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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Adelia Gates Collection, 1879-1898 and undated
Summary
- Collection ID:
- SIA.FARU7312
- Creators:
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Gates, Adelia
- Dates:
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1879-1898 and undated
- Languages:
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English
- Physical Description:
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3.07 cu. ft. (2 document boxes) (3 16x20 boxes)
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Descriptive Entry
Descriptive Entry
This collection consists of 327 watercolors of flowers painted by Adelia Gates. It represents a fragment of a collection of 502 Gates watercolors donated to the Smithsonian by Eleanor Lewis in 1913. Approximately 175 watercolors are missing. The paintings cover a wide range of native and exotic plants and a majority of the studies were made in California, Algeria, and Italy. Also included is an alphabetic index to the paintings, arranged by genus. Some of the watercolors include annotations by Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon, a California botanist who received art lessons from Gates.
Historical Note
Historical Note
Adelia Gates (circa 1820-1912) was born in the Susquehanna Valley of New York State. At age sixteen she taught in a country school, and later worked in the cotton mills at Lowell, Massachusetts. Gates attended Antioch College when she was in her thirties, but had to leave after two years because of poor health. At the age of fifty, Gates was taught how to paint flowers by Madame Vouga in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Prefered Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7312, Adelia Gates Collection
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Personal Papers
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Gates, Adelia | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Lewis, Eleanor | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Vouga, Mme | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Lemmon, Sara Allen Plummer, 1836-1923 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Antioch College | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Botany | Topic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Flowers | Topic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Watercolor painting | Topic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Art objects | Genre/Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Manuscripts | Genre/Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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