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Beltrán (Alberto) correspondence with Seymour Kaplan
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  • Immediate Source of Acquisition
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  • Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections
    Title: Alberto Beltrán correspondence with Seymour Kaplan
    Creator: Beltrán, Alberto
    Creator: Kaplan, Seymour
    Identifier/Call Number: 0597
    Identifier/Call Number: 2033
    Physical Description: 3.23 Linear Feet 2 boxes
    Date (inclusive): 1970s-2007
    Abstract: This collection chiefly contains three decades of letters in Spanish from Mexican artist Albert Beltran (1923-2002) to Seymour Kaplan (1919-2011), a California printmaker.
    Language of Material: Spanish; Castilian,English.

    Scope and Contents

    This collection chiefly contains three decades of letters in Spanish from Mexican artist Albert Beltran (1923-2002) to Seymour Kaplan (1919-2011), a California printmaker who met Beltran while a visiting artist at the Taller de Grafica Popular in Mexico in the late 1940s. The letters span from the early 1970s to the 2000s. Additional material includes ephemera, postcards, clippings, brochures, photographs, and negatives. Box 2 contains miscellaneous issues of Mexican and Cuban newspapers dated 1979-1980, 1987.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Advance notice required for access.

    Conditions Governing Use

    All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

    Rights Statement for Archival Description

    Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

    Preferred Citation

    [Box/folder# or item name], Alberto Beltrán correspondence with Seymour Kaplan, Collection no. 0597, Boeckmann Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Gift of Paul Kaplan and Barbara Kaplan, March 27, 2013.

    Processing Information

    The collection is unprocessed.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Artists -- Mexico -- 20th century -- Archival resources
    Correspondence
    Beltrán, Alberto -- Correspondence
    Kaplan, Seymour -- Archives