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Collection Overview

Creator:
Rankin, William, 1863-1943.
Title:
William Rankin Correspondence
Repository:
Manuscripts Division
Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qr46r083b
Dates:
1881-1958 (mostly 1905-1940)
Size:
2 boxes
Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-2
Language:
English

Abstract

William Rankin (Princeton Class of 1886) was an art historian, specializing in Italian art, and was co-author, with Alice Van Vechten Brown, of A Short History of Italian Painting (1914). Consists of correspondence of Rankin.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence of Rankin. Included are letters to Rankin and, mostly retained copies or drafts, of letters by Rankin, with such correspondents as Edith R. Abbot, Bernard Berenson, Frank Jewett Mather, F. Mason Perkins, Dan Fellows Platt, Alice Van Vechten Brown, Arnold Guyot Cameron, Augusto F. Jaccaci, Walter Lowrie, Alexander Webster, Allan Marquand, and Frederic Fairchild Sherman. Also included are a typescript of "Memories of Princeton College," notes by Rankin on "Italian Pictures in Mrs. Gardiner's Collection," and family correspondence (1902-1958).

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.

Collection Creator Biography:

Rankin, William, 1863-1943.

William Rankin (Princeton Class of 1886) was an art historian, specializing in Italian art, and was co-author, with Alice Van Vechten Brown, of A Short History of Italian Painting (1914).

Collection History

Acquisition:

Gift of Teresa Rankin Livingston.

Appraisal

No appraisal information is available.

Processing Information

This collection was processed in 2002. Finding aid written in 2002.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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Credit this material:

William Rankin Correspondence; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qr46r083b
Location:
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-2