CHMSCOLL1
Category:
Archives
Property:
Castle Hill on the Crane Estate
Title:
Guide to Crane Family Collection (1873-2011)
Type:
Collections
Description:
The Castle Hill Collection contains archival material pertaining to the Crane family and the Castle Hill Estate. The archival material is varied and includes: historical documents; deeds; architectural plans; maps; property inventories; surveys; photographs; photo albums; negatives; film and other media; genealogical material; ephemera; books, magazines and other publications. A large portion of the collection consists of Crane family photographs and photographs of Castle Hill, from ca. 1890s to present. Included are photographs of various buildings, outbuildings, grounds, gardens, beaches and marshes including: Italian Villa, the Great House, Brown Cottage and Hog Island. Additionally, the collection contains David Adler’s mounted photographs of the original Great House furnishings, photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt from a 1935 Town & Country magazine article, the Sidney Shurcliff Photograph Collection as well as photographs and color transparencies of Miné Crane's paintings.
Date:
1890-2011
Extent:
60.25 linear feet (53 boxes)
Object ID:
CH.MS.Coll.1
People:
Crane, Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1905-1962; Crane, Florence Higinbotham, 1873-1949; Crane, Miné Sawahara, 1912-1991; Crane, Richard Teller, Jr., 1873-1931; Manship, Paul, 1885-1966; Shurcliff, Sidney Nichols, 1906-1981
Subjects:
Dwellings; Gardens
Rights:
CC BY-NC-ND. The Crane Family Collection is the physical property of The Trustees of Reservations. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns.
