Photographs and Scrapbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949
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content: Walt Kuhn Family papers and Armory Show records
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content: Walt Kuhn Family papers and Armory Show records / Series 4: Walt Kuhn Family Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.7 Linear Feet (Box 23-26, 57, OV 55)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1859-1984
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kuhnwalt, Subseries 4.11
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized with the exception of negatives, copy prints, duplicates, photos of reproductions of artwork, and the 2015 addition.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains individual photographs, notes, photograph albums, and scrapbooks of photographs and other materials, which depict Walt Kuhn, his family, friends and colleagues, homes and studios, art school, travel in the U.S. and Europe, works of art, and other miscellany.

Among the persons pictured are Walt, Vera, and Brenda Kuhn, LaSalle Spier, John Quinn, Frederick James Gregg, George Overbury "Pop" Hart, Gus Mager, William and Edith Glackens and family, Pablo Picasso, Cecil Howard, Jo Davidson, W. Averell and Marie Harriman, Gary Cooper, Otis Oldfield, Lily Cushing Emmet, Patsy Santo, and many of Kuhn's models. Also included are portraits of Kuhn by Frederic D. Pangborn and Edward Weston.

Scrapbooks (Volumes 5, 6, and 7) contain photographs, illustrated letters by Walt and Vera Kuhn, postcards to Vera's parents, real photo postcards, reproductions of early artwork of Walt Kuhn, and other ephemera. Illustrations depict Kit Kat Balls, the 23rd St. studio, and Fort Lee, NJ among other subjects. Many of the people and places depicted in albums and scrapbooks are also depicted in individual photographs, which are arranged within broad subject headings.

Selected subjects are noted in the inventory list, below. Additional photographs are scattered throughout the collection. Additional scrapbooks can be found among Armory Show Records, Kit Kat Club and Penguin Club Records, and Other Projects. Additional illustrated letters are found in Armory Show Records, Walt Kuhn Letters to Family, and Artwork. Refer to individual series descriptions for more details.