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Diary of Emma Cummins Snively Crosier Pauling
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: A0059
Abstract
This collection comprises a handwritten diary created by Emma Cummins Snively Crosier Pauling in the late 19th century. Emma Cummins Snively Crosier Pauling was born in Pennsylvania in 1848, and after a life spent in the American West and Northeast, died in Pennsylvania in 1923. The diary chronicles Emma Cummins Snively Crosier Pauling’s daily life in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania in the 1880s through 1890. It primarily traces her life during her fourth and final marriage, and...
Dates:
1842-1870, 1884-1890, 1906, 1936; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1890
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
Gerald Kornblau Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0017
Abstract
Gerald Kornblau was an authority on American folk art and a dealer who sold works to private and museum collections. This collection contains reference material on specific objects from the Kornblau Gallery, some of which eventually came to be in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum. Also included is reference material on American folk art painting and sculpture, including rare eighteenth-century manufacturer catalogs of weathervanes and decorative objects.
Dates:
1970 - 2000
Found in:
American Folk Art Museum Archives
John Gordon Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: A0020
Abstract
John Gordon was a dealer of American folk art in New York from 1964 to 1980. This collection contains photographs of works owned or handled by Gordon during that period, as well as related correspondence, publicity, and publications.
Dates:
1964 - 1980
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