Charles D. Walcott correspondence
name: label: Creator
content: Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927
label: Names
content: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)
label: Names
content: Smithsonian Institution -- Administration
place: label: Place
content: Alaska -- description and travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Occupation
content: Geologists -- Washington (D.C.)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred 1981 and 2015 from the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ Portrait Gallery Library.
creator: label: Creator
content: Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charles D. Walcott (1850-1927) was an art administrator and geologist in Washington, D.C. Walcott served as the fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 until his death in 1927.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1908-1913
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.walcchar
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3480 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Four letters between Charles D. Walcott and others. Included are three 1908 letters from Herbert Adams to Charles Walcott, from Walcott to J. Scott Hartley, Secretary of the National Sculpture Society and from Hartley to Walcott, relating to the election of Herbert Adams as the representative of the National Sculpture Society to the Advisory Committee of the National Gallery of Art; and one letter from Frederick Dellenbaugh to Walcott, 1913, in which Dellenbaugh inquires if the Smithsonian Institution would be interested in purchasing oil sketches he painted during the Harriman Expedition to Alaska in 1899.