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