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Under an agreement reached by the Pennsylvania attorney general's office and the Helen Clay Frick Foundation, portions of the Frick Family Archives could remain in Pittsburgh.
The agreement, which must be approved by the Orphan's Court Division of Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, calls for Henry Clay Frick's business papers and other items of local interest to be housed in the University of Pittsburgh's Archives Service Center in Point Breeze, where Frick's Pittsburgh home, Clayton, is located.
Materials that relate to the Frick family, including photographs and motion pictures, will be transferred to the Frick Collection's Frick Art Reference Library in New York.
The disposition of the archives, now housed at the Frick Art & Historical Center in Point Breeze, has been at the center of a dispute among the descendants of Henry Clay Frick since November 1999, when trustees of the Helen Clay Frick Foundation voted 10-1 to move them to New York.
One of Henry Frick's great-granddaughters, however, said she would continue her legal battle to keep the entire Frick Family Archives in Western Pennsylvania.
The foundation's board is composed of 11 descendants of Henry and Adelaide Childs Frick. A great-granddaughter, Arabella Dane of Boston, was the only trustee to vote against the move originally and later filed an objection in Orphan's Court. She is supported by her sister, Martha Frick Symington Sanger, an adviser...