MS 0721.1
Correspondence , 1937-1961
2 folders
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0721, The Marion Elizabeth Blake Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/08/13
Description:
This series consists of typed and edited letters
that Blake wrote to her friend, Cora L. Eastman,
between 1937-1961. The letters date from August
1, 1937 to April 14, 1940, when Blake was a
researcher at the American Academy in Rome, then
from 1948-1961, when she returned to the Academy
after spending the World War II years in the
United States. Blake's letters discuss visitors
to the Academy, the many different nationalities
represented at the Academy, and the lectures
given there. The letters also discuss
excavations, the opera, and trips taken to
Cortona and Cassino. In addition, the letters
mention the deDaehn family with whom Blake
boarded while in Italy. Blake's letters then go
on to report on problems with maids and wartime
and postwar shortages of food, coal, cooking gas,
water, and electricity. The letters also discuss
Mussolini, wartime rationing, and the impact of
the Marshall Plan on Italy after 1948. The
correspondence also includes a short letter from
Blake written to Mary Woolley, President of Mount
Holyoke College, in 1937, inquiring if a teaching
position may be open for her and Woolley's reply.
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MS 0721.2
Diary , 1930
1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0721, The Marion Elizabeth Blake Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/08/13
Description:
The diary is a personal account of a trip Blake
took to the North Cape in Scandinavia in 1930.
The diary documents Blake's trip to Norway,
Sweden, and Northern Poland. The diary is eleven
pages long and includes her thoughts of people
and places she saw along her trip. It documents
her stops in Visby, Gotland, Sweden; Stockholm,
Sweden; Danzig, Poland; and Oslo, Norway.
Included in the diary are pictures of sites.
Included is a brochure describing the itinerary
of this trip.
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MS 0721.3
Writings , 1918-1948
5 folders
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0721, The Marion Elizabeth Blake Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/08/13
Description:
The writings include a thesis Marion Blake
submitted to Cornell University in 1918, for
fulfillment of her Master of Arts degree, with a
concentration on Latin and archaeology. Her
bound thesis is entitled "The Reliefs of the Arch
of Constantine." The series also includes the
dissertation she submitted to Cornell University
in 1921, as a partial fulfillment of the
requirement for her Ph.D. Her dissertation is
entitled, "A Laboratory Manual for the Study of
Pre-Euclidean Attic Inscriptions. Part I.
Inscriptions Prior to 480." Also included is a
manuscript paper entitled "The Pavement of Rome
and its Vicinity of the Republican and Augustan
Epochs" by Marion Blake,(1925) which includes
archaeological photographs. The paper is
accompanied by a letter to Blake from William
Buren, written in 1926, at the American Academy
in Rome Library regarding her research in Rome
and her application for a Guggenheim Fellowship
The letter also includes corrections and changes
to the paper. At the back of the paper is
another letter to Blake from the Archaeological
Institute of America acknowledging that the paper
will be read at their next meeting. Also
included is a handwritten "Chronological Study of
the Cement Pavements of Pompeii," (ca. 1929)
which was to be published in the memoirs of the
American Academy in Rome. Also included in the
series are published works by Blake including
"The Pavements of the Roman Buildings of the
Republic and Early Empire," 1930, "Roman Mosaics
of the Second Century in Italy," 1936, and "Roman
Mosaics of the Third Century After Christ," 1940.
The series also includes a published paper by
Blake entitled "Ancient Roman Construction in
Italy from the Prehistoric Period to Augustus
(1948).
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MS 0721.4
Biographical Information , 1918-1961, 1963, 1964
2 folders
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0721, The Marion Elizabeth Blake Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/08/13
Description:
The biographical information included Blake's
resume, newspaper clippings, an announcement of
Blake's renewed Guggenheim fellowship, a report
composed through the Carnegie Institute of
Washington about Blake and her research, two
telegrams to Cora Eastman from her brother, Azel
Blake, regarding Marion Blake's death and funeral
arrangements, an obituary note, a letter from the
American Academy in Rome sent to Cora Eastman
concerning Blake's death, a copy of the Classical
Society of the American Academy in Rome's Fall
Newsletter announcing Blake's death, and a
collection of four letters from Doris Bishop of
the American Academy in Rome to Cora Eastman,
written between October 1963-January 1964, which
discusses the details of Blake's work and the
people who Blake may have worked with in Rome.
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MS 0721.5
Archaeological Material , 1920
1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0721, The Marion Elizabeth Blake Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/08/13
Description:
The archaeological material includes a sketch
plan of Mausoleum and Nereid Mon, sketches of
building structures, several sketches of the Todi
Mosaic, a sheet of sketch of the different shapes
of vases, archaeological photographs, and
pictures of Roman mosaics. According to a note
found with this material, these sketches and
photographs date from 1920.
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MS 0721.6
Photographs , ca 1913-ca 1962
2 folders
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0721, The Marion Elizabeth Blake Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/08/13
Description:
This series includes a photograph of Blake
probably taken when she graduated from Mount
Holyoke College in ca. 1913, a snapshot of her
from the 1920's or 1930's, and two snapshots of
Blake taken late in life and printed in April
1962. There is also a collection of mostly
unlabeled photographs collected by Cora Eastman
which were apparently taken in Italy and include
snapshot of buildings, people, and scenes. Blake
may be in some of the photographs. Included in
the series are five photographs of Scandinavian
people from Blake's trip to Scandinavia in 1930.
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