Adelaide Deming letters
name: label: Creator
content: Deming, Adelaide, 1864-1956
label: Names
content: Bones, Helen Woodrow
label: Names
content: Holt, Hamilton, 1872-1951
label: Names
content: Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
label: Names
content: Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950
label: Names
content: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
topic: label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters -- Connecticut
label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- Connecticut
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Litchfield Historical Society lent the Adelaide Deming letters in addition to the Anson Dickinson sketchbook and sketches, which have been described separately.
creator: label: Creator
content: Deming, Adelaide, 1864-1956
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Adelaide Deming, born in Litchfield, Conn., was a mural and landscape painter.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1879-1918
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.demiadel
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 865(frames 1-28) available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, Conn. after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, 1879-1918, of Adelaide Deming: She writes to Victor Hugo, 1879, requesting an autographed photo of him; the reply from his secretary includes the photo. Booker T. Washington requests a painting for the Tuskegee Institute, and in a second note acknowledges a drawing which she sent. Other letters are from Julia Marlowe Sothern, Hamilton Holt, William Beebe, and Helen Woodrow Bones.