Charles Sheldon Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Breck Company.
label: Vendor
content: Kuenzig Books
label: Illustrator
content: Sheldon, Charles Gates, 1899-1960
topic: label: Topic
content: advertising
label: Topic
content: Beauty culture
label: Topic
content: Commercial art
label: Topic
content: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Purchased by the Archives Center in 2017 from Kuenzig Books of Topsfield, Mass. Mr. Kuenzig recently purchased the collection from a Massachusetts dealer who had purchased it directly from the Sheldon family around 1997.
creator: label: Creator
content: Breck Company.
label: Vendor
content: Kuenzig Books
label: Illustrator
content: Sheldon, Charles Gates, 1899-1960
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content: Charles Sheldon Papers
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Portrait artist, best known for his illustrations of women in the "Breck Girls" advertising campaign. He also created cover illustrations for magazines such as Radio Digest and Photoplay.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1902-1959
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1423
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Advertisements
label: Type
content: Appointment books
label: Type
content: Business records
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Magazines (periodicals)
label: Type
content: Newsletters
label: Type
content: Pastels (visual works)
label: Type
content: Photographs,
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content: Yearbooks
label: Type
content: Theater programs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is unarranged.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Appointment books -- 1930-1940
label: Genre/Form
content: Business records -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Magazines (periodicals) -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Newsletters -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Pastels (visual works)
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs, -- Black-and-white photoprints -- 1930-1960
label: Genre/Form
content: Yearbooks -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Theater programs -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection documents the work of Charles G. Sheldon, the illustrator who created beautiful images of women for the "Breck Girls" advertising campaign from 1936-1957. Includes photographs of sitters, Breck advertising materials, Breck Company internal publications and newsletters, magazines with cover illustrations by Sheldon, a high school yearbook, internal papers from the Breck Company relating to the Breck Girls campaign, theater programs for which Sheldon designed the covers, prints of the advertisements, and an original pastel drawing by Sheldon.