Scrapbook 5: The Exhibition Years (1 of 2)
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: 1940-1954
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 71-81
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This scrapbook includes correspondence from Houghton to second wife Laura Gilbert Williams as well as their marriage certificate and passport papers for their honeymoon in Guatemala, sketches, exhibition catalogs, photographs, registers, correspondence and newspaper clippings of his wedding announcement and reviews received for his exhibited paintings. There are also congratulatory letters from family and friends about his successful exhibitions and significant correspondence with the Passedoit Gallery and Homer Saint-Gaudens of the Carnegie Institute regarding the exhibition and purchase of his artwork.