George Biddle Papers (Library of Congress)

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George Biddle Papers

A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress

Prepared by Grover Batts and Thelma Queen
Revised and expanded by Nan Thompson Ernst

Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

2009

Contact information: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html

Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2009

Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009145

Family Correspondence, 1863-1967

General Correspondence, 1904-1969

Sketches and Sketchbooks, 1930-1959

Title: George Biddle Papers
Span Dates: 1863-1973
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1916-1973)
ID No.: MSS12674
Creator: Biddle, George, 1885-1973
Extent: 3,500 items; 31 containers plus 1 oversize; 12 linear feet
Language: Collection material in English with French, Italian, Portugese, and Spanish
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Artist and public official. Correspondence; diaries; drafts and printed copies of speeches, articles, and a memoir; sketchbooks; scrapbooks; announcements; book reviews; and other papers relating chiefly to Biddle's role in American art, his work for the federal support of art, and the Federal Art Project, including also material relating to his involvment with the United States War Department Art Advisory Committee, World War II, and the Nuremberg War Crime Trials.

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

Personal Names
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973--Correspondence.
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975--Correspondence.
Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959--Correspondence.
Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968--Correspondence.
Biddle, George, 1885-1973.
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963--Correspondence.
Bullitt, William C. (William Christian), 1891-1967--Correspondence.
Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926--Correspondence.
Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977--Correspondence.
Cheever, John--Correspondence.
Dehn, Adolf, 1895-1968--Correspondence.
Diederich, William Hunt, 1884-1953--Correspondence.
Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980--Correspondence.
Grosz, George, 1893-1959--Correspondence.
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963--Correspondence.
James, William, 1842-1910--Correspondence.
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953--Correspondence.
Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974--Correspondence.
Mailer, Norman--Correspondence.
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955--Correspondence.
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990--Correspondence.
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988--Correspondence.
Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949--Correspondence.
Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970--Correspondence.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Correspondence.
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979--Correspondence.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962--Correspondence.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Correspondence.
Saint-John Perse, 1887-1975--Correspondence.
Santayana, George, 1863-1952--Correspondence.
Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969--Correspondence.
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968--Correspondence.
Tate, Allen, 1899-1979--Correspondence.
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972--Correspondence.
Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978--Correspondence.
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972--Correspondence.
Wister, Owen, 1860-1938--Correspondence.
Wood, Grant, 1891-1942--Correspondence.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959--Correspondence.
Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009--Correspondence.
Zorach, Marguerite, 1887-1968--Correspondence.
Zorach, William, 1887-1966--Correspondence.

Organizations
Federal Art Project.
United States. War Dept.

Subjects
Art, American.
Courthouses--Mexico.
Federal aid to the arts--United States.
Mural painting and decoration, American--Mexico.
War crime trials--Germany--Nuremberg.
World War, 1939-1945--Africa, North.
World War, 1939-1945--Art and the war.
World War, 1939-1945--Italy.
World War, 1939-1945--Journalists.

Related Names
Sardeau, Hélène, 1899-1969. Hélène Sardeau papers.

Occupations
Artists.
Public officials.

Administrative Information

Provenance:

The papers of George Biddle, artist and public official, were given to the Library of Congress by George Biddle, 1960-1970. Additions to the papers were given by Yale University Library in 1979 and by Biddle's son, Michael Biddle, in 1992.

Processing History:

The papers of George Biddle were arranged and described in 1982. The collection was expanded and revised in 1996. The finding aid was revised in 2009.

Additional Guides:

A description of the 1992 addition to the George Biddle Papers appeared in Library of Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1992, pp. 44-45.

Other Repositories:

The Archives of American Art has a microfilm copy of about 800 items in this collection photographed in 1954 when the Biddle Papers were in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Copyright Status:

Copyright in the unpublished writings of George Biddle in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.

Access and Restrictions:

The papers of George Biddle are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.

Preferred Citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, George Biddle Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1885, Jan. 24	Born, Philadelphia, Pa.
1898-1904	Attended Groton School, Groton, Mass.
1908	Spent six months working as a cowhand in Texas and Mexico
1908-1911	A.B. and LL.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1912-1916	Attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.; studied printmaking in Munich, Germany; spent summers painting in France with Frederick Frieseke
1917	Married Anne ("Nancy") Coleman (divorced) Enlisted in the United States Army; commissioned a first lieutenant
1917-1919	Served on the general staff, First Army Corps, in battles at Marne, St. Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne, France
1920	Lived in Tautira, Tahiti, with periodic trips to New York
1924	Moved to Paris, France
1925	Married Jane Belo (divorced)
1927	Settled in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.
1928	Accompanied Diego Rivera on a sketching trip through Mexico
1930	Published Green Island. New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann
1931	Married Hélène Sardeau (died 1969); spent most of the next two years in Rome, Italy
1933	Advocated the establishment of a mural program for public buildings as part of the Federal Art Project
1939	Published An American Artist's Story. Boston: Little, Brown
1942-1945	Chairman, War Department Art Advisory Committee
1942	Created murals and sculpture with Hélène Sardeau for the Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1944	Sketched and wrote George Biddle's War Drawings. New York: Hyperion Press Published Artist At War. New York: Viking Press
1944-1945	Designed and executed a mural with Hélène Sardeau for the supreme court building, Mexico City, Mexico
1945	Reporter and artist, Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany
1950-1954	Served on the United States Commission of Fine Arts
1957	Published The Yes and No of Contemporary Art. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
1968	Published Tahitian Journal. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press
1973, Nov. 6	Died, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of George Biddle (1885-1973) include material dated between 1863 and 1973, with the greater part dated after 1916. Included in the collection are diaries, general and family correspondence, drafts and printed copies of speeches, articles and a memoir, sketchbooks, and scrapbooks of personal clippings, announcements of exhibits, and reviews of Biddle's books. The family correspondence contains a number of letters received by Biddle's wife, the sculptor Hélène Sardeau Biddle. Material relating to Hélène Sardeau can also be found in the Subject File and Scrapbook series. An Addition to the collection contains diaries, correspondence, and a sketchbook which supplement material in the original series. The papers are organized in nine series: Diaries, Family Correspondence, General Correspondence, Writings, Subject File, Sketches and Sketchbooks, Scrapbooks, Addition, and Oversize.

The principal topic documented by the collection is George Biddle's career as a painter and as a spokesman for a more prominent role by the federal government in support of art. Biddle's association with the Federal Art Project, including his commission to paint murals for the Department of Justice building in 1935, is documented in the Diaries, General Correspondence, Subject File, and Scrapbooks series. In 1942, he and his wife, Hélène Sardeau, were commissioned by the government of Brazil to create murals and sculpture for the national library in Rio de Janeiro. In 1943-1944, he and Sardeau designed and painted the murals for the Mexican supreme court building. These projects are documented in the Diaries, General Correspondence, Subject File, Scrapbooks, and Addition series.

Biddle helped organize the War Department Art Committee in 1943 and traveled as artist-correspondent at the battle fronts in North Africa and Italy. That same year he began planning the reorganization of postwar federal art projects. In 1945 he covered the Nuremberg War Crime Trials as reporter and artist. His wartime activities are documented in the Diaries, General Correspondence, Subject File, Scrapbooks, and Addition series.

George Biddle was a writer as well as a painter. He published books and articles about his own development as an artist, most of which recount his travels throughout the world. Only his 1939 memoir, An American Artist's Story, is represented in the Writings series, along with a number of articles and speeches about art. Biddle's diaries, beginning in 1901, cover most of his life except for the years 1910-1917 and 1924-1932. For the remaining years, Biddle created a detailed record of his activities, encounters, reading, thoughts, conversations, and impressions. He recorded the routine matters of daily life but also described artists and writers of his wide acquaintance, and the social and political leaders he knew from boyhood and from his association with the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.

Edited extracts from Biddle's diaries appear in his books An American Artist's Story (1939), Artist at War (1944), and Tahitian Journal (1968), but most of the diaries were never published. Of particular interest are the entries describing the Nuremberg trials. As a brother of Francis Biddle, Franklin D. Roosevelt's attorney general, George Biddle was a close associate of the American team of prosecutors. His conversations with them and descriptions of the area devastated by war are recorded in diaries in the Addition series.

The Addition series also includes family and general correspondence and a sketchbook. The material is organized in accordance with the arrangement of the preceding series.

Posters from the Japanese exhibition can be found in the Oversize series.

Correspondents in the collection include Conrad Aiken, Bernard Berenson, Thomas Hart Benton, Francis and Katherine Biddle, Van Wyck Brooks, William C. Bullitt, Mary Cassatt, John Cheever, Adolf Dehn, Wilhelm Hunt Diederich, William O. Douglas, George Grosz, Aldous Huxley, William James, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse), Walter Lippmann, Thomas Mann, Norman Mailer, Lewis Mumford, Isamu Noguchi, José Clemente Orozco, Henry Varnum Poor, Ezra Pound, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Santayana, Ben Shahn, John Steinbeck, Allen Tate, Harry S. Truman, John Hall Wheelock, Edmund Wilson, Owen Wister, Grant Wood, Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrew Wyeth, and William and Marguerite Zorach. Some of the correspondence is in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Arrangement of the Papers

This collection is arranged in nine series:

Diaries, 1901-1963
Family Correspondence, 1863-1967
General Correspondence, 1904-1969
Writings, 1929-1963
Subject File, 1899-1958
Sketches and Sketchbooks, 1930-1959
Scrapbooks, 1916-1965
Addition, 1908-1973
Oversize, 1958

Description of Series

Container	Series


BOX 1-6	Diaries, 1901-1963
		Holograph diaries and revised typescripts.
		Arranged chronologically.

BOX 7-10	Family Correspondence, 1863-1967
		Correspondence received and sent by family members.
		Arranged alphabetically by name of family member.

BOX 11-16	General Correspondence, 1904-1969
		Letters sent and received.
		Organized as letters sent and received, and thereunder alphabetically by name of correspondent.

BOX 17-18	Writings, 1929-1963
		Holograph and typescript drafts of a book, articles, memoranda, and speeches.
		Arranged by type of material.

BOX 19	Subject File, 1899-1958
		Biographical sketches, photographs, journals, poems, passports, legal documents, correspondence, memoranda, reports, and printed matter.
		Arranged alphabetically by name of person and therein by subject or type of material.

BOX 20-21	Sketches and Sketchbooks, 1930-1959
		Sketches and sketchbooks.
		Arranged chronologically.

BOX 22-26	Scrapbooks, 1916-1965
		Scrapbooks containing clippings, announcements of exhibits, and reviews of Biddle's books.
		Arranged alphabetically by name of person and therein chronologically.

BOX 27-31	Addition, 1908-1973
		Diaries, correspondence, and sketchbook.
		Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically.

BOX OV 1	Oversize, 1958
		Posters from Japanese exhibition.
		Organized and described according to the series, box, and folder from which they were removed.

Container List

Container	Contents


BOX 1-6	Diaries, 1901-1963
		Holograph diaries and revised typescripts.
		Arranged chronologically.

BOX 1		1901-1909, 1918-1919
			(6 vols.)

BOX 2		1920-1923, holograph and typescript pages

BOX 2		1933-1941, revised typescript

BOX 3		1943
			(4 vols.)

BOX 3		1948, typescript

BOX 4		Apr. 1949-Mar. 1954
			(3 vols.)

BOX 5		May 1957-Oct. 1963
			(4 vols.)

BOX 5		1954-1963, revised typescript
			(6 folders)

BOX 6		1948-1963, revised typescripts
			(4 folders)

BOX 7-10	Family Correspondence, 1863-1967
		Correspondence received and sent by family members.
		Arranged alphabetically by name of family member.

BOX 7		Biddle, Frances Robinson (mother), 1899-1919, 1931-1934
			(4 folders)

BOX 7		Biddle, Francis (brother), 1932-1967, undated
			(13 folders)

BOX 7		Biddle, Katherine (sister-in-law), 1958-1960, undated

BOX 7		Biddle, Michael John (son), 1940-1946, 1955-1960, 1967
			(5 folders)

BOX 8		Biddle, Anne Coleman (wife), 1916-1919
			(5 folders)

BOX 9		Biddle, Jane Belo (wife), 1922, 1928

BOX 9		Biddle, Hélène Sardeau (wife)

BOX 9			Biddle, George

BOX 9				From

BOX 9					1930-1946
						(10 folders)

BOX 10					1949

BOX 10				To, 1930-1935, 1941-1961
					(6 folders)

BOX 10			Other correspondents

BOX 10				"A-T" miscellaneous, 1926-1964, undated
					(2 folders)

BOX 10				Biddle family, 1935-1942, 1956, 1962, undated

BOX 10				Breuer, Bessie, undated

BOX 10				Nicci, Giovanni and Angelo, 1959-1966, undated

BOX 10				United States Glass Co., 1947-1951

BOX 10		Miscellany, 1863-1956

BOX 11-16	General Correspondence, 1904-1969
		Letters sent and received.
		Organized as letters sent and received, and thereunder alphabetically by name of correspondent.

BOX 11		Letters sent

BOX 11			"A" miscellaneous, 1945-1966

BOX 11			Bauer, John, 1955-1956

BOX 11			Berenson, Bernard, 1955-1958

BOX 11			Brooks, Van Wyck, 1916, 1955-1959

BOX 11			"B-E" miscellaneous, 1938-1967, undated
				(4 folders)

BOX 11			Finley, David, 1948-1958

BOX 11			Fuller, Richard, 1948-1960

BOX 11			"F" miscellaneous, 1939-1958

BOX 11			Goodrich, Lloyd, 1951-1957

BOX 11			"G-K" miscellaneous, 1945-1963
				(4 folders)

BOX 11			Library of Congress, 1954-1967

BOX 11			Lowenthal, Reeves, 1945-1948

BOX 11			"L-P" miscellaneous, 1939-1969, undated
				(4 folders)

BOX 11			Rosenberg, James N., 1957-1958

BOX 11			"R-S" miscellaneous, 1938-1963
				(2 folders)

BOX 11			Truman, Harry S., 1949-1958

BOX 11			"T" miscellaneous, 1950-1961

BOX 11			Urbina, D. Salvador, 1945

BOX 11			"V-Z" miscellaneous, 1945-1963
				(3 folders)

BOX 11			Unidentified, 1943, 1953-1955

BOX 12		Letters received

BOX 12			"A" miscellaneous, 1934-1969, undated

BOX 12			Bauer, John, 1955-1956

BOX 12			Benton, Thomas Hart, 1933-1968

BOX 12			Brooks, Van Wyck, circa 1908, 1932-1962

BOX 12			Bruce, Edward, 1935-1940

BOX 12			Bullitt, William C., 1933-1966

BOX 12			Burchfield, Charles, 1956

BOX 12			Burliuk, David M., 1957-1958

BOX 12			"B" miscellaneous, 1919-1969, undated

BOX 12			Cassatt, Mary, 1911-1917

BOX 12			Chase, Stuart, 1936-1968

BOX 12			Cheever, John, 1944-1966, undated

BOX 12			Curry, John Steuart, 1933

BOX 12			"C" miscellaneous, circa 1906, 1929-1969, undated

BOX 13			Davis, Stuart, 1936-1941

BOX 13			Deutsch, Babette, 1929-1930, 1961, undated

BOX 13			Diederich, Wilhelm Hunt, circa 1920-1921, 1930-1944, undated

BOX 13			Douglas, William O., 1953-1959

BOX 13			"D" miscellaneous, 1926-1969, undated

BOX 13			Eastman, Max, 1932-1939, 1957

BOX 13			Encyclopedia Britannica, 1955-1958

BOX 13			Evergood, Philip, 1944-1969

BOX 13			"E" miscellaneous, 1939-1969

BOX 13			Finley, David E., 1949-1957

BOX 13			Fuller, Richard E., 1948-1960

BOX 13			"F" miscellaneous, 1920, 1929, 1933-1969, undated

BOX 13			Goodrich, Lloyd, 1951-1957

BOX 13			Grosz, George, 1933-1958

BOX 13			"G" miscellaneous, 1919, 1928-1936, 1955-1967

BOX 13			Hale, Robert B., 1950-1956

BOX 13			"H" miscellaneous, 1926-1969, undated

BOX 13			Ingersoll, R. Sturgis, 1956-1969

BOX 13			Isaacs, Stanley M., 1939-1961

BOX 13			"I-J" miscellaneous, 1904, 1911, 1935-1950, 1969
				(2 folders)

BOX 13			Kent, Rockwell, 1930, 1939-1956, 1964

BOX 13			Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1926, 1941-1942, 1950-1953, undated

BOX 13			"K" miscellaneous, 1926-1932, 1944-1969, undated

BOX 14			Laning, Edward, 1934-1935

BOX 14			Léger, Alexis (Saint-John Perse), 1954, 1969

BOX 14			Library of Congress, 1954-1966

BOX 14			Lippmann, Walter, 1927-1933, 1954-1960

BOX 14			Lopez, Carlos, 1947-1948, undated

BOX 14			"L" miscellaneous, 1919-1921, 1927-1930, 1939-1969, undated

BOX 14			Mangrante, Peppino, 1949-1957

BOX 14			Maverick, Maury, 1936-1945

BOX 14			Messersmith, George S., 1944-1945

BOX 14			Moore, Grace, 1923-1924, 1934
				(2 folders)

BOX 14			Mumford, Lewis, 1929-1940

BOX 14			"M-N" miscellaneous, 1909, 1928, 1935-1969, undated
				(2 folders)

BOX 14			Orion Press, 1959-1960

BOX 14			Orozco, José Clemente, 1928-1929

BOX 14			"O" miscellaneous, 1927, 1954-1955, 1962-1966

BOX 15			Pascin, Jules, 1928, undated

BOX 15			Peabody, Endicott, 1907-1908, 1935-1943

BOX 15			Pearson, Ralph M., 1949-1958

BOX 15			Pei, I. M., 1969

BOX 15			Peirce, Waldo, 1915, 1936-1940, 1963-1969

BOX 15			Pell, Claiborne, 1964

BOX 15			Perkins, Frances, 1935-1936, 1946, undated

BOX 15			Perkins, Maxwell E., 1943

BOX 15			Phillips, Duncan, 1936, 1941

BOX 15			Poor, Henry Varnum and Bessie, 1934-1967

BOX 15			Pound, Ezra, 1932, 1956-1958, undated

BOX 15			"P" miscellaneous, 1921, 1939-1950, 1957-1969

BOX 15			Radhakrishan, Sri Sarvepalli, 1959-1960

BOX 15			Rauh, Joseph L. (1911- ), 1956

BOX 15			Redmond, Roland, 1949-1950, 1958

BOX 15			Reed, Stanley, 1938

BOX 15			Roberts, Laurance P., 1949-1951

BOX 15			Robeson, Paul, 1949

BOX 15			Robinson, Boardman, 1933-1940, 1948, undated

BOX 15			Robinson, Ione, 1944-1953

BOX 15			Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1942-1960

BOX 15			Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1939-1944, 1954

BOX 15			Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1938-1941

BOX 15			Rorimer, James J., 1955-1957

BOX 15			Rosenberg, James N., 1956-1958, 1969

BOX 15			Rowe, James, Jr., 1949-1956, 1969

BOX 15			"R" miscellaneous, 1933, 1942-1968

BOX 15			Saint-Gaudens, Homer, 1942-1950

BOX 15			Saltonstall, John L., 1960

BOX 15			Sarfatti, Margherita, 1932-1938, 1953-1956

BOX 15			Schlesinger, Arthur Meier (1917- ), 1950-1969

BOX 15			Shahn, Ben, 1949-1969

BOX 15			Sheldon, Edward B., circa 1930-1939

BOX 15			Sherwood, Robert E., 1943

BOX 15			Shotwell, James T., 1933, 1940-1944

BOX 15			Soyer, Raphael, 1956-1966

BOX 15			Steinbeck, John, 1943, 1962

BOX 15			Steinberg, Saul, 1956-1957

BOX 15			Sterne, Maurice, 1935-1950

BOX 15			Stevens, Roger L., 1966-1967

BOX 15			Stimson, Henry L., 1944

BOX 15			Stokowski, Leopold, 1941, 1949-1950

BOX 15			Stone, Harlan Fiske, 1935-1940

BOX 15			Streit, Clarence, 1941, 1955

BOX 15			Sweeney, James Johnson, 1956-1961

BOX 15			"S" miscellaneous, 1916, 1927, 1932-1960, 1969

BOX 16			Tarchiani, Alberto, 1949-1951

BOX 16			Tate, Allen and Isabella, 1959-1969

BOX 16			Taylor, Francis H., 1940, 1955-1957

BOX 16			Thompson, Dorothy, 1941

BOX 16			Thompson, Llewellyn E., 1959

BOX 16			Tobin, Maurice J., 1950

BOX 16			Truman, Harry S., 1950-1958

BOX 16			Tugwell, Rexford G., 1933

BOX 16			"T" miscellaneous, 1928, 1939-1963

BOX 16			Von Auw, Ivan, 1945, 1954-1960

BOX 16			"U-V" miscellaneous, 1945, 1952-1965

BOX 16			Walker, John, 1956-1962

BOX 16			Watson, Thomas J., 1949

BOX 16			Weber, Max, 1953-1956, undated

BOX 16			Weeks, Edward, 1949, 1962-1964

BOX 16			Wheelock, John Hall, 1933-1940, 1960-1969

BOX 16			White, Paul Dudley, 1958

BOX 16			Williams, Herman W., 1957-1960

BOX 16			Wilson, Edmund, 1954-1957

BOX 16			Wister, Owen, 1909-1911

BOX 16			Wood, Grant, 1934

BOX 16			Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1955

BOX 16			Wyeth, Andrew, 1957

BOX 16			"W" miscellaneous, 1909, 1933, 1940-1958, 1969, undated

BOX 16			Zorach, William, 1927, 1934-1935, 1946-1960

BOX 16			"Z" miscellaneous, 1949-1959, 1969

BOX 16			Unidentified, 1949

BOX 17-18	Writings, 1929-1963
		Holograph and typescript drafts of a book, articles, memoranda, and speeches.
		Arranged by type of material.

BOX 17		Book, An American Artist's Story

BOX 17			Holograph draft, circa 1938
				(2 folders)

BOX 18			Annotated typescript, circa 1938

BOX 18		Articles, memoranda, and speeches, 1929-1963, undated
			(4 folders)

BOX 19	Subject File, 1899-1958
		Biographical sketches, photographs, journals, poems, passports, legal documents, correspondence, memoranda, reports, and printed matter.
		Arranged alphabetically by name of person and therein by subject or type of material.

BOX 19		Biddle, George

BOX 19			Biographical material, 1908-1943

BOX 19			Federal art projects, 1933-1934

BOX 19			Miscellany, 1940, undated

BOX 19			Murals

BOX 19				Justice Department Building, Washington, D.C., 1935

BOX 19				Supreme Court Building, Mexico City, Mexico, 1943-1944

BOX 19			Posters, Japanese exhibition, 1958 See Oversize

BOX 19			Printed matter, 1924-1955, undated
				(2 folders)

BOX 19			War Department Art Advisory Committee

BOX 19				Organization, 1943

BOX 19				Postwar reorganization, 1943

BOX 19		Sardeau, Hélène

BOX 19			Biographical material, 1899-1942

BOX 19			Mexican journal, 1945

BOX 19			Photographs

BOX 19				Portraits, circa 1931

BOX 19				Sculpture, undated

BOX 19			Writings, 1928-circa 1953, undated

BOX 20-21	Sketches and Sketchbooks, 1930-1959
		Sketches and sketchbooks.
		Arranged chronologically.

BOX 20		1930-1948
			(11 folders)

BOX 21		1951-1959, undated
			(11 folders)

BOX 22-26	Scrapbooks, 1916-1965
		Scrapbooks containing clippings, announcements of exhibits, and reviews of Biddle's books.
		Arranged alphabetically by name of person and therein chronologically.

BOX 22		Biddle, George

BOX 22			1916-1929
				(3 vols.)

BOX 23			1930-1940

BOX 24			1940-1944

BOX 25			1942-1949
				(2 vols.)

BOX 26		Sardeau, Hélène, 1930-1965, undated

BOX 27-31	Addition, 1908-1973
		Diaries, correspondence, and sketchbook.
		Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically.

BOX 27		Diaries

BOX 27			1917-1923, 1933-1940
				(6 vols.)

BOX 28			1941-1947
				(4 vols.)

BOX 29			1945-1949, 1963-1970
				(6 vols.)

BOX 30			1970-1973, undated
				(3 vols.)

BOX 30		Family correspondence, 1934

BOX 30		General correspondence

BOX 30			"A-Z" miscellaneous, 1908-1909, 1918, 1938-1950, 1960-1972
				(2 folders)

BOX 30			Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1933-1943

BOX 30			Truman, Harry S., 1951-1953

BOX 31			Wigglesworth, Anne Parker

BOX 31				Correspondence, 1952-1958, undated
					(4 folders)

BOX 31				Photographs, undated

BOX 31		Sketchbook, 1909-1911

BOX OV 1	Oversize, 1958
		Posters from Japanese exhibition.
		Organized and described according to the series, box, and folder from which they were removed.

BOX OV 1		Subject File

BOX OV 1			Posters, Japanese exhibition, 1958 (Container 19)