Sources – Studio for Portrait Masks

  • Ackerman, Ada. "Redonner visage aux gueules cassées. Sculpture et chirurgie plastique pendant et après la Première Guerre mondiale." RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, vol. 41, no. 1, 2016, pp. 5-21. JSTOR.
  • Alexander, Caroline. “Faces of War.” Smithsonian Magazine online, February 2007.
  • "An American Sculptor's Splendid War Work." The American Magazine of Art, vol. 10, no. 8, June 1919, pp. 309-310. JSTOR.
  • An International Adventure: What the American Red Cross is doing for the Civilians of France. American Red Cross, 1918. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 216 folder 10. 
  • “Anna Coleman Ladd: The Sculptor of Faces.” "La Burbuja Rosa" blog, March 23, 2017.
  • Bainbridge, William Seaman. Report on Medical and Surgical Developments of the War. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919, pp. 85-91. Google Books.
  • Biernoff, Suzannah, Portraits of Violence: War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.
  • Biernoff, Suzannah and Jane Tynan. “Making and Remaking of the Civilian Soldier: The World War I Photographs of Horace Nicholls.” Journal of War & Culture Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, December 2012, pp. 277-293. Academia.edu
  • Brent. Letter to Janet Scudder. 17 February 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17.
  • Brent. Letter to Elizabeth S. Hoyt. 19 February 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17.
  • Brent. Letter to Janet Scudder. 16 April 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17.
  • Brent. Letter to Janet Scudder. 3 May 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Brent. Letter to Janet Scudder. 14 May 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Brent. Memorandum to Major Knowlton Mixer. 8 August 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Brent. Letter to Lewis J. Hunter. 1 September 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Brent. Letter to Colonel J. Manley. 7 October 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Campbell, F. Letter to Brent. 4 September 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Celluloid Zapon Company. Letter to Treasurer of the American Red Cross. June 18, 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Delaporte, Sophie. Gueules cassées, les blessés de la face de la Grande Guerre. Agnès Viénot éditions, 2001, pp. 121-122. 
  • Delaporte, Sophie. Visages de guerre: Les gueules cassées, de la guerre de Sécession à nos jours. Belin, 2017. 304pp.
  • “Dr. Maynard Ladd, a Pediatrician, 69: Ex-Associate at the Harvard Medical. School Dies.” New York Times, 11 March 1942, p. 19. TimesMachine.
  • Dufourmontel, Léon. Letter to Anna Ladd, November 30, 1918. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 16.
  • Folks, Homer. Inter-Office Letter to Major Perkins. May 21, 1918. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 82 folder 12.
  • Fuente de la, Laurence. “Texte de Laurence de la Fuente - Dans le cadre du projet « Espaces Hospitaliers », résidence d’artiste menée au CHU de Bordeaux (2017-2018).” CHU de Bordeaux.
  • Feo, Katherine. “Invisibility: Memory, Masks and Masculinities in the Great War.” Journal of Design History, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 17-27. JSTOR.
  • Gibson, Harvey D. Letter to Mrs. Maynard Ladd. July 23, 1918. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 82 folder 12.
  • Givenwilson, I.M. Letter to Brent. 23 September 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Goran, David. “Anna Coleman Ladd ­– American Sculptor Who Devoted Her Time Throughout WWI to Soldiers, Who Were Disfigured.” August 21, 2016. The Vintage News.
  • Graham, Regina F. “American Socialite and Sculptor…” Daily Mail UK online, August 14, 2018.
  • Gregory, Angela and and Nancy L. Penrose. A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris, 1925-1928. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2019.
  • “Hero’s War-Torn Face Patched Up Again.” The Star Press, Muncie, Indiana • Fri, Feb 6, 1920, p. 2. Newspapers.com.
  • Hoyt, Elizabeth S. Letter to Brent. 19 February 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17.
  • Hoyt, Elizabeth S. Letter to Brent. 25 February 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17.
  • Hoyt, Elizabeth S. Letter to Brent. 26 April 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17.
  • Hoyt, Elizabeth S. Letter to Brent 29 April 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx 482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Jalinière, Hugo. “La bataille de Verdun, un tournant dans la médecine de guerre.” Sciences et Avenir, October 10, 2016. Sciences et Avenir.
  • Junka, Paul. “Le masque de gloire,” La Renaissance, vol. 7, no. 7, March 29, 1919, pp. 9-12. Gallica.
  • Keeley, J. "Masks for the Maimed." San Francisco Chronicle, May 5, 1918, p. 3. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • King, Padraic. “How Wounded Soldiers Have Faced the World Again.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 26, 1933, p. 53. Newspapers.com.
  • Ladd, Anna, “Cookery Receipts for the Mutilés de la Figure.” 1918. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17.
  • Ladd, Maynard. “The American Red Cross in the Meurthe-Et-Moselle.” American Journal of Diseases of Children, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 236-241. JAMA Network.
  • Leases of Montparnasse studios and apartments, RH archives.
  • “List of Portrait Masks Delivered to Date Nov. 23 (1918).” Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17.
  • “List of Blessés Waiting for Masks November 23, 1918.” Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17.
  • Lubin, David. Grand Illusion: American Art and the First World War. Oxford University Press, 2016. His footnote 34 identifies documentary sources for Ladd's work.
  • Lubin, David. "Masks, Mutilation, and Modernity: Anna Coleman Ladd and the First World War." Archives of American Art Journal, vol. 47, no. 3-4, Fall 2008, pp. 4-15.
  • Mainz, Valérie and Griselda Pollock. Work and the Image: v. 2: Work in Modern Times - Visual Mediations and Social Processes, Routledge, 2018.
  • Marshall, Clive. “Mending the Men and the Cities of France.” San Francisco Chronicle. December 8, 1918, p. SM5. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “Masks for the Maimed.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 5, 1918, p. 3. Newspapers.com.
  • “Masks for the Wounded.” The Kansas City Times, November 19, 1917, p. 14. Newspapers.com.
  • McFadden, Terri. “Sculpture in War and Peace.” Historic Beverly: Chronicles of a Coastal town, 2018, pp. 142-145. Google Books.
  • Mc Govern, H. A. Letter to Marie Louise Brent. June 18, 1919.  Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Miller, H. W. Letter to Brent. 15 May 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Michell, Caroline. “Facing Horror: Women’s Work, Sculptural Practice and the Great War.” In Mainz, Valérie and Griselda Pollock. Work and the Image: v. 2: Work in Modern Times - Visual Mediations and Social Processes, Routledge, 2018, pp. 33-59.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. “Bureau of Portrait Masks.” Report for the Department of General Relief, August 1919, pp. 12-13. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 76 folder 23.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Letter to Brent. 5 August 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Report to Major C.R. Corbin: "List of Activities Remaining under the French Commission." 10 September 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 82 folder 17.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Letter to Brent. 7 Oct. 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Memo to Col. Robert E. Olds, Commissioner for Europe, on the Departments under the French Commission. 4 December 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 82 folder 17.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Order for Supplies to Major Payson. December 11, 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Order for Christmas Celebration for Mutilés at Studio for Portrait Masks. Val de Grace. 13 December 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Cable to American Red Cross in Washington D.C. 15 December 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Report to Colonel Robert E. Olds (sent 9 October 1919) for the Department of General Relief, August 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 76 folder 23.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Report September 1919, Commission for France. p. 13. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 18.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Report November 1919, Commission for France, p. 15. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 82 folder 19.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Report December 1919, Commission for France, p. 14. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 82 folder 19.
  • Mixer, Knowlton. Report January 1920, Commission for France, p. 12. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 82 folder 21.
  • Muir, Ward. “Masks and Faces,” The Happy Hospital, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.,1918, pp. 143-155. HathiTrust. 
  • Muir, Ward. “The Men with the New Faces.” The Nineteenth Century, October 1917, p. 752, article in Ladd's papers. Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
  • Parker, Harold M. “Masking the War Maimed.” Illustrated World, vol. 29, no. 3, 1918, pp. 349-352. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from The New York Academy of Medicine Library.
  • “Portrait Masks Worn by Many of the French.” Quad-City Times, February 6, 1920, p. 6. Newspapers.com.
  • Powell, Julie M. “About-Face: Gender, Disfigurement and the Politics of French Reconstruction, 1918–24” Gender & History, vol. 28, no. 3, November 2016, pp. 604-622. Research Gate.
  • Prichard, Brenna K. "Boys on Blue Benches: Disfigured Veterans of the First World War." Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, MA thesis, 2016.
  • “Proud of His False Face.” The Emporia Gazette. January 30, 1920, p. 1. Newspapers.com.
  • “Rebuilding Human Wreckage of War.” The Nonpartisan Leader. November 11, 1918, p. 5. Newspapers.com.
  • Raingeval, Emmanuelle. “L’atelier des masques, quand la sculpture se fait soin.” Sculptures, no. 2, October 20, 2015, pp. 29-35. Academia.edu.
  • Red Cross Work on Mutilés at Paris, 1918. Video. National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
  • Roze-Pellat, Marie-Andrée. "La réparation des gueules cassées." Corps, vol. 1, no. 12, CNRS éditions, 2014, pp. 41-48. Cairn.info.
  • Scudder, Janet. Letter to Brent. 12 February 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17.
  • Scudder, Janet. Letter to Brent. 15 April 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17.
  • Scudder, Janet. Letter to Brent. 27 April 1919. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx 482 box81 folder 18.
  • Scudder, Janet. Letter to Anna Ladd. May 7, 1919. Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art 1932 728. Image 6.
  • “Sculptor's Masks Restored Soldiers Disfigured in WWI.” South Florida Sun Sentinel, September 28, 2014, p. A18. Newspapers.com.
  • “She Will Repair Wounded Faces.” The Washington Post. November 11, 1917, p. ES3. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “Society of Men Who Have Scars.” Charlotte News. February 12, 1920, p. 4. Newspapers.com.
  • “To Rebuild War Faces.” Fall River Globe, Nov 9, 1917, p. 7. Newspapers.com.
  • Vaillant, Franz. “11 novembre: ces femmes qui réparaient les ‘gueules cassées’," Terriennes, TV5 Monde, 2019.
  • "Untitled Report on the work of remaking the faces of wounded soldiers." 1918. Medical Services and Warfare database (Adam Matthew). Digitized from the American National Red Cross Records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, xx482 box 81 folder 17, pp 1-3.
  • “Word from the Dead.” The Kansas City Kansan, January 31, 1920, p. 1. Newspapers.com.
  • Wood, Derwent F. “Masks for Facial Wounds.” The Lancet, June, 1917, pp. 949-951. ScienceDirect.

NOTE: "Ladd kept a copy of [... ] Wood’s Lancet article and Muir’s The Happy Hospital among her possessions in the studio" (Prichard 44).