Elsa Schmid Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Schmid, Elsa, 1897-
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content: Elsa Schmid papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.1 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-3, OV 4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1910-1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.schmelsa, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical materials include blank stationery, resumes, and a teaching certificate. Correspondents include Henry Varnum Poor, Max Weber, Boris Anrep, Helen Chase, Edward Waldo Forbes, Warren Wheelock, Abraham Walkowitz, Alfred H. Barr, Georgia O'Keeffe, Barbara Morgan and Josef Albers. Of note are letters from Henry Varnum Poor in which he discusses details of pottery and mosaics. A lecture given by Schmid at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts also includes a slide list. Photographs are of works of art, some are annotated. Project files concern plans for mosaics and include material on subjects Van Wyck Brooks, Father Martin D'Arcy, John Dewey, and Dikran Kelekian. Files may include letters, sketches and plans, photographs, and printed material. Printed material includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles and catalogs. Writings and notes are on art.