7. Manuscript Collections

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This collection consists of a 12"x15" chalk on paper caricature of Julius Zieget.

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This collection consists of material Mrs. Lux-Sions compiled and created for her publication, "The Unsullied Dynasty and the K'ang-hsi Emperor.

Abstract The Martha Crary Halpern Research Collection is comprised of the research files kept by Martha Halpern while serving as a Park House guide, later as Assistant Curator of the Fairmount Park Houses, and as an independent contractor for historical interpretation and preservation in the Philadelphia region. The collection includes research subject files, correspondence, information related to Park House operations, draft writings, and finished reports. There are also a number of reference works...

Abstract Mary Curran's (1885-1978) papers primarily document the roles she held in working women’s associations, the coeducational New Students League and Little Gallery of Contemporary Art of Philadelphia, and the management of federal relief programs for artists in Pennsylvania during most of the 1930s. The material is arranged in four series: I. Working women's clubs; II. New Students League and the Little Gallery of Contemporary Art; III. Federal Art Project and earlier relief programs; and IV....

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This collection consists of Titus C. Geesey's correspondence with curators, directors and other individuals written from 1945 to 1969, primarily regarding loans and gifts from his collection of American folk art, and in particular, Pennsylvania German objects.

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This collection consists of a scrapbook compiled in 1997 by Ingersoll's grandson, Perry Benson, Jr., and a presentation copy of "Some account of the singular beginnings of Philadelphia" (Philadelphia: 1957) by Grant Simon.

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"Price Papers" is the original bound typescript compiled by Sarah Dickson Lowrie that she intended to publish as a biography of Eli Kirk Price (1870-1933), a well-known civic leader, who was closely associated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The volume is richly illustrated with maps, clippings, ephemera and photographs and includes some correspondence and typescripts of family letters.

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The Violet Oakley Collection documents the range Oakley's artistic talents, particularly as a muralist, with her commitment to pacifism and feminism.

Abstract The Zieget Shaker Collection Papers document Irene and Julius Zieget's relationship with the Shaker community while they developed an extensive collection of Shaker art and crafts. The papers also include some of the Ziegets' acquisitions--nineteenth- and early twentieth-century manuscript material. Included here are records of deaths, recipes and other household instructions along with spiritual messages, blessings and hymns all recorded neatly in the distinctive and decorative Shaker...

Abstract This collection consists of approximately five months worth of letters written by the artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) in which he describes his 1931-1932 journey back to Japan in vivid detail. Writing to his wife Katherine (Schmidt) in New York, Kuniyoshi details every experience, particularly the social and media activities surrounding his one-man exhibitions in Tokyo and Osaka, and his visits to Okayama to spend time with his dying father. A few photographs of Kuniyoshi's train stop in...