2023-03-17 Guide to the Walter Tittle Etching of Richard E. Byrd Mailed by John W. Wallace, 1934-1935 SPEC.PA.56.5039 Finding aid prepared by Lindsay Resnick Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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2023 January This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2023-03-17T15:34-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard Walter Tittle Etching of Richard E. Byrd Mailed by John W. Wallace SPEC.PA.56.5039 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 1 0.3 Cubic feet 1934-1935 Walter Tittle was an American artist whose work focused mainly on portraiture of prominent individuals. John W. Wallace was a member of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1933-1935), led by United States Navy Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. The Walter Tittle Etching of Richard E. Byrd Mailed by John W. Wallace consists of a package Wallace mailed to his home address in Massachusetts from the Little America station in Antarctica in 1935. (1) flat box English Wallace, John W. Acquisitions Information

Accession No. PA.2022.0003: Mary Current, 2021 November

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 Biographical Note

Walter Ernest Tittle (1883-1966) was an American artist whose work focused mainly on portraiture of prominent individuals. Tittle worked in the media of lithography, etching, and painting.

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr. (1888-1957) was a United States Navy admiral and an explorer who led several expeditions to polar regions, including the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition from 1933-1935.

John W. Wallace was a member of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Wallace was a resident of Mattapan, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, at the time of the expedition.

 Scope and Contents

The Walter Tittle Etching of Richard E. Byrd Mailed by John W. Wallace consists of a package Wallace mailed to his home address in Massachusetts from the Little America station in Antarctica in 1935. The package contains an etching of Admiral Byrd created by artist Walter Tittle, as well as a sheet of paper with Wallace's Massachusetts address, a piece of carboard with the National Recovery Act logo used for interior support inside the package, and the exterior wrapping paper, which includes the Little America stamp cachet.

 Related Materials Admiral Richard E. Byrd Papers Existence and Location of Copies

A digital reproduction of this etching is available electronically at https://hdl.handle.net/1811/3aa245f6-e3d6-4c3d-8b33-72375fbd2572.

 Byrd Antarctic Expedition (2nd: 1933-1935) Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 Little America I (Antarctica: Research station) Tittle, Walter, 1883-1966 Wallace, John W. Artists--United States--20th century Etchings (prints) Mail (documents) Polar regions--Discovery and exploration--20th century Scientific expeditions--Polar regions--20th century