Edith Flack Ackley Collection

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Edith Flack Ackley
Edith Flack Ackley

Collection Facts

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Scope of Collection

The collection contains material relating to Edith Flack Ackley a dollmaker, writer and designer who was born and raised in Greenport NY. 

The collection consists of collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondences, photographs, news clippings, exhibition catalogs, postcards, portraits, and pictorial works.  It also contains exhibition catalogs of her work throughout the country as well as her manuscripts and typescripts relating to plays called "Lanky" and Pippin and Poppin. Also included are newspaper clippings and photos of a Puppet window display in New York City. Correspondences include letters from A.S. Moffat and the Elizabeth Arden Salon on Fifth Avenue, New York.