Guide to the Martha Hall Papers, 1968-2004
Gift of Alan Hall, 2017.
Martha Hall Papers, George J. Mitchell Dept. of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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Martha Hall (1949-2003) was a Maine-based book artist, writer, weaver, and business owner and executive, whose creative work focused largely on themes related to her fifteen-year struggle with breast cancer—living with the fear of dying; creating in order to heal; understanding one's own legacy; and appreciating and living fully each day.
Hall was born on June 4, 1949, in Malden, Massachusetts, the oldest of Dwight and Gertrude Smith's five children. She attended Deering High School in Portland, Maine, and graduated from Smith College in 1971 with a degree in English. While a student at Smith, Hall won a prestigious poetry prize, the same one earlier awarded to Sylvia Plath, and met her future husband, Alan, whom she married shortly after graduation.
From 1971 to 1975, Hall taught eighth grade English in South Portland, Maine. In 1972, she earned Art Education certification, purchased her first loom, and learned to weave. The following year, Hall started teaching weaving, and, in 1975, she traveled to Finland and Sweden to study Scandinavian weaving techniques. In 1976, Gabrielle, the first of her two daughters, was born, and Danielle followed in 1978.
The following year, Hall established a retail store, Martha Hall, Inc., in Yarmouth, Maine, from which she sold yarn, books, and spinning and weaving supplies. The business thrived and in 1983 she expanded it to include a national mail-order catalog. She sold the business in 1987, when she entered graduate school at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
A week before Hall received her MBA with honors from Dartmouth in 1989, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Despite the uncertainties, Hall forged ahead with an ambitious new career as a marketing executive at American Express. She lived in New York City during the week and commuted home to Maine for long weekends to see her family and undergo chemotherapy.
Following a reoccurrence of breast cancer in 1993, Hall underwent high dose chemotherapy in Maine, an autologous bone marrow transplant at Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital, followed by radiation. Exhausted both physically and emotionally, Hall left her job in New York City and returned to Maine full-time in order to spend more time with her family and with her writing and art. She joined the staff of L.L. Bean developing marketing strategies, and continued to be employed there until her illness forced her to retire in 2000.
In 1995, Hall began serious and concentrated study of the visual arts. She attended a paper arts workshop at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the first of several workshops she would take at the school in Deer Isle, Maine. In 1996, she completed her first book arts workshop, a course with Rebecca Goodale and Dennis Gilbert, and created her first artist's book, The Raven. Over the next few years, Hall would develop close and collaborative friendships with several of Maine book artists. In 1998, she moved to Orr's Island, Maine, a place that would inspire and comfort her as she battled a second reoccurrence of breast cancer. In 1999, she entered the BFA program at the Maine College of Art, but following a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, opted to not complete the program and instead focus on creating and sharing her artist's books.
By the early 2000s, Hall's reputation as a book artist had grown considerably. She exhibited in New York City, Massachusetts, and Maine. Hall worked diligently to place her works in academic institutions where they could be viewed and handled by the public, cancer patients, and medical professionals. Her hope was to educate people broadly about what it means to be a cancer patient, and more specifically, to inspire health care provides to improve the way they interacted with patients. Hall articulated her process and desires in the documentary "I Make Books" which the Maine Women Writers Collection at University of New England produced in 2000.
In late 2002, Hall collaborated with Martin Antonetti, then the curator of rare books at the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, to develop the exhibition "Holding In, Holding On," a major retrospective of her work. Hall worked tirelessly on selecting works, writing text, and developing the catalogue, even while continuing to produce new works and entering the final stage of her illness. The exhibition opened at Smith College in Fall 2003, a few weeks before Hall's death on December 5, 2003, at the age 54. Following her death, the "Holding In, Holding On" traveled to Bowdoin and Wellesley colleges and to Yale University.
The Martha Hall Papers contain the personal and professional papers of book artist, business owner, and corporate executive, Martha Hall. The collection is composed largely of unpublished manuscript material, including Hall's final versions and unfinished artist's books, sketchbooks, letters, planners, business records of Martha Hall Natural Fibre Yarns mail-order and shop in Yarmouth, Maine, professional papers related to Hall's work at American Express and L.L.Bean, and, most significantly, archival records documenting all aspects of her production, collaboration, creation, distribution, and exhibition of artist's books, many of which reflect her experience as a cancer patient. Also included are preparatory materials, including mockups, sketches, and supplies used to create her artist's books, several of her finished books, photographs of her books, and representative examples of her textiles work, the medium in which she began her career as an artist.
Organized into four series: Book Arts, Fiber Arts, Corporate Career, Personal and Biographical.
Organized into six subseries: Works and Projects, Materials and Ideas, Sketchbooks and Notes, Courses and Workshops, Exhibition Files, and Subject Files.
This series contains materials from 1995, when Martha Hall began her study of book arts, to her death in 2003, and documents Hall's development as a book artist throughout the rigors of breast cancer treatment, from training to production to exhibition. Includes final versions and unfinished artist's books, paper samples, models, drafts and final versions of text, and other preparatory and documentary materials as well a wide variety of handmade papers and blank books. Also includes sketchbooks with ideas and entries of a more personal nature, exhibition files, records relating to her classes and coursework in book arts, and subject files that include information on all aspects of Hall's creative endeavor, including marketing and sales, and correspondence and collaboration with friends and fellow artists.
As a book artist, Martha Hall experimented with a broad range of techniques, materials, and ideas. This subseries documents her creative journey through experimentation and application as embodied in the production of her numerous finished and unfinished artist's books. Included are paper samples, models, drafts and final versions of text, printing samples, extra pages, and other preparatory and documentary materials, arranged, when possible, by the title of the work to which they relate. There are several folders related to seemingly unfinished, or potentially unidentified, works, several of which were underway when the artist passed away in December 2003.
Her Garden, models, October 1997
Among Thy Trees, model, xeroxes of tree photos, December 1997
God's World, photos, copies, poem, March 1998
Fish Prayers, transcript, August 1998
Voices: Five Doctors Speak, extra pages, August 1998
Hope, extra pieces, poem, October 1998
Shells, text, October 1998
Tattoo, mss, models, ideas, November 1998
Tattoo, model, extra, photocopy, November 1998
Black Box, pages, text, December 1998
Harbour Island, photos and negatives, February 1999
Test Day, model, text, February 1999
Sisters, titles, March 1999
Fish, model, September 1999
Sea Secrets, model, October 1999
Danielle's Tea/I'm Confused, papers, ideas, etc., December 1999
It's Nothing, vellum sample, December 1999
Inside Out, spacing for the stencil, March 2000
Blue Quilt, model, May 2000
Mermaid, title, lyrics, October 2000
The Rest of My Life, manuscript, extra xeroxes, November 2000
Jane, With Wings, extras, paper samples, January 2001
Fluxus, research material, January 2001
Legacy, text, March 2001
Anxiety, pieces, May 2001
I Make Books, transcript, paper samples, model, May 2001
Ghost Friends, model, pieces, August 2001
Paper Passages, paper, ideas, correspondence, models, etc., January 2002
Small Rooms, pieces, transcript, March 2002
Morning, Deer Isle?, cut out, March 2002
Prescriptions, photocopy, correspondence, extras, April-May 2002
Independence Day, partial pages and sample paper, July 2002
Night, transcript and sample papers, August 2002
Small Hands, text, December 2002
Tell Me, transcripts, p.g., notes, January 2003
Hard to Handle, extras, 2003
When I Was Unconscious, mock ups, components, partially assembled, 2003
Unfinished work - [9 Stages], Prints, Layouts, n.d.
Unfinished work - Ides of March, Text, Model, Sample Pages, April 2003
Unfinished work - [Please, Please], model, prints, n.d.
Unfinished or unidentified work - [Do You See What You Fear?], text (partial), sample paper, n.d.
Unfinished or unidentified work - models, n.d.
Unfinished or unidentified work - [obituaries of breast cancer patients], obituaries collaged on hand made paper, n.d.
Unfinished or unidentified work - rubber stamped pages, n.d.
Unfinished or unidentified work - [You Are Strong], paper samples, drawings of breasts and scars, n.d.
Unidentified work - cut out fragments
Unidentified work - fragments, n.d.
Unidentified work - watercolor and ink jet page fragments, n.d.
Unfinished work, Sea Change, proposal to National Museum of Women, in the Arts, fall 2002
Sea Change proposal and mock up, fall 2000
Ecuador and Galapagos Islands, photos, title, February 1997
Support Group, originals, complete set of pages, one cover and sample page, February 1997
Fog Fears, nautical charts, title, March 1997
Just To Live, pages 3-97, March 1997
November, text, xeroxes, November 1997
Living, plates and proofs, July 1998
Dark Room Days, pages, April 1999
Blue Moon, layout, model, April 2000
One Week From Today, photocopy model, extra pages, nautical chart, June 2000
Night, loose printed pages, August 2002
Unfinished work - Oh World, black and white and color photos, n.d.
Unfinished or unidentified work - loose page
Unfinished or unidentified work - model with Stonehenge image, n.d.
Unfinished or unidentified work - rubber stamped pages (related to stamp collection?)
Unfinished or unidentified work - When the Doctor Showed Me the Bone Scan, loose printed pages, n.d.
This subseries contains a wide variety of artist's materials and documents Hall's preliminary ideas for works that were seemingly not realized or that cannot be associated with any one work. Included are a wide variety of handmade papers, many of which Hall made herself; blank books demonstrating specific binding structures and/or material composition; handmade rubber stamps; and organic and found materials that Hall intended to or did use in her books. There are also folders about a variety of topics or ideas that Hall pursued, often repeatedly in her works, such as fish, poetry, and nautical imagery.
Binding examples, coptic blank book
Binding examples, coptic blank book with marbled Covers
Binding examples, coptic blank book with paste paper covers
Binding examples, incomplete blank book
Binding examples, incomplete blank book with paste paper covers
Binding examples, photo album with paste paper covers
Binding examples, picture frame
Binding examples, portfolio with paste paper covers
Book models
Book templates
Bumper stickers and posters
Copies of planner pages
Collage materials
Fish ideas, (1 of 2)
Fish ideas, (2 of 2)
Fish prints and oceans, poem by Juan Ramon Jiminez
Fish, color photograph by M. Hall, 2000
Green hand made paper with fish
Hand made collaged paper with prescriptions, hair, notes, etc., after January 2001
Hand made paper
Hand made paper with threads
Hand made paper, some with collage
Ideas, photocopied and clipped paper, photos, n.d.
Laser prints
Last Will and Testament envelope
Leaves and gardens
Martha Hall's hair
Miscellaneous xeroxes
Monotype prints and notes, n.d.
Nautical charts and images, 2001, n.d.
New Year's card, xerox pages, examples, n.d.
Notes
Notes and sketches, re:Transformation
Paste paper
Patterns and paper
Photos, negatives, copies of Haystack, surrounding Areas
Poems for books
Poems, Risk Factors, and other text, photocopies
Registration sheets for unidentified books
Rubber stamps
Transfer image of M.H. as child (2 Copies), and her hair, etc.
Watercolored and painted paper fragments
Watercolored and printed paper
A sketchbook could always be found on Hall's desk in her artist studio; within, she jotted down ideas, concepts, quotes, and other inspirations, sketched ideas for books she intended and often did create, and added entries of a more personal and narrative nature. She kept an archive of these sketchbooks, which can be dated from as early as July 1998 to as late as August 2002. These form the bulk of this subseries, and collectively they tell the story of her development as a book artist, her process, her thoughts, and her pursuits. There are also some more informal notes in the subseries and a calligraphic exercise book.
Calligraphy notebook
Miscellaneous sketches and notes
July 1998-October 1999
August 1999-June 2000
September 1999-March 2000
June 2000-September 2000
September 2000-March 2001
February 2001-July 2001
July 2001-December 2001
December 2001-August 2002
In 1995, Hall began a concentrated study of the visual arts, a process that she continued until 2002, a year before her death. This subseries documents Hall's process for developing and furthering the technical skills and vision needed to become a creative, accomplished, and successful book artist. There are files from the many workshops and classes she attended including those at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine College of Art, and University of Southern Maine. Her teachers and mentors incuded Rebecca Goodale, Dennis Gilbert, and David Wolfe.
Art Schools and Programs, 1997 - 2003
Class lists, 1998 - 2002
Farnsworth Art Museum, Angela Lorenz, 1996
Garage Annex, 2001
Garage Annex School for Book Arts, 2001 - 2002
Goodale, Rebecca, The Visual Book, 2000
Haystack, Jan Owen, 1995
Haystack, Verse + Verso, Haystack, 1996
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1997 - 1998
Haystack, Dreams and Daydreams, 1998 (1 of 2)
Haystack, Dreams and Daydreams, 1998 (2 of 2)
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1999 - 2000
Haystack, Beck Whitehead, 1999 - 2000 (1 of 2)
Haystack, Beck Whitehead, 1999 - 2000 (2 of 2)
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1999 - 2000
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1999 - 2003
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 2000
Haystack, Jan Owen, Paste Paper II, 2000
Haystack, paper and book intensive, 2000-2002
Haystack, Susan Share, Photo Album
Haystack, Susan Share, 2001 - 2003 (1 of 2)
Haystack, Susan Share, 2001 - 2003 (2 of 2)
Haystack, Susan King, 2002 (1 of 2)
Haystack, Susan King, 2002 (2 of 2)
Haystack, Paper and Book Intensive, Kitty Maryatt, 2002
Healing Circle Workshops, Transformations class, 1996
Maine College of Art application, 1997 - 1998
Maine College of Art, David Wolfe, 1997
Maine College of Art, David Wolfe, 1998
Maine College of Art, Printmaking, 1998
Maine College of Art, transfer process, 1998 - 2000
Maine College of Art, 1998 - 2001
Maine College of Art, 2-D Art 1999
Maine College of Art, Drawing III, 1999
Maine College of Art, Drawing IV, 1999 - 2000
Maine College of Art, self-designed major, 2000
Maine College of Art, Spring 2001
Maine College of Art, Watercolor Monoprint, 2001 - 2002
Miscellaneous techniques
Mullenberg, Scott + Gail Spaien, Collage in a Book, 1997
Mullenberg, Scott, Zygot, 1998 - 1999
Portland Museum of Art, Crystal Cawley, "Paper, Books, + Boxes", 2001
School materials, 2003
University of Southern Maine, Dennis Gilbert + Rebecca Goodale, Illuminated Autobiography, 1997
University of Southern Maine, Photography Art, 1999
Yarmouth Middle School, Whole Book, 1997
Martha Hall worked diligently to share her works with a public audience and her pieces were exhibited in invitational and group shows and one restrospective show during her lifetime. This subseries includes correspondence, working files, and publicity materials for exhibitions. Of particular note are a series of files that document the process of selecting works and writing the catalogue for her restrospective exhibition at Smith College, Holding In, Holding On (2003).
Guest book, Center for Book Arts' exhibit, 2002
Guest book, unidentified exhibit
Guest book, unidentified exhibit, 2000
Haystack Book Project, 1997 - 2000
Inventory List For "Show Me Your Fish" Show, 2000
Inventory List for Turtle Gallery, August 2001
Island Friends II, Falmouth Memorial Library, 2000
Island Friends IV, Bates, 2001
Island Friends, 2000 - 2001
Kingston, Massachusetts, 2002
Maine Coast Artists, 2001-2002
Maine College of Art, 2001
Maine Fiberarts, 2000 - 2002
Martha Hall's Shows, 1998 - 2004
Miniature Book Society, 2000
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 2002 - 2003
Miscellaneous Book Shows, 2000-2003
Miscellaneous Upcoming Shows, 2003
National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2000 - 2001
New Art Forum Kingston, Massachusetts, 2001
Oregon Books and Art Guild, 2001
Portland Museum of Art, 2002 - 2003
Portland Public Library Exhibit, 1999
Pyramid Atlantic, 2002
Shaw Gallery, 2003
Smith College, Holding In, Holding On, aside version (1 of 2)
Smith College, Holding In, Holding On, aside version (2 of 2)
Smith College, Holding In, Holding On, asides, notes
Smith College, Holding In, Holding On, background and notes
Smith College, Holding In, Holding On, Martin Atonetti, 2002 - 2003
Smith College, Holding In, Holding On, package to Carolyn Eckert, 2002
Smith College, Holding In, Holding On, prose poems (rev) book only
Smith College, Holding In, Holding On, Stephen Petegorsky, photos,
Smith College show, 2003
Smith College show, fall 2003
Smith College show, poetry, 2003
Tolerance and Human Rights, Portland, Oregon, 2002
Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine, 2002
Unidentified exhibition label texts, Sept. 2002, n.d.
University of Indianapolis, 2002
University of Southern Maine, Lewiston-Auburn, Atrium Gallery
University of Southern Maine, Words and Images, 2001 - 2003
Upcoming Shows, Deadlines, 2002 - 2003
Wellesley College, 2000 - 2001
Wexford Art Center, 2003
Women and Books: Uncovered Exhibition, Converse College, 2001
Words that Heal; Images that Live label texts, n.d.
This subseries documents the varied aspects of Hall's career as a book artist, from the practicalities of handling supplies, sales, and promotion, to her collaboration with other book artists and the personal inspiration for her endeavors. Materials include correspondence with mentors, friends, and collaborators; artist's statements; records of purchases; notebooks relating to her works; and an an extensive series of photographs (slides) of the majority of her completed works.
9/11 2001
Articles and events, 2000
Articles, 1998
Artist Statement, Words That Heal, 1998
Artist's Statements, 2000 - 2002
Baxter Society, 1998
Baxter Society, 2002 - 2003
Book artists, directory, 2003
Book arts articles, 1995 - 2002
Book arts supplies sellers, 1996 - 2000 (1 of 2)
Book arts supplies sellers, 1996 - 2000 (2 of 2)
Book arts, paper and mounting supplies sellers, 1997 - 2000
Books inventory updates, 2001 - 2003
Brochures, 2002
Business cards
Catalogs, 1997 - 2000
Catalogs, 1999 - 2002 (2 of 4)
Catalogs, 2000 - 2003 (1 of 4)
Catalogs, 2001 (4 of 4)
Catalogs, 2002 - 2003 (3 of 4)
Catalogs, Tabellae Ansatae, 1999
Catalogs, Tabellae Ansatae, 2002
Chronicle Books, 1999
Contact list, book arts, 2003
Contacts, 2001 - 2003
Contemporary private press and artists' books, 2001
Correspondence, etc., Amanda ? collaboration, 2002
Correspondence, etc., Austin, Alice
Correspondence, etc., Barrick, George
Correspondence, etc., Boynton, Cynthia
Correspondence, etc., Brown, Allison Cooke, collaboration, 2001 - 2002
Correspondence, etc., Bryan, Ashley, Kathleen Bownan, Jenny Schew, 1999
Correspondence, etc., de Levie, Jolanda, 1996 - 2002
Correspondence, etc., Glover, Kath, 2000 - 2002
Correspondence, etc., Goodale, Rebecca, 1998 - 2001
Correspondence, etc., Joanne, 1998
Correspondence, etc., LaPlantz, 2000 - 2001
Correspondence, etc., Morehouse, Jamien and Allison, 1993-2002
Correspondence, etc., Owen, Jan 1997 - 2002
Correspondence, etc., Rubin, Elly, 2000 - 2004
Correspondence, etc., Simpson, Alice, 1997 - 2003
Correspondence, etc., Soule, Erika, 1999 - 2000
Correspondence, miscellaneous, 2003
Creative Center for Women with Cancer, 2001
Expenses, 2002-2003
Grants and fellowships, 2001 - 2003
Guild of Book Workers, 2001 - 2003
I Make Books by Martha Hall, 2002, Video (VHS)
Invitations, requests, etc., 2000- 2003
Letterhead designs
Mailing list additions and changes, 2003
Mailing lists, 2000 - 2003
Maine Arts Commission
Maine Book Arts, 2001
Maine Humanities Council Conference, Bates, 2000
Marketing and collection lists, 2000 - 2002
Media, 2002
Miscellaneous events, 2000
Miscellaneous invitations, 1998-1999
Navajo Reservation visit, September 2001
Notebook 1 (1 of 5)
Notebook 1 (2 of 5)
Notebook 1 (3 of 5)
Notebook 1 (4 of 5)
Notebook 1 (5 of 5)
Notebook 2, 1998 - 2003 (1 of 6)
Notebook 2, 1998 - 2003 (2 of 6)
Notebook 2, 1998 - 2003 (3 of 6)
Notebook 2, 1998 - 2003 (4 of 6)
Notebook 2, 1998 - 2003 (5 of 6)
Notebook 2, 1998 - 2003 (6 of 6)
Photographs of books, Just to Be and Just to Live: slides
Photograps of books: negatives
Photographs of books: prints
Photographs of books: slides, identified, and slide lists for books
Photographs of books: slides, most unidentified (1 of 2)
Photographs of books: slides, most unidentified (2 of 2)
Photographs, slide lists, 2000
Photographs: slides sent out, 2000-2001
Photography invoices, 1996-2003
Postcard exhibition flyers, 1999-2003
Postcards information, 2000-2002
Printer, paper, and storage recommendations, 2000-2001
Printers, 2002
Purchase and correspondence, Harvard University, 2003
Purchases and correspondence, Bowdoin College, 2000 - 2003
Purchases and marketing, New York Public Library, 2002
Purchases and marketing, Paper Passages, 2001 - 2002
Purchases and marketing, University of Vermont, 2001
Purchases and marketing, Williams College, 2001
Purchases and talk, Dartmouth College, 2000 - 2003
Purchases etc., Yale University
Purchases, Artists' books, 2000 - 2003
Purchases, Califia Books, 2002 - 2003
Purchases, Clark Art Institute, 2001
Purchases, invoices for Tattoo and Voices, 2001
Purchases, invoices, 2001-2003
Reviews of Hall's Work
Rubin, Eleanor, works
Special Collections list, 2000
The Winning Spirit, 2000
University of New England, student work, 2002 - 2004
Website Ideas, 2003
Women's Studio Workshop, 2002
Workman Publishing Project, 1999
Works of others, orders and information, 2003
In 1972, Hall earned Art Education certification and learned to weave, subsequently developing a career both as a weaving teacher and a small business owner, establishing and running a retail store, Martha Hall, Inc. Records in this series document Hall's training in fiber arts, her teaching of others, and all aspects of running her weaving business.
Organized into two series: Courses and Workshops, Subject Files.
Includes schedules, instructions, samples, and other materials that relate to weaving courses and workshops offered by Martha Hall.
Beginner for Harness Weaving, 1976
Double Weave Class, 1975
Finnish Weaving Workshop, 1977 (1 of 3)
Finnish Weaving Workshop, 1977 (2 of 3)
Finnish Weaving Workshop, 1977 (3 of 3)
Fourth Annual Summer Workshop, 1979
Glimakra Weaving Center (2 of 2)
Glimakra Weaving Center, 1981 (1 of 2)
Keene State College Nell Znamierowski Weaving Workshop I, 1974 - 1975
Miscellaneous Samples and Workshop Sign-ups, 1978 (1 of 2)
Miscellaneous Samples and Workshop Sign-ups, 1978 (2 of 2)
Miscellaneous Workshop Material, 1979
New England Weavers Seminar 1977 (1 of 2)
New England Weavers Seminar 1977 (2 of 2)
Samples for 1976 Workshop (1 of 2)
Samples for 1976 Workshop (2 of 2)
Samples for 1977 Workshop
Seattle, 1981 - 1982
Simmons, Paula, Workshop, 1981
Straker, Penny, Workshop, 1981 - 1982
Straker, Penny, 1982
Summer Weaving Workshop, 1981
Summer Workshop I, 1976
Summer Workshop II, 1977 (1 of 2)
Summer Workshop II, 1977 (2 of 2)
Summer Workshop Registrations and Patterns, 1979
Summer Workshop, 1980
Summer Workshop, 1981
Tartan Workshop, 1982
Weaving Classes Taught by Hall, 1979 - 1980? (1 of 2)
Weaving Classes Taught by Hall, 1979 - 1980? (2 of 2)
Weaving Classes, 1979
West, Virginia, 1982 - 1983
Wittenburg Workshop, 1982
Wittenburg, Barbara, 1983
Yarmouth Adult Education, 1978
Yarmouth Art Education Workshop Attendance Sheets, 1973 - 1974
Zimmerman, Elizabeth, Knitting Workshop, 1983
Materials in this subseries document all aspects of Hall's weaving career including her own training (attendance at the Varpapuu Summer Weaving School in Scandanavia); sales and marketing for her retail store, Martha Hall, Inc.; and the products available through the store and mail order. Within the "weaving records" folders, there are weaving samples, photographs of products, and promotional materials.
Adirondack Sore and Gallery
Album of weaving samples, etc.
Applications, 1982 - 1983
Basic Handweaving, Inkle, Tapestry, Other, 1972
Books to Sell, 2003
Catalogs 1983 - 1988 (2 of 2)
Catalogs, 1987 - 1988 (1 of 2)
Colorgraph analysis and swatches
Computer notes, 1977 - 1979
Customer letters (1 of 3) 1979 - 1983
Customer letters (2 of 3) 1981 - 1985
Customer letters (3 of 3) 1981 - 1985
Designing and Drafting for Handweavers + Notes
Early store plans (1 of 2)
Early store plans (2 of 2) 1979 - 1983
Early weaving letters, Ade (?), 1970s (1 of 2)
Early weaving letters, Ade (?), 1970s (2 of 2)
Early weaving sales books, 1976 - 1978 (1 of 3)
Early weaving sales books, 1976 - 1978 (2 of 3)
Early weaving sales books, 1976 - 1978 (3 of 3)
Hall v. Thrift, et al, 1995
Handweavers Guild of America Handbook, 1977
Harrisville Designs, courses, 1973 - 1975
Harrisville, New Hampshire 1978 - 1984 (1 of 2)
Harrisville, New Hampshire 1978 - 1984 (2 of 2)
Home Knitting Ban (1 of 3) 1981 - 1985
Home Knitting Ban (2 of 3) 1981 - 1984
Home Knitting Ban (3 of 3) 1981 - 1986
Incomplete pattern forms and notes, 1980 - 1981
Legal, Martha Hall Inc., 1987 - 1997 (1 of 2)
Legal, Martha Hall Inc., 1988 - 1994 (2 of 2)
Maine Guild of Spinners and Weavers Meetings, 1976 - 1977
Maine Guild of Spinners and Weavers, Guest Judging, 1979
Manufacturing overseas, 1987 - 1990
Martha Hall's drawings
Miscellaneous articles, 1981
Miscellaneous bank and financial records, 1968 - 1974
Miscellaneous clippings and advertisements, 1973
Miscellaneous notes and textile sellers, 1976
Miscellaneous patterns and samples
Miscellaneous weaving instructions 1976 - 1976
Miscellaneous weaving notes, 1976
Model photographs 1 of 2
Model photographs 2 of 2
Newsletter swatches, 1976 - 1986 (1 of 2)
Newsletter swatches, 1979 - 1986 (2 of 2)
Past selling, 1977 - 1978 (1 of 3)
Past selling, 1978 - 1979 (3 of 3)
Past selling, 1978 - 1980 (2 of 3)
Patterns, 1979
Patterns, 1980
Straker, Penny and Janice, designs, 1979 - 1981
Straker, Penny and Janice, information, 1981
Straker, Penny and Janice, price lists, etc., 1982
Photograph of Hall weaving
Planning for the 80s - advertising notes, 1980
Planning for the 80s - Yarn Market News Seminar
Printed logos
Rental forms
Sale materials
Selling
Shop papers, 1980 - 1982
Shop publicity, 1977 - 1983
Teaching materials, 1978
Thank you note related to weaving, 1980
The Lady at the Loom
To-do list (undated)
Varpapuu Summer Weaving School, 1974 - 1975 (1 of 2)
Varpapuu Summer Weaving School, 1974 - 1975 (2 of 2)
Weaving and Spinning Council, 1982 - 1983
Weaving notebook
Weaving ntoebook, loose pages
Weaving publications and press, 1977 - 1981 (1 of 4)
Weaving publications and press, 1977 - 1981 (2 of 4)
Weaving publications and press, 1977 - 1981 (3 of 4)
Weaving publications and press, 1977 - 1981 (4 of 4)
Weaving records August - November 1973 (3 of 16)
Weaving records May - August 1973 (2 of 16)
Weaving records, August - October 1974 (9 of 16)
Weaving records, August 1976 (16 of 16)
Weaving records, December 1973 - February 1974 (4 of 16)
Weaving records, February - March 1974 (5 of 16)
Weaving records, February - October 1975 (12 of 16)
Weaving records, July - August 1974 (8 of 16)
Weaving records, June 1974 (7 of 16)
Weaving records, June 1976 (15 of 16)
Weaving records, March - May 1974 (6 of 16)
Weaving records, May - June 1976 (14 of 16)
Weaving records, November 1974 - January 1975 (11 of 16)
Weaving records, October - November 1974 (10 of 16)
Weaving records, October 1975 - May 1976 (13 of 16)
Weaving records, September 1972 - 1973 (1 of 16)
Welcome wagon, 1981 - 1982
Wool samples (1 of 2)
Wool samples (2 of 2), 1976
Writing, 1977 - 1987
Yarn store
Zimmerman, Elizabeth, 1979-1981 (1 of 2)
Zimmerman, Elizabeth, 1979 - 1981 (2 of 2)
Zimmerman, Elizabeth, Lap-Shoulder Sweater, 1971
Martha Hall entered graduate school at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College in 1987 graduating with honors in 1989, and subsequently beginning a new career as a marketing executive at American Express in New York City and, in 1994, joining L.L. Bean in Maine. Materials in this subseries document the progress of Hall's corporate career including her course records for Tuck School of Business, and records from her work at American Express and L.L. Bean relating to job goals, activities, health benefits, and severance.
American Express, 1991-1993
American Express, 1996-2001
American Express, goal setting forms, 1992 - 1993
American Express, Martha Hall, employee reviews, 1990 - 1993
American Express, Martha Hall, employee reviews, 1993 - 1996
American Express, miscellaneous end of job notes, 1989 - 1991
American Express retirement program benefits, 1993 - 1995
American Express severance package, 1993 - 1995 (1 of 3)
American Express severance package, 1993 - 1994 (2 of 3)
American Express severance package, 1993 - 1994 (3 of 3)
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
Job search materials, 1987
Job search materials, 1997 - 1998
L.L. Bean benefits
L.L. Bean candidate assessment, 1994
L.L. Bean Creative Department, "Ariel", 1999 - 2000 (1 of 6)
L.L. Bean Creative Department, "Ariel", 1999 - 2000 (2 of 6)
L.L. Bean Creative Department, "Ariel", 1999 - 2000 (3 of 6)
L.L. Bean Creative Department, "Ariel", 1999 - 2000 (4 of 6)
L.L. Bean Creative Department, "Ariel", 1999 - 2000 (5 of 6)
L.L. Bean Creative Department, "Ariel", 1999 - 2000 (6 of 6)
L.L. Bean, employee assistance, 1999 - 2001
L.L. Bean Job Search, 1994 - 1995
L.L. Bean, payroll, 1994
L.L. Bean Performance Appraisal, 1996
L.L. Bean, reviews and resume, 1996 - 1999
L.L. Bean, Speakeasy, 1997
Maine job search, 1990 - 1994
The Maine Teachers Association Health Plan, 1992 - 1998
Tuck at Dartmouth Commencement, 1985
Tuck at Dartmouth, 1989 - 1991
Tuck at Dartmouth, 1999
Tuck School of Business, application materials, 1987
Tuck School of Business, Boston Annual Dinner, 2001
Tuck School of Business, miscellaneous
Tuck School of Business, publications, 1986 - 1989 (1 of 2)
Tuck School of Business, publications, 1986 - 1989 (2 of 2)
Tuck School of Business, scholarship and financial aid materials, 1987 - 1989
Tuck School of Business, schoolwork and materials, 1987 - 1989 (1 of 4)
Tuck School of Business, schoolwork and materials, 1987 - 1989 (2 of 4)
Tuck School of Business, schoolwork and materials, 1987 - 1989 (3 of 4)
Tuck School of Business, schoolwork and materials, 1987 - 1989 (4 of 4)
Work at Home Project, 1993
Materials in this subseries document Martha Hall's creative legacy, the impact of her diagnosis and recurrence of breast cancer, and Hall's day-to-day planning and activities. Includes letters and cards from family, friends, and the book arts community; materials compiled by Alan Hall relating to Martha Hall's progressive breast cancer and death; Hall's resumes and artist statements, and daily planners, 1993-2002.
Address changes, 2004
An Appreciation of Martha's Legacy, January 10, 2004, VHS (master and copy)
Best wishes cards, intensive care, April - June 2003 (1 of 3)
Best wishes cards, intensive care, April - June 2003 (2 of 3)
Best wishes cards, intensive care, April - June 2003 (3 of 3)
Calligraphy by Jacqueline Svaren, 1970s
Calligraphy, Martha Hall certificate of achievement, 1977
Cards received, 1999 - 2000
Chronology, 2003
Clippings - New York Magazine, 1981 - 1991
Clippings - New York Magazine, 1989 - 1993
Ecuador vacation, 1997
Family cards related to breast cancer, 1993 (1 of 3)
Family cards related to breast cancer, 1993 (2 of 3)
Family cards related to breast cancer, 1993 (3 of 3)
Family cards to and from Martha Hall (1 of 2)
Family cards to and from Martha Hall (2 of 2)
Friends, 2000 - 2002
Graduate Management Program Class Picture, 1989
Hall, Alan, folder re: Martha's Death (1 of 9)
Hall, Alan, folder re: Martha's Death (2 of 9)
Hall, Alan, folder re: Martha's Death (3 of 9)
Hall, Alan, folder re: Martha's Death (4 of 9)
Hall, Alan, folder re: Martha's Death (5 of 9)
Hall, Alan, folder re: Martha's Death (6 of 9)
Hall, Alan, folder re: Martha's Death (7 of 9)
Hall, Alan, folder re: Martha's Death (8 of 9)
Hall, Alan, folder re: Martha's Death (9 of 9)
Hall, Martha, funeral memorial program
Health reimbursement
Hospitalization records and expenses, 1993 and Spring, Fall 2003
Insurance forms, 1994 - 1995
Journal, 1995
Mature Media Award Winner Certificate, 1992
Memorials, 1996-1997
Miscellaneous cards, letters, and keepsakes, 1989 - 2003 (1 of 2)
Miscellaneous cards, letters, and keepsakes, 1989 - 2003 (2 of 2)
Miscellaneous letters, 2001 - 2002
Miscellaneous, 2003 - 2004
Mother daughter issues comic clippings, ca. 1998 - 2000
Newspaper stories, 1993 - 1994
Photographs and negatives of Dipper's Cove neighborhood
Planner, January 1993 - December 1995
Planner, August 1994 - December 1995 (1 of 6)
Planner, August 1994 - December 1995 (2 of 6)
Planner, August 1994 - December 1995 (3 of 6)
Planner, August 1994 - December 1995 (4 of 5)
Planner, August 1994 - December 1995 (5 of 6)
Planner, August 1994 - December 1995 (6 of 6)
Planner, January - July 1994 + 1993 (1 of 7)
Planner, January - July 1994 + 1993 (2 of 7)
Planner, January - July 1994 + 1993 (3 of 7)
Planner, January - July 1994 + 1993 (4 of 7)
Planner, January - July 1994 + 1993 (5 of 7)
Planner, January - July 1994 + 1993 (6 of 7)
Planner, January - July 1994 + 1993 (7 of 7)
Planner, 1996 + 1997 (1 of 6)
Planner, 1996 + 1997 (2 of 6)
Planner, 1996 + 1997 (3 of 6)
Planner, 1996 + 1997 (4 of 6)
Planner, 1996 + 1997 (5 of 6)
Planner, 1996 + 1997 (6 of 6)
Planner, 1998 (1 of 4)
Planner, 1998 (2 of 4)
Planner, 1998 (3 of 4)
Planner, 1998 (4 of 4)
Planner, May 1999 - June 2000 (1 of 3)
Planner, May 1999 - June 2000 (2 of 3)
Planner, May 1999 - June 2000 (3 of 4)
Planner, May 1999 - June 2000 (4 of 4)
Planner, October 2000 - August 2002 (1 of 4)
Planner, October 2000 - August 2002 (2 of 4)
Planner, October 2000 - August 2002 (3 of 4)
Planner, October 2000 - August 2002 (4 of 4)
Planner, October 2000 - August 2002, pocket miscellany
Planner, 2000 + 2001 (1 of 7)
Planner, 2000 + 2001 (2 of 7)
Planner, 2000 + 2001 (3 of 7)
Planner, 2000 + 2001 (4 of 7)
Planner, 2000 + 2001 (5 of 7)
Planner, 2000 + 2001 (6 of 7)
Planner, 2000 + 2001 (7 of 7)
Planner, April - December 2002 (1 of 2)
Planner, April - December 2002 (2 of 2)
Resume copies
Resumes and artist Statements, 2000
Resumes, 2000 - 2002
Select condolences, 2003 - 2004
Smith Book Club, 1992 - 1995
Special events, 1986 - 1993
Sympathy cards, 2003 - 2004 (1 of 9)
Sympathy cards, 2003 - 2004 (2 of 9)
Sympathy cards, 2003 - 2004 (3 of 9)
Sympathy cards, 2003 - 2004 (4 of 9)
Sympathy cards, 2003 - 2004 (5 of 9)
Sympathy cards, 2003 - 2004 (6 of 9)
Sympathy cards, 2003 - 2004 (7 of 9)
Sympathy cards, 2003 - 2004 (8 of 9)
Sympathy cards, 2003 - 2004 (9 of 9)
Transcripts, 1997 - 2000
Walk to Support Breast Cancer Research and Education, 1994