Title: Frederick Layton Family Papers and Photographs
Inclusive Dates: 1851, 1888-1911

Creator:

• Layton, Frederick

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 230; PH Milwaukee Mss 230

Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) and 0.8 cubic feet of photographs (1 archives box, 1 negative box, and 1 flat box)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers and photographs from the Estate of Grace Hayman Fowle, the niece of Frederick Layton, founder of the Layton Art Gallery. The papers consist of the travel diaries of Grace Hayman Fowle while traveling abroad with her uncle as well as her correspondence while abroad to her future husband, Dr. Frederick Fowle. Additional papers include Frederick and Elizabeth Layton's marriage certificate and an invitation to the wedding of Grace Hayman and Dr. Frederick Fowle. The photographs consist of many images of Frederick Layton as a young man to his later years. Also included are images of his wife, Elizabeth, his niece Grace, and other extended family members as well as a few friends and associates such as Charles Ilsley and Edwin Eldridge, first curator of the Layton Art Gallery.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00230

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Acquisition Information

Presented by the Bemm Family, grandchildren of Grace Hayman Fowle, to the Layton Art Collection Inc. who in turn donated the collection to the Wisconsin Historical Society, 2014. Accession Number: M2015-052

Milwaukee Mss 230	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1-7	Grace Hayman Fowle, 1897-1900
Box   1 Folder   8	Others, 1904, undated
Box   1 Folder   9	Personal ephemera
Box   1 Folder   10	“Sonnets of Empire” / by Laura Ackroyd
	Diaries
Box   2 Volume   1	1888
Box   2 Volume   2	1890
Box   2 Volume   3-4	1891
Box   2 Volume   5-6	1892
Box   2 Volume   7	1894
Box   2 Volume   8	1897
Box   2 Volume   9	1899
Box   2 Volume   10	Catalogue of the Layton Art Gallery, 1911
PH Milwaukee Mss 230	Photographs
Box   1 Folder   1	Dawson/Hayman
Box   1 Folder   2	Fowle, Grace Hayman
Box   1 Folder   3	Layton, Elizabeth
Box   2 Folder   1	Layton, Elizabeth
Box   1 Folder   4	Layton, Frederick
Box   2 Folder   2	Layton, Frederick
Box   3 Folder   1-3	Layton, Frederick
Box   3 Folder   4	Layton, James
Box   1 Folder   5	Family
Box   1 Folder   6	Friends and associates
Box   2 Folder   3	Group photographs
Box   2 Folder   4	Buildings
Box   2 Folder   5-6	Layton Gallery opening day catalogues, parts I-IV, 1888
	Objects
Box   3 Folder   5	Bronze medallion
Box   3 Folder   6	Layton seal