Writings and Notes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: White, Henry Cooke, 1861-1952
label: Collection Creator
content: White, Nelson C.
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content: Nelson and Henry C. White research material
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content: Nelson and Henry C. White research material / Series 3: Nelson C. White Research Files / 3.2: Abbot Handerson Thayer Research Material
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1880s-1939
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitnels, Subseries 3.2.5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Series is scanned in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Thayer's writings and notes include manuscripts with related correspondence and notes concerning concealing coloration and wildlife preservation. Also found are typescripts and printed copies of Thayer's essays "An Arraignment of the Theories of Mimicry and Warning Colors" (1909), and "Concealing Coloration: An Answer to Theodore Roosevelt" (1912); Thayer's writings on the damages inherent in the restoration of works of art; and Thayer's miscellaneous notes, writings, and fragments on subjects such as art, nature, and philosophy.

Writings by others include several typescripts of essays about Thayer, the transcript of a radio broadcast on Thayer's painting "Caritas" written by Edward W. Rannells, and lists of Thayer's artwork.