Collection, 1839-1994 (inclusive), 1851-1890 (bulk).

Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876

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Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 – February 18, 1876) was an American stage actress. Her voice was noted for its full contralto register, and she was able to play both male and female parts. She lived intermittently in Rome, in an expatriate colony of prominent artists and sculptors, some of whom became part of her tempestuous private life. Cushman made her initial professional appearance at age eighteen on April 8, 1835 at Boston's Tremont Theatre. She then went to New Orleans where sh...

Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927

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Victoria C. Woodhull was a woman's rights pioneer who achieved notoriety on many fronts in Gilded Age America. She founded (with her sister Tennessee Claflin) a Wall Street brokerage, with the support and advice of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Woodhull used profits to publish Woodhull & Claflin Weekly, advocating female suffrage, free love, and other progressive causes. Later she addressed House committee on suffrage, and exposed the Beecher-Tilton scandal, implicating celebrated minister Henry War...

Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912

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Taylor, James E., 1839-1901

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William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was born in Lancaster, Ohio. Orphaned at age nine, he was raised by Thomas Ewing, a U.S. senator who also served as secretary of the treasury and secretary of the interior. He graduated sixth in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Sherman served in the Mexican War, but left the army in 1853. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Sherman accepted a position as a colonel in the regular army. He became well known for his tactics of prope...

Frenzeny, Paul

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Born in 1840, Frenzeny was active in California as an illustrator of genre scenes. He died in 1902. From the description of San Francisco newsboys distributing the evening papers : col. engraving, 1877? (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864470 ...

Macquoid, Percy, -1925

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British theatrical designer, illustrator and author of 4 books and numerous articles on English furniture, Percy Macquoid was the son of illustrator and watercolourist Thomas Robert Macquoid (1820-1912), and novelist and travel writer Katharine Sarah Macquoid [pseud. Gilbert Percy] (1824-1917). From the description of Percy Macquoid costume designs for The Merchant of Venice, 1922. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 669062818 Painter and scene designer. ...

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931

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W.A. Rogers was the New York Herald cartoonist from 1902 to 1922. From the description of Illustrations from Harper's Weekly series, American editors, circa 1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864480 ...

Schiffer, Clara Goldberg.

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Clara (Goldberg) Schiffer (A.B., Radcliffe, 1932; M.A., George Washington University, 1939) was a health program analyst in the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services concerned with occupational and environmental health and disease prevention. Over the years, she assembled a large collection of prints culled from the 19th century pictorial press and other sources which provide compelling documentation of women's labor history. From the description of Collection, 1861-1999 (inclusive...

Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891

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De Thulstrup, Thure, 1848-1930,

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Davis, Theodore R

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Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910

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Winslow Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1836. He was raised in Cambridge, where he developed a love of art and the outdoors. At the age of 19 he began his career as an illustrator, apprenticing at the J.H. Bufford lithographic firm in Boston. He then decided to become a freelance illustrator. In 1859 Homer moved to New York to work for Harper's Weekly, serving as artist-correspondent for the magazine during the Civil War. After taking some art classes at the National Academy of Desig...