npv_howe_rosalind Guide to the Rosalind Howe Sturges Allen Papers, 1928-1999 Inventory prepared by Rachel Schles Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries
Box 20, 124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY, 12604-0020
September 2008 Finding aid encoded by Adrienne Turner September 2008. Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Howe, Rosalind Rosalind Howe Sturges Allen Papers 1928-1999 15.6 cubic feet (22 boxes, 19 map folders, 2 framed items) Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries 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.

 Scope 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.

 Related Materials

The Vassariana Collection contains published Vassar maps.

 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Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.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: Vassar College--Maps, pictorial Wellesley College--Maps, pictorial Old Sturbridge Village--Drawing (visual works) Subjects: Architectural historians Women cartographers Women artists Folder Maps, pictorial Places: Annapolis (Md.)--Maps, pictorial Worcester (Mass.)--Maps, pictorial New England--Maps, pictorial Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps, pictorial Princeton (Mass.)--Maps, pictorial Hingham (Mass.)--Maps, pictorial Nantucket (Mass.)--Drawings Rhode Island--Drawings Westminster (Mass.)--Drawings Providence (R.I.)--Maps, pictorial Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Drawings (visual works) Rittenhouse Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Drawings Blackstone River Valley (Mass. and R.I.)--Drawings (visual works) Bristol (R.I. : Town)--Drawings (visual works) Deerfield (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.

 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).

 Preferred Citation

Rosalind Howe Sturges Allen Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.

 Series List Series I. Vassar College, NY, 1928 Series II. Wellesley College, MA, 1943 Series III. New England, 1976 Series IV. Annapolis, MD, 1964 Series V. Blackstone Valley, MA, 1988 Series VI. Deerfield, MA, 1983 Series VII. Hingham, MA, 1980 Series VIII. Nantucket, MA Series IX. Princeton, MA Series X. Sturbridge Village, MA Series XI. Westminster, MA Series XII. Worcester, MA, 1981 Series XIII. Cathedral Village, Philadelphia, PA (senior living facility) Series XIV. Chestnut Hill, PA Series XV. Philadelphia, PA, 1958 Series XVI. Rittenhouse Town, PA Series XVII. Up Country, PA Series XVIII. Rhode Island

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 Series XX. Miscellaneous Materials Series List SERIES I. VASSAR COLLEGE, NY Folder 12.12 Drafts Folder 3.01 Published Materials: "Our Fifty Years," VC Class of 1928, drawings of Vassar College buildings, circa 1978 Folder M1 (Oversize) "An Anachronistic Topography of Vassar Female College," color lithographs and posters, 1928 [7 copies] Folder M1 (Oversize) "An Anachronistic Topography of Vassar Female College," black-and-white poster, undated Framed Storage 2.6 "An Anachronistic Topography of Vassar Female College," color lithograph, 1928 [framed] Framed Storage 2.4 "An Anachronistic Topography of Vassar Female College," color lithograph, undated [reproduction, framed] SERIES II. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, MA Folder M10 (Oversize) Drawing, Pre-1945 Folder M10 (Oversize) Published Prints, 1943 SERIES III. NEW ENGLAND Folders 3.05 - 3.10 Research Materials Folders 11.10 - 11.13 Research Materials Folder 19.03 Research Materials Folders 11.14 - 11.15 Drafts Folder 19.04 Drafts Folder M4 (Oversize) Drafts Folder 3.11 Published Materials — Negatives Folder 3.12 Published Materials Folder M3 (Oversize) Published Prints Folder M18 (Oversize) Published Prints SERIES IV. ANNAPOLIS, MD Folders 9.01 - 9.05 Research and Drafts Materials, Possibly Annapolis or Princeton Folders 11.01 Published Materials Folder M1 (Oversize) Published Materials SERIES V. DEERFIELD, MA Folder 1.18 Research Materials – Photographs: Deerfield or Sturbridge Village Folder M2 (Oversize) Drafts Folder 3.13 Drafts — Deerfield and Sturbridge Village Folder M2 (Oversize) Published Prints SERIES VI. BLACKSTONE VALLEY, MA Folders 6.01 - 6.02 Research Materials Folders 13.11 - 13.13 Research Materials Folder 13.14 Drafts Folder M19 (Oversize) Drafts Folder M19 (Oversize) Published material, 1988 SERIES VII. HINGHAM, MA Folder M14 (Oversize) Published Print, signed by [Rosalind Howe], 1980 SERIES VIII. NANTUCKET, MA Folder 7.07 Drafts Folders 15.09 Drawing SERIES IX. PRINCETON, MA Folders 4.07 – 4.10 Research Materials Folders 1.07 - 1.09 Research Materials – Photographs Folder 12.03 Research Materials and Drafts Folders 9.01 - 9.05 Research and Drafts Materials, Possibly Annapolis or Princeton Folders 4.11 – 4.21 Drafts Folders 12.04 - 12.11 Drafts Folders 12.14 - 12.20 Drafts Folder 19.05 Drafts Folder M14 (Oversize) Drafts Folders 5.01 - 5.03 Drawings Folders 13.01 - 13.04 Drawings Folder M17 (Oversize) Drawings Folders 5.04 - 5.05 Published Materials Folders 13.05 - 13.07 Published Materials Folders 19.06 - 19.08 Published Materials Folder M7 (Oversize) Original pencil drawing Folder 19.09 Exhibition Materials Folder M7 (Oversize) Exhibition Materials Folder M12 (Oversize) Exhibition Materials Folder M13 (Oversize) Exhibition Materials Folder M14 (Oversize) Exhibition Materials SERIES X. STURBRIDGE VILLAGE, MA Folder 1.18 Research Materials – Photographs: Deerfield or Sturbridge Village Folder 13.15 Drafts Folder 3.13 Drafts — Deerfield and Sturbridge Village Folder 6.03 Published Materials Folder 13.16 Published Materials SERIES XI. WESTMINSTER, MA Folder 6.18 Drawings (xeroxes) SERIES XII. WORCESTER, MA Folders 11.02 - 11.03 Research Materials Folder 11.04 Research Materials and Drafts Folders 11.05 - 11.09 Drafts Folder 12.21 Drafts Folder 19.01 Drafts Folder M5 (Oversize) Draft Folders 3.02 - 3.04 Published Materials Folder 19.02 Published Materials Folder M3 (Oversize) Published Print SERIES XIII. CATHEDRAL VILLAGE, Philadelphia, PA (senior living facility) Folders 1.01 - 1.06 Research Materials - Photographs Folder 1.10 Research Materials – Photographs Folder 5.09 Research Materials and Drafts Folders 5.10 - 5.19 Drafts Folders 13.09 - 13.10 Drafts Folder 5.20 Published Materials Folder 14.18 Published Materials Folder 14.19 Published Materials, photocopies SERIES XIV. CHESTNUT HILL, PA Folder 6.04 Research Materials Folders 1.11 - 1.17 Research Materials - Photographs Folders 6.05 - 6.06 Research Materials and Drafts Folder 6.17 Research Materials and Drafts Folders 14.02 - 14.03 Research Materials and Drafts Folders 6.08 - 6.10 Drafts Folder 14.01 Drafts Folders 14.04 - 14.08 Drafts Folder 6.07 Drafts — Negatives Folders 14.09 - 14.11 Drafts and photocopies Folder 14.12 Drafts—Plates Commissioned by VC Folders 14.13 - 14.17 Drafts, mostly Chestnut Hill, includes Rittenhouse Town Folder 19.10 Drafts and Published Materials Folder 6.11 Drawings Folder M16 (Oversize) Drawings Folder 6.12 Published Materials — Negatives Folders 6.13 - 6.15 Published Materials Folders 19.11 - 19.14 Published Materials Folder M16 (Oversize) Published Materials Folder 6.16 Exhibition Materials Folders 15.01 - 15.03 Exhibition Materials Folder 19.05 Exhibition Materials SERIES XV. PHILADELPHIA, PA Folder M8 (Oversize) Research Materials Folder 4.01 Research Materials Folder 4.02 Drafts Folders 12.01 - 12.02 Drafts Folder M6 (Oversize) Drafts Folder 4.03 Drawing Folders 4.04 – 4.06 Published Materials Folder M8 (Oversize) Published Materials SERIES XVI. RITTENHOUSE TOWN, PA Folder 15.10 Research Materials Folder 15.11 Drafts Folders 14.13 - 14.17 Drafts, mostly Chestnut Hill, includes Rittenhouse Town Folder 7.08 Published Materials Folder 15.12 Published Materials SERIES XVII. UP COUNTRY PENNSYLVANIA Folder 1.19 Research Materials — Photographs Folder 1.20 Research Materials — Photographs — Bethlehem Pike Folder 1.21 Research Materials — Photographs — Sumneytown Pike, Limekilm Pike, Harleysville Pike Folders 1.22 - 1.23 Research Materials — Photographs — Skippack Pike Folder 1.24 Research Materials — Photographs — Ridge Pike Folder 1.25 Research Materials — Photographs — De Kalb Pike Folder 1.26 Research Materials — Photographs — Germantown Pike Folder 7.01 Drafts — Sumneytown Pike, Limekilm Pike, Harleysville Pike Folder 7.02 Drafts — Germantown Pike Folder 7.03 Drafts — Ridge Pike Folder 7.04 Drafts — De Kalb Pike Folder 7.05 Drafts — Skippack Pike Folder 7.06 Drafts — Bethlehem Pike Folders 15.04 - 15.05 Drafts Folders 15.06 - 15.08 Drawings SERIES XVIII. Rhode Island Folders 7.09 - 7.11 Research Materials Folders 13.11 - 13.13 Research Materials Folder 1.27 Research Materials — Photographs Folder 5.07 Research Materials — Providence Folder 13.08 Drafts — Bristol Folder 12.13 Drafts — Providence Folder 7.12 Drawings — Rhode Island, including Bristol Folder M2 (Oversize) Drafts — Blackstone Valley, Rhode Island Folder 13.08 Published Materials — Bristol Folder M9 (Oversize) Published Materials — Bristol, 1955 Folder M4 (Oversize) Published Print — Newport, 1957 Folder 5.08 Published Materials — Providence Folder M9 (Oversize) Published Materials — Providence, 1962 SERIES XIX. NOTEBOOKS Box 18 Volumes 1-14 Folder 7.13 Materials removed from notebook 4 Folder 7.14 Materials removed from notebook 7 Folder 7.15 Materials removed from notebook 8 Folder 7.16 Materials removed from notebook 9 Folder 7.17 Materials removed from notebook 10 Folder 7.18 Materials removed from notebook 12 SERIES XX. MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS Folders 8.05 - 8.07 Art Anatomy Materials, Vassar Class, circa 1928 Folders 9.16 - 9.20 Drawings Folders 16.02 - 16.07 Drawings Folders 20.02 - 20.03 Drawings Folder M15 (Oversize) Drawings and Sketches Folder M11 (Oversize) Figure Studies Folder 9.21 Final Drawing, February 1999 Folder 8.01 Materials relating to the Inauguration of President W. J. Clinton, 1993 Folders 9.11 - 9.13 Medium Studies Folder 20.04 Paintings Box 2 Professional Correspondence and Copyright Material Folder 8.02 Professional Correspondence with the Albany Institute of History and Art Folders 8.03 - 8.04 Professional Documents Folders 8.08 - 8.09 Project Materials Folders 10.01 - 10.02 Published Materials Folder 10.03 Published Materials — Springside Folders 10.04 - 10.06 Published Materials — Cards — Some with Correspondence Folders 20.05 - 20.06 Published Materials about Howe Folders 20.07 - 20.08 Published Materials which include Howe’s work Folder 17.01 Published Materials — Articles by Rosalind Howe Folder 17.04 Published Materials — Unidentified Folders 9.01 - 9.05 Research and Drafts Materials, Possibly Annapolis or Princeton Folders 1.28 - 1.29 Research Materials — Photographs — Unidentified Folder 20.01 Self-Portrait Folders 9.06 - 9.10 Sketches Folder 16.01 Sketches and Paintings Folders 8.14 - 8.15 Sketches of Construction Folders 8.13 Sketches of Vehicles Folders 8.10 - 8.12 Small studies Folders 9.14 - 9.15 Snow Studies Folders 10.07 - 10.08 Unidentified Drafts Folders 10.15 - 10.19 Unidentified Drawings Folders 17.05 - 17.06 Unidentified Drawings Folders 10.09 - 10.14 Unidentified Sketches Folders 17.07 - 17.18 Unidentified Sketches Folders 20.09 - 20.10 Unidentified Sketches Folder M15 (Oversize) Unidentified Sketches Folders 17.02 - 17.03 Winter Studies, 1982 Box 18 Wood block, Jamaica Print