Scrapbook 2: Letters from France
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smith, Houghton Cranford, 1887-1983
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content: Houghton Cranford Smith papers
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content: Houghton Cranford Smith papers / Series 1: Scrapbooks
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1913-1914
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 22-45
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
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content: This scrapbook is mostly comprised of Smith's correspondence from France, particularly letters written to family and friends, in 1913 and 1914. Smith traveled to France in 1913 to attend the Academie Julian, a Parisian art school. The letters remark on his studies and life in France. Also included in this scrapbook is a log from a tandem bicycle trip with classmate Harold P. Browne, an invitation to the Bal Randolphe, a Browne Art Class brochure and a narrative entitled "A Party of Fugitives from France". This final document describes Smith's forced fleeing from France after the French mobilization in 1914.