Scrapbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Johnson, William H. (1901-1970)
setName: label: See more items in
content: William H. Johnson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 2-4; 0.4 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920s-1947
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.johnwill, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Loose items from the scrapbook were removed and placed in a separate folder. The scrapbook, 1920s-1947, has been scanned in its entirety. The scrapbook of postcards has not been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains two scrapbooks created by William H. Johnson. One scrapbook consists of biographical documents regarding his career as an artist. Included are news clippings, event announcements, photographs of his artwork, and one award certificate from 1942. This scrapbook also contains photographs, including several portraits of Johnson, Johnson at exhibitions of his work, and several photographs from the 1920s of Johnson at the beach, with friends, and in art class. Also found are letters sent to Johnson, including a 1927 letter from his former teacher Charles Hawthorne, letters from the Harmon Foundation, gallery owner Karl Nierendorf, Reinhardt Galleries, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Edith Halpert of Downtown Galleries, and other letters of appreciation. Additional items from the scrapbook may have became detached and removed at an earlier date and may be included among other files within the papers. 

This series also includes a scrapbook containing postcards collected by Johnson during his travels in Europe.