Scrapbook 1: Biographical Materials
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: 1890-1926
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 1-21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: A large portion of this scrapbook focuses on the period of Smith's life spent studying art at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Included are photographs of his artwork, friends and family in Provincetown and New Mexico, Smith as a child and young man and his first wife. A high school transcript, commencement program and other school pamphlets, autographed menus, correspondence, including postcards and letters to family, customs declarations, exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings, a passport to Chile, newsletters and Smith's teaching contract from the University of Kansas are also included. Postcards from his first wife, Elena Peralta, discuss the beginning of their relationship.