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H. Siddons Mowbray, Correspondence, undated, 1903-1906
Select: H. Siddons Mowbray, Correspondence, undated, 1903-1906
George Breck, Correspondence, 1906-1910
Select: George Breck, Correspondence, 1906-1910
Jesse Benedict Carter
Select: Jesse Benedict Carter
General Correspondence, undated, 1913-1916
Select: General Correspondence, undated, 1913-1916
Endowment Fundraising, undated, 1912-1914
Select: Endowment Fundraising, undated, 1912-1914
Villa Mirafiore, 1916
Select: Villa Mirafiore, 1916
Gorham Phillips Stevens
Select: Gorham Phillips Stevens
General Correspondence, undated, 1912-1916
Select: General Correspondence, undated, 1912-1916
General Correspondence, 1917-1923
Select: General Correspondence, 1917-1923
General Correspondence, 1924-1934
Select: General Correspondence, 1924-1934
Academic Council Minutes, 1919-1932
Select: Academic Council Minutes, 1919-1932
Annual Report (notes), 1916
Select: Annual Report (notes), 1916
Association of Alumni of the American Academy in Rome (includes letter about collaborative problem), 1914-1915
Select: Association of Alumni of the American Academy in Rome (includes letter about collaborative problem), 1914-1915
Benton, Hale P. (Assistant to Director, Rome), 1926-1932
Select: Benton, Hale P. (Assistant to Director, Rome), 1926-1932 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence regarding Benton's appointment and his duties)
Blashfield, Edwin H. (Committee on the School of Fine Arts), undated, 1916-1928
Select: Blashfield, Edwin H. (Committee on the School of Fine Arts), undated, 1916-1928 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence about a plan for preparing a students' guide to art in Italy, fresco, war conditions, and Blashfield's love of Italy)
Boring, William A. (Treasurer)/Arthur H. Crane (Assistant Treasurer), 1913-1932
Select: Boring, William A. (Treasurer)/Arthur H. Crane (Assistant Treasurer), 1913-1932 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence concerning construction of new building, responsibility for academy finances in Carter's absence, fees connected with the sale of Villa Mirafiore, married fellows, housing)
Carter, Jesse Benedict (Director, Rome), undated, 1913-1917
Select: Carter, Jesse Benedict (Director, Rome), undated, 1913-1917 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence about new building, Villa Aurelia; Millet's bequest of costumes, books, and photographs; staffing, housing, President Mead's visit to Rome, fellows, exhibitions, academy servants, finances and expenses, war conditions, extension of fellowship time, Carter's death; also, notes and letters from Mrs. Carter)
Collaborative Problem, 1916
Select: Collaborative Problem, 1916
Conferences, 1926-1930
Select: Conferences, 1926-1930 Scope and Contents note (correspondence and printed matter relating to conferences attended by Stevens: Archaeological Congress in Palestine and Syria 1926; International Archaeological Congress, Rhodes, 1928; Archaeological Institute of Germany, Berlin, 1929; International Archaeological Congress, Algeria, 1930)
Davico, Riccardo (Secretary, Rome), 1928
Select: Davico, Riccardo (Secretary, Rome), 1928
Del Frate, Gastone (Legal Counsel), 1913-1929
Select: Del Frate, Gastone (Legal Counsel), 1913-1929 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence about Heyland will, taxes, Villa Aurelia)
Egbert, James C. (Committee on the School of Classical Studies), 1922-1932
Select: Egbert, James C. (Committee on the School of Classical Studies), 1922-1932 Scope and Contents note (correspondence concerning search for permanent head of the School of Classical Studies, fellows, housing, staffing, contributing colleges)
Exhibitions, 1913-1917
Select: Exhibitions, 1913-1917 Scope and Contents note (correspondence, invoices, and shipping lists concerning academy entries in the Architectural League of New York exhibitions, 1915-1917, and the Paris Salon, 1913)
Fairbanks, Frank P. (Professor in Charge, School of Fine Arts), 1919-1929
Select: Fairbanks, Frank P. (Professor in Charge, School of Fine Arts), 1919-1929 Scope and Contents note (includes letters with news of Paul Manship, exhibitions, and recommendations for strengthening the academy's library)
Fellows, undated, 1913-1927
Select: Fellows, undated, 1913-1927 Scope and Contents note (correspondence with and about current and former fellows A-Z, including suggestions for improving the Academy, rules relative to married fellows, letters of introduction, shipment of art work)
Frank, Tenney (Professor in Charge of Classical Studies), 1924
Select: Frank, Tenney (Professor in Charge of Classical Studies), 1924
Galassi Architetti, 1915-1929
Select: Galassi Architetti, 1915-1929 Scope and Contents note (correspondence with architects for Janiculum improvements)
Guernsey, Roscoe (Executive Secretary), 1920-1932
Select: Guernsey, Roscoe (Executive Secretary), 1920-1932 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence about shipment of student work, articles for Art & Archaeology, housing, fellows, staffing, inventory of china and linens in apartments for annual professors, gifts)
Kelsey, Francis W. (Trustee), 1915, 1924
Select: Kelsey, Francis W. (Trustee), 1915, 1924 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence regarding his plans to visit Rome, recommendation that Villa Aurelia be used for embassy purposes)
Kendall, William M. (Trustee), 1913-1930
Select: Kendall, William M. (Trustee), 1913-1930 Scope and Contents note (correspondence concerning responsibilities and titles of officers in Rome, collaborative problem, academy monuments, new building, Mead's burial in Rome with description and diagram of his cemetery plot)
La Farge, C. Grant (Secretary)/Wolfe, W.R. (Associate Secretary)/ Moses, Lionel (Assistant Secretary), 1912-1932
Select: La Farge, C. Grant (Secretary)/Wolfe, W.R. (Associate Secretary)/ Moses, Lionel (Assistant Secretary), 1912-1932 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence about Stevens' responsibilities and title, married fellows, letters of introduction, collaborative problem, fellows, competitions, exhibitions, shipment of student work and packing lists, expense reduction, war conditions, gifts, fellowship in landscape architecture, extension of fellowship time, staffing, Professor Clark's war work, Art & Archaeology issue on the academy, salaries)
Lamond, Felix (Professor of Music), undated, 1924-1928
Select: Lamond, Felix (Professor of Music), undated, 1924-1928 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence about fellows, music studios in Villa Aurelia)
Laurie, Charles (Bursar), 1913-1915
Select: Laurie, Charles (Bursar), 1913-1915
Library and Publications, undated, 1912-1929
Select: Library and Publications, undated, 1912-1929 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence proposing a "Letter from Rome" column for The Journal of the American Institute of Architects, correspondence about articles on the academy for other periodicals, recommendations for purchases of books on landscape architecture, book orders)
McClellan, George B. (Library Committee; Vice President), 1914-1930
Select: McClellan, George B. (Library Committee; Vice President), 1914-1930 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence concerning opinions about the war, Library Committee business, housing, salaries, Villa Aurelia expenses)
Mead, William R. (President), 1911-1928
Select: Mead, William R. (President), 1911-1928 Scope and Contents note (includes Stevens' letter of application for the position of director, with biographical information; correspondence concerning condition of Villa Aurelia, director Carter's style of management, new building; Stanford White's son, Lawrence; endowment, exhibitions, taxes, housing, fellows, collaborative problem, international hostel in Rome for women, acquisition of property adjacent to the academy, staffing)
Mellon, Edward P. (Trustee; Endowment Committee), 1913-1915; 1922-1923
Select: Mellon, Edward P. (Trustee; Endowment Committee), 1913-1915; 1922-1923 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence concerning details of the academy fellowship competitions to be held in Paris, Polasek's activities, travel plans, new building, servants, Endowment Committee business)
Notes re: Castle of Bolsena and St. Peter's, undated
Select: Notes re: Castle of Bolsena and St. Peter's, undated Scope and Contents note (possibly Fellows' projects)
Platt, Charles A. (Vice President; Acting President; Committee on the School of Fine Arts; President), 1928-1932
Select: Platt, Charles A. (Vice President; Acting President; Committee on the School of Fine Arts; President), 1928-1932 Scope and Contents note (includes suggestions for improving the quality of fellows, staffing, studios, housing, salaries, ideas for Mead memorial, proposed curriculum changes, collaborative problem, married fellows, endowment fundraising, problem with fellows sneaking women into Villa Aurelia during the night, announcement of director Hewlett's appointment)
Richardson, W. Symmes (Professor of Fine Arts), 1914-1915, 1925
Select: Richardson, W. Symmes (Professor of Fine Arts), 1914-1915, 1925 Scope and Contents note (includes letter expressing Stevens' opinion of the Ward-Thrasher memorial)
Rotch Traveling Scholarship, 1915
Select: Rotch Traveling Scholarship, 1915 Scope and Contents note (requests for candid opinions of the Rotch Scholarship men)
Sanders, Henry A. (Annual Professor of Classical Studies), 1915
Select: Sanders, Henry A. (Annual Professor of Classical Studies), 1915
Showerman, Grant (Director, Summer Session), 1928
Select: Showerman, Grant (Director, Summer Session), 1928
Trowbridge, Breck (Acting President; Vice President; Committee on the School of Fine Arts; Chairman, Endowment Committee), 1915-1926
Select: Trowbridge, Breck (Acting President; Vice President; Committee on the School of Fine Arts; Chairman, Endowment Committee), 1915-1926 Scope and Contents note (correspondence about collaborative problem, ideas for revision of curriculum, architecture fellow Victor L. S. Haffner's plan for third year project)
Van Buren, Albert W. (Librarian; Professor of Archaeology), 1913-1928
Select: Van Buren, Albert W. (Librarian; Professor of Archaeology), 1913-1928 Scope and Contents note (mainly correspondence concerning library business)
Vitale, Ferruccio (Committee on Landscape Architecture), 1927-1932
Select: Vitale, Ferruccio (Committee on Landscape Architecture), 1927-1932 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence about fellows)
West, Andrew (Committee on the School of Classical Studies), 1924
Select: West, Andrew (Committee on the School of Classical Studies), 1924 Scope and Contents note (letter about where funds might be found to hire Showerman as permanent Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies)
Wilkins, H. Blakiston (Executive Secretary, Rome), 1920-1921
Select: Wilkins, H. Blakiston (Executive Secretary, Rome), 1920-1921 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence concerning budget, Wilkins' resignation)
James Monroe Hewlett
Select: James Monroe Hewlett
General Correspondence, 1934-1935
Select: General Correspondence, 1934-1935
Academic Council Minutes, 1935
Select: Academic Council Minutes, 1935
Aldrich, Chester H. (Committee on the School of Fine Arts), 1933-1935
Select: Aldrich, Chester H. (Committee on the School of Fine Arts), 1933-1935 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence about extending fellowship time for Nelson and Chabanne, collaborative problem, exhibitions, fellows)
Boring, William A. (Treasurer), 1933
Select: Boring, William A. (Treasurer), 1933
Davico, Riccardo (Secretary, Rome), 1933
Select: Davico, Riccardo (Secretary, Rome), 1933 Scope and Contents note (letters about exchange rate, possible reduction in the number of fellows in the coming year)
Del Frate, Gastone (Legal Counsel), 1935
Select: Del Frate, Gastone (Legal Counsel), 1935 Scope and Contents note (correspondence concerning possible dispute over proposed building plans of neighboring Siro Maronita College)
Guernsey, Roscoe (Executive Secretary), 1933-1935
Select: Guernsey, Roscoe (Executive Secretary), 1933-1935 Scope and Contents note (letters about budget, expense reduction, fellows' activities, repairs and alterations to Villa Aurelia, film of Mussolini's visit to the academy, exhibitions)
La Farge, C. Grant (Secretary), 1933-1934
Select: La Farge, C. Grant (Secretary), 1933-1934 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence concerning financial, educational and social problems observed by Hewlett during his first year as director; proposed bequest of a collection of artifacts)
McClellan, George B. (Acting President), 1933
Select: McClellan, George B. (Acting President), 1933 Scope and Contents note (letter about Hewlett's moving expenses and debt to academy)
Platt, Charles A. (President), 1933
Select: Platt, Charles A. (President), 1933 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence regarding donations to Vitale memorial fund, reduction of expenses by closing Villa Aurelia and moving the director to Villa Bellacci)
Pope, John Russell (President), 1933-1935
Select: Pope, John Russell (President), 1933-1935 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence about expense reduction, relation of fellows to Director and to one another, fellows' work and progress)
Chester H. Aldrich
Select: Chester H. Aldrich
Committee on the School of Classical Studies (James C. Egbert, Chairman), 1936-1938
Select: Committee on the School of Classical Studies (James C. Egbert, Chairman), 1936-1938
Committee on the School of Fine Arts (James Kellum Smith, Chairman), undated, 1935-1937
Select: Committee on the School of Fine Arts (James Kellum Smith, Chairman), undated, 1935-1937 Scope and Contents note (includes letters about work of the fellows)
Guernsey, Roscoe (Executive Secretary), 1935-1940
Select: Guernsey, Roscoe (Executive Secretary), 1935-1940
McClellan, George B. (Vice President), 1937-1939
Select: McClellan, George B. (Vice President), 1937-1939 Scope and Contents note (letters about fellows, property, library)
Pope, John Russell (President), 1935-1937
Select: Pope, John Russell (President), 1935-1937 Scope and Contents note (includes letters about overspending on studio upkeep, library, activities of staff and fellows, budget, Italian income tax, problems with neighboring Siro MaronitaCollege's building plans, concerts at Villa Aurelia, married fellows, funeral of Mrs. Mead, exhibitions, visitors)
Smith, James Kellum (President), 1937-1940
Select: Smith, James Kellum (President), 1937-1940 Scope and Contents note (letters about staff and student activities, library, condition of buildings and grounds, travels, evaluation of fellows, finances and expense reduction, Department of Music, exhibitions, visitors, suicide of Librarian Schnacke, staffing, collaborative problem, recommendations of the Committee on the Welfare of Women Students, budget, political conditions, staff housing, arrangements for students to return to the U.S., suggestions for staffing and work that should continue during wartime)
Aldrich, Amey, General Correspondence, 1941
Select: Aldrich, Amey, General Correspondence, 1941
Charles R. Morey
Select: Charles R. Morey
Davico, Riccardo (Secretary, Rome), 1945-1946
Select: Davico, Riccardo (Secretary, Rome), 1945-1946 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence about wages of Academy servants, expenses)
Library, 1945
Select: Library, 1945
Smith, James Kellum (President), 1945-1946
Select: Smith, James Kellum (President), 1945-1946 Scope and Contents note (letter about salaries, boarding discharged soldiers at the Academy, opinion about selling Villa Aurelia)
Laurance P. Roberts
Select: Laurance P. Roberts
General Correspondence, 1946-1947
Select: General Correspondence, 1946-1947
Brown, Frank E. (Professor in Charge of Classical Studies), 1947
Select: Brown, Frank E. (Professor in Charge of Classical Studies), 1947 Scope and Contents note (letter of welcome, correspondence concerning housing)
Davico, Riccardo (Secretary, Rome), 1947
Select: Davico, Riccardo (Secretary, Rome), 1947 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence concerning work on buildings and grounds)
Fulbright Bill, 1947-1948
Select: Fulbright Bill, 1947-1948 Scope and Contents note (correspondence expressing hopes that the Academy will be considered for participation in the program)
Hammond, Mason (Trustee), 1946
Select: Hammond, Mason (Trustee), 1946 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence about staffing)
Howe, George (Architect in Residence), 1947
Select: Howe, George (Architect in Residence), 1947 Scope and Contents note (correspondence concerning his appointment)
Lord, Milton E., 1946-1947
Select: Lord, Milton E., 1946-1947 Scope and Contents note (correspondence regarding appointment of a librarian)
Mendell, Clarence (Committee on the School of Classical Studies), undated, 1946-1947
Select: Mendell, Clarence (Committee on the School of Classical Studies), undated, 1946-1947 Scope and Contents note (correspondence about staffing, publications)
Moore, Lamont (Assistant Director), 1947
Select: Moore, Lamont (Assistant Director), 1947 Scope and Contents note (includes letter of appointment, report on activities of fellows and staff)
Morey, Charles R., (Acting Director, Rome), 1946-1947
Select: Morey, Charles R., (Acting Director, Rome), 1946-1947 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence regarding arrival of Laurance Roberts, housing)
Smith, James Kellum (President), 1946-1947
Select: Smith, James Kellum (President), 1946-1947 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence concerning Roberts' appointment, negotiations with candidate for position of librarian, staffing, buildings, library, fellowships, housing)
Stuart, Meriwether (Executive Secretary), 1946
Select: Stuart, Meriwether (Executive Secretary), 1946 Scope and Contents note (request to help exiled sculptor Ivan Mestrovich)
Villa Aurelia, 1945-1947
Select: Villa Aurelia, 1945-1947 Scope and Contents note (includes correspondence regarding alterations and their estimated costs)
Williams, Mary T. (Executive Secretary), 1947
Select: Williams, Mary T. (Executive Secretary), 1947 Scope and Contents note (letter about housing, fellowships, visitors to the academy, plans to hold a reception for embassy officers)
Frank P. Fairbanks (Professor of Fine Arts), Correspondence, 1923-1930
Select: Frank P. Fairbanks (Professor of Fine Arts), Correspondence, 1923-1930 Scope and Contents note (includes letters about collaborative problem, shipment of student work, studio equipment, fellow Walker Hancock's need to accept commissions in order to aid his mother financially or sacrifice his fellowship to return home)
Felix Lamond (Professor of Music)
Select: Felix Lamond (Professor of Music)
Correspondence, 1922-1932
Select: Correspondence, 1922-1932 Scope and Contents note (includes letter outlining the history and accomplishments of the Department of Music, correspondence about plans to establish an alumni music colony in Europe, library needs, suggestions for music jurors)
Endowment Campaign--Fundraising Correspondence, 1919-1920
Select: Endowment Campaign--Fundraising Correspondence, 1919-1920
Endowment Campaign--Horatio Parker Fund, 1920
Select: Endowment Campaign--Horatio Parker Fund, 1920 Scope and Contents note (includes mailing lists, lists of donors and honorary committee members; correspondence regarding raising an endowment for the Department of Music and a fellowship in memory of Horatio Parker)
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