Forty-two watercolor drawings by Franz Hölzlhuber, an Austrian visitor to the U.S. between 1856 and 1860 who resided first in Milwaukee then travelled in Canada and the Mississippi River Valley. He sketched the scenes observed while travelling, published some of his sketches in Harper's Monthly Magazine and eleswhere, and after his return to Austria, used them in lectures and as sources for larger drawings. Besides the original watercolor sketches found in Box 1, this collection includes in Box 2 both a set of black and white photographs of the sketches, and a bound facsimile volume of color laser copies of the sketches and related newsclippings. Also in Box 2 is a draft and a final translation of Hölzlhuber's description of each sketch, a copy of the pamphlet "The American Sketchbooks of Franz Hölzlhuber" printed for an exhibition of other Hölzlhuber sketches at the University of Kansas Museum of Art in 1959, and other miscellaneous items. In PH 3131 (3) is an 11"x17" black and white photocopy of each sketch with its description, useful for further photocopying. In PH 3102 is a set of 35mm color transparency copies of the sketches.
