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Finding Aid To The Collection Of Booth Tarkington Materials., Booth Tarkington, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Booth Tarkington Materials., Booth Tarkington, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aids
This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials relating to the life and work of Booth Tarkington. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was a writer from Indiana, well known for his novels of life in the midwest. Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to him for The Magnificent Ambersons and for Alice Adams. He attended Purdue University and Princeton, where he was a well-known literary and social figure. In later life he divided his time between Indiana and his estate, Seawood, in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he became friends with neighbor Kenneth Roberts.
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Waldo Peirce Materials., Waldo Peirce, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Waldo Peirce Materials., Waldo Peirce, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aids
The collection comprises letters, scrapbooks, and manuscript items by Waldo Peirce, an American painter, bohemian, and expatriate born in Bangor, Maine. Waldo Peirce (1884-1970) was born in Bangor, Maine, and educated at Phillips Academy in Andover and Harvard University. He later studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Julian Academy in Paris. As an expatriate American, he drove ambulances for the French Army in World War I and led a bohemian life with notable companions such as Ernest Hemingway and John Reed. His later life was spent in Searsport, Maine, and Newburyport, Massachusetts, where …