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040 _aDLC
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_cDLC
_dDLC
072 7 _aL
_2lcmd
100 1 _aBiddle, George,
_d1885-1973.
245 0 0 _aGeorge Biddle papers,
_f1863-1973
_g(bulk 1916-1973).
300 _a3,500
_fitems.
300 _a31
_fcontainers plus
_a1
_foversize.
300 _a12
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged in 9 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1901-1963; Series 2: Family Correspondence, 1863-1967; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1904-1969; Series 4: Writings, 1929-1963; Series 5: Subject File, 1899-1958; Series 6: Sketches and Sketchbooks, 1930-1959; Series 7: Scrapbooks, 1916-1965; Series 8: Addition, 1908-1973; and Series 9: Oversize, 1958.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence; diaries (1901-1973); drafts and printed copies of speeches, articles, and a memoir; sketchbooks (1909-1911, 1930-1959); scrapbooks (1913-1925, 1930-1949) of clippings, announcements of exhibits, and reviews of Biddle's books; and other papers relating chiefly to his role in American art, his work for the federal support of art, and the Federal Art Project (1933). Includes material about his murals for the Mexican supreme court building and his activities as chairman of the art advisory commission to the U.S. War Dept., and as artist-correspondent in the North African and Italian theaters of operation during World War II and at the Nuremberg war crime trials. Also includes correspondence and other papers of Biddle's third wife, sculptor Hélène Sardeau.
520 8 _aCorrespondents include Conrad Aiken, Thomas Hart Benton, Bernard Berenson, Francis Biddle, Van Wyck Brooks, William C. Bullitt, Mary Cassatt, Katherine Garrison Chapin (Mrs. Francis Biddle), John Cheever, Adolf Dehn, William Hunt Diederich, William O. Douglas, George Grosz, Aldous Huxley, William James, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Walter Lippmann, Norman Mailer, Thomas Mann, Lewis Mumford, Isamu Noguchi, José Clemente Orozco, Henry Varnum Poor, Ezra Pound, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Saint-John Perse, George Santayana, Ben Shahn, John Steinbeck, Allen Tate, Harry S. Truman, John Hall Wheelock, Edmund Wilson, Owen Wister, Grant Wood, Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrew Wyeth, and Marguerite and William Zorach.
545 0 _aArtist and public official. Died 1973.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145
600 1 0 _aAiken, Conrad,
_d1889-1973
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBenton, Thomas Hart,
_d1889-1975
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBerenson, Bernard,
_d1865-1959
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBiddle, Francis,
_d1886-1968
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBrooks, Van Wyck,
_d1886-1963
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBullitt, William C.
_q(William Christian),
_d1891-1967
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCassatt, Mary,
_d1844-1926
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aChapin, Katherine Garrison,
_d1890-1977
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCheever, John
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDehn, Adolf,
_d1895-1968
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDiederich, William Hunt,
_d1884-1953
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDouglas, William O.
_q(William Orville),
_d1898-1980
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGrosz, George,
_d1893-1959
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHuxley, Aldous,
_d1894-1963
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJames, William,
_d1842-1910
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKuniyoshi, Yasuo,
_d1889-1953
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLippmann, Walter,
_d1889-1974
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMailer, Norman
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMann, Thomas,
_d1875-1955
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMumford, Lewis,
_d1895-1990
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aNoguchi, Isamu,
_d1904-1988
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aOrozco, José Clemente,
_d1883-1949
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPoor, Henry Varnum,
_d1887-1970
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPound, Ezra,
_d1885-1972
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRockefeller, Nelson A.
_q(Nelson Aldrich),
_d1908-1979
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRoosevelt, Eleanor,
_d1884-1962
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRoosevelt, Franklin D.
_q(Franklin Delano),
_d1882-1945
_vCorrespondence.
600 0 0 _aSaint-John Perse,
_d1887-1975
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSantayana, George,
_d1863-1952
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aShahn, Ben,
_d1898-1969
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSteinbeck, John,
_d1902-1968
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTate, Allen,
_d1899-1979
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTruman, Harry S.,
_d1884-1972
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWheelock, John Hall,
_d1886-1978
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilson, Edmund,
_d1895-1972
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWister, Owen,
_d1860-1938
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWood, Grant,
_d1891-1942
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWright, Frank Lloyd,
_d1867-1959
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWyeth, Andrew,
_d1917-2009
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aZorach, Marguerite,
_d1887-1968
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aZorach, William,
_d1887-1966
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aFederal Art Project.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bWar Department.
650 0 _aArt, American.
650 0 _aCourthouses
_zMexico.
650 0 _aFederal aid to the arts
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aMural painting and decoration, American
_zMexico.
650 0 _aWar crime trials
_zGermany
_zNuremberg.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xArt and the war.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xJournalists.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_zAfrica, North.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_zItaly.
656 7 _aArtists.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aPublic officials.
_2itoamc
700 1 _aSardeau, Hélène,
_d1899-1969.
_tHélène Sardeau papers.
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145.3
999 _c39745
_d39745