Search

Annie Lewis's check registers document her life and lifestyle; checks were recorded by Lewis or her assistant Gertrude Manly, and show expenses for taxes, dogs, automobiles, and staff; payment of dues and house tabs in private clubs in New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island; and contributions to charities in those states. Many of the checks were written for purchases in shops such as Hartford's G. Fox, and New York's Henri Bendel, Bonwit Teller, Hammacher Schlemmer, and Steuben Glass, as well as for goods and services received from the Hartford decorators Maritje Jacobus and Henry Saling, and furniture maker Nathan Margolis, and the decorator Elizabeth Draper in New York. Another regular expense was photography, and many checks were written to Pavelle Laboratories for developing film and printing the pictures taken by Annie Lewis that appear throughout the Lewises' photograph collection (LWL MSS 22).