Cleveland Institute of Art

Scope and Contents note From the Series: This is the central correspondence file from Milliken's tenure as director, dating from 1930-1958. When Milliken became director, he apparently continued Whiting's numerical filing scheme for awhile, but at some point he (or someone on his support staff) decided to establish a new central file of director's correspondence in an alphabetical sequence by correspondent names and subject terms. Materials in each file are usually arranged chronologically, although general files, such as those...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: This series contains the bulk of the records Sherman Lee created. They cover all of the years that Lee directed the museum and a few years prior to his appointment as director, when he was curator of Oriental art. The records are organized alphabetically, usually by the name of the correspondent but occasionally by subject heading. Materials within the folders are organized chronologically. At the end of each alphabetical letter there are folders for miscellaneous correspondence, also...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: This series contains the bulk of the records Sherman Lee created. They cover all of the years that Lee directed the museum and a few years prior to his appointment as director, when he was curator of Oriental art. The records are organized alphabetically, usually by the name of the correspondent but occasionally by subject heading. Materials within the folders are organized chronologically. At the end of each alphabetical letter there are folders for miscellaneous correspondence, also...

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Miller graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1940 and began teaching there in 1947. He taught for 30 years before retiring. Most of the material in this brief subseries appears to be referential or instructional packets for students. The little correspondence is administrative in nature.

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There is another sub-series in this collection Cleveland School of Art, which is the previous name of this institution. Materials are split up due to volume.

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...