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Box Mixed k_23 (F)

 Container

Contains 14 Results:

Biographical: articles, clippings, and draft obituaries, 1958-1999

 File — Box: Mixed k_23 (F), Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Includes the text of a 1998 presentation given by Eleanor Brown's grandson, Michael McMillen, to the Mary Institute, the St. Louis school she attended. Slides illustrating the lecture will be found under Photographs.

Dates: 1958-1999

Marriage and divorce documents and correspondence, 1932-1934

 File — Box: Mixed k_23 (F), Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Folder includes a decree of divorce with Drury McMillen and a marriage certificate between Eleanor and Archibald Brown.

Dates: 1932-1934

Morgan, Edwin: Correspondence, photograph and clippings, 1934

 File — Box: Mixed k_23 (F), Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

One of Eleanor Brown’s first design projects was the restoration of Edwin Morgan’s ambassadorial residence in Brazil.

Dates: 1934

Lecture to the Houston Junior League, 1939 November 28

 File — Box: Mixed k_23 (F), Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Lecture on the historic background of decoration by Eleanor S. Brown.

Dates: 1939 November 28

Eleanor S. Brown collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: KA-0162-01
Abstract

Eleanor S. (McMillen) Brown (1890-1991) was a graduate of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later Parsons School of Design), who founded the interior design firm McMillen Inc. This collection consists of biographical materials, photographs, press clippings, and correspondence donated by her grandson, Michael McMillen.

Dates: 1924-1999

Photographs, 1920s-1990s

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes several slides of Eleanor Brown throughout her life which were used in the 1998 presentation by Michael McMillen to the Mary Institute in St. Louis. Also includes several portraits of Brown, a photographic portrait of Frank Alvah Parsons, photographs of Eleanor with her husband Archibald Brown, and photograph of Eleanor Brown and Parsons School of Design president Van Day Truex.

Dates: 1920s-1990s