Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966
Painter, Illustrator
Size: 2 microfilm reels.
Summary: Correspondence; caricatures by Parrish; notebooks from Parrish's academic career at Haverford College, some illustrated; drawings; biographical information; magazine clippings of Parrish's drawings and other printed materials; exhibition catalogs; Christmas cards; and a photograph of Haverford's cricket team.
Illustrator; Philadelphia, Pa. and Windsor, Vt. Attended Haverford College.
Microfilmed in 1987 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. The Maxfield Parrish collection in Haverford College Library's Quaker Collection was not filmed in its entirety. The collection was assembled through various donors.
Microfilm reels 3897 available at Archives of American Art offices, Haverford College library, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Maxfield Parrish papers (microfilm) in the Haverford College Library, [circa. 1888]-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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