| title | Merle Armitage Collection 1919-1971 |
repository | University of California, Los Angeles |
| description | This collection contains correspondence, printed ephemera, articles, book designs, announcements, and other materials written by and about and designed by Merle Armitage. Most items relate to book design and the performing arts. |
| extent | 3 boxes (2.7 linear feet) |
| access | Collection is open for research. |
| record link | https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5s2036b1/entire_text/ |
| record source | https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5s2036b1/admin/ |
| finding aid | https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5s2036b1/entire_text/ |
| acquisition information | The provenance for this collection is not clear, though items may have been collected by the Clark Library over time. Some items were donated by Merle Armitage and Ward Ritchie. If a donor is known, their name is listed in the note associated with the item. |
| updated | 09/07/2023 14:46:56 |
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| title | Merle Armitage papers, 1930-1974 |
repository | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections |
| description | The collection contains an assortment of correspondence, books, some published by his Manzanita Press, typescripts of books and short stories, advertisements, illustrations, clippings, photographs and photographic plates, articles, speeches, catalogs, and miscellaneous original art work. |
| extent | 6 linear feet |
| access | n/a |
| record link | http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/uoa/UAMS234.xml |
| record source | http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/uoa/UAMS234.xml |
| finding aid | http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/uoa/UAMS234.xml |
| acquisition information | n/a |
| updated | 09/07/2023 14:51:49 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Merle Armitage, 1964 February 6 |
repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Merle Armitage conducted 1964 February 6, by Sylvia Loomis, for the Archives of American Art.
Armitage speaks of his role as Public Works of Art Project regional chairman of Southern California, including his supervision of 126 artists involved in painting, drawing, sculpture, lithography and mural projects; experimental work in PWAP easel painting projects; censorship of subject matter in a mural for the Frank Wiggins Trade School; his opposition to government subsidized art programs; his impressions of Edward Bruce, Dalzell Hatfield, James Milford Zornes, and others associated with the PWAP. Armitage also speaks of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and contemporary book design. |
| extent | 23 Pages, Transcript |
| access | n/a |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_213231 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-merle-armitage-13189 |
| finding aid | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_213231 |
| acquisition information | This interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s. |
| updated | 09/07/2023 14:53:08 |
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| title | Merle Armitage Papers |
repository | The University of Iowa |
| description | The papers of Merle Armitage consist of 2.5 linear feet of manuscripts, dating from 1932 - 1964. Arranged alphabetically, the subject files include typescripts and galley proofs for such works as Accent on Life and George Gershwin: Man and Legend. There are also biographical materials, book and exhibition catalogs containing Armitage items, photographs, scrapbooks, and documents related to his military service. The correspondence folders date from 1933 to 1964 and include letters from Lucius Beebe and Gardner Cowles. The University of Arizona at Tucson also has six linear feet of Armitage material, dating from 1947 to 1964. However, the largest gathering of his papers may be found at the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. |
| extent | 2.50 Linear Feet |
| access | This collection is open for research. |
| record link | http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/resources/527 |
| record source | http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/resources/527 |
| finding aid | This collection was donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by Merle Armitage from 1962-1966. |
| acquisition information | This collection was donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by Merle Armitage from 1962-1966. |
| updated | 09/07/2023 14:55:43 |
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| title | Kellogg-Dickie papers |
repository | Yale University Library |
| description | The Kellogg-Dickie Papers document the civilian relief work done by Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg during and after World War I. They also relate to Charlotte Kellogg's research in connection with her books on Belgium and Poland. The papers include awards and newspaper clippings in connection with Belgian and Polish honors bestowed on the Kelloggs for their relief work. The Kellogg's major correspondents include Herbert Hoover, Ignace Jan Paderewski, and William Allen White. Additional correspondence and writings document the personal life and artistic career of Jean Kellogg Dickie. Her correspondents include Merle Armitage, a book designer and agent, who worked with James Dickie, and Robinson Jeffers, for whose book Jean Dickie created etchings. |
| extent | 5.25 Linear Feet |
| access | The materials are open for research. |
| record link | https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/3113/collection_organization |
| record source | https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/3113 |
| finding aid | https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/3113/collection_organization |
| acquisition information | Gift of Jean Kellogg Dickie, 1970-1985; transfer from Acquisitions Dept., 2000. |
| updated | 09/07/2023 14:57:59 |
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| title | Bruce Rogers collection |
repository | Yale University Library |
| description | The collection contains letters to and from Bruce Rogers, four compositions by Rogers, and two writings about Rogers. The correspondents include the artists Valenti Angelo and Rudolph Ruzicka, author Alfred W. Pollard, printers and publishers Emily E. Connor, Geoffrey Cumberlege, and Stone and Kimball, and various collectors and friends including Alfred and Florence Howell and H. M. Marvin, Rogers' friend and physician. Writings include two speeches,
one poem, and one essay by Rogers, a master's thesis on Rogers by Georgia Mansbridge, and a brief memoir by H. M. Marvin. |
| extent | 0.42 Linear Feet (1 box) |
| access | This collection is open for research. |
| record link | https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/859/collection_organization |
| record source | https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.rogers |
| finding aid | https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/859/collection_organization |
| acquisition information | `Gifts of H. M. Marvin, 1961 and 1966. Gift of Georgia Mansbridge, 1965. Purchased from Howard S. Mott, Inc., on the Naphtali Daggett Fund, 1995. |
| updated | 09/07/2023 14:59:44 |
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| title | Beaumont and Nancy Newhall papers |
repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | The archive documents the work of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, two key figures in the history of photography, through correspondence, extensive research files, published and unpublished writings, and photographs, slides and audiotapes. Beaumont Newhall's papers (136 lin. ft.) date from ca. 1843-1993, Nancy Newhall's papers (14 lin. ft.) date from ca. 1920-1989. |
| extent | 150 Linear Feet (268 boxes, 3 flat file folders) |
| record link | https://www.getty.edu/research/collections/static/pdf/920060.pdf |
| record source | https://www.getty.edu/research/collections/collection/113YBJ?tab=about |
| finding aid | https://www.getty.edu/research/collections/static/pdf/920060.pdf |
| acquisition information | This collection was acquired in 1992, and supplements were received in 1993 and 1996. Additional material was moved into the collection from Special Collection Accession nos. 920082, 940082, 930036, and 93.R.23. |
| updated | 09/07/2023 15:04:01 |
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