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The Austin Strong Foundation partners with other foundations across the country in order to help fund essential research by some of the greatest minds in the field to find a cure.
Austin Strong, American playwright, stage designer, theater producer, author, artist, and landscape architect. Strong was born in San Francisco on April 18, 1881 and grew up in Hawaii and Samoa, where he lived with his step-grandfather, Robert Louis Stevenson.
One of the great Nantucket personalities of the twentieth century, Austin Strong (1881-1952) was a stage designer, theatrical producer, author, landscape architect, Mason, clairvoyant, commodore of the Nantucket Yacht Club (1931 and 1932), founder of the Wharf Rat Club, promoter of and participant in the Nantucket Cottage Hospital “fêtes ...
- The Norman H. Strouse Collection
- The Angel Collection
- The Austin Strong Collection
The original 800 item collection of the RLSM was the personal collection of the museum’s founder. It largely consisted of various editions of Stevenson’s works, books and articles about Stevenson, part of Stevenson’s personal library, original letters and manuscripts by Stevenson and his family and friends, and a limited amount of memorabilia. Even...
Hundreds of items acquired from Margaret “Angel” Bailey, who was Isobel Field’s personal assistant and caretaker at the end of her life. Isobel (née Osbourne) Field was Stevenson’s step-daughter who lived with the family while in the South Seas. She and her son Austin Strong inherited much of the Stevenson family possessions after Stevenson’s wife ...
Austin Strong was Isobel Field’s son, who lived in Samoa with the Stevenson family as a boy, and was legally adopted by Stevenson after Isobel divorced. Strong went on to inherit much of the Stevenson family material, which he moved to his Nantucket house. He eventually became a successful playwright, whose work Seventh Heaven won the first Academy...
The Austin Strong collection documents the development of a play by Strong entitled “Liberty: Being the Biography of Lafayette Told in Dramatic Form,” written about the Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834).
Austin Strong was born on April 18, 1881 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer, known for 7th Heaven (1927), Seventh Heaven (1937) and Qichongtian (1940). He was married to Mary Holbrook Wilson. He died on September 17, 1952 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA.
SUMMARY: The Austin Strong Papers contain correspondence, theater scripts, artwork, notebooks, diaries, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, photographs, photograph albums, printed material, and professional and personal papers.
