Papers, 1830-1874.

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Papers, 1830-1874.

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Papers of William Sidney Mount include correspondence, diaries, notebooks, invitations, exhibit catalogs, business papers and miscellaneous printed materials. Correspondents include family members, friends, other artists, musicians, writers, publishers, art collectors and patrons, amoung them Shepard Alonzo Mount, Robert Nelson Mount, Elizabeth Reeves Ford Mount, Maria Seabury, Theodorus Bailey, August Belmont, William Cullen Bryant, E.L. Carey, William M. Davis, John M. Falconer, Charles Lanman, James Lenox, William H. Ludlow, Thomas McElrath, Luman Reed, William Schaus, Francis B. Spinola, Jonathan Sturges, Benjamin Franklin Thompson and Effingham Tuthill. Diaries or journals, 1843-1868, include many sketches. Bound note-books and loose notes include autobiographical notes, lists of commissions and paintings, notes on a variety of subjects such as painting techniques and materials, other painters, health and medications, carriage painting, boat design, improvements to the harbor at St. James, N.Y., politics, spiritualism and religion. There are also social invitations, calling cards, notices of exhibits and other announcements of the National Academy of Design, books and catalogs from Mount's library, an adminiustrator's account for Mount's estate, ms. music written or copied by Mount, and patterns, varnish recipes, memoranda, notes, a U.S. patent and other papers concerning Mount's invention of a hollow-backed violin called the "Cradle of Harmony."

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Davis, William Myron, 1934-

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Belmont, August, 1813-1890

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Ludlow, William H.

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Mount, Elizabeth Reeves Ford.

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Tuthill, Effingham.

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Schaus, William

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McElrath, Thomas, 1807-1888

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Lenox, James

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Falconer, John Mackie, 1820-1903

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Society of American Artists

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Reed, Luman, -1836

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Lanman, Charles R.

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Sturges, Jonathan, 1864-1911

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Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868

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Carley, E.L.

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Mount, Shepard Alonzo, 1804-1868

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Seabury, Maria.

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Mount, Robert Nelson.

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Spinola, F. B. (Francis Barretto), 1821-1891

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