Scrapbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Vonnoh, Bessie Potter, 1872-1955
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bessie Potter Vonnoh papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.9 Linear Feet (Box 4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1887-1927
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.vonnbess, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Scrapbooks with highly acidic and deteriorated bindings were dismantled and the pages were housed in original order. Some of the scrapbooks had a substantial amount of printed material and photographs that had been placed loose inside the scrapbooks in no apparent order. These items were removed and rearranged in Series 4 and Series 5.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Series has been digitized in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series consists of 6 scrapbooks primarily documenting Bessie Potter Vonnoh's career, 1 scrapbook primarily documenting Robert Vonnoh's career, and a dismantled scrapbook primarily of photos with some additional printed material that was housed with the scrapbook. Scrapbooks include news clippings, pamphlets, catalogs, and other printed material, photographs of Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Robert Vonnoh, and others, and photographs of artwork. Also found in the scrapbooks are letters of significance to Vonnoh related to subjects being documented in the scrapbooks. The scrapbook from 1913-1922, for example, includes letters from  Ellen Axson Wilson written during the time Robert Vonnoh painted a portrait group of Mrs. Wilson and her daughters. Other correspondents include Paul Bartlett, William Merrit Chase, William Dean Howells and many others.