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Also available at the Archives on microfilm only are papers lent for microfilming. Included are a diary, May-November 1880, 122 pages (reel 1654), describing daily activities as a 15 year old boy growing up on the Platte Riber, including entries on family events, playing with his brothers and friends, fishing, celebrating July 4th, bailing hay for his father, a dance and fair, and houses in Cozad. Reels 885-887 contain 25 diaries, August 15, 1881-October 20, 1928, some containing illustrations by Henri. Most well covered are the late 1880s and 1890 including entries on Henri's studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in Paris, his instructors Thomas Anshutz, Thomas Hovenden and Adolphe Bouguereau, and fellow students A. Stirling Calder, Edward Redfield, Charles Grafley, and others, Henri's activities in anti-Academy movements between 1902-1912, the exhibition of The Eight, the Independants show of 1910, the MacDowell Club, the founding of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, and his later, less active years. Also included on the microfilm are typescripts of 4 plays; scrapbooks of clippings, 1888-1954 and loose clippings; 82 photographs of Henri, including a group photo of Henri, Elmer MacRae, Maxfield Parrish, and four unidentified women, classes, and models; a letter and receipt from John Sloan; clippings regarding The Eight; and a copy of Memories of My Dead Life, by George Moore, annotated by Henri.
