05060cpcaa2200721 4500 mm 79021576 DLC 20260227111655.0 cr ||||||||||| 790823|||||||||||| eng mm 79021576 ms 64001566 DLC DLC dacs DLC L lcmd French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931. Daniel Chester French papers, circa 1848-1968 (bulk 1911-1945). 23,000 items. 94 containers. 44 microfilm reels. 37.6 linear feet. Arranged in 13 series. Series 1: Daniel Chester French: General Correspondence, 1868-1931; Series 2: Daniel Chester French: Family Correspondence, 1870-1887; Series 3: Daniel Chester French: Commissions File, circa 1910-1931; Series 4: Daniel Chester French: Financial Papers, 1895-1931; Series 5: Daniel Chester French: Miscellany, 1872-1933; Series 6: Daniel Chester French: Scrapbook Material, 1850-1962; Series 7: Margaret French Cresson, General Correspondence, circa 1915-1962; Series 8: Margaret French Cresson: Family Correspondence, 1919-1932; Series 9: Margaret French Cresson: Book, Article, and Speech File, 1947-1953; Series 10: Margaret French Cresson: Miscellany; Series 11: Miscellaneous Family Papers, circa 1848-1932; Series 12: Photographs, circa 1855-1952; and Series 13: Addition, 1908-1968. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Correspondence, writings, financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to French's career as an artist and sculptor and to the French family. Subjects include his sculpture of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., and the artistic milieu of the period. Papers of his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, reflect her career as a sculptress, author, and lecturer as well as her service with many cultural organizations. Includes drafts and proof of her book Journey into Fame; The Life of Daniel Chester French (1947). Other French family members represented include Sarah French Bartlette, W.P. Cresson, Amos Tuck French, Henry F. French, and Mary Adams French French. Correspondents include Henry Bacon, Gutzon Borglum, Robert M. Bush, W.W. Harts, Margaret F. Jameson, Hermon Atkins MacNeil, Charles Moore, George Foster Peabody, Edward Robinson, Lorado Taft, and Adolf A. Weinman. Microfilm edition of the collection (containers 1-44; 73-89) with the exception of the Margaret French Cresson papers available, no. 16,708. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1976. Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Sculptor and artist. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009274 Bacon, Henry, 1866-1924 Correspondence. Bartlette, Sarah French. Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941 Correspondence. Bush, Robert M. Correspondence. Cresson, W. P. (William Penn), 1873-1932. French, Amos Tuck, 1863-1941. French, Henry F. (Henry Flagg), 1813-1885. French, Mary Adams French, 1859-1939. Harts, W. W. (William Wright), 1866-1961 Correspondence. Jameson, Margaret F. Correspondence. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Statues Washington (D.C.) MacNeil, Hermon Atkins, 1866-1947 Correspondence. Moore, Charles, 1855-1942 Correspondence. Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938 Correspondence. Robinson, Edward, 1858-1931 Correspondence. Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 Correspondence. Weinman, Adolph A. (Adolph Alexander), 1870-1952 Correspondence. French family. Arts. Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.) Memorials Washington (D.C.) Sculpture. Statues Washington (D.C.) Artists. itoamc Sculptors. itoamc Cresson, Margaret French, 1889-1973. Journey into fame; the life of Daniel Chester French. 1947. Cresson, Margaret French, 1889-1973. Margaret French Cresson papers. circa 1915-1962. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009274 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009274.3 42214 42214