Carmel Arts and Crafts Club Collection, 1912-1926

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Title:: Carmel Arts and Crafts Club Collection
Dates:: 1912-1926
Creators:: Arts and Crafts Club of Carmel
Abstract:
Extent:: 1 scrapbook and 2 folders.
Language:
Preferred citation:: Carmel Arts and Crafts Club Collection. Harrison Memorial Library

Scope and content:: 1 scrapbook containing pamphlets, photographs, articles and letters documenting the Club's summer school, annual art shows, theater productions and other activities. 2 envelopes of loose materials.
Biographical / historical:: This scrapbook chronicles the activities of Carmel's Arts and Crafts Club from 1912 to 1926. The Arts and Crafts club was started by Elsie Allen, a former instructor for Wellesley College, in 1905 for the purpose of attracting artists to Carmel. In 1910, the Club established an Arts and Crafts summer school to teach drama, painting, pottery, metalwork and a variety of other crafts. The school 's instructors included Mary De Neale Morgan, William M. Chase, Josephine Culbertson, Ida Johnson and many others. In 1924, the Club opened the Arts and Crafts Theater, where the Club put on their own theatrical productions. The scrapbook contains pamphlets, photographs, articles and letters documenting the Club's summer school, annual art shows, theater productions and other activities.
Acquisition information:: Donated by Dana Morgan, Sr. Accession 1987-003.

Subjects:: Art students
Handicraft
Painting--California
Theater--California
Scrapbooks
Names:: Allen, Elsie
Bremner, Ludovic
Cator, Thomas Vincent, 1886-1931
Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916
Culbertson, Josephine
Johnson, Ida
Search, Frederick Preston, 1889-1959
Hand, Joseph
Places:: Carmel (Calif.)

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid created by Harrison Memorial Library staff.
Date Prepared:: 1912-1926
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on April 17, 2025, 11:28 a.m.

Restrictions:: Materials are open for research.
Terms of access:: The Henry Meade Local History Room, Harrison Memorial Library does not hold copyright to these items. Permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder by the user.

Preferred citation:: Carmel Arts and Crafts Club Collection. Harrison Memorial Library

Location of this collection:: Harrison Memorial Library

P.O. Box 800

Mission St & 6th Ave

Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA 93921, US