Professional Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Rathbone, Perry Townsend, 1911-2000
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content: Perry Townsend Rathbone papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear Feet (Box 2-4, OV 6)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-1984
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rathperr, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Files are arranged alphabetically by the museum name or project title, and chronologically within each grouping.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Professional files concern Rathbone's directorship of the St. Louis City Art Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, business trips abroad, special projects, and his affiliations with various arts commissions and arts organizations.  Rathbone took a "European Trip" every year to view artwork and potential acquisitions for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  These travel folders include receipts, lists of contacts and hotels, notebooks and itineraries.  Also found are documents concerning the George Caleb Bingham drawings dispute, the historic Dederer-Blodgett house restoration, the New York World's Fair "Masterpieces of Art" exhibition, and work done in association with the Massachusetts Art Commission and the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Program.  The files hold a range of documents such as correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, inventories, and notes.