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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
Margaret and Wesley Ziegler Scrapbook on Pennsylvania German Religious Communities
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: A0046
Scope and Contents
The Scrapbook contains mostly newspaper and magazine clippings related to various Pennsylvania German religious communities, including the Amish, Mennonites, Moravians, and the Harmonites. The first part of the scrapbook, dated in the 1930s, also contains correspondence between Wesley Zeigler and his grand-aunt Kate about their family genealogy, notes about the history of Zieglerville and Harmony, presumably by Wesley Zeigler, and correspondence between Wesley Zeigler and Elsie Ewing...
Dates:
1933-1956, 1971-1977
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
Mary K. Borkowski letters
Collection — Box: 1
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
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
Morris Hirshfield's Illustrated Encyclopedia
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: A0072
Abstract
This late-nineteenth century copy of Our Living World was owned by artist Morris Hirshfield and used for source images of birds. The book contains scraps of scratch paper, some illustrated by the artist and inserted as bookmarks for pages of interest. In addition to its intrinsic connection to Hirshfield, this book provides critical insight into the artist’s process. As scholar Richard Meyer observes, Hirshfield does not copy the drawings contained in this book, but...
Dates:
Publication: 1885
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
Philo Levi “Chief” Willey Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0060
Abstract
The Philo Levi “Chief” Willey Papers primarily contains sales records maintained by Philo Levi “Chief” Willey (1887-1980) between 1969-1979. Willey began making art late in life, and sold his paintings and drawings in New Orleans’ Jackson Square. His work also appeared in Jack Kamas’ New Orleans’ gallery, and appeared in exhibits at SUNY and the American Folk Art Museum after his death.
Dates:
1969-11-05 — circa 1980; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1979
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
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