Blodgett, William Tilden, Jr.
name: label: Collection Creator
content: McGuigan, Mary K.
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content: Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. artists' letters collection
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content: Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. artists' letters collection / Series 1: Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. Artists' Letters Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1869
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: William Tilden Blodgett, Jr. (1856-1917), friendship album with poems, sketches, and botanical watercolors, 25 December 1869. Son of William Tilden Blodgett (1823-1875), the New York art collector who was instrumental in founding the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the album was a gift from his cousins Nina and Katy, with amateur sketches and watercolors by Warren Delano III (1852-1920), uncle of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Coster Chadwick (1952-1914), T. Macomb, and Marie Richers.