Collected materials on Edwin Romanzo Elmer
odd: label: Other Title
content: Edwin Romanzo Elmer papers (microfilm title)
name: label: Creator
content: Elmer, Maud Valona, 1879-1963
label: Names
content: Elmer, Edwin Romanzo, 1850-1923
topic: label: Occupation
content: Biographers -- Washington -- Seattle
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Buckland
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Papers on reel 124 were donated by Maud V. Elmer via Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, 1957-1963. Cowdrey augmented this initial gift by adding material from her own files: the McCausland letters and eight photographs of paintings. Maud V. Elmer died in 1963, and in the course of settling her estate, Cowdrey received the five photographs of Elmer and family, and clippings from Paul Copeland, executor (?). Material on reel 2803 donated in 1977 by a relative of Elmer, William B. Elmer.
creator: label: Creator
content: Elmer, Maud Valona, 1879-1963
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; Buckland, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1899-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.elmemaud
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 124 and 2803 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Reel 2803: clippings and some of the pages of the genealogy are photocopies.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 2803: Originals retained by donor, William B. Elmer.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 124: A small childhood drawing book by Edwin Romanzo Elmer; four letters received by Edwin's neice, Maud V. Elmer, 1952-1953; a page of notes by Maud V. Elmer; a book, ELMER-ELMORE GENEAOLOGY, 1899; 14 pages of mounted clippings; three exhibition catalogs from Smith College, the Corcoran, and American Federation of Arts, 1953; one bulletin from the Corcoran; and a 22 page manuscript of Maud Elmer's biography, "Edwin Romanzo Elmer As I Knew Him." Also included are two letters from Elizabeth McCausland regarding Edwin Romanzo Elmer; eight photographs of Elmer's paintings, and five of Elmer and his family; and ca. 40 loose clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2803: Two photographs, one of Edwin Romanzo Elmer and relatives, and one of a pastel by Elmer; a few pages detailing the Elmore-Elmer genealogy; and clippings.