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Paintings.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Alison Mason Kingsbury papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3663
Abstract

Drawings, illustrations, and paintings; charcoal landscape drawings; exhibition catalogs and reviews; bound volumes of sketches, notebooks and pamphlets. Also, "Unheralded Artist: Alison Kingsbury," Princeton University undergraduate thesis by Holly Markovitz, 2000.

Dates: [ca. 1923]-1965.

Archie Ammons papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-12-2665
Abstract

Archie Ammons was born near Whiteville, N.C. in 1926. He was a poet and the Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry at Cornell University. His papers span from 1945-2010 and include correspondence, photographs, poetry, manuscripts, teaching material, journals, audio/video tapes and personal art work.

Dates: 1945-2010.

Bristow Adams papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3205
Abstract Consists of papers of Bristow Adams, journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator. Various materials document his journalistic career, including early work with a paper in D.C.; his editorial responsibilities on Stanford University publications; and his work as publications program director for the College of Agriculture at Cornell. From his student years are sketches of fur seals; college memorabilia; and many letters to his mother. Also, photographs from work for the US Forest Service;...
Dates: 1853 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1957

Charles Baskerville papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4911
Scope and content Correspondence, diaries, paintings, drawings, photographs, photographs of portraits and paintings, circus-themed sketches and paintings, scrapbooks of clippings and ephemera, scrapbooks of artwork, medals earned by Baskerville in World War I, early illustrations for columns in The New Yorker magazine, videocassettes, and other materials relating to Baskerville's career as a painter, portrait painter, and world traveler, especially pertaining to Bali, Nepal, India, Italy, Sicily, Africa, and...
Dates: ca. 1907-1977.

De Cost Smith Collection

 Collection — Huntington box 59
Identifier: 9174
Abstract Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, notebooks, brochures, manuscripts, maps, paintings, and sketches. Focus areas of the notes for articles, speeches, and books cover a wide variety of topics including the Onondaga Indians and their reservation, festivals and culture, Sitting Bull using a telephone, Tendoi The climber, articles by Elizabeth Custer, Moravian missions, history of Amenia, N.Y., Fort Buford, manuscript regarding Indian attitudes towards African Americans,...
Dates: 1880-1943.

Drawing of carved pipe from beyond Rocky Mountains

 Collection — Huntington box 41 - folder 1
Identifier: 9098
Scope and content

Paintings signed Broncho Charlie and dated 1942. This could be Broncho Charlie Miller, sometimes spelled Bronco, who was the youngest rider for the Pony Express and showman for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Two of the paintings are titled "Wild Horses", and "Hunting Buffalo 1878 Kansas"; the third is untitled. The untitled painting depicts Indians fighting and being killed with guns, and also has riders on horseback. A southwestern mesa landscape is in the background.

Dates: 1942.

Frederick William Fisher papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-1574
Scope and content Papers of a Cornell University student include sheets of lettering examples, drawings of machinery, bridges including the Allegheny bridge, and other engineering and illustrations, and watercolors; photographs of the Cornell campus, buildings, and students; and Cornell memorabilia including his diploma. Correspondence, much pertaining to engineering. 58 page autobiography written to Elizabeth, January 24, 1952.Clippings, photographs of Fisher as a student and later in life. Commencement...
Dates: 1899-1903.

Hermann Herrey papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3476
Abstract Drawings, paintings, plans and photographs (including glass plate negatives) of architectural work, planning projects, stage designs, industrial designs, furniture and inventions. Also includes correspondence, biographical material, lecture notes, talks and reports; writings in city and regional planning, economic development, architecture, theater and related fields. Also, manuscript of a novel written by Herrey in the 1930s; and a play written under the pseudonym of Gilbert Tanner,...
Dates: [ca.1939]-1971.

Japanese American relocation centers records

 Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 31924065229159]
Identifier: 3830
Abstract

Includes documentation collected by military sociologists on two World War II-era Japanese-American relocation centers, along with sociological observations and studies.

Dates: 1935-1953.

Julia Ellen Edmonson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 41-5-1940
Scope and content Collection consists of work of Edmonson including paintings, drawings, preliminary sketches with color notes and other illustrations, also some biographical material, including pages from the Newtonian yearbook and exhibition items. Subjects of the artwork include studies in human figures, anatomy, plants (botany), insects (entomology), fish (ichthyology), oriental sculpture, Japanese and Minoan cultural items, landscapes, tractors, farm barns and others. Specific illustrations of note...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1912-1983,- 1920-1930.