Collection inventory

Overview of the Collection
Creator:	Mayor, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1901-1980.
Title:	A. Hyatt Mayor Papers
Inclusive Dates:	1904-1946
Quantity:	1.5 linear ft.
Abstract:	Correspondence, 1904-1946; photographs, juvenilia, and printed material. Correspondence includes that of Anna Hyatt Huntington, Audella Hyatt, Leon Kroll, Alfred G. Mayor, and Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor.
Language:	English
Repository:	Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

Biographical History

A. Hyatt Mayor was born in Gloucester, Mass. on June 28, 1901. In his early years he traveled to Europe with his mother, Harriet Hyatt Mayor and spent some time at his father's experimental marine biology station at Dry Tortuga, Florida. He graduated from Princeton University in 1922 and after teaching art history for a year at Vassar, he went on to do graduate work at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, after traveling extensively in Europe during the rest of the 1920s.

After working on several New York magazines, Hyatt Mayor joined the staff of Metropolitan Museum in the department of prints in 1932. The same year he married the former Virginia Sluder of St. Louis. In 1946 he was made curator of prints at the Metropolitan and held that position until his retirement. He had two children Alfred and Martha.

Mr. Mayor also served as a trustee of the American Federation of Arts and of Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. He was president of the Hispanic Society of America from 1955 until his death in 1980. He wrote several books and articles.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The A. Hyatt Mayor Papers covers more than forty years and comprises five series. They include correspondence, photos, childhood manuscripts, as well as journals of travels in Italy, Greece, and Egypt in the 1920's, and published materials including articles and newspaper clippings by and about Mr. Mayor and others.

Correspondence, includes incoming, outgoing, and correspondence to and from others. Subject File, contains book labels, a passport, photos, a program, and a book of photographs titled "Athens, 1927-1928". Manuscripts, consists of childhood school papers and sketches, journals, and copies of journal-letters from A. Hyatt Mayor's travels abroad, 1925-1927, a translation and other related items. Published Material, includes articles about others, and newspaper clippings about A. Hyatt Mayor and others. Oversize, consists of two photographs of Mr. Mayor which are located at the end of the collection.

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Arrangement of the Collection

Correspondence are arranged alphabetically by author and Subject Files, Manuscripts, and Published Materials are arranged alphabetically by type. Oversize items are located at the end of the collection.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.

Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

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Related Material

The Special Collections Research Center has numerous collections for the Hyatt-Mayor families. For information on members of the Hyatt, Mayor, Beebe, and Huntington families see the SCRC Subject Index for the finding aids of individual family members.

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Subject Headings

Persons

Subjects

Genres and Forms

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

A. Hyatt Mayor Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries

Finding Aid Information

Created by: --
Date: 1966?
Revision history: 20 Mar 2008 - converted to EAD (LDC)

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Inventory

	Correspondence
		Incoming Correspondence
Box 1			B - D
Box 1			I, J - K
Box 1			Huntington, Anna Hyatt
			Hyatt, Audella
Box 1				1906-1907, 1909
Box 1				1912-1913
Box 1				1914-1916
Box 1				1917-1918
Box 1				1919-1920
Box 1				1921-1923
Box 2				1927-1928
Box 2				1930-1932
Box 2				Undated
Box 2			Kroll, Leon
Box 2			L - M
			Mayor, Alfred G.
Box 2				1904-1907
Box 2				1909-1911, 1913-1914, 1917, 1922
Box 2				Undated
Box 2			Mayor, Barbara, (later B. M. Money)
Box 2			Mayor, Harriet Hyatt
Box 2			Mayor, Virginia Sluder
Box 2			O - S
Box 2			V - W
Box 2			Unidentified
		Outgoing Correspondence
Box 2			1912
Box 2			Undated
Box 2		Correspondence to and from others

	Subject File
Box 3		Book Labels
Box 3		Greek Passport 1927
Box 3		Photographs
		Photograph Book
Box 3			"Athens, 1927-1928"
Box 3		Program Undated

	Manuscripts
Box 3		Childhood School Papers
Box 3		Childhood Sketches
Box 3		Composition and Poetry Book, holograph
		Journal
Box 3			"I Tatti Provence Burgundy" ca. 1925
Box 3			Egypt and Greece 1927
Box 3			Letters 1926-1927 - Copies of various pages (no original); copied by Audella Hyatt
Box 3		Translation of "Politics" by Jacinto Benavente
Box 3		Sketch by "Virginia
Box 3		Unidentified

	Published Materials
Box 3		Article by
Box 3		Article about 8 May 1939
		Newspaper Clippings
Box 3			About A. Hyatt Mayor
Box 3			About Others

	Oversize
Box 3		Two photographs

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