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1901/06/01
"Sculpture Proposed in Connection with Ethnological Building Pan-American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo, N.Y." [Carbon Copy]
A detailed proposal with a justification and a cost-breakdown analysis.
GLC06343.321
"Sculpture Proposed in Connection with Temple of Music Pan-American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo, N.Y." [Carbon Copy]
A detailed proposal with a justification and a cost-breakdown analysis. Includes strike outs, additions, and corrections.
GLC06343.322
1903/02/19
Chief of Department of Sculpture
"To The Members of The Advisory Board of Sculpture, St. Louis World's Fair."
A detailed report on plans for sculptures to be featured at the exhibition, with an alphabetical list of sculptors at the rear of the document. Includes strike outs, additions, and corrections made with pencil.
GLC06343.323
[1901/06 ca.]
"For the Pan American-Exposition". Re: Names and addresses of contributors of art, pottery, and other various items to the exposition.
"Burnt & Carved Wood"
GLC06343.324
1902/10/18
Francis, David R. (1850-1927)
To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: request for Ward to serve on a sculpture advisory committee currently in formation. [Carbon Copy]
Stationary heading: "Universal Exposition, Commemorating the Acquistion of the Louisana Territory . . . Office of the President".
GLC06343.325
1902/12/04
To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: enclosing a stipend for his services as a member of the Advisory Committee.
Stationary heading: "World's Fair, at St. Louis, 1904 , Louisiana Purchase Exposition . . . Office of the President".
GLC06343.326
1903/12/01
Ives, Halsey C. (1847-1911)
To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: appointment to the Advisory Committee of the Department of Art for World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904. With rules & regulations.
Includes names of those on the Advisory Committees, grouped by city of location. Ives is the Chief of the Department of Art for the World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904. "Circular of Information Including the Classification and Rules and Regulations of the...
GLC06343.327
1905/07/28
O'Brien, John A.
To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: appointment for Ward to a committee on the discovery of the Hudson River.
Written on "City of New York, Office of the Mayor."
GLC06343.328
1905/04/09
Zolway, G.J.
To: Karl Bitter. Re: Ward's request for statues and enclosing a list of those statues still available at the World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904.
Stationary heading: "World's Fair at St. Louis, 1904, Commemorating the Aquisition of The Louisiana Territory . . . Department of Art". List: "Statuary available for Mr. J.Q.A. Ward."
GLC06343.329
1908/01/17
To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: matters of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial Exhibition Committee at the Metropolitan Museum.
Typed on "The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York" stationary.
GLC06343.335
1908/02/13
Wait, Frederick S. (1851-1910)
To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: fundraising for his work for the Saint-Gaudens Memorial Exhibition Committee at the Metropolitan Museum.
Typed on "Saint-Gaudens Memorial Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art" stationary.
GLC06343.336
1908/04/09
Fruch, David C. (fl. 1908)
To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: committee matters for the Saint-Gaudens Memorial Exhibition Committee at the Metropolitan Museum.
Typed on "The Metropolitan Museum of Art" stationary.
GLC06343.337
1908/07/09
To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: fundraising for his work committee matters for the Saint-Gaudens Memorial Exhibition Committee at the Metropolitan Museum.
GLC06343.338
19 July 1906
Vanderbilt, Cornelius (1873-1942)
to John Quincy Adams Ward
Writes that he has become president of the Robert Fulton Memorial Association and was pleased to see that Ward has accepted membership. Informs that they hope to lay the cornerstone of the memorial next year on Fulton's birthday. Invites Ward to...
GLC06343.371
1 January 1918 - 29 April 1919
Osborn, Ella Jane (fl. 1918-1919)
[Diary of World War I army nurse Ella Jane Osborn] [word processed inventory available]
Ella Jane Osborn, originally from Wainscott, Long Island, New York, departed as an Army Nurse in January of 1918 and spent the majority of her assignment stationed near Toul and Nancy, in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, near the German...
GLC06570
Osborn, Ella Jane, (1881-1966)
GLC06570.01
circa 1910
Jenkins, James H. (b. 1841)
[Decimalized .01-.03]
GLC02484
17 November 1910
to Charles G. Stack
Promises that as soon as his health improves he will comply with the request to send a photograph. Some text lost on the right side of the letter.
GLC02484.02
The story of a song
Jenkins account of the origins of the song "John Brown's Body." Credits Jenkins as "the author of 'John Brown's Body.'" Says the song was created spontaneously by a group of Union Soldiers, inspired partly by a soldier named John Brown.
GLC02484.03
1902/02/02
Jefferson, Joseph (1829-1905)
to Charles Welch re: photograph as Rip Van Winkle
GLC02508.07
1920
Grimke, Angelina W. (1880-1958)
Rachel. A play in three acts
First play written, produced and acted by African-Americans, attempting to dramatize racial inequities. The program notes call the play "the first attempt to use the stage for race propaganda in order to enlighten the American people relative to the...
GLC06859
1917/06/03-1918/11/05
Shepp, William
William Shepp Diary 1917-1918
3 June 1917 - 2 June 1918. Begins with Shepp's enlistment on 5 June 1917. Mentions daily activities, such as calisthenics, army drills, physical examinations and vaccinations, attendance at church services, Bible study, and French class, and...
GLC06888.01
2 July 1918
Lyons, Curtis Blair (1894-1968)
to Helen Lyons
Writes to his wife about the barracks, the officers, and the cooks. Reports that his captain is having motion pictures made from the time the soldiers leave their homes to their embarkation for France.
GLC07810.063
17 February 1919
Writes to his wife about working on the roads and discusses the weather. Asks about their daughter. Says that the troops watch movies on Tuesdays and Fridays and have dances on Thursdays. Explains that the French dance differently than the...
GLC07810.069
13 July 1918
Schoomaker, Lee (fl. 1918-1919)
to Gladys Schoomaker
Replies to his niece and discusses camp life, especially the entertainment at the YMCA. Promises to let her know when the next Vaudeville show is planned so she and her sister can fly to France to join their uncle.
GLC07810.087
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