Stanford White papers
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Abstract
The Stanford White Papers consist of personal correspondence, account information, photographs, newspaper clippings, and printed materials that document the life of the architect Stanford White (1853-1906) of the influential firm of McKim, Mead & White.
Biographical Note
Chronology
Arrangement
This collection is organized into 2 series:
Series I. Correspondence and Documents, 1836-1948
Series II. Printed Materials and Clippings, 1888-1955
Most of the material is arranged chronologically within series. See the series descriptions for specific details.
Microfilm: Material in boxes 1 and 2 is on microfilm.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, accounts, photographs, newspaper clippings and printed material, c.1873-1920, including copies of Stanford White's letters while in France, 1878; many letters from Charles Caryl Coleman, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, John La Farge, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Janet Scudder, and Abbott Handerson Thayer; letters to his mother, Alexina Mease White, and to his wife, Bessie Smith White; accounts, 1900-1905, relating to White's importation of plants, furnishings, statuary, paintings, marble columns, etc., mostly from France and Italy; typescript, 1913, of Charles Follen McKim, a memoir, by Alfred Hoyt Granger; a list of subscribers, 1920, to the Stanford White Memorial; and printed material, including biographical material of White, examples of his architectural work, annotated auction catalogues, and monographs of the firm of McKim, Mead & White.
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Access Restrictions
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Use Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
This collection should be cited as Stanford White Papers, MS 693, New-York Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Lawrence Grant White, 1970.
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Processing Information
Processed by Josué Luis Hurtado and Gabrielle Sanchez in 2012 or before.
Repository
Series 1: Correspondence and Documents, 1873-1928
Scope and Contents note
This series contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, receipts, invoices, and other documents, c.1873-1928, including copies of White's letters while in France, as well as letter from Charles Caryl Coleman, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, John La Farge, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Janet Scudder, and Abbott Handerson Thayer and letters to his family. There are also business accounts relating to White's importation of plants, furnishings, statuary, paintings, marble columns, and other purchases from Europe.
D. Appleton and Co., undated, inclusive
Armstrong, D. Maitland, 1883-1896, inclusive
Attenbury, 1887-1892, inclusive
Babb, George Fletcher, undated, inclusive
Bailey, James Anthony, 1891, inclusive
Bancroft, J.C., undated, inclusive
Barrows, Frances, undated, inclusive
Bickford, Herbert J., 1905, inclusive
Blashfield, Edwin Howland, undated, inclusive
Bliss, Alexander, 1892, inclusive
Brush, George De Forest, undated, inclusive
Bunker, Eleanor, undated, inclusive
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1893-1895, undated, inclusive
C, 1892, undated, inclusive
Cabus, Frank E., 1893, inclusive
Calder, Stirling, 1902, inclusive
Century Association, 1886, inclusive
Chanler Family, 1892-1893, undated, inclusive
Chase, William Merrit, 1886, undated, inclusive
Chichester, Charles F., 1889-1893, inclusive
Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1886-1894, inclusive
Clesson, Caleb, 1890, inclusive
Coleman, Charles Caryl, 1889-1900, undated, inclusive
Thomas Cook & Son, 1890, inclusive
Cortissoz, Royal, 1890, inclusive
Cox, Kenyon, 1887-1896, inclusive
Curran, Charles Courtney, 1893-1901, inclusive
Dana, Charles Anderson, 1890-1892, inclusive
Dana, Paul, 1894-1896, inclusive
David, Richard Harding, undated, inclusive
Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, undated, inclusive
Drake, Alexander Wilson, 1892, inclusive
Emmet, Ellen, undated, inclusive
Eugene Field Monument Fund, 1896, inclusive
Finn, James, undated, inclusive
Flanagan, John, 1902, inclusive
Freer, Charles Lang, 1900, inclusive
French, Charles Chester, 1902, inclusive
Frohman, Daniel, undated, inclusive
Gilbert, Cass, 1887-1922, inclusive
Gilder, Richard Watson, 1886-1890, inclusive
George E. Green & Son, 1888, inclusive
Harrison, Alexander, undated, inclusive
Hastings, Thomas, undated, inclusive
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1886, inclusive
Hunt, Richard Morris, 1889, inclusive
Irving, Henry, 1896, inclusive
Johnson, Eastman, 1896, inclusive
Jones, Mary Cadwalder, undated, inclusive
Kennedy, Elija Robinson, 1896, inclusive
LaFarge, John, 1887-1901, undated, inclusive
Lawrence, Mary, undated, inclusive
Loeser, Charles, 1905, inclusive
Lord, James Brown, 1896, inclusive
Lorillard, Caroline, undated, inclusive
Low, Will Hicok, 1890, inclusive
MacMonnies, Frederick, 1896, inclusive
Manchester, Consuelo Duchess of, undated, inclusive
Martin, H.D., 1896, inclusive
Maynard, George Willoghby, 1889, inclusive
Mead, William Rutherford, 1922, inclusive
Millet, Francis Davis, undated, inclusive
Myer, G.L., undated, inclusive
O'Connor, Andrew, 1904, inclusive
Oelrichs, Hermann, 1896, inclusive
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1885, inclusive
Osborne, Louise N., 1901, inclusive
Platt, Charles Adams, 1890-1898, undated, inclusive
The Players, 1888-1889, inclusive
Poor, Henry William, 1896-1901, inclusive
Remington, Frederic, undated, inclusive
Richardson, Henry Hobson, undated, inclusive
Ristigouche Salmon Club, 1887, inclusive
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1879-1928, undated, inclusive
Sargent, John Singer, 1898, undated, inclusive
Scudder, Janet, 1896-1906, undated, inclusive
Sedgwick, S.M., undated, inclusive
Sewell, Robert T., 1894, inclusive
Shin, Everett, 1903, inclusive
Stewart, D., 1885-1901, inclusive
Story, Waldo, 1905, inclusive
Thayer, Abbot Anderson, 1889-1922, undated, inclusive
Tiffany & Company, 1896, inclusive
Weir, Julian Alden, undated, inclusive
Twachtman, John Henry, 1890, inclusive
Vanderbilt, 1896, undated, inclusive
Wells, Joseph Morrill, 1880-1881, inclusive
Whitney, 1896, undated, inclusive
White, Bessie, undated, inclusive
White, Stanford, 1873-1897, inclusive
White, Stanford, undated, inclusive
White, Stanford, misc. documents, 1883-1920, undated, inclusive
White, Stanford receipts and invoices, 1900-1901, inclusive
White, Stanford accounts, 1905, inclusive
Series 2: Printed Materials and Clippings, 1906-1920
Scope and Contents note
This series contains printed materials relating to the life and work of Stanford White including several scrapbooks containing material about White and his associates, a typescript of Charles Follen McKim. A Memoir, by Alfred Hoyt Granger, as well as annotated auction catalogues, and a monographs about the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White.