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:         Sullivan, Mary Hammond                              

Title:               Papers

Dates:             ca.1969-ca.1990

Call No.:         Col. 773

Acc. No.:        06x32; 14x60

Quantity:        79 boxes

Location:        15 H 1-5

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Mary-Hammond McGee Sullivan (1910-2005) was a guide at Winterthur Museum for forty years, retiring in 1995.  She developed a special interest in Oriental rugs and did a great deal of research into that topic.  She was a member of the New York and Washington Haji Baba Rug Society.  Mrs. Sullivan was also interested in Pennsylvania German furniture.  She co-authored an article on that topic for the May 1973 issue of The Magazine Antiques, as well as a book entitled Decorated Furniture of the Schwaben Creek Valley, published by the Pennsylvania German Society in 1980. 

 

Mrs. Sullivan was born in South Carolina in 1910, the daughter of Eliza Hammond and Joseph David McGee.  She was a graduate of Newcomb College of Tulane University.  She was married to Matthew Charles Sullivan; they had two children.  Mary-Hammond Sullivan died on July 25, 2005, at age 94, in Wilmington, Delaware.  She visited 123 countries and both the North and South Poles during her lifetime. 

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Papers reflect Mrs. Sullivan’s interests in Oriental rugs and in the arts of the Pennsylvania Germans.  Included are her outlines for graduate courses in the decorative arts; articles about Oriental arts and rugs; materials from lectures and workshops given by May H. Beattie, a renowned expert in the field of Oriental rugs; information about Oriental rugs found in the collections of Winterthur Museum and other museums; and pamphlets, articles, and notes about rugs from different parts of the world, particularly the Middle East.  As well, the collection includes information about Pennsylvania German decorative arts; a lecture about Shakers; and other information about textiles, weaving, and embroideries.  Also included are a very large number of slides on various topics, but focusing on Oriental rugs and Pennsylvania German decorative arts (and its European origins).  Slides of and notes about her trips to the Middle East, Central Asia, India, Egypt, Europe, and other places are also found.

           

 

ORGANIZATION

 

Papers are divided into two series: Series I: General files; Series II: Slides.  In Series I, the files from accession 06x32 are in boxes 1-7, while the files from accession 14x60 are in boxes 8-9.  All slides in Series II are from accession 14x60.          

 

 

PROVENANCE

           

Both accessions: gift of Mary-Earle Farrell, daughter of Mary Hammond Sullivan.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

People:

            Beattie, May H.

 

Topics:

            Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

Rugs, Oriental.

Rugs, Oriental – Photographs.

            Rugs, Islamic.

            Rugs, Islamic – Photographs.

            Furniture, Pennsylvania Dutch.

            Decorative arts, Pennsylvania Dutch.

            Shakers.

            Central Asia – Photographs.

            Egypt – Photographs.

            India – Photographs.

            Middle East – Photographs.

            Notes.

            Articles.

           

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 15 H 1-5

 

 

Box 1: (acc. 06x32)

 

Folder 1:          Accessions, dealers’ bills, and correspondence

                                    [these notes appear to be about H.F. du Pont’s purchases of rugs, and the information is apparently from his day books]

 

Folder 2:          ARH 667 (graduate course in Oriental rugs taught by M-H Sullivan for University of Delaware)

 

Folder 3:          ARH 672 (graduate course in Oriental rugs taught by M-H Sullivan for University of Delaware)

 

Folder 4:          ARH 681-682: course in Oriental rugs taught for Conservation Fellows; includes bibliography and photocopies of slides shown in class

 

Folder 5:          Articles: authors, A-D

                                    [articles chiefly on Oriental carpets and Middle Eastern art]

 

Folder 6:          Articles: authors, E-F

                                    [articles chiefly on Oriental carpets and Middle Eastern art]

 

Folder 7:          Articles: author: Ellis, Charles Grant

                                    [articles chiefly on Oriental carpets and Middle Eastern art]

 

Folder 8:          Articles: authors, G-Z

                                    [articles chiefly on Oriental carpets and Middle Eastern art]

 

 

Box 2: (acc. 06x32)

 

Folder 1:          Articles: author: Gombos, Karoly;

                                    Includes: Old Turkmenian Rugs

 

Folder 2:          Balkan weaving;

                        Includes: Folk Costumes of Yugoslavia;

                                    Romanian Folk Rugs;

                                    Islam in the Balkans

 

Folders 3-4:     Beattie, May H.: articles

                        Includes: Carpets of Central Persia …: Proceedings of the Colloquium…

 

Folder 5:          Beattie, May H.: lectures

 

Folder 6:          Beattie, May H.: notes

 

Folder 7:          Beattie, May H.: reviews

 

 

Box 3: (acc. 06x32)

 

Folder 1:          “Colorful America: Folk and Country Arts, to 1860,” loan exhibit at Delaware Antiques Show, 1969

 

Folder 2:          Conservation of rugs and textiles      

 

Folder 3:          Dyes;

                        Includes Indigo;

                                    Weaving and Dyeing Processes in Early New York;

                                    Dye Plants and Dyeing;

                                    Colour from Plants;

                                    The Use of Vegetable Dyes;

                                    Neue Anatolische Dorfteppiche mit Naturfarben

 

Folder 4:          Embroideries: Uzbek, Greek, Indian

                        Includes: Epirus and Ionian Islands Embroideries

 

Folder 5:          Ettinghausen lecture notes (Sherrill)

 

Folder 6:          Fibers: sheep’s wool

 

Folder 7:          Gervers-Molnar, Veronika:  The Hungarian Szür (monograph)

 

Folder 8:          “Henry Francis du Pont as a Collector of Oriental Rugs”

                                    [article not signed by probably by M-H Sullivan]

 

Folder 9:          Hottenstein House

 

Folder 10:        “Introduction to American Antiques”: course manual

 

Folder 11:        “Introduction to American Antiques”: talks given by Winterthur guides [including M-H Sullivan, speaking on folk art], YWCA Newark center, winter 1960

 

 

Box 4: (acc. 06x32)

 

Folder 1:          Islamic art and architecture

 

Folders 2-3:     “Journeys to Cathay 

 

Folder 4:          Molas

 

Folder 5:          Museum inventories - Europe

 

Folder 6:          Museum inventories – U.S. and Canada

 

Folder 7:          Pennsbury Manor Forum

 

Folder 8:          Pennsylvania German art: Fellows talk (1966 et seq.) – rough copy

 

Folder 9:          Pennsylvania German art: outlines for Fellows talk

 

Folder 10:        Pennsylvania German folk art: talk, November 19, 1964

 

Folder 11:        Pennsylvania German furniture

 

Folders 12:      Pennsylvania Germans (continued in next box);

                        Includes Bindnagles Church;

                                    Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Arts;

                                    Pennsylvania German Arts and Crafts: A Picture Book

 

 

Box 5: (acc. 06x32)

 

Folders 1-2:     Pennsylvania Germans

 

Folder 3:          Persian art;

                        Includes 1000 Years of Persian Art

 

Folder 4:          Rug workshops at Winterthur

 

Folder 5:          Rugs: Cairene [Egypt]

 

Folder 6:          Rugs: The Caucasus

 

Folder 7:          Rugs: characteristics (compiled by M.H. Sullivan)

 

Folder 8:          Rugs: Chinese

 

Folder 9:          Rugs: European, English carpets, French, Turkey

 

Folder 10:        Rugs in paintings;

                        Includes Carpets in Paintings, by John Mills

                        [see also slides]

 

Folder 11:        Rugs in Winterthur Museum

                        [see also slides]

 

 

Box 6: (acc. 06x32)

 

Folder 1:          Rugs: Indian and Bidriware;

                        Includes: The Girdlers Carpet

 

Folder 2:          Rugs: miscellaneous information

 

Folder 3:          Rugs: North Africa

 

Folder 4:          Rugs: Prayer

 

Folder 5:          Rugs: quotations

 

Folder 6:          Rugs: South and Central America, Navajo

                        Includes: Ancient Peruvian Textiles;

                                    Textiles of Ancient Peru

 

Folder 7:          Rugs: Spanish

 

Folder 8:          Rugs: Turkoman/Turkestan

                                    Includes: East of Turkestan

 

Folder 9:          Shaker lecture (original and copy)

                                    [Shaker slides are filed in Series II]

 

Folder 10:        Shaker lecture: first, Cheltenham

 

Folder 11:        Shaker lecture: notes

 

Folder 12:        Sullivan, Mary Hammond: book reviews

 

Folder 13:        Sullivan, Mary Hammond: lecture outlines and notes

 

Folder 14:        Tapestries;

                        Includes: Egyptian Tapestries … ;

                                    Tapestry Primer;

                                    The History of Jacob

 

 

Box 7: (acc. 06x32)

 

Folder 1:          Textiles: techniques

 

Folder 2:          Winterthur: reproductions

 

Folder 3:          Winterthur: research

 

Folder 4:          Work sheets

 

 

Box 8: (acc. 14x60)

 

Folder 1:          “Art of the Tent” exhibit: slide list

[slides are in boxes of slides]

 

Folder 2:          Australia: notes

[see also slides]

 

Folder 3:          Correspondence, 1973-1978

                                    [note: postcards with no messages on them are filed under Postcards]

 

Folder 4:          Tour: 1970: Orient and Expo 70

 

Folders 5-6:     Tour: 1973: Syria, Iraq

 

Folder 7:          Tour: 1975: Afghanistan, Russia

 

Folder 8:          Tour: 1975: The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Denmark, etc.

 

Folder 9:          Tour: 1978-1979: Ontario: Mennonite settlements (1978) and Pennsylvania German (1979)

 

Folder 10:        Tour: 1980: Germany, Switzerland, Austria

 

 

Box 9: (acc. 14x60)

 

Folder 1:          “British Plate in the Ashmolean Museum”

 

Folder 2:          negatives (not identified) and photographs

 

Folder 3:          Photographs: Turkey and Pennsylvania German arts and crafts

 

Folder 4:          Postcards

                        [note: no messages on these; other postcards are in Correspondence]

 

Folder 5:          Rug tour lecture: slide list

                        [see slides in Series II, Box 25]

 

Folder 6:          Spain and Portugal: notes

 

Folder 7:          Trade cards: rug dealers in Afghanistan


Series II: Slides (all slides are accession 14x60)

 

 

Box 1: Rugs

            Afghanistan

            Armenia

            Balkans [see also Transylvania]

            Caucasian rugs

 

Boxes 2-3: Rugs

            Caucasian rugs

 

Box 4: Rugs

            Caucasian rugs

            Chinese

            East Turkestan

 

Box 5: Rugs

            East Turkestan

            Egypt

            Greek

            Indian

 

Box 6: Rugs

            Indian

            Indo-Persian

            Kashmir

            Morocco

            Persian

 

Boxes 7-11: Rugs

            Persian

 

Box 12: Rugs

            Persian

Portuguese (so-called)

Spanish

 

Box 13: Rugs

            Syrian

            Tibetan rugs

            Transylvanian [see also Balkans]

            Turkoman

 

Box 14: Rugs

            Turkoman

 

Boxes 15-18: Rugs

            Turkish rugs

 

Box 19: Rugs

            Turkish

            Miscellaneous

            Unidentified

            Winterthur rugs

 

Box 20: rugs, techniques

            Winterthur rugs;

            Techniques: Looms

 

Box 21: Techniques

            Looms

            Spinning and weaving

 

Box 22: Techniques

            Spinning and weaving

            Dyeing and dyes

 

Box 23: techniques, etc.

            Dyeing and dyes

            Knots

            Fibers

            Rugs in paintings

 

Box 24: rugs

            Rugs in paintings

            Rug lecture (no title)

 

Box 25: rugs

            Rug lecture (no title)

            Rug tour lecture

            Rug collectors

            Washing and mending rugs

 

Box 26: travel

            Afghanistan

           

Box 27: travel

            Afghanistan;

Caucasus;

Georgia;

Iran (1967)

 

Box 28: travel

            Iran;

Iraq

 

Box 29: travel

            Iraq;

            Persia [Sullivan’s term]

 

Box 30: travel

            Persia;

            Saudi Arabia;

Syria

 

Box 31: travel

            Syria

 

Box 32: travel

            Syria (includes architecture);

            Turkestan;

Turkey;

 

Box 33: travel

            Turkey;

Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara)

 

Box 34: travel

Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara);

            Middle East;

            Israel

 

Box 35: travel

            Egypt (1967);

 

Box 36: travel

            Egypt;

            Morocco;

            Tunisia;

            Tribal migrations

 

Box 37: travel

            China and Turkestan lecture;

            China;

Tibet

 

Box 38: travel

            Tibet;

            India

 

Box 39: travel

            India

 

Boxes 40-41: travel

            Japan

 

Box 42: travel

            Australian connection;

            Tahiti;

            Fiji;

            Hawaii

 

Box 43: travel

            Thailand and Mekong River;

            Macao;

            Hong Kong

 

Box 44: travel

            Hong Kong;

            Austria;

            France: Strasbourg and Alsace;

            Germany

 

Box 45: travel

            Germany;

            Germany: background;

            Greece

 

Box 46: travel

            Greece;

            Holland/Netherlands;

            Hungary;

            Italy;

            Liechtenstein;

            Poland;

            Romania/Transylvania;

            Spain

 

Box 47: travel

            Spain;

            Switzerland

 

Box 48: travel

            Switzerland;

            U.S.S.R. (includes a museum in Moscow);

            Yugoslavia;

            Background: Europe

 

Box 49:

            Animals (chiefly sheep, goats, camels);

            Assyrian carvings (British Museum);

Bazaars, shops, markets;

            Bible and Koran;

 

Box 50:

            Caravanserai;

            Cartoons;

            Ceramics and porcelain: American;

Ceramics: Chinese (may include some Chinese export porcelain);

Ceramics: English;

Ceramics: Wedgwood factory;

Ceramics: Wedgwood clay pits in Franklin, North Carolina;

Ceramics and porcelain: Europe (Alsace, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Poland, Romania, Strasbourg faience);

 

Box 51:

Ceramics and porcelain: Europe (Alsace, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Poland, Romania, Strasbourg faience);

Ceramics and porcelain: Meissen and Dresden

Ceramics: Japanese;

Ceramics and porcelain: Ontario Mennonite;

Ceramics: other Asian: Afghanistan, Persian, Turkish

Ceramics: tile work

 

Box 52;

            Ceramics: tile work;

Ceramics: tiles:

            Ceramics: tiles: medallion motif;

            Chinese bronzes and pottery;

Circumcision;

            Cylinder seals;

            Crafts: a-silk

 

Box 53:

            Crafts, sugar-z;

            Dung cakes;

            Floor, painted;

            Fraktur: European and American

 

Box 54:

            Fraktur: European and American;

            Frescoes;

            Funerals;

            Games;

Glass;

            Grave markers and death boards [see also Sculptures];

            Gravestones: Stouchburg, Pan.

            Icons

            Labels, dealers’ [for rugs]

            Lacquer;

            Lighting talk;

 

Box 55:

            Lighting talk;

            Lighting devices in paintings and prints;

            Mamluk arts;

            Maps;

Marble

 

Box 56:

            Metals: American

            Metals: bronzes;

            Metals: Europe

Metals: Ontario: Mennonite and Catholic;

Metals: Pennsylvania German and Moravian;

Monasteries and museums;

Mosaics;

Mosques;

Poplar poles;

Praying;

Rugs on tables and motorcycle;

Sculpture: Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Syria;

 

Box 57:

            Sculpture: Ontario Mennonite;

            Sculpture: Pennsylvania [includes gravestones; see others above];

            Shakers;

            Silver;

            Stone

 

Box 58:

            Tea;

            Tents;

Tents: circular

Tents: “Art of the Tent” (exhibit, 1987)

Textiles: American;

Textiles: Batik;

Textiles: Bed hangings;

            Textiles: costumes;

            Textiles: Embroidery;

 

Box 59: textiles

            Textiles: Embroidery;

Textiles: England;

Textiles: Felt-making

 

Box 60:          

            Textiles: various countries: Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Caucasian, Chinese, Flemish, French, Indian, Jugoslavia/Yugoslavia, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish;

            Wallpaper;

            Woodcarving, sculpture [see also Sculpture];

            Whirling dervish

 

Box 61:

            Pennsylvania Germans: lecture, slides from carousel;

Pennsylvania German background;

Pennsylvania German miscellaneous

 

Box 62:

Pennsylvania German: miscellaneous;

            Bethlehem, Penn.;

            Texas Germans

            Ontario Mennonites: background, architecture, furniture, textiles;

            Architecture: North Carolina Moravian;

 

Box 63: Architecture

            Architecture: North Carolina Moravian;

            Architecture: Pennsylvania (continues in next box)

Box 64:          

Architecture: Pennsylvania (continued from previous box);

            Furniture: Pennsylvania German: Mahantango

Furniture: Reading (Pa.) Museum;

            Pennsylvania German and Moravian;

            Pennsylvania German: Mahantango

 

Box 65:

            Pennsylvania German: Mahantango

            Pennsylvania German: Moravian

            Furniture: American;

           

Box 66:

Furniture: ancient;

            Furniture: Alsace, Austria, England, France, Germany

 

Box 67:

            Furniture: Europe [various countries]

Furniture: Islamic;

            Paintings: American;

            Paintings: Pennsylvania German;

            Paintings: English;

            Paintings: European;

 

Box 68:

            Paintings: miniatures, including Indian

 

 

Box 69:

            Military band, tents, equipment [some, if not all, are Turkish];

            Motifs [various art forms, not just textiles];

            Pazryk artifacts;

 

Box 70:

            Textile Museum;

            Conservation and faking;

            Barnes Foundation and Hanover, Penn.