Call Number:

C0876

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

2 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William Rankin Correspondence, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1881-1958 (inclusive) and 1905-1940 (bulk)

Creator:

Rankin, William, 1863-1943.

Form:

Correspondence.

Abstract:

William Rankin (Princeton Class of 1886) was an art historian, specializing in Italian art, and was co-author, with Alice Van Vechten Brown, of A Short History of Italian Painting (1914). Consists of correspondence of Rankin.

William Rankin (Princeton Class of 1886) was an art historian, specializing in Italian art, and was co-author, with Alice Van Vechten Brown, of A Short History of Italian Painting (1914).

Consists of correspondence of Rankin. Included are letters to Rankin and, mostly retained copies or drafts, of letters by Rankin, with such correspondents as Edith R. Abbot, Bernard Berenson, Frank Jewett Mather, F. Mason Perkins, Dan Fellows Platt, Alice Van Vechten Brown, Arnold Guyot Cameron, Augusto F. Jaccaci, Walter Lowrie, Alexander Webster, Allan Marquand, and Frederic Fairchild Sherman. Also included are a typescript of "Memories of Princeton College," notes by Rankin on "Italian Pictures in Mrs. Gardiner's Collection," and family correspondence (1902-1958).

Arranged alphabetically.