Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers, 1851-1975, bulk, 1888-1942

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A Finding Aid to the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Papers, 1851-1975, bulk 1888-1942, in the Archives of American Art, by Jennifer Meehan

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Table of Contents:

• Biographical Information
• Overview of the Collection
• How to Use the Collection
• Detailed Description and Container Inventory
• Appendices

Biographical Information

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born January 9, 1875 in New York City, the eldest daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt. She was educated by private tutors and attended Brearley School in New York. From the time she was a young girl, she kept journals of her travels and impressions of the people she met, and engaged in creative pursuits such as sketching and writing stories. In 1896, she was married to Harry Payne Whitney. They had three children, Flora, Cornelius, and Barbara.

In 1900, Whitney began to study sculpture under Hendrik Christian Anderson, and then under James Fraser. Later, she studied with Andrew O'Connor in Paris. From the time she started studying sculpture, her interest in art grew, as did her particular concern for American art and artists. In 1907, she organized an art exhibition at the Colony Club, which included several contemporary American paintings. She also opened a studio on MacDougal Alley, which became known as the Whitney Studio and was a place where shows and prize competitions were held. (She also had other studios in Westbury, Long Island and Paris, France.) Over the years, her patronage of art included buying work, commissioning it, sponsoring it, exhibiting it, and financially supporting artists in America and abroad. From 1911 on, she was aided in her work by Juliana Force, who started out as Whitney's secretary, was responsible for art exhibitions at the Whitney Studio, and became the first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The first recognition Whitney received for her sculpture came in 1908 when a project on which she had collaborated (with Grosvenor Atterbury and Hugo Ballin) won a prize for best design from the Architectural League of New York. The following year she received a commission to do a fountain sculpture for the Pan-American Building in Washington, D. C. She went on to do numerous other commissioned works over the next several decades, including: a fountain for the New Arlington Hotel in Washington D.C. (the design of which was reproduced in various sizes and materials, one cast being submitted to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition where it won a bronze medal and a later cast being installed on the campus of McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1930); the Titanic Memorial (designed in 1913 and erected in 1930); the Buffalo Bill Memorial (1924) in Cody, Wyoming; the Columbus Memorial (1929) in Port of Palos, Spain; the Peter Stuyvesant statue in Stuyvesant Square (1939); and The Spirit of Flight (1939) for the New York World's Fair. In 1916, she had her first one-man show at the Whitney Studio, another at the Newport Art Association, and a retrospective at the San Francisco Art Association Palace of Fine Arts. A traveling exhibition in the Midwest followed in 1918.

During the First World War, Whitney was involved with numerous war relief activities, most notably establishing and supporting a hospital in Juilly, France. She made several trips to France during the war, keeping a journal and eventually publishing a piece on the hospital in several newspapers. Her sculpture during this period was largely focused on war themes. In 1919, she exhibited some of these works at the Whitney Studio in a show called "Impressions of War." In the years after the war, she was also commissioned to do several war memorials, including the Washington Heights War Memorial (1922) and the St. Nazaire Memorial (1926) commemmorating the landing of the American Expeditionary Force in France in 1917.

In 1918, Whitney opened the Whitney Studio Club, which served as pioneering organization for American art, putting on exhibition programs and offering social space and recreational amenities to its members (one point numbering over four hundred artists living in New York). She planned an "Overseas Exhibition" of American art, which traveled to Paris and other European cities in 1920-1921, and had her own shows in Paris and London in 1921. In 1928, the Whitney Studio Club was transformed into an art gallery, known as the Whitney Studio Galleries and directed by Juliana Force, which eventually became the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1931.

Whitney pursued creative writing throughout her life, but beginning in the 1930s writing became her principle means of creative expression. Over the years, she produced numerous manuscripts for stories, novels, and play. One novel, Walking the Dusk, was published in 1932 under the pseudonym L. J. Webb. Beginning in 1940, Whitney took a "Professional Writing" course at Columbia University with Helen Hull, which resulted in the production of numerous short stories. In 1941, she collaborated with Ronald Bodley to adapt one of her stories as a play and attempted to get it produced, although unsuccessfully.

In 1934, Whitney was involved in a custody battle for her niece, Gloria Vanderbilt (daughter of her late brother, Reginald Vanderbilt and his wife, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt). In an agreement reached by the court, custody was awarded to Whitney and visitation rights to Gloria's mother. Litigation continued in the ensuing years.

In 1935, Whitney established the World's Fair Five Organization, with Juliana Force and four architects, to work on preparing a plan for the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadow, although the fair's own Board of Design ended up coming up with its own plan.

Whitney continued her work in sculpture, writing, art patronage, and philanthropy throughout the remaining years of her life. She died on April 18, 1942.

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Overview of the Collection

Scope and Contents

The Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers measure approximately 35.8 linear feet and date from 1851 to 1975, with the bulk of the material dating from 1888 to 1942. The collection documents the life and work of the art patron and sculptor, especially her promotion of American art and artists, her philanthropy and war relief work, her commissions for memorial sculpture, and her creative writing. Papers include correspondence, journals, writings, project files, scrapbooks, photographs, art work, printed material, and miscellaneous personal papers.

Material relating to more personal aspects of Whitney's life include school papers, a paper doll book dating from her childhood, financial material, interviews, awards and honorary degrees, address and telephone books, committee files, and other items. Correspondence consists of incoming and outgoing letters concerning both personal and professional matters, including her patronage of the arts and sponsorship of artists, her sculpture commissions and exhibitions, and her war relief work and other philantrophic activities. Also found are family correspondence and correspondence received by the Flora Whitney Miller and the Whitney Museum of American Art after Whitney's death. Journals include personal ones that she kept periodically from the time she was a child to near the end of her life, in which she recorded her travels, her impressions of people, her experiences with friends, and her thoughts on art, among other topics; and social ones, in which she recorded dinners and dances attended, and people invited to different social gatherings, and in which she collected invitations received and accepted.

Scattered files can be found that relate to the Whitney Studio Club and the Whitney Museum of American Art, consisting of notebooks, catalogs, a financial report, and other material. Files relating to Whitney's own sculpture projects are more extensive and consist of correspondence, contracts, printed material, notes, financial material for proposed and completed commissions for fountains, memorials, and monuments. The Whitney Museum of American Art, rather than Whitney herself, seems to have kept these files. Files relating to Whitney's philanthropic activities span from the time just before to just after the First World War and consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, and printed material stemming from her contributions to charities and war relief organizations, her sponsorship of the war hospital in Juilly, France, and her support of the Greenwich House Social Settlement.

Whitney's writings include extensive drafts, and handwritten and typed manuscripts and copies of novels, plays, and stories, as well as some autobiographical and early writings, notes and writings on art, and clippings of published writings, documenting her principle means of creative expression towards the end of her life. Also found are some writings by others. Scrapbooks consist of clippings, photographs, letters and other material, compiled by Whitney, Flora Whitney Miller, and possibly others, documenting Whitney's public life, her sculpture commissions and exhibitions, exhibitions at the Whitney Studio, the war hospital in Juilly, France, the death of Harry Payne Whitney in 1930, and the sickness and death of Whitney in 1942.

Photographs include ones of the Whitney and Vanderbilt families, ones of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (including portraits taken by Baron Adolf de Meyer and Count Jean de Strelecki), ones of various Vanderbilt and Whitney residences and of Whitney's studios, ones of Whitney's sculpture exhibitions as well as exhibitions at her studio, and ones of her sculptures, as well as some miscellaneous and unidentified ones. Art work consists of sketchbooks and sketches by Whitney (including sketches for sculptures) and art work by others (including a sketchbook of Howard Cushing's containing a sketch of her and albums of World War I lithographs) collected by Whitney. Also found amongst the collection are printed material (clippings, exhibition catalogs, programs, and publications) and blueprints (including drawings for Whitney's studio on MacDougal Alley and various of her sculptures).

Arrangement and Series Description

The Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers are arranged into twelve series:

• Series 1: Miscellaneous Personal Papers, 1888-1947, 1975 (Boxes 1-3, 33-34, OV 42; 2.5 linear feet)
• Series 2: Correspondence, 1889-1949, 1959 (Boxes 3-9; 6 linear feet)
• Series 3: Journals, circa 1886-1939 (Boxes 9-12, 33; 2.5 linear feet)
• Series 4: Whitney Studio Club and Whitney Museum of American Art Files, 1921-1943 (Box 12; 0.2 linear feet)
• Series 5: Sculpture Files, 1900-1960 (bulk 1909-1942) (Boxes 12-15; 3 linear feet)
• Series 6: Philanthropy Files, 1902-1923 (bulk 1915-1920) (Boxes 15-17; 2 linear feet)
• Series 7: Writings, 1889-1942, 1974 (Boxes 17-26; 10 linear feet)
• Series 8: Scrapbooks, 1893-1942 (Boxes 26-27, 33, 35; 1.5 linear feet)
• Series 9: Printed Material, 1859-1942 (Boxes 27-28, 36; 0.8 linear feet)
• Series 10: Photographs, 1862-1942 (Boxes 28-32, 36-41, OV 43-51; 6.4 linear feet)
• Series 11: Art Work, 1871-1930s (Boxes 32, 41, OV 52-54; 0.8 linear feet)
• Series 12: Blueprints, 1913-1945 (OV 55; 0.1 linear feet)

The collection has not been re-filmed to reflect the above arrangement. In an effort to provide continued access to the existing microfilm, microfilm reel numbers for the material in each series are noted in the series descriptions below.

Subjects and Names

Provenance

The bulk of the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers was donated in 1981 by her granddaughter, Flora Miller Irving, and was partially microfilmed on reels 2288-2289 and 2356-2375. Portions of this collection were previously lent for microfilming in 1964 and 1967 as the Whitney Museum of American Art papers (on reels NWH 4 and N587-N591). Additional material was donated by Irving in 1991 and was microfilmed on reel 4861.

Separated and Related Materials

Related material found in the Archives includes Research Material on Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney compiled by Flora Miller Irving (including typescripts of selected correspondence, journal entries, and writings found amongst Whitney's papers) and the Whitney Museum of American Art artists' files and records, available on microfilm only (originals are located in the Whitney Museum of American Art). Also found in the Archives of American Art's Miscellaneous Exhibition Catalog Collection are a bundle of Whitney Studio Club and Mrs. H. P. Whitney's Studio catalogs and announcements.

How the Collection was Processed

The collection received some processing shortly after it was donated in 1981 and before portions of it were microfilmed. Five platinum prints of Whitney taken by Baron Adolf de Meyer and one toned silver gelatin print of Whitney taken by Amemiya received conservation treatment at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in the late 1980s. Previously microfilmed and unmicrofilmed portions were merged, arranged, and described in accordance with archival standards, and the collection was fully processed by Jennifer Meehan in 2006 as part of the Terra Foundation for American Art Digitization Grant.

How to Use the Collection

Ownership & Literary Rights

The Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Available Formats

Portions of the collection are available on 35 mm microfilm reels 2288-2289, 2356-2375, and 4861 at Archives of American Art offices, and through interlibrary loan.

Researchers should note that the arrangement of the collection as described in this finding aid may not reflect the order of the collection on microfilm.

How to Cite this Collection

Whitney Museum of American Art, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Papers, 1851-1975 (bulk 1888-1942). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Detailed Description and Container Inventory

Series 1: Miscellaneous Personal Papers, 1888-1947, 1975 (Boxes 1-3, 33-34, OV 42; 2.5 linear feet)

This series consists of material of a more personal nature or relating to more personal aspects of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's life apart from her numerous professional, philanthropic, and artistic activities. Material includes schoolwork, report cards (for both Whitney and her daughter, Barbara), financial material (relating mostly to household and clothing expenses), offical and travel documents, interviews, biographical sketches and writings about Whitney (including pieces written by Guy Pene du Bois, Frederick James Gregg, and Camille Mauclair), awards and honorary degrees, address and telephone books, printed material, and scattered lists and notes.

Also found are files relating to various committees in which Whitney participated, such as ones for the campaign of Charles Hughes for President in 1916, for the erection of Victory Hall, a combined war memorial and convention center, and the New York World's Fair; files relating to the Whitney's custody battle for her niece, Gloria Vanderbilt, in 1934; and files relating to the gift of Whitney's dresses to the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1975.

Of particular note in this series are a paper doll book consisting of hand-made, painted, and individually named paper dolls, presumably created by Whitney sometime in the late 1880s or early 1890s, and the book A Handbook of Anatomy for Art Sudents (1896), which may have been used by Whitney in her early studies of art and which contains scattered sketches and notes. Another item of note is a letter of introduction for the Whitneys, written by Alice G. Vanderbilt and introducing them to the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

Most of the material in this series is available on microfilm. Reel numbers, when known, are noted in the folder list below. Files are arranged alphabetically.

Series 2: Correspondence, 1889-1949, 1959 (Boxes 3-9; 6 linear feet)

This series consists of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's personal and professional correspondence, as well as family correspondence and some correspondence received by her daughter Flora Whitney Miller and the Whitney Museum of American Art after her death.

Correspondence can also be found amongst sculpture and philanthropy files.

The Correspondence series is arranged into three subseries:

• 2.1: Early Personal and Family Correspondence, 1889-1896
• 2.2: General Chronological Correspondence, 1896-1942, undated
• 2.3: Posthumous Correspondence, 1942-1949, 1959

2.1: Early Personal and Family Correspondence, 1889-1896

This subseries consists of correspondence from and between various members of the Vanderbilt and Whitney families, as well as correspondence received by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney from friends and suitors, concerning primarily family and personal matters and documenting her relationships with family and friends prior to her marriage. Found here is correspondence between Gertrude and Harry Payne Whitney before and during their courtship, as well as letters received by both upon the announcement of their engagement. Also found is correspondence relating to Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.'s engagement to Grace Wilson, of which the family disapproved.

Correspondence in this subseries is typically arranged according to correspondent or recipient. Correspondence in this subseries is available on microfilm reels 2356-2357, though the order may be different from that described below.

2.2: General Chronological Correspondence, 1896-1942, undated

This subseries consists of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's personal and professional correspondence dating from 1896 to her death in 1942. Correspondence includes mostly incoming letters, drafts of outgoing letters or imaginary letters that may never have been sent (such as, "Letters from the Searcher to the Dream Man," 1917 March 17) in Whitney's hand, carbon copies of outgoing correspondence, some correspondence between other family members, and a 1940 illustrated letter from Jo Davidson. Also found are letters of condolence upon the deaths of William C. Whitney (received by Harry Payne Whitney), Alfred Vanderbilt (who died on the Luisitania), Harry Payne Whitney (including some received by Flora Whitney Miller), and Alice G. Vanderbilt. Correspondents include family, friends, lovers, artists, architects, designers, art organizations, museums and galleries, relief and philanthropic organizations, writers, publishers, and others. A selected list of correspondents from this subseries can be found in the appendix of this finding aid.

Correspondence concerns personal and family matters; Whitney's sponsorship of artists (including Morgan Russell, Edgar McAdams, Laura McLane, and Frederick Roth); Whitney's sculpture commissions and exhibitions of sculpture; exhibitions of other artists' work held in Whitney's studio; art competitions sponsored by Whitney (such as Competition in Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, 1914-1915, and Immigrant in America Poster Contest, 1915); requests for assistance from struggling artists and other needy individuals; requests for work in modeling and casting; Whitney's war relief work, as well as her general philanthropy and art patronage; the purchase of Whitney's sculpture, Head of Spanish Peasant, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the publication of Whitney's novel Walking the Dusk as well as her other writing efforts; plans for the New York World's Fair; awards and honorary degrees received by Whitney; among other matters.

Beginning in the early 1910s, files consist of more and more routine business correspondence which was received and created by several different secretaries on Whitney's behalf. Also found is a list of incoming correspondence received from 1915 to 1918, which was kept by Irene Givenwilson, one of Whitney's secretaries.

Correspondence in this subseries is typically arranged chronologically with a handful of files arranged according to correspondent or subject. Correspondence in this subseries is available on microfilm reels as noted in the container list below.

See Index A for Selected List of Correspondents from Series 2.2

2.3: Posthumous Correspondence, 1942-1949, 1959

This subseries consists of correspondence received by Flora Whitney Miller and the Whitney Museum of American Art after the death of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Included are letters of condolence, and correspondence relating to the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Estate, a memorial exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, gifts in memory of Whitney, and an exhibition of Whitney sculpture at the Wilmington Society of Fine Arts in 1959.

Correspondence in this subseries is available on microfilm reels as noted in the container list below.

Series 3: Journals, circa 1886-1939 (Boxes 9-12, 33; 2.5 linear feet)

This series consists of journals, diaries, and notebooks kept by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney throughout her life and in which she documented personal thoughts and experiences, and social events and happenings in her life.

The Journals series is arranged into two subseries:

• 3.1: Personal Journals, circa 1886-1939
• 3.2: Social Journals, 1893-1920, undated

3.1: Personal Journals, circa 1886-1939

This subseries consists of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's journals of a more personal nature. Personal journals range from ones she kept as a child and adolescent to ones she kept during her engagement and honeymoon to ones she kept as an adult, and include travel journals, impression books, diaries, confessions album, writing journals, and "A Line A Day" books. Personal journals record Whitney's trips abroad and time spent in Newport as a young girl, her impressions of people, her experiences with friends, her honeymoon trip to Japan, certain early writing efforts, her "thoughts relating to art, subjects for statues, composition symbols, all manner of substances which affects [her] artistic life" (from Art Journal, 1906-1907), her work with the Juilly Hospital in France during the First World War, trips to Spain in 1920 and 1928-1929, and daily events and impressions for certain periods of time.

Personal journals are arranged chronologically. Personal journals are available on microfilm reels 2369-2370, though the order may be different from that described below.

3.2: Social Journals, 1893-1920, undated

This subseries consists of dinner books (recording attendees and seating arrangements), a dance book (recording dances danced and with whom), an invitation book (listing people invited to different social gatherings), as well as bound and unbound volumes of invitations received and accepted, all of which document, to one extent or another, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's various social activities and her social milieu.

Social journals are arranged chronologically. Unless otherwise noted, social journals are available on microfilm reels 2370-2371, though the order may be different from that described below.

Series 4: Whitney Studio Club and Whitney Museum of American Art Files, 1921-1943 (Box 12; 0.2 linear feet)

This series consists of scattered material stemming from some of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's art patronage activities and relating to the Whitney Studio Club, which opened in 1918 as an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio and the Friends of Young Artists, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, which opened in 1931 as an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio Club and the later Whitney Studio Galleries. Files include a sales and presentation notebook from the Whitney Studio Club listing works sold and/or presented to various institutions by Whitney, and catalogs, reports, a notebook (which appears to have been kept by Flora Whitney Miller), and writings from the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Files in this series are available on microfilm reel 2374.

Series 5: Sculpture Files, 1900-1960 (bulk 1909-1942) (Boxes 12-15; 3 linear feet)

This series consists of files relating to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculpture projects, including both proposed and completed commissions for various fountains, memorials and monuments. Projects that are especially well-documented include the Buffalo Bill Memorial, the Columbus Memorial, the Daughters of the American Revolution (D. A. R.) Memorial, the Foch National Memorial, the St. Nazaire Memorial, The Spirit of Flight (commissioned for the New York World's Fair in 1939 and erected permanently at LaGuardia Airport), and the Titanic Memorial. Also found are files for the donation and installation of the Vanderbilt Gates in Central Park and for an exhibition of sketches and models for the Victory Arch at the Whitney Studio Club, both in 1919. For the most part, files seem to have been part of those kept by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Files are primarily comprised of correspondence, contracts, printed material, notes, financial material, and other documentation.

Material related to Whitney's sculpture projects can also be found amongst photographs and blueprints.

Sculpture files are arranged chronologically according to name of the project. Miscellaneous files are arranged at the end of the series. Files in this series are available on microfilm reels 2365 and 2369, though the order may be different from that described below.

Series 6: Philanthropy Files, 1902-1923 (bulk 1915-1920) (Boxes 15-17; 2 linear feet)

This series consists of files relating to some of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's philanthropic activities spanning from before to just after the First World War, including her donations to various charities (especially war relief organizations), her sponsorship of the American Ambulance Field Hospital in Juilly, France during the First World War, and her support of the Greenwich House Social Settlement. Files primarily consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, and printed material. Among the Juilly Hospital files can be found a book of patient stories and photographs presented to Whitney as memento or token of appreciation, photographs and snapshots (mostly unidentified), a photograph album, and a certificate of service.

Files in this series are not available on microfilm.

See Index B for List of Correspondents from Series 6

Files are arranged alphabetically.

Series 7: Writings, 1889-1942, 1974 (Boxes 17-26; 10 linear feet)

This series consists of extensive drafts, handwritten and typed manuscripts, and various copies of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's writings, which include novels, plays, stories, as well as some autobiographical and early writings, notes and writings on art, and published writings. As a whole, these writings document what was an important means of creative expression for Whitney, one which she pursued from her earliest childhood until her death, and what was her principle creative activity in the last years of her life.

Unless otherwise noted, writings are not available on microfilm.

The Writings series is arranged into seven subseries:

• 7.1: Novels, circa 1901-1931, undated
• 7.2: Plays, 1933-1942, undated
• 7.3: Stories, circa 1910-1942, 1974
• 7.4: Journals and Notebooks, circa 1901-1940, undated
• 7.5: Unidentified Drafts and Fragments, date
• 7.6: Other Writings, 1889-1940, undated
• 7.7: Writings by Others, circa 1918, undated

Writings in each subseries are typically arranged in alphabetical order according to title.

7.1: Novels, circa 1901-1931, undated

This subseries consists of drafts, manuscripts, and fragments of various novels written by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, one of which - Walking the Dusk - was published under the pseudonym L. J. Webb in 1932. The bulk of the subseries consists of early drafts of an untitled novel that begins "The Maison Feodor was..." Also included is a novel written under the pseudonym Phyllis Lane.

It's possible that related material can be found amongst the unidentified drafts and fragments subseries.

7.2: Plays, 1933-1942, undated

This subseries consists of drafts and manuscripts of various plays written by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. The most notable of these is The Hand, which began as a story (also called "The Scar" and "The Usurper") in the early 1930s; she first attempted to make the story into a play in the mid-1930s and eventually collaborated with Ronald Bodley on it beginning in 1941. Also included is one which may or may not have been written by Whitney, which is noted in the title of the folder in the list below.

7.3: Stories, circa 1910-1942, 1974

This subseries consists of drafts and manuscripts of stories by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, many of which were written as part of a professional writing course at Columbia University taught by Helen Hull in the early-1940s and including one written under the pseudonym Phyllis Lane. Also found are critiques by Hull of some of the stories, and certain stories that may or may not have been written by Whitney, which are noted in the title of the folders in the list below.

7.4: Journals and Notebooks, circa 1901-1940, undated

This subseries consists of journals and notebooks containing Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's handwritten drafts of stories and autobiographical and other writings, including two stories written under the pseudonym Jane Philliper. Writings in this subseries are often related to (possibly being early drafts of) those found in other subseries.

7.5: Unidentified Drafts and Fragments, 1910s-1930s

This subseries consists of drafts and fragments of unidentified writings by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, which may or may not relate to writings in other subseries.

7.6: Other Writings, 1889-1940, undated

This subseries consists of writings by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney apart from her more creative writing, including autobiographical and early writings, an essay on the problems of reconstruction in France after the First World War, limericks and poems, notebooks on art and history, her published writings on art (including an article entitled "The 'Useless' Memorial" and a series of articles entitled "The End of America's Apprenticeship in Art" which appeared in Arts and Decoration in 1920), writings on art, and other miscellaneous writings.

Unless otherwise noted, writings in this subseries are available on microfilm reels 2371-2372.

7.7: Writings by Others, circa 1918, undated

This subseries consists of writings by others, including the galley proof of a memoir by Julien H. Bryan about his time as an ambulance driver during the First World War (which was published by The Macmillan Company in 1918), a story by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's collaborator, Ronald Bodley, and stories possibly by other students in the writing course with Whitney.

Series 8: Scrapbooks, 1893-1942 (Boxes 26-27, 33, 35; 1.5 linear feet)

This series consists of scrapbooks of clippings, photographs, letters and other material, compiled by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Flora Whitney Miller, and possibly others. Scrapbooks document aspects of Whitney's early public life (from 1893 to 1896); Whitney's sculpture commissions and exhibitions; the construction and unveiling of the St. Nazaire and Buffalo Bill memorials, among others; art competitions sponsored by Whitney; exhibitions at the Whitney Studio; the field hospital in Juilly, France; horse racing; the death of Harry Payne Whitney in 1930; and the sickness and death of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1942.

Scrapbooks are arranged in chronological order. Scrapbooks are available on microfilm reel 2373, though the order may be different from that described below. More detailed descriptions for certain scrapbooks are provided below

Series 9: Printed Material, 1859-1942 (Boxes 27-28, 36; 0.8 linear feet)

This series consists of clippings, exhibition catalogs, programs, and publications. Included are clippings about the Whitney and Vanderbilt families, Whitney's engagement to Harry Payne Whitney in 1896, Whitney's artistic and philanthropic activities, Flora Payne Whitney's first marriage, Whitney's sculptures, Harry Payne Whitney's death in 1930, the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1931, the publication of Whitney's novel Walking the Dusk (under the pseudonym L. J. Webb),catalogs include ones for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney sculpture exhibitions, for exhibitions at the Whitney studio, and for other artists (including Jo Davidson, Andrew O'Connor, and Robert Chanler).

Printed material is available on microfilm reel 2374, though the order may be different from that described below.

Series 10: Photographs, 1862-1942 (Boxes 28-32, 36-41, OV 43-51; 6.4 linear feet)

This series consists primarily of photographs of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her studios (in Old Westbury and Paris), her exhibitions and exhibitions at her studio, and her sculpture, and photographs of the Vanderbilt and Whitney families and residences.

Unless otherwise note, photographs in this series are available on microfilm reels 2288-2289, though the order may different from that described below.

The Photographs series is arranged into six subseries:

• 10.1: Photographs of Family, 1862-1931, undated
• 10.2: Photographs of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1880s-1941
• 10.3: Photographs of Residences and Studios, 1896-1935, undated
• 10.4: Photographs of Exhibitions, 1910s-1942
• 10.5: Photographs of Sculpture, 1904-1935
• 10.6: Other Photographs, 1895-1915, undated

10.1: Photographs of Family, 1862-1931, undated

This subseries consists of early photographs of the Vanderbilt and Whitney families, and photographs of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's own family, including her husband, Harry Payne Whitney, her children, Flora, Cornelius, and Barbara, and other family members. Early photographs of the Vanderbilt family include ones of Whitney's grandfather, "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, and her father, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, and one from the Vanderbilt family trip to Florida in 1896. Early photographs of the Whitney family include ones of William C. Whitney and Flora Payne Whitney (Whitney's in-laws), ones of Pauline and Harry Payne Whitney as children, and ones of other family, friends, and business and political associates of William C. Whitney. Photographs of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's own family include ones from her honeymoon, ones of her children and ones of her with her children (including one of Whitney with her mother, daughter, and grandchild, representing four generations of the family), and ones from various family weddings. Also found are photographs of Whitney's childhood friend, Esther Hunt.

Family photographs are arranged in rough chronological order.

10.2: Photographs of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1880s-1941

This subseries consists of portraits and photographs of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Portraits include early ones of Whitney as young girl and young woman, later ones taken by noted photographers Baron Adolf de Meyer and Count Jean de Strelecki, and proofs of ones taken by Edward Steichen, among others. Photographs include ones in costume, campaigning for the presidential candidate, Charles Hughes, in 1916, traveling, receiving an honorary degree from New York University in 1922, with Dr. Boliario Porras presumably conferring about the Panama-Roosevelt Memorial, at the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1931 (including some photographs of the museum taken by the photographer Berenice Abbott), and various ones with her husband, friends, and other family.

Photographs of Whitney can also be found amongst the sculpture photographs.

Photographs in this subseries are arranged in rough chronological order. Reproductions of painted portraits of Whitney, scattered photographs of friends, colleagues, and suitors, and negatives are arranged in files at the end of the subseries.

10.3: Photographs of Residences and Studios, 1896-1935, undated

This subseries consists of exterior and interior photographs of various residences belonging to the Whitney and Vanderbilt families, and photographs of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's studios in Old Westbury, Long Island and at 34 Rue Jouvenet in Paris. Of particular note are photographs of the cottage, and its renovation, on the Whitney estate in Lenox, Massachusetts where Gertrude and Harry Payne Whitney spent part of their honeymoon in 1896.

10.4: Photographs of Exhibitions, 1910s-1942

This subseries consists of photographs of various exhibitions and installations of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculpture, as well as photographs of exhibitions at the Whitney studio, such as the "Impressions of War" exhibition in 1919 and "The Circus in Paint" exhibition in 1929. Also found are photographs from the Memorial Show at the Whitney Museum of American Art held shortly after Whitney's death in 1942.

Photographs in this subseries are arranged in rough chronological order.

10.5: Photographs of Sculpture, 1904-1935

This subseries consists of photographs of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculptures. Extensive photographic documentation can be found for the Columbus Memorial and the St. Nazaire Memorial, including photographs related to planning, construction, and public unveiling. Photographs of Whitney posing with, working on, or attending the unveiling of her sculptures can be found amongst some of the files, including Buffalo Bill Memorial, Columbus Memorial, Fourth Division Memorial, St. Nazaire Memorial, Shepherd, Spirit of Flight, and Washington Heights War Memorial.

Sculpture photographs are arranged in alphabetical order according to title. Photographs of various and unidentified sculptures and sculpture by others are arranged into files at the end of the subseries.

10.6: Other Photographs, 1895-1915, undated

This subseries consists of scattered, miscellaneous, and unidentified photographs. These include photographs of Charles Lindbergh (that may or may not relate to Whitney's planned, but never realized, memorial), the tomb of William C. Whitney, commerical scenic photographs, travel snapshots (with unidentified people), reproductions of various paintings and works of art by Robert Chanler, and photographs of other seemingly random or unidentified subjects.

Photographs in this subseries are arranged in alphabetical order.

Series 11: Art Work, 1871-1930s (Boxes 32, 41, OV 52-54; 0.8 linear feet)

This series consists of sketches created by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and art work by others collected by her.

Art work is available on microfilm reels 2372-2373, though the order may be different from that described below.

The Art Work series is arranged into two subseries:

• 11.1: Sketches by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1891-1930s
• 11.2: Art Work by Others, 1871-1916, undated

11.1: Sketches by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1891-1930s

This subseries consists of sketchbooks and loose sketches by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, including early sketches done as a young girl, figure studies and anatomical drawings, sketches for and renderings of various sculptures, including the Titanic Memorial, Spirit of Flight, and St. Nazaire Memorial, and sketches of red cross nurses and soldiers grouped together under the head "My Experiences as an Emergency Canteen Worker."

11.2: Art Work by Others, 1871-1916, undated

This subseries consists of etchings of Buffalo Bill, a sketchbook of Howard Cushing's which includes a sketch of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, albums of World War I lithographs, sketches by L. Feuchter and other unidentified artists, and a drawing (artist unknown).

Series 12: Blueprints, 1913-1945 (OV 55; 0.1 linear feet)

This series consists of plans and other drawings for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's studio on Macdougal Alley, for various sculptures, for the Whitney Museum of American Art, for the boat, "Sagamore," for the Vanderbilt Gates plaque, and for the Whitney Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of American Art.

Blueprints are arranged in chronological order. Blueprints are not available on microfilm.

Index A: Selected List of Correspondents from Series 2.2

A

• Alba, Duke of: 1930
• Aldrich, Chester: 1917
• Allen, Annie Winsor: 1899, 1903
• Allen, Fitzgerald: 1916, 1932, 1934
• Allen, Meillie: 1916
• Alexander, Mrs. Grace: 1917
• Alexander, John White: 1915
• American Art Dealers Association: 1932
• American Federation of Arts (see also Berryman, E. S.): 1916
• American Institute of Architects: 1934
• American Legation, The Hague: 1921
• American Painters, Sculptors, and 'Gravers: 1919
• American Red Cross: 1918, 1921, 1923
• Anderson, Gasser, Ferriss and Anderson: 1934, 1935
• Anderson, Hendrik Christian: 1900, 1907, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1935
• Appleton, James W.: 1903, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1935
• Architectural League of New York: 1908, 1934
• Arden Gallery: 1933, 1936
• Art Alliance of America: 1915, 1917, 1918
• Art Association of Newport (Maud Howe Elliot): 1915-1919, 1922, 1937, 1938, 1940
• Art in America: 1920
• Art Institute of Chicago: 1942
• Arts and Decoration: 1918-1920
• Association of Women Painters and Sculptors: 1916, 1917
• Astor, Mrs. Vincent: 1916, 1917, 1920
• Atterberg, Gerta: 1921
• Atterbury, Estelle: 1940
• Atterbury, Grosvenor: 1913, 1916-1917, 1922
• Avril, Suzanne: 1915, 1916

B

• Bacon, Robert: 1911, 1914, 1916
• Baillie, Robert A.: 1938
• Ballon, Ellen: 1920, 1924
• Balshfield, Edwin Holland: 1916
• Barnes, James: 1899
• Barnes, Katherine B.: 1911
• Baron, Charles L.: 1920
• Basola, Antony: 1915
• Beach, Chester: 1915, 1916
• Beal, Gifford: 1916
• Beaux, Cecilia: 1916, 1917
• Bell, Pearl Doles: 1934
• Bellows, George: 1917
• Bender, Lina: 1900
• Benedite, Monsieur Leonce (Conservateur, Musee du Luxenbourg, Paris): 1920
• Berger, Kitty: 1917, 1919
• Berlini, Ellen: 1940
• Berryman, E. S. (American Federation of Artists): 1928, 1929, 1936
• Bertrand, Jeanne: 1917
• Besquel, Victor: 1915
• Biddle, Francis (U. S. Attorney General): 1942
• Biographical Encyclopedia of American Women (see also Cameron, W. G.): 1929
• Birnbaum, Martin (Scott and Fowles): 1916-1918
• Blagtree(?), Dorothea: 1919
• Bloodgood, Mrs. John: 1934
• Bloss, Helen: 1919
• Blum, Jerome: 1923
• Bodley, Rodney: 1941-1943
• Bonheur, Lucien: 1915
• Bonney, Mary: 1926
• Borglum, Solon: 1916
• Borglum, Mrs. Solon: 1916
• Bovee, Kate: 1911
• Boyer, Jules: 1921
• Boyile, Zeolita G. (Society Editor, New York Sun): 1917
• Brenner, Michael: 1915
• Brooks, Richard W.: 1916
• Brown, E. W.: 1907
• Brown, H. Beattie: 1920
• Brush, Gerome: 1916
• Burden, Adele (see Sloan, Adele Burden)
• Burt, Struthers, 1928

C

• Cahill, Holger (Works Progress Administration): 1935
• Calder, A. Stirling: 1916
• California Palace of the Legion of Honor: 1929
• Cameron, W. G. (Biographical Encyclopedia of American Women): 1920
• Campbell, Blendon: 1915, 1919, 1923
• Cane, Melville H.: 1932
• Card, Helen: 1941
• Carlin, Charles H.: 1939
• Carlisle, Mary Helen: 1916, 1919
• Carnegie Institute (John Beatty): 1919
• Carroll, Philip: 1911, 1914-1919
• Casella, Alfred: 1911
• The Century Co.: 1919, 1920
• Chalfin, Paul: 1911, 1912, 1917, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1942, undated
• Chalif, L.: 1916
• Chamberlain, George: 1931, 1934, 1939-1941
• Chanler, Robert: 1914, 1918, 1919, 1923, 1927
• Charles Scribner's Sons: 1915, 1916
• Chase, Elizabeth: 1928
• Chavchavdze, George: 1942
• Chavchavdze, Elizabeth: 1942
• Cincinnati Museum Association: 1915
• Clayton, Paul: 1927
• Colton, William: 1926
• Cooney, Michael: 1919
• Cornell, Karl: 1916
• Cortissoz, Royal: 1937, 1941
• Cottenet, F. M.: 1920, undated
• Cottenet, Rawlins: 1899, 1909, 1914-1916, 1919, 1920, 1924, 1927, 1934, 1935
• Covert, John R. (Society of Independent Artists, Inc.): 1917
• Coward, McCann Inc.: 1932, 1935, 1940
• Cripps, Daniel: 1928
• Crocker, Frank: 1931-1933, 1935-1937, 1939, 1941, 1943
• Crouch and Fitzgerald: 1919
• Crowninshield, Frank: 1915-1917, 1920
• Cunningham, John J. Jr.: 1936
• Curtis, Brown, Ltd.: 1941
• Cushing, Ethel: 1914-1916
• Cushing, Howard: 1902, 1903, 1911, 1912, 1914

D

• Dabo, Leon: 1917
• Dadina, H. M.: 1920
• Daniel, Charles: 1914
• Davidson, Jo: 1917-1919, 1927, 1934, 1940, 1941
• Davidson, Yvonne: 1931, 1933, 1934, 1941
• Davidson, Mrs. H. P.: 1941
• Davies, Arthur B.: 1907, 1917
• Davison, Kate: 1919, 1931
• Debourg(?), L.: circa 1908
• Delano, William, Delano and Alfrich: 1918, 1919, 1928
• de Meyer, Baron Adolf: 1917
• Deming, Alden Osterhold: 1908
• Deming, Edwin: 1916, 1939
• Deming, Therese: 1917, 1931, 1932
• de Giafferri, Paul Louis: 1920
• de Guardabassi, Mario: 1914, 1916-1920, 1931 1935, 1942
• de Guardabassi, Rosalind Wood: 1941
• Denby, Edwin, Secretary of the Navy: 1923
• Deny, Louis and Alfred: 1921
• Deschamps, Andre and Jules: 1916, 1917
• de Strelecki, Count Jean: 1916, 1917, 1919
• Dickinson, Helen: 1919
• Diemer, Louis: 1911
• Dixon, Royal: 1915
• Doane, Florence V.: 1915, 1916
• Doerr, Charles H.: 1934
• Doolittle, James R.: 1917
• Doolittle, J. R. Jr.: 1917
• Dougherty, Marion: 1931
• Doubleday, Felix D.: 1919
• Draper, Charles: 1907-1909, 1911, 1914-1917, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1925, 1930, 1931, 1935
• Driggs, Lawrence L.: 1919
• Duell, Charles: 1912
• Dunlap, John (see Panama-Pacific International Exposition)
• Duveen, Joseph: 1932

E

• Earl, Maude: 1916, 1917
• Elliot, Maude Howe (see Art Association of Newport)
• Elwood, Philip H. Jr.: 1916, 1916
• Engel, Rosemary: 1920
• The Essex Publishing Co.: 1920

F

• Fabbri, Ernesto: 1915
• Fairmount Park Art Association: 1933
• Favai, Gregory: 1916, 1917
• Favai, Maria: 1918
• Ferriss, Hugh: 1931, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1939
• Fleck, Henry (Hunter College): 1916
• Force, Juliana Reiser: 1911, 1915-1918, 1925, 1927-1929, 1931, 1932, 1934-1936, 1939, 1940-1942
• Ford, Doris: 1933
• Fraser, James E.: 1911, 1912, 1916, 1917
• French, Daniel Chester: 1907, 1916
• Freund, Karl: 1936
• Friends of the Young Artists (see also Morgan, Pietro, Powell, and Ward): 1915-1917
• Fullalove, J. R.: 1916
• Fuller, Charles: 1916
• Fuller, Mrs. L. Fairchild: 1915

G

• Gallatin, Albert Eugene: 1915, 1916
• Gardner, Claire ("Gardy"): 1936, 1941
• Gates and Morange: 1919
• Gerry, Mabel: 1911, 1915-1920, 1923-1925, 1930
• Gibson, Adelaide M.: 1919
• Gibson, Charles Dana: 1916, 1917, 1919
• Gilchrist, Thomas: 1933, 1934
• Gillies, John W.: 1916
• Givenwilson, Irene: 1914-1918, 1920, 1936-1937, undated
• Glackens, Edith: 1917, 1938
• Glackens, William: 1917, 1934
• Goodwin, Arthur C.: 1923
• Goodyear, A. Conger (see also New York World's Fair Committee): 1938, 1939
• The Gorham Co.: 1915
• Greene, Sara Morris: 1916
• Gregg, Frederick: 1917
• Gregory, Elizabeth: 1916, 1917
• Gregory, John ("Vagabond"): 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1916, 1917-1919
• Groth, Catherine Lee: 1916
• Greyson, Joan: 1929
• Guertler, Rudolf: 1934
• Guggenheim, M .A.: 1916
• Gugler, Eric: 1935, 1935
• The Guild Hall: 1938
• Gwynne, Margaret: 1941
• Gynt, Kaj: 1916

H

• The H. W. Wilson Co.: 1939
• Halsted, Frank Adams: circa 1916
• Hammond, Natalie: 1912, 1918
• Hammond, Ogden H.: 1941
• Hapgood, Norman: 1916, 1931
• Hare, Meredith: 1909, 1910, 1912, 1923
• Harper's Bazaar: 1920
• Hartwell, Dr. John: 1931, 1932, 1934-1940, 1942
• Haseltine, Herbert: 1910, 1911, 1936
• Hasting, Thomas: 1918
• Hazard, Margaret Kellogg: 1919, 1920
• Hearst, Millicent: 1934
• Hennig, Albert: 1914
• Henri, Robert: 1916, 1917
• Henry, Lucien: 1916
• Henshawn, Cooper: 1916
• Hersey, Mark L.: 1931
• Herts and Robertson: 1920
• Hewitt, Miss Copper: 1916
• Hoffman, Helen H.: 1919
• Hoffman, Malvina: 1916, 1917
• Hollins, Marion: 1915
• Hook, Knowles, and Co. Ltd.: 1919
• Hoover, Herbert: 1917
• Hoving, Walter: 1940
• Howard, Cecil: 1941
• Hunt, Esther: 1898-1900
• Hunt, Mary: 1916
• Hyatt, Anna V.: 1916

I

• Ireland, Alleyne: 1919
• Iselin, C. Olivia: 1918

J

• Jacques Seligmann and Fils: 1921
• Jessup Memorial Library: 1917
• Jones, Anna: 1920

K

• Kasebier, Gertrude: 1916
• Karfiol, Margaret: 1915
• Keating, W. R.: 1938
• Keep, Robert Porter: 1938, 1939
• Keilisch, E.: 1932, 1933, 1939
• Kellor, Francis, Immigrant in America Competition: 1915
• Kinney, Troy: 1916
• Kittredge, Elizabeth: 1928
• Kleimert (?), Herminie G.: 1936
• Knoedler's: 1915-1917
• Kraushaar, C. W.: 1916, 1918
• Kuehue, Max: 1929
• Kuhn, Loeb, and Co.: 1916
• Kurz, Walter: 1934

L

• Lane, Charles J.: 1928
• Lamadrid, J. M.: 1915
• Lanier, Harriet: 1916, 1918
• Lanier, J. F. D.: 1917
• Lawson, Ernest: 1917
• Lazo, Mario: 1931
• Leavitt, Charles Wellford: 1919
• Lee, Arthur: 1907, 1912
• Levy, Florence: 1917
• Lewisohn, Alice: 1919-1920
• Lewis and Valentine Co.: 1919
• Lyons, Phil: 1916
• Lydig, Mrs. Philip (Rita): 1917
• Lusitania Peace Memorial Committee: 1934
• Lupi, Conte Riccard Muccioli: 1940

M

• Macbeth, Robert: 1918
• Macbeth, William: 1915
• Mackin, A. Elizabeth: 1915
• MacMonnies, Frederick: 1916, 1917
• McAdams, Edgar: 1907, circa 1915
• McBride, Henry: 1916
• McLane, Laura V.: 1916
• McLaughlin, Ann: 1941
• Manning, John: 1915
• Manship, Paul: 1916, 1917
• Maule, M. F.: 1907, 1916, 1919, 1920
• Meliodon, J. A.: 1922
• Merriam, F. L., McKim, Mead and White: 1902
• Merton, Mr. and Mrs. Owen: 1916
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1916, 1920, 1936, 1941
• Miller, Flora Whitney: 1907, 1910-1915, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1931-1936, 1939, 1940, 1942, undated
• Miller, G. MacCulloch: 1931, 1933
• Minazzoli, Eddie: 1916-1919, 1927, 1932, 1933
• Moffat, Curtis: 1923
• Moffat, John: 1917
• Moore, Charles, Commission of Fine Arts: 1921
• Moretti, G.: 1903
• Morgan, Harjes and Co.: 1915, 1916
• Morgan, Anne: 1915
• Morgan, Lucie B.: 1903
• Morgan, Matthew: 1916, 1917
• Morley, Christopher: 1938
• Morton, Lena: 1899
• Municipal Art Society of New York: 1920
• Musee Rodin: 1922
• Muzzy, Alice: 1916

N

• Nast Publications: 1920
• National Academy of Design: 1916, 1942
• National Arts Club: 1916, 1919, 1920
• National Sculpture Society: 1915, 1916, 1928, 1929
• Nazimova, Madame Alla: 1935
• New Jersey College for Women: 1934
• Newlin, Lillian Washburn: 1918
• Newport Social Index: 1919
• Newton, F. Maurice: 1912
• New York World's Fair Committee: 1938, 1939
• New York Zoological Society: 1940
• Nicholas and Parker: 1934
• Nijinsky, Romola: 1925
• Noland, Charlotte H. (Foxcroft School), 1917, 1919, 1920
• North, Ernest Dressel: 1920
• Norton, Eliot: 1916

O

• O'Brien, May: 1934
• O'Connor, Andrew: 1912, 1914, 1915, 1917
• Odom, William M.: 1916
• Osborn, A. Jewett: 1923
• Osborn, Harry Fairfield (American Museum of Natural History): 1923, 1931, 1932
• Osborn, Mrs. H. Fairfield: 1922
• Osborn, Josephine: 1915
• Ostermann, L. R.: 1940

P

• Pach, Walter (Society of Independent Artists): 1917
• Padilla, Alejandro: 1930
• Page, William H.: 1935
• Paget, Almeric: 1915-1917
• Paget, Olivia (niece): 1917
• Panama-Pacific International Exposition (John Dunlap): 1914-1916
• Parrish, Maxfield: 1916-1918
• Paterson, Robert: 1915
• Peabody, Frederick (Groton School): 1914
• Pennington, Harper: 1907
• Pepper, George Wharton: 1935-1937, undated
• Perrin, Ernest: 1916
• Persian Art Gallery: 1920
• Peyre (?), Ch. Raphael: 1911, 1920
• Pflum, Harry Doane: 1934, 1935
• Pietro, S. C. (see also Friend of the Young Artists): 1915-1917
• Pirazzini, Francesco: 1919
• Poe, Edgar Allen Jr.: 1916
• Pope, John Russell: 1923
• Powell, Edith: 1916, 1917
• Powers, Florence: 1934
• Prevot, Madame L.: 1916
• Price, Elizabeth: 1926
• Proskauer, Joseph: 1935
• Pulitzer, Mrs. Ralph: 1916, 1917

R

• Raillon, Firmin: 1911
• Ramon, Rafael: 1911, 1912, 1915-1919
• Ranken, William: 1916, 1933, undated
• Read, Helen Appleton: 1936
• Red Cross War Council: 1918
• Regan, Thomas: 1914, 1917-1920, 1931-1933, 1935, 1937, 1940
• Reich and Burger: 1920
• Reid, Elizabeth Mills: 1919
• Renard, Emile: 1916
• Richards, C. and A.: 1928
• Richards, John: 1916
• Rieser, Alan: 1938
• Ridgway, Thomas: 1920
• Ridgeway, T.: 1934
• Riggs, Kate Douglas: 1915-1917
• Roberts, Casey: 1934
• Rodin, Auguste: 1911
• Rollins, Leighton (The Rollins Studio, Inc.): 1941
• Roman Bronze Works: 1936
• Roosevelt, Eleanor: 1935
• Roosevelt, Quentin: 1916
• Roosevelt, Theodore: 1916
• Root, Elihu: 1917
• Roper, Louise Gordon: 1916
• Rosales, E.: 1911
• Roth, Frederick: 1915-1917
• Royce, Mrs. J.: 1934
• Russell, Morgan: 1910, 1915-1917, 1921
• Russell Sage College: 1940
• Rutgers University: 1934

S

• St. Denis, Ruth: 1909, 1910, 1916, 1919
• Saint-Gaudens, Augustus: 1907
• Saint-Gaudens, Homer: 1907, 1935
• Salvatore, Victor: 1915, 1916
• Sands, Robert C.: 1914-1917, 1919
• Sanford, Edward Field Jr.: 1916
• San Francisco Art Association: 1916-1918
• Savage, Bernard: 1916
• Scudder, Janet: 1916, 1918, 1919
• Severn, Elizabeth: 1916
• Sharkey, Alice: 1940
• Shattuck, Howard F.: 1911
• Shear-Sullivan, Edith: 1919
• Shepherd, William E.: 1935
• Shinn, Mrs. F. A.: 1915
• Siedentop, John: 1936
• Sittenham, Fred: 1931
• Sloan, Adele Burden: 1899, 1911, 1916, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1926, 1932, 1934, 1938, undated
• Sloan, John: 1916, 1923, 1942
• Snedicor, Dorothy: 1920
• Snyder, Ethel Fairmont: 1920
• Society of Beaux-Arts Architects (see also Lloyd Warren): 1911, 1915, 1918
• Society of Independent Artists, Inc. (Walter Pach and John Covert): 1916, 1917
• Soldwedel, Frederick: 1916-1919, 1935
• Sorchan, Victor: 1917
• Stackpole, William: 1907, 1910, 1914
• Standard Oil Co.: 1902
• Stark, Leslie: 1919
• Starr, Theodore B.: 1916
• Steffens, Lincoln: 1934
• Steil, Mildred: 1938
• Sterner, Marie: 1916
• Stevens, Ada B.: 1931, 1933-1935
• Stewart, Anna Lambert: 1920
• Stout, Ethel Dominick: 1916
• Straight, Dorothy Whitney: 1905, 1916
• Straithmore, Muriel: 1915
• Strindberg, Mrs. August: 1916
• Szechezni, Gladys Vanderbilt (sister): 1898, 1903, 1907, 1911, 1913-1916, 1924, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939-1941, undated
• Szechezni, Lazlo: 1907, 1934

T

• Tagliapietra, Mrs. Townsend: 1915
• Taylor, H. H. (Country Life in America): 1915
• Tiffany, Jeannie: 1919
• Tiffany and Co.: 1920
• Tintorer, Gonzalo: 1916
• Toledo Art Museum: 1917, 1918
• Tollefson, Mary: 1941
• Tower, Roderick (son-in-law): 1925, 1927, 1934
• The Town Hall, Inc.: 1939
• Tracey, Thomas F.: 1938
• Turnbull, Ramsey: 1911, 1912
• Twombly, Ruth: 1915, 1917, 1920

V

• Van der Weyde, N. M.: 1915-1916
• Vanderbilt, Alfred (brother): 1899
• Vanderbilt, Alice Gwynne (mother): 1898, 1900-1903, 1905-1907, 1911-1914, 1919, 1920, 1930, 1931, undated
• Vanderbilt, Cornelius "Neily" Jr. (brother): 1896, 1903, 1919, 1935, 1939
• Vanderbilt, Gladys (see Szechezni, Gladys Vanderbilt)
• Vanderbilt, Gloria (niece): 1932, 1934, 1936-1940
• Vanderbilt, Gloria Morgan: 1925, 1934, 1935
• Vanderbilt, Grace: 1919
• Vanderbilt, Mrs. William K.: 1915, 1917, 1919
• Viers, Eva: 1919
• Virdone, Paul: 1938
• von Rottenthal, Baroness M.: 1915, 1916, 1917

W

• Wainwright, Virginia: 1919
• Waite, Mary E.: 1919
• Walker, Stuart: 1916
• Walsh, Eleanor: 1935
• War Trade Board: 1918
• Ward, de W. C.: 1907
• Ward, de Witt: 1931
• Ward, Winifred: 1915-1917
• Warren, Katherine: 1937
• Warren, Lloyd (see also Society of Beaux-Arts Architects): 1909, 1910, 1911, 1915-1918
• Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Whitney: 1915, 1916, 1923
• Watriss, Frederick: 1917
• Watson, Forbes: 1924, 1931, 1936
• Watts, Diana: 1914, 1915, 1917
• Webb, Electra: 1919
• Webster, Mrs. Valentine: 1916
• Weil, Pauline: 1916
• Werner, Charlotte: 1916, 1917
• Wharton, Edith: 1918
• Whitehouse, Worthington: 1918
• Whittemore, W. G.: 1935
• Whitney, Barbara (daughter): 1907, 1910, 1912-1915, 1919-1922, 1927, 1928, 1934, 1935, 1941
• Whitney, Cornelius "Sonny" (son): 1907, 1910-1912, 1914, 1915, 1917-1924, 1933, 1940, 1941, undated
• Whitney, Courtney: 1918
• Whitney, Dorothy (see Straight, Dorothy Whitney)
• Whitney, Harry Payne (husband): 1898-1900, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1915-1918, 1922, 1924, 1925
• Whitney, Helen Hay: 1908, 1911, 1915, 1920, 1921
• Whitney, Mrs. Payne: 1915
• Whitney, Payne: 1911, 1920
• Whitney, William C. (father-in-law): 1900, 1901
• Wiley, Louis (The New York Times): 1926, 1928
• Williamson, J. Maynard Jr.: 1916
• Winthrop, H. R.: 1919
• Winsor, Annie (see Allen, Annie Winsor)
• Wood, George C.: 1914
• Woodruff, Helen: 1916, 1919, 1920, 1923
• Wolcott, Frances: 1920
• Worden, Mrs. Wilbertine T.: 1915

Y

• Young, Helen May: 1934
• Young, J. W.: 1916, 1927-1929

Z

• Zabriskie, Louise G.: 1939

Index B: List of Correspondents from Series 6

A

• Aerial League of America
• Air Service Memorial Fund
• Alliance Francais
• Allied Theatrical and Motion Picture Team
• Alsace-Lorraine Society of America
• American Artists Mutual Aid Association
• American Bible Society
• American Committee for Relief for Devestated France in the Near East
• American Defense Society, Inc.
• American Flying Club
• American Free Milk and Relief for Italy, Inc.
• American Forestry Association
• American Friends of Musicians in France
• American Fund for French Wounded
• American Hospital in Nice, France
• American Institute of Social Science
• America International College
• American Legion
• American National Committee for Relief of Refugees in Russia
• American Poets' Ambulances in Italy
• American Red Plus
• American Red Star Animal Relief
• American Women's Hospitals in Europe
• American Women's Magazine
• Americanization Committee; New York State Woman Suffrage Party
• America's Tribute to Britain
• Art War Relief
• Association for the Alleviation for the Condition of Orphan Children
• Association to Promote Proper Housing for Girls

B

• Babies Hospital of the City of New York
• Babies' Welfare Association
• Belgian Military Committee
• Belgian Scholarship Committee
• Bide-A-Wee Home, Association Inc.
• Big Sisters, Inc.
• Bird Club of Long Island
• Blind and Crippled Relief Fund for American Soldiers and Sailors
• Blind Men's Improvement Club of New York
• Boy Scouts of American
• Brearly League
• British American Relief Association
• British Canadian Recruiting Mission
• British Canadian Patriotic Fund
• British Great War Veterans of America, Inc.
• British Pictorial Service
• British War Relief Association, Inc.

C

• Camp Fire Girls
• Camp Merritt Fund
• Camp Upton Community Hall
• Cathedral of St. John the Divine
• Catherine Breshkovsky Russian Relief Fund
• Chalif Normal School of Dancing
• Child Health Organization
• Children on the Frontier (French-American)
• Children's Hospitals of Luke
• Citizens Union of the City of New York
• City Club
• City History Club
• Civic Forum
• Clear Pool Camp
• Colony Club Ambulance Fund
• Committee for Men Blinded in Battle
• Committee for Relief in the Near East
• Committee of Mercy
• Committee on Colonial and National Art, Archaeological Institute of America
• Committee on the Military Ball
• Committee to Secure Rank for Nurses
• Community Playhouse, Newport
• Converence Committee on National Preparedness
• Conference of Charities and Correction
• Convalescent Relief Division, Bellvue Hospital

D

• Diocoesan Missionary and Church Extension Society
• Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
• Dover Patrol Fund
• Duryea War Relief

E

• East Side House Settlement
• Educational Dramatic League
• Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania

F

• Federal Board for Vocational Education
• Federation of Associations for Cripples
• Free Milk for France
• Freedom, Inc.
• French Bureau
• French Heroes Fund, including Lafayette Memorial Fund, Inc.
• French Institute in the United States
• French Tuberculous War Victims Fund
• French War Emergency Fund
• Friends of France
• Friends of National Bible Institute
• French Sailors Relief Committee
• Fund to Aid the Devastated Villages in France

G

• Garnett Fresh Air Home
• General Committee on Army and Navy Chaplains
• General Wartime Commission of the Church
• Girl Scouts, Manhattan Council
• Greater New York Philanthropic Society

H

• Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
• Henry Street Settlement
• Hero Land (Allied Bazaar), under the auspices of League of Allies
• Historical Society of Nantucket, MA
• Historical Society of Newport, RI
• Home for Convalescent Babies
• Home for the Aged
• Hospital and House of Rest for Consumptives
• Hospital Under the Three Flags
• Humanitarian Duct and Magazine

I

• Indian Rights Association
• Institute of Applied Christianity
• Italian War Relief Fund of America
• Italy America Society

J

• Joffre Tribute Committee
• Junior American Guard
• Junior Homeprojects Works
• Junior League
• Junior Patriots of America

K

• Kings College Hospital
• Knights of Columbus
• Kowaiga School for Colored Youth

L

• Ladies Kennel Association
• Lady Beatty's War Relief Fund
• Laying-in-a-Hospital
• League for the Presentation for American Independence
• League of the Allies
• League of Catholics
• League of Foreign Born Citizens
• League of Nations
• League to Enforce Peace
• Le Salon
• Liberty Film Committee
• Liberty Loan Committee, 3rd, 4th, Fine Arts Liberty Loan Committee, Women's Liberty Loan Committee

M

• Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
• Manhattan Maternity and Dispensary
• Maternity Center Association
• Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defence
• Militia of Mercy
• Museum of French Art
• Musicians Fund, Union Trust
• Music School Settlement

N

• Nassau County Association, Inc.
• Nassau Hospital Association
• National Aeronautic Committee
• Natoinal Allied Relief Committee
• National Arts Club
• National Association of Audobon Society
• National Bible Institute
• National Child Welfare Association, Inc.
• National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor
• National Council of Women (National Liberty Sing)
• National Emergency Relief Society
• National Historical Society
• National Institute of Social Services
• National Kindergarten Association
• National League of Women's Service
• National Patriotic Song Committee
• National Phonograph-Records Recruiting Corp.
• Navy League of the United States
• Navy Relief Society
• Neighborhood Association
• Neighborhood Playhouse
• Neighbors League of America
• Netherlands Symphony Orchestra of New York
• New York Anti-Vivisection Society
• New York Association for the Blind
• New York Bible Society
• New York Committee of After Care of Infantile Paralysis Cases
• New York Committee of the American Committee for Devastated France
• New York Dispensary
• New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
• New York Kindergarten Association
• New York Medical College and Hospital for Women
• New York Nursery and Child's Hospital
• New York Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospital
• New York Probation and Protective Association
• New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled
• New York Special Aid Society
• New York Zoological Society

O

• Orphan's Automobile Day Association of New York, Inc.
• Open Stair Dwelling Co.
• Our Dumb Friends League
• Our Sacred Duty League

P

• Park Fetes
• Park Hospital and Training School
• People's Institute
• People's of America Society
• People's University Extension Society of New York
• Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for Soldiers and Sailors
• Pilgrim Tercentenary Memorial Fund
• Piper's Club
• Playground and Recreation Association of America
• Polish Victims Relief Fund
• Presbyterian Hospital
• Prison Assocation of New York
• Professional Classes War Relief of America
• Professional Women's League
• Prospect Hill Day Nursery
• Protestant Episcopal Church

R

• Red Cross Christmas Seal Campaign
• Red Cross Roll Call
• Red Cross Shop
• Refugees in Russia
• Refugees Relief Fund
• Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor
• Relief Fund for the Families of French Soldiers
• Richmond Hill House
• Riggs School, Inc.
• Rocky Mountain Club of New York
• Rose Sidgwick Memorial Fund
• Ross Studios, Home Making and Motherhood Training
• Roumanian Relief Committee of America
• Russian Balalaika Orchestra
• Russian Charity Society

S

• Saint Ambrose Community Center
• Saint Andrew's Convalescent Hospital
• Saint Andrew's Hospital Coffee Stand Society
• Saint Bartholomew's Church
• Saint John's Guild
• Saint Joseph's Convent and School
• Saint Luke's Home for Aged Gentlewomen
• Saint Luke's Hospital
• Saint Mark's Hospital of New York City
• Saint Mary's Free Hospital for Children
• Salvation Army, War Work Campaign
• School of Mothercraft War Service
• Seamen's Church Institute
• Secours Franco-American
• Secours National
• Serbian Aid Fund
• Serbian Relief Commission of America
• Seward Park Rehabilitation Center
• Sheltering Arms
• Sick Children's Transfer Society
• Smith College Club
• Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute
• Society for Italian Women
• Society for Relief of Destitute Blind
• Society of American Singles
• Society of Lying-in-a-Hospital
• Society of the Friends of Music
• Society of the New York Hospital
• Stage Society
• State Charities Aid Association
• State Commission of Prisons in New York
• Stony Wold Sanitarium Corp.
• Sunshine Settlement, Inc.
• Sun Tobacco Fund

T

• Tank Corps League
• Tenement House Committee
• Traveler's Aid Society
• Tribune Fresh Air Fund
• Trinity Church

U

• Union des Arts
• Union Settlement
• United Building Fund Campaign
• United Committee on Christian Service for Relief in France and Belgium
• United Committee on War Temperance Activities in the Army and Navy
• United Hospital Fund
• United Neighborhood Houses of New York
• United Settlement Committee of Association of Neighborhood Workers
• United States Food Administration
• United States Junior Naval Reserve
• United States Naval Forces Operation in European Waters
• United War Work Campaign

V

• Vacation Association, Inc.
• Valentine's Manual of Old New York
• Vassar College
• Visiting Nurse Service
• Vocational Committee of the Kips Bay Neighborhood Association
• Voluntary Parenthood League
• Volunteer Hospital
• Volunteers of American, Volunteer Fresh Air and Outing Work

W

• Wadsworth-Upton Tobacco Fund
• War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities
• War Industries Board
• War Savings Metal Market
• West Side Day Nursery
• Woman's American Supply League
• Woman's Auxiliary for Navy Recruiting, Inc.
• Woman's Auxiliary of the French Hospital
• Woman's Land Army of American, Inc.
• Woman's Municipal League of New York
• Woman's Naval Service, Inc.
• Woman's Practical Law Association
• Woman's Prison Association
• Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association
• Woman's Section of the Navy League of the United States
• Woman's League for Animals and Free Hospital
• Women's National Committee
• Woodcroft League of America
• World's Talent Foundation
• World's War Biographical Society
• Worker's Bureau

Y

• Yale University Glee, Banic and Mandolin Clubs
• Yorkville Neighborhood Association
• Yorkville Protective League Committee
• YMCA, War Work Funds
• YWCA, War Work Funds