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MA Reardon Hingham Home/Studio Photographs and Videos Finding Aid: Collection Overview

Title: MA Reardon Hingham Home/Studio Photographs and Videos

Date(s): 2012 May-June

Repository I.D.: US: MBEmm: Lib-2012-10

Collection Call No.: Lib-2012-10

Author/Creator:

Reardon, Katherine (Weston) (creator)
Tholl, Susan E. von Daum (creator)

Location: Emmanuel College Archives Digital Collection

Extent: 3,503.49 megabytes (10 photographs/12 videos)

Language(s): Material is in English.

Abstract: This collection contains photographs and videos of MA Reardon’s home/studio at 12 Martins Lane, Hingham, Massachusetts.

Access Restrictions: 1) The collection is not restricted. 2) Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the College Archivist.

Preferred Citation: [Item Title]. MA Reardon Hingham Home/Studio Photographs and Videos. Cardinal Cushing Library, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA.

Provenance: The photographs were created by Katherine (Weston) Reardon, wife of MA (Mary Agnes) Reardon’s nephew William Salter Reardon, and were donated to Emmanuel College Archives in May 2012 to allow the archives reference material in preparation for its visit to the MA Reardon Studio in June 2012. It was at this time that the archives through the individual of Susan von Daum Tholl, Director of Library Services, developed video records of the MA Reardon house/studio.

Processed By: Processed by John P. Healey Jr. in November 2012

Biography/History: In 1962 MA (Mary Agnes) Reardon purchased land at 12 Martins Lane from her brother George Daniel Reardon and built a home on the site. In 1976 she began an expansion project that added an art studio to the house and it was in this studio she developed artwork for the St. Louis Cathedral (St. Louis, M.O.). After her death in 2002, the heirs of MA Reardon sold the house to Steven Wiener in 2003 and then in 2011 the house was purchased by Jon and Angela Weber. The following year the Webers decided to demolish the building constructed by MA Reardon. Demolition began in the summer of 2012.   

Scope and Content: This collection contains photographs and videos of the home/studio of MA Reardon, a liturgical artist and Emmanuel College faculty member (1953-1972), at 12 Martins Lane, Hingham, Massachusetts. The collection was created in May and June of 2012, shortly before the demolition of the building. The collection is maintained in digitally in .jpeg (photographs) and .avchd (videos) formats.

Collection Arrangement: 1. MA Reardon Hingham Home/Studio Photographs 2. MA Reardon Hingham Home/Studio Videos

Note: The photographs are in a .jpeg file format. The videos are in an .avchd file format.