Bertha Schaefer Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Schaefer, Bertha, 1895-1971
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content: Bertha Schaefer papers and gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-3, 6-7, OV 8-9)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1914-1971
label: Date
content: bulk 1947-1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.schabert, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series consists of 6 subseries and is arranged alphabetically when possible, and chronologically thereafter.

2.1: Client Files, circa 1947-1965

2.2: Financial Material, 1930-1968 

2.3: Photographs, circa 1947-1959 

2.4: Biographical Material, 1914-1971 

2.5: Writings, 1947-1965

2.6: Printed Material, 1922-1971
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Included here are materials pertaining to Bertha Schaefer as an interior designer, furniture designer, and designer of innovative lighting. 

Client files contain individuals and companies for whom Schaefer worked as an interior designer, and includes sketches, blueprints, fabric, tile, carpet, wallpaper, and color samples; financial material contains invoices and supplies purchased for interior designing projects. An extensive number of photographs of interior design spaces include oversized prints, stereo slides, and color transparencies.  Biographical material contains certificates of graduation, awards, recognitions, invitations, resumes, and death condolences. Writings contain annotated typescripts and drafts of lectures and speeches given by Bertha Schaefer and David Porter; printed material concerns interior design shows, furniture designs, lighting designs, biographical sketches, all in newspaper or magazine clippings. Note that some of the printed material may also contain Bertha Schaefer Gallery references.