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Folder MS0247.01.05

 Container

Contains 27 Results:

Mrs. Roy Pierce to Thomas P. Bruhn

 Item — Folder: MS0247.01.05, Item: 01
Identifier: MS0247.01.05.01
Scope and Contents 1979 February 5 from Mrs. Roy Pierce to Thomas P. Bruhn (William Benton Museum of Art) re: reference to Low Tile Company of Chelsea in issue of Antiques, research work in family history, Mrs. Pierce acquired two letter written by John G. Low’s mother (Hannah Gardner Low) to her niece Jennie Girdler Belknap (Louisville, Ky), original letters In possession of Robert Girdler of Aiken, South Carolina (see SC MS 0247. 01.02 for original handwritten letters). (transcribed photocopied...
Dates: 1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915

Thomas P. Bruhn to Mrs. Roy Pierce

 Item — Folder: MS0247.01.05, Item: 02
Identifier: MS0247.01.05.02
Scope and Contents

1979 February 15 re: tile exhibition and the tile business description of interest to museum, requests Mr. Girdler’s address

Dates: 1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915

Win Pierce (Mrs. Roy Pierce) (Ann Arbor) to Robert Girdler

 Item — Folder: MS0247.01.05, Item: 03
Identifier: MS0247.01.05.03
Scope and Contents

Ref: Jim Harrison and Tracy Girdler and sharing of Girdler-Gardner letters, two letters Hannah Gardner Low written to Jennie Belknap, Low Tile Factory, Antiques magazine, Univ. of Connecticut Art Museum at Storrs and J. G. Low mentioned in article, Boston Evening Transcript, November 11, 1907 had obituary for J. G. Low.

Dates: 1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915

Harrison to Girdler letter with envelope

 Item — Folder: MS0247.01.05, Item: 04
Identifier: MS0247.01.05.04
Scope and Contents

1979 February 21 to Betty and Bob from Jimmy re: letter from Win Pierce, Bob’s cousin, Jim turned over to Win copies of letters Bob let Jim have. Win typed (transcribed) the letters of Hannah Low to Jennie Belknap and in touch with someone (Mr. Bruhn) regarding art tile industry, want to get a copy of Debrett’s to sort out the mystery of where the Girdlers came from in England.

Dates: 1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915

Girdler to Bruhn

 Item — Folder: MS0247.01.05, Item: 05
Identifier: MS0247.01.05.05
Scope and Contents

1979 February 22 re: Mrs. Roy Pierce, the most active archivists of the Family and request for permission to quote from the letters on tile technology as outlined by Hannah Gardner Low

Dates: 1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915

Robert M. Girdler to Mrs. Roy Pierce “Win”

 Item — Folder: MS0247.01.05, Item: 06
Identifier: MS0247.01.05.06
Scope and Contents 1978 February 25 explains his brother, Tracy Girdler, first-cousin-in- law-once-removed, Jim Harrison Bob heard about Win’s genealogy interests. Win is related to Bob through great, great grandfather, Capt. Lewis Girdler. Hannah Low was a sister of Bob’s great grandmother, Sarah and that Jennie Belknap is daughter of Sarah. Jennie married rich Mr. Belknap, moved to Indiana, and rescued the Girdlers in Marblehead by bringing them to Indiana too. Say that Jim tells him about getting...
Dates: 1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915

Bruhn to Robert Girdler

 Item — Folder: MS0247.01.05, Item: 07
Identifier: MS0247.01.05.07
Scope and Contents

1979 February 26 to Robert M. Girdler (Aiken, S.C.) from Thomas P. Bruhn (Storrs, CT) indicates the tile exhibition includes Low tiles, requests photocopies of the original letters.

Dates: 1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915

Girdler to Bruhn

 Item — Folder: MS0247.01.05, Item: 08
Identifier: MS0247.01.05.08
Scope and Contents [No date but content follows previous letter] re: enclosed photocopies of pertinent letters re: tile making of John Gardner Low and a copy of Boston Evening Transcript, Monday, November 11, 1907 about Low’s tile artistry. The Girdler letter is possibly a carbon copy and describes that Hannah Gardner Low was a sister-in-law of Girdler’s great grandfather, John, who was the last of a line of sea captains sailing out of Marblehead, Mass. The captain sailed one of the first relief ships...
Dates: 1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915

Jim Harrison to Bob Girdler

 Item — Folder: MS0247.01.05, Item: 09
Identifier: MS0247.01.05.09
Scope and Contents

1979 March 4 (Handwritten on yellow legal tablet paper) indicates that he is sending copies of the Hannah Low letters, also contact with Win (Pierce) Debrett acquisition is mentioned regarding Lewis Russell’s French origins, seeing Joe Girdler in Hilton Head.

Dates: 1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915

Win (Pierce) to Bob (Girdler)

 Item — Folder: MS0247.01.05, Item: 10
Identifier: MS0247.01.05.10
Scope and Contents 1979 March 12 mentions Jim Harrison and hopes for a meeting with Bob. Remarks that John Girdler (1805-1853) was the younger brother of Sarah Girdler Swett (1800-1871) who married Captain Woodbury Swett in 1824; their son was Lewis Girdler Swett (1828-1875); his daughter was Helen Woodbury Swett (1864-1943) who married Orville C. Poland; their youngest child Burdette K. Poland (1902-1976) was Win’s father; Win was born in 1924. Jim and Win seem to have amassed a lot of material about the...
Dates: 1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915