MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, N.H.) records
by MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, N.H.)
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Correspondence, admission application records, minutes of meetings, reports, legal and financial papers, scrapbooks, and miscellany chiefly concerning the administration and operation of the MacDowell arts colony. Includes material relating to the colony's board of directors and committees, as well as the various artists, writers, and musicians who were chosen as residents. Persons prominent in the collection, either as correspondents or officers of the colony, include Hervey Allen, Marie Brodeur, Alexander Calder, Padraic and Mary Colum, Aaron Copland, Parker and Louise Dutton Fillmore, Max Frankel, Chaim Gross, Thomas Shaw Hale, DuBose Heyward, Lewis Montefiore Isaacs, George M. Kendall, Marianne Moore, Tillie Olsen, Charles H. Studin, James Johnson Sweeney, Louise Talma, Jean Starr Untermeyer, and Thornton Wilder. Also includes letters (1936-1938) to Hermann Hagedorn from Parker Fillmore relating to Edwin Arlington Robinson, a longtime resident of the colony.
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Musicians, Artists, Artist colonies, AuthorsPeople
Chaim Gross (1904-), Tillie Olsen, Marie Brodeur, Jean Starr Untermeyer (1886-1970), Aaron Copland (1900-1990), George M. Kendall, Marianne Moore (1887-1972), Marian MacDowell (1857-1956), Louise Talma (1906-1996), DuBose Heyward (1885-1940), Max Frankel (1914-), Charles H. Studin, Hermann Hagedorn (1882-1964), Lewis Montefiore Isaacs (1877-1944), Thomas Shaw Hale, Alexander Calder (1898-1976), Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), Padraic Colum (1881-1972), Hervey Allen (1889-1949), Edward MacDowell (1860-1908), Mary Colum, James Johnson Sweeney (1900-1986), Louise Dutton Fillmore, Parker Fillmore (1878-1944)Places
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Open to research.
Microfilm edition available for Colony Hall register (1923-1958) and Ernst Toch's string trio, opus 63, with his note (1956), no. 21,451 (LC Photoduplication no. 610149).
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1996.
Gift, Edward MacDowell Association and others, 1969-1973.
transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.
located in Library of Congress Music Division.
Artists' colony in Peterborough, N.H., founded in 1908 by Marian MacDowell in memory of her husband, American composer Edward MacDowell (1860-1908). Its financial and administrative responsibilities were handled by the Edward MacDowell Association in New York, N.Y., known after 1970 as the MacDowell Colony, Inc.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.
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