General correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Butler, Howard Russell, 1856-1934
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content: Howard Russell Butler papers
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content: Howard Russell Butler papers / Series 3: Association Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1895-1931
container: label: Container
content: Reel 347, Frame 1393-1510
label: Container
content: Reel 348, Frame 1-47
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Microform [0347.butler]
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content: Microform [31027000104055]
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes about 300 items concerning the function of NAD, negotiation for various NAD sites, relations with the Architectural League, reconstruction of the Fine Arts Society building following a fire in 1920, NAD elections, and cooperation with the American Society of Landscape Architects in restoring the Augustus St. Gaudens homestead and studio as an historic site. Also included is a correspondence with James Carroll Beckwith, George H. Smillie, H. W. Watrous, and Charles Lamb, concerning the creation of two separate exhibiting societies, with supporting articles and newspaper reports. Other correspondents include Cass Gilbert, President of NAD, Robert W. De Forest, and Edwin Howland Blashfield.