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John Quincy Adams Ward Papers in the New York Historical Society John Quincy Adams Ward papers in the New York Historical Society Archives of American Art 750 9th Street, NW Victor Building, Suite 2200 Washington, D.C. 20001 https://www.aaa.si.edu/services/questions https://www.aaa.si.edu/ Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Scope and Contents........................................................................................................ 1 Biographical / Historical.................................................................................................... 1 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 2 Container Listing ...................................................................................................... John Quincy Adams Ward papers in the New York Historical Society AAA.wardjohn Collection Overview Repository: Archives of American Art Title: John Quincy Adams Ward papers in the New York Historical Society Identifier: AAA.wardjohn Date: 1857-1915 Creator: Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910 Extent: 2 Microfilm reels Language: English . Administrative Information Acquisition Information Lent 1973 by New York Historical Society. Location of Originals Originals and microfilm master negative in New York Historical Society, Manuscript Division. Available Formats 35mm microfilm reels 509-510 available from Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Restrictions The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy. Biographical / Historical Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding the St. Louis Exposition, the World's Columbian Exposition, the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, statuary in New York City and the Library of Congress, the Washington statue in Newburyport, Mass. Letters from Robert Cushing in Italy pertain to the supervision of the execution of Ward's marble statuary group in Carrara. Correspondents include Herbert Adams, Thomas Gold Appleton, Karl Bitter, Gutzon Borglum, Daniel Chester French, Robert Underwood Johnson, Thomas Addison Richards, Edward Clark Potter, Alexander E. Orr, R. S. Chilton, Paul Dana, F. Wellington Ruckstuhll, Charles N. Thomas, C. A. Herber and Ward's wife. Page 1 of 2 John Quincy Adams Ward papers in the New York Historical Society AAA.wardjohn Names and Subject Terms This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms: Subjects: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews Sculpture, American Names: Adams, Herbert, 1858-1945 Appleton, Thomas Gold, 1812-1884 Bitter, Karl Theodore Francis, 1867-1915 Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941 Chilton, R. S. Cushing, Robert Dana, Paul French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931 Herber, C. A. Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937 Library of Congress Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.) Orr, Alexander Ector, 1831-1914 Potter, Edward Clark, 1857-1923 Richards, T. Addison (Thomas Addison), 1820-1900 Ruckstull, F. W. (Fred Wellington), 1853-1942 South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition Thomas, Charles N. World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Page 2 of 2.
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