Alma de Bretteville Spreckels Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Spreckels, Alma de Bretteville, 1881-1968
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content: Alma de Bretteville Spreckels papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sprealma, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Spreckels's professional correspondence include letters from Clifford Dolph, Loie Fuller, Walter Heil, Thomas Carr Howe, Malvina Hoffman, Harry Noyes Pratt, Lloyd LaPage Rollins, and Queen Marie of Romania. Financial and legal records contain price lists, insurance valuations, and agreements for Spreckels's donations and loans to museums and other institutions. Also found are records focusing on the formation and running of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the Maryhill Museum of Art. Included are meeting minutes and registrarial records which include lists of works of art, valuation records, and donation records. Photographs are of Queen Marie of Romania, her artifacts, and two photos of busts by Malvina Hoffman. Provenance records consist of handwritten and typescripts of Queen Marie's recollections and descriptions of each artifact donated.