The The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware  19735

Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Black, Mary (Mary C.)

Title:               Papers                         

Dates:            circa 1943-1993, bulk 1960-1990

Call No.:         Col. 538                     

Acc. No.:        96x40; 15x106          

Quantity:        72 boxes, 5 volumes   

Location:        22 C-D 1-6     

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Mary Elizabeth Childs Black was a museum curator and an expert in American folk painting.  She was the daughter of George and Isabelle Merrill Childs, born June 7, 1922, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.  She received a B.A. from the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, located in Greensboro, in 1943, and her M. A. from George Washington University in 1952.  Her master’s thesis was entitled “The Theater in Colonial Maryland.”  During World War II, she was a lieutenant, junior grade, in the WAVES.  In 1947, Mary Childs married Richard Winthrop Black, the son of Colonel and Mrs. Roger D. Black.  At the time, he was a naval architect.  The Blacks had one daughter, Merrill Elizabeth Black.

 

Mary Black worked at Colonial Williamsburg from 1956 to 1964, serving as a research assistant in the Research Department (1956-1957), and then as Registrar (1957-1958), Curator (1958-1961), and Director and Curator of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center (1961-1964).  She was Director of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York (1964-1970), and then served as Curator of Painting, Sculpture and the Decorative Arts at the New-York Historical Society (1970-1982).  From 1982 until her death, Mrs. Black was a consulting curator at the Museum of American Folk Art, a free lance writer, and an art historian.  She also taught classes in American folk art for the University of Vermont and the City University of New York.

 

Mrs. Black was a noted specialist in the field of American folk painting. She worked very hard to identify early limners working in New York, New England, and Virginia from 1670 to 1745.  She was successful in attributing bodies of works to specific painters in this period, including members of the Duyckinck family, John Heaten, Nehemiah Partridge, Pieter Vanderlyn, and John Watson.

 

Mrs. Black authored, co-authored, or wrote introductions for a number of books on American art and architecture.  Titles include American Folk Painting; Old New York in Early Photographs; Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900; New York’s Gracie Mansion, a History of the Mayor’s House; American Advertising Posters of the Nineteenth Century; What is American in American Art; Ammi Phillips, Portrait Painter, 1788-1865; American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; Jewish Heritage in American Folk Art; and Simplicity, a Grace: Jacob Maentel in Indiana.   She also wrote many articles, lectured widely in this country and England, and organized more than a hundred major exhibitions for a number of different museums.

 

Mrs. Black was a former Historical Landmark Preservation Commissioner of the City of New York, was a member of the Museum Council of the New York State Council of the Arts, and was a member of the boards of Friends of Clermont and of Mount Lebanon Shaker Village.  She was a trustee or served on the advisory boards of the Historical Society of Early American Decoration, the Gracie Mansion Conservancy Art Committee, the McPhaerie-Warner House (Portsmouth, N.H.), the Municipal Art Society, the Museum of American Folk Art, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Portsmouth, N.H., Advocates, the New York Branch of the Victorian Society, Westbeth Artist’s Housing , and Strawbery Banke. Mrs. Black spent the last years of her life restoring Rockefeller Tavern in Germantown, New York, which she owned in partnership with a longtime friend.

 

Mary Black died in 1994. 

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

The collection reflects Mary Black’s professional career, particularly her interest in artists of the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.  In addition to correspondence, there are many notes, photographs, and slides which she collected while trying to identify the artists of unsigned portraits.  She wrote several books and many articles on these early artists; copies of drafts are included.  There are many letters to her asking for help in identifying artists of unsigned works; she was obviously recognized as an expert in the field of early American portraiture.

 

Ms. Black also arranged exhibits at the various museums where she worked.  This is reflected in her papers, particularly the 1967 seminar about patroon painters and the related exhibit of Upper Hudson Valley painters.  She gave lectures, taught classes, and belonged to many organizations; materials about these activities are also to be found here.

 

 

ORGANIZATION

 

The Mary Black Collection consists of 69 boxes and four volumes, divided into several series.  Boxes 1-18 contain correspondence and research notes on a variety of topics of interest to her and information about her professional career.  (Legal size files are in Box 18.)  Box 19 contains files relating to a seminar on patroon painting, held in New York in 1967.  Files on the related subject of Upper Hudson Valley painters are found in boxes 20-21.  And related to both those topics, Mary Black prepared materials for a book about early Dutch painters and Nehemiah Partridge.  These materials are found in boxes 22-26.  Copies and drafts of articles written by Mrs. Black are in boxes 27-28 and Box 66. 

 

Mrs. Black collected many notes about and photographs of works by artists of the 17th – early 19th centuries.  Those materials may be found in boxes 29-45, arranged in alphabetical order by artist’s last name.  Also included here are the notes she was organizing for a book about Nehemiah Partridge and his world.

 

Box 46 contains notes about the people in portraits, arranged by the sitters’ names, not by names of the artists.  Genealogical materials are found in boxes 47-48; most of this material is about the sitters, but some is about artists’ families. 

 

Boxes 59-56 hold index cards containing notes collected by Mary Black.  They are in the same order in which they arrived at this repository.

 

Boxes 57-65 contain chiefly photographs and slides of paintings.  Some are arranged by artist, some by subject.  Box 62 contains duplicate slides; these have not been organized.  Boxes 63-65 include postcards (many from Europe, but some of American folk art) and a number of photos of Rockefeller Tavern, chiefly as it was undergoing restoration.

 

Box 66 has a 78rpm record from the Abby Aldrich Rockfeller Folk Art Collection.  This was produced to accompany a filmstrip, which is not part of this collection.  A typed copy of the script is also in this box.  Also in this box are found additional books and articles written by Mary Black and some oversize photographs.

 

Boxes 67-68 hold computer disks, audio tapes, and printouts of files on some of the computer disks.  Most of these printouts duplicate materials found in the main part of this collection.

 

Box 69 holds items which were removed from several scrapbook/photo albums.  (The original albums were in distressed condition.)  Three additional scrapbooks are found on the shelf.            

 

  

PROVENANCE

 

Both accessions: gift of Merrill Black, daughter of Mary Black.

 

 

RELATED MATERIALS

 

Correspondence of Mary Black with Edward D. and Faith Andrews is found in the Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection, Andrews Archives section.

 

Books by Mary Black are found in the Printed Books and Periodicals section of the Winterthur Library.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

                People:

                                Du Pont, H. A. (Henry Algernon), 1838-1926

                                Duyckinck family

                        Field, Erastus Salisbury, 1805-1900

                        Hyde de Neuville, Anne-Marguerite-Henriette Rouillé de Marigny, baronne, 1749?-1849

Maentel, Jacob, 1763-1863

Partridge, Nehemiah

Phillips, Ammi, 1788-1865

                        Stock, Joseph Whiting, 1815-1855

 

Topics:

Albany Institute of History and Art

New-York Historical Society

Rockefeller Tavern (Germantown, N.Y.)

Art, American

Art – Exhibitions

Art museum curators

Artists – New York (State)

Artists – United States

Folk art – United States

Genealogy

Portraits – United States

Shakers

Women art historians

Women museum curators

 

           

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 22 C-D 1-6

 

Box: 1

 

Folder: 1          Account book from New York, 1741-1744: photographs of pages

                        [no record of whose account book]

 

Folders: 2-5     Albany Institute of History and Art: typescript of “The Cultivators: Creators of the AIHA” and photographs

                        [see also Boxes 2-3 and Box 28]

 

 

Box: 2

 

Folders: 1-5     Albany Institute of History and Art: notes for and typescript of “The Cultivators: Creators of the AIHA”

                        [see also Boxes 1, 3 and 28]

 

 

Box: 3

 

Folder: 1          Albany Institute of History and Art: notes for and typescript of “The Cultivators: Creators of the AIHA”

                        [see also Boxes 1-2 and 28]

 

Folder: 2          Albany Institute of History and Art: Correspondence

 

Folder: 3          Albany Institute of History and Art: Portrait survey

 

Folders: 4-5     Albany Institute of History and Art: Proceedings excerpts:  notes for “The Cultivators: Creators of the AIHA”

 

Folder: 6          Albany Institute of History and Art: research notes for “The Cultivators: Creators of the AIHA”

 

 

Box: 4

 

Folder: 1          “A History of the Albany Institute of History and Art” by Elizabeth J. Kanna, 1981 (Union College thesis)

 

Folder: 2          “American Folk Art”: contract for book

                               

Folders 3-4:     “American Folk Painting”: manuscript

                               

Folders 5-6:     “American Folk Painting”: manuscript and notes

 

 

Box: 5

                       

Folder 1:          “American Folk Painting”: Correspondence

 

Folder 2:          “American Folk Painting”: Cost and editing

 

Folder 3:          American Folk Art Society

 

Folder 4:          “The Art of America,” by Helen Ashton and Craig Fisher

 

Folder 5:          Associated University Presses

 

Folder 6:          Barbados

 

Folder 7:          Belkin, Samuel, Yeshiva University

 

Folder 8:          Berkshire Historical Society  

 

Folder 9:          “The Best of Borderwell J. Limner”: book made for Mary Black (using Captions Courageous by Robert George Reisner as the base)

           

Folder 10:        Bibliographies: American folk art

 

Folder 11:        Black, Mary: class reading list (class taught by her at unknown institution)

 

Folder 12:        Black, Mary: cruise in 1961, including ship’s menus (Cunard Line)

 

 

Box: 6

 

Folder 1:          Black, Mary: mentions of her in newspaper articles

 

Folder 2:          Black, Mary: photographs (chiefly publicity shots)

 

Folder 3:          Black, Mary: resume and other professional and personal information

 

Folder 4:          Black, Mary: United States Navy service

 

Folder: 5          Bolton III information

 

Folder 6:          Book proposals

 

Folder7 :          Boston Athenaeum

 

Folder 8:          Bowdoin College portraits

 

Folder 9:          Chanticleer Press proposal

                       

Folder: 10        Checklist of painters and paintings, 1680-1746

 

Folder: 11        Checklist of painters and paintings, selected

 

Folder 12:        Childs family: includes circa 1945 photo and other information and photos

 

Folder 13:        Christmas cards, believed to have been designed by Mary Black

 

Folder: 14        Christie’s

 

Folder: 15        City University of New York, Graduate Center: course taught by Mary Black

 

Folder: 16        Clermont (New York state historical site)

 

Folder: 17        “Colonial America’s elegantly framed prints” (article by Joan D. Dolmetsch)

 

 

Box: 7

 

Folder 1:          Conservation estimates to prepare painting for travel                                   

 

Folders 2-7:     Correspondence, 1959-1980s

 

 

Box: 8

 

Folders 1-4:     Correspondence, 1990s and undated

 

Folder 5:          Detroit Institute of Arts

 

Folder 6:          Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife

 

Folder 7:          du Pont, Henry A.: painted sleigh [held by Hagley Museum]

 

 

Box: 9

 

Folder 1:          Dutch-American colonial art exhibition, 1980s

 

Folder 2:          Dutch colonial art: essays by others

 

Folder 3:          Ekert House, Germantown, NY                    

 

Folder 4:          Eldridge, Oliver (owner of portrait of Harriet Campbell, attributed to Ammi Phillips)                    

 

Folder 5:          Exhibit announcements (Mary Black curated some, if not most, of these exhibits)

 

Folders 6-7:     Exhibit: “American Folk Painting and Sculpture,” 1966

 

Folder 6:          Exhibit: “Eye on the City”

 

Folder 9:          Exhibit: Hudson Valley People: catalog of exhibit (Vassar College, 1982)

 

 

Box 10:

 

Folder 1:          Exhibit: “A Remembrance of Patria,” held at Albany Institute of History and Art, 1986 (Dutch arts and culture in colonial America, 1609-1776)

 

Folder 2:          Exhibits by Mary Black at Museum of American Folk Art and New-York Historical Society, 1962-1982 (lists)

 

Folder 3:          Fast, Louise K.; and houses of Tiffin, Ohio

 

Folder 4:          Feller, R.L.: paint pigment analysis   

 

Folders 5-6:     Gracie Mansion (New York City)

 

Folders 7:        Gracie Mansion (New York City): manuscript of book

 

Folder 8:          Grant possibilities

 

Folder 9:          Guggenheim Fellowship application

 

Folder 10:        Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe: “Wider Shores”: essay about Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.

           

Folder 11:        Hatchments

 

Folder 12:        Hirschl & Adler Galleries

 

 

Box: 11

 

Folder 1:          Historical Society of Early American Decoration

 

Folder 2:          Holland Society of New York

                       

Folder 3:          Hudson Valley Forum

 

Folder 4:          Invitation and address lists

 

Folder 5:          J.M. Kaplan Fund

 

Folder 6:          Japanning

 

Folder 7:          Landauer, Bella C.: 90th birthday exhibit of American advertising, 1982

 

Folder 8:          Lecture notes of Mary Black

 

Folder 9:          Lecture series (lectures given by Mary Black)

 

Folder 10:        Lectures: complete (lectures given by Mary Black)

 

Folder 11:        Magazine Antiques: correspondence

 

Folder 12:        Massachusetts: miscellaneous

 

Folder 13:        Mexico (Mary Black’s personal story)           

                       

 

Box: 12

 

Folder 1:          Mid-Hudson Valley

 

Folder 2:          Millwrights

 

Folder 3:          Miscellaneous news clippings, chiefly about art

 

Folders 4-5:     Miscellaneous notes

                        [see also Research notes]

 

Folder 6:          Mount Lebanon Shaker Village;

                        includes copy of Mount Lebanon Shaker Collection, by Charles L. Flint, with some notes about items sold

 

Folder 7:          Municipal Art Society

 

Folder 8:          Municipal Art Society: photography exhibit             

 

Folders 9-10:   Museum of American Folk Art

(other names of this museum: Museum of Early American Folk Arts and American Folk Art Museum)

 

Folder 11:        Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Folder 12:        National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

                                    [includes Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and its efforts to create a computerized inventory of American sculpture]

 

 

Box: 13

 

Folder 1:          Nature Conservancy, Eastern New York Chapter     

 

Folder 2:          New England: notes

 

Folder 3:          “New England Provincial Artists,” article by Nina Fletcher Little

 

Folder 4:          New York Botanical Garden

 

Folder 5:          New York Council for the Humanities: painting seminar     

 

Folder 6:          New-York Historical Society

                        (includes exhibit catalog That Belmont Look)

 

Folder 7:          New-York Historical Society and Mary Black: proposed legal action

 

Folder 8:          New-York Historical Society: sculpture (chiefly photos)      

 

Folder 9:          New York kassen

                       

Folder 10:        New York Public Library

 

Folder 11:        Newport, Rhode Island: correspondence and notes

 

Folder 12:        Nooter, Eric: “17th Century Dutch-style Houses in Brooklyn”

 

Folder 13:        Paint and perspective: New England beginnings      

 

Folder 14:        Paints in North American colonies and the Early Republic, 1636-1816                   

 

Folder 15:        Penhallow, New Hampshire: photos of a portrait

 

Folder 16:        Philipsburg Manor seminar, 1972: photographs

 

Folder 17:        Phrenology: article by Mary Black about phrenological associations of artists Joseph Whiting Stock and Asa Ames

 

Folder 18:        Phrenology and Asa Ames

 

Folder 19:        Portsmouth Athenaeum (New Hampshire)

                       

Folder 20:        Portsmouth, New Hampshire

                       

 

Box: 14

 

Folder 1:          Projects: Mary Childs Black

 

Folder 2:          Province House, Boston

 

Folder 3:          Published works of Mary Childs Black: notes and correspondence

 

Folder 4:          Quandt, Eleanor and Russell J.: correspondence

 

Folder 5:          Reese Collection        

 

Folder 6:          Religious paintings

                       

Folder 7:          Religious paintings: information

 

Folder 8:          “Remnant in the Wilderness”: catalog, with notes

 

Folder 9:          “Remnant in the Wilderness”: exhibit of New York Dutch scripture paintings

                        (additional copies of catalog, with notes, and some photos)

 

 

Box: 15

 

Folder 1:          “Remnant in the Wilderness”: photos

 

Folder 2:          Research notes: 18th century New York and New England painters and their patrons        

 

Folder 3:          Research notes: Indian kings

                                   

Folder 4:          Research notes: New York artists

 

Folder 5:          Research notes: miscellaneous

                        [see also Miscellaneous notes]

 

Folder 6:          Research notes: miscellaneous (includes articles on American folk art)        

 

Folder 7:          Research notes: miscellaneous

 

Folder 8:          Rizzo, Thomas G.

                        (includes auction catalog of his collection, with essay by Mary Black)

 

 

Box: 16-A

           

Folder 1:          Rockefeller Tavern

 

Folder 2:          Rockefeller Tavern: Historic Hudson Valley, Inc.

 

Folder 3:          Rockefeller Tavern: maps

 

Folder 4:          Rockefeller Tavern: notes, articles, etc.

 

Folder 5:          Rockefeller Tavern: photos and floor plans

 

Folder 6:          Schenectady, New York, portrait book

 

Folders 7-8:     Shakers

 

Folder 9:          Shelburne Museum/University of Vermont summer course, 1965

 

 

Box: 16-B

                       

Folder 1:          Shelburne Museum/University of Vermont summer course: notes    

 

Folder 2:          Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities

 

Folder 3:          Sotheby’s

 

Folder 4:          South Street Seaport

 

Folder 5:          Speedwell Village, Morristown, New Jersey

 

 

Box: 17

 

Folder: 1          Stained glass

 

Folder: 2          Sterling and Francine Clark Institute (Williamstown, Mass.)

 

Folders 3-4:     Strawbery Banke (Portsmouth, N.H.)

                       

Folder 5:          Suffolk County, Massachusetts: court records, index

 

Folder 6:          Symposium on 19th century American Folk Art, University of Lowell, 1986

 

Folder 7:          Textile conservation seminar, in honor of Kathryn O. Scott

 

Folder 8:          Timetable of artists

 

Folder 9:          University of North Carolina at Greensboro:  “We, the Women,” script for play by Marion and Foster Fitz-Simmons, about UNC-G

                        [note: Mary Childs played the role of Laura Stuart when this play was presented for the 50th anniversary of UNC-G in 1942]

           

Folder 10:        Van Alstyne Collection survey (Smithsonian Institution)

                       

Folder 11:        Warner House: Indian murals

 

Folder 12:        Warner House: photographs  

 

Folder 13:        Weathervanes

           

Folder 14:        Whitney Museum, New York

           

Folder 15:        Wiltshire, William: folk art collection

 

 

Box 18: legal size files

 

Folder 1:          “Mother Shipton’s Prophecies”: a souvenir from the Country Store of Wiggins Old Tavern, Hotel Northampton, Northampton, Mass.

 

Folder 2:          Research notes: New York painters and patrons

                       

Folder 3:          Research notes: 17th century portraits

 

Folder 4:          rough notes, for publication?

 

 

Box 19: Seminar on Patroon Painters of the Upper Hudson Valley       

 

Folders 1-6:     Seminar on Patroon Painters of the Upper Hudson Valley: transcript

 

Folder: 7          Seminar on Patroon Painters: Schedule and attendance

 

Folder: 8          Seminar on Patroon Painters: Exhibit: catalog

 

Folder: 9          Seminar on Patroon Painters: Exhibit: correspondence with lenders

 

Folder: 10        Seminar on Patroon Painters: Exhibit: composition core exhibition

 

Folder: 11        Seminar on Patroon Painters: material for publication: New York painters

 

Folder: 12        Seminar on Patroon Painters: material for publication: Pigments, framing

 

Folder: 13        Seminar on Patroon Painters: material for publication: Setting, by Robert G. Wheeler

 

Folder: 14        Seminar on Patroon Painters: requests for photos

 

 

Box 20: Upper Hudson Limners

                               

Folder: 1          Upper Hudson Limners: catalog: preliminary layout

 

Folders 2-3      Upper Hudson Limners: correspondence, notes

                       

Folders 4-5:     Upper Hudson Limners: correspondence, notes, research

                       

 

Box 21: Upper Hudson Limners

 

Folder: 1          Upper Hudson Limners: correspondence, notes, research: Partridge?

 

Folder: 2          Upper Hudson Limners: draft

 

Folder: 3          Upper Hudson Limners: draft: preface, etc.

 

Folder: 4          Upper Hudson Limners: exhibition

 

Folder: 5          Upper Hudson Limners: inscriptions

 

Folder: 6          Upper Hudson Limners: notes on New York paintings

 

Folder: 7          Upper Hudson Limners: publication, rough draft

 

Folder: 8          Upper Hudson Limners: research

 

Folder: 9          Upper Hudson Limners: slide information, Sandak

 

Folder: 10        Upper Hudson Limners: subjects

 

 

Box 22: Early Dutch Painters and Partridge                        

 

Folder: 1          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: amateur painters: captions

 

Folder: 2          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: background, Kenney

 

Folder: 3          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: church records, published

 

Folder: 4          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: correspondence

 

Folder: 5          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: correspondence: inquiries

 

Folder: 6          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: correspondence: re: Merchants and planters of the Upper Hudson Valley

 

Folder: 7          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: correspondence, miscellaneous

 

Folder: 8          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: correspondence: re: proposed exhibit

 

Folder: 9          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Duyckinck

 

Folder: 10        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Eyre-Quincy photos and negatives

 

Folder: 11        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Fell family

 

Folder: 12        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Fowler family

 

Folder: 13        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Gansevoort Limner

 

Folder: 14        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Heaten and Pollard Limner

 

Folder: 15        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: “Limners of the Upper Hudson”: draft

 

Folder: 16        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: miscellaneous

 

Folder: 17        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: miscellaneous information

 

Folder: 18        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Museum of American Folk Art

 

                       

Box 23: Early Dutch Painters and Partridge

                       

Folder: 1          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: New Netherlands project

 

Folder: 2          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Partridge, Nehemiah, personal notes

 

Folder: 3          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Partridge, Nehemiah, research

 

Folder: 4          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: patroon loan forms

 

Folders 5-7:     Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: photographs

 

Folder: 8          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: photographs, copies of altered photos

 

Folder: 9          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: photographs of Kingston, NY records

 

Folder: 10        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: pigments, framing

 

Folder: 11        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Pollard Limner

 

Folder: 12        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: public records and histories of Albany, Kingston, and Schenectady

 

                       

Box 24: Early Dutch Painters and Partridge

 

Folder: 1          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: publication, draft

 

Folder: 2          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: publications – Mary Black

 

Folder: 3          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Quandt’s chart

 

Folder: 4          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: religious pictures

 

Folder: 5          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: research, miscellaneous

 

Folder: 6          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: research material

 

Folder: 7          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: research material, miscellaneous

 

Folder: 8          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: research material, miscellaneous

 

 

Box 25: Early Dutch Painters and Partridge

 

Folder: 1          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Vanderlyn: miscellaneous notes and research material

 

Folder: 2          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Vanderlyn: photos and inscription

 

Folder: 3          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Vanderlyn: research material

 

Folder: 4          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Vanderlyn: research notes and rough drafts

 

 

Box 26: Early Dutch Painters and Partridge

 

Folder: 1          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: VanderWerken portrait

 

Folder: 2          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: van Rensselaer research material

 

Folder: 3          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Watson, John: Burnett family

 

Folder: 4          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Watson, John: Henderson family

 

Folder: 5          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Watson, John: research material

 

Folder: 6          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Watson, John: Schuyler family

 

Folder: 7          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Watson, John: van Rensselaer family

 

Folder: 8          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Wendell, Abraham

 

Folder: 9          Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: Winterthur Conference, 1970

                       

Folder: 10        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: x-rays: correspondence, 1967

 

Folder: 11        Early Dutch Painters and Partridge: x-rays: photographs

 

Folder: 12        Notebook: Proposed Book on early Dutch Painters: table of contents,                                 introduction, etc.

(note: the materials in folders 12-33 came from a notebook labeled “Proposed book on early Dutch painters” ; the folder titles were copied from the subject divisions in the notebook and are in the same order as they were in the notebook)

 

Folder: 13        Early Dutch Painters: AARFAC

 

Folder: 14        Early Dutch Painters: City of Albany

 

Folder: 15        Early Dutch Painters: Clark

 

Folder: 16        Early Dutch Painters: Cogswell

 

Folder: 17        Early Dutch Painters: Everson

 

Folder: 18        Early Dutch Painters: Gaeleisch

 

Folder: 19        Early Dutch Painters: Green Co.

 

Folder: 20        Early Dutch Painters: Newport

 

Folder: 21        Early Dutch Painters: Sears-Elgin

 

Folder: 22        Early Dutch Painters: Livingston

 

Folder: 23        Early Dutch Painters: Henderson

 

Folder: 24        Early Dutch Painters: Munson

 

Folder: 25        Early Dutch Painters: MCNY [Museum of the City of New York]

 

Folder: 26        Early Dutch Painters: Hudson Valley

 

Folder: 27        Early Dutch Painters: NGA-Mellon

 

Folder: 28        Early Dutch Painters: Schuyler

 

Folder: 29        Early Dutch Painters: Runk

 

Folder: 30        Early Dutch Painters: Schenectady  Co.

 

Folder: 31        Early Dutch Painters: Sleepy Hollow

 

Folder: 32        Early Dutch Painters: Van Dyck

 

Folder: 33        Early Dutch Painters: Wheeler

 

 

Box: 27: Writings

 

Folder: 1          “The Artist Speaks: Voice of the Folk Artist”: typescript

 

Folders 2-4:     “Contributions toward a History of Early Eighteenth-century New York Portraiture: Identification of the Aetatis Suae and Wendell Limners”: typescript and reprint from The American Art Journal, v. 12

 

Folder 5:          “New Evidence in the Case of the Red and Green Birds”: typescript

 

Folder 6:          “Of Painters, Merchants, and Indian Kings”: typescript

 

Folder 7:          “Portfolio of American Folk Art”: typescript and photographs

 

Folder 8:          A Remnant in the Wilderness: New York Dutch Scripture History Paintings of the Early Eighteenth Century, noted as Mary Black’s work copy

 

Folder 9:          “Three Folk Artists and Their Description of Pennsylvania”: typescript

 

Folder 10:        “Three Painters: Itinerants in New York and New England”: typescript

 

Folder 11:        “The Tradition of Itinerant Painting in America”: typescript

 

Folder: 12        “The Tradition of Itinerant Painting Arrives between Rivers”: typescript

 

Folder: 13        “Unknown Artist Identified as the Pepperell Limner, Active North-coastal New England, c.1705-1713”: typescript

 

Folder 14:        Publicity for Mary Black’s books

 

 

Box: 28: Writings

 

Folders 1-3:     “The Cultivators: Creators of the Albany Institute of History and Art”

                        [see also Boxes 1-3

 

Folder 4:          Various writings and articles by Mary Black

 

 

Box: 29: Artists            

 

Folder: 1          Aetatis Suae Limner: research notes

           

Folder: 2          Almshouse artists

 

Folder: 3          Badger, Joseph

 

Folder: 4          Bard, James and John

           

Folder: 5          Blunt, John

 

Folder: 6          Bracklow, Robert L.

 

Folder: 7          Bradley, John

 

Folder: 8          Bradley, John

 

Folder: 9          Brewster, John, Jr.

 

Folder: 10        Bridges, Charles

 

Folder: 11        Bridges, Charles: Virginia painters

 

Folder 12:        Burton, Charles

 

Folder: 13        Chandler, Joseph Goodhue

 

Folder: 14        Cole, Thomas: research report on “Garden of Eden” for Nicholas Hubby

           

Folder: 15        Dalee, J.

 

Folder: 16        Deering

Folder: 17        Delanoy, Abraham

 

 

 

Box: 30: Artists

 

Folder 1:          Denison Limner

 

Folder 2:          DeNune, William

 

Folder: 3          Drew, John (master craftsman)

           

Folder: 4          Durand, John

 

Folder: 5          Duyckinck, Evert: attributed to

 

Folder: 6          Duyckinck, Evert: photographs, negatives

 

Folder: 7          Duyckinck, G.: photographs

 

Folder: 8          Duyckinck, Gerardus: photographs

 

Folder: 9          Duyckinck, Gerrit: photographs and notes

 

Folder: 10        Duyckincks: correspondence

                       

Folder: 11        Duyckincks: “A Family Guild of Painters”

 

Folder: 12        Duyckincks: genealogical documents

 

Folder: 13        Duyckincks: genealogical research, New York

 

 

Box: 31: Artists

 

Folder: 1          Duyckincks: genealogical research, New York

 

Folder: 2          Duyckincks: genealogical research, New York: related families

 

Folder: 3          Duyckincks: genealogy

 

Folder: 4          Duyckincks: genealogy: Belknap genealogy

 

Folder: 5          Duyckincks: genealogy: includes Schuyler and Beekman families

 

Folder: 6          Duyckincks: Halsey compass and other navigation equipment

 

Folder: 7          Duyckincks: re: Marinus, David

 

Folder: 8          Duyckincks: publications, miscellaneous information, research notes

 

Folder: 9          Duyckincks: “Remembrance of the Dutch Homeland in Early New York Provincial Painting,” article by Mary Black

 

 

Box: 32: Artists

 

Folder: 1          Duyckincks: research materials

 

Folder: 2          Duyckincks: rough draft

 

Folder: 3          Earl, Ralph

           

Folder: 4          Edson, Almira

 

Folder: 5          Emmons, Nathaniel

 

Folder: 6          Field, Erastus Salisbury

 

Folder: 7          Field, Erastus Salisbury: biographical notes

 

Folder: 8          Field, Erastus Salisbury: catalog: “An Autobiography on Canvas”

 

Folder: 9          Field, Erastus Salisbury: catalog: “An Autobiography on Canvas” (2d ed.)

 

 

Box: 33: Artists

 

Folder: 1          Field, Erastus Salisbury: catalog, working copy

 

Folder: 2          Field, Erastus Salisbury: correspondence about

 

Folder 3:          Field, Erastus Salisbury: “Erastus Field of Plumtrees”: draft by Mary Black

 

Folder 4:          Field, Erastus Salisbury: exhibit, 1984, including correspondence, personal notes

 

Folder 5:          Field, Erastus Salisbury: Merrill portraits      

 

Folder 6:          Field, Erastus Salisbury: “Monument of American Republic”: documentation film and exhibition

 

Folder 7:          Field, Erastus Salisbury: photographs and reproductions

 

Folder 8:          Field, Erastus Salisbury: “Rediscovery: Erastus Salisbury Field”:  article by Mary Black, in Art in America, Jan.-Feb. 1966

 

 

Box: 34: Artists

 

Folder: 1          Field, Erastus Salisbury: research material

 

Folder: 2          Field, Erastus Salisbury: additional research material and notes

 

Folder: 3          Field, Erastus Salisbury: photos of portraits possibly by him

 

Folder: 4          Fisher, Jonathan

 

Folder: 5          Frost-Pepperell Limner

 

Folder: 6          Heaten, John

 

Folder: 7          Hicks, Edward

                       

Folder: 8          Hicks, Edward: photographs

 

Folder: 9          Hidley, Joseph

 

Folder 10:        Hofmann, Charles C.

 

Folder 11:        Hopkins, M.W.

                        [see also North, Noah]

           

Folders 12-13: Hyde de Neuville, Baroness

 

 

Box: 35: Artists

 

Index Cards listing the Original Drawings, Water Colors and Sketches of Baroness Hyde de Neuville

 

 

Box: 36: Artists

 

Folders 1-2:     Hyde de Neuville, Baroness

                       

Folder 3:          Hyde de Neuville, Baroness: correspondence

 

Folder 4:          Hyde de Neuville, Baroness: maps

 

Folder 5:          Hyde de Neuville, Baroness: personal notes

 

Folder 6:          Hyde de Neuville, Baroness: photographs

 

Folder 7:          Hyde de Neuville, Baroness: photographs of works

 

 

Box: 37: Artists

 

Folder 1:          Hyde de Neuville, Baroness: photographs of works

 

Folder 2:          Hyde de Neuville, Baroness: research background

 

Folder 3:          Hyde de Neuville, Baroness: research papers

 

Folder 4:          Hyde de Neuville, Baroness: rough draft

 

Folder 5:          Limners of New England

 

Folder: 6          Limners of New York

                                   

 

Box: 38: Artists

 

Folder 1:          Limners: others

 

Folder 2:          MacKay, John

 

Folders 3-4:     Maentel, Jacob

                        [also includes information on New Harmony, Indiana]

 

Folder 5:          Maentel, Jacob: articles about him

 

Folder 6:          Mayhew, Frederick, and Isaac Sheffield

                       

Folder: 7          Mayhew, Nathaniel

 

Folder: 8          Miller, Lewis

 

Folder 9:          Miner, Elizabeth Campbell

 

Folder: 10        Moulthrop, Reuben

 

 

Box: 39: Artists

 

Folder: 1          New York painters

 

Folder 2:          North, Noah

                        [see also Hopkins, M.W.]

 

Folders 3-6:     Partridge, Nehemiah

 

Folder 7:          Partridge, Nehemiah: book proposal

 

Folder 8:          Partridge, Nehemiah: exhibit list

 

Folder 9:          Partridge, Nehemiah: grid

 

Folder 10:        Partridge, Nehemiah: identification of Aetatis Suae artist

 

Folder 11:        Partridge, Nehemiah: methodology

 

 

Box: 40: Artists

 

Folders: 1-2     Partridge, Nehemiah: “Partridge and His World”

 

Folder 3:          Partridge, Nehemiah: “Partridge and His World”: notes

 

Folder 4:          Partridge, Nehemiah: “Partridge and His World”: outline

 

Folder 5:          Partridge, Nehemiah: “Partridge and His World”: outline proposal for book and exhibitions

 

Folder 6:          Partridge, Nehemiah: “Partridge and His World”: requests for illustrations

 

Folder 7:          Partridge, Nehemiah: requests

 

Folder 8:          Partridge, Nehemiah: summaries of Partridge and Gerardus Duyckinck

 

 

Box: 41: Artists

 

Folder 1:          Partridge-Wendell notes

           

Folder 2:          Pearson, Jonathan      

 

Folder 3:          Peckham, Robert

 

Folder 4:          Pepperell Limner

 

Folders 5-8:     Phillips, Ammi

 

Folder 9:          Phillips, Ammi: inquiries

                        [continues in next box]

 

 

Box: 42: Artists

 

Folder: 1          Phillips, Ammi: inquiries

                        [continued from previous box]

 

Folder 2:          Phillips, Ammi: photographs, search for Ammi Phillips

 

 

Box: 43: Artists

           

Folder 1:          Pierpont Limner

 

Folder 2:          Polk, Charles Peale

 

Folder 3:          Pollard Limner

 

Folder 4:          Portsmouth Limners

 

Folder 5:          Prior School: William Kennedy

 

Folder 6:          Schimmel, Wilhelm (woodcarver) [article]

 

Folder 7:          Sherman Limner                     

 

Folder 8:          Shute, R.W. and S.A.

                       

Folder 9:          Smibert, John: notebook

 

Folder 10:        Smith, Thomas

 

Folder 11:        Stock, Joseph Whiting

 

Folder 12:        Stock, Joseph Whiting: copies of Joseph Stock Journal

 

Folder 13:        Stock, Joseph Whiting: draft

 

Folder 14:        Stock, Joseph Whiting: photographs

 

Folder 15:        Stock, Joseph Whiting: research

 

 

Box: 44: Artists

 

Folder 1:          Stock, Joseph Whiting: research notes

 

Folder 2:          Stock, Joseph Whiting: research notes

 

Folder 3-4:      Stock, Joseph Whiting: research papers

                       

Folder 5:          Stock, Joseph Whiting: research, rough draft, notes, Horton genealogy

                        [continues in next box]

 

Box: 45: Artists

                       

Folder 1:          Stock, Joseph Whiting: research, rough draft, notes, Horton genealogy

                        [continued from previous box]

 

Folder 2:          Tuthill, Abraham

 

Folder 3:          VanderLyn, J., Jr. – possible (copies of older paintings)

 

Folder 4:          Vanderlyn, Pieter

 

Folder 5:          Van der Zee, James

 

Folder 6:          Wales, Nathaniel

 

Folder 7-8:      Watson, John

 

Folder 9:          Wetherbee, Isaac

 

Folder 10:        Wilson, Thomas

 

Folders 10-12:             Unidentified artists

 

Folders 13-14:             Miscellaneous Artists

 

 

Box: 46: Subjects of paintings

 

Folder: 1          Badger family

 

Folder: 2          Barclay Children, Drauyer/Neils Juel

 

Folder: 3          Barstow Children, by Ammi Phillips

 

Folder: 4          Bill, Mrs, nee Miss Preston

 

Folder: 5          Bill family

 

Folder: 6          Bleecker, Jan Jansen

 

Folder: 7          Bonner, John  

 

Folder: 8          Brodnax family  (Virginia)

 

Folder: 9          Bruyn

 

Folder: 10        Ellery – Ward – Coddington (Rhode Island)

 

Folder: 11        Hill (Virginia)

 

Folder: 12        Jansen

 

Folder: 13        Jaquelin (Virginia)

 

Folder: 14        Noxson, Polly (Ashley, Mary)

 

Folder: 15        Phipps, William, Sir

 

Folder: 16        Pocahontas

 

Folder: 17        Roseboom, Johannes

 

Folder: 18        Saltonstall, Gurdon

 

Folder: 19        Sanders, Robert (New York)

 

Folder: 20        Schuyler Family (New York)

 

Folder: 21        Schuyler, Pieter

 

Folder: 22        Somerby, Henry

 

Folder: 23        Ten Broeck family (New York)

 

Folder: 24        Ten Eyck, Tobias       

 

Folder: 25        Van Alstyne family (New York)

 

Folder: 26        Van Buren, Helena Bogardus

 

Folder: 27        Van Rensselaer family

 

Folder: 28        Van Schaick (New York)

 

Folder: 29        Van Vechten  (New York)

 

Folder: 30        Veeder (NewYork)

 

Folder: 31        Ver Planck/Beekman/Corymans (New York)

 

Folder: 32        Vetch, Samuel

 

Folder: 33        Waldron, Pieter

 

Folder: 34        Wendell family: photographs, portraits and genealogy

 

Folder: 35        Williams, Micah

 

Folder: 36        Willson family

 

 

Box 47: Genealogy notes

 

Folder: 1          Genealogy: Armistead family

 

Folder: 2          Genealogy: Beck, Caleb

 

Folder: 3          Genealogy: Belcher

 

Folder: 4          Genealogy: Browne of Newbury       

 

Folder: 5          Genealogy: Christophers

           

Folder: 6          Genealogy: Coddington        

 

Folder: 7          Genealogy: Coffin

 

Folder: 8          Genealogy: Ellery

 

Folder: 9          Genealogy: Erving-King family

 

Folder: 10        Genealogy: Frost-Beck

 

Folder: 11        Genealogy: Gansevoort         

 

Folder: 12        Genealogy: Gibbs, Robert

 

Folder: 13        Genealogy: Halsey

 

Folder: 14        Genealogy: Jaquelin

 

Folder: 15        Genealogy: Livingston family

 

Folder: 16        Genealogy: Myndertse family

 

Folder: 17        Genealogy: Nicholson

 

Folder: 18        Genealogy: Partridge family

 

Folder: 19        Genealogy: Partridge (Brown)

 

Folder 20:        Genealogy: Schuyler

 

Folder: 21        Genealogy: Sewall, Samuel

 

Folder: 22        Genealogy: Ten Broeck

 

Folder: 23        Genealogy: Titcomb

 

Folder 24:        Genealogy: Van Alen family

 

Folder: 25        Genealogy: Veeder

 

Folder: 26        Genealogy: Winthrop, Wait Still

 

 

Box 48: Genealogy notes

 

Folder 1:          Genealogy: Albany, New York

 

Folder: 2          Genealogy: Albany, New York

 

Folder 3:          Genealogy: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, land

 

Folder 4:          Genealogy: research notes

 

Folder 5:          Genealogy: Salisbury/Amesbury, Massachusetts

 

 

           

Box 49: Index Cards Alphabetical by Subject – Place of Topic – Subject

 

 

Box 50: Index cards

 

File: 1              To File

 

File: 2              Dresser Intro.

 

File: 3              Augustine Clement

 

File: 4              Rich Mather – empty

 

File: 5              ST. Names & ID Boston

 

File: 6              Winthrop Subj.

 

File: 7              Curwin

 

File: 8              Simon Bradstreet

 

File: 9              Mason/Frbake c 1670

 

File: 10            Patteshall – Subj’s

 

File: 11            Rawson Subj

 

File: 12            John Cotton

 

File: 13            Patridge

 

File: 14            Belcher Gen

 

File: 15            Plane ARR

 

File: 16            Partridge Family other than immediate one or unidentified

 

File: 17            Burnet – St, Hs

 

File: 18            Duyckinck – Schenectady

 

File: 19            Evert Duyckinck III

 

File: 20            Gerrit Duyckinck

 

File: 21            Duyckinck Relat.

 

File: 22            Heaten

 

File: 23            John Watson

 

File: 24            V. Reuss.L.

 

File: 25            Macillworth

 

File: 26            L. Kilburn

 

File: 27            John Durand

 

File: 28            Aetatus SUAE

 

File: 29            P. Vauder Lyn

 

File: 30            H. Misc.

 

File: 31            Bridges ATTRT VA

 

File: 32            Copies

 

File: 33            Emmons

 

File: 34            Nicholson

 

File: 35            Pearson

 

File: 36            Wendell Family in Boston

 

File: 37            Parker Noyles

 

File: 38            New England

 

File: 39            C. Cnizisto Papers

 

 

Box 51: Index cards

 

File: 1              Morrison – Maritime History of Mass.

 

File: 2              Books to See

 

File: 3              Bibliography

 

File: 4              N A – I/Geog Negrors

 

File: 5              Partidge

 

File: 6              N H Politics & Trade

 

File: 7              Sewall

 

File: 8              Pro Galley

 

File: 9              Rhode Island

 

File: 10            Nathaniel Carter

 

File: 11            Partridge General

 

File: 12            Andrew Faneuil & other family members

 

File: 13            Samuel Partridge

 

File: 14            1698  Boston Census

 

File: 15            Boston Fire 1760

 

File: 16            T. Child

 

File: 17            Dering Boston

 

File: 18            Drew

 

File: 19            English School

 

File: 20            Fitch

 

File: 21            Other Boston Limners

 

File: 22            Frames

 

File: 23            Intro

 

File: 24            New Hampshire Historical Society

 

File: 25            Oliver Family

 

File: 26            PTRS Wigmakers

 

File: 27            Partr. Newport

 

File: 28            Bost/Bldg. PPRM

 

File: 29            Dec, Casen

 

File: 30            Japanning – Boston

 

File: 31            Original Paint Otis House

 

File: 32            London

 

File: 33            McPhaedris; -Warner House, Portsmouth, N. H.

 

File: 34            Maps

 

File: 35            John Mico Family

 

File: 36            James Smith

 

File: 37            Jacob Wendell

 

File: 38            Wentworth

 

File: 39            N El Merchants

 

File: 40            Boston VES.ENT.

 

File: 41            Danker Boston Ref.

 

File: 42            Wendell Boston

 

 

Box 52: Index cards

 

File: 1              ALB

 

File: 2              Penhallow

 

File: 3              Misc. 3” x 5” file cards.

 

File: 4              Questions

 

File: 5              Nathanel Noyes and other family members

 

File: 6              Wm. Titcomb

 

File: 7              Henry Somerby

 

File: 8              Somerby – Bonner

 

File: 9              Caleb Beck

 

File: 10            Badger – Greenleaf

 

File 11             Pollard?

 

 

Box 53: Index cards

 

File: 1              Pierpont/Pepperell/Pollard

 

File: 2              Halsey

 

File: 3              Copies

 

File: 4              Belcher

 

File: 5              Byfiled

 

File: 6              Checkley/Pollard

 

File: 7              Thomas Child

 

File: 8              Collins

 

File: 9              Council of Ministers & John Potter and Family

 

File: 10            Davenport incl. Addington

 

File: 11            Dolbear

 

File: 12            Doty

 

File: 13            Partridge – R. I.

                       

File: 14            Jaffrey

 

File: 15            Lake

 

File: 16            Lynde

 

File: 17            Middlecott

 

File: 18            Opdyke

 

File: 19            Pepperell-Frost

 

File: 20            Pierpont Limner

 

File: 21            Phips

 

File: 22            Dr. Robt. Pik

 

File: 23            Dummer

 

File: 24            Russell

 

File: 25            Saltonsfall/Steward

 

File: 26            Holyoke

 

File: 27            Sewall

 

File: 28            Shrimpton

 

File: 29            Wm. Stoughton

 

File: 30            Wm. Tailer

 

File: 31            Thacher

 

File: 32            Vetch, Sam & Family

 

File: 33            Tyng

 

File: 34            Wibird

 

File: 35            Pierpont

 

File: 36            Partr Subjc. Coddington Family

 

File: 37            Ellery

 

File: 38            E. B. Coffin

 

File: 39            Wilson- ALB

 

File: 40            Partridge, Virginia

 

File: 41            Pelham

 

File: 42            Emmons

 

File: 43            John Smibert

 

File: 44            Wall – Painting N. E.

 

File: 45            Philip Schuyler

 

File: 46            Schuyler Family

 

File: 47            Peter Schuyler

 

File: 48            Van Bergen

 

File: 49            London

 

File: 50            Mid. 17th. C Subjects

 

File: 51            John Bailey

 

File: 52            Baker HVD

 

File: 53            Endecott

 

File: 54            Gibbs

 

File: 55            Mason Subjs.

 

File: 56            Freake

 

File: 57            Wensley Subj.

 

File: 58            Wheelwright? 

 

File: 59            Woodbridge

 

File: 60            Boston – Bradstreet

 

File: 61            New England Subjects

 

File: 62            VNH-SP-COL

 

File: 63            Dorothy Vaughan

 

File: 64            Albany/Shipping

 

File: 65            Jamaica

 

File: 66            Religious Source

 

File: 67            Relig. PIX

 

File: 68            Stained Glass- Holland

 

File: 69            Partridge, New York

 

File: 70            Problems

 

File: 71            Vanderlyn

 

File: 72            Waldron – N H/N Y

 

File: 73            John Watson

 

File: 74            Wendell Family

 

File: 75            Wendells in NYC

 

File: 76            E. Wendell, Albany, refs. Not known as portrait subjects.

 

File: 77            Wendell – Relatives – Evert

 

File: 78            N. P. Wendell

 

File: 79            Wendell, E. V. Horse Trans

 

File: 80            E. V. Wendell Family Portraits

 

File: 81            Harmanus , W. brother of  Evert/

 

 

Box. 54: Index cards

 

File: 1              To File

 

File: 2              VA Subjs. , Unatribu;ted

 

File: 3              Partridge+

 

File: 4              Dr. Peyster

 

File: 5              David D. Schuyler

 

File: 6              Myndert Merchant

 

File: 7              STAATS

 

File: 8              State Museum & Library

 

File: 9              Swarth

 

File: 10            Ten Broeck

 

File. 11            Ten Eyck

 

File: 12            UNID , N. F. Subject

 

File: 13            VanAstyne

 

File: 14            Van Buren

 

File: 16            Van Eps

 

File: 17            Van Reuss

 

File: 18            Van Rensselaer

 

File: 19            Van Schaick

 

File: 20            Van Slyvk

 

File: 21            Van Vechten

 

File: 22            Pieter Waldron

 

File: 23            John Watson

 

File: 24            Bancker

 

File: 25            Poss. Artists

 

File: 26            Bleecker

 

File: 27            Bogardus

 

File: 28            Bruyn

 

File: 29            Chambers

 

File: 30            E. Wendell

 

File: 31            Coeymans/VerPlanck

 

File: 32            Cousturier

 

File: 33            Douw

 

File: 34            Free Men 1720

 

File: 35            Glen

 

File: 36            Goelet

 

File: 37            Hatchments

 

File: 38            John Heaten

 

File: 39            Henry Holland

 

File: 40            By Jews in Albany

 

File: 41            Johannes Lawyer

 

File: 42            Robt. Livingston

 

File: 43            N. Y. Money/Credit

 

File: 44            Negroes NY

 

File: 45            Post

 

File: 46            NYC Professions

 

File: 47            DAV Provoost & Family

 

File: 48            Wind prob . N. Partridge

 

File: 49            Rose

 

File: 50            Roseboom

 

File: 51            Barent/Robt. & John Sanders

 

File: 52            Vauderlyn

 

File: 53            Veeder

 

File: 54            Wendell Ref. School Masters

 

File: 55            Duyckinck

 

File: 56            Artist N. Y.

 

File: 57            Maj. Savage

 

File: 58            Smith/Curwin/Patt/Sav.

 

 

Box: 55: Index cards

 

File: 1              Patridge

 

File: 2              Smith

 

File: 3              Bonner

 

File: 4              Gerrit D. Alto

 

File: 5              Evert III? Alto

 

File: 6              THV6 Type

 

File: 7              Done or Dupes

 

File: 8              Misc.

 

File: 9              Pinetrees & Politics

 

File: 10            Wm & Mary Part Wills

 

File: 11            Bibliography

 

File: 12            N. H. Vessels

 

File: 13            Curacao

 

File: 14            Church

 

File: 15            Female Remedy                                                                                                         

 

                                               

Box 56: Index cards

 

File: 1              Am. Folk Art – Define

 

File: 2              Rejects

 

File: 3              Daily Life – Republic

 

File: 4              School Master + School Girl

 

File: 5              The Illuminator.

 

File: 6              Inspiration honor God

 

File: 7              Colloquial History

 

File: 8              B + W To COMPL

 

File: 9              Fractur

 

File: 10            Genra

 

File: 11            Plate Available COLOR TO COMPL

 

File: 12            Centennial to Yesterday

 

File: 13            Colonial Period

 

File: 14            Nehemiah Partridge

 

File: 15            Misc. File Cards

 

 

 

Box 57-A: Photographs

 

Folder: 1          Photographs: Albany area

                       

Folder: 2          Photographs: black and white negatives                    

           

Folder: 3          Photographs: color negatives

 

Folder: 4          Photographs: color negatives: 18th century New York Limners

 

Folder: 5          Photographs: extras

 

Folder 6:          Photographs: miscellaneous, with some correspondence

 

Folder 7:          Photographs: miscellaneous

 

Folder: 8          Photographs: miscellaneous: New York?

 

Folder: 9          Photographs: miscellaneous: unnamed

 

Folder: 10        Photographs: Virginia, 18th century, not N.P.

 

Folder 11-12:  Photographs: Virginia portraits

 

Folder: 13        Indians: photographs

 

 

Box 57-B: Photographs

 

Folder 1:          Important transparencies:  current projects

           

Folder 2:          Folk art: photographs 

 

Folder 3:          Folk art: reproductions and post cards

 

Folder 4:          Photographs: Museum exhibits

 

Folder 5:          Photographs: portraits of New Yorkers (17th-18th century)

                        [Note: these photos were mounted on boards labeled D I-D XVII.] 

 

Folder 6:          Photographs: assorted photos

 

Folder 7:          Photographs: phots of a party [perhaps for the opening of an exhibit]

 

Folder 8:          Negatives: old advertisements

 

Folder 9:          Ornaments made from a print

 

 

 

Box 58: slides

 

Folder: 1          Slides: Almshouse artists, attributed to C. Hofman, B. John Rasmussen, and unknown                 

                       

Folder: 2          Slides: C. Balis, Bartol, Beardsley, Belknap,  John Bradley, John Brewster

 

Folder: 3          Slides: J. Brown, Brunton

 

Folder: 4          Slides: Winthrop Chandler, J.G. Chandler, Thomas Chambers, William Chappel, Henry Darby, Caleb Davis, Joseph Davis, John Durand, James S. Ellsworth

 

Folder: 5          Slides: Duyckinck

 

Folder: 6          Slides: Erastus Salisbury Field, exhibition list

 

Folder: 7          Slides: Ralph Earl, Augustin Edouart, Jacob Eichhoilte, Geo. Freeman, John Greenwood, Francisco Goya, Goldsmith, Steve Harley, Joseph Heavitt, School of Gustavus Hesselfus, Husdefield, Huge.

 

Folder: 8          Slides: attributed to John Heaten

 

Folder: 9          Slides: Edward Hicks and Thomas Hicks

 

Folder: 10        Slides: Wm. Jennys, John Kane, Arthur Kern, Chas. Bird King, John Kuhn

 

Folder: 11        Slides: Leavitt, Lyman, Mackay, Mark, L. Mix, Moulthrop, Allen Pastel, Charles Peale Polk, Pedi, Pipppin

 

 

 

Box 59: slides

 

Folder: 1          Slides: attributed to Jacob Maentel

 

Folder: 2          Slides: Nehemiah Partridge

 

Folder: 3          Slides: unknown subjects: miscellaneous body parts, poss. N. Partridge

           

Folder: 4          Slides: attributed to Ammi Phillips

 

Folder: 5          Slides: Pierpont/Savage, Pepperell/Frost, Pollard Limners, unknown Limners

 

Folder: 6          Slides: Wm. Matthew Prior, P. Seifert, Isaac Sheffield, John Smith, T. Smith, Joseph Stock

 

Folder: 13        Slides: Shute

 

Folder: 14        Slides: attributed to Pieter Vanderlyn

 

Folder: 15        Slides: Jeremiah Theus, Walton, W. T. Webb, Anna Williams, M. Williams, E. B. Wilson

 

Folder: 16        Slides: possible Watson

 

 

Box 60: slides

 

Folder: 1          Slides: Subjects  A-E

 

Folder: 2          Slides: Subjects  F-J

 

Folder: 3          Slides: Subjects K-S

 

Folder: 4          Slides: Subjects T-Z

 

Folder: 5          Slides: Smith Family

 

Folder: 6          Slides: Children

 

Folder: 7          Slides: Women, Women & child

 

Folder: 8          Slides: Families

 

Folder: 9          Slides: Men

 

 

Box 61: slides

 

Folder: 1          Slides: Advertisements

 

Folder: 2          Slides: Decorated chests, needlework, decorative plate

 

Folder: 3          Slides: Documents

 

Folder: 4          Slides: Fraktur

 

Folder: 5          Slides: Landscapes

 

Folder: 6          Slides: Miscellaneous

 

Folder: 7          Slides: Patriotic Themes

 

Folder: 8          Slides: Religious Paintings

 

Folder: 9          Slides: Sculpture

 

Folder: 10        Slides: Shaker

 

Folder: 11        Slides: Ships, James Bard, J. V. Cornell, Beck, Wilson, T. Chambers, unknown

 

Folder: 12        Slides: Sketches, Pen & Ink

 

Folder: 13        Slides: Warner House Portsmouth, N. H.

 

 

Box 62: Duplicate Slides

 

 

Boxes 63-66: postcards, photographs, and negatives

 

            A miscellaneous assortment of postcards, photographs, and negatives.  Many of the postcards are from Europe; none of these have messages.  A number of the photographs were of Rockefeller Tavern as it was being restored by Mary Black and her friend.  Some images of folk art are found in these boxes.

 

            Box 66 contains contact prints and some negatives which were found in a box labeled “Beyond the Golden Door.”  Many of these photos are copies of period photos detailing the immigrant, particularly the Jewish immigrant, experience in New York City.  The box also had a label for New-York Historical Society; perhaps these were photos used in an exhibit at that institution. 

 

 

Box 67:

 

Folder: 1          American Advertising Posters of the Nineteenth Century, by Mary Black

 

Folders 2-3:     “American Folk Painting”: article from Mary Black’s book, with photo posters

 

Folder 4:          American Institute of Interior Designers: citation of merit present to Mary Black, for work done at AARFAC, 1961

 

Folder 5:          Arts in Virginia: issues with articles by Mary Black

 

Folder 6:          Erastus Salisbury Field, by Mary Black

 

Folder 7:          “A Folk Art Whodunit”: article by Mary Black, from Art in America

 

Folder 8:          The Lower East Side: Portal to American Life: annotated by Mary Black

 

Folder 9:          Museum of American Folk Art: santos installation: photos

 

Folder 10:        Old New York in Early Photographs, by Mary Black, with loose photographs and notes

 

Folder 11:        Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York: annotated by Mary Black

 

Folder 12:        A Remnant in the Wilderness: New York Dutch Scripture History Paintings of the Early Eighteenth Century, by Mary Black

 

Folder 13:        Photo: advertising exhibit “Small Folk”        

 

Folder 14:        Photographs of paintings, chiefly by Ammi Phillips: “Wife of The Journalist,”  “Mr. Goodrich,” “Girl with Coral Necklace,” and girl sitting at a keyboard instrument and holding music entitled “The Silver Moon” (artist not identified)

 

Folder 15:        Prints: drawings by Lewis

 

Folder 16:        “American Folk Art from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection,” Williamsburg, Virginia: 78 RPM Record and typed copy of script, both to accompany a filmstrip (no copy of filmstrip in this collection), 1964

 

 

Volumes on shelf:

 

Simplicity, A Grace: Jacob Maentel in Indiana, by Mary Black

 

Pigs & Eagles, by Avon Neal and Fritz Eichenberg.  (North Brookfield, Mass.: Thistle Hill Press, 1978).  Ecological parable by Neal, wood engraving by Eichenberg, in slip case.

 

 

 

Box 68:

 

38 floppy computer disks (8.5” wide), labeled as to contents

 

 

Box 69: Audio tapes and Printouts from computer disks (in folders as follows:)

 

Audio tape 3-18-73: Conservation with Faith Andrews and Mary Black; also an unlabeled tape which might be the same thing;

 

Printouts:

 

Folder: 1          Black, Mary, Resume

 

Folder: 2          Blunt, John

 

Folder: 3          Cole, Thomas: “The Garden of Eden”: correspondence with Nicholas Hubby        

 

Folder: 4          Doughty and Cole paintings in the Gray-Story family collection

 

Folder: 5          Duyckincks

 

Folder: 6          Ekert House, Germantown, New York

 

Folder: 7          Field, Erastus Salisbury

 

Folder: 8          “Harme Gansevoort,” by Pieter Vanderlyn

 

Folder: 9          Macphaedris-Warner House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

 

Folder: 10        Mount Lebanon Shaker Village

 

Folder: 11        Partridge, Nehemiah

 

Folder: 12        Rockefeller genealogy, history of Rockefeller Tavern

 

Folder: 13        Solomon, Peter, correspondence to

 

Folder: 14        “The Tradition of Itinerant Painting Arrives between Rivers”

 

Folder: 15        miscellaneous correspondence re: queries

 

 

Boxes 70-71:

 

40 floppy computer disks (5.5” wide), some labeled as to contents (most just labeled “backup disk); some have had files printed out, and these print outs are in Box 67

 

 

Box 72: Scrapbooks/photo albums which have been disassembled

 

Folders 1-9:     The scrapbook/photo albums were in distressed conditions, so the materials in them were removed from the pages, or were photocopied, and placed into these folders, maintain original order.  One scrapbook includes information about the Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection at Winterthur.   

 

 

Scrapbooks on shelf: 3 volumes

 

The two red scrapbooks were compiled while Mary Black was working at Colonial Williamsburg, and include articles about her, her work there, and about American folk art.

 

The green scrapbook is embossed on the cover with “Mary’s House.”  In includes photos of a house (presumably hers) and clippings from magazines of various rooms.  (It is best to ignore the ads for the green bathroom fixtures.)