%0 Manuscript %G Italian %T Da Vinci Art Alliance records 1933-1991 %U http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/d/DaVinci3226.html %X The Da Vinci Art Alliance records contains seven document boxes, one oversized item, one volume, and one flat box. The records includes bylaws, annual meeting minutes, correspondence, membership records, financial documents, newsletters, programs, photographs, a history of the organization, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings. The annual meeting minutes were originally housed in binders but are now in folders. The minutes include member attendance and the meeting agenda. The correspondence includes invitations to alliance and non-alliance events, postcards, and letters related to alliance business. The records also include completed and blank membership applications. These applications list member’s names, occupation, and the medium with which they worked. The volume and folders in Box 5 record annual dues paid by members. The alliance’s financial records contain bank statements, treasury reports, invoices, bills, and documents related to their non-for profit status. The newsletters in Box 6 span 1939 to 1991 and were mailed to members of the Da Vinci Art Alliance. These newsletters have calendars of important dates, news from members, and details on annual art shows. There are also numerous programs related to the member’s only annual photography show, annual print and drawing show, the Artists and Models costume ball, the Comic Strip Artists ball, testimonial dinners, and other miscellaneous occasions including some non-art alliance events. The annual general exhibition for Da Vinci members is organized separately and contains entrance forms for the exhibit, list of participants, list of winners, catalogs of artwork with their prices listed, and programs. The folder of programs (Box 1, Folder 7) has multiple programs from the first ever annual exhibition in 1938, leading up to shows in the 1990s. There are a few photographs of pieces of art created by alliance members, and portraits of alliance members in Box 7. The one oversized item in the Da Vinci Art Alliance records is a photograph of the fourth annual banquet in 1938. The history of the alliance is well documented in the collection with a few typed histories in Box 4 and in the Golden Jubilee folder, also in Box 4. The Golden Jubilee was the 50th anniversary of the art alliance in 1983. There is also a scrapbook of newspaper clippings from 1933-1939, as well as some folders of newspaper clippings in Box 6 and Box 7.