Guide to the Lorea Standish Adams papers, 1900-1920, 1998


Rhode Island School of Design Archives
Rhode Island School of Design Archives
Fleet Library at RISD
2 College Street
Providence, RI 02903
Tel: 401-709-5922
Fax: 401-709-5932
email: risdarchives@risd.edu

Published in 2013

Collection Overview

Title: Lorea Standish Adams papers
Date range: 1900-1920, 1998
Creator: Adams, Lorea Standish, 1882-1963
Extent: 1 linear ft.
Abstract: The Lorea Standish Adams papers contain art education materials made, drawn, or collected by the Rhode Island School of Design graduate (class of 1911), 1900-1920.
Language of materials: English
Repository: Rhode Island School of Design Archives
Collection number: 16.2.15

Scope & content

The Lorea Standish Adams papers contain art education materials made, drawn, or collected by Adams, 1900-1920. There are pamphlets and clippings used in classes that showcase different drawing and illustration examples for children and teenagers. The series also includes notes on teaching, classroom protocol, and classroom syllabuses created by Adams and syllabuses published for Rhode Island and Massachusetts schools.

The collection holds Adams' school records and grades from RISD classes. Included are Adams' notebooks from primary school and RISD. One notebook contains her complete notes for a Saturday public school teachers drawing class taught by Helen E. Cleaves, 1910-1911, with lectures highlighting Denman Ross's Color Theory. The collection holds correspondence with and publications by educational instruction companies and others including the Prang Educational School and the National Association of Audubon Societies.

The collection includes a list of her books donated to the Fleet Library at RISD in 1998.

Publications included in the series are:
  • Harlow, Louis K. Green Pastures and Still Waters. Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1887. [folder 1/4]
  • Seegmiller, Wilhelmina, ed. Applied Arts Drawing Books. New York: Atkinson, Mentzer, and Grover, 1911. [folder 1/4]
  • Jones, Arthur J. "A Syllabus for the Study of the History of Eduction." Rhode Island Normal School Bulletin. Providence, 1910. [folder 1/5
  • Whitney, Frederick. Blackboard Drawing. Worcester, Mass.: The Davis Press, 1903. [folder 1/6]
  • Weir, Irene and Elizabeth Stone. Outline of Courses in Design, Representation and Color for High School Classes. Brookline, Mass., 1910. [folder 1/11]
  • Drawing and Manual Training: Outline of Lessons for Boston Elementary Schools, 1910-1911. Boston: Dept. of Education [folder 1/11]
  • Applied Arts Drawing Books: A Suggested Outline Autumn. New York: Atkinson, Mentzer and Grover. [folder 1/11]
  • Reproductions of Original Drawings Made With Dixon's Colored Crayons. Jersey City, NJ: Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. [folder 2/2]
  • North American Birds Compliments of Chase and Sanborn Tea and Coffee Importers. Chase and Sanborn, 1905. [folder 2/2]

Access Points

Subject Names Subject Names Subject Topics Subject Topics

Arrangement

The collection is arranged by material and topic of teaching.

Biographical note

Lorea Standish Adams was born in Maine on 1882 January 31. Her parents were Capt. John Quincy Adams (1845 – 1911) and Emma L. Gregory (1850 – 1909). She taught school in Rockland, Maine, circa 1903-1906, before attending Rhode Island School of Design from 1907 to 1911, receiving a diploma in Normal Art. She taught drawing and art in Burrillville and Cranston, Rhode Island public schools for more than 20 years. During this time she also attended RISD day and evening classes, 1912-13, 1916-17, 1922-23, and 1933-34.

Adams died 1963 November in Providence, Rhode Island.

Access & Use

Access to the collection: The use of certain documents and collections may be restricted. Please consult the Archives staff for further details.
Use of the materials: Permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from archival materials must be obtained in writing from the Archives. The researcher assumes full responsibility for use of material and for conformity to all applicable laws, including copyright.
Preferred citation: Lorea Standish Adams papers, Rhode Island School of Design Archives.
Contact information: Rhode Island School of Design Archives
Rhode Island School of Design Archives
Fleet Library at RISD
2 College Street
Providence, RI 02903
Tel: 401-709-5922
Fax: 401-709-5932
email: risdarchives@risd.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: Philip T. Fazioli donated the Lorea Standish Adams papers to the RISD Archives in 1998.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Rachael Juskuv.
Encoding: Finding aid encoded by Rachael Juskuv 2013 November 15
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Additional Information

Inventory


Box 1, Folder 1 Maps
undated
Box 1, Folder 2 Rhode Island Arbor Day Programs
1909-1912
Box 1, Folder 3 Illustrative and Figure Drawings
undated
Box 1, Folder 4 Alphabet Sheets and Handmade Alphabet Templates
undated
Box 1, Folder 5 "History of Education" Class Notes
1910
Box 1, Folder 6 Blackboard Drawings and Publications
1906
Box 1, Folder 7 Class Lesson Plans and Handmade Project Templates
undated
Box 1, Folder 8 Ancient History Notebook
undated
Box 1, Folder 9 School Notebook
1900
Box 1, Folder 10 Primary Plans Magazine and other Clippings
1913
Box 1, Folder 11 Lesson Outline Manuals
1902-1910
Box 2, Folder 1 Children's Christmas Projects
undated
Box 2, Folder 2 Animals, Birds
1906-1919
Box 2, Folder 3 Class Outlines October
circa 1915
Box 2, Folder 4 Report Cards
1905-1911
Box 2, Folder 5 Book Donation List
1998
Box 2, Folder 6 Class Notes
undated
Box 2, Folder 7 Spanish Notebook
1920
Box 2, Folder 8 Class Notes - Helen E. Cleaves Drawing Class
1910-1911
Box 2, Folder 9 Class Drawings, various media
1910