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Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864. Albert Newsam Print Collection, 1822-1881 bulk 1829-1860.

Title: Albert Newsam Print Collection, 1822-1881 bulk 1829-1860.

The Albert Newsam Print Collection is primarily black and white lithographed portraits drawn on stone by Newsam from life or after other artists and photographers. The collection holds images of several hundred prominent figures from the period spanning the late 1820s through the early 1860s. There are more than seventy religious figures, particularly Episcopal and Presbyterian clergyman, many of which were published in the U.S. Ecclesiastical Portrait Gallery (1841), and the Presbyterian Historical Almanac (1858). Other dominant occupations are medicine (doctors and dentists), lawyers, judges, military figures, writers, composers, performing artists (dance, music, and theatre), and Philadelphia merchants. Many of the subjects are politicians. There are portraits of eight Pennsylvania governors from George Wolf (1829) through William F. Packer (1858), fifteen American presidents from George Washington through James Buchanan (1857), cabinet members, and congressmen from a variety of states. Many of the portraits were produced for publications - - both books and serials - - as well as for sheet music. Some of the prints have printed or hand-applied color. Several of the images are present in varying states, and there are a number of duplicates. The Historical Society owns all but 91 of the 555 identified Newsam works. Artists most often copied are the painters Henry Inman, Charles Bird King, John Neagle, Gilbert Stuart, and Thomas Sully, and Philadelphia photographers M.A. Root and McClees & Germon. The prints were primarily published by P.S. Duval, as well as other firms including: C.G. Childs; Childs & Inman; Pendleton, Kearny & Childs; Lehman & Duval. Newsam created a series of portraits of Indians for Thomas L. McKenney's noted History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published in Philadelphia between 1836 and 1844. Also included in the collection are the plates from four medical publications published in Philadelphia which contain images by Newsam: Pancoast's Treatise on Operative Surgery (1st edition, 1844 and 3rd edition, 1852); Quain and Wilson's Series of Anatomical Plates (1842); and Rayer's A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Skin (1845). The Newsam prints were acquired by the Historical Society through gift and purchase between 1881 and 1965. The largest accession came in April 1881, when 162 prints were donated by John A. McAllister. The prints in that group were Albert Newsam's personal copies, and had been given to McAllister by Newsam near the end of his life. Many are proofs before letters and were annotated by the artist. More than 150 additional prints were acquired by the Historical Society at sales and auctions in the period between 1910 and 1919.

ArchivalResource: 750 lithographic prints 1 drawing (11 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212412079 View

The Robert Cushman Butler Collection of Theatrical Illustrations

Title: The Robert Cushman Butler Collection of Theatrical Illustrations

Engravings, lithographs, manuscripts, music covers, books and other printed materials primarily relating to 18th and 19th century English and American theatre..

ArchivalResource: 3 containers; 60 oversize folders; 15 linear feet; Approximate 3,000 items

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Vaughan, John, 1755-1841. Papers, 1768 - ca. 1936

Title: John Vaughan papers, 1768 - Circa 1936

The collection of about 850 items covers the period from 1782 to c. 1936, with the bulk dating to the 1780s to 1840s. The collection is divided into four series. Series I contains correspondence relating to a wide variety of topics, including French and English politics, business, trade, religious matters, and personal affairs. Many of the items are letters of introduction. There is also information on John Vaughan’s immigration to America, Joseph Priestley, vaccines and inoculation (with Jefferson's comments on the same), Vaughan's business in Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society. Also included in this series are 2 boxes with copies of Vaughan correspondence as well as miscellaneous notes by E. W. Madeira, gathered in the course of his research on Vaughan in the 1930s. Series II consists of three volumes. Included are two of Vaughan's commonplace books. One, entitled, "J. Vaughan's book," May 17, 1779 (47 pp., in Latin; 870/L34), includes mostly Latin notations. The other commonplace book, dated 1783 (ca. 66 pp.; B V 462.c), includes comments on several prominent Americans, such as Benjamin Rush and David Rittenhouse, as well as American society generally. The third volume is a copybook with thirty letters spanning the period 1784 to 1801 (B V462.1). Series III includes material relating to Vaughan's administration of the estate of the Philadelphia merchant Samuel Merrick, 1796-1822 (Vaughan-Merrick Papers, B V462.m; 2 boxes). Series IV consists of correspondence between Vaughan and the DuPont Co. for which he served as agent (B V462.4; photocopies of 73 letters).

ArchivalResource: 5.0 Linear feet, Ca. 850 items

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Papers, 1808-1888.

Title: Papers, 1808-1888.

Diaries and correspondence of English historical painter Benjamin Robert Haydon.

ArchivalResource: 35 v. and 2 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00516/catalog View

Thomas Cole papers

Title: Thomas Cole papers

Notebooks; sketchbooks; drawings; letters; manuscript poems; catalogs; paintbrushes. Ca. 575 drawings. Letters, manuscript poems, catalogs and a sketchbook dated March 10, 1832. 2 v. of notebooks; 1825, and 18 v. of sketchbooks, 1827-1847. Cole sketches mainly in New York State, The White Mountains, England, Italy, and Catskill, N.Y. Correspondence with Cole, including letters from friends, family, artists, and others; journals; notes; essays; lectures; poetry; clippings; and financial records. Correspondents include: William Althorpe Adams, Samuel James Ainsley, Francis Alexander, Theodore Allen, Washington Allston, Thomas B. Ashton, Edwin T. Bennet, Simeon D. Bloodgood, William C. Bryant, Edward L. Carey, Cephas G. Childs, Lewis G. Clark, Thomas S. Cummings, Franklin Dexter, William Dunlap, Asher B. Durand, Robert Gilmor, George W. Greene, Charles C. Ingham, Charles R. Leslie, Jonathan Mason, Samuel F.B. Morse, John L. Morton, Henry C. Pratt, Luman Reed, John P. Ridner, Jonathan Sturges, Ithiel Town, Isaiah Townsend, Charles B. Trego, William P. Van Rensselaer, Cornelius Ver Bryck, Daniel Wadsworth, Samuel Ward, Robert W. Weir, Ambrose Wright, and others.

ArchivalResource: 7 microfilm reels

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Papers, 1808-1888.

Title: Papers, 1808-1888.

Diaries and correspondence of English historical painter Benjamin Robert Haydon.

ArchivalResource: 35 v. and 2 boxes (5 linear ft.)

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Childs, Cephas Grier, 1793-1871. Correspondence with Robert Montgomery Bird, 1834.

Title: Correspondence with Robert Montgomery Bird, 1834.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63551403 View

Inman, Henry, 1801-1846. Letters, 1828-1845.

Title: Letters, 1828-1845.

This collection of letters from Inman to Childs mostly concern Inman's artistic contribution to Childs' lithographic business from 1828 to 1845, especially from 1830 to 1833, when the two were formally associated in the lithographic firm, Childs, and Inman. There is much discussion of sketches, drawings, portraits, engravings and lithographs. There is also some discussion of Inman's personal and professional affairs as well as those of other artists and lithographers in the New York and Philadelphia areas.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (64 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214080389 View