Blythe, Julia Keffer
Collector
Size: 1 v. (on partial microfilm reel)
Summary: An autograph book kept by Julia Ann Keffer (with initials "J.A.K.", later Julia Keffer Blythe), containing poems, writings, notes, and sketches, some signed "Boots," David Gilmour Blythe's pen name.
Wife of 19th century painter, David Gilmour Blythe; Pennsylvania.
Lent 1980 by Mary Eleanor Bonner, Blythe's grand niece once removed.
Microfilm reel 2027 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Julia Keffer Blythe autograph book, [ca. 1844-1848]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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