Thomas Clyde Colt papers
name: label: Creator
content: Colt, Thomas Clyde, 1905-
label: Names
content: Dayton Art Institute
label: Names
content: Portland Art Association (Or.)
label: Names
content: Portland Art Museum (Or.)
label: Names
content: Chrysler, Walter P. (Walter Percy), 1909-1988
label: Names
content: Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932
topic: label: Occupation
content: Museum directors -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated and lent April 1979 by Thomas Clyde Colt.
creator: label: Creator
content: Colt, Thomas Clyde, 1905-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Museum director; Dayton, Ohio. Director of the Portland Art Association, 1948-1956,(the owner and governing body of the Portland Art Museum), and the Dayton Art Institute, 1957-1975.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- United States
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Linear Feet ((on 3 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1853-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.coltthom
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 1559 and 1619-1620 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 1559: Originals returned to Thomas Clyde Colt after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; biographical data; photographs; scrapbooks; business and financial records; exhibition announcements; and clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 1559: Letters, postcards, three photographs and several clippings relating to Colt's retirement from the Dayton Art Institute in 1976; and four scrapbooks containing letters, clippings, photographs, exhibition catalogs and announcements, and memorabilia.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 1619-1620: Business and personal correspondence, with Corrine Melchers, Waldo Pierce, Gordon Washburn, Lamar Dodd, Curt Valentin, Francis Henry Taylor, Mahonri Young, Adelyn Breeskin, Mitchel Wilder, and others; biographical data and curriculum vitae; 14 personal photographs; files on the Gari Melchers Memorial, Fredericksburg, Virginia, and a 1956 exhibition of paintings owned by Walter Chrysler; clippings and press releases.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Exhibition invitations and announcements; appointment calendars; treasurer's and trustees' reports, minutes, and financial records of the Portland Art Association, Portland, Oregon, and the Dayton Institute of Art, Dayton, Ohio.