Project Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Nickerson, Ruth
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ruth Nickerson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: .7 Linear Feet (Box 2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1927-1996, 2009
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.nickruth, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Project files contain correspondence, photographic material, applications, planning documents, news clippings and exhibition catalogs detailing exhibitions as well as individual sculptures Nickerson worked on. This includes extensive documentation of the sculptural creation of a bust of Abraham Lincoln which she donated to the Queen's Library in New York City in 1993.

Also found are files documenting her work participating in the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal initiative aimed at giving meaningful employment to artists.