Research Catalog
Holger Cahill Papers
- Title
- Holger Cahill Papers, 1907-1983, bulk (1942-1959).
- Author
- Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 6.5 linear feet (3 cartons, 10 boxes).
- Summary
- The papers chiefly document Cahill's career as a novelist during the 1940s and 1950s.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Negatives.
- Photographic prints.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- Cahill's papers on art and the Federal Arts Project were given to the Archives of American Art.
- Biography (note)
- Holger Cahill (born Sveinn Kristjan Bjarnarson in Iceland) was an American novelist, curator of important art exhibitions at the Newark Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, folklorist, and national director of the Federal Arts Project, 1935-1943.
- Language (note)
- are written in Icelandic.
- Call Number
- MssCol 451
- OCLC
- NYPW90-A42
- Author
- Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960.
- Title
- Holger Cahill Papers, 1907-1983, bulk (1942-1959).
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Holger Cahill (born Sveinn Kristjan Bjarnarson in Iceland) was an American novelist, curator of important art exhibitions at the Newark Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, folklorist, and national director of the Federal Arts Project, 1935-1943.
- Language
- Several letters are written in Icelandic.
- Finding Aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Cahill's papers on art and the Federal Arts Project were given to the Archives of American Art.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Critics.Authors.Intellectuals.
- Added Author
- Barr, Alfred Hamilton, 1902-Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964.Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980.Flanagan, Hallie, 1890-1969.Gold, Michael, 1894-1969.Herbst, Josephine, 1897-1969.Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973.Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902-Sandoz, Mari, 1896-1966.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 451