Gladys Reid Holton Ephemera Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Holton, Gladys Reid, 1898- (museum curator)
label: Creator
content: Des Grange, Jane
topic: label: Topic
content: Exhibitions
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content: Fashion
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content: Periodicals
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content: advertising
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Jane Des Grange on October 13, 1992.
creator: label: Creator
content: Holton, Gladys Reid, 1898- (museum curator)
label: Creator
content: Des Grange, Jane
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content: Gladys Reid Holton Ephemera Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: A wide range of dated ephemeral material collected by Gladys Reid Holton covering the period circa 1800 to circa 1978.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Gladys Reid Holton was born June 29, 1898 in Auburn, New York. She began a teaching career in the 1920s. During the 1930s-1940s she was heavily involved in traditional household arts and crafts. Holton was curator of History of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1950s-1960s. She retired from the Strong Museum in 1976. She amassed this private collection over a period of some 30 years. Her reason for collecting such material was to give added dimension to exhibits of museum objects and to produce creative explanations for exhibits.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Cubic feet (50 boxes, 7 map-folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1800-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0466
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Calendars
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Fashion plates
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content: Newspapers
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content: Photographs
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content: Postcards
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Account books
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Divided into 2 series: (1) Chronologically organized materials; (2) Fashions and advertising: magazines and catalogs.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Craig Orr, 1992.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Calendars
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Fashion plates
label: Genre/Form
content: Newspapers
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content: Photographs -- Archives Center
label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
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content: Account books
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The bulk of the collection contains a wide range of ephemera, such as calendars, postcards, advertising cards, magazines, newspapers and fashion plates; also photographs and business and household account books. Also some of Mrs. Holton's personal papers, including correspondence relating to activities with organizations such as the Home Bureaus and War Council, scripts from her radio programs, business cards, and personal licenses. The remainder of the collection is arranged by subjects related to the museum exhibitions Mrs. Holton worked on, including research notes, articles relating to subjects, exhibition layouts, labels, photographs, and posters.