Personal Journals
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942
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content: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers
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content: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers / Series 3: Journals
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1886-1939
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitgert, Subseries 3.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Personal journals are arranged chronologically.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Series has been scanned in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subseries consists of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's journals of a more personal nature. Personal journals range from ones she kept as a child and adolescent to ones she kept during her engagement and honeymoon to ones she kept as an adult, and include travel journals, impression books, diaries, confessions album, writing journals, and "A Line A Day" books. Personal journals record Whitney's trips abroad and time spent in Newport as a young girl, her impressions of people, her experiences with friends, her honeymoon trip to Japan, certain early writing efforts, her "thoughts relating to art, subjects for statues, composition symbols, all manner of substances which affects [her] artistic life" (from Art Journal, 1906-1907), her work with the Juilly Hospital in France during the First World War, trips to Spain in 1920 and 1928-1929, and daily events and impressions for certain periods of time.