Fujian Sheng (China); National Lead Company; Savage Arms Company; Scientific expeditions -- China; China -- Description and travel; Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts; Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954 --...
Letter from Harry R. Caldwell to Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China, and forwarded to Sterling Clark in which Caldwell describes a proposed scientific collecting trip to Fukien Province in August, a description of ammunition and guns (National Lead...
American Red Cross; British Bloodstock Agency; Cooperstown Village Club & Library; Gardner, Mountain & Co.; M. Knoedler & Co.; Williams College; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Ali, Hazrat, d. 1909; Astor, John Jay; Baker, Auval; Baxter,...
This series contains both incoming and outgoing correspondence and represents a wide spectrum of RSC’s financial, personal, and social life, as well as his interests in collecting art, horse breeding, and politics.
Clark Estates; Singer Sewing Machine Company; James F. Drake, Inc.; Sherry-Lehmann, Inc.; Parke-Bernet Galleries; M. Knoedler & Co.; Galerie Durand-Ruel; Tiffany and Company; Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.); Paul Drey Gallery; National...
This series contains RSC's diaries from 1923 through 1949. The entries recount his daily life in New York City, Cooperstown, Virginia, and Paris.
Folk art -- Czech Republic -- Ruthenia; Costume -- Czech Republic -- Ruthenia; Ruthenia (Czechoslovakia) -- Social life and customs; Decorative arts -- Czech Republic -- Ruthenia; Decoration and ornament, Ukrainian;
One of 300 copies printed. "Translated by L. Hyde."
At head of title: Botanical fine art weekly. Index to plates of flowers in Wild Flowers of America is contained in Volume 1., No. 18. This volume (Volume 1, No. 14) contains plates 209-224.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany; World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war; Art treasures in war; Families; Portraits; Art collectors and collecting; Jabach, Everhard, 1618-1695
One of around 417 works of art from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum deposited in the Friedrichshain flak tower, or Flakturm, for safekeeping. The painting is presumed to have been destroyed when the tower was burned in May of 1945.
Through Shen-Kan is the account of a 1908-09 expedition to the Shensi and Kansu provinces of northern China. The expedition was funded by Robert Sterling Clark, one of the heirs to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark was joined by the...
Scientific expeditions -- China; China -- Description and travel; China Journal of Science and Arts; China Society of Arts and Science; Fujian Sheng (China); Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China); Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956 -- Correspondence --...
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby describes preparations for Clark’s forthcoming visit. He gives a brief update of the political situation and the impact on his fieldwork. He refers to the...
Fujian Sheng (China); Scientific expeditions -- China; Mammals -- China -- Classification; Crustaceans -- China -- Classification; Mollusks -- China -- Classification; Birds -- China -- Classification; Xiamen (Xiamen Shi, China); Fuzhou Shi (Fujian...
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby reports on the situation in the Fujian province, where he's on a collecting trip. He tells of Chinese citizens forcibly impressed by soldiers who are left for...
Scientific expeditions -- China; Fujian Sheng (China); Mammals -- China -- Classification; Crustaceans -- China -- Classification; Mollusks -- China -- Classification; Birds -- China -- Classification; Cephalopods -- China -- Classification; Clark,...
In this letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark, Sowerby reports on a letter he received from a Mr. Ravenal of the Smithsonian Institution, detailing the many hundreds of specimens received by the Institution from...
Scientific expeditions -- China; China -- Description and travel; China Journal of Science and Arts; China Society of Arts and Science; Fujian Sheng (China); Zhejiang Sheng (China); Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925; Zhang, Zuolin, 1875-1928; Smithsonian...
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby refers to the important task of collecting specimens in Fukien and to the working relationships he has established with Caldwell, Hoy and Roy Chapman Andrews...
China Journal of Science and Arts; China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1928; Hangzhou (China); Jiangsu Sheng (China); Zhejiang Sheng (China); Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China); Fujian Sheng (China); Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng, China); Clark, Robert...
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby gives a detailed accounting of his expenses and asks Clark to increase the amount of his annual payments. Sowerby explains that he must send money to his wife...
China--Politics and government--1912-1928; Budgets, Personal; Cost and standard of living; Tianjin (China); Foreign exchange rates; Zhejiang Sheng (China)--History; Hebei Sheng (China)--History; Anfu Xian (China)--History; Jiangsu Sheng...
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby acknowledges and thanks Clark for the 400 pounds he's sent. He apologizes for the "over-vehement" tone of his previous letter, but insists that the former...
China--History--May Thirtieth movement, 1925; Shanghai (China). Municipal Police; Shanghai (China : International Settlement); Communism--China; Zhongguo guo min dang; Child labor; Shanghai (China)--History--20th century; China--Politics and...
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby provides a long treatise on current events in Shanghai in China, in particular the circumstances leading up to a protest during which Shanghai police fired on a...
Hangzhou (China); Scientific expeditions -- China; Taku Forts (China); Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts; Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts;
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby to Robert Sterling Clark, acknowledging receipt of the latest payment and thanking Clark. He tells him his belongings are on their way to him and that Sowerby has been on a collecting trip.