Women artists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the attainments of women as artists. Works dealing with women as represented in art are entered under Women in art.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Brewster family papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1309
Overview:
The papers contain diaries, artwork, and an album of Elizabeth Bates Brewster and her daughters Ada Augusta Brewster, Mary Brewster Long, and Elizabeth Brewster Scribner. Subjects discussed include child rearing and family life, nursing during the Civil War, school teaching, and life in Nevada and California.
Dates:
1838-1879
Humanities and Fine Arts Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 590
Overview:
An artificial collection of papers of Yale faculty members and students active in the academic fields of fine arts, literature, history, linguistics, classics, music, and architecture. Correspondence, writings, clippings, notes, photographs, and miscellanea are included.
Dates:
1813-1965
Pierce family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 633
Overview:
The two principal figures in these papers are David French Pierce, a Congregational minister of Southbury, Conn. and his daughter, Anna Harriet Pierce. Included are manuscripts by David F. Pierce, recounting his visions. The papers of Anna H. Pierce, who was an artist, contain her reminiscences as an art student as well as programs of exhibitions and photographs of her paintings. Also included are memoirs of another daughter, Mary Elizabeth, of her life on a New England farm together with...
Dates:
1898-1961
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Pierce family papers
Rose Pastor Stokes papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 573
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, clippings, and other papers of Rose Pastor Stokes, writer, artist, and radical political and social activist. Much of the material relates to Stokes's activities and involvement with various radical groups, including the American Communist Party and the Socialist Party. The correspondence reflects these involvements and contains many letters exchanged with American political radicals, labor leaders, and anarchists from the early...
Dates:
1900-1993
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Rose Pastor Stokes papers
Mabel Loomis Todd papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 496C
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, notebooks, diaries, lectures, financial records, scrapbooks, subject files, and memorabilia documenting the personal life and professional career of Mabel Loomis Todd. Correspondence and diaries detail Todd's personal attitudes and feelings toward her family, her relationship with William Austin Dickinson, her travels with her husband, David Peck Todd, and other matters. Legal and financial papers document court battles over her status as editor of Emily...
Dates:
1863-1948
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Mabel Loomis Todd papers
Webster family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 527
Overview:
Principal figures in these papers are Noah Webster, the lexicographer, and his son William Greenleaf Webster. Also included are papers pertaining to the G. C. Merriam Company and the publication of Noah Webster's dictionaries and grammars. Family correspondence includes twenty-two letters written by Noah Webster to his son between 1835 and 1843 while the latter was in Cincinnati, Ohio, and La Fayette, Indiana, selling his father's books. The papers of William Greenleaf Webster make up...
Dates:
Circa 1764-1909, bulk 1831-1873
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Webster family papers
Linus Yale papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 872
Overview:
Family and business correspondence and financial records largely relating to the invention of the Yale Lock and Linus Yale's attempts to establish a sucessful business in Newport, New York, and Philadelphia. The papers of the Yale Lock company continue after the death of Linus Yale and contain documents on its financial reorganization and on suits against infringements of Yale Patents (1868-1870).Yale's intellectual and social life is revealed in his correspondence with Henry and Walter Brown,...
Dates:
1821-1873
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Linus Yale papers