Otto Walter Beck papers
name: label: Creator
content: Beck, Walter, 1864-1954
label: Names
content: Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Battalion, 43rd
label: Names
content: Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916
place: label: Place
content: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Ohio
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters -- Ohio
label: Topic
content: World War, 1914-1918
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred 1979 by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, who purchased Beck's Civil War portraits, and in 2015 by the Smithsonian American Art/ Portrtait Gallery Library.
creator: label: Creator
content: Beck, Walter, 1864-1954
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Walter Beck (1864-1954) was a portrait painter in Dayton, Ohio.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1913-1918
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.beckotto
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters from John S. Mosby about Beck's painting of Mosby with his Civil War Cavalry unit, and a rough sketch of the painting; Beck's 1913 daily calendar; a collection of signatures; notes; Beck's World War I veterans pin; and a scrapbook of portraits of Civil War soldiers by Beck, comprising photographs and details on each work.