Truman Howe Bartlett scrapbook
name: label: Creator
content: Bartlett, Truman Howe, 1835-1923
label: Names
content: Bartlett, Paul Wayland, 1865-1925
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Connecticut
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Connecticut
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Massachusetts -- Boston
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2009 by Gertrude (Trudy) Conroy, who inherited the scrapbooks from her father.
creator: label: Creator
content: Bartlett, Truman Howe, 1835-1923
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content: Truman Howe Bartlett scrapbook
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Truman Howe Bartlett scrapbook dates from circa 1865-circa 1914 and measures 0.6 linear feet. The scrapbook contains photographs, correspondence, clippings, and printed material, most likely assembled and heavily annotated by Bartlett, documenting his career as a sculptor and teacher as well as his travels in Europe, in particular, Italy. A small portion of the scrapbook concerns the career of Bartlett's son, sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Truman Howe Bartlett (1835-1923) was a sculptor and educator active in Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts. He was the father of sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett. 


Born in Dorset, Vermont, Bartlett studied under Robert Eberhard Launitz in New York City before traveling to Paris, Rome, and Perugia to continue his education abroad. He taught in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's architecture department for over 22 years, operated a free art school for children in Boston, and ran the only Boston school for sculpture in the late 1800s.


Bartlett's best known works include The Wounded Drummer Boy of Shiloh, and the Horace Wells Monument (1875) in Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1865-circa 1914
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.barttrum
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the scrapbook(s) are arranged as one series.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of the collection was digitized in 2025 and is available on the Archives of American Art website. Material not digitized consists of a series of blank scrapbook pages, and pages of newspaper columns on "Household Knowledge" and "Popular Science" which are unrelated to Bartlett or art.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Truman Howe Bartlett scrapbook dates from circa 1865-circa 1914 and measures 0.6 linear feet. The scrapbook contains photographs, correspondence, clippings, and printed material, most likely assembled and heavily annotated by Bartlett, documenting his career as a sculptor and teacher as well as his travels in Europe, in particular, Italy. A small portion of the scrapbook concerns the career of Bartlett's son, sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett. Additional news clippings mounted on scrapbook pages which were housed with the scrapbook but are unrelated to Bartlett and his career as an artist, are of columns on "Household Knowledge" and "Popular Science" from the same unidentified source. It is unclear whether these pages were found with the other scrapbook. They are accompanied by a cover and 1 page with annotations similar to those in the main scrapbook as well as a photograph of an individual who could be Bartlett.