Codman family manuscripts collection, 1715-1968
| Collection Name: | Codman family manuscripts collection, 1715-1968 |
| Collection Code: | MS001 |
| Dates: | 1715-1968 |
| Acquisition Type: | Gift |
| Date of Acquisition: | 1969 |
| Physical Description: |
ca. 10,000 photographs ca. 100 linear feet (ca. 100,000 items) ca. 2,000 architectural drawings |
| Finding Aid Info: |
Paper finding aid available in Library and Archives. |
| Collection Type: | Manuscripts |
| Description Level: | Collection |
| GUSN: | 166724 |
| Reference Code: | MS001 |
Description
The Codman Family Manuscripts Collection is a major resource for the study of New England family history, domestic relationships, changing patterns of taste and consumption, mercantile and shipping activities, and the evolution of the Codman country estate, named The Grange, from the late-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Members of the Codman family conscientiously retained and painstakingly preserved documents and artifacts of their own and previous generations to create this vast assemblage. The papers of twenty-six individuals make up the collection. The archive includes correspondence, financial and legal records, diaries, literary documents, maps, drawings, and scrapbooks.The collection includes approximately 2,000 architectural drawings created by Ogden Codman, Jr., for clients in New York, Newport, Boston, and elsewhere in the 1890s and early 1900s. One of the many highlights of the Codman family papers is the correspondence between author Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr. Wharton and Codman shared a close friendship and co-authored the influential work, "The Decoration of Houses".
Arrangement
The Codman Family Manuscripts Collection is an aggregation of collections. The papers of each individual member are organized into its own sub-group. In turn, each subgroup is arranged in a set standard series: correspondence, diaries, financial records, legal records, literary papers, maps and drawings, printed matter, and scrapbooks. As needed, series are further subdivided into subseries, based on the volume and contents of the materials, which are ordered by time period or topical area.
Record details
| Originator: |
Codman family Codman, Dorothy S. F. M., 1883-1968 Codman, Ogden, Jr., 1863-1951 |
| Other People: |
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 |
| Descriptive Terms: |
agriculture architects architecture authors country houses families gardens home medicine merchants shipping taste trade |
| Material Type: |
account books architectural drawings commercial correspondence diaries family papers financial records inventories invoices legal correspondence legal documents letters manuscripts maps photographs scrapbooks writings |
| Subjects: |
Historic New England properties |
| Places: |
Lincoln Boston Dinard-Saint-Enogat |
| Places (Buildings): |
Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.) |
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