Guide to the Henry Salem Hubbell Papers,
1800-1975

Collection Number: 1955

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
M.E. Warren
Date completed:
August 1991
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, March 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Henry Salem Hubbell papers, 1800-1975.
Collection Number:
1955
Creator:
Henry Salem Hubbell, 1869-1949.
Quantity:
5 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, research and lecture notes, catalogs, newspaper clippings, scripts, theatrical programs, photographs, audiotapes, manuscripts, and other papers.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence and other papers of Henry Salem Hubbell, a portrait artist and educator.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Henry Salem Hubbell, a portrait artist, was the head of the Carnegie Institute of Technology School of Painting and Decoration in Pittsburgh, 1918-1921.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Letters (1897-1907) from Hubbell, when an art student in Paris, Etaples, and Madrid, and from his wife, (Nellie) Rose Strong Hubbell, largely to his benefactor Mrs. Lydis Avery Coonley Ward; correspondence (1891-1944) between Hubbell and his family; research and lecture notes; correspondence, catalogs, and newspaper clippings concerning his paintings and exhibitions; scripts, programs, and notices of amateur plays in which he was either an actor or set designer; and photographs of himself and his paintings, studios, homes, and family. Also, tape recordings, notes, and correspondence of his son, Henry Willard Hubbell, concerning his father's life and work; typescripts and proofs of the journals, plays and short stories, articles, and verse written by Mrs. Hubbell; photocopies and typescripts of papers dealing with the history and genealogy of the Hubbell (Hubbels, Hubbel), Gleason, Rockwell, and related families (1800-1940); and proposals concerning the role of art education at the University of Miami.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Hubbell, Henry Salem, 1869-1949.
Gleason family.
Hubbel family.
Hubbell family.
Hubbell, Henry Willard.
Hubbell, Rose Strong.
Hubbels family.
Rockwell family.
Ward, Lydis Avery Coonley.
Carnegie Institute of Technology. School of Painting and Decoration.

Subjects:
Amateur theater.
Art.
Education in art.
Literature.
Painting.

Form and Genre Terms:
Genealogies.
Lecture notes.
Photographs.
Poems.
Scrapbooks.
Sketches.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Henry Salem Hubbell papers, #1955. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Photographs of portraits
1935-1936
#68: Secretaries of Interior Department - research material including list of the secretaries from 1849-1889 and vital statistics of each; pencil sketches of facial characteristics of several of the secretaries; correspondence
Box 1 Folder 1
1928-1944
#70-89: Correspondence, newspaper clippings
Box 1 Folder 2
1928-1944
#91-103: Correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine cover
Box 1 Folder 3
1927-1940
#109-118: Correspondence, newspaper clippings
Box 1 Folder 4
1935-1942
#123-193: Correspondence, newspaper clippings
Box 1 Folder 5
1910-1945
#133-154: Correspondence, newspaper clippings
Box 1 Folder 6
1928-1945
#158-196: Correspondence, newspaper clippings
Box 1 Folder 7
1935-1943
#197-200: Correspondence, newspaper clippings
Box 1 Folder 8
1939-1941
#209-223: Correspondence, newspaper clippings
Box 1 Folder 9
Miscellaneous correspondence
1933-1945
A-B correspondence
Box 1 Folder 10
1933-1948
W. Bingham 2nd
Box 1 Folder 11
1949
Copies of Account of Proceedings and Receipt and Release in the matter of the settlement of Trust Funds for Mr. and Mrs. Hubbell set up by W. Bingham 2nd, April 1949
Box 1 Folder 12
1937-1960
Alice Gleason Bowman correspondence, newspaper clippings
Box 1 Folder 13
1903-1947
C correspondence
Box 1 Folder 14
Carnegie Tech. Papers
Box 1 Folder 15-18
1945-1949
Sarah Coonley Davies
Box 1 Folder 19
1898-1944
E-F correspondence
Box 1 Folder 20
1937-1943
Ruth Marie Field
Box 1 Folder 21
1943-1949
Ruth Marie Field
Box 1 Folder 22
1909-1944
G-H correspondence
Box 1 Folder 23
1905-1935
Rose Strong Hubbell
Box 1 Folder 24
1934-1942
Miscellany
Box 1 Folder 25
Newspaper clippings
Box 1 Folder 26-27
1891-1913
Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 1
1895-1903
Family correspondence - original and t.s. copies
Box 2 Folder 2
1901
Correspondence - original and t.s.
Box 2 Folder 3
1902
Correspondence - original and t.s.
Box 2 Folder 4
1923-1926
Correspondence - original and t.s.
Box 2 Folder 5
1901-1902
Correspondence - April 29, 1901-May 2, 1902
Box 2 Folder 6
1902-1903
Correspondence - June 29, 1902-April 2, 1903
Box 2 Folder 7
1903
Correspondence - May 11,-September 5, 1903
Box 2 Folder 8
1903-1904
Correspondence - October 31, 1903-July 25, 1905
Box 2 Folder 9
1904-1907
Correspondence - October 9, 1904-March 24, 1907
Box 2 Folder 10
1916-1923
Family letters
Box 2 Folder 11
1924-1925
Family letters
Box 2 Folder 12
1925-1939
Family letters
Box 2 Folder 13
1934
Family letters
Box 2 Folder 14-15
1935
Family letters
Box 2 Folder 16
1936-1946
Family letters
Box 2 Folder 17
1890-1906
Mrs. O. W. Hubbell letters
Box 2 Folder 18
1949-1951
Letters to Willard Hubbell
Box 2 Folder 19
1928-1945
I correspondence, primarily Harold Ickes
Box 3 Folder 1
1947
Lyons Case
Box 3 Folder 2
1939-1950
M correspondence
Box 3 Folder 3
1925-1949
N, O, P correspondence
Box 3 Folder 4
1925-1948
R, S, W, Z correspondence
Box 3 Folder 5
1907
Booth Tarkington Letters
Box 3 Folder 6
1886, 1904-1949
Odds and Ends
Box 3 Folder 7-8
1943-1944
Louise Orwig Letters
Box 3 Folder 9
Exhibitions of Hubbell works
Box 3 Folder 10
Re: portrait of Mrs. J. G. Gehring
Box 3 Folder 11
1896-1960
Correspondence re: paintings; miscellaneous correspondence
Box 3 Folder 12
Correspondence re: photos of paintings
Box 3 Folder 13
(Removed from "Correspondence re: photos of paintings")
Box 3 Folder 14
Other papers
"By the Fireside"
Box 3 Folder 15
Newspaper clippings re: photos of paintings
Box 3 Folder 16
Odds and Ends
Box 3 Folder 17-19
Newspaper clippings (fragile)
Box 3 Folder 20-21
Odds and Ends
Box 3 Folder 22
Odds and Ends: real estate, will, miscellany
Box 3 Folder 23
Miscellany
Box 3 Folder 24
1926
Re: art gallery proposals
Box 4 Folder 1
Rec'd 8-1-72
Box 4 Folder 2
Miscellany
Box 4 Folder 3-4
Lecture notes?
Box 4 Folder 4-6
1938
Florida State Guide - dummy
Box 4 Folder 7
"Hubbell Book"
Box 4 Folder 8-10
"Henry" mss. by Rose Strong Hubbell
Box 4 Folder 11
If I Could Fly by R. H. Hubbell - proof, reviews, clippings
Box 4 Folder 12
Newsclippings - "Quacky Doodles" by R. S. Hubbell
Box 4 Folder 13
"It Happened to Us" Memoirs of an Artist's Wife by R. S. Hubbell
Box 5 Folder 1
Carnegie Tech School of the Arts - R. S. Hubbell
Box 5 Folder 2
"The Aulis Difficulty" by Maurice Baring
Box 5 Folder 3
"The Boy Comes Home" by Milne [?]
Box 5 Folder 4
1929
Hubbell guest book
Box 5 Folder 5
Miscellany rec'd 1975
Box 5 Folder 6
1932
K. Morris poster
Box 5 Folder 7
Notes
Box 5 Folder 8-9
Transcripts of tapes B,C,D - recordings #2-8, p. 25-53
Box 5 Folder 10
Transcripts of tapes B,C,D - recordings #2-8, p. 1-24
Box 5 Folder 11
Miscellany
Box 5 Folder 12
Photographs of Hubbell as actor
Box 6 Folder 1
1918
Photographs - Cornelia Gray Lunt, Hubbell Houses, and Cornell University
Box 6 Folder 2
Photographs from album (nos. 1-24)
Box 6 Folder 3
Photographs from album (nos. 25-55)
Box 6 Folder 4
1918-1926
Photographs
Box 6 Folder 5
1924-1949
Photographs at Miami
Box 6 Folder 6
1886
Artistic Anatomy of The Human Figure by Henry Warren
Box 6 Folder 7
ca. 1907
Address book
Box 6 Folder 7
Rec'd 3-18-68 (see separate page)
 Box 6 Folder 8
Rec'd 6-21-68 (see separate page)
Box 6 Folder 9
Rec'd 9-23-70 (see separate page)
Box 6 Folder 10
Rec'd 2-71 (see separate page)
Box 6 Folder 11
Photographs and negatives of: sketches of human anatomy at Carnegie Tech; paintings; Hubbell and Hubbell family; Strong family; friends; France and Spain; Chicago; also, scrapbook pages
Box 7
Photographs of portraits and of paintings other than portraits
Box 8
Scrapbooks A and B
Box 9
Printed material including art exhibit catalogs
Box 10
Anatomical sketches
Mapcase
Tape recordings made by Willard Hubbell of descriptive notes, personal comments, and reminiscences relating to the Hubbell papers