MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, N.H.) creator mixed material monographic eng 35,000 81 3 1 33 Correspondence, admission application records, minutes of meetings, reports, legal and financial papers, scrapbooks, and miscellany chiefly concerning the administration and operation of the MacDowell arts colony. Includes material relating to the colony's board of directors and committees, as well as the various artists, writers, and musicians who were chosen as residents. Persons prominent in the collection, either as correspondents or officers of the colony, include Hervey Allen, Marie Brodeur, Alexander Calder, Padraic and Mary Colum, Aaron Copland, Parker and Louise Dutton Fillmore, Max Frankel, Chaim Gross, Thomas Shaw Hale, DuBose Heyward, Lewis Montefiore Isaacs, George M. Kendall, Marianne Moore, Tillie Olsen, Charles H. Studin, James Johnson Sweeney, Louise Talma, Jean Starr Untermeyer, and Thornton Wilder. Also includes letters (1936-1938) to Hermann Hagedorn from Parker Fillmore relating to Edwin Arlington Robinson, a longtime resident of the colony. Open to research. Microfilm edition available for Colony Hall register (1923-1958) and Ernst Toch's string trio, opus 63, with his note (1956), no. 21,451 (LC Photoduplication no. 610149). Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1996. Photographs and photographic plates transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Motion picture film, audio recordings, and phonograph record transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Manuscript music scores, manuscript composition books, and other books transferred to Library of Congress Music Division. Edward and Marian MacDowell collection located in Library of Congress Music Division. Artists' colony in Peterborough, N.H., founded in 1908 by Marian MacDowell in memory of her husband, American composer Edward MacDowell (1860-1908). Its financial and administrative responsibilities were handled by the Edward MacDowell Association in New York, N.Y., known after 1970 as the MacDowell Colony, Inc. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms996002 Allen, Hervey 1889-1949 Brodeur, Marie Calder, Alexander 1898-1976 Colum, Mary Colum, Padraic 1881-1972 Copland, Aaron 1900-1990 Fillmore, Louise Dutton Fillmore, Parker 1878-1944 Frankel, Max 1914- Gross, Chaim 1904- Hagedorn, Hermann 1882-1964 Hale, Thomas Shaw Heyward, DuBose 1885-1940 Isaacs, Lewis Montefiore 1877-1944 Kendall, George M MacDowell, Edward 1860-1908 MacDowell, Marian 1857-1956 Moore, Marianne 1887-1972 Olsen, Tillie Robinson, Edwin Arlington 1869-1935 Studin, Charles H Sweeney, James Johnson 1900-1986 Talma, Louise 1906-1996 Untermeyer, Jean Starr 1886-1970 Wilder, Thornton 1897-1975 Artist colonies New Hampshire Peterborough Artists Authors Musicians Edward MacDowell Association. mm 80055012 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms996002 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms996002.3 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/mrva0012.0018/ http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms996002 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms996002.3 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/mrva0012.0018/ Open to research. DLC 800703 20260227111704.0 mm 80055012