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Cleveland Museum of Art Asian Art department records.

 Collection
Identifier: 1111.138
Scope and Contents note This collection spans from approximately the appointment of Sherman E. Lee in 1952 to about Stanislaw J. Czuma’s retirement in 2005. It is almost equally divided amongst its series: Exhibitions, Dealers Files, Correspondence, Loans, and Subject Files. Though numerous curators served during this timeframe, the majority of materials originate from Michael R. Cunningham and Stanislaw J. Czuma, circa 1975-2003. Additional material about the Oriental Department can be found in the administrative...
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1975-2003; 1952-2005

Frances Prindle Taft collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1111.145
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...
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1921-2015; 1884-2017

Hollis French Research Material on Silversmiths

 Collection
Identifier: 1111.049
Scope and Contents note This collection of records came from the office of Henry Hawley, Curator of Later Western Art. The records probably came to the museum when Hollis French donated his large collection of silver to the museum in 1940. The collection consists of research materials for French's two books on silver, "A List of Early American Silversmiths and Their Marks" and "Jacob Hurd and His Sons Nathaniel and Benjamin, Silversmiths 1702-1781" (both of which can be found in the Ingalls Library). The types of...
Dates: Circa 1917-1935

John Long Severance collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1111.005
Scope and Contents note

The collection consists of four bound books of photographs and descriptions of objects in the John Long Severance Collection. Some descriptions include provenance information.

Dates: undated

John Long Severance Collection of Arms and Armor records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1111.027
Scope and Contents note

Lists of arms and armor from the John L. Severance collection included in the catalog published in 1924.

Dates: 1924

Tiffany Fireplace and Surround

 Collection
Identifier: 1111.137
Dates: circa 1915