Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice), 1866-1941
| title | Albert M. Bender papers, 1909-1941. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Single letters from Joseph Danysh, Maynard Dixon, Julia Morgan, and Georgia O'Keeffe; letters from Gelett Burgess, Judah Leon and Beatrice L. Magnes, Roi and Marian Partridge, Ralph Stackpole, Dorothy Wright Liebes, Oliver St. John Gogarty, and Ansel and Virginia Adams; correspondence with John Henry Nash; letters from Consuela Kanaga and her husband Barry McCarthy and an album of her photos of Africa; correspondence with Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano and Virginia Bufano, and financial and printed material; correspondence with Diego and Frieda Kahlo Rivera, customs declarations, and photos; correspondence with Joseph and Johanna Raphael, photos, and miscellany; and letters from Anne Bremer, biographical material, writings, photos, sketches, and printed material. Originals in Mills College Library, Oakland, California. |
| extent | 675 items (on 2 microfilm reels). reels 2293 and 2294 |
| formats | Financial Records Printed Materials Correspondence Photographs Sketches |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/albert-m-bender-papers-9895 |
| acquisition information | Microfilmed with other art-related papers in Mills College Library, July 1981. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:28 |
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| title | Maurice Sterne papers, 1912-1963. |
| repository | Yale University Library |
| description | The Maurice Sterne Papers consist of the correspondence, manuscripts, sketches, photographs, and miscellaneous papers of Russian-born painter-sculptor Maurice Sterne. The papers span the years 1915 to 1963, with the bulk of Sterne's writings and correspondence coming in the last decade of his life. The collection was presented to The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 1965 by the estate of Sterne's wife, Vera Segal Sterne. The collection consists of six series: I. Correspondence (Boxes 1-4), II.Writings (Boxes 5-16), III.Family Papers (Boxes 17-21), IV. Photographs (Boxes 22-24), V.Printed Material (Boxes 25-27), and VI. Other Papers (Box 28). Oversize material is housed in Boxes 29-31. Bio/History: Maurice Sterne, Russian-born artist and sculptor, was noted for his series of paintings on Bali and was commissioned to execute a series of large murals for the Justice Department Building in Washington. Location: BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) Call Number: YCAL MSS 39 |
| extent | 16.75 Linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Manuscript Sketches Photographs Ephemera |
| access | This collection is open for research. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.msterne |
| record source | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3450904 |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid in repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift of the Estate of Vera Segal Sterne, 1965. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:29 |
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| title | Albert M. Bender Papers, 1920-1941 |
| repository | Mills College |
| description | The archive consists mainly of correspondence to Albert M. Bender; generally there are no carbons or copies of his letters. Correspondence to Bender arranged alphabetically by sender. Many of the letters he received simply acknowledge gifts or services rendered; others, however are significant in content and quantity, e.g., those from Mary Austin, Witter Bynner, Ina Coolbrith, Una Jeffers, Edwin Markham, Alfredo Ramos-Martinez, Joseph and Johanna, Raphael, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, Ella Winter, Charles Erskine Wood, William Butler Yeats and various members of the Yeats family, and many others. Biographical Note Albert M. Bender was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1866 and died in San Francisco, California in 1941. He came to San Francisco when he was sixteen and started out as an errand boy in the insurance business. Bender was an insurance broker by profession, a patron of the arts, and trustee of Mills College. He was so widely known and respected that a letter addressed simply "Saint Albert of San Francisco" once reached him through the U.S. Mail. He had friends of distinguished reputation throughout California and indeed throughout the world. |
| extent | 5,350 items in 10 Hollinger Boxes. |
| formats | Correspondence Ephemera Photographs |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers |
| record source | http://library.mills.edu/ |
| finding aid | Online and in repository. |
| acquisition information | Albert M. Bender Estate. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:33 |
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| title | Edward Bruce papers, 1902-1960 (bulk 1932-1942). |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The Edward Bruce papers measure 8.5 linear feet and date from 1902 to 1960, with the bulk of the material dating from 1932 to 1942. The collection documents Bruce's work as an artist and art administrator, primarily during the period of his tenure as director of the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts. The collection includes extensive correspondence to and from many notable artists and government officials, as well as biographical material, writings, financial material, printed material, scrapbooks, and photographs. Biographical material includes birth records and many awards and certificates. Correspondence contains hundreds of letters to and from family and friends, including art critic Leo Stein and artist Maurice Sterne, in addition to correspondence with art organizations, museums, galleries and artists such as George Biddle, Adrian Dornbush and Olin Dows. Bruce's career as director of the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts is documented in business correspondence that records his relationships with colleagues at the Section and other government officials, and his role on various committees, including the Commission of Fine Arts. Extensive correspondence with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt concerning public art projects can also be found here. Writings include diaries and notebooks containing notes, addresses, lists for Section of Fine Arts projects, and dated entries on Bruce's government and political work. Also found are numerous written speeches that Bruce gave at public events on the importance of art, public art projects, and political issues. Financial material consists of a small number of personal financial records. Printed material documents Edward Bruce's career as an artist through news clippings, magazine articles, and exhibition catalogs. Brochures, bulletins from the Section of Fine Arts, published speeches and various miscellaneous publications provide additional documentation of other art and government affairs. Scrapbooks in this collection include significant news clippings, letters, photographs, and other printed material, which highlight Bruce's career. Photographs include both personal photographs and photographs of Bruce's artwork. Personal photographs include portraits of Bruce, and are also of friends of the Bruces and many special events, including an NBC radio broadcast and an exhibition attended by Eleanor Roosevelt. Other items include photographs taken by Bruce during his travels, and while living in Anticoli Carrado, Italy. Bio / His Notes: Painter, businessman, and art director; Washington, D.C. Bruce directed the Public Works of Art Project, Dec. 1933 - June 1934. Chief of the Section of Painting and Sculpture (later the Section of Fine Arts), a program in the Treasury Department and later reorganized under the Public Buildings Administration of the Federal Works Agency, established to administer the decoration of public buildings. |
| extent | 8.5 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 12 reels) reels D82-D92 and 1817 |
| formats | Correspondence Financial Records Diaries Photographs Clippings |
| access | Reels D82-D92: Microfilm inventory available at AAA offices. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.brucedwa.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/edward-bruce-papers-7264 |
| finding aid | Reels D82-D92: Microfilm inventory available at AAA offices. |
| acquisition information | Papers on reels D82-D92 and 1817 donted by Mrs. Edward Bruce in 1962. Unmicrofilmed materials donated 1979 by Maria Ealand, the Bruce's niece. The photograph on reel 1817 was received with the papers but microfilmed in 1980 as part of AAA's Photographs of Artists-Collection II. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:33 |
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| title | Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1927 |
| repository | University of Pennsylvania |
| description | Archival/Manuscript Material Contained in: Theodore Dreiser Papers, ca. 1890-1965. Folder 484. Notes: Comprises 4 items to Dreiser. Location: Rare Book & Ms Library Manuscripts Call Number: Ms. Coll. 30 |
| extent | 4 items (6 leaves). |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | The Theodore Dreiser Papers may be examined by researchers in the reading room of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. Permission to quote from and to publish unpublished materials must be requested in writing from the Curator of Manuscripts. |
| record source | http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Gifts with some additional purchases, received: 1942 through 1991. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:34 |
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| title | Albert M. Bender Papers, 1871-1948 (M0025) |
| repository | Stanford University Libraries |
| description | Includes correspondence, poems, miscellaneous printed material, autographs and a cassette tape. Correspondents include Clara (Clemens) Gabrilowitsch, Una Jeffers, Herbert Klein, Edwin Markham, John O'Shea and Alfred Edward Newton. Biography Albert Maurice Bender was a book and art collector, philanthropist, and civic leader of San Francisco. Preferred Citation: [Identification of item] Albert M. Bender Papers, M0025, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. |
| extent | .5 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Writings Printed Materials Sound Recording |
| access | None |
| record link | http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/xml/m0025.xml |
| record source | http://jenson.stanford.edu |
| finding aid | Unpublished guide available in Special Collections Reading Room and online. |
| acquisition information | Gift of Francis P. Farquhar, 1960, Herbert Arthur Klein, 1979, and Mills College, 1987. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:38 |
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| title | Augusta Fink Papers, 1887-1989 (MSS 611 BC) |
| repository | University of New Mexico, University Libraries |
| description | The Augusta Fink papers consists of research notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and interviews, used by Fink in her work on two of her books, the biography of Mary Austin, I-Mary, and her book on the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, the presence of the past. The letters in Series I (boxes 1 & 2), addressed to and written by Mary Austin, are copies from the collection of Mary Austin papers in the Huntington Library. Included are letters from Albert Bender and members of Austin's family. Copies of Ina Sizer Cassidy's reminiscences about Mary Austin are included. Other materials in this series include the manuscript of I-Mary, the texts of some of Austin's early works, and a children's play by Mary Austin. Notes from interviews with people who knew Mary Austin, as well as transcripts of two audio taped interviews about Austin are also in this series. Series II (boxes 3 & 4), contains Fink's research notes on the history of Monterey County and newspaper articles from the Monterey Peninsula herald. In addition, there are scattered issues of the Noticias del puerto de Monterey: quarterly bulletin of historic Monterey, issued by the Monterey History and Art Association. Series III, reel-to-reel tapes of interviews conducted by Augusta Fink for her research on the Mary Austin and Monterey books, are in box 5. Included are interviews with Ansel and Virginia Adams. Boxes 6-9 hold Series IV, Fink's note cards used in her research on Mary Austin. Bio/History: Writer. Born in New York City in 1916. In 1939 received M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Received the Silver Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California in 1972 for Monterey, the presence of the past. In 1982 she received the award of Merit from the California Historical Society for outstanding contributions to California history. In 1983 wrote I-Mary, a biography of Mary Austin. Notes: Photographs housed in Photoarchives; accession #000-611; 58 photographic prints. Related collections at the Center for Southwest Research: T.M. Pearce Papers, Mary Hunter Austin Papers, and Peggy Pond Church Papers. |
| extent | 9 boxes (4.85 cu. ft.) |
| formats | Notes Correspondence Clippings Interviews Manuscript |
| access | Audiotapes may require up to 1 week for reformatting before access is provided. |
| record link | http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmu1mss611bc.xml |
| finding aid | In repository and on repository's Web site. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:38 |
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| title | Papers of C. E. S. Wood, 1829-1980 (bulk 1870-1940). |
| repository | The Huntington Library |
| description | The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents, diaries, sketches, photographs and scrapbooks related to the lives of Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field. Represented in the collection are materials about William Maxwell Wood (1809-1880), C.E.S. Wood's father; papers from C.E.S. Wood's army career, including materials from West Point, Alaska, and the Indian campaigns in the Pacific Northwest; C.E.S. Wood's activities in the development of eastern Oregon (note: there are no papers belonging to Wood's law office); Sara Bard Field's reports on the McNamara case, her life in San Francisco and her associations with journalists, labor leaders, Soviet sympathizers, pacifists, and artists; materials related to Sara Bard Field's work for woman suffrage and women's rights; and C.E.S. Wood and Sara Bard Field Wood's cultural circle, including letters from other writers, critics, publishers, social reformers, artists, sculptors, theatrical figures and musicians. Persons represented in the collection include: Charles Altschul, Roger Nash Baldwin, Alva Belmont, Albert M. Bender, William Rose Benét, Henriette de S. Blanding, Alfred Brennan, Maurice Browne, George De Forest Brush, Beniamino Bufano, Witter Bynner, Bennett Cerf, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Clarence Darrow, Kenneth Durant, Max Eastman, Gilson Gardner, Inez Haynes Gillmore, William Hanley, Walter Morris Hart, Childe Hassam, Nan Wood Honeyman, O.O. Howard, Robinson Jeffers, Willard Maas, Alexander Meiklejohn, Eugene Meyer, Josephine Miles, Harriet Monroe, Richard L. Neuberger, Frederick O'Brien, Mrs. Fremont Older, Fremont Older, Lemuel Parton, Alice Paul, Lute Pease, Louis Freeland Post, John Cowper Powys, Llewelyn Powys, Alexander Phimister Proctor, John W. Redington, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Muriel Rukeyser, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Theodore Spiering, Lincoln Steffens, Walter Steilberg, Doris Stevens, Genevieve Taggard, Mark Van Doren, Mabel Vernon, Langdon Warner, Olin Levi Warner, Julian Alden Weir, Marie de L. Welch, George P. West, Frances G. Wickes, Ella Winter, Emma Wold, Erskine Wood, Art Young, Ella Young. Bio/History: Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was a U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and author. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1874, he became an aide to General O.O. Howard in 1877, serving with him in the Pacific Northwest during the Bannock and Paiute and Nez Percé Indian wars. He later attended Columbia University, obtained his law degrees, and established a practice of maritime and corporation law in Portland, Oregon. In addition to his successful law practice, Wood painted, wrote, and was a champion of social justice. Along with Sara Bard Field (1882-1974), whom he later married, Wood was an active supporter of liberal causes and became the center of an artistic and literary circle in the San Francisco area. Wood's publications include The poet in the desert (1915) and Heavenly discourse (1927), as well as various articles for the Pacific monthly and Century magazines. Associated materials: Also available in the Manuscripts Department of the Huntington Library is an addenda to the Papers of C. E. S. Wood, which spans the dates 1897-1970. |
| extent | Approximately 30,000 pieces. 312 boxes. 4 oversize folders. 2 rolls. |
| formats | Correspondence Manuscript Diaries Sketches Photographs |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://catalog.huntington.org |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid available in repository. |
| acquisition information | mssWD Boxes 1-312 |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:38 |
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