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Collection: William R. Leigh Manuscript Collection

Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
Letter to "Friend Engles" from Pawnee Bill American 3827.8432
Letter and envelope from Leigh to his mother describing good progress in painting class and attending a concert by Sarasate William Robinson Leigh American 3876.2319 ink on paper
"Did you ever see a raccoon dance?" William Robinson Leigh American 4017.2496 pencil on paper
Newspaper photos of William R. Leigh's paintings "Patient", "Struggle for Existence" and a Navaho girl American 4127.760.50
Announcement in German honoring William R. Leigh's painting of figures in the world-famous Panorama of the Crucifixion of Christ at Jerusalem American 4027.8520.24
Envelope from William Leigh in Munich, Germany addressed to his mother in California William Robinson Leigh American 3876.8515
Letter with envelope from Leigh to Mother describing sketching in Rothenburg and farmers with their pigs at market William Robinson Leigh American 3876.2120 ink on paper
"The Painted Desert" with note 'The only version which is correct' William Robinson Leigh American 4017.400-.2 ink on paper
"Two Acorns" William Robinson Leigh American 4017.387 ink on paper
Newspaper clipping from Rolling Fork, Miss. Pilot with photo of Leigh's "The Master Hand" American 4117.763.3
Newspaper clipping "Borah Scorches Heflin's Bigotry" American 4127.734
Letter from William Seward, Huntington Press, to Mrs. Leigh regarding proposed portfolio on African Hall field studies and window displays for "The Western Pony" American 3827.2739
Brief prose on "The Survival of the Fittest" William Robinson Leigh American 4017.8437.17 pencil on paper
Catalogue for the American Watercolor Society's 95th Annual Exhibition American 5127.1035
Page from "Long Island Forum" with article on Leigh's work "Americana, History and Horseflesh…New York Show of W.R. Leigh's Paintings" American 5027.4387
"As I go walking down the street" William Robinson Leigh American 4027.3521.1-.5
"Blue Pants" William Robinson Leigh American 4017.2474-.1 ink on paper
Letter from A.N. Blazer to G.F. Valtee regarding internal combustion engine American 3837.8336 ink on paper
Lower part of article from "The New York Times Book Review", "An Artist's Memories of Africa" with drawing of William R. Leigh's Lion Guarding Kill" from his book American 4127.760.17-.18
Handwritten diary of Leigh's trip to Wyoming written inside a McCutchon Drawing Tablet American 4027.8530a