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Box 162

 Container

Contains 32 Results:

"Buying from the Soviets." [PMA acquisition attempts, incl. Antoine Watteau's "Le Mezzetin." 1932]. Ms, undated

 File — Box: 162, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates: undated

Buying from the Soviets research. Notes and photograph, undated

 File — Box: 162, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates: undated

"Rockefeller Center." [Murals in RCA Building. circa 1933]. Ms, undated

 File — Box: 162, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates: undated

Rockefeller Center research. Clippings, 1933-1937, 1945-1951

 File — Box: 162, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates: 1933-1937, 1945-1951

The Last Rivet: The story of Rockefeller Center. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940

 File — Box: 162, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates: 1940

"The Federal Art Project." [1933-1938]. Ms., clippings and notes, 1943, undated

 File — Box: 162, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates: 1943, undated

"Exploiting the Depression." [WPA projects at PMA. 1933-1943]. Ms, undated

 File — Box: 162, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates: undated

"Prints." [Development of PMA print department and collection. circa 1933-1943.] Ms., clippings and notes, 1943, undated

 File — Box: 162, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates: 1943, undated

"Grandeurs and Miseries of Whitemarsh Hall." [Stotesbury, Edward T. 1937-1944]. Ms., Ts, undated

 File — Box: 162, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates: undated

Stotesbury research. Auction catalogs, 1941-1944

 File — Box: 162, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...
Dates: 1941-1944