Baker, Mildred, b. 1905 d. 1998

Mildred Baker papers, [ca. 1930]-1987

2.4 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 3 reels)
Addition (1999): 1.4 linear ft.
Reel(s): D110

Material relating to Baker's work as an art administrator on the Federal Art Project, Salons of America and First Municipal art exhibitions, 1934, at the Newark Museum, and elsewhere. Files are on the Index of American Design, community art centers, the Newark Museum, exhibitions, and general files containing correspondence, photographs, drafts of reports and speeches, notes, surveys and statistics, technical guides, articles, and clippings; correspondence with Francis O'Connor and others; diaries; writings; phonograph records; and sales ledger sheets, presumably kept by Baker, of the First Municipal Art Exhibition, 1934 (reel 4982) indicating: artist, catalog number, title, medium, price, gallery, salesman, date billed, date check received, purchaser's name and address, and date of sale.

Also included are an exhibition catalog, "New York No-Jury Exhibition-Salons of America, Inc., Sponsored by the Honorable Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor of the City of New York, From April 9, to May 6, 1934" (70 p. + suppl.) and a photograph (reel 1817) taken at the time of the installation by Peter A. Juley & Son, of the staff, artists and friends. Among those pictured are: Mildred Holzhauer (Baker), Theresa Bernstein, Jonas Lie, Concetta Scaravaglione, Dorothy Miller, Gaston Longchamp,Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Emile Branchard, Mrs. Emile Branchard, Holger Cahill, Jack Sparrow, Waldo Peirce, Leon Hartl, Jimmie Burke, Ben Benn, Arnold Friedman, Henry McBride, Wood Gaylor, Robert Laurent, Adelaide Lawson, Augustus Goertz, and others (unidentified).

Location of Originals: Reel D110: Material returned to Baker after microfilming.; some items were subsequently returned with the 1999 addition.

Material on reel D110 lent for microfilming by Baker 1963. Baker donated the Juley photograph on reel 1817 in 1971, portions of the unmicrofilmed material in 1976, and the Salons catalog and 1st Municipal sales ledger in 1993. Additional material, which included several items previously microfilmed on reel D110, was received in 1999 by Patricia Haskell, Exectuor of the Baker estate.

How to Use this Collection

• Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment.
• Summary reports, magazine reprints, and an exhibition catalog, and a FAP progress report by Holger Cahill, Feb. 16, 1936, "The Works Program.": microfilm reel D110 available for use in AAA offices and through interlibrary loan.
  First Municipal Art Exhibition sales ledger: microfilm reel 4982 (fr. 1380-1386) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
  Photograph by Peter A. Juley & Sons of Salons of America staff and artists: microfilm reel 1817 (fr. 1333) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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Also in the Archives:

• Oral history interview with Mildred Baker, 1963 Sept. 21
• Mildred Baker interview, 1965 July 22