Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Harkness, Mary Emma Stillman, 1874-1950
| title | Edward S. and Mary Stillman Harkness collection, ca. 1400-1945. (MssCol 1318) | repository | New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division |
| description | Collection consists of holograph manuscripts, autograph letters, documents, and signatures representing artists and literary and historical figures. Includes 15th-century illuminated Book of Hours and letters and documents of all American presidents from Washington to Franklin D. Roosevelt, except for Herbert Hoover. Items are accompanied by typed transcripts, portrait photographs and illustrations, and related letters, clippings and other materials. Persons represented include Shirley Brooks, Frances H. Burnett, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Crane, George Cruikshank, General Henry Dearborn, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Louise, Empress of France, Mary, Queen of Scots, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, John Ruskin, William M. Thackery, Henry D. Thoreau, Samuel Clemens, George Washington, John G. Whittier, and Captain Isaac Woods. Note Edward Stephen Harkness (1874-1940) was a trustee of the New York Public Library. His wife and co-collector, Mary Stillman Harkness, died in 1950. |
| extent | 3.3 linear feet (29 v.). |
| formats | Correspondence Manuscript |
| access | Apply in Special Collections Office for admission to the Manuscripts and Archives Division. |
| record link | http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/harknesse.pdf |
| record source | http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b12358322~S1 |
| finding aid | Collection guide available in repository and on internet: http://catnyp.nypl.org/search?/.b3848724/.b3848724/1,1,1,B/l856~b3848724&FF=&1,0,,1,0 |
| acquisition information | June and. Octoker, 1950. received from Edward S. and Mary Stillman Iiarkness |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:51 |
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| title | Harkness Memorial State Park 1983-1990. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The folder includes worksheets, a park brochure, an article about the garden and its restoration, information about the estate's greenhouses, and photocopies of correspondence. General Note: Harkness Memorial State Park focuses around "Eolia," the 200+ acre summer home of Edward S. and Mary Harkness. Built in 1906 and purchased by the Harknesses in 1907, the Roman Renaissance Revival-style mansion is complemented by an Italianate garden (also known as the West Garden) originally designed by the Boston firm of Brett & Hall. From about 1918 to the 1930s noted landscape architect Beatrix Jones Farrand transformed a tennis court into an Oriental garden (also known as the East Garden) to showcase the owners' collection of Chinese and Korean statuary. She also replanted the Italianate garden. When Mrs. Harkness died in 1950, the property was left to the State of Connecticut, which established it as a state park in 1952. An extensive renovation of the mansion and gardens began in 1996. Hardscaping, including four fountains and fencing, was restored or re-built to be compatible with the original specifications of the Brett & Hall and Farrand plans. Gardens were restored to their original planting designs with shrubs, trees, perennials and annuals. Persons and firms associated with the garden include: Edward S. and Mary Harkness (former owners, 1907-1950); Brett & Hall (landscape architects, ca. 1910); and Beatrix Jones Farrand (landscape architect, 1918-1930s). |
| extent | 1 folder+ 13 35 mm. slides. |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Access to original images by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. |
| record link | http://siris-archives.si.edu |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:52 |
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| title | Mary Ritter Beard Papers, 1935-1958 | repository | Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute |
| description | This collection consists largely of correspondence regarding the attempt to establish the World Center for Women's Archives. Letters to and from MRB and others (see index) concern endorsements by organizations and individuals, financial support, donations of papers, projects for the archives, and research inquiries. Also included are letters to MRB by Mary Milbank Brown re: matriarchy, 1948-1951, and typescripts by MMB, n.d.; articles and speeches by MRB and others; newsletters from interested organizations; and clippings about accomplishments of women. It is not known whether folder headings are those of the donor. Information added by the processors is in square brackets. |
| extent | 2 file boxes |
| formats | Correspondence Clippings Ephemera |
| access | The Schlesinger Library is open to all, no academic affiliation is required. Readers younger than 16 years old are welcome to use library materials when accompanied by an adult, or by prior arrangement. |
| record link | http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/findingAidDisplay?_collection=oasis&inoid=3244&histno=1 |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| finding aid | Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00440 Unpublished finding aid; see also Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library..., The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs...10v., (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984) |
| acquisition information | The papers of Mary Ritter Beard were given to the Schlesinger Library by MRB in 1951, and by her grandson, Detlev Vagts, in 1988. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:52 |
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| title | Notable American women, 1607-1950. Records, 1958-1973 | repository | Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute |
| description | Correspondence, drafts, research notes, etc., documenting the preparation of the first three volumes of Notable American Women, a biographical dictionary of American women. Historical Note This collection documents the preparation of the first three volumes of NAW, edited by Edward T. James, Janet W. James, and Paul S. Boyer. It contains samples of the forms used by the editorial staff, consultants, and authors of biographical articles; lists of staff members; correspondence with authors, groups, and various institutions about research for NAW; lists of possible subjects (and, in many cases, short bio-bibliographies about them); research notes; and drafts, with corrections, of the articles included in NAW. The lists of subjects include women of the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries who were considered noteworthy, but most of whom were not ultimately included in the published work. |
| extent | 32.75 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Notes Printed Materials |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00831 |
| record source | oasis.lib.harvard.edu |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid; see also Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library..., The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs...10v., (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984). |
| acquisition information | Accession numbers: 1655, 76-239, 86-M103 The records of Notable American women were given to the Schlesinger Library in August 1969 and July 1976 by Janet Wilson James, and in June 1986 by Mary Tolford Wilson. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:55 |
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