- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916
- Title:
- Clara Erskine Clement Waters Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5h73pw10v
- Dates:
- 1869-1932
- Size:
- 3 boxes and 2.25 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-3
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists primarily of manuscripts of Clara Erskine Clement Waters, an American art historian and world traveler.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists primarily of manuscripts of Waters but also includes a scrapbook of clippings about her literary publications, related correspondence, a 10"x12" photograph of the author, and selections of newspapers (1870-1932). Manuscripts include substantial sections of entries for her A Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art (New York, 1871) and "A Medley of Thoughts about Women" (AMsS, 154 pp., dated 1869).
- Collection Creator Biography:
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916
Clara Waters was an art historian and world traveler. Among her numerous publications are Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches (co-authored with Laurence Hutton, 1879), Rome, the Eternal City: Its Religions, Monuments, Literature, and Art (1896), and Women in the Fine Arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century (1904).
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of John T. Wainwright (AM 2002-99).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory created by Lisa Yankowitz in 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Clara Erskine Clement Waters Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5h73pw10v
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-3
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- Subject Terms:
- Art -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Art and mythology.
Christian art and symbolism.
Legends in art.
Women -- Employment -- 19th century.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- 19th century.
Women -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Women authors, American -- 19th century -- Manuscripts. - Genre Terms:
- Manuscripts, American -- 19th century.
