Box 159
Container
Contains 38 Results:
Outline, notes and foreword. Ms, undated
File — Box: 159, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
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Kimball apparently intended to present his life as it related to what he considered noteworthy topics. In the draft foreword he humbly submits that his experiences of childhood, youth and manhood gave him opportunities to know certain people and events worthy of portraying. Although the outline filed with the foreword includes the names of individuals Kimball encountered as museum director, it also refers to other institutions with which he formed an earlier affiliation. The remaining files...
Dates:
undated
"'Scholars'--not needed." [Clippings re Porter, Arthur Kingsley], 1933
File — Box: 159, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Kimball apparently intended to present his life as it related to what he considered noteworthy topics. In the draft foreword he humbly submits that his experiences of childhood, youth and manhood gave him opportunities to know certain people and events worthy of portraying. Although the outline filed with the foreword includes the names of individuals Kimball encountered as museum director, it also refers to other institutions with which he formed an earlier affiliation. The remaining files...
Dates:
1933
"Harvard in Transition." [Undergraduate studies. 1905-1909.] Ms and Ts [later transcript], undated
File — Box: 159, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Kimball apparently intended to present his life as it related to what he considered noteworthy topics. In the draft foreword he humbly submits that his experiences of childhood, youth and manhood gave him opportunities to know certain people and events worthy of portraying. Although the outline filed with the foreword includes the names of individuals Kimball encountered as museum director, it also refers to other institutions with which he formed an earlier affiliation. The remaining files...
Dates:
undated
"Architecture at the Turn of the Century." Revised from "An Architectural Guinea Pig." [Harvard graduate studies and Sheldon Fellowship. 1909-1912]. Ms and Ts [later transcript], undated
File — Box: 159, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Kimball apparently intended to present his life as it related to what he considered noteworthy topics. In the draft foreword he humbly submits that his experiences of childhood, youth and manhood gave him opportunities to know certain people and events worthy of portraying. Although the outline filed with the foreword includes the names of individuals Kimball encountered as museum director, it also refers to other institutions with which he formed an earlier affiliation. The remaining files...
Dates:
undated
"Scholarship." [Writings and research projects. 1912-1943]. Ms, undated
File — Box: 159, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Kimball apparently intended to present his life as it related to what he considered noteworthy topics. In the draft foreword he humbly submits that his experiences of childhood, youth and manhood gave him opportunities to know certain people and events worthy of portraying. Although the outline filed with the foreword includes the names of individuals Kimball encountered as museum director, it also refers to other institutions with which he formed an earlier affiliation. The remaining files...
Dates:
undated
"Historic Monuments." [Restoration projects. circa 1923-1943]. Ms, undated
File — Box: 159, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Kimball apparently intended to present his life as it related to what he considered noteworthy topics. In the draft foreword he humbly submits that his experiences of childhood, youth and manhood gave him opportunities to know certain people and events worthy of portraying. Although the outline filed with the foreword includes the names of individuals Kimball encountered as museum director, it also refers to other institutions with which he formed an earlier affiliation. The remaining files...
Dates:
undated
Historic monuments research. Stauffer, Alvin P. and Charles W. Porter. "The National Park Service Program of Conservation . . .", 1943
File — Box: 159, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Kimball apparently intended to present his life as it related to what he considered noteworthy topics. In the draft foreword he humbly submits that his experiences of childhood, youth and manhood gave him opportunities to know certain people and events worthy of portraying. Although the outline filed with the foreword includes the names of individuals Kimball encountered as museum director, it also refers to other institutions with which he formed an earlier affiliation. The remaining files...
Dates:
1943
"Williamsburg." [Advising on resotration of the "Wren" building, and Carter's Grove house. circa 1925?-1933]. Ms, 1933
File — Box: 159, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Kimball apparently intended to present his life as it related to what he considered noteworthy topics. In the draft foreword he humbly submits that his experiences of childhood, youth and manhood gave him opportunities to know certain people and events worthy of portraying. Although the outline filed with the foreword includes the names of individuals Kimball encountered as museum director, it also refers to other institutions with which he formed an earlier affiliation. The remaining files...
Dates:
1933
"Garden Temples and Garden Courts." [Martha Codman summer house. 1924-1930?]. Ms., photographs, undated
File — Box: 159, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Kimball apparently intended to present his life as it related to what he considered noteworthy topics. In the draft foreword he humbly submits that his experiences of childhood, youth and manhood gave him opportunities to know certain people and events worthy of portraying. Although the outline filed with the foreword includes the names of individuals Kimball encountered as museum director, it also refers to other institutions with which he formed an earlier affiliation. The remaining files...
Dates:
undated
"Memorabilia to 1925." Correspondence, 1906-1910, 1915-1917
File — Box: 159, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Based on the title he assigned to most of these files, Kimball apparently considered the material in this sub-subseries as documentation of the more memorable moments in his life. Based on the topics covered, those moments most often related to his writings as a scholar and his achievements as a museum director. As such, Kimball could have intended to use these documents, originally processed as a subsection of his personal papers, as reference material for a memoir. Correspondence from...
Dates:
1906-1910, 1915-1917