Margaret Beard Gilpin scrapbooks on Harington Beard and Beard Art Galleries
name: label: Creator
content: Gilpin, Margaret Beard, 1895-1976
label: Names
content: Beard Art Galleries (Minneapolis, Minn.)
label: Names
content: Beard, Harington, 1860-1940
topic: label: Occupation
content: Gallery owners -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis
label: Topic
content: Art -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed in 1990 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Harington Beard's daughter, Margaret Beard Gilpin, organized the family papers into six scrapbooks which cover the Beard and Gilpin families. Only selections relating to Harington Beard and the gallery were filmed.
creator: label: Creator
content: Gilpin, Margaret Beard, 1895-1976
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Harington Beard owned a gallery in Minneapolis, Minn. Beard was born in England and moved with his family to the United States in 1879. When his father's business was destroyed by the Chicago fire, Beard and his brothers opened a stationery store. In 1886, Beard married, moved to Minneapolis and opened the Harington Beard Fine Art Shop. The name was later changed to Beard Art Galleries and the gallery operated continuously until Beard's death in 1940. Richard Beard Thompson reopened the gallery around 1980.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Linear feet ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1870-1940]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gilpmarg
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4397 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Vincent Gilpin, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters to the stockholders discuss the financial condition of Beard Art Galleries. Letters from European and American galleries, such as the Vose Gallery and Keppels Print Shop, concern exhibitions. Other materials include clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, biographical information on Harington Beard, and photographs of the gallery.