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Fernand Lungren : a biography
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TESSIER, Fernand
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters (including 1 letter book), manuscripts (including 50 diaries), documents (including 55 account books, 12 cash books, and 5 miscellaneous volumes), and photographs related to the lives and activities of various Janin family members and the extended Janin-Blair-Jesup-Croghan families. Subject matter in the collection includes: politics and government in Washington, D.C., and Louisiana; society and customs in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans; Blair House (Washington, D.C.); land titles in Indiana Territory, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Missouri; the Ocean Canal and Transportation Company, which ran from Louisiana to St. Louis; the history of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, from the time of purchase by John Croghan in 1839 until 1932, when it became a national park (at which time Violet Blair Janin was the primary owner); and mining in Australia. Persons represented in the collection include: James Lawrence Blair, Mary Jesup Blair, Violet Blair Janin, John Croghan, William Croghan, Albert Covington Janin, Louis Janin, Julia Clark Jesup, Thomas Sidney Jesup, George M. Wheeler, and Lucy James Blair Wheeler. Organizations represented in the collection (with which Violet Blair Janin was affiliated) include: Daughters of the American Revolution, National Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage, National Cathedral Association, National Society of Children of the American Revolution, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
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Fernand Lungren papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of 94 items and includes essays, diary entries, letters and ephemera pertaining to the life and work of Fernand Lungren. All essays and journal entries were authored by Lungren and principally address artistic topics. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Lungren and is from fellow artists, authors, and periodical editors. Subjects addressed within the collection include Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Hamlin Garland, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Stewart Edward White, William Allen White, Owen Wister, 20th century art in California, 19th and 20th century art in the United States, art schools in Pennsylvania, Impressionism in the United States, Indians of the Yucàtn Peninsula, the rubber industry and trade in the Yucatan, the water-supply of Los Angeles and water transfer from the Owens River Valley. Correspondents include Albert Augustus Boyden, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Hamlin Garland, Emerson Hough, Joseph Barlow Lippincott, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Ernest Thompson Seton, Frank de Thoma, Stewart Edward White, William Allen White, Caspar Whitney, and Owen Wister.
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Fernand Labori to unknown addressee
Manuscripts
This collection primarily contains letters addressed to Eric George Millar and Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell from various literary figures, artists, designers, musicians, scientists, librarians, and illustrators. There are two manuscripts concerning Phoebe Stabler, an English sculptor, along with seventeen pieces of ephemera relating to Stabler. There is also a volume compiled by Eric George Millar containing miscellaneous items relating to John Downman, a Welsh portrait and subject painter.
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