Jack Wilson collection, 1864-1965, Date acquired: 00/00/1963, bulk 1921-1964
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Wilson, Jack (1913-1965)
- Extent:
- 7.00 boxes
- 7 boxes
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
Jack Wilson collection, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Background
- Scope and content:
Contains letters, invitations, greeting cards, telegrams, postcards, art exhibition catalogs, bulletins, school catalogs, certificates, news clippings, magazines, photographs, medical illustrations, and two manuscripts, "The Artist and the Audience," and "Emergency Treatment." Also includes a short letter dated 1864 which certified the release of Wilson's maternal grandfather, William Bonacker, a Union Army captain captured by Confederate forces. Capt. Bonacker reportedly fell at the Battle of New Market, 1864, but the War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, v. 37, p. 87, confirms he mustered out of the Army on October 10, 1864.
- Biographical / historical:
Jack Bonacker Wilson, a portrait painter and medical illustrator, was born February 2, 1913 in Lakeland, Florida, the son of W. Guy and Alice Bonacker Wilson. He graduated from the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota and attended Johns Hopkins University. He was appointed the first professor and director of the school of Medical Illustration at the University of Georgia in Augusta (Medical College of Georgia). He also worked at Duke University School of Medicine and the Alfred I. Du Pont Institutue of the Nemours Foundation in Wilmington, Delaware. Wilson illustrated numerous books and painted the portraits of many Tampa families. He died in 1965.
Note written by CT, 1991; Tuttle, 1992; TT, 2019
- Acquisition information:
Jack Wilson
Donation
- Arrangement:
Categorically by series.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Terms of access:
None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.
Publication of these papers or any part of these papers and any subsequent gifts to the collection of similar materials may not be granted without permission of both the writer and recipient of the letters or the surviving correspondent. Upon the deaths of both individuals involved in the correspondence, publiciation rights will reside in the University of South Florida Libraries.
- Preferred citation:
Jack Wilson collection, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
- Location of this collection:
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The University of South Florida, Tampa Campus4202 East Fowler Ave. LIB122TampaFL33620-5400USA
