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Lillian Thomas Pratt Personal Papers (SC-07) 1.5 Linear Feet 2 boxes (15 folders), 1 oversize item and 1 binder

Pratt, Lillian Thomas, 1876?
The collection documents the formation of the Lillian Thomas Pratt Collection of Fabergé decorative artworks at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Bequeathed to the museum upon her death in 1947, Pratt's Fabergé collection consistently remains one of the highlights of the museum's permanent collection. Pratt purchased most of her Fabergé collection from the Schaffer Collection and Hammer Galleries, both of New York City, in the 1930s and 1940s. Comprised of correspondence, invoices, price tags, and detailed item descriptions, this collection illuminates Pratt's mind as a collector, as well as her relationship with one of her dealers, Alexander Schaffer.
  1. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Louis H. Draper Artist Archives (VA-04) 37.5 Linear Feet 170 boxes; 6,605 items

Draper, Louis H., 1935-2002
The extensive collection documents the life and work of Richmond-born photographer and educator Louis Draper (1935–2002). Manuscript and photographic materials document Draper's experience and work as an African American photographer, including his recognition of his photography as a form of "engaged resistance" that not only bore witness to leaders of the civil rights movement, but also offered a richer and more diverse perspective of African American life than provided by the mainstream media. In 1963, he was a founding member of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of African American photographers, and the collection includes significant materials from the early years of the Kamoinge Workshop and document his perspective on the professional challenges that he and the collective confronted in the process of finding publications that would publish photographs of African Americans made by African Americans. His photographs of significant 20th-century artists, writers, musicians, and performers reflect the wide array of personal connections that Draper made after moving to New York from Richmond, Virginia in 1957. Printed photographs and contact sheets in Draper's archive show a broad view of city life and the everyday interactions between people and also offer a unique vision of African American neighborhoods in the 1960s and 1970s.
  1. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

"Romanoff Gems, Art Shown Here," Aaron Marc Stein, New York Evening Post 1 item Box SC-07 Box 2, Folder 15, Item SC07.04.0.003

Transcription: NEW YORK EVENING POST. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1933 Romanoff Jewels Exhibited Here Art treasures of former rulers of Russias on display today. (Picture on left is by Parade Studios, Inc.) ROMANOFF GEMS, ART SHOWN HERE Collection of Dr. Armand Hammer Includes Ikons of 14th Century Russia By AARON MARC STEIN The largest collection of jewels and other personal possessions of the Romanoffs, formerly rulers of all the Russias, ever to be shown in America, has been placed on exhibition in the Georgian Room at Lord & Taylor's. The collection will have its private showing this afternoon and will be opened to the public tomorrow. Ikons dating back to the fourteenth century, other sacred images in which each nimbus is incrusted with gems, furniture, porcelains, brocades and the fabulous jewels that were one of the oriental or medieval characteristics of the Russian Imperial Court, are included in the collection, formed by a young American doctor who searched village market places for relics of imperial glory. The doctor was Armand Hammer, M.D. It was a very new M.D. conferred on him by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and the young physician set out on an errand of adventure and mercy. He organized a relief expedition which reached Russia in 1921. Civil war had hardly ended, and in the Urals Dr. Hammer found famine sweeping the country. […] Another of these eggs is of lapis lazuli covered with an elaborate gold filligree. Approximately the size of an ostrich egg, it is lavishly jeweled and set with a square flat diamond into which is cut the monogram of the Empress and the date. This egg was the gift of the late Czar to his wife. When opened this egg contains a double eagle set with diamonds and a miniature portrait of the Czarevitch, done in the full round. The bust portrait of the little Prince in his sailor suit is handled in a naturalistically life-like manner. […]

  1. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  2. Lillian Thomas Pratt Personal Papers (SC-07)
  3. Series 4: Clippings
  4. Folder 15

Series 4: Clippings 6 items Box 2 (1 Folder)

This series is comprised of the few clippings that were found in the collection. As none of these particular clippings were mentioned in the correspondence directly, it's possible that they did not originally belong to Pratt. The photographic copies of some of the articles were obviously made much later, but were retained as they may have been copies of articles Pratt once kept.

  1. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  2. Lillian Thomas Pratt Personal Papers (SC-07)

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