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Mildred Baker papers, 1882, 1923-1997

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Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1937-1997
0.4 Linear feet
Box 1

Correspondence is primarily with Baker's friends, business associates, researchers, art institutions, and admirers of her residency at the Chelsea Hotel.
The series includes Baker's responses to researcher requests regarding FAP exhibitions, programs, artists, and recollections of her fellow administrators. Correspondence with Rutgers University, Francis O'Connor, Wendy Jeffers, and James Wechsler includes reports from their projects on the Federal Art Project, Holger Cahill, and Arthur Murphy and the WPA respectively. Correspondence with Robert Reiss includes an essay and research information on Sarah Freedman McPherson. There is also a letter from the writer Max Eastman describing the last days of his wife, Eliena Krylenko.
Correspondence with the Archives of American Art, the Montclair Art Museum, Newark Museum, Roberson Center, Memorial Art Gallery, and the University of Wyoming record gifts and loans to these institutions from Baker's private collection.
All correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Description Container Select
A Miscellaneous, circa 1970-1990
1
8
Archives of American Art, 1962-1993
1
9
B-C Miscellaneous, circa 1968-1990
1
10
Chelsea Hotel, 1996
1
11
Cowell, Sydney Robertson, 1970-1990
1
12
Craft, Douglas, circa 1980
1
13
D-J Miscellaneous, circa 1954-1990
1
14
Jeffers, Wendy, 1987-1996
1
15
K-M Miscellaneous, circa 1949-1990
1
16
Mavigliano, George J., 1982-1984
1
17
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, 1990-1993
1
18
Montclair Art Museum, 1973-1992
1
19
Museum of Early American Folk Art, 1966-1982
1
20
Museum of Modern Art, 1962-1966
1
21
N Miscellaneous, circa 1966-1990
1
22
National Collection of Fine Arts, 1970-1978
1
23
National Council on the Arts, 1971
1
24
Newark Museum, 1954-1997
1
25
Newark State College, 1972
1
26
O Miscellaneous, 1987
1
27
O'Connor, Francis, 1966-1996
1
28-29
P-Q Miscellaneous, circa 1967-1990
1
30
Petteys, Chris, 1982
1
31
R Miscellaneous, circa 1937-1990
1
32
Reiss, Robert, 1979-1980
1
33
Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences, 1990
1
34
S Miscellaneous, circa 1966-1990
1
35
Sherwood, Leland H., 1971
1
36
T-U Miscellaneous, circa 1968-1990
1
37
Udell, Susan, 1978
1
38
University of Wyoming, 1975-1992
1
39
W Miscellaneous, circa 1960-1990
1
40
Wechsler, James, 1993
1
41
White, John Franklin, 1985-1988
1
42

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