Thomas Ball guestbook
name: label: Creator
content: Ball, Thomas, 1819-1911
label: Names
content: Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933
topic: label: Occupation
content: Musicians
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Occupation
content: Painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1988 by Greta Couper, Thomas Ball's great great grandaughter.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ball, Thomas, 1819-1911
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Thomas Ball (1819-1911) was a sculptor, miniaturist, portrait painter, and musician in Boston, Massachusetts, Florence, Italy, and Montclair, New Jersey. His most well-known work is a statue of George Washington in the Boston Public Garden. Ball maintained a studio in Boston until he moved to Italy in 1854, where he studied sculpture. He made frequent visits to the United States, but remained an expatriate until 1897, when he moved to Montclair, New Jersey.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel (1 volume on 1 partial microfilm reel)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1874-1932
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ballthom
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Autograph albums
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4039 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Autograph albums
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original returned to the lender, Greta Couper, after microfilming.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Index of signers prepared by the lender is on the microfilm.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The microfilmed Thomas Ball guestbook/scrapbook includes signatures, poems, sketches, musical notations of European and American artists, writers, poets, musicians, and other dignitaries who visited Thomas Ball's studio or villa in Florence, Italy, Montclair, New Jersey, New York City, and Boston from 1874 to 1932. Among the many prominent signers are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Wagner, Henry Longfellow, Franz Liszt, Christina Rossetti. An introduction by the lender, Ball's great great granddaughter, states that some insertions from earlier correspondence and later insertions from musicians visiting the family in Santa Barbara were added to the book.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds the microfilmed Thomas Ball letter to Stilson Hutchins, 1888 March 30. The Massachusetts Historical Society holds the Thomas Ball letters, 1869-1882.