Arrangement

The Alexander Phimister Proctor Collection (No. 242) is arranged into eight series by subject and/or physical characteristic, as follows:

Outline of Series Arrangement

            Personal/ Biographical – Box 1

            Correspondence – Box 2-6

            Writings – Box 6-12

            Diaries, Ledgers, Notebooks – 12-13

            Art Information Research Files – 13-16

            Catalogues and Magazines – 16-17

            Photographs – 18-28

            Oversize – Box Oversize Box 1 – 11

Oversize Rare Books:

BS 185 1872 .P5; Proctor Family Bible; The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments

Manuscript Collections:

MS 245 – Peter Hassrick Research Files.

Artist Files – Proctor, Alexander Phimister.

Books Owned By Proctor :

Caffin, Charles Henry.  American masters of sculpture : being brief appreciations of some American sculptors and of some phases of sculpture in America.  Doubleday, 1903.  NB 205 .C3 1903B.

Radcliffe, A. G. (Alida Graveraet).  Schools and masters of sculpture.  D. Appleton, 1894.  NB 60 .R3 1894.

By: Alexander Phimister Proctor:

Wildlife and Western Heroes : Alexander Phimister Proctor, sculptor.  NB 237 .P74 A4 2003

Alexander Phimister Proctor, Sculptor in Buckskin : An Autobiography.  NB 237 .P74 A2 1971

Books About Proctor:

Appelbaum, Stanley.  The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 : a photographic record : photos from the collections of the Avery Library of Columbia University and the Chicago Historical Society (Dover architectural series).  Dover Publications, 1980.  T 500 .B1 A66 1980

Badger, Reid.  The great American Fair : the World's Columbian Exposition & American culture.  N. Hall, c1979.  T 500 .B1 B3 1979.

Donahue, Jesse.  Political animals : public art in American zoos and aquariums.  Lexington, 2007.  N 7660 .D66 2007.

Wagner, David J.  American wildlife art.  Marquand Books, 2008.  N 7660 .W28 2008.

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