Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Holman, Louis A. (Louis Arthur), 1866-1939
| title | Louis A. Holman papers and Holman's Print Shop records, ca. 1870-1977. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters, writings, a scrapbook, printed material, and files on printmakers documenting Holman's career as a Boston print dealer at Goodspeed's Book Shop and the Holman Print Shop. Included are correspondence with customers, publishers, family, museums, galleries, and others concerning Holman's business and expertise in the field of prints, ca. 1890-1941; a typescript "What Does a Print Seller Look for in a Print?"; a scrapbook of clippings about the Holman Print Shop, 1931-1937; clippings; advertisements; and exhibition announcements and catalogs. Also included are artist/subject files containing letters and printed materials on Joseph Andrews, Timothy Cole, John Sanderson Datziel, Arthur Heintzelman and the book Old Maps and Their Makers. Included in the Andrews file is a ledger book, ca. 1851-1869, with clippings on his "Plymouth Rock." The Cole file has letters from and about Cole, cancelled checks, biographical sketches, notes, lists of works, clippings, reproductions of work, a bookplate designed by Cole, and photographs of Cole. ADDITION: Biographical material; memorabilia; diaries, 1925-1938, detailing the running of a print dealership; notes, writings, and lectures; business and financial records, among them guestbooks kept by Holman's Print Shop from its founding until its closing, recording signatures, remarks, and several caricatures from noted artists and collectors; printed material; Richard Holman's research file on John Foster's "A Map of New-England," including correspondence with several noted mid-20th century authorities on American printing and printmaking history, in particular Ray Nash; and photographs. |
| extent | 1.3 linear ft. Addition: 1.4 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Scrapbooks Financial Records Clippings Exhibition Catalogs |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/louis-holman-papers-and-holmans-print-shop-records-8138 |
| acquisition information | Donated 1991 and 1997 by William Greenbaum, a print dealer. According to Greenbaum, other business records of Holman's Print Shop may have been discarded. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:28 |
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| title | Louis Arthur Holman Notebooks on Keats (MS Am 800.48). |
| repository | Houghton Library |
| description | Includes notebooks, notes, magazine articles, clippings, and some correspondence reflecting Holman's lifetime of research on John Keats and collecting Keatsiana. History notes : Holman was an American artist, writer, and print-seller and an authority on John Keats. |
| extent | 29 boxes. |
| formats | Notes Clippings Notebooks Scrapbooks |
| access | For access to related Fred Holland Day material, consult manuscript card catalogue in the Houghton Library or Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, published by Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. |
| bibliography | Some of the letters in this collection have been summarized in: Hyder E. Rollins, "Louis Arthur Holman and Keats," Harvard Library Bulletin, |c 4(Autumn 1950), 374-391. |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| finding aid | Unprocessed. Unpublished finding aids available in repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 1940. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:31 |
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| title | Fred Holland Day Correspondence Relating to John Keats (MS Am 800.14). |
| repository | Houghton Library |
| description | Chiefly letters to Day relating to his research on Keats’s life (1872-1894), and letters and records of the fund raising campaign for the Keats memorial. Includes letters from Louise Imogen Guiney, who worked on the campaign with Day. Also includes 40 typescript letters to and from Amy Lowell (1921-1925) and letters from Louis Arthur Holman. Includes letters from subscribers to the Keats memorial in Hampstead Church, 1890-1896, History notes : Fred Holland Day was an American publisher, "art" photographer, and leader of the aesthetic movement in fin-de-siècle Boston. Day was an enthusiastic collector of John Keats and he led the campaign which resulted in the first memorial to Keats being placed in Hampstead Church in 1894. |
| extent | 3 boxes. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | For access to related Fred Holland Day material, consult manuscript card catalogue in the Houghton Library or Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, published by Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. |
| bibliography | Many of the letters have been calendared in: Hyder E. Rollins, "F. H. Day and Keats’s Biography," Harvard Library Bulletin 4(Spring 1950), 239-253. |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:31 |
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| title | Harry Lyman Koopman Collection. Letter, 1918, April 12, Needham, Mass., to Philip D. Sherman, Oberlin, Ohio. |
| repository | Brown University, John Hay Archives |
| description | Discusses his collection of "Keatsiana" which he has just sent to Oberlin for an exhibition. |
| extent | 1 item (7 l.). |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | http://library.brown.edu/record=b2497990 |
| record source | http://firstsearch.oclc.org |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:31 |
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