Personal Business Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Page, William, 1811-1885
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content: William Page and Page Family papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Boxes 5 and 9; 0.2 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1848-1932, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pagewill, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains bills, receipts, contracts, agreements, tax records, inventories, estate records, wills, memoranda, and legal records of William Page, Sophia Page, and family members and associates.

Records related to William Page's artwork include sales and shipping receipts; commission, consignment, and exhibition agreements; and inventories of artwork. Packenham and Hooker records consist of financial statements and loan agreements from the period when Page lived in Italy, including several notes specifying paintings as collateral for loans. Probate records document in detail the contestation of William Page's will by his daughters from his first marriage, Anne Rose and Emma Page Watson. 

Papers related to patents include a joint submission for a patent by Page and Francis G. Shaw for a boat steering mechanism and an improvement on a rifle ordnance by Page. Miscellaneous financial records consist mainly of bills and receipts for personal items, but also include receipts from Page's 1874 stay in Darmstadt, Germany, records of personal loans Page secured in Italy, a bank book, and tax receipts. 

Records from the National Academy of Design include drafts of memoranda of the Committee on Schools by multiple authors including Enoch Wood Perry, a manuscript fragment from a public address which is unsigned, a note to the N.A.D. Council from George Paterson, two unmarked ballots from 1871, and an exhibition announcement of 1885. Page Family records include financial records of the Page children and grandchildren, some of which relate to the estate of William Page.