Albert Bierstadt letter collection
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- Creators:
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Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902
- Dates:
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1860-1900
- Size:
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0.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.bieralbe
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
This small collection measures 0.2 linear feet and comprises 13 letters written by renowned Hudson River School landscape painter Albert Bierstadt between 1860 and 1900. The majority of the letters were penned in the last two decades of his life and discuss his painting, the inspiration he found in nature, his studio, and concerns relating to commissions and finances.
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Gammon, Reginald, 1921-2005
- Dates:
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1927-2007
bulk 1960-2005
- Size:
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2.4 Linear feet
5.3 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- AAA.gammreg
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of African American painter, printmaker, and educator Reginald Gammon measure 2.4 linear feet and 5.30 GB and date from 1927 to 2007, with bulk of the materials dating from 1960-2005. The collection consists of scattered biographical materials, including video and sound recordings of interviews; correspondence with artists, galleries, organizations, and museums; writings and notebooks; teaching files; printed materials; photographic material; and artwork in the form of sketches, drawings, and paint sketches.
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circa 1920-
- Size:
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6.75 Cubic feet (35mm slides; file folders; glass negatives; plans.)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.AGC
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The American gardens collection, a component of the Archives of American Gardens (AAG), includes holdings not associated with other major collections in the archives. The slides, photographs, plans, and files in this collection come from various private donors. Individual sub-units typically depict a single garden.
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Adams, Molly, 1918-2003
- Dates:
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circa 1960-1994
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0 Photographic prints (color, 4 x 6 inches)
0 Photographic prints (black and white, 3 1/2 x 5 inches)
0 Photographic prints (black and white, 8 x 10 inches)
0 contact sheets (black and white)
35mm slides (photographs) (color, 2 x 2 inches)
0 Negatives (35mm negatives, color)
0 Negatives (black & white, 4 x 5 inches)
0 Negatives (120mm negatives, black and white, 2 x 2 inches)
0 film transparency (color, 4 x 5 inches)
0 Transparencies (120mm transparencies, color, 2 x 2 inches)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.ADM
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The Maida Babson Adams American Garden Collection documents the work of Molly Adams, a free-lance garden photographer who photographed hundreds of private and public gardens, many of them in the mid-Atlantic region, from the late 1950s through the mid-1990s. It includes slides, photographic prints, negatives and transparencies. A significant number of images document the work of landscape designers Nelva M. Weber, Alice Recknagel Ireys, and Friede Stege. Roughly 50 gardens do not have an identified location. Some images have captions and other information written on them.
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Turner, Charles Henry, 1848-1908
- Dates:
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1875-circa 1973
bulk circa 1890-circa 1910
- Size:
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0.54 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.turnchar
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of Massachusetts and New Hampshire painter and printmaker Charles Henry Turner, measure 0.54 linear feet and date from 1875-circa 1973, with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1890-circa 1910. The collection includes an auction catalog and a price list of Turner's paintings, biographical material, five letters, artwork, miscellaneous printed material, photographs of Turner, his studio, European travel, and artwork, and two glass plate negatives.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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1768-1973
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37.8 Cubic feet (consisting of 76 boxes (including 12 off-site), 12 folders, 16 oversize folders, 7 flat boxes (6 full, 1 partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Dry
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Dry Goods forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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circa 1889-1960
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0.49 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 1 oversize folder, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Vending
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Vending forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Stahl, Ferdinand Anthony, 1874-1950
- Dates:
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1925
1928
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3 negatives (photographic)
18 Photographic prints
6 copy negatives
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.141
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Photographic prints and negatives taken by Seventh-day Adventist missionary Ferdinand Anthony Stahl amongst indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon. These include the Asháninka (Campa/Chuncha), Yagua (Yahua) and Amahuaca communities.
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Schoewe, Charles G.
- Dates:
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circa 1875-1895
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2 tintypes (prints)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.406
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection consists of 2 tintypes collected by Charles G. Schoewe that depict Potawatomi men from Wisconsin.
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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
- Dates:
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undated
- Size:
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1 Item (album (120 photoprints))
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2015.09
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Black leather bound album of 119 albumen prints and one silver gelatin print. Prints are likely produced by the studio of photographer Antoin Sevruguin in the 1870s and 80s in his early career in Iran. Includes handwritten captions in Persian. Many of the prints have an unusually purplish tone.