Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Lewis, Samella S.
| title | Samella S. Lewis papers |
| repository | Emory University |
| description | Papers of Samella S. Lewis, an African American artist and educator, including artwork, writings, correspondence, printed material, subject files, photographs, and audiovisual and born digital material. |
| extent | 54.25 linear feet (80 boxes) 5 oversized papers boxe, 1 oversized papers folder (OP), 2 bound volumes (BV), AV Masters: 3.5 linear feet (4 boxes), AV Masters: 5.625 linear feet (6 boxes),and 228 MB born digital material (27 files) |
| access | Special restrictions apply: Researchers must contact the Rose Library in advance for access to audiovisual material in this collection. Series 4: Access to processed born digital materials is only available in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (the Rose Library). Use of the original digital media is restricted. |
| record link | https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/lewis1132/ |
| record source | http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zk27 |
| acquisition information | Purchase, 2010, with subsequent additions. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:54 |
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| title | Lev T. Mills papers |
| repository | Emory University |
| description | The collection consists of the papers of Lev T. Mills from 1955-2015, including awards and plaques, binders, portfolios, and a photograph album. The awards and plaques are primarily for achievement in teaching. Binders contain correspondence, exhibit and price lists, receipts for purchases of Mills' artwork, and a small amount of printed material relating to exhibitions. Correspondence includes letters to or from Mills' wife Joyce, Elizabeth Catlett, Benny Andrews, Maya Angelou, Andrew Young, Jessie Hill, Samella Lewis, Romare Bearden, Hale Woodruff, Coretta Scott King, and David Driskell. There is not a significant volume of correspondence from any one individual. There is also correspondence with galleries and universities, especially memoranda relating to Mills' career as a professor at Spelman College. Portfolios primarily contain printed and promotional material, including fliers and programs advertising Mills' exhibitions, exhibition catalogs, and clippings about Mills. The portfolios also contain numerous photographs of Mills teaching, creating artwork, and attending events. The photograph album documents some of Mills' international exhibitions in the early 1970s and contains both photographs and promotional material. |
| extent | 2 linear feet (3 boxes) and 3 oversized papers boxes (OP) |
| access | Unrestricted access. |
| record link | https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/mills1406/ |
| record source | http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/s3r08 |
| acquisition information | Purchased from Lev T. Mills, 2017. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:54 |
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| title | African-American artists of Los Angeles : Samella Lewis |
| repository | Duke University |
| description | interviewed by Karen Anne Mason. Creator Main A: Lewis, Samella S. Imprint Main A: c1995. Resource Type A:Archival and manuscript material, Book |
| extent | 1 volume |
| access | n/a |
| record link | https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE003465215 |
| finding aid | n/a |
| acquisition information | n/a |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:54 |
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| title | Elizabeth Catlett papers. 1959-1984. |
| repository | Tulane University |
| description | American-born Mexican artist known for sculpture and printmaking. Items in the personal papers include correspondence clippings, exhibition catalogs, posters, and a film THE WORK OF ELIZABETH CATLETT. Audiocassette tapes contain interviews with Catlett and her husband conducted by Clifton H. Johnson. Biographical data is included among the items and photographs. Names include Margaret Walker Alexander, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Crystal Britton, Celestine Cook, Angela Davis, David Driskell, Vincent Harding, Samella Lewis, Ernest N. Morial, Mildred Sanders, and Joyce Thigpen. Even though the papers relate primarily to the career of the artist and art teacher, items pertaining to family members and generated by them are also included. Both her husband and a son are visual artists. The papers of Elizabeth Catlett, sculptor, graphic artist, teacher, and political activist, consist of correspondence, audiotape cassettes, biographical data, news clippings, notes, photographs, exhibition catalogs, posters, writings, and a reel-to-reel film. The papers have been arranged into three general groups: correspondence, non-correspondence and oversized items, and is arranged alphabetically according to topic and chronologically within each file unit. Non-correspondence includes photographs, Catlett's writings, biographical information, exhibition catalogs, and other collected material. Oversized materials consist of posters and a reel-to-reel film entitled "The Works of Elizabeth Catlett." |
| extent | 1.60 linear ft |
| access | n/a |
| record link | https://library.search.tulane.edu/permalink/01TUL_INST/8mv5g5/alma9939447283806326 |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid in the repository. |
| acquisition information | n/a |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:54 |
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| title | Viktor Lowenfeld papers |
| repository | Penn State University |
| description | The Viktor Lowenfeld Papers date from 1880-1985 with the bulk of the collection dating from 1930 to 1955. Materials consist of artwork including photographs of sculptures from Austrian children--blind and sighted, visual and haptic, as well as children's artwork from American psychiatric hospitals, schools for the blind, public schools, and Penn State Saturday art classes. Adult student artwork, including works by Charles White, John Biggers, and Samella Lewis, comes from the Hampton Institute and Penn State. In addition, there are two clay sculptures, manuscripts for Creative and Mental Growth and other notes and writings, lectures, correspondence, photographs, digital audio recordings of lectures from 1958 (transcribed and published by John Michaels in 1982, as The Lowenfeld Lectures), biographical material, and personal items. |
| extent | 10.6 linear ft. |
| access | For information on accessing this collection please contact the Special Collections Research Services Unit at ul-spcolref@lists.psu.edu |
| record link | https://aspace.libraries.psu.edu/repositories/3/resources/10894 |
| record source | https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/7165710 |
| acquisition information | n/a |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:54 |
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