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Archives related to: Platt, Dan Fellows, 1873-1938
| title | Dan Fellows Platt papers, 1914-1963 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence and publications reflecting the collecting activities of Platt. Correspondents include Bernard Berenson, Philip Hofer, Frank J. Mather, Richard Offner, John Singer Sargent, and others. Bio / His Notes: Art collector and author; Englewood, N.J. |
| extent | 209 items (on partial microfilm reel) reel D316 |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/dan-fellows-platt-papers-8379 |
| acquisition information | Lent for microfilming 1967 by Platt's widow. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:12 |
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| title | Dan Fellows Platt Papers ©2007 Princeton University Library | repository | Princeton University |
| description | Consists of personal papers of Platt. Included are letters from Sbyl Colefax, Richard Offner, James F. Fielder, Harold W. Dodds, Bernard Berenson, Philip Hofer, Walter Lowrie, Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., Edward Hutton, Woodrow Wilson, Mary Chamberlin Fellows (Platt’s grandmother), and his parents, Charles and Lillian Platt. Also included are a few student writings by Platt, with an essay on his impressions of Woodrow Wilson, certificates and awards, photographs, Princeton and family memorabilia, genealogical notes, clippings, a file of correspondence (1938-1971) of Platt’s wife, Ethel Bliss Platt, her manuscript catalog of Platt’s art collection, miscellaneous papers concerning the art historian F. Mason Perkins for whom Platt acted as investment counselor, and travel journals (1888-1937). Location: Rare Books: Manuscripts Collection (MSS) Call number: C0860 |
| extent | 2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Ephemera Writings Clippings Diaries |
| access | Collection is open for research use. |
| record link | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/08612n556 |
| record source | http://catalog.princeton.edu |
| finding aid | Online and in repository. Finding Aid Published in 2002, ©2007 Princeton University Library |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:54 |
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| title | William Rankin correspondence, 1881-1958 (bulk 1905-1940) ©2007 Princeton University Library | repository | Princeton University |
| description | Consists of correspondence of Rankin. Included are letters to Rankin and, mostly retained copies or drafts, of letters by Rankin, with such correspondents as Edith R. Abbot, Bernard Berenson, Frank Jewett Mather, F. Mason Perkins, Dan Fellows Platt, Alice Van Vechten Brown, Arnold Guyot Cameron, Augusto F. Jaccaci, Walter Lowrie, Alexander Webster, Allan Marquand, and Frederic Fairchild Sherman. Also included are a typescript of "Memories of Princeton College," notes by Rankin on "Italian Pictures in Mrs. Gardiner’s Collection," and family correspondence (1902-1958). Biographical/Historical note: Rankin (Princeton Class of 1886) was an art historian, specializing in Italian art, and was co-author, with Alice Van Vechten Brown, of A SHORT HISTORY OF ITALIAN PAINTING (1914). Location: Rare Books: Manuscripts Collection (MSS) Call number: C0876 |
| extent | 1.0 linear ft. (2 archival boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qr46r083b |
| record source | http://catalog.princeton.edu |
| finding aid | Folder list online and in repository. Finding Aid Published in 2002, ©2007 Princeton University Library |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:54 |
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| title | Platt albums, 1910-1938. | repository | Princeton University |
| description | Consists of Platt’s albums. 720 volumes (more than 750,000 images) of photographs were gathered by Dan Fellows Platt over the first 30 years of the 20th century and donated to the Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology in 1937/38. The volumes contain photographs and clipped reproductions covering the entire history of art, with special emphasis on painting from the 14th through the 19th centuries. Some original works of art (etchings, woodcuts) are also included in the albums. Biographical and Historical Note: Dan Fellows Platt was a member of the Princeton Class of 1895, became an archaeologist, collector and critic of Italian art, was a former mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, and chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University. Notes: Boxes for the following volumes 360, 366-368, 370, 374, 375, 377 are stored at Marquand Library. Location: RECAP: Marquand Lib. use only. Use recap button to request Call number: Oversize N7520 .P6q |
| extent | ca. 300 linear ft. (720 albums) |
| formats | Photograph Album Clippings Etchings Woodcuts |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://catalog.princeton.edu |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:00 |
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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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