Selections from Alexander Johnston Cassatt's letterbook index, [ca. 1894-1903]

Cassatt, Alexander J. (Alexander Johnston), b. 1839 d. 1906
Engineer, Businessperson
New York, N.Y.

Collection size: 11 items (on partial microfilm reel)

Collection Summary: 11 pages selected from 3 volumes of indices, containing entries with descriptive notations of letters about exhibits of Mary Cassatt paintings; and also about paintings by Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent and James MacNeill Whistler.

Biographical/Historical Note: Brother of painter Mary Cassatt.

Lent for microfilming by American Philosophical Society as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project.

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