Parton family papers
name: label: Creator
content: Parton family
label: Names
content: Parton, Arthur, 1842-1914
label: Names
content: Parton, Ernest, 1845-1933
label: Names
content: Parton, George, 1812-1873
label: Names
content: Parton, Henry Woodbridge, 1858-1933
place: label: Place
content: White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Marine painters
label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: Landscape painting
label: Topic
content: Marine painting
label: Topic
content: Hudson River school of landscape painting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reel 723 lent for microfilming by Sonia Parton Whelan, 1974. Material on reel 3894 and unmicrofilmed Parton family biography were donated 1981 and 1988 by Charles Parton. The award certificates were donated 1992 by Anna W. Saxton. Whelan, Parton and Saxton are the grandchildren of Arthur Parton.
creator: label: Creator
content: Parton family
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: George and Elizabeth Parton, Hudson, N.Y., parents of artists Arthur, Ernest, and Henry; associated with the Hudson River School of painting.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet ((175 items partially microfilmed on 2 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1840-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.partpart
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 723 and 3894 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 723: Originals returned to the lender, Sonia Parton Whelan, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, sketches, a journal, biographical information, printed materials, and photographs of George Parton, and his artist sons Arthur, Ernest, and Henry.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 723: Biographical material, correspondence, and sketches.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3894: Henry Woodbridge Parton's journal of a sketching trip to the White Mountains, N.H. with Arthur and Ernest Parton, 1871; correspondence; 22 sketches, undated and 1866-1877, 5 signed by Ernest Parton; biographical material; clippings and magazine articles; and two photographs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Photocopy of the section of the Parton family biography written by Charles Parton; and award certificates from the Universal Exposition, Paris, to Arthur Parton, 1895, Ernest Parton, 1895 and 1900, and from the World's Columbian Exposition to Ernest, 1893.