| Ballard, Ellis Ames, 1861-1938 | |||||||||||||
| type | Collector | ||||||||||||
| dates | 1861-1938 | ||||||||||||
| city | Philadelphia | ||||||||||||
| state | PA | ||||||||||||
| other cities | Athens, OH; | ||||||||||||
| sex | M | ||||||||||||
| history |
Ellis Ames Ballard was a Philadelphia lawyer (firm Ballard, Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP) and a collector of books, mainly Kipling, and prints. He left 230 prints by Robert Nanteuil to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Other prints owned by Ballard were auctioned off by the Samuel Freeman Auctioneers from 1938-1940. In 1884, Ballard married Nina Gertrude Schefel (1864- 1937), and they had three children: Frederick Lyman Ballard (1888-1952), Ernest Schwefel Ballard (1885-1952), and Mary Ballard Duryee (1896-1988, m. Samuel Sloan Duryee, 1893-1979). |
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| decades | 1900-1910 1920-1930 1930-1940 |
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| updated | 02/14/2025 10:12:25 | ||||||||||||
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