Summary Information

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