Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bolton

ID: SIA2011-0279 and 32520-4

Creator: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: June 1936SIA2011-0277

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7433 Ruel P. Tolman Collection, Box 3, Folder 1 Scrapbook II, 1934-1942, "A-N"

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Summary

  • Looking up at the camera, Mr. Theodore Bolton (left) and his wife Mrs. Helen Bolton (right) are seated on a porch. Between them is a window that looks into a house.
  • Theodore Bolton (1889-1973) was a librarian, book artist specializing in book illustrations and portrait miniatures, art historian, scholar and artist who studied at Pratt, New York University and Harvard. Bolton served various posts in the Washington, D.C. Public Library from 1911 to 1913, the Library of Congress from 1918 to 1921, and the Brooklyn Public Library from 1924 to 1926. From 1926 until his retirement in 1958, Bolton was librarian of the Century Association in New York City. Upon retirement he and his wife moved to Coconut Grove, Florida.

Subject

  • Bolton, Theodore
  • Bolton, Helen

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

  • The image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, and is included in a scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C. scenes (Section B). For more information check out Theodore Bolton's papers at the University of Miami's Libraries.
  • For images of Mrs. Theodore Bolton, see Neg. SIA2011-0272 and SIA2011-0273; Mr. Theodore Bolton SIA2011-0274 and SIA2011-0275; Mr. and Mrs. Bolton, SIA2011-0278, SIA2011-0280 and SIA2011-0281

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7433 Ruel P. Tolman Collection, Box 3, Folder 1 Scrapbook II, 1934-1942, "A-N"

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

June 1936SIA2011-0277

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Women
  • Art
  • Art, American
  • Historians
  • Men
  • Windows
  • Artists
  • Librarians
  • Art historians

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid

ID Number

SIA2011-0279 and 32520-4

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 2.25w x 2.25h ; Type of Image: Group, Candid ; Medium: Photographic print

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