Alexander Doyle papers
name: label: Creator
content: Doyle, Alexander, 1857-1922
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1968 by Mrs. Gloria Watkins Closs, granddaughter of Alexander Doyle.
creator: label: Creator
content: Doyle, Alexander, 1857-1922
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sculptor (Dedham, Mass./Squirrel Island, Maine); made marble and bronze statues, many relating to Civil War heroes.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 80 Items ((on 1 partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1852-1937
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.doylalex
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 103 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Doyle's letters to his wife, Fannibelle, 1879-1881, brief correspondences with members of the Beauregard Monument Committee, New Orleans, and with Judge Henry Wade Rogers regarding a Lincoln statue by Doyle, and occasional business letters. Also included are family letters, some concerning the locations of Doyle statuary. Clippings, obituary notices, photographs of Doyle, his family, and his work complete the collection.