Biographical Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Dale, Chester, 1883-1962
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content: Chester Dale papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.45 Linear Feet (Boxes 1, 7-8, FC 20)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1897-circa 1960, 2003
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.daleches, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized with the exception of the home movie and the dictaphone recordings.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material includes four pieces of artwork by unidentified artists, including a self portrait sketch inscribed to Mary Bullard, an etching of a dog, "Shandy," a caricature of Dale with his poodle, and an illustrated photograph; certificates and membership cards, including two certificates for the Society of Illustrators; programs, including one for the presentation of the Gari Melchers Gold Medal to Chester Dale in 1952, and a program for an African cruise on the S. S. Laconia; a hand-colored papal blessing; a film reel (with two copies) of an unidentified home movie, possibly of a dinner event; and circa six dictaphone recordings. Labels on the dictaphone recordings are illegible but it is possible they include recordings of Dale's dictated memoirs.