Boyd (Theodore Chauncey) Papers, 1933

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Summary

Title:
Boyd, Theodore Chauncey Papers
Dates:
1933
Abstract:
A letter from Flora Stuart Boyd, daughter of Theodore Chauncey Boyd, to the Society of California Pioneers. She remarks about the two paintings her father dontated to the society and his acomplishment of improving the San Francisco city seal, for which he received 100 dollars.
Extent:
1.0 folder (2 pages handwritten)
Language:
Preferred citation:

Theodore Chauncy Boyd Letters, The Society of California Pioneers.

Background

Scope and content:

Flora Stuart Boyd writes on December 12, 1933 from the Balfour Hotel at 326 O’Farrell St. in San Francisco to an unknown addressee at a society about her father, Theodore Chauncy Boyd. The letter explains that Boyd arrived in California in 1854, having previously worked in New York City, where he was well known. The letter mentions a Mr. Avery of the Bulletin. The writer explains that her mother presented the society with two of Theodore Chauncy Boyd’s paintings, Saturday Night on Kearny St. and Sunday Afternoon at Poodirard’s Gardens, the subject of which is a Mr. Poodirard. In addition, she states that three letters of thanks he received were destroyed in the 1906 fire.

Biographical / historical:

Theodore Chauncy Boyd was born in New York in 1830. He worked as a designer, wood engraver, watercolorist, and stockbroker. He arrived in San Francisco in 1854 and set up a studio at Clay and Montgomery streets. He designed and engraved the Seal of San Francisco and had exhibitions at the Mechanic’s Institute Fair in 1871 and the SFAA in 1873. He died in 1902. (Hughes. Artists in California, 1786-1940, c.2002)

Acquisition information:
Donor and acquisition date unknown.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by C. Miller Kelsey Fox
Date Prepared:
September 16, 2011
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-09-28T14:15-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions on access

Preferred citation:

Theodore Chauncy Boyd Letters, The Society of California Pioneers.

Location of this collection:
300 Fourth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107, US
Contact:
(415) 957-1849 ext. 160
mmdevine@californiapioneers.org
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