French, Daniel Chester 1850-1931 creator mixed material monographic eng 23,000 94 44 37.6 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. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. 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 Sculptors Cresson, Margaret French, 1889-1973 Cresson, Margaret French, 1889-1973 mm 79021576 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009274 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009274.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009274 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009274.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 790823 20260227111655.0 mm 79021576