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Guide to the Douglas Tilden Papers, 1860-1970
BANC MSS 89/124 c
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Description
Collection includes personal and professional correspondence (chiefly incoming), contracts, sketches, diaries, scrapbooks,
manuscripts of published and unpublished writings, and "written" conversations between Tilden, who was deaf, and others. Also
includes medals, other personal memora bilia. Principal correspondents are his daughter, Gladys Tilden, James D. Phelan &
Alexander Stirling Calder.
Background
[Excerpted from Douglas Tilden: Portrait of a Deaf Sculptor by Mildred Albronda, (T. J. Publishers: Silver Spring, Maryland / 1980)]
Extent
Number of containers: 11 boxes, 4 cartons, 6 oversize volumes, 1 oversize folder
Linear feet: 11.6
Restrictions
Copyright has been assigned to The Bancroft Library.
Availability
The collection is open for research.