Players Club letters
name: label: Creator
content: Players (Club)
label: Names
content: Beckwith, J. Carroll (James Carroll), 1852-1917
label: Names
content: Bitter, Karl Theodore Francis, 1867-1915
label: Names
content: Blum, Robert Frederick, 1857-1903
label: Names
content: Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893
label: Names
content: Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941
label: Names
content: Brunner, Arnold W. (Arnold William), 1857-1925
label: Names
content: Buel, Clarence Clough, 1850-1933
label: Names
content: Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951
label: Names
content: Coleman, Charles Caryl, 1840-1928
label: Names
content: Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948
label: Names
content: Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958
label: Names
content: Hutton, Lawrence
label: Names
content: Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907
label: Names
content: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
label: Names
content: Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966
label: Names
content: Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911
label: Names
content: Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915
label: Names
content: Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919
label: Names
content: White, Stanford, 1853-1906
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed 1956 by the Archives of American Art with other art-related papers in the Manuscript Division of the New York Public Library. Included in the microfilming project were selected papers of the Art Division and the Prints Division.
creator: label: Creator
content: Players (Club)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: New York City. Founded by Edwin Booth in 1888, the club had among its members many prominent actors, artists and writers.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Reel (ca. 50 items (on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1848-1941
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.players
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel N5 (frames 1331-1376) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the New York Public Library, Manuscript Division.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, mostly from distinguished club members in behalf of candidates for membership, and some membership forms.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondents are: James C. Beckwith, Norman Bel Geddes, Karl Bitter, Robert Blum, Gutzon Borglum, Arnold W. Brunner, Clarence C. Buel, Gelett Burgess, Charles C. Coleman, Royal Cortissoz, Lawrence Hutton, Richard Mansfield, Thomas Nast, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, F. Hopkinson, J. Alden Weir, and Stanford White.