| title | James Terry family papers |
repository | William L. Clements Library |
| description | The Terry family papers contain correspondence, documents, and other items pertaining to the family of James Terry, Jr., who was curator of the Department of Archaeology and Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in the early 1890s. The materials concern Terry's lawsuit against the museum regarding his private collections, his archaeological career, and life on the Terry family farm in the 1830s. |
| extent | 0.75 linear feet |
| formats | Personal Papers Correspondence |
| access | The collection is open for research. |
| record link | n/a |
| finding aid | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-2946.2ter?rgn=main;view=text |
| acquisition information | 1993. M-2946.2. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:07 |
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| title | Portrait collection of the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University |
repository | Harvard University Archives |
| description | Chiefly portrait prints and photographs collected by Evert Jansen Wendell and about 25,000 newspaper and magazine clippings collected by Edwin Francis Edgett. With an emphasis on American and British men from the 19th century, the collection portrays more than 20,000 people, both notable and unknown, from different classes, nationalities, ethnic groups, and professions, including prime ministers, presidents, and other political figures; rulers and nobility; clergy; military figures, especially American Civil War officers and soldiers; writers, artists, musicians, composers, and entertainers; boxers and other athletes; scientists, inventors, and explorers; business people, industrialists, and financiers; criminals and human curiosities; and North American Indians. Prominent figures with a high number of portraits include Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington. The collection represents not only a rich biographical resource and visual record of famous people but it also documents the history and artistry of printing from the 1600s to the early 1900s. Some of many highlights include lithographs by Currier and Ives; Brady Imperials and other photographs by Matthew Brady; portraits of early boxers and other athletes, including Stevengraphs of John L. Sullivan and jockeys; many carte-de-visite and other portraits of public and military figures from the American Civil War, including William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis; and about 300 Vanity Fair caricatures from the late 19th century by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward), Lib (Libero Prosperi), and other artists. The collection also contains visual materials outside the scope implied by its name, including landscapes and other views; battle scenes and other military-related illustrations and photographs; architectural, ethnographic, and commemorative pictures; and genre works. |
| extent | ca. 70,470 items : b&w and color ; various sizes. |
| access | n/a |
| record link | http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990050078910203941/catalog |
| finding aid | A card index for American sitters, arranged alphabetically by name, is available in the repository. Inventories for cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and Brady Imperials are also available. |
| acquisition information | During his life Evert Jansen Wendell amassed a collection of books, pamphlets, plays, playbills, sheet music, manuscripts, documents, maps, autographs, and portraits estimated to have been in excess of one million items, which he bequeathed to Harvard University in 1918. Most of the materials were eventually dispersed to various Harvard repositories and the rejected materials, about 700,000 items, were sold at auction. The Portrait Collection was transferred from Widener Library to the Fine Arts Library in 1985. Until the 1950s, other materials were added through gift or transfer from various sources, including items from the bequests of Charles Sumner, Henry James, W. Cameron Forbes, A. Lawrence Lowell, Robert Gould Shaw, and other notable alumni; also, some items were transferred from the collection to the Fogg Art Museum, Houghton Library, University Archives, Schlesinger Library, and Harvard Semitic Museum Photographic Archives. |
| updated | 03/14/2023 13:15:56 |
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