Sawyier Family Scrapbook, 1860s-early 1900s.

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Sawyier Family Scrapbook, 1860s-early 1900s.

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The collection consists of a 127 page scrapbook with photographs, watercolor sketches, pencil and ink sketches, newspaper clippings, letters and fabric pieces. The materials in the scrapbook date from the 1860s to the early 1900s. The scrapbook was given to Ellen W. Sawyier by her sister, Sarah H. McKee on Christmas, 1895. Ellen W. Sawyier started to put the scrapbook together on her birthday June 23, 1896. The scrapbook has 152 images including family photographs, watercolor sketches, pencil and ink sketches. Also included in the collection is a small book with the text to the poem The Two Villages by Rose Terry Cook. Rose Terry Cook wrote the poem The Two Villages and Paul Sawyier painted watercolors to accompany the poems text. The original watercolors from this book are in the Museum at the Kentucky Historical Society. Item number 123 is an unsigned watercolor sketch that was possibly painted by Paul Sawyier. It has been removed from the collection and placed in the emergency section, Special Collections, Kentucky Historical Society.

One 127 page scrapbook and one 18 page book.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7244616

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Sawyier, Paul, 1865-1917

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The painter Paul Sawyier was born in Madison County, Ohio, March 23, 1865, to a family of amateur artists. In 1870, the family moved to Frankfort, Kentucky. Sawyier attended the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1884-85 and then returned to Frankfort in 1886. There he began painting river scenes and landscapes. Sawyier continued his art studies in New York and Cincinnati, then returned again to Frankfort where he concentrated on landscape painting in a variety of media, including his favorite, watercolo...

Sawyier, Ellen Wingate.

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Sawyier family.

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