Biographical Information
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Alexander, John White, 1856-1915
setName: label: See more items in
content: John White Alexander papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.1 Linear Feet (Box 1, OV 23)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1887-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.alexjohn, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains notes, writings, and printed materials that describe the life of John White Alexander, as well as ephemera and personal documents related to specific life events.

Notes and narratives include biographical essays about Alexander and his guardian, Colonel Edward Jay Allen, taken from published reference works, and notes made by Elizabeth Alexander in preparation of those entries. Personal documents and ephemera include a wedding invitation, an identity card issued for the Paris International Exposition of 1900, a calling card, a circular about an artist named Jacques Alexander, examples of Alexander's signature, and a French visa. Also found are drafts of essays by Elizabeth Alexander about her husband and others in their circle, and an oral history interview of Elizabeth Alexander in three parts taken by DeWitt M. Lockman, a later president of the National Academy of Design.