Miscellaneous Family Papers
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Cornell, Joseph
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- Joseph Cornell papers
- Joseph Cornell papers / Series 10: Joseph Cornell Estate Papers
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Getty Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
- Date
- circa 1911
- 1944-1964
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.cornjose, Subseries 10.4
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Joseph Cornell papers, 1804-1986, bulk 1939-1972. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Scope and Contents note
- Subseries consists of fragments of the papers of Betty Cornell Benton and Helen S. Cornell. Betty Cornell Benton's papers include kindergarten art work, a printed inventory of Robert Cornell's train collection (which she compiled in collaboration with Robert during the time period from 1962 to 1963), and notes. Some of Benton's notes concern Cornell's biography and magazine collection, and may relate to certain activities in handling his estate. Helen S. Cornell's papers include printed material on Flushing and the World's Fair (which took place in Flushing in 1939), as well as some writings. The printed material, collected and oftentimes annotated by Mrs. Cornell, documents some of the interests she shared with her son and relates to certain formative experiences shared by the family (such as their repeated visits to the World's Fair, which seems to have been a special time for all). Beyond the fact that they were stored together, it is unclear how the rest of these fragments relate to Cornell's estate papers. Related papers can be found amongst biographical material, family correspondence, and Robert Cornell's papers.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the original papers requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512335132-1503512335270-6
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
