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Highlights from the Archives
Henry Clay Frick: The New York Residence (photographs)
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Click on the image above to see images from the 1927 photograph album of the New York residence |
At the time of Frick’s death in 1919, he willed to the public his New York residence and all of its contents, including art, furniture, and decorative objects, as a museum. This album of photographs, all taken in 1927 by Frick Art Reference Library photographer Ira W. Martin, represent the earliest known photographic documentation of the interior of the house at 1 East 70th Street. Four years later after these photographs were taken on the death of Frick’s wife, Adelaide, the trustees of The Frick Collection began the transformation of the house into a museum. The Frick Collection opened to the public in 1935.
Education: History of The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection’s Education department, using images from the Archives, has created three slide shows illustrating the life of Henry Clay Frick and the history of The Frick Collection. The slide shows are entitled: Henry Clay Frick: The Early Years, Building the House, and Acquiring the Collection. A selection of original documents from the Archives illustrating daily life at 1 East 70th Street is also featured.
For more information, see: Education: About the Frick.
Historic Frick Family Motion Pictures
In 1916 and 1918 Norman McClintock made films of the Frick family at their country estate, Eagle Rock, in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts. Depicting the Fricks and their friends in activities such as card playing, golfing, and having tea, these films represent the only known moving images of Henry Clay Frick, and the earliest moving images of his wife, daughter, and grandchildren. In 2001 a project to reformat and digitize these films was completed by the Frick Art Reference Library's Conservation department.
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