Box 1: Standard size materials

The three artists featured in this collection were all successful students of Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in the late 19th century. While Elizabeth Shippen Green went on to live in Rhode Island, Boston, and New York, the three women contributed to the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania art communities during their lifetimes. The collection captures the extent of the published illustrations by the three, including Green’s work in pen and ink and Oakley’s success in portraits and murals.

The collection was purchased by the Museum from Rona Schneider, who obtained the materials from a descendant of Edith Emerson, a close friend of the “Red Rose Girls” and later resident of “Cogslea.” The collection includes some stories illustrated by Pyle and published in Harper’s Magazine; works of the three female artists from roughly 1900 to 1947 as print proofs, photographs, and tearsheets; photographs of the women and their friends; newspaper clippings and articles; and slide negatives and exhibition catalogs.