Mary A. Harris Collection, ca. 1883-1932 – MS065
Provenance: Dorothy Vaughn Estate, 2010
Citation: Mary A. Harris Collection, MS065, Portsmouth Athenauem
Size: 1 linear foot (2 Hollinger boxes)
Access: No restrictions
Scope and Content:
Collection of sketchbooks, art and lecture notes, and correspondence relating to Mary A. Harris (1864-1932).
Historical Note:
Mary Aubin Harris was a Portsmouth artist who lived at 43 Austin Street with her sister Edith from about 1900 to her death. She was a graduate of Packer College Institute of Art in Brooklyn, NY. She was a proprietor of the Portsmouth Athenaeum.
Folder List
Box 1
Box 1 FF01: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Bethel, ME), 1883-1885
Box 1 FF02: Mary Harris Copybook for Correspondence, 1885-1886
Box 1 FF03: Baccalaureate Sermon, Packer Collegiate Institute, 1886
Box 1 FF04: Correspondence to Mary Harris from Robert Harris, 1894
Box 1 FF05: Mary Harris Sketchbook (New Hampshire), 1895-1896
Box 1 FF06: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Highlands, NC), 1896
Box 1 FF07: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Marietta, GA), 1896-1897
Box 1 FF08: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Highlands, NC), 1897
Box 1 FF09: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Marietta/Highlands, NC), 1898
Box 1 FF10: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Highlands, NC), 1898
Box 1 FF11: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Highlands, NC), 1900
Box 1 FF12: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Highlands, NC), 1900-1901
Box 1 FF13: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Ipswich, MA), 1902
Box 1 FF14: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Charleston, SC), 1905
Box 2
Box 2 FF01: Exhibit Announcement: Works by Mary Harris, St. Louis
Museum of Fine Arts, 1908
Box 2 FF02: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Warwick, Bermuda), 1910-1911
Box 2 FF03: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Portsmouth, NH), 1920
Box 2 FF04: Mary Harris Sketchbook, 1929
Box 2 FF05: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Washington, DC), 1932
Box 2 FF06: Mary Harris Sketchbook (Highlands, NC), no date
Box 2 FF07: Mary Harris Sketchbook, no date
Box 2 FF08: Mary Harris Sketchbook, no date
Box 2 FF09: Susan Mathes Sketchbook, no date
Box 2 FF10: Susan Mathes Sketchbook, no date
Box 2 FF11: Lecture notes on art and history, more
Box 2 FF12: Scrapbook, ca. 1913
Box 2 FF13: Pamphlets on Raphael & Veronese by Kenyon Cox, nd
Box 2 FF14: Subscriptions list to buy a hores for Jeff C. Rowe, nd
Box 2 FF15: Scrapbook, undated