Parish-Hadley Associates, Inc. (#182)

Administrative Information
Historical Note
Collection Overview
List of Albums
Album Description
 

Administrative Information

Abstract
Papers, 1960-1986 [bulk 1960-1966]
Interior design firm of New York based designers Sister Parish (Mrs. Henry Parish II) and Albert Hadley. The interior decorating firm Parish-Hadley Associates, Inc., worked with Jacqueline Kennedy to decorate the White House and John and Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal homes, and documents the firm's working relationship with the White House after the Kennedy years. Sketches and scrapbooks on the White House Restoration.  Albums contain correspondence, photographs, meeting notes, press releases, articles, and fabric and wallpaper samples.

Access
Open. 

Usage Restrictions
According to the letter of transfer, copyright of these materials has been retained by the donors. Documents in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States as part of their official duties are in the public domain. Users of these materials are advised to determine the copyright status of any document from which they wish to publish.

Copyright
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Provenance
Received from Parish-Hadley Associates, Inc.’s owners Albert Hadley of New York, New
York; May Bartlett of Boston, Massachusetts; and Dorothy B. Gilbert, of Hot Springs, Arkansas in November 1999 (Acc. 2001-232).

Extent
6 items (1.5 feet)

Date Opened
June 2002

Processed by
Megan F. Desnoyers

Encoded by
James M. Roth

The Papers of Parish-Hadley Associates,Inc.

Historical Note
Design firm of New York based interior designers Sister Parish (Mrs. Henry Parish II) and Albert Hadley. The interior decorating firm Parish-Hadley Associates, Inc., worked with Jacqueline Kennedy to decorate the White House and John and Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal homes. Secondarily, the collection documents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parrish's working relationship with the White House after the Kennedy years.

Collection Overview
The Parish Hadley collection consists of sketches and scrapbooks on the White House Restoration, envisioned, planned and executed by Mrs. Kennedy during the Kennedy Administration.  Originally in four albums, organized by album title, the albums contain correspondence, photographs, meeting notes, press releases, articles, and fabric and wallpaper samples relating to design work for the family areas in the White House and for President and Mrs. Kennedy's personal homes.  The collection also contains two framed sketches of proposed curtain designs for President Kennedy's breakfast room, 1962.  The sketches have been transferred to the John F. Kennedy Museum for storage.

List of Albums

Album 1. The White House, 1961-1962

Album 2. The White House and Glen Ora, 1961

Album 3. The White House, 1961, D.M.P., Washington D.C., 1962-

Album 4. The White House, 1961

Album Description

Album 1. The White House, 1961-1962.
Dates: 1961-1980.
Arrangement: As received in album.

Album 1., The White House, 1961-1962, contains material related to the White House Restoration. The album contains correspondence, financial papers, meeting notes, press releases, and articles.

Album 2. The White House and Glen Ora, 1961.
Dates: 1960-1961.
Arrangement: As received in album.

Album 2., The White House and Glen Ora, 1961, documents the White House Restoration and decorating for the personal home of President and Mrs. Kennedy.  The album contains correspondence, photographs, meeting notes, articles, and fabric samples.

Album 3. The White House, 1961, D.M.P., Washington D.C., 1962-.
Dates: 1960-1986.
Arrangement: As received in album.

Album 3., The White House, 1961,  D.M.P., Washington D.C., 1962- , consists of material related to the White House Restoration. The album contains correspondence, financial papers, White House invitations and programs, meeting notes, articles, and fabric samples.

Album 4. The White House, 1961.
Dates: 1960-1962.
Arrangement: As received in album.

Album 4., The White House, 1961, documents the White House Restoration. The album contains correspondence, sketches, invoices, meeting notes, articles, and fabric and wallpaper samples.