Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Biographical Note
- Scope and Content Note
- Subject Headings
- Related Material
- Administrative Information
- Access and Use
- Encoding Information
- Series List
- Series List
Collection Summary
| Repository: | Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries |
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| Creator: | Howe, Rosalind |
| Title: | Rosalind Howe Sturges Allen Papers |
| Dates: | 1928-1999 |
| Quantity: | 15.6 cubic feet (22 boxes, 19 map folders, 2 framed items) |
| Abstract: | Research materials, sketches, drawings, published materials, and exhibition materials relating to Rosalind Howe’s work as an artist and architectural cartographer as well as professional correspondence, published materials about Howe, and published materials which included Howe’s work. |
Biographical Note
Rosalind Howe Sturges Allen was an artist and architectural cartographer who pioneered the use of anachronistic maps which featured the architectural history of a place rather than its geographic features. She was born in 1907 to Mary Locke and Wallis Howe and graduated from Vassar College in 1928. She died in 1999.
TopScope and Content Note
The collection includes research materials, sketches, drawings, published materials, and exhibition materials relating to Howe’s work as an artist and architectural cartographer. Also included is professional correspondence, drawings, paintings, and other artwork created by Howe, as well as published materials about Howe and published materials which include Howe’s work.
TopAccess and Use
Access
This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.
Restrictions on Use
Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.
Subject Headings
Organizations:
- Old Sturbridge Village--Drawing (visual works)
- Vassar College--Maps, pictorial
- Wellesley College--Maps, pictorial
Subjects:
- Architectural historians
- Folder Maps, pictorial
- Women artists
- Women cartographers
Places:
- Annapolis (Md.)--Maps, pictorial
- Blackstone River Valley (Mass. and R.I.)--Drawings (visual works)
- Bristol (R.I. : Town)--Drawings (visual works)
- Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Drawings (visual works)
- Deerfield (Mass.)--Maps, pictorial
- Hingham (Mass.)--Maps, pictorial
- Nantucket (Mass.)--Drawings
- New England--Maps, pictorial
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps, pictorial
- Princeton (Mass.)--Maps, pictorial
- Providence (R.I.)--Maps, pictorial
- Rhode Island--Drawings
- Rittenhouse Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Drawings
- Westminster (Mass.)--Drawings
- Worcester (Mass.)--Maps, pictorial
Document Types:
- Correspondence
- Drawings (visual works)
- Maps (documents)
- Notebooks
- Photographs
VCL Categories:
- Art and Artists
- Maps
- Vassar College
Encoding Information
Encoded by Adrienne Turner, September 2008. Updated by Emma Gronbeck, May 2023.
TopAdministrative Information
Preferred Citation
Rosalind Howe Sturges Allen Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Rachel Schles, May 2007. Last updated July 2011.
Loose items removed from the notebooks in Series XX were put in folders 7.13-7.18.
The 2018 addition (2 boxes) is currently unprocessed.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Elizabeth Browne, Philemon Sturges, Helen Nader, and Rosalind Waters (M2001-015).
Additional gifts were made by Elizabeth K. Allen in 2010 (M2011-019) and 2018 (M2019-011), and Pamela Hatfield in 2011 (M2011-031).
A framed reproduction of Howe's "An Anachronistic Topography of Vassar Female College" was transferred from the Vassar College Office of the President in 2022 (A2022-001).
Series List
Series I. Vassar College, NY, 1928 |
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Series II. Wellesley College, MA, 1943 |
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Series III. New England, 1976 |
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Series IV. Annapolis, MD, 1964 |
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Series V. Blackstone Valley, MA, 1988 |
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Series VI. Deerfield, MA, 1983 |
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Series VII. Hingham, MA, 1980 |
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Series VIII. Nantucket, MA |
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Series IX. Princeton, MA |
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Series X. Sturbridge Village, MA |
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Series XI. Westminster, MA |
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Series XII. Worcester, MA, 1981 |
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Series XIII. Cathedral Village, Philadelphia, PA (senior living facility) |
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Series XIV. Chestnut Hill, PA |
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Series XV. Philadelphia, PA, 1958 |
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Series XVI. Rittenhouse Town, PA |
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Series XVII. Up Country, PA |
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Series XVIII. Rhode Island | |
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| Wallis E. Howe created maps for Bristol and Newport. Prints are included in this series. It may be possible that there is additional material relating to this Wallis's work in this and other series. |
Series XIX. Notebooks |
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Series XX. Miscellaneous Materials |
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Series List
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Details
Research materials, sketches, drawings, published materials, and exhibition materials relating to Rosalind Howe’s work as an artist and architectural cartographer as well as professional correspondence, published materials about Howe, and published materials which included Howe’s work.
