Robert Blum letters to Alexander Drake
name: label: Creator
content: Drake, Alexander, 1843-1916
label: Names
content: Blum, Robert Frederick, 1857-1903
topic: label: Occupation
content: Illustrators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Dr. Paul Hart, who had purchased them from Lewis A. Shepard. Shephard had purchased the letters from Drake's granddaughter, Hilah (?) Wheeler Remaily (?).
creator: label: Creator
content: Drake, Alexander, 1843-1916
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Blum was a painter, illustrator, and muralist in New York City. He worked for SCRIBNER'S in 1879, and in 1890 he traveled to Japan. Alexander Drake was a wood engraver, art editor, and patron in New York City. From 1881-1912, he was director of the Art Department and art editor of CENTURY magazine.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1879-1890
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.drakalex
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3582 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Three letters are photocopies.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the possession of Paul Hart 7 Dunanderry Drive, Paxton, Massachusetts 01612
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Eight letters from Robert Frederick Blum to Alexander Drake concerning Blum's travels in Venice, Madrid, Tokyo, and Alexandria, Virginia. Blum describes his surroundings and briefly mentions his art work, such as in a letter introducing "Mr. Hodges, a gentleman from St. Louis" for whom he plans to illustrate an article on Venetian life. Some of the letters have small illustrations.