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John Haley Bellamy Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: A0030
Abstract
The John Haley Bellamy (1836-1914) Papers consists of records created by and related to wood carver John Haley Bellamy. The collection includes photographs of Bellamy, letters written from Bellamy to his father, letters written by another relative, poems written by bellamy, legal documents, manuscripts and letters relating to a biographical article on Bellamy, a Bellamy family register news clippings, drawings, diagrams, and various envelopes.
Dates:
1862-1873, undated
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
Julia Weissman Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0010
Abstract
The Julia Weissman Papers are the files that Julia Weissman kept during the process of writing the book Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists with Herbert Waide Hemphill, published by Dutton in 1974, as well as files on artists that they did not include in the book. Included are some organizational and research files, including drafts of the publication. The majority of the material is artist files, and includes a large amount of correspondence with...
Dates:
1953 - 1998
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
Justus DaLee Letters and Autograph Book
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: A0040
Scope and Contents
Justus DaLee writes about his family, his wife, and his children: Mary Ann, Amon, Cornelia, Almanzon, Harriet, William, and Albert Waterman who was called "Waterman," and about his life as a painter and the times in which he was living, his scarcity of money, and the difficulty to make a living as an artist as well as detailing the fact his work habits could not include painting at night since candle light was insufficient. Excerpted: "Troy, Dec. 17 1837, I am pursuing my daily...
Dates:
c. 1837-1871, 1881-1888
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
Letters to Jacqueline Loewe Fowler from Mary K. Borkowski
Collection
Identifier: A0066
Abstract
This collection primarily comprises letters written by self-taught artist Mary K. Borkowski to Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, former trustee of the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM), in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In her letters, Borkowski updates Fowler on events in her work and life, from the status of the pieces she is working on, to career achievements, to personal challenges. The letters are beautifully candid. Borkowski clearly held Fowler in high esteem, not only as a customer and...
Dates:
1973 - 1999
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
Lori Zabar Fish Decoy Research File
Collection
Identifier: A0069
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the research file that Lori Zabar compiled between 1975 and 1991 when she was actively developing her fish decoy collection. It includes Zabar’s personal correspondence, photographs of decoys, newspaper clippings, as well as catalogs, advertisements, and other publications from dealers, auctioneers, and organizations specializing in fish decoys and fishing collectibles. There are a few publications in this collection that were published slightly after 1991, which...
Dates:
1978 - 1994; Majority of material found in mid-1980s
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
Lucinda Coleman Bible
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: A0055
Abstract
The collection comprises a late-18th century bible owned by Lucinda Coleman, with accompanying provenance documentation and locket wrapping. Lucinda Coleman was born in Sag Harbor, New York between 1763-1771 and died in 1849. During the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), a band of British soldiers invaded the Coleman kitchen, raiding the oven, and stealing loaves of bread. One of the soldiers, David Carseul, gave the young Lucinda Coleman, then 12 years old, a bible in gratitude for a...
Dates:
Publication: 1774; c. 1850
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
Material Related to Basket Quilt (2017.6.1)
Collection
Identifier: A0051
Dates:
1978
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
Melvin C. Miller Jr. Circus Photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: A0045
Abstract
The collection is a dissembled scrapbook consisting of twenty-three pages of photographs of multiple circuses, the majority being Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey, in multiple locations throughout the United States.
Dates:
1925 - 1943
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
New York Quilt Project
Collection
Identifier: A0013
Abstract
The New York Quilt Project (NYQP) was initiated by the American Folk Art Museum and attempted to locate, document, preserve, and create an archive for the quilts made in New York State prior to 1940. The documented quilts were made from 1753 to 1940. Archival material includes photographs and questionnaires for more than six thousand quilts, administrative files for the NYQP, research files for the 150 quilts featured in the catalog New York Beauties, as well...
Dates:
1986 - 1995
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
People Files
Collection
Identifier: A0003
Scope and Contents
Like the “Topical Subject” files, the “People” files have two constituent parts, one deriving from materials donated to the library by Dr. Bishop, the other originating in the library and developed by Edith Wise during the last few years [c. 1988]. Both consist of folders devoted to individual persons but, whereas the “Wise” files are concerned wholly with prominent folk artists past and present, the “Bishop” segment is wide-ranging in coverage: a significant portion relates to contemporary...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970-1980s
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
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- Auriti, Marino, (1891-1980) 1
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- Bellamy, John Haley, (1836-1914) 1
- Borkowski, Mary K., (1916-2008) 1
- Bragaline, Edward A., (1906-1999) 1
- Byam, John, (1929-2013) 1
- Cummins Snively Crosier Pauling, Emma (1848-1923) 1
- DaLee, Justus, (1793-1878) 1
- DaLee, Richard Waterman Moffitt, (1809–1868) 1
- Darger, Henry, (1892-1973) 1
- Davies, David L., (1926-2012) 1
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- Fagaly, William A. 1
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- Fasanella, Ralph, (1914-1997) 1
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- Firmani, Colette Auriti 1
- Gasperi, Richard 1
- Gladstone, Mike J., (1923-2015) 1
- Goldsmith, Deborah (1808-1836) 1
- Gordon, John, (1921-2003) 1
- Gordon, Leah 1
- Historical Society of Early American Decoration 1
- Isaacson, Philip M., (1924-2013) 1
- Johnson, Bruce , (1949-1976) 1
- Jones, Louis C., (1908-1990) 1
- Keller, Patricia 1
- Kelly, Susan H. 1
- Ketchum, William C., Jr., (1931- ) 1
- Kogan, Lee 1
- Kopp, Joel 1
- Kopp, Nancy 1
- Kornblau, Gerald, (1928-2011) 1
- Krolik, Day 1
- Krolik, Jean 1
- Krüsi, Hans, (1920-1995) 1
- Lerner, Kiyoko 1
- Lipman, Jean, (1909-1998) 1
- Meeuwse, Eveline 1
- Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West (Organization) 1
- Miller, Melvin C., Jr. 1
- Montelius, John A., (1813 - 1878) 1
- Montgomery, George, (1924-1997) 1
- Mygatt, Frederick Thomas, (1811-1853) 1
- Noble, Nigel 1
- Phillips, Ammi, (1788-1865) 1
- Polley, Claudia Anne, (1949- ) 1
- Pryor, Samuel Frazier, Jr., (1898-1985) 1
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- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus 1
- Rosenak, Charles B., (1927- ) 1
- Rosenak, Janice M., (1930-2012) 1
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- Weissman, Julia, (1917-2015) 1
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