Pewabic Pottery records
name: label: Creator
content: Pewabic Pottery (Firm)
label: Names
content: Revelation Kiln
label: Names
content: Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961
topic: label: Occupation
content: Ceramicists -- Michigan -- Detroit
label: Topic
content: Women potters
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Pottery
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1975 by Pewabic Pottery.
creator: label: Creator
content: Pewabic Pottery (Firm)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Pottery center; Detroit, Mich. Founded in the early 1890s by Mary Chase Perry Stratton where she produced "Revelation Pottery." She experimented and developed potters' techniques and used specially developed kilns for firing, called Revelation Kilns. Michigan State University has subsequently acquired Pewabic Pottery.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1891-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pewapott
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 1011-1020 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Michigan State University, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Business files and records; correspondence; files on commissions, consignments, and exhibitions; day books (16 vols.); order books; ledgers; legal documents; guest books; correspondence regarding inquiries, recipes, and tests for clays and glazes; photographs; information on the Pewabic Pottery building; and miscellaneous papers. Also includes some personal papers of Mary Chase Perry Stratton, such as a scrapbook, teaching records, tax returns, property documents, records, and day books of Revelation Kiln owned by Stratton.