Charles C. Adams papers
name: label: Creator
content: Adams, Charles C. (Charles Christopher), 1873-1955
label: Names
content: American Art Research Council
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content: American Artists' Congress
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content: Federal Art Project (N.Y.)
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content: New York State Museum
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content: United States. Works Progress Administration
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content: Audubon, John Woodhouse, 1812-1862
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content: Audubon, Victor Gifford, 1809-1860
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content: Blatas, Arbit
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content: Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960
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content: Duveen, Albert
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content: Halliday, Thomas
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content: Henry, Edward Lamson, 1841-1919
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content: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
label: Photographer
content: Keyha, Dorian
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content: MacNeil, Hermon Atkins, 1866-1947
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content: Martinez, Albert Looking Elk, -1940 -- Photographs
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content: McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965
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content: Pearson, Ralph M., 1883-1958
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content: Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich
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content: Sharp, Joseph Henry, 1859-1953 -- Photographs
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content: Stone, Harry
topic: label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- New York (State)
label: Occupation
content: Art patrons
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content: Museum directors
label: Topic
content: Folk art
label: Topic
content: Photography -- New York (State)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Charles Adams' daughter Harriet Dyer Adams, 1971 and 1998. The 3 photographs on reel 1817, formerly microfilmed with AAA's Photographs of Artists Collection II, were scanned in 2004 and returned to the papers.
creator: label: Creator
content: Adams, Charles C. (Charles Christopher), 1873-1955
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Museum director, scientist (ecology). Director of the New York State Museum from 1926-1943.
function: label: Function
content: Museums -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.2 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on 4 reels))
label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear Feet (Addition)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1931-1948
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.adamchar
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 110-112 and 1817 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Records kept by Adams while Director of the New York State Museum in Albany, mainly relating to his efforts to build the museum's collections. Included are correspondence, notes, printed materials and photographs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 110-112: Included are files on: the WPA art program, American Artists Congress, and other political art organizations; the Edward Lamson Henry collection, including Elizabeth McCausland's galley sheets of her manuscript on Henry, photos of paintings, comments on her manuscript, and correspondence about other Henry paintings; the sons of John James Audubon, Victor and John Woodhouse; the acquisition of the Thomas Halliday Folk Art Collection, purchased for the Museum by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; Berenice Abbott's photograph projects, including correspondence with Abbott; the formation of the American Art Research Council; war emergency plans; Anna Hyatt Huntington's gift of her sculpture to the museum, and letters from Lewis Hine, Ralph Pearson, Harry Stone, Albert Duveen, Hermon MacNeil and others.
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content: REEL 1817 (fr. 279-282, 1097-1098) AND SCANNED: Three photographs of Indian painter Albert Martinez Castador (Albert Looking Elk), showing him painting, and on a horse; and one of Joseph Henry Sharp painting in his studio, ca. 1912. Photographers unknown.
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content: REEL 1817 One copy print of a photo of Edward Lansom Henry, previously microfilmed under Photos of Artists II, and since been scanned and returned to the Adams collections.
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content: UNMICROFILMED: Publications relating to the WPA, including: Federal Art Centers of New York; Murals for the Community; Art as a Function of Government: A Survey; The WPA Federal Art Project: A Summary of Activities and Accomplishments; Index of American Design; Five-Boro Directory, Art Teaching Division; Art in Democracy; Index of Research Projects: Volume I; and Federal Sponsored Community Art Centers. Also included are a letter from Samuel H. Friedman to Adams regarding a request for some pamphlets; a press release, December 30, 1938 from the WPA Federal Art Project; and a clipping of an article by Emily Genauer regarding the WPA, August 6, 1938.
label: Scope and Contents
content: ADDITION: Original photographs of Adams, including two taken by Berenice Abbott, 1940s, and eight by Dorian (Dorothy) Keyha, 1949; and files, clippings and correspondence, some of it to Adams' daughter, Harriet, related to Abbott.