Barnes Foundation Archives 2012
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Albert C. Barnes Correspondence 1902-1951 ABC Finding aid prepared by Barbara Anne Beaucar This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit June 14, 2017 Describing Archives: A Content Standard
The Barnes Foundation Archives 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19130 Telephone: (215) 278-7280 Email: reference@barnesfoundation.org Albert C. Barnes Correspondence 1902-1951 ABC - Page 2 - Table of Contents Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3 Biographical Note.......................................................................................................................................... 4 Scope and Content....................................................................................................................................... 15 Administrative Information .......................................................................................................................19 Related Materials ...................................................................................................................................... 20 Controlled Access Headings........................................................................................................................20 Collection Inventory.................................................................................................................................... 23 Series I. Correspondence....................................................................................................................... 23 Series II. Third Party Correspondence.............................................................................................. 2083 Albert C. Barnes Correspondence 1902-1951 ABC - Page 3 - Summary Information Repository Barnes Foundation Archives Creator Barnes, Albert C. (Coombs), 1872–1951 Title Albert C. Barnes Correspondence Date 1902-1951 Extent 126.5 Linear feet Language English
Abstract The Albert C. Barnes Correspondence (1872 – 1951) contains personal and professional letters and records that document the activities of his chemical companies, Barnes and Hille and the A.C. Barnes Company, the acquisition of his world-renowned art collection, and the development of the educational program which led to the establishment of the Barnes Foundation, an institution over which he presided until his death in 1951. The bulk of the correspondence (1924 – 1951) reflects Barnes’s work as a businessman, art collector, author, and educator, and includes evidence of his evolving educational theories, his finances, travels to Europe and the American West, essays, lectures, and publications, and his opinions regarding art and artists. Preferred Citation [Author(s)]. Letter to [recipient], [date]. Albert C. Barnes Correspondence, Barnes Foundation Archives, Philadelphia, PA. Reprinted with permission.
Albert C. Barnes Correspondence 1902-1951 ABC - Page 4 - Biographical Note Albert C. Barnes (1872 – 1951) professed a lifelong interest in education, not only for himself, but for those less fortunate around him, and for the public in general. Both a scientist and an entrepreneur, Barnes developed and marketed Argyrol, an antiseptic silver compound. The fortune earned from this medicine’s global distribution allowed Barnes to realize his ideals and create the Barnes Foundation, an institution established “to promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts.” FAMILY Barnes was born in Philadelphia on January 2, 1872, the third son of Lydia A. Schaffer (1846 – 1912) and John J. Barnes (1844 – 1930). Barnes described his father as a man with “good intelligence and tremendous energy” but lacking in balance.(1) During the Civil War, John Barnes enlisted in Company D of the 82nd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers. After the war, he found work as a letter carrier and met Lydia A. Schaffer, a woman of Pennsylvania German descent and a devout Methodist. They married on April 4, 1867. Barnes said that his mother was marvelous, “endowed with a keen, penetrating intelligence…but best of all, she had poise and balance.”(2) Lydia Barnes has been credited for being the motivating force in Barnes’s early life. She took him to Methodist camp meetings in New Jersey, an experience that Barnes acknowledged as the source of his affinity for African American art and culture, especially music.(3) EDUCATION In 1885, when Barnes was thirteen years old, he enrolled in Philadelphia’s Central High School. Central High School was founded in 1838, the second public high school in the nation. Because of its high academic standards, the Pennsylvania Assembly granted the school the “same and like power to confer degrees, honorary and otherwise” as possessed by the University of Pennsylvania. Barnes first met artist William J. Glackens (1870 – 1938) at Central High School, where he claimed that they became friends through their common interest in sports – the two played baseball for the school team. Barnes also took a serious interest in Glackens’s drawings, an interest that would eventually rekindle their friendship twenty years later. During his third year at Central, the Barnes family moved away from the “Neck,” a particularly rough section of South Philadelphia, to 1331 Tasker Street. Barnes delivered newspapers for the Philadelphia Ledger where his father worked in the circulation department.(4) He completed eight consecutive semesters at Central, served as vice-president of his senior class, and, in June of 1889, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1889, Barnes matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and graduated three years later with a Doctor of Medical Arts (M.D.) degree at the age of twenty. Following his internships at the Polyclinic Hospital in Philadelphia and Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh,(5) Barnes worked for two years as a demonstrator of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. However, to finance his continued work in chemistry, Barnes claimed that he held a variety of unusual jobs until he had finally saved enough money to travel to Germany and attend the University of Berlin.(6) Yüklə 3,15 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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