Elbridge Kingsley papers
name: label: Creator
content: Kingsley, Elbridge, 1842-1918
label: Names
content: Cooper Institute
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content: Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France)
label: Names
content: Society of American Wood Engravers
label: Names
content: Burleigh, Charles
label: Names
content: Champney, James Wells, 1843-1903
label: Names
content: Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931
label: Names
content: Davis, John Parker, 1832-1910
label: Names
content: Dwight, John, Mrs
label: Names
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
label: Names
content: French, Frank, 1850-1933
label: Names
content: Kruell, Gustav, 1843-1907
label: Names
content: Orr, I. W.
label: Names
content: Palmer, William B. P.
label: Names
content: Sears, Edward
label: Names
content: Tryon, Dwight William, 1849-1925
title: label: Topic
content: Scribner's magazine
topic: label: Occupation
content: Wood-engravers -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Photography -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
label: Topic
content: Wood-engraving
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilm donated 1971 by the Forbes Library.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kingsley, Elbridge, 1842-1918
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Wood engraver; Hadley, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 171 Items ((on 3 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1842-1900
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kingelbr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 48 & 119-120 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Forbes Library, Northampton, Massachusetts.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An autobiography; list of the Kingsley Collection; and photographs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 48 & 119: An autobiography (manuscript and typed copy), ca. 1900. Kingsley writes in detail of his childhood in Hatfield, Mass., education in Hadley, Mass., 1863-1872, where he studied at Cooper Institute and worked for I. W. Orr and Edward Sears as a wood engraver, the wood engraving process, the engraving office, association with J. Wells Champney and Charles Burleigh in Northampton, Mass., 1872-1877, work for Scribner's magazine from 1877, summers sketching in New England with John Parker Davis and Frank French, beginning of the Society of American Wood Engravers, association with William B.P. Palmer and Gustav Kruell, details of his own works, Paris Exhibition of 1889, decline of the Society, association with Charles Freer, Timothy Cole, Dwight W. Tryon, and Mrs. John Dwight.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 119 (fr. 709-748): Extensive list of wood engravings, paintings and photographic plates of the Elbridge Kingsley Collection, Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 120: Photographs of Hadley and nearby places, and some sample engravings.