Biographical Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Rush, Olive, 1873-1966
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content: Olive Rush papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Folders (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1886-1966
label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rusholiv, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains biographical narratives, bank records, bills and receipts, identification and membership cards, programs, certificates, and other personal printed materials. Many of the biographical narratives were written by Rush herself. Other narratives are by Sylvia Loomis, W. Thetford LeViness, and Gustave Baumann. Personal Documents include identification and membership cards, Rush's 1947 honorary Doctorate degree from Earlham College, and printed invitations to Rush's garden parties. A nineteenth century alphabet picture book is filed here as an artifact. Biographical materials for Ethel Pennewill Brown Leach include undated pen and ink illustrations, biographical narratives, exhibition catalogs, and clippings.