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Charlotte Russell Partridge and Miriam Frink papers, 1862-1980
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Papers of Partridge and Frink, who in 1920 co-founded the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wis., and shared their personal and professional lives for fifty-five years. The collection contains the...
Papers of Partridge and Frink, who in 1920 co-founded the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wis., and shared their personal and professional lives for fifty-five years. The collection contains the personal, professional, and civic papers of the two women with a focus on Wisconsin art, artists, and art education. Included are institutional records, photographs, slides, lantern slides, and 16 mm film footage of the Layton School of Art and Layton Art Gallery; administrative records and photographs of Wisconsin Depression-era federal art projects which Partridge directed; reference files of Wisconsin art exhibits and artists; and records of Wisconsin art organizations. There are papers, photographs, and audio tapes pertaining to Frank Lloyd Wright and his 1930 architectural exhibit at the Layton Art Gallery.
Partridge's personal correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues is extensive. There are papers and photographs concerning Emma M. Church, the Church School of Art in Chicago, and Commonwealth Art Colony in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Files pertaining to the women's civic commitments include Walnut Area Improvement Council in Milwaukee, Zonta Club of Milwaukee, Zonta Manor (a housing project for the well elderly spearheaded by Partridge), Milwaukee County War Memorial building planning, and Meta Berger Memorial Committee. Research files of Susie Habenicht, hired by the two women to write the school's history, include transcribed interviews and some audio recordings with the two women and with Layton alumnae Mary Lou Ballweg and Margaret Davis Clark.
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- Mixed Materials
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- English
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- 31.5 cubic feet (69 archives boxes and 6 flat boxes)
- 9 tape recordings
- 6.3 cubic feet of photographs (15 archives boxes and 1 lantern slide box), and
- 1 film reel
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- ocm45348092
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- COLLECTION STORED, IN-PART, AT ARC: Collection can be requested for transfer through the Area Research Center (ARC) Network, consult Reading Room Staff.
- Presented by Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Miriam Frink of Mequon, Wisconsin, and Carolyn McGregor of River Hills, Wisconsin, 1969, 1975, 1983, 1984, 1988.
Subjects
- Church, Emma M.
- Layton, Frederick, 1827-1919.
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
- Carnegie Corporation of New York -- History.
- Chicago School of Applied and Normal Art.
- Church School of Art (Chicago, Ill.)
- Commonwealth Art Colony (Boothbay Harbor, Me.)
- Federal Art Project (Wis.)
- Index of American Design.
- Meta Berger Memorial Committee.
- Milwaukee County (Wis.). War Memorial Center.
- Milwaukee-Downer College.
- Public Works of Art Project.
- United States. Works Progress Administration
- Walnut Area Improvement Council (Milwaukee, Wis.)
- Zonta Club of Milwaukee.
- Zonta Manor (Milwaukee, Wis.)
- Centennial Exhibition of Contemporary Wisconsin Art (1948 : Milwaukee, Wis.)
- Older people -- Housing -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
- Art -- Exhibitions.
- Art -- Study and teaching -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
- Art -- Wisconsin.
- Art museums -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
- Art schools -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
- Artists -- Wisconsin.
- Public art.
- Wisconsin in art.
- Women college administrators -- Wisconsin.
- Women in art.