Waldo Peirce papers
name: label: Creator
content: Peirce, Waldo, 1884-1970
label: Names
content: American Ambulance Corps (Paris, France)
label: Names
content: Eastman, Max, 1883-1969
label: Names
content: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
label: Names
content: Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971
label: Names
content: Peirce, Alzira, 1908-
label: Names
content: Peirce, Anna Gabrielle, 1937-
label: Names
content: Peirce, Ellen Larsen
label: Names
content: Peirce, Jonathan W.
label: Names
content: Peirce, Michael, 1930-
label: Names
content: Peirce, William, 1930-
label: Names
content: Thomas, Elbert
topic: label: Occupation
content: Watercolorists -- Maine
label: Topic
content: Watercolor painting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reels 162-163 and 1817 lent for microfilming 1972-1973 by Ellen Peirce, Peirce's fourth wife and widow. She donated material on reel 2025 and sketchbooks on reel 3025, 1980-1983. Material on reel 2329 lent for microfilming 1981 by Jonathan W. Peirce, son of Ellen & Waldo Peirce; photographs on reel 3025 and unmicrofimed sketchbooks deposited 1978 by Michael Peirce, son of Alzira & Waldo Peirce; sketch on reel 3470 donated 1977 by John L. Jones.
creator: label: Creator
content: Peirce, Waldo, 1884-1970
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, watercolorist; Searsport, Maine.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.8 Linear Feet ((partially microfilmed on 6 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1903-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.peirwald
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 162-163, 2025, 2329, 3025 & 3470 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels 162-163, 1817: Originals returned to Ellen Peirce after microfilming.
label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 2329: Originals returned to Jonathan W. Peirce after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; scrapbooks; photographs and photo albums; art works; sketchbooks; catalogs; and clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 162-163: 181 letters received and 32 letters sent; a copy of a speech, 1939, by Elbert Thomas on the Jefferson Memorial; watercolors; catalogs; and clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2025: Three pencil drawings and 25 watercolors of Civil Defense classes, Haverstraw, New York, 1942.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2329: Two scrapbooks, 1955-1963, containing illustrated postcards and letters with illustrated envelopes which Peirce sent to his son Jonathan, while Jonathan was in school, a photo and a clipping; illustrated postcards and letters with illustrated envelopes from Peirce to Jonathan; a photo album, 1915-1917, of Peirce and others in the American Ambulance Corps in Paris; and a 1958 photo of Peirce and a 1959 photo of Peirce with Ernest Hemingway.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3025: Five sketchbooks, ca. 1929-1940, containing ca. 500 watercolor, pen and ink, pencil, and charcoal sketches of his children, Mike, Bill, and Anna, his wife, Alzira, scenes at Castine, Maine, friends, and other subjects.and 4 photograph albums, 1903-1956, containing snapshots of Peirce, his family, friends Ernest Hemingway, Max Eastman, Rockwell Kent, and others, taken mainly in France, Castine and Searsport, Maine, Key West, Florida and Provincetown, Massachusetts.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3470: A self-portrait sketch, ca. 1950.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Six sketchbooks, ca. 1920-1944, containing pencil sketches and notes.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 1817 AND SCANNED: Five photographs of Waldo Peirce, previously microfilmed under Photos of Artists II, and subsequently scanned and returned to the Peirce papers.