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National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)
William S. & Alfred Martien (Firm)
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between 1856 and 1880?
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1 Album ((176 cartes de visite photographic prints), ports., 25 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-AAPG.N40.P57
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Smithsonian Libraries
A collection of 176 cartes de visite or photographic portraits of various American, British, and European artists active during the second half of the 19th century, assembled by an unidentified previous owner and housed in a commercially-produced blank album.The photographs originate from a number of different photography studios, including Bayard & Bertall, Bingham, Matthew Brady, Carjat & Cie., H.G. DeBurlo, Disdéri, Franck, F. Joubert, McLean & Co., Mayer & Pierson, Ernst Milster, Nadar, Pierre Petit, Ch. Reutlinger, Richards, and others.
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Whitney, Joel E. (Joel Emmons), 1822-1886
Zimmerman, Charles A., 1844-1909
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circa 1864-1865
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4 cartes-de-viste (card photographs)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.098
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection consists of four cartes-de-visite portraits of Native American men involved in the Dakota War of 1862. Individuals were photographed by Joel Emmons Whitney between approximately 1864 and 1865. Reprints of these cartes-de-visite were later sold by Whitney and Charles Alfred Zimmerman in their St. Paul, Minnesota studio throughout the...
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Gurnsey, B. H. (Byron H.), 1833-1880
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undated
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3 mounted prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4671
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National Anthropological Archives
Photos are of Walking Shooter (Hunkpapa), of Mr Goewey, Jesuit priest at Fort Buford, North Dakota, and of a group of unidentified Indian Women; one print dated 1869, others not dated. Prints are of carte de visite size.
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Hazen, Margaret Hindle
Hazen, Robert M.
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circa 1818-1931
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13.5 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0253
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Large collection of photographs, picture postcards, printed ephemera, and music related to the brass band movement in the United States: includes 8 ambrotypes, 36 tintypes, 59 stereographs, 66 cabinet prints, 90 cartes-de-visite, 150 large photoprints, and 874 picture postcards; also posters, concert programs, instrument manufacturers' advertisemem...
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MacDowell, Helen Sandford, 1889-
Pease, L.F.
Prince, Georgiana K., 1861-1915
Sandford Greeting Card Company
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1831-2004
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8 Cubic Feet (37 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1252
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the business activities of the Sandford Card Company and include the papers of Mary Elizabeth Sandford, founder of the company, and her immediate family.
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Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873
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1819-1953
bulk 1835-1883
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12.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.powehira
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Archives of American Art
The papers of sculptor Hiram Powers measure 12.4 linear feet and date from 1819 to 1953, with the bulk of the material dating from 1835 to 1883. Over two-thirds of the collection consists of Powers' correspondence with business associates, purchasers of his artwork, and numerous friends in the United States and Florence, Italy. Of note is Powers' "Studio Memorandum," from 1841 to 1845, which contains dated notations of letters written, receipts and expenditures, business contacts, works in progress, commissions and price quotations for work, comments on problems encountered during studio work, and other notes. Additional papers include scattered biographical material, financial and legal records, printed materials, photographs of Powers, his family, artwork, as well as an extensive collection of carte de visite and cabinet card portraits of many notable figures. Also found is a small amount of artwork by Powers and others, a scrapbook, and two autograph and memorabilia albums.
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Mitchell, Daniel S.
Howard
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ca. 1860's
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31 Prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4754
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National Anthropological Archives
Relate to Arapaho(s), Dakota (some Oglala) and probably Dakota Indians (25), most on mount of D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming, others on unprinted mounts; and 1 Shoshoni photograph on mount of Howard, Fort San[ders ?], Wyoming Territory. All on carte de visite style mounts.
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Lippe, Aschwin, 1914-1988
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1930 - 1988
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36 Linear Feet
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2012.01
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Aschwin Lippe was a research fellow and later curator in the Department of Far Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The collection includes his early research and writings on East Asian art, particularly Chinese paintings. It has substantial material on his involvement in selecting the paintings and writing the catalog for the 1961 Chinese Art Treasures Exhibition. He later shifted his research focus to medieval Indian sculpture. The collection includes journals kept during several years of field research in India as well as his extensive photo-documentation of Indian temples and religious sculpture.
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Wittick, Ben, 1845-1903
Grabill, John C. H.
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925
Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902
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1869-1892
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305 albumen prints ((some as cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards))
6 acetate negatives
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.035
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National Museum of the American Indian
The collection brings together images by well-known Western photographers such as A.F. Randall, John Grabill, C.S. Fly, Stanley Morrow, Ben Wittick and John Choate. Primarily images of famous Indian leaders, as well as other portraits and scenes.
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Whittredge, Worthington, 1820-1910
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circa 1840s-1965
bulk 1849-1908
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2.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.whitwort
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Archives of American Art
The papers of landscape painter Worthington Whittredge measure 2.2 linear feet and date from the 1840s to 1965, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1849 to 1908. This small collection documents Whittredge's career as a painter, particularly his years in Europe from 1849 to 1859, through biographical materials, a manuscript of his autobiography, news clippings, catalogs, six sketchbooks and numerous drawings and paintings. Also found are two photographs of Whittredge and a nineteenth-century photo album containing photographs of 32 famous artists.