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Billings, Frederick, 1823-1890 print view role Collector dates 1823-1890 city Woodstock state VT other cities New York, NY; Royalton, VT; San Francisco, CA; sex M historical notes Frederick H. Billings was lawyer, Financier, art collector, and the President of the Northern Pacific Railway. Billings collected paintings by the Hudson River and Barbizon Schools. He owned work by W. Bougereau and C. Chaplin, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Jules-Louis Dupré, Charles Emile Jacque, Robert Crannell Minor, Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, David Johnson, Thomas Prichard Rossiter, John Frederick Kensett. decades of activity 1860-1870 1870-1880 1880-1890 website http://www.nps.gov/mabi/historyculture/frederickbillings.htm updated 02/14/2025 10:12:29 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details The Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road Letter to John Townsend, 1849, August 1. see details... The Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road Letters from Mexico, 1859 / ed. with an introduction by his daughter Mary M. Billings French. see details... The Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road Records of Halleck, Peachy & Billings, 1851-1860. see details... Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives Frederick Billings letters to John White Geary, 1872 Apr-May. see details... Minnesota Historical Society Division of Archives and Manuscripts Northern Pacific Railway Company. President's records, 1872-1970. see details... University of California, Berkeley The Bancroft Library Biographical materials relating to Frederick Billings : San Francisco, [undated]. see details... The Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1300 Locust Street Jay Cooke papers 1831-1906, undated 1858 - 1874 see details... «  back