Peter Hunt papers
name: label: Creator
content: Hunt, Peter, 1896?-1967
label: Names
content: Sorel, Cécile, 1875-1966
topic: label: Occupation
content: Furniture designers -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown
label: Topic
content: Greeting cards
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Furniture design
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by family friends Muriel P. Strout and Nancy Whorf Kelly.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hunt, Peter, 1896?-1967
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Folk artist, furniture decorator; Provincetown, Massachusetts. Born Frederick L. Schnitzler in New York City, Hunt was raised in New Jersey. In 1919, he settled permanently on Cape Cod.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1788-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.huntpete
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters (1921-1961), writings, art work, photographs, a scrapbook (1925-1933), and printed material (1788-1968) document the life and career of Peter Hunt.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Thirty-five Christmas cards, some silkscreened, contain notes and letters from friends (1921-1961). Art work consists of 44 Christmas card designs, most silkscreened, and 11 watercolor sketches by Hunt (undated, 1915) and a watercolor painting by A. W. Stette. Writings consist of 3 essays about Hunt by Colin Clements, Guy Pearce Jones, and an unidentified author. Photographs show Hunt, his works of art, a workshop, actress Cecile Sorel, and others. A scrapbook contains clippings about society figures and a photograph of Baron Willy (1925-1933).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Printed material consists of clippings (1922-1967), 2 exhibition announcements (undated, 1938), 3 brochures (1944-1945), posters, THE SANTA CLAUS PICTURE BOOK (1901), a fragment of PETER HUNT'S WORKBOOK (1945), a catalog from the auction of Hunt's estate (1968), a sample of Hunt's stationery from his shop The Peasant Village, and 62 almanacs (1788-1854) including THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY ALMANAC (1838-1840), BICKERSTAFF'S BOSTON ALMANACK (1788-1789), THE CHRISTIAN ALMANACK (1826-1827), THE FARMER'S ALMANACK (1798-1854), and THE TEMPERANCE ALMANAC (1836-1842).