Scrapbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: De Kooning, Elaine
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content: Elaine de Kooning papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Linear Feet (Boxes 2-3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1959-1962
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dekoelas, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Two scrapbooks, compiled by Elaine de Kooning, pertain to her effort to save the life of convicted criminal, Caryl Chessman, and her protest against the death penalty. Volume 1 contains clippings. Volume 2 includes a copy of Chessman's 16 page letter to Governor Edmund G. Brown, clippings concerning efforts to save Chessman, de Kooning's speech notes for political rallies, her correspondence with attorney Rosalie Asher, and photographs of members of the art community involved with this cause.