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Collection Title:
Creator:
Huntington, Anna Hyatt, 1876-1973
Inclusive Dates:
1887-1973
Abstract:
Papers of the American sculptor, specializing in equestrian figures and animals. Correspondence, 1887-1965; diaries, 1925-1958; articles; exhibition catalogs; financial and legal material; manuscripts; and photographs.
Type of Material:
16mm (photographic film size)
Address books.
Annual reports.
Articles.
Awards.
Bank statements.
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Calendars (documents)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Exhibition catalogs.
Minutes (administrative records)
Photographs.
Poems.
Posters.
Press releases.
Scrapbooks.
Slides (photographs)
Studbooks.
Subject:
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Artists.
Sculptors.
Art -- Sculptors
Animal sculptors -- United States.
Animals in art.
Art -- Collectors and collecting.
Art, American -- 20th century.
Art museums.
Art patronage.
Bronze sculpture, American.
Scottish deerhound.
Dog breeders.
Endowments.
Equestrian statues.
Hispanists, United States.
Monuments.
Public art.
Public sculpture.
Sculptors -- United States.
Sculpture, American -- 20th century.
Sculpture gardens.
Upper class -- United States.
Women -- Biography.
Women and animals.
Women art patrons.
Women artists -- United States.
Women philanthropists.
Women sculptors -- United States.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Dufek, George J. (George John), 1903-
Inclusive Dates:
1946-1971
Abstract:
The career of Admiral George John Dufek (1903-1977) in the U.S. Navy included work with the U.S. Antarctic Service (1939-1941), Arctic Task Force 68 (1946), Antarctic Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and Arctic Task Force 80 (1948). After 1955 Dufek commanded Operation Deep Freeze, which provided support for US IGY research programs, and in 1956 he became also U.S. Antarctic Projects Officer. After retiring in 1959 he became Director of the Mariners' Museum in Virginia. Cf. Peter J. Beck, Polar Record, v. 23, no. 145 (1987). The collection includes clippings, photographs, official reports, draft speeches, personal and official correspondence, articles, and scrapbooks. Files relating to Operation Deep Freeze include chronologies, record books, reports, photographs and scrapbooks. There is also some material relating to Dufek's other Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, however these operations are less fully documented.
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Phonograph records.
Photographs.
Press releases.
Scrapbooks.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Arctic regions.
Antarctica.
Polar regions.
Admirals.
Military history
Science and medicine
Admirals -- United States.
Scientific expeditions -- Antarctica.
Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions.
Scientific expeditions -- Polar regions.
International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958.
Transportation, Military -- Cold weather conditions -- Research.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Huntington, Archer M. (Archer Milton), 1870-1955
Inclusive Dates:
1919-1957
Abstract:
Papers of the American philanthropist, poet. Correspondence; secretarial daybooks, 1922-1957; manuscripts; legal and financial papers. Organizational correspondence includes that of the Academy of American Poets, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Geographical Society, American Museum of Natural History, American Numismatic Society, Brookgreen Gardens, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Hispanic Society of America, Mariners' Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of the American Indian, National Academy of Design, National Arts Club, National Sculpture Society, New-York Historical Society, New York Zoological Society, and Yale University.
Type of Material:
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Bank statements.
Correspondence.
Subject:
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Philanthropists.
Poets.
Literature -- American Poetry
Art -- Sculptors
Animal sculptors -- United States.
Animals in art.
Art -- Collectors and collecting.
Art, American.
Art, American -- 20th century.
Art museums.
Art patronage.
Bronze sculpture, American.
Endowments.
Hispanists -- United States.
Monuments.
Philanthropists -- United States.
Public art.
Public sculpture.
Sculptors -- United States.
Sculpture, American.
Sculpture, American -- 20th centur.y
Sculpture gardens.
Upper class -- United States.