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Charles M. Shipman Papers
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Charles M. Shipman was an American art collector and corresponded with various artists and institutions, most notably, the American painters, George deForest Brush and Elliott Dangerfield.
The colletion consists of papers of American art collector Charles M. Shipman. Included are correspondence (1882-1916) between Shipman and various artists, most notably Ralph Albert Blakelock, George de Forest Brush, Frederic Stuart Church, and Elliott Daingerfield, and art societies and institutions; a journal of Lillie Brush, sister of George de Forest Brush; photographs of paintings by artists of Shipman's acquaintance; clippings about these artists and their works and reproductions of paintings of interest to Shipman; birch bark-bound lists of George de Forest Brush's works; and printed material, much of it related to exhibitions of Brush's work. Among the photographs is a large advertisement (ca. 1888) for Duke Cigarettes that features Lillie Brush.
Gift of Margaret J. Bance in 2005 (AM 2005-139).
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Folder inventory added by Lisa Yankowitz 2013 in 2012.
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- Advertising -- Cigarettes -- United States -- 19th century
- Art, American -- Collectors and collecting. -- 19th century -- Correspondence
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Lisa Yankowitz 2013
- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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Sister of George de Forest Brush
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Collected by the late Irving M. Scott, San Francisco.
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Full title: John L. Stoddard's Portfolio of Photographs of famous cities, scenes and paintings.
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Contains 23 birch bark lists of inventories of Indian paintings.
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