COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Letters (1897-1907) from Hubbell, when an art student in Paris, Etaples, and Madrid, and from his wife, (Nellie) Rose Strong Hubbell, largely to his benefactor Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley-Ward; correspondence (1891-1944) between Hubbell and his family; research and lecture notes; correspondence, catalogs, and newspaper clippings concerning his paintings and exhibitions; scripts, programs, and notices of amateur plays in which he was either an actor or set designer; and photographs of himself and his paintings, studios, homes, and family. Also, tape recordings, notes, and correspondence of his son, Henry Willard Hubbell, concerning his father's life and work; typescripts and proofs of the journals, plays and short stories, articles, and verse written by Mrs. Hubbell; photocopies and typescripts of papers dealing with the history and genealogy of the Hubbell (Hubbels, Hubbel), Gleason, Rockwell, and related families (1800-1940); and proposals concerning the role of art education at the University of Miami.
Dates
- 1800-1975.
Creator
- Hubbell, Henry Salem, 1869-1949. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Henry Salem Hubbell, a portrait artist, was the head of the Carnegie Institute of Technology School of Painting and Decoration in Pittsburgh, 1918-1921.
Extent
5 cubic feet. (5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence and other papers of Henry Salem Hubbell, a portrait artist and educator.
Physical Description
Correspondence, research and lecture notes, catalogs, newspaper clippings, scripts, theatrical programs, photographs, audiotapes, manuscripts, and other papers.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- M.E. Warren
- Date completed:
- August 1991
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, March 2003
- Date modified:
- Fredrika Loew, October 2018
- Amateur theater.
- Art.
- Carnegie Institute of Technology. School of Painting and Decoration
- Coonley-Ward, Lydia Avery, 1845-1924
- Education in art.
- Genealogies.
- Gleason family.
- Hubbell family.
- Hubbell family.
- Hubbell, Henry Willard.
- Hubbell, Nellie Rose Strong.
- Hubbell, Rose Strong.
- Hubbels family.
- Lecture notes.
- Literature.
- Painting.
- Photographs.
- Poems.
- Rockwell family.
- Scrapbooks.
- Sketches.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M.E. Warren
- Date
- March 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu