Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Wolfe, John David, 1792-1872
| title | Wolfe Hall: [collection] : 1884-1921. | repository | Colorado Historical Society |
| description | Contains minutes of the Alumni Association, correspondence, catalogs, clippings nd photographs. Author(s): Randall, George M. Wolfe, Catherine Lorillard,; 1827-1887. Wolfe, John David,; d. 1872. Bio/History: Affliated with the Episcopal Church; private school for young ladies; founded in 1867; succeeded in 1898 by the non-denominational Wolcott School. |
| extent | 2.5 linear ft. (1 carton, 2 boxes) |
| formats | Catalogs Administrative Records Correspondence Clippings Photographs |
| access | Consult the Curator of Books and Manuscripts regarding use. |
| finding aid | UNPROCESSED COLLECTION |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:46 |
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| title | American Museum of Natural History, 1869-1968. | repository | American Museum of Natural History |
| description | Very extensive correspondence files from the administrative offices of the Museum, dealing with all aspects of the Museum's history beginning with its founding in 1869. Records were created under the administration of Presidents John D. Wolfe, 1869-1872; Robert L. Stuart, 1872-1881; Morris K. Jesup, 1881-1908; Henry Fairfield Osborn, 1908-1933; F. Trubee Davison, 1933-1951; and Alexander M. White, 1952-1968. Also, Directors Hermon C. Bumpus, 1902-1911; Frederic A. Lucas, 1911-1923; George H. Sherwood, 1923-1924; Roy Chapman Andrews, 1935-1941; Albert E. Parr, 1942-1958; and James A. Oliver, 1958-1968. Correspondence relating to the arranging and planning, including letters of introduction, for major expeditions such as Martin Johnson African Expedition, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, and Whitney South Seas Expedition; fund raising, bequests, construction of exhibition halls, preparation of exhibits, and acquisition of specimens; and scientific publications, building construction and building facilities, laboratories, specimen storage and space, relationships with scientific and other organizations, personnel matters, and accepting researchers to work in the Museum. In addition, internal departmental reports; press releases; letters from visitors; discussion of scientific discoveries; accession records from many departments of the Museum, and department catalogs; minutes of the Museum's Board of Trustees and the Management Board; minutes of the American Museum of Natural History Planetarium Authority, 1869-1986; and budgets, pension reports and audit reports. Correspondence with early trustees of the Museum is also included as are a variety of administrative reports about numerous aspects of the Museum's history, functions, and operations. Other files relate to the Centennial celebration of the Museum's founding, 1969. Of special interest are the files of Henry Fairfield Osborn, emphasizing his paleontological interests. His papers include correspondence and manuscript material for his Proboscidea publication, and material concerning fossil horses, correspondence with Roy Chapman Andrews and other paleontologists such as Childs Frick, and correspondence regarding the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall. |
| extent | 339 cubic ft., ca. 250 microfilm reels. |
| formats | Microfilm Administrative Records |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Organization: Chronological. Cross indexed item list from 1906-1968. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:54 |
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| title | To the members of the Parish of Grace Church, in the City of New-York. | repository | The New-York Historical Society |
| description | Caption title. "To the members of the Clerical Association of the City of New-York."--p. [3]-8. Signed at end: Jonathan M. Wainwright. N-YHS copy: p. [1] inscribed: "John D. Wolfe’s." NHi Library Holdings: New-York Historical Society Pamphlets Pamph BX5930 .W35 1829 |
| extent | 8 p. ; 23 cm |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions |
| record source | http://www.bobcat.nyu.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=display&doc=nyu_aleph003060249&vid=NYU |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:08 |
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| title | A good man’s burial : a sermon preached at Grace Church, New-York, on Trinity Sunday, May 26, 1872 / by Henry C. Potter. | repository | The New-York Historical Society |
| description | In memory of John David Wolfe. Publisher: St. Johnland N.Y. : Orphan Boy's Stereotype Foundry Library Holdings: New-York Historical Society Pamphlets Pamph BV4275 .P68 1872 Non-circulating |
| extent | see repository |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions |
| record source | http://www.bobcat.nyu.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=display&doc=nyu_aleph000570533&vid=NYU |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:08 |
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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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