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Scope and Contents note From the Collection: 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...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: 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...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: 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...

Contents of Film

DVD copy of VHS copy of no longer extant Taft family home movies. Contains views of the Taft family at their summer home in Murray Bay, Canada, including a brief segment featuring President William Howard Taft in a station wagon, leaving the home. This scene can also be found on Taft Films, Part 1.

Contents of film

DVD copy of VHS copy of no longer extant Taft family home movies, undated. Includes 1915 views of the Irving H. Chase family at Rose Hill, the Chase family at various residences, and Charles P. Taft family home movies ca. 1925-1955. President William Howard Taft is featured briefly in a scene from the Taft family summer home in Murray Bay, Canada.

Contents of film

DVD copy of VHS copy of no longer extant Taft family home movies. Charles P. Taft family home movies, c. 1925-1955.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: 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...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: 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...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: 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...