Sylvia Shaw Judson
Haskins papers, 1897-1981
Container list for the Collection at Chicago History Museum, Research Center
By Linda J. Evans, 2007
© Copyright 2007, Chicago Historical Society, 1601 North Clark St., Chicago, IL 60614-6038
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Sylvia Shaw Judson Haskins papers, 1897-1981
18 boxes.
Correspondence, 1897-1981; travel notes, photographs, and postcards, 1920-1975; writings, lectures, articles, illustrations, and other personal papers of Sylvia Shaw Judson Haskins, sculptor.
Gift of Alice Ryerson Hayes (1989.0466).
Sylvia Shaw Judson Haskins, 1897-1978 (married Clay Judson and after his death, Sidney Haskins). Her parents were Howard Van Doren Shaw, architect, and Frances Wells Shaw, writer. They had 3 daughters: Evelyn Shaw McCutcheon, 1894-1977 (married John T. McCutcheon), Sylvia Shaw Judson Haskins, and Frances Theodora Shaw King (known as Theodora), 1913-1996 (married John Lord King).
The following nicknames may be helpful in understanding the papers:
Piffy = Sylvia's name for Howard Van Doren Shaw
Wog, Woggy = Sylvia's name for Frances Shaw
Low & Tipping = Sylvia
Evy = Evelyn Shaw McCutcheon
Aunt Martie = Martha Wells Atkinson
Uncle Charles = Charles Atkinson
Bill = Frances Theodora Shaw King
Woganbill = Frances Shaw plus FTS (Theodora)
Claylie = Clay Judson, Jr.
Container list
Box 1
Folders:
1 Books read 1905, 1943-
2 Correspondence undated
3 Correspondence 1897-1913
4 Correspondence 1914
5 Correspondence 1915
6 Correspondence 1916-1917
7 Correspondence, China trip 1917
8 Correspondence 1918-1919
9 Correspondence, Paris 1920
Box 2
1 Correspondence, Paris 1921
2 Correspondence, Paris & Florence, Italy 1921
3 Correspondence, Rome. engagement, marriage 1921
4 Correspondence 1922-1933
5 Correspondence 1935-1937
6 Correspondence 1940-1943
7 Correspondence 1944-1946
8 Correspondence 1947-1949
9 Correspondence 1950-1959
10 Correspondence 1960-1969
11 Correspondence 1970-1973
12 Correspondence, Clay Judson 1917-1918
13 Correspondence, Clay Judson 1920
14 Correspondence, Clay Judson 1921-1931
15 Correspondence, Clay Judson 1933-1938
Box 3
1 Correspondence, Clay Judson 1940-1948
2 Correspondence, Clay Judson 1950-1959
3 Correspondence, Clay Judson 1960
4 Correspondence, European letters 1920-1921
5 Correspondence, family 1912-1919 & undated
6 Correspondence, family 1920-1927
7 Correspondence, family 1930-1936
8 Correspondence, family 1942-1949, 1957, 1959
9 Correspondence, family 1960-1962
10 Correspondence, family 1963
11 Correspondence, family 1970-1977
12 Correspondence, Susan Ryerson 1963-1977
13 Drawings
14 Drawings
Box 4
1 Eulogies, funerals, articles 1953, 1960, 1963, 1973
2 Exhibitions and announcements 1945, 1957, 1958, 1968
3 Financial matters 1959, 1970
4 Lists of names, guests, Christmas lists
5 Marriage, Sylvia and Sidney 1963
6 Memorabilia
7 Miscellaneous
8 Notes on courses, etc.
Box 5
1 Photographic information
2 Publications about Sylvia Haskins
3 Publicity
4 Quaker conversion 1939-1950
5 Quotation booklets
6 Quotation booklets
7 Quotations, inspirational
8 Quotes for lectures on art and sculpture
Box 6
1 Sculpture lists and illustrations
2 Sculpture--teaching to Egyptians (audio tape lecture)
3 Travel notes 1964-1970
4 Travel notes and pictures 1966-1967
5 Travel notes and pictures 1968-1969
6 Travel notes and pictures 1970-1971
7 World War II home-front efforts (canning) 1942
Box 7
1 Writings: For Garden & Other Places (manuscript)
2 Writings: For Garden & Other Places (notes & pictures)
3 Writings: For Garden & Other Places (notes & sketches)
4 Writings: The Quiet Eye (clippings & articles)
5 Writings: The Quiet Eye (duplicates)
6 Writings: The Quiet Eye (illustrations)
7 Writings: The Quiet Eye (notes & reproductions not used)
8 Writings: The Quiet Eye (possible sequel)
9 Writings, miscellaneous
Box 8 (Material microfilmed by the Archives of American Art)
1 Biographical info
2 Correspondence 1947-1965
3 Correspondence 1966-1968
4 Correspondence 1969-1974
5 Correspondence 1975-1976
6 Correspondence 1977-1981
7 Correspondence undated
8 Financial matters 1958, 1973-1978
9 Lectures 1961-1963
10 List of sculptures
11 Newsclippings 1952-1978
12 Notes regarding ministry
13 Notes and quotes 1962-1968
14 Notes about studying and teaching sculpture
15 Notes regarding sculpture
16 Published materials
Box 9 (Material Microfilmed by the Archives of American Art)
1 Quotations and sayings
2 Quotations and sayings
3 Sketches
4 Sketches
5 Travel notebooks 1920, 1955
6 Travel notebooks 1963, 1965
7 Travel notebooks 1969, 1971
8 Travel notebooks 1972, 1973, 1975
9 Writings and notes 1914-1978
10 Writings and lectures 1972-1975
11 Writings and lectures 1955, 1973