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Archives related to: Marie Harriman Gallery
| title | Marie Harriman Gallery exhibition catalogs and announcements 1932-1961. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Bio / His Notes: Art gallery, New York, N.Y.; operated by Marie Harriman from 1930 to 1942. Showed French painters from the School of Paris and Post-Impressionists School along with one American artist, Walt Kukn. Additional forms: 35mm microfilm roll 2813 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. |
| extent | 15 items (on partial microfilm reel). roll 2813 |
| formats | Exhibition Catalogs |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/marie-harriman-gallery-exhibition-catalogs-and-announcements-7663 |
| acquisition information | Donated by W. Averell Harriman, Marie Harriman's husband. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:17 |
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| title | La Salle Spier papers, 1929-1939. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters from Walt and Vera Kuhn; letters between Walt Kuhn and Duncan Phillips, and a letter to Kuhn from Thomas Hart Benton; a photograph of a painting by Kuhn and a photograph of a painting by Wyndham Lewis; clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements concerning Kuhn and various exhibitions at the Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, N.Y. Bio / His Notes: Deceased. Spier was the brother of Vera Kuhn, wife of the painter Walt Kuhn. |
| extent | 0.2 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Photographs Exhibition Catalogs Ephemera |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/lasalle-spier-papers-8715 |
| acquisition information | Virginia Mecklenburg of the National Museum of American Art received these papers from Spier, and then gave them to the Archives of American Art. |
| updated | 06/20/2023 16:37:03 |
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| title | Papers of W. Averell Harriman, (bulk 1895-1986). | repository | Library of Congress |
| description | Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, statements and writings, business records, political files, diplomatic accounts, family papers, architectural and mechanical drawings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers documenting Harriman’s career in business, finance, politics, and public service, particularly during the Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter presidential administrations. Major topics include the defeat of Germany in World War II, Soviet-American relations, Marshall Plan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Korean and Vietnamese wars, African independence movements, U.S. intervention in Latin America, arms negotiations, and the antinuclear movement. Family members represented include Mary Averell Harriman Fisk, E. Roland Harriman, Edward Henry Harriman, Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, Kathleen Lanier Harriman Mortimer, and Mary Harriman Rumsey. Other persons represented include Dean Acheson, Konrad Adenauer, Vincent Astor, C. R. Attlee, Mohammad Ayub Khan, Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aiken), Georges Bidault, Habib Bourguiba, Leonid Il’ich Brezhnev, James Francis Byrnes, Winston Churchill, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Richard Stafford Cripps, Wilhelm Cuno, John R. Deane, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin, Allen Welsh Dulles, Ira Eaker, Anthony Eden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Forrestal, Charles de Gaulle, Edward Heath, Richard Helms, Paul G. Hoffman, Cordell Hull, Robert F. Kennedy, Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin, Nikita Sergevich Khrushchev, Robert A. Lovett, Robert S. Lovett, Douglas MacArthur, Harold MacMillan, George C. Marshall, John Jay McCloy, Robert S. McNamara, Robert P. Meiklejohn, Robert Gordon Menzies, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov, Jean Monnet, Mohammad Mosaddeq, Jawaharlal Nehru, Georgi M. Pushkin, Dean Rusk, Robert Schuman, Souvanna Phouma, Paul-Henri Spaak, Joseph Stalin, Edward R. Stettinius, Herbert Bayard Swope, Josip Broz Tito, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Cyrus R. Vance, Sumner Welles, and Harold Wilson. Other topics include Palisades Interstate Park Commission, Business Advisory Council for the Dept. of Commerce, World War II missions to Moscow, the Casablanca and other wartime and postwar conferences, posts in the Truman administration as ambassador to Great Britain and to the Soviet Union, secretary of commerce, and director of the Mutual Security Agency, presidential campaigns of 1952, 1956, and 1960, Harriman’s campaign for and governorship of New York (1955-1959), and his 1983 trip to the Soviet Union. Includes business files on Georgian Manganese Company, Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, Russian Finance and Construction Corporation, the Sun Valley (Idaho) ski resort, Union Pacific Railroad Company, and W.A. Harriman & Company; memoirs Harriman coauthored with Elie Abel; and writings by Mark Lincoln Chadwin and Herbert Feis. Also included is an album documenting the Harriman Alaska Expedition, a scientific expedition to Alaska in 1899 undertaken by the Harriman family accompanied by John Muir and other scientists and naturalists. |
| extent | 526.3 linear feet |
| formats | Personal Papers Business Papers Writings Financial Papers Photographs |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003012 |
| record source | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003012 |
| finding aid | Finding aid published by the Library of Congress in 1991. Revised and expanded finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet. |
| acquisition information | Gift and deposit converted to gift, Pamela C. Harriman, Namirrah Corporation, and others, 1985-1991. Gift, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer and Mary Harriman Fisk, 1992. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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