Frederic Allen Whiting papers
name: label: Creator
content: Whiting, Frederic Allen, 1873-1959
topic: label: Occupation
content: Museum directors -- Ohio -- Cleveland
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Photographs on reel 3248 lent for microfilming; printed material and letter on reel 3960 donated 1984 by Frederic Allen Whiting III, grandson of Whiting.
creator: label: Creator
content: Whiting, Frederic Allen, 1873-1959
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Museum director, art administrator; Cleveland, Ohio and Boston, Massachusetts. First director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1912-1930.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- Ohio -- Cleveland
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Items ((on 2 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1916-1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitfrea
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3248 & 3960 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 3248: Photos returned to Frederic Allen Whiting III after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs, clippings and a letter.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3248: Four photographs of Whiting taken at the Cleveland Museum of Art, December 21, 1956.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3960: Seven clippings, 1926-1960, and a photocopy of a letter, June 14, 1965, from Harry Sayles Francis to Frederic Allen Whiting III. The letter encloses the April-May 1926 issues of the Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The bulletins, which have not been microfilmed in their entirety, discuss the lives of Jeptha Homer Wade and Ralph Thrall King. The letter also encloses a clipping of the cover of the Historical Society News which contains a photograph of Harold T. Clark.