Leo J. Schreiber papers
name: label: Creator
content: Schreiber, Leo J., 1904-1992
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project
label: Names
content: Meyer and Mathiau (Firm)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Book illustrators -- Massachusetts -- Plymouth
label: Occupation
content: Commercial artists -- Massachusetts -- Plymouth
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Plymouth
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters -- Massachusetts -- Plymouth
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1993 by Alma Schreiber Patterson, sister of Leo J. Schreiber. Additional papers are expected.
creator: label: Creator
content: Schreiber, Leo J., 1904-1992
culture: label: Culture
content: Self-portraits
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, illustrator; Plymouth, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.3 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1904-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.schrleo
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical data; birth certificate; copyright certificates; professional and personal correspondence, 1923-1984; Federal Art Project file; photographs of Schreiber, friends and work; photo album of work; 2 oil self-portraits; sketches, chiefly of heads, and including anatomical studies; commercial drawings and related printed material; 18 notebooks with sketches and notes, mostly in German, on his theories of design and composition; a scrapbook of photographs and clippings of work; miscellaneous printed material, including copies of "The Pilgrim Story" with illustrations by Schreiber, "Mural Painting," a pamphlet prepared by him for the Civilian Conservation Corps, an illustrated catalog of the work of the architectural firm of Meyer and Mathieu, and obituaries.