Merlin Hardy photographs
name: label: Creator
content: Hardy, Merlin C., 1910-1984
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Calif.)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California
label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- California
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The lender, Lewis Ferbrache, collected papers for AAA from artists and administrators of the various government funded art programs of the Depression. It was part of a larger nation-wide, collecting project, "New Deal and the Arts." After filming, the papers were reutned to Lewis Ferbrache.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hardy, Merlin C., 1910-1984
setName: label: See more items in
content: Merlin Hardy photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Merlin Hardy photographs date from 1941. Found are three photographs of Merlin's paintings and one photograph of Hardy painting a mural.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Merlin C. Hardy (1910-1984) was a painter and muralist from northern California. He particpated in the Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, producing murals in California and Connecticut.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1941
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hardmerl
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the pre-existing microfilm arrangement, the collection is arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was microfilmed on Reel NDA15 and was returned to Lewis Ferbrache after filming. The microfilm was described in a finding aid by Jayna Josefson in 2025 and the microfilm was digitized in 2024 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Collections Information System (CIS) IRM Pool Fund.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The collection has been microfilmed on reel NDA15. The microfilm has been digitized and is available on the Archives of American Art website.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to Lewis Ferbrache after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Merlin Hardy photographs date from 1941. Found are three photographs of Merlin's paintings and one photograph of Hardy painting a mural.