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Series 4: Peggy and Albert deSalle Personal and Professional Papers , 1918, 1930s-1985
2.3 Linear feet
Boxes 9-11

Peggy deSalle's papers include correspondence, price lists, and invoices related to her career as an artwork photographer. Also found are writings, correspondence with artists, price lists, inventories, artist biographies, and photographs that document deSalle's transition to selling the art of European craftsmen and thus her move towards establishing the Little Gallery in 1950. Later records of deSalle's include travel writings and papers, a passport, certificates of appreciation, and memorial material.
Records relating to Albert deSalle include a U.S. Army Honorable Discharge document, some correspondence, and newspaper clippings and letters concerning his death.
Description Container Select
Account Book, 1943-1949
9
8
Artwork, undated
9
9
Autobiographical Writing, Peggy deSalle, 1983
9
10
Correspondence, 1931-1969
9
11-20
Correspondence, 1969-1985, undated
10
1-11
Correspondence, Letters of Sympathy Sent to Peggy deSalle, 1964-1965
10
12-14
European Craftsmen, Notes and Related Materials, circa 1930s-1940s
10
15
European Painters, Notes and Related Materials, circa 1949
10
16
Homemade Greeting Cards, undated
11
1
Honorable Discharge from U.S. Army, Albert deSalle, 1918
11
2
Institute of the Arts, Detroit, Tribute Certificate and Membership card, 1983
11
3
Italian Renaissance Painters, Images and Notes, 1930s-1940s
11
4
Introduction Speech for the Dorothy Liberman Weisman Award, 1982
11
5
Lectures on Art Appreciation, 1932-1933
11
6
"Lisbon," Poem for Peggy deSalle, circa 1968
11
7
Memorial Service Guest Book, Albert deSalle; Clippings, 1965
11
8
Memorials, Friends, 1970-1983
11
9
Notes and Writings, undated
11
10
Papers, Miscellaneous, 1960s-1980s
11
11
Passport, Marguerite L. deSalle, circa 1970
11
12
Travel, 1966-1967
11
13
Travel Diary, Paris, England, Budapest, and Vienna, undated
11
14
"Understanding Through Conversation", undated
11
15

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