Research Catalog
Yaddo records
- Title
- Yaddo records, 1835-1997.
- Author
- Yaddo (Artist's colony).
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Ames, Elizabeth.
- Arvin, Newton, 1900-1963.
- Cheever, John.
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.
- Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989.
- Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979.
- Hicks, Granville, 1901-
- Pardee, Allena.
- Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938.
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
- Trask, Katrina, 1853-1922.
- Trask, Spencer, 1844-1909.
- Description
- 219.6 linear feet (579 boxes, 51 volumes, 1 oversize folder, 4 tubes).
- Summary
- Yaddo is an artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Yaddo Records date from 1835-1997 and contain the administrative records of The Corporation of Yaddo, as well as the institutional records of Yaddo from 1926, the year Yaddo began accepting guests. Notable guests have included Newton Arvin, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Malcom Cowley, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, and Clyfford Still. The Yaddo Records also include the personal papers of Yaddo's principal founders, Spencer and Katrina Trask, and George Foster Peabody.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Acquisition of the Yaddo Records by The New York Public Library was made possible by the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund.
- Subjects
- Writings (documents)
- Wills
- Scrapbooks
- Photographs
- Diaries
- Deeds
- Correspondence
- Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) > History
- New York (State) > Social life and customs
- Music festivals > New York (State) > Saratoga Springs
- Leisure class
- Capitalists and financiers
- Benefactors
- Authors, American > 20th century
- Artists > United States
- Artist colonies > United States
- Art patronage
- Yaddo (Artist's colony)
- Genre/Form
- Deeds
- Diaries
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks
- Wills
- Writings (documents)
- Access (note)
- Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
- Source (note)
- Corporation of Yaddo
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- MssCol 4795
- OCLC
- NYPW03-A144
- Author
- Yaddo (Artist's colony).
- Title
- Yaddo records, 1835-1997.
- Restricted Access
- Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
- Access
- Original wax cylinder recordings are closed to research until service copies are generated.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Ames, Elizabeth.Arvin, Newton, 1900-1963.Cheever, John.Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989.Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979.Hicks, Granville, 1901-Pardee, Allena.Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938.Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.Trask, Katrina, 1853-1922.Trask, Spencer, 1844-1909.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 4795