The Beachcombers records
name: label: Creator
content: Beachcombers (Organization)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1974-1975 by the Beachcombers.
creator: label: Creator
content: Beachcombers (Organization)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Beachcombers is a social and professional club in the artists' colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts for painters, etchers, poets, playwrights, and others.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations -- Massachusetts
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 460 Items ((on 3 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1916-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.beachcom
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm rolls 2083, 2085-2086 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Reels 2085-2086: Membership lists; constitution and by-laws; correspondence; minutes; poems, songs, and notes; etchings; account books; a booklet on the Beachcombers by member Ted Robinson; printed miscellany, exhibition material, and clippings pertaining to th Beachcombers, their annual costume ball, and individual members; and a scrapbook. Prominent members mentioned in the collection include John Whorf, Harry Campbell, Harry Kemp, Reeves Euler, Hudson Walker, Edwin Dickinson, Vollian Burr Rann, Charles Hawthore, Gerrit Beneker, and William Bicknell.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2083: Photographs, n.d., 1918-1960's, of the Beachcombers, their gatherings, events, and annual ball; a photograph album belonging to Beachcomber member, William Bicknell; and miscellaneous photos.