Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Aspinwall, William Henry, 1807-1875
| title | George Newbold papers, 1801-1858. | repository | The New-York Historical Society |
| description | Correspondence, account books, bank books, invoices, and related financial and legal documents, 1801-1858, of ironmonger, merchant, and banker George Newbold of New York City. For the period 1801-1804 the collection consists primarily of correspondence and invoices of the firm of Franklin & New Bold (Thomas Franklin), which imported such items as tools, hardware, utensils, pewter, cotton, and rice. Their principle correspondents and business associates during this time were: Robert Perry, Thomas Potts, Wallis & Lloyd, and William and Thomas Cotterill, all of Birmingham, England; Robert and William Bush, Perry & Hayes, of Bristol, England; Taylor & Newbold, and Poultney & Cumming, of Philadelphia; William Engs of Newport, Rhode Island; Hermes & Karthaus of Remschied, Germany, and Baltimore; Chorley & Peet, Ashton, England; Archibald Stokes of Petersburg, Georgia; and Henry Kneeland & Co. of Savannah, Georgia. During 1805-1811 Newbold was in business for himself, more domestic, with more trade in cotton and rice. His correspondents during this time were: Theophilus Armistead of Norfolk, Virginia; Barna & J. P. McKinne of Savannah, Georgia; Thomas Bibb of Petersburg, Georgia; Albert Brux of Augusta, Georgia; John De Witt of Newburgh, New York; John B. Dockray of Rhode Island; John Fay of Burlington; Calvin L. Hammond; Robert W. Harris of Chatham, South Carolina; William Harrison of Cayuga, New York; Andrew Knox of Edenton, North Carolina; James D. Ladd & Co. of Granville Mills, Virginia; William Lawrence of Havana, Cuba (many private and business letters, especially 1805-1808); Lewis, Jones & Barney of Wolverhampton, England; Elizur Mosely; William Shaw; Samuel Smith of George Town, South Carolina; John and Spencer Stafford of Albany, New York; Hugh Taylor of Sparta, Georgia; Robert Ware of Petersburg, Georgia; and Israel Pleasants, Caleb Pierce, William Newbold, Harvey & Worth, and Joshua Emlen, all of Philadelphia. Papers include relatively few letters from 1812-1819, although Newbold commenced a long-lasting correspondence with George Griswold of New York City in 1814. During the period following 1820, his correspondence becomes more numerous and its content focuses on his professional activities and concerns as cashier and, from 1832-1858, president, of the Bank of America. The letters concern such matters as Joshua Forman's project of a law to regulate the banking operations of New York; the settlement of De Witt Clinton's debt to the bank of America; activities of the Greek Committee of New York in 1828; resumption of specie payments; pet banks; legislation affecting banks; his own business interests; etc. His correspondents from this period include: William H. Aspinwall in Paris; Dr. John Atlee of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Priscilla Barker of Baltimore; Leonard Corning of New orleans; Corcoran & Riggs, Washington, D.C.; Edward Cruft, Boston; Thomas Cummings; Thomas Ellicott of Baltimore; Joseph R. Evans of Philadelphia; Asa Fitch, Jr.; William G. Hewes of New Orleans; his attorney Alfred Lathrop; Cornelius W. Lawrence of Washington, D.C. (including many private and confidential letters from him); Isidore Lowenstern; Charles L. Mathews; Clayton Newbold; Walter Newbold; Thomas W. Olcott; N. M. Rothschild & Sona (including copies of Newbold's letters on the financial state of the United States); letters from Newbold to Groesbeck & Co.; Charles S. Todd of St. Petersburg, Russia; Bartholomew Wistar, Philadelphia; Levi Woodbury; et al. Bio/History: Ironmonger, merchant, and banker of New York City. Note Microfilm copy available for Newbold’s correspondence from 1833-1838, inclusive; filed in Microfilms under "Newbold." Permission note This collection is owned by The New-York Historical Society. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Library Director of The New-York Historical Society, Two West 77th Street, New York, NY 10024. Mss Collection George Newbold Papers |
| extent | 3.25 linear ft. (8 boxes) |
| formats | Correspondence Financial Records Legal Papers |
| access | Access: open to qualified researchers at The New-York Historical Society; patrons must use microfilm where available. |
| record source | http://www.bobcat.nyu.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=display&doc=nyu_aleph000737114&vid=NYU |
| finding aid | Finding aid available at repository. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:02 |
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| title | Daniel Huntington Study Portrait Collection, ca. 1870-1890 | repository | The New-York Historical Society |
| description | Two years after Daniel Huntington's death, his son Charles Richards Huntington (1847-1915) presented the New-York Historical Society with a collection of 141 portrait photographs used by his father "for his study of the subjects painted by him." Each of the men (and the single woman, Mary McCrea Stuart) in the collection is represented by one or more portrait photographs which had been blown-up to life-size dimensions, sometimes made from a previously existing negative or one made of an earlier photograph. In the case of sitters who died before the advent of paper photography, images were taken from daguerreotypes. The enlargements were mounted on a stiff paperboard and roughly trimmed almost to the shape of the subject's head. Each of the portraits has the sitter's surname in pencil on the verso; some have a shorthand clue to an occupation, profession, title, or institutional affiliation. These annotations, if contemporary to Huntington or his son, have been transcribed in the box and folder list that follows. Many of the photographs have a puncture at their top, most likely from the nail Huntington used to tack them up in view of his easel. The sitters are familiar to students of nineteenth-century New York: they include prominent bankers, merchants, industrialists, educators, financiers, generals, lawyers, judges, politicians, government officials, and men of the cloth. The photographs are generally not dated. Several note that they were made from daguerreotypes and a few mention particular photographers, or are mounted on the backs of printed boards from photographers' studios. The images that are dated range from the 1870s (Henry Potter) to the 1890s (Kelly, Gracie, Schurz, and Sheldon). Photographers mentioned are Bogardus (Adams, Arthur) and Sarony (Tilden), with one annotated by Huntington as having been taken in his studio (Sherman). Eight of the portraits are mounted on the verso of stamped boards from the Rockwood Studio (Brown, Gracie, Johnston, Henry Potter, Taft, and Weir) or Kurtz (Dodge Sr. and Hostetter) in New York. In addition, the portrait of Henry Codman Potter is mounted on the verso of a large photograph of Calvary Baptist Church, on West Twenty-third Street. Oil portraits of these sitters are now in the New York Chamber of Commerce Collection at the New York State Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, New York Public Library, Harvard University, Vassar College, and West Point Museum, among other institutions. The New-York Historical Society owns more than twenty portraits painted by Huntington. Other portraits remain in private collections, including those of social clubs, hospitals, corporations, and the families who commissioned them from the artist. Biographical Note Daniel Huntington (1814-1906) was educated at Hamilton College. He studied panting with Samuel Morse and Henry Inman in New York City. He primarily painted portraits and landscapes. Huntington was president of the National Academy of Design, and Vice-President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Preferred Citation This collection should be cited as: Daniel Huntington Study Portrait Photographs, PR 256, Department of Prints, Photogaphs, and Architectural Collections, The New-York Historical Society. Call Phrase: PR 256 |
| extent | 0.42 Linear feet (141 photographs, 12 folders) |
| formats | Photographs |
| access | Open to qualified researchers |
| record source | http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/huntington.html#c-e1160 |
| acquisition information | Gift of Charles R. Huntington, April 9, 1908. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:14 |
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