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Douglas Frost Office Materials

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: mi-2011-0002-a

Provenance

Transferred from the office of Douglas Frost, a leader of MICA's Advancement department from mid-1960s to early 2000s.

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Inventory

* * * BOX 1: -- Publications: Baltimore Merchants' and Manufacturers' Directory by Z.F. Williams (Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwld, 1887). 1 item; -- The Great Baltimore Fire by Peter B. Petersen (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2004). 1 item; -- The Artdaze, 1926 [yearbook] (Baltimore: Maryland Institute School of Fine Arts and Design, The Read-Taylor Press, 1926). 1 item; -- Catalogs, Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, 1908/09-1951/52. 7 items; -- Vistas and Perspectives (newsletter, Maryland Institute), March 1930. 1 item; -- MEDIA: Helen Smith Interview on VHS cassette (J. Osmann, Frederick Community College). 1 item; -- Washington Monument images on 35mm slides. 4 items; -- Barry Nemett image on 4 x 5 in. transparency. 1 item; -- "Fells Point 1971-72" by Robert Harding on VHS cassette c. 1997. RT: 12:30. 1 item. -- EPHEMERA: 15.0 Linear feet Container Summary: 11 boxes of assorted materials (including publications, media, photographs, ephemera) and 68 rolled or framed items: Inventory: -- Lincoln's Baltimore Address 130th Anniversary, 1994, printed envelopes, 2 designs. 38 items. * * * BOX 2: -- Photographs: Buildings and people. 22 items; -- Construction of Leake Studio, by Joan Netherwood. 8 items; -- Reuben Kramer. 6 items (3 contact sheets, 3 full-page prints, including 1 with Tylden Streett) from Jim Holechek; -- Station Building, 2 1/4 in. negatives and contact prints. 78 items from Don Sherman?; -- Leland Bell, 2 1/4 in. negatives. 4 items. from Don Sherman?; -- Student Exhibit, June 1967, 35mm negatives. 47 items. from Don Sherman?; -- Industrial Design Awards, 09/27/1967, 35mm negatives. 2 items. from Don Sherman?; -- Fudo slides with note from Kerrie Bellisario, empty case!; -- Hans Schuler, "family photos, some taken in Europe", 14 prints and 21 negatives. 35 items. plus 17 printed items.; -- Slides in tray/box: Bd. members and Fred, Decker, S...?, Riggs, Worthington, MB, Leake Studio. 52 items; -- Slides in tray/box: GLB, Al Decker, Welder, Fudo, Crit w/ wall and ..., FL on stairs, Study Abroad, Front Steps w/ tree in bloom. 43 items; -- MICA buildings: Gateway, Brown Cntr. and Station Bldg., color photographs 4 items. From Jacqueline Watts?; -- Publications: Matchett's Baltimore Directory, 1842 return to David Beaudouin?; -- MICA Alumni Directory 2000. 1 item; -- The Stories & Fables of Ambrose Bierce with illustrations by Ferebe Streett (Owings Mills, MD: Stemmer House Publishers, 1977). 1 item; -- EPHEMERA: Clippings and small publications. approx. 70 items; -- Hall of the Maryland Institute, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, engraving, 1851. 1 item; -- Symposium Debate, Jon Schueler and Salvatore Scarpitta with George Boas, 01/8/1964, poster. 1 item; -- Special Occasion: Tribute to Jesse SlingluffScrapbook/album pages; -- MICA history, binder with various materials, clippings, photocopies. Partly compiled by Ted Klitzke. Came from Cedric in Communications in 2010. * * * BOX 3: -- Accreditation reports and supplements, 1966, 1977/78, 1997/98. 5 items. * * * BOX 4: -- Parris Glendenning and group incl. F. Lazarus and D. Frost, "HB 837, 05/11/2000", color photograph and card. 1 item; -- MICA, ca. 1970s, photoprints and negatives by Joan Netherwood in 2 boxes: staff, administrators, faculty, students, buildings. Hundreds of items. * * * BOX 5: MICA History book research, subject files. Approx. 34 folders. * * * BOX 6: -- Ephemera: printed items, and certificate. 3 items. -- Publications: The Smithsonian Institution: Highlights and History (Washington DC: SI Press, 1991); -- Maryland Landscapes of Eugene Leake by Craig Hankin, 1986. 2 items Baltimore: Charm City by Dan Rodricks and Roger Miller; -- The Chesapeake Bay Country by Swepson Earle. keep regional history. belonged to Al Decker Charles Garland by Margaret Worrall, 2006. discard?; -- We Have Kept the Faith: The First 150 Years of the Boys' School of St. Paul's Parish by Angelo Otterbein, 1999. discard?; -- Chul-Hyun Ahn ("Charlie"): Visual Echoes, exhibit catalog, Grimaldis Gallery, 2008. vertical file; -- A Vision and a Promise: Villa Julie College 1947-2007 by Adrian Kinnane with Stephen Swisdak, 2007, discard?; -- Heritage and Promise: Denison 1831-1981 by G. Wallace Chessman and Wyndham M. Southgate (Denison University, 1981) discard; -- Railroad Signatures across the Pacific Northwest by Carlos A . Schwantes (Seattle and London: U. of Washington Press, 1993). excellent images; -- The Hulton Getty Picture Collection: 1920s (Koln: Konemann, 1998). excellent images; -- The Hulton Getty Picture Collection: 1930s (Koln: Konemann, 1998). excellent images. * * * BOX 7: -- Publications: Joyce J. Scott Kickin' It with the Old Masters; -- Nancy Rubins; -- Baltimore's Public Art 1960-1980; -- Public Monuments & Sculpture of Baltimore; -- Duchamp: Domestic Patterns, Covers, and Threads by W. Bowdoin Davis, Jr. 3 copies; -- Max Ernst's Lines from a Marriage: Female Suckers, Tears, Love to Measure , and The Iron Maiden by Bowdoin Davis, Jr. 2 items; -- Joseph Sheppard: 50 Years of Art / 50 Anni d'Arte; -- Joseph Sheppard: The Early Years, Exhibit at Evergreen House, 2002-2003; -- Baltimore Harbor: A Picture History by Robert C. Keith; -- Mapping Maryland: The Willard Hackerman Collection (MDHS); -- America's Railroad Stations by Brian Solomon; -- History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by John F. Stover; -- Impossible Challenge: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Maryland by Herbert H. Harwood, Jr.; -- Maryland: A Portrait, Photography by Roger Miller; -- A Neighborhood State of Mind by Linda G. Rich, Joan Clark Netherwood and Elinor B. Cahn, 1981. 2 items; -- The Art of Reuben Kramer by Theodore L. Low. * * * BOX 8: Publications: -- Interview Art & Skill by Marcella B. Brenner and E. James Lieberman, 1980 Livs Vaerker: Studier i Kansk Litteraer Biografi by Johnny Kondrup (Morris Louis image on cover). Articles and booklets, 14 items: -- D.I.Y. Design It Yourself Deck, ed. Alissa Faden and Ellen Lupton, 2007. Videos on VHS: -- Amalie Rothschild Power of Mind and Eye, 2000; -- Morris Louis: The Life and Art... by Robert Pierce (4 copies); -- Morris Louis: Radiant Zones, Robert Pierce Productions, 1990 (2 copies, 1 is revised version); -- Pictures to an Exhibition: Morris Louis Goes to Milan, Christopher Buchanan and Robert Pierce, 1991 (3 copies); -- Black Mountain Revisited, 1990; -- Alonzo G. Decker, Jr. "Building on a Dream", 1993; -- Maryland Institute College of Art, Joe Rubino Photography Plaster Casting, Maryland Institute College of Art Mobile Safety Center, Bloomberg School of Public Health Hopkins Bus Final Tylden Streett Sculpture; -- Video Richard Grasby - creating letter style for Institute; -- Videos on DVD: -- Euphoria: A Science-Based-Self-Help-Art-Film by Lee Boot, 2008; -- Grace Hartigan: Shattering boundaries by Alice Shure and Janice Stanton, 2008; -- The Instrument by Adam Nemett, 2005; -- MICA Scholarship Video, 2009; -- Photographs Bow Tie Ball, color 35mm slides, 14 items. -- MICA Commencement 2005, 1 album with 12 color photographs. * * * BOX 9: - Publications: -- Amalie Rothschild Drawings, introduction by Lincoln F. Johnson, Jr., 1968. 2 items; -- Barry Holniker Photographs, 1992; -- Skin: Surface Substance + Design by Ellen Lupton, 2002; -- Comfort Zone, exhibit catalog, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2002; -- D.I.Y. Design It Yourself, ed. Ellen Lupton, 2006. 2 copies; -- Swarm by Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2005; -- The Bathroom the Kitchen and the Aesthetics of Waste by Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott MIller, 1992; -- The ABC's of ... : The Bauhaus and Design Theory, eds. Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller, 1993; -- D.I.Y. Kids by Ellen and Julia Lupton, 2007. 2 copies. * * * BOX 10: Publications: -- To New Orleans with Love: The Katrina Project, illustrations by MICA students and faculty, 2006. 4 items; -- Raoul Middleman, Ice Collection, 1996; -- Baltimore Deco by Sheryl Cucchiella, 1984. 2 copies; -- Garden Notes of an Artist: The Garden Journal of Helen L. Smith, 2005; -- Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton, 2004; -- Building Community: The Arts & Baltimore Together, A report to the Baltimore Community Foundation by Ernest L. Boyer, 1992; -- The Dragger by William Finn, 1970; -- Earthworks and Beyond by John Beardsley, 3rd ed., 1998. Shows artwork by Mary Miss, and Scott Burton sculpture in Pearlstone Park; -- Place Makers: Creating Public Art That Tells You Where You Art, by Ronald Lee Fleming and Renata von Tscharner, 1987; -- Classical Maryland 1815-1845: Fine and Decorative Arts from the Golden Age (Maryland Historical Society, 1993); -- Baltimore Magazine, cover feature: The Art of Baltimore, Sept. 2005. MICA publications. 7 items. Ephemera: postcards and small publications. 8 items. Pratt Folio, Fall 2007. Article on figure drawing. * * * BOX 11: Contact (MICA newsletters) * * * BOX 12: MICA-related books. -- Buildings Reborn: New Uses, Old Places by Barbaralee Diamonstein; -- Secret Knowledge by David Hockney; -- Grace Hartigan: A Painter's world by Mattison; -- Frontier New York: Photographs by Jan Staller; -- Dorothy Gillespie, 1998; -- Crooked Tracks by Barry Nemett; -- The Secret Formulas and Techniques of the Masters by Jacques Maroger; -- O'Keeffe, Stieglitz and the Critics, 1916-1929 by Barbara Buhler Lyens; -- Journal of an Itinerant Artist by Drew Bacigalupa; -- In Service: A Documentary of the Baltimore City Fire Department by Jim Burger and Frank Rehak. * * * Rolled or framed items: -- Frost Plaza, drawing by Higgins-Lazarus Landscape Architects, n.d. 1 item given to DF by Fred Lazarus; -- A Midsummer Night's Dream, poster for MICA performance, 03/24/????. 1 item; -- Hair, poster for MICA performance, 04/14/????-04/19/????. 1 item; -- Exhibition, Rinehart School of Sculpture, 1969, poster (2 copies) and memo from Eugene W. Leake. 3 items; -- Exhibition, Rinehart School of Sculpture 75th Anniversary, 1971, poster designed by Robert Gotsch. 4 items; -- Exhibition, Sculpture 1980, poster with artwork by Norman Carlberg. 2 items; -- Faculty Art Exhibition, 1978, poster. 2 items; -- The Schuler School Celebrates a Century of Fine Art, 2006, poster showing Hans Schuler in studio with text and images on verso, 2 copies. 2 items; -- E. Sachse & Co.'s Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore, 1869. Map, reprint from Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress. 1 item.; -- MICA's Career Development Center, ca. 2007-2009, posters and flyers. 8 items.; -- Mt. Royal Station Rededication, 2007, poster. 6 items; -- Mt. Royal Station History Timeline, 2007, poster/display in 3 sections (6 copies each). 18 items; -- The Fine Art of Maintenance, Exhibition, 1985. 1 item; -- Attack at Dusk by George Strakes, 1994, color reproduction of painting. 1 item Sent to Joan Schwartz by George Strakes '41, Advertising Design, PS 00114575; -- MICA 150th Anniversary, 1975, poster designed by Jerry Litofsky. 5 items; -- MICA Admissions Department, including Portfolio Day, ca. 1970s-1980s, posters, 5 designs. 11 items; -- Maryland Institute class portrait, 1919, wide-format photograph by Victor Kahill, in frame with glass. 1 item Helen Merrifield, 3rd from left 53 women, 10 men Kahill, Victor, 1895-1965, sculptor (Art & Artist file at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library)