War I and life in Germany; also included are essays and research notes on modern European artists; photographs of Valentiner and his family; and printed material. REELS 2140-2144: 26 diaries, 1904-1958; autobiographical writings; manuscripts and lectures by Valentiner; correspondence with family, friends, authors, museums, galleries, and dealers, including Harry Berotia, Charles Culver, Lyonel and Julia Feininger, Walter Gropius, Paul and Mary Weschler, and Morris Graves; and a scrapbook containing clippings, drafts of speeches, and invitations. REELS 3963-3967: Biographical material including a resume, a family history and family tree; correspondence with family, Kurt Bauch, Guy DeLauney, Walter Friedlaender, Henry Goldman, Liselotte Moser, Maria Sarre, Wolfgang von Eckardt, and Helen Wills; manuscripts of an autobiography, writings on art, and articles by Valentiner; notebooks and notes; diaries, 1884-1939; exhibition catalogs and clippings; scrapbooks; photographs, 1875-1965, of Valentiner, his family, Walter Friedlaender, Giacometti, Maria Sarre, Helen Wills, William von Bode, Diego Rivera, Harry Bertoia, and other artists and art work; and an etching of Heidelberg. |
| extent | 6.3 linear ft. (on 16 microfilm reels) reels D31, 272-276, 2140-2144, and 3963-3967 |
| formats | Correspondence Diaries Photographs Scrapbooks |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Finding aids for reels 2140-2144 and 3963-3967 are available at AAA offices. |
| acquisition information | Material on reels D31, 272-276 & 3963-3967, donated 1959. Material on reels 2140-2144 lent for microfilming by the North Carolina Museum of Art, 1974. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Wadsworth Atheneum scrapbooks, 1899-1963. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | 40 scrapbooks containing letters, photographs, exhibition catalogs and announcements, and clippings. Scrapbooks document the gifts of art work and money by J.P. Morgan to the museum, the administration and exhibition programs of the museum, and other subjects. |
| extent | 40 items (on 12 microfilm reels) |
| formats | Microfilm Scrapbooks |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| acquisition information | Original or duplicate materials: Originals returned to the lender, the Wadsworth Atheneum, after microfilming. Lent for microfilming 1982 by Wadsworth Atheneum. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Papers regarding probate of will, 1913. [photocopies] | repository | New York State Library |
| description | Papers regarding the probate of John P. Morgan's last will and testament copied from volume 979 pages 148-182 of the Record of Wills in the Surrogate's Court for the County of New York. The duplicates were made for the Pierpont Morgan Library by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance in 1980. The Pierpont Morgan Library offered a copy of the papers to the State Library. Preferred citation John Pierpont Morgan, Papers regarding probate of will, 1913. [photocopies] Location of originals : New York State Dept. of Taxation and Finance, Two World Trade Center, N.Y., N.Y. 10047, Surrogate Court for the County of New York, Record of Wills, Vol. 979, pp. 148-182. |
| extent | 6 pages |
| formats | Legal Papers Photocopies |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| acquisition information | Original or duplicate materials: Location of originals : New York State Dept. of Taxation and Finance, Surrogate Court for the County of New York, Record of Wills, Vol. 979, pp. 148-182. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Catalogue of the collection of miniatures: the property of J. Pierpont Morgan, compiled at his request by G.C. Williamson. Supplementary volume, 1932-1933. | repository | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| description | The first supplementary volume is a carbon copy of the text sent to J.P. Morgan, bound by the author for his own reference, and includes mounted photographic and photomechanical prints, some in color. Objects described and illustrated are miniatures, boxes, étuis and nécessaires. Most of the objects are English and include miniatures of Queen Elizabeth, Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, Charles II, James II, George III, Washington Irving, James H. Leigh Hunt, Shelley, and Byron; a miniature by Fragonard; fifteen Italian miniatures of the ruling family of Sardinia and members of the house of Savoy; gold boxes decorated by Chardin, Louis Nicholas van Blarenberghe, and Antoine Vestier. Inserted in the volume are the following items: a typescript letter from Williamson to D. Appleton-Century Company (Nov. 10, 1934) concerning a request for copies of the Century magazine containing portraits of Shelley and Byron, and a contents list from the magazine for June 1911 that includes the Shelley portrait owned by Morgan; a manuscript list of fifteen Italian miniatures that were included in the catalog of the sale of Morgan's collection of miniatures in London, June 24, 1935; a photographic print of the miniature of Washington Irving, and a colored photomechanical print of the miniature of Shelley; correspondence between Williamson and C. Jeannerat (July 1939) concerning the identity of various persons depicted in several of the Morgan miniatures; newspaper clippings and correspondence between Williamson and Scotland Yard concerning the theft on July 29, 1939 of seven Italian miniatures, formerly in the Morgan collection, from the country mansion of Geoffrey Hart in Forest Row, Sussex. The second supplementary volume is a carbon copy of the re-typed text that was intended to accompany the hand-colored illustrations for the unpublished fifth volume of miniatures in the Morgan collection. The plates bound with this copy of the text are the only ones in existence and constitute the entire suite of hand-colored illustrations, with one exception, that were to have been published. The author's bookplate is affixed to the inside front cover: From the library of George Charles Williamson, Mount Manor House, Guildford. Biographical and Historical Note Williamson compiled a four-volume catalog of J. Pierpont Morgan's collection of miniatures that was published 1906-1908. A fifth volume was to have been issued but never appeared due to Morgan's death. At the request of the collector's son, J.P. Morgan (1867-1943), Williamson prepared a typescript of his notes and papers in October 1932 and sent it to Morgan. A second supplementary volume, comprising a re-typed version of that portion of the text to have accompanied the hand-colored plates intended for the vellum edition of the fifth volume, also was prepared for Morgan, chiefly in 1933. LOCATION / CALL NUMBER Watson Library Bookcage / N7616 .W5523 1932 Q v.1 Watson Library Bookcage / N7616 .W5523 1932 Q v.2 |
| extent | 2 v. : ill., chiefly ports. (some col.) ; 27-39 cm. |
| formats | Catalogs |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://library.metmuseum.org/record=b1645976~S1 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Photostatic prints from Trier Museum: photographs of Merovingian antiquities, with accompanying correspondence, 1936-1937. | repository | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| description | Collection comprises 42 photostatic prints acquired from the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier by Herbert Kühn of the Dept. of Medieval Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1936, as well as the correspondence, 1936-1937, relating to their acquisition and processing. The images represent objects of personal adornment recovered from Merovingian tombs in the Breisig region of Germany and originally in the possession of Friedrich Jakob Queckenberg. In 1910, J. Pierpont Morgan purchased 412 of the objects which were bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1917. Note: History of the Merovingian archaeological finds in the Breisig region of Germany and their disposition LOCATION / CALL NUMBER Medieval Art - Restricted Access / DD54 .M48 1936 |
| extent | Photostatic copies 1 album (42 mounted photographs on 42 leaves of plates) : all ill. ; 31 cm. Correspondence 4 items. |
| formats | Photographs |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://library.metmuseum.org/record=b1366613~S1 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | American Museum of Natural History General correspondence files, [ca. 1887]-1966. | repository | American Museum of Natural History |
| description | Extensive correspondence files of curators and employees and other paleontologists associated with the department concerning field work, identification of specimens, exhibits, acquisition of specimens, research topics, publications, miscellaneous subjects, correspondence with other museums and scientific institutions, and other topics. Hundreds of scientists worldwide are represented by correspondence and include Alexander Agassiz, Glover M. Allen, Florentino Ameghino, Erwin H. Barbour, Franz Boas, Stephen F. Borhegyi, Robert Broom, Barnum Brown, Hermon C. Bumpus, Edwin H. Colbert, Joseph T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington Kellogg, Charles R. Knight, George Kunz, Bjorn Kurten, Richard Swann Lull, R. Lydekker, James Reid Macdonald, William D. Matthew, John C. Merriam, Charles C. Mook, J.P. Morgan (Sr. and Jr.), Frederick K. Morris, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Alfred Romer, George Gaylord Simpson, Charles H. Sternberg, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. |
| extent | 48 cubic ft. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Correspondents list. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | General information about gifts to Harvard from J. Pierpont Morgan. | repository | Harvard University Archives |
| description | Location : Harvard Archives HUB 2580 |
| extent | see repository for further details |
| formats | Legal Papers |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Frank Lemon papers, 1890-1943. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | A letter written by Lemon to his wife Nellie describes his activities in the Washington, D.C., area and the exhibition of his sculpture "Marguerite", and contains a clipping (1898). Two letters signed by J. Pierpont Morgan and one written by Morgan's business secretary concern Lemon's statue "Sea Breeze" (1900 -1902). Other materials include photographs of Lemon (ca. 1890) and his works of art including "Sea Breeze" (1898-1936), four clippings about Lemon's work at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago and his sculptures "Sea Breeze" and "Nemesis" (1892-1914), and Lemon's obituary (1943). |
| extent | 0.2 linear ft. (on a partial microfilm reel) |
| formats | Correspondence Clippings Photographs Ephemera |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | J.P. Morgan Jr. papers, [ca. 1875-1943] | repository | Pierpont Morgan Library Archives |
| description | The personal papers of Jack Morgan include letterpress books of copies of outgoing correspondence; cable books; a brief alphabetical series (in two parts) of letters received; and a large number of subject files on topics including philanthropic activities, family financial matters (including extensive documentation of the estate of his father), family house inventories and real estate, clubs and associations, individuals with whom he corresponded, schools and universities (including Harvard), companies, travel (including information on his yachts Corsair III and IV), art and library collections, the Morgan Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, World War I, war reparations, and personal ledgers. Although business matters are touched upon throughout the collection, the papers do not include official records of J.P. Morgan & Co. There is also a long series of letters from Morgan to his mother, Frances Tracy Morgan. Biographical note J. P. Morgan Jr., the son of financier Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), was known informally as “Jack.” He headed the firm J. P. Morgan & Co. after his father’s death in 1913. He inherited the bulk of his father’s art and library collections, and in 1924 created The Pierpont Morgan Library as a public institution. He married Jane Norton Grew (1863–1925) in 1890; they had four children: Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. (1892–1960), Jane Norton Morgan Nichols (1893–1981), Frances Tracy Morgan Pennoyer (b. 1897), and Henry Sturgis Morgan (1900–1982). Morgan’s homes included a brownstone on the corner of 37th Street and Madison Avenue (229 Madison, now 231), New York; Matinicock Point in Glen Cove, Long Island; a townhouse on Grosvenor Square, London; and Wall Hall, a country estate in the village of Aldenham, near Watford in Hertfordshire, England; he also rented a hunting lodge, Gannochy, in Scotland. |
| extent | 126 flip-top boxes |
| formats | Correspondence Subject Files Financial Records Inventories Legal Papers |
| access | The collection is open for research by appointment. The following page provides information on conducting research in the Morgan’s Reading Room: http://www.themorgan.org/research/reading.asp |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| acquisition information | Personal papers of J. P. Morgan Jr. removed from the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. by Charles Morgan, grandson of J. P. Morgan Jr. Gift of the Morgan family, [date unknown]. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Pierpont Morgan Library Photograph collection, [ca. 1855-1986]. | repository | Pierpont Morgan Library Archives |
| description | Included are photographs of the Pierpont Morgan Library (exteriors and interiors) ca. 1905-1986; of members of the Morgan family, ca. 1855 to present, with the bulk dating from ca. 1855-1943, the date of J.P. Morgan's death; of art objects collected by J.P. Morgan; of J.P. Morgan's trips, particularly his many trips to Egypt; of partners in the J.P. Morgan and Co. bank, ca. 1890-1933, including Henry P. Davison, Joseph W. Drexel, Francis A. Drexel, Anthony J. Drexel, Anthony J. Drexel Jr., T.S. Lamont, Henry S. Morgan, J. Pierpont Morgan, J. Pierpont Morgan Jr., Junius S. Morgan Jr., Dwight W. Morrow, George W. Perkins, Charles Steele, and forty-two others; and of views relating to the Morgan family, the bank, and the Library. |
| extent | ca. 250 images. |
| formats | Photographs |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:59 |
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| title | Oral history interview with William Milliken, 1974 Dec. 27-1976 Mar. 13. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of William Milliken conducted by Dennis Barrie for the Archives of American Art. Milliken speaks of his family background and history; his childhood; his education, and studies at Princeton; his first position as Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum; his involvement with the Frick and the Cooper Union Museum; his appointment to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1919, and becoming its director in 1930. He recalls William R. Valentiner, Jacques Seligmann, Isabella Stewart Gardner, J.P. Morgan, Henry Frick and others. Bio / His Notes: Museum director; d. 1978. Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930-1958. |
| extent | 5 sound tape reels ; 5 in. (106 p. transcript) |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | These interviews are part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Office of the Secretary records, 1870-[ongoing]. | repository | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| description | Records comprise correspondence and subject files created by the Secretary and General Counsel, Trustees and several past Directors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This material relates to all aspects of Museum operations and administration including: acquisition of artworks through purchase, gift and bequest, exhibitions, building maintenance and construction, relations with City and State agencies, drafting and negotiating contracts, managing litigation, cultural property issues, legal and business affairs, grants and corporate donations. Files documenting the tenures of each Secretary of the Museum are included. In addition, there is substantial original documentation created by: former Directors of the Museum, including Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Caspar Purdon Clarke, Edward Robinson, Herbert E. Winlock; past Trustees, including: John Taylor Johnston, Henry Gurdon Marquand, Robert W. De Forest, and J. Pierpont Morgan; and key curatorial and administrative staff. Biography or History The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 in New York City by a group of businessmen, financiers, artists and collectors. On April 13 of that year the New York State Legislature granted an Act of Incorporation "for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said City a Museum and Library of Art, of encouraging and developing the Study of the Fine Arts, and the application of Art to manufacture and natural life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreations." Railroad executive John Taylor Johnston served as the institution’s first President. Luigi Palma di Cesnola was appointed the first Director in 1879. The Office of the Secretary was established concurrently with the founding of the Museum, and is the central repository for official Trustee records, administrative correspondence and legal files of the Museum’s General Counsel. The Secretary is a member of the Museum staff who performs administrative duties under the general direction of the President or as may be assigned by the Chairman or Board of Trustees. The Secretary is responsible for coordinating and recording the proceedings of meetings the Board of Trustees and Trustee committees. The Secretary attends to official correspondence, has custody of and preserves the corporate seal and the archives, and oversees the legal affairs of the Museum. The following have served as Secretary of the Museum: William J. Hoppin (1874-1877), Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1877-1904), Robert W. DeForest (1904-1913), Henry W. Kent (1913-1940), George Lauder Greenway (1941-1942), Dudley T. Easby, Jr. (1945-1969), Ashton Hawkins (1969-1987), Linden Havemeyer Wise (1987-1992), Sharon H. Cott (1992-present). Citation [Title of item], [date], [folder title], Office of the Secretary Records, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives. Note Most materials in English; French, Italian, German and other languages are represented as well. |
| extent | 2500 linear feet. |
| formats | Correspondence Subject Files Administrative Records Financial Records Legal Papers |
| access | Consult Archives staff regarding permission to quote or reproduce. |
| record link | http://library.metmuseum.org/record=b1705272~S1 |
| record source | http://library.metmuseum.org/record=b1705272~S1 |
| finding aid | npublished index and folder level database; access restricted to Archives staff only. |
| acquisition information | Transferred from Office of the Secretary. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:08 |
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| title | The Fototeca Berenson (Villa I Tatti Photo Archives) | repository | Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti |
| description | The collection contains about 300,000 photographs, many of them collected by Berenson himself from the 1880s until the time of his death in 1959. Many have notes on the back in his handwriting. Many show works of art before restoration, and others show images since destroyed. An important section, "Homeless paintings", contains photographs of works whose current location is unknown. The photographs are almost exclusively black and white in a variety of photographic media, such as albumen, gelatine, or carbon. About 3000 large-format photographs are stored separately. In addition, there is a considerable amount of documentary material in the form of clippings, notes and printed reproductions. The photographs are arranged according to Berenson's original scheme, by school: Florence, Siena, Central Italy, Northern Italy, Lombardy, Venice, Southern Italy. Within each school they are arranged by artist, then by topography, followed by homeless. Paintings and drawings are arranged separately. The main focus of the collection is on Italian painting and drawing from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. This part of the collection continues to be developed through the acquisition of new materials and through photographic campaigns. Later periods are also represented but in smaller scale, without systematic updating. There is also material on medieval painting, arranged topographically; manuscript illumination, arranged according to present location; archeology; Byzantine art and architecture, arranged both by artist and by location; and non-Italian art, arranged by country. Finally a section of 8000 photographs is devoted to the art of the Far East, India and Islam. In addition to the original Berenson nucleus, collections of prints, glass plates, negatives and transparencies have entered the Fototeca. These include the collections of Emilio Marcucci (nineteenth-century projects for the completion of various Florentine monuments), George Kaftal (representations of saints in Italian painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), Henry Clifford (painting thirtheenth to seventeenth centuries), Giorgio Castelfranco (Italian art thirteenth to twentieth centuries), Giannino Marchig (restoration), Frederick Hartt (Michelangelo, Giulio Romano), Giuseppe Marchini (Italian art and stained glass), and Craig H. Smyth (Renaissance painting and drawing). There is a small collection of micropublications and microfiche (162,386 frames): L=index photographique de l'art en France (95,648); Sotheby's Pictorial Archive - Old Master Paintings (45,472); Christie's Pictorial Archive Italian School (9,898); Christie's Pictorial Archive - New York 1977-95 Old Master Paintings & Drawings (11,368). The microfilm of the Bartsch Corpus comprises about 42,000 frames. Notes Most photographers not identified. |
| extent | 300,000 + photographs |
| formats | Photographs Reproductions Microfilm Artist Files |
| access | Contact Ilaria Della Monica the archivist at the Berenson Library for restrictions and appointments. |
| record link | http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/advancedsearch?_collection=via |
| record source | http://itatti.harvard.edu/ |
| finding aid | Currently, there is no catalog of the photographs at Villa I Tatti. In some cases, Artist Files, can be found school (i.e. Venetian, Lombard, Northern Italy, Central Italy, etc. . .) and some are cataloged in Harvard's online catalog, HOLLIS. |
| acquisition information | Originally formed by Bernard Berenson the Library continues to add to the file. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:10 |
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