Writings and Notes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Tanner, Henry Ossawa (1859-1937)
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content: Henry Ossawa Tanner papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 1-2, OV 5; 9 folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1897-circa 1950s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tannhenr, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains writings by and about Henry Ossawa Tanner. Writings by Tanner include two pocket-sized notebooks, one of which was kept during his travels in Europe and Palestine in 1897. Also found are loose writings and notes, primarily fragments of his autobiographical writings, and also draft essays and notes on various subjects. Writings by others include an essay by Jessie Olssen Tanner about women's lives in France during WWI. Writings by Tanner's son Jesse include a two volume manuscript with attached news clippings and additional notes about the life and work of his father. Also found is an essay about Tanner by the writer and journalist Eunice Tietjens, and a few unidentified writing fragments.