John Williamson Palmer Collection 1857-1898, n.d.

Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897

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Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New-York Tribune until 1862. During the American Civil War, he served as Assistant Secretary of War, playing especially the role of the liaison between the War Department and General Ulysses S. Grant. In 1868 he became the editor and part-owner of the New York Sun. He at first ...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Palmer, John Williamson, 1825-1906

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American author. From the description of Papers of John Williamson Palmer, 1856-1903. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31448315 ...

John Campbell

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Balzac

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David Law

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Avander Staal

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Heywood Hardy

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Maxime Lalanne

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MacBeth, Robert W.

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L. Danielli

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Parke Godwin

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Edd. Barry

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Ewan Christian

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Haden, Francis Seymour 1880-1910

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Epithet: etcher and surgeon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x000002 ...

Charles G. D. Hobart

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M. Martial

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Webb, Charles H., 1945-

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Palmer, James C.

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Barnard, George Grey, 1863-1938

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American sculptor, 1863-1938, also art collector and dealer. Trained at Chicago Art Institute and L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Commissioned to do statues for the Capital in Harrisburg, Pa., a statue of Lincoln for Cincinnati, Ohio. He spent the last years of his life on a monument to peace entitled "Rainbow Arch" which was never realized. Barnard supported himself by selling Medieval art and artifacts. He built the "Cloisters" in New York City to house his personal collection and sold it in 1925 to...

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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James Thomas Fields, American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1817. At the age of 17, he went to Boston to clerk in a booksellers shop. While clerking, he often wrote for newspapers and in 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1846 as Ticknor and Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. He was the publisher of several prominent contemporary American and British writers. Besides just publishing the authors, h...

Hubert Herkomer

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Hurlbert, William Henry, 1827-1895

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William Henry Hurlbert, journalist, editor and author, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, educated in Harvard, and for a brief time, served as a Unitarian minister. In 1855 he became a writer on the staff of Putnam's, then drama critic for Albion, and later an editor at the New York tribune and the New York world. After 1883, he lived mostly abroad, writing for various English and American publications. He was the author of poems, plays, and a biography of George Brinton McClellan in 1864. ...

Henry F. Gilling

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Theodosia Burr

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F. E. Longfellow

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Francis Seymour Hayden

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Henry, James.

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William Burges

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James Tissot

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L. Lancon

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Bridgman, Frederick Arthur, 1847-1928

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The American painter, composer, and author Frederick Arthur Bridgman was born in Tuskegee Alabama. He attended classes at the National Academy of Design in New York, and in 1866 went to study in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Paris Exposition Universelles in 1879 and 1889. From the description of Letter to Mr. Hossack, 1899 Jan. 6. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78890054 Frederick A. Bridgman and his wife Martha we...

Haig, Axel Herman

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Charles Courtry

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Arthur Collins

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Howells, William Dean, II

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R. H. Chatsworth

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Matthew Fontaine Maury

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Matthew Fontaine Maury was born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, 14 January 1806 to Richard Maury (1766-1843) and Diana Minor Maury (1768-1843). At five he moved with his family to Tennessee. In 1825, he received a midshipman's warrant and joined the United States navy. After nine years on active duty at sea, Maury returned to Virginia in 1834 and married Ann Hull Herndon (1811-1901) 15 July 1834. He settled in Fredericksburg and began writing articles on the navy. In 1842, he was appointed superi...

Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892

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James R. Osgood was a native of Maine who went to work for the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields. He eventually founded the subsidiary group James R. Osgood & Co. which was associated with many fine writers. The firm struggled financially, and when Osgood stepped down, was dissolved into Houghton, Mifflin. From the description of James R. Osgood letter to George L. Craik, 1879 June 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54667691 Publisher....

Palmer, James Croxall, 1811-1883

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Jules Michelet

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W. H. Carpenter

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Alphonse Legros

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George Darley

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