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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Publications
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1972-2005
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-103
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of contracts and permissions administered by the Office of Publications for various publications, including gallery guides, exhibition catalogs, and brochures. Publications covered include Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914; American Portrait Drawings; American Portrait Prints: Proceedings of ...
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Sully, Julia
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[ca. 1730]-1948
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1,650 Items ((on 3 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.sulljuli
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Archives of American Art
Biographical and genealogical material; writings; letters; photographs; research material on portraiture in Virginia; and research material on Thomas Sully.
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Neagle, John, 1796-1865
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1824-1861
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3 Microfilm reels
- Collection ID:
- AAA.neagjona
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Archives of American Art
Five volumes of notebooks and account books documenting personal activities, financial matters, information on art and artists.
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Neagle, John, 1796-1865
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1817-1865
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0.3 Items ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.neagjohn
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Archives of American Art
Letters, writings, business records, sketches and printed material.
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Robert C. Graham collection of artists' letters
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Graham, Robert Claverhouse, 1913-1994
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1783-1935
bulk 1804-1877
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0.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.grahrobe
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Archives of American Art
The Robert C. Graham collection of artists' letters measure 0.2 linear feet and dates from 1783 to 1935, with the bulk of the letters dating from 1804 to 1877. Graham, an art dealer and collector, compiled the unrelated letters of several late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century painters such as Thomas Biddle, Thomas Doughty, G. P. A. Healy, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, Emanuel Leutze, Samuel F. B. Morse, Rembrandt Peale, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Sully, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and others.
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions
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1983-1991
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10 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 93-008
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that pertain to eight exhibitions which the Office of Exhibitions organized between 1983 and 1991. The bulk of the records includes correspondence between the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) Director, Alan Fern, and various national and international museum institutions, donors, art galleries, archives, ...
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Longacre family
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[ca. 1810]-1952
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9 Microfilm reels
- Collection ID:
- AAA.longlong
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence, biographical and genealogical information, poems, notes, diaries, artwork, sketchbooks, photographs, business papers and printed material relating to the Longacre family, especially James Barton Longacre and Andrew Longacre.
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Catlin, George, 1796-1872
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undated
1821-1904
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2.3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.catlgeor
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Archives of American Art
The collection comprises 2.3 feet of papers concerning George Catlin's creation and promotion of his famed "Indian Gallery" of paintings, drawings, and artifacts of North American Indians. Dating from 1821 through 1904, with one item dated 1946, the papers include letters, notebooks and journals, receipt books and loose receipts, printed materials, and other documentation. The bulk of the collection focuses on Catlin's efforts to promote the sale of his gallery to the United States government through tours, including London and Paris, and petitions to various governments to purchase the Gallery. Among the rare printed catalogs and petitions in the collection are exhibition catalogs for the U.S., London, and Paris tours, the earliest dating from 1837. Letters and other documents include letters dating from the 1830s from Henry Clay, Thomas Sully, and William Henry Seward commending Catlin's work, as well as Catlin family correspondence and papers dating from 1821 through the 1870s.
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Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918
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1731-1918
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1.71 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.hartchar
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Archives of American Art
The Charles Henry Hart autograph collection dates from 1731-1917 and measures 1.71 linear feet comprised of 232 letters, portrait prints, and other documents signed by American artists. There is a .01 linear foot (6 items) unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2021 that includes a letter from Winslow Homer to Mr. Clarke, November 28, 1892; typed and annotated lists of autographs of artists in the collections of Charles Henry Hart; handwritten note about English painter and engraver, John Keyse Sherwin, undated; handwritten note regarding Gennearino Persico, miniature artist, July 18, 1826.
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American Philosophical Society
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1784-1954
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3 Microfilm reels (3 partial microfilm reels)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.amerphil
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Archives of American Art
The microfilmed American Philosophical Society selected records contain art related letters; committee reports; registrar's and curators' records; pamphlets; and exhibition catalogs from the archives of the American Philosophical Society. Many of the letters are to the Society's secretary and librarian John Vaughan; a few are to the Society's presi...
