Beck Engraving Company

Scope and Contents From the Series: Comprising the largest portion of the Fiske Kimball Records, this series clearly documents Kimball's extensive contact with the institutions, individuals, and businesses that collectively directed and promoted art and artists, and a public appreciation for both. Kimball cultivated a variety of correspondents, from dealers and donors to museums, educational institutions and professional organizations. Throughout the three decades documented, antiques and art dealers appear to be Kimball's...

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This sub-subseries contains routine correspondence with institutions and individuals. Most often the subject of this correspondence is requests for information about Johnson objects, requests for photographic reproductions of objects and permissions to reproduce these images, and requests for publications about the Johnson collection.

The last group of material is correspondence addressed to Henri Marceau after his death on September 15, 1969, handled by Barbara Sweeny.

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Correspondence from Fiske Kimball, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to George D. Beck, President of the Beck Engraving Company Incorporated.

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Correspondence from Fiske Kimball, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to George Kubler, Department of the History of Art at Yale University.

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Correspondence from George D. Beck, President of the Beck Engraving Company Incorporated, to Fiske Kimball, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Correspondence from George D. Beck, President of the Beck Engraving Company Incorporated, to Fiske Kimball, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Correspondence from George D. Beck, President of the Beck Engraving Company Incorporated, to Fiske Kimball, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Correspondence from George D. Beck, President of the Beck Engraving Company Incorporated, to Fiske Kimball, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art [copy].

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Correspondence from George D. Beck, President of the Beck Engraving Company Incorporated, to Henri Marceau, Associate Director for the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Draft correspondence from Fiske Kimball, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to George D. Beck, President of the Beck Engraving Company Incorporated.