Harriet Meserole papers

Collection

Identifier: SC.52

Scope and Contents

The Harriet Meserole papers primarily hold a portfolio of artworks, illustrations, and designs created by artist Harriet Meserole throughout her career. The collection holds original artworks, studies, and sketches, but mostly magazine tear sheets, magazine issues, cards, and other products wherein Meserole's work was published. The collection also holds correspondence from proffessional associations, much of it interpersonal, as well as photographs of her extended family and friends. Photographs of Harriet's ancestors include members of the prominent Brooklyn Meserole family.

Dates

Creation: circa 1850-1989

Creator

Meserole, Harriet (1893-1989) (Creator, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Access is open to researchers by appointment at the Fashion Institute of Technology Library, Department of Special Collections and FIT Archive. If you have any questions, or wish to schedule an appointment contact us at [email protected] or call (212) 217-4385.

Full Extent

approximately 6 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Existence and Location of Originals

The Library of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Department of Special Collections and FIT Archive, 27th St. at 7th Ave., NY, NY , USA, 10006

Processing Information

This collection was donated to the FIT Library in 1989, however Harriet Meserole was in contact with the library's director, John Touhey, for a number of years prior. When the collection was processed beginning in 2025, no documentation was found regarding collection arrangement. Notes and annotated envelopes describing contents of the collection, some addressed to John Touhey, were found throughout the collection, often dissociated from the items they referred to. These orphaned documents have been kept as part of the Harriet Meserole papers collection, and placed together in Series 2: "Documents, notes, and correspondence."