This collection contains Eastman Theatre contracts with performing artists for the seasons 1923/1924 through 1926/1927, as well as some correspondence and carbons of correspondence. Correspondents include George Eastman.
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Treasurer: subject folders, 1920s-1960s 3.85 Cubic feet
Subject folders from the treasurer's office. Mainly relating to gifts and grants to the University of Rochester and research contracts at the University in the late 1940s and 1950s. A small amount of material from other periods, including George Eastman correspondence relating to Strong Memorial Hospital (1920's).
The papers consist of four large scrapbooks containing original letters (including some from his friend George Eastman), photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, etc. relating to Hubbell and his life, family and career. Also with the papers are eighteen letters and telegrams not with the scrapbooks from such people as Theodore Roosevelt (10 items), William C. Bryant (1 item), Booker T. Washington (1 item) and Susan B. Anthony (1 item). These eighteen letters are indexed in the Department's card catalog index to individual manuscripts.
George Eastman House construction papers, 1902-1906 .5 Cubic feet
The collection contains correspondence (including some to and from George Eastman), agreements, contracts, etc. relating to the construction of the home of George Eastman at 350 (now 900) East Avenue, Rochester, New York. Topics include shingling, painting, plumbing, electrical work, plastering, telephone system, and interior decorating and furnishings. J. Foster Warner, the Rochester architect, oversaw the construction. The former home is now (1980) the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House.
George Eastman papers, 1854-1932 12 boxes
The collection of George Eastman's correspondence consists of over 700 letters. The first letter by him is dated November 20, 1864 and the last March 11, 1932. A little over half of the letters are personal ones to his mother and niece. Occasionally there are references in these letters to business affairs, especially in the early letters to his mother. There is a sprinkling of business letters, both to Mr. Eastman and to others by him. The rest of the collection is made up of 75th (1929) and 77th (1931) birthday greetings (including ones in 1929 from President Herbert Hoover and Thomas A. Edison), and "thank you" letters from friends to whom he had sent copies of his book, Chronicles of an African Trip, published privately in 1927, and of his biography, George Eastman, by Carl W. Ackerman, which was published in 1930.
Eastman-Butterfield collection, 1950's 9 notebooks
The Eastman-Butterfield Collection consists of a series of notes in nine notebooks, four boxes, and one package. Roger Butterfield assembled the notes in the early 1950s to serve as the resource material for a proposed biography of George Eastman. Although Butterfield never wrote the Eastman biography, he did publish an article, "The Prodigious Life of George Eastman," in the April 26, 1954 issue of Life magazine.
Elizabeth Brayer papers, circa 1990-2006 1.5 Linear feet
The Elizabeth Brayer Papers consists of two series: Draft Manuscripts and Printed Materials. Within the first series there are four complete drafts of Brayer's biography of George Eastman. Johns Hopkins University Press published Brayer's book titled, George Eastman, a Biography, in 1996. In 2006 the University of Rochester Press reprinted it. The second series consists of a photocopy of the script: George Eastman in Focus.