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name: label: Collection Creator
content: Thayer, Polly, 1904-2006
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content: Polly Thayer (Starr) papers
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content: Polly Thayer (Starr) papers / Series 6: Subject Files
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900-2008
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.thaypoll, Subseries 6.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This subseries is arranged alphabetically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries contains material about Thayer's friends, colleagues, fellow artists, and portrait subjects.  Materials in this subseries include short biographies, articles, and obituaries.  Some of the folders were created by curator Dorothy Koval as part of her and include partial transcripts of interviews with Thayer discussing a particular artist or individual.  The most voluminous files are on Francis DeLancey Cunningham, the Howe family, Rose Nichols, May Sarton, John Brooks Wheelwright, and Agnes Yarnall.  The materials on Cunningham, Sarton, and Wheelwright are particularly extensive and include multiple folders with biographical materials, correspondence, writings, and printed materials.  The subseries contains 2 videocassettes and 1 sound cassette.