Biographical Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Beach, Chester, 1881-1956
setName: label: See more items in
content: Chester Beach papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Folders (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1910-1947
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.beacches, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Materials are arranged by document type. Scrapbooks (Series 8) contain additional biographical material, including: exhibitors' cards, certificates of award from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and The Architectural League of New York, and a certificate of election as Academician of the National Academy of Design.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Biographical material consists of biographical notes, identification cards, and a membership certificate from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The legal document concerns a piano-forte - a wedding gift Thomas Leeming shipped to the Beaches in Rome - that would return to New York with them.