Scrapbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942
setName: label: See more items in
content: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.5 Linear Feet (Boxes 26-27, 33, 35)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1893-1942
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitgert, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Scrapbooks are arranged in chronological order. More detailed descriptions for certain scrapbooks are provided below.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: The bulk of the scrapbooks have been scanned; some enclosed printed material has not been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists of scrapbooks of clippings, photographs, letters and other material, compiled by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Flora Whitney Miller, and possibly others. Scrapbooks document aspects of Whitney's early public life (from 1893 to 1896); Whitney's sculpture commissions and exhibitions; the construction and unveiling of the St. Nazaire and Buffalo Bill memorials, among others; art competitions sponsored by Whitney; exhibitions at the Whitney Studio; the field hospital in Juilly, France; horse racing; the death of Harry Payne Whitney in 1930; and the sickness and death of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1942.