Charles Foster diary photographs, 1835-1853.

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Charles Foster diary photographs, 1835-1853.

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Black and white copy prints of drawings Foster included in the diary he kept beginning with his voyage across the Atlantic in 1835 and continuing through 1853. Many are illustrations of river scenes and steamboats. Among those which are identified are drawings of the Ohio Belle steamboat, a view of the New York Bay from Yonkers, N.Y., the 1840 presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison, and livestock. Forty color and pen and ink plates accompanied the original diary.

20 photographs : b&w ; 12 x 9 cm.

East Tennessee State University, TET

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East Tennessee State University, TET

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Foster, Charles, 1802-1889

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English immigrant to the United States. Illustrator and agricultural journalist who wrote about important events and sketched impressions of life in the United States. After living in New York City, Monroe, Mich., and Chillicothe and Cincinnati, Ohio, he settled in Marion County, Tenn., where he became a farmer and land speculator. From the description of Charles Foster diary photographs, 1835-1853. (East Tennessee State University). WorldCat record id: 36093037 ...

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

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Epithet: of Add MS 34580 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x00030c American Indian fighter and president of the United States. From the guide to the William Henry Harrison letter, 1795, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) U.S president, Mar.-Apr. 1841; territorial governor of Indiana, 1801-1813; Ohio congressman, 1816-1819, state senator, 1819-1821, senator 1825-1828. From ...

Sleigh, Howard T.

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