2. Benefactors and Affiliated Organizations

Scope and Contents note The records contained in this collection are the records of the Secretary-Treasurer of the ASA and document the daily administrative and financial business of the ASA and the JAAC. The records date from 1940 to 1982 with the bulk of the records dating between 1955 and 1971. The bulk dates correspond to the Secretary-Treasurer's residence in Cleveland encompassing George Danforth's term and the first twelve years of James R. Johnson's term. Records before 1955 were primarily created by Thomas...

Scope and Contents note The Franny Taft collection was donated to the museum archives by Franny’s heirs following her death in 2017. The collection documents Franny’s life, career, and community involvement through visual and textual materials and ephemera. The collection provides researchers with in-depth information about the life of one of Cleveland’s first Pre-Columbian art historians and one of the city’s most prolific collectors of Cleveland art. The collection consists of seven series. Series one...

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This small collections includes the earliest records of the Horace Kelley Art Foundation, originally incorporated as The Cleveland Museum of Art according to the terms of Horace Kelley's will fo 1890. The foundation changed its name in 1913 when the Cleveland Museum of Art was incorporated.

Scope and Contents note The records in the box include two scrapbooks, a hand signed photograph of Ralph Thrall King, and photographs of the King family homes, not specifically identified. The two scrapbooks appear to have been assembled by Frances King, and/or Fanny Tewksbury King, as the clippings are dated primarily from the time of Mr. King's death forward. They are comprised primarily of King's memorial tributes, especially CMA tributes; clippings regarding the King estate; children's weddings; the military...