Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889
| title | James Reid Lambdin collection, 1831-1896. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Pamphlets, speeches, transactions, reviews, auction and exhibition catalogs, and other printed materials relating to art and art organizations mainly in the Philadelphia area, but also including New York, Boston, Baltimore, Louisianna, Europe and elsewhere. Among the societies represented are the National Academy of Design, National Art Association, Artists' Fund Society, Philadelphia Museum Company, Northern Society of Painters in Watercolor, American Art Union, Apollo Association, Columbian Society of Artists and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; correspondence between committees of the Artists Fund Society, headed by John Sartain, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and charters and by-laws of the Artists Fund Society. Originals in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| extent | 10 v. (ca. 200 items on 6 microfilm reels) reels P38-P41, P52 & P63 |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Exhibition Catalogs Clippings Financial Records |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/james-reid-lambdin-collection-9731 |
| finding aid | A finding aid to the Lambdin pamphlet collection on reels P38-P40 can be found in the appendices of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts finding aid available at all AAA offices |
| acquisition information | This collection was compiled by Lambdin and housed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Lent for microfilming, 1955, by the PAFA. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:28 |
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| title | Henry Kirke Brown papers, 1836-1893. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Primarily correspondence with Brown's wife, Lydia Louise Udall, his nephew, Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, and other family members. Also included are letters from artists George Catlin, George Fuller, Sanford R. Gifford, James Reid Lambdin, Louis Lang, Erastus Dow Palmer, Hiram Powers, Horatio Stone, and others; five news clippings; and miscellaneous notes. Brown's lengthy letters to his wife reveal his devotion to her and the conflict he felt between his art and his personal life. He discusses his work, including progress on his statue of George Washington, located in Union Square, New York City. Letters to his family from Rome and Florence allude to his awe of Italy's monuments. Also included are letters from Washington, D.C. during Brown's tenure as a member of the U.S. Art Commission in the 1860s. Bio / His Notes: Sculptor and portrait painter; born in Leyden, Mass.; died in Newburgh, N.Y. |
| extent | .0 linear ft. (on 2 microfilm reels) reel 2770 and 2771 |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Clippings Ephemera Notes |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.browhenr.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/henry-kirke-brown-papers-6842 |
| acquisition information | Donated 1981 by Dorothy Young, who acquired the papers from her husband, an art dealer. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:38 |
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| title | Albert Duveen collection of artists' letters and ephemera, 1808-1910. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters, 1808-1910, written by American artists and collected by Duveen. Also included are miscellaneous items such as Bible records, quotations, pictorial reproductions and a few letters written by European artists. Included are 28 letters from Albert Bierstadt, the majority of the letters are to Col. Woodworth; 10 from Frederic E. Church; 14 from Frederick S. Church; 25 by Constant Mayer; 11 by Albert Rosenthal; and a few each by Edwin H. Blashfield, James Champney, Timothy Cole, William Gibson, Eliza Greatorex, D. Ridgway Knight, Charles R. Leslie, Emanuel Leutze, Jervis McEntee, Francis Millet, Henry Mosler, William Page, E. D. Palmer, William Partridge, Hiram Powers, Henry Ranger, Peter Rothermel, Ross Turner, Edwin Weeks, Anne Whitney, Worthington Whittredge and others. Co-Creator: Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902 Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 Bosworth, Welles, 1869-1966 Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905 Bridgman, Frederick Arthur, 1847-1928 Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893 Champney, James Wells, 1843-1903 Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889 Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900 Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924 Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931 Crane, Bruce, 1857-1937 Cropsey, Jasper Francis, 1823-1900 Ezekiel, Moses Jacob, 1844-1917 Fairman, James, 1826-1904 Fay, Gaston Fenn, Harry, 1838-1911 Fosdick, J. William, 1858-1937 Fournier, Alexis Jean, 1865-1948 French, Edwin Davis, 1851-1906 Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896 Gould, Thomas Ridgeway, 1818-1881 Greatorex, Eliza Pratt, 1820-1897 Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852 Gregory, Frank M., b. 1848 Grosvenor, Thelma Cudlipp, b. 1892 Hartley, Jonathan Scott, 1845-1912 Hays, William Jacob, 1830-1875 Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904 Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894 Hennessy, William J., 1839-1917 Herrick, Henry Walker, 1824-1906 Herter, Albert, 1871- Hill, John Henry, 1839-1922 Hillern, Bertha von Huntley, Samantha Littlefield, b. 1865 Kappes, Alfred, 1850-1894 Kaufmann, Theodor, 1814-1900 Keith, Dora Wheeler, 1856-1940 Kitchell, Joseph Gray, b. 1862 La Farge, John, 1835-1910. Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889 Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859 Leutze, Emanuel, 1816-1868 Lie, Jonas, 1880-1940 Linen, George, 1802-1888 Lippincott, William H. (William Henry), 1849-1920 Lock, Frederick William Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869 Longpre, Paul de, 1855-1911 Low, Will Hicok, 1853-1932 Lumley, Arthur, ca. 1837-1912 Lupton, Thomas Goff, 1791-1873 MacDonald, James Wilson Alexander, 1824-1908 MacMonnies, Mary Fairchild, 1858-1946 Matthews, William, 1822-1896 Mayer, Constant, 1829-1911 Mayer, Frank Blackwell, 1827-1899 McArthur, John, 1823-1890 McCord, George Herbert, 1848-1909 McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 McEntee, Jervis, 1828-1891 McKenzie, R. Tait (Robert Tait), 1867-1938 Middleton, Stanley Grant, b. 1852 Mignot, L. R. (Louis Remy), 1831-1870 Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912 Moran, Edward, 1829-1901 Moran, Peter, 1841-1914 Morgan, Matthew Somerville, 1839-1890 Mosler, Henry, 1841-1920 Mowbray, H. Siddons (Harry Siddons), 1858-1928 Muller, Karl, 1818-1893 Mulvany, John, 1839-1906 O'Connor, Andrew, 1847-1924 Oertel, Johannes Adam Simon, 1823-1909 Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937 Page, Fred B. Page, William, 1811-1885 Palmer, Erastus Dow, 1817-1904 Palmer, John E. Palmer, Walter Launt, 1854-1932 Paris, Walter, 1842-1906 Parrish, Randall Partridge, William Ordway, 1861-1930 Pease, Joseph Ives, 1809-1883 Peixotto, Ernest, b. 1869 Persico, Luigi, 1791-1860 Pfeiffer, Emily, 1827-1890 Pike, William Powell, W. H. (William Henry), 1823-1879 Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873 Raffaëlli, Jean François, 1850-1924 Ranger, Henry Ward, 1858-1916 Reid, Robert, 1862-1929 Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926 Richards, T. Addison (Thomas Addison), 1820-1900 Ripley, Robert Le Roy, 1893-1949 Robbins, Horace Wolcott, 1842-1904 Robinson, Anna Robinson, Theodore, 1852-1896 Rogers, John, 1829-1904 Rogers, Randolph, 1825-1892 Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931 Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939 Rossiter, Thomas Prichard, 1818-1871 Rothermel, Peter Frederick, 1812-1895 Ruckstuhl, F. W. (Fred Wellington), 1853-1942 Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 Sanderson, Charles Wesley, 1838-1905 Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896 Satterlee, Walter, 1844-1908 Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904 Scott, Emily Maria Spaford, 1832-1915 Selinger, Jean Paul, 1850-1909 Shattuck, Aaron Draper, 1832-1928 Smillie, George H. (George Henry), 1840-1921 Snell, Henry Bayley, 1858-1943 Sonntag, William Louis, 1822-1900 Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946 Stetson, Charles Walter, 1858-1911 Stewart, Julius L., 1855-1919 Stone, Horatio, 1808-1875 Story, George Henry, 1835-1923 Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895 Stout, James Varick, 1809-1860 Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 1819-1905 Taylor, Henry Fitch, 1853-1925 Thompson, Charles A. Thompson, Launt, 1833-1894 Thulstrup, Thure de, 1848-1930 Tilton, John Rollin, 1828-1888 Turcas, Jules, 1854-1917 Turner, Charles Yardley, 1850-1918 Turner, Ross, 1847-1915 Valentine, Edward Virginius, 1838-1930 Van Boskerck, Robert Ward, 1855-1932 Van Elten, Kruseman, 1829-1904 Van Laer, Alexander T., 1857-1920 Volk, Douglas, 1856-1935 Volkmar, Charles, 1841-1914 Vos, Hubert, 1855-1935 Walcutt, William, 1819-1882 Walden, Lionel, 1861-1933 Walker, James, 1819-1889 Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887 Waterman, Marcus A., 1834-1914 Waugh, Ida, d. 1919 Weeks, Edwin Lord Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906 Weir, Robert Walter, 1803-1889 White, George Harlow, 1817-1887 Whitman, Sarah Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915 Whittemore, William J., 1860-1955 Whittredge, Worthington, 1820-1910 Wiggins, Carleton, 1848-1932 Wiles, Irving Ramsay, 1861-1948 Williams, George Alfred, 1875- Wilmarth, Lemuel Everett, 1835-1918 Winterburn, George T. Worth, Thomas, 1834-1917 Wurst, Alexander, 1837-1876 Yewell, George Henry, 1830-1923 Zilcken, Ph., 1857-1930 Zimmerman, Eugene, 1862-1935 |
| extent | 1.0 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.duvealbe.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/albert-duveen-collection-artists-letters-and-ephemera-7075 |
| acquisition information | Purchased from Albert Duveen in 1956. Duveen purchased most of the letters from dealers in Americana and estate sales. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:38 |
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| title | Weitzel letter collection, 1863-1931. |
| repository | American Art Archives |
| description | A letter to Robert W. de Forest of New York City from Elinor L. P. Lyon of Norwalk, Conn., stating her interest in the "Eagle picture" and making an offer to buy it (reel 2803); and two letters to James Reid Lambdin from Samuel Putnam Avery, discussing paintings, frames, dealers, etc. (reel 3091). |
| extent | 3 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels) reels 2803 and 3091 |
| formats | Correspondence Microfilm |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | These letters were originally catalogued under the names of their recipients. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:38 |
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| title | Mary, Xanthus, and Russell Smith family papers, 1826-1954. |
| repository | American Art Archives |
| description | Family papers of Mary (1842-1878), Xanthus (1839-1929), and Russell (1812-1896) Smith. REELS 2035-2040: Family correspondence; 27 volumes of writings and journals, 1826-ca. 1920, about art, science, European trips, personal thoughts, poetry, and Xanthus's service aboard the U.S.S. Wabash, Port Royal, South Carolina; unpublished autobiographies of Russell and Xanthus; a printed biography of Russell's daughter, Mary; sketches and sketchbooks; 10 volumes of cash books; travel receipts, and financial papers; lists of works of art scrapbooks; exhibition material; clippings; personal documents; memorabilia; and ephemera. Among the correspondents are: Susan B. Anthony, Edwin T. Booth, Jay Cooke, George Henry Corliss, Louisa Lane Drew, George Lambdin, James Reid Lambdin, John Neagle, Rembrandt Peale, William Trost Richards, Peter F. Rothermel, John Sartain, Samuel Sartain, Owen Wister, and Sarah B. Wister. REEL 2062: Photographs of the Smith family; and miscellaneous photographs. Photographers include Xanthus Smith, Clemon's Gallery, Philadelphia, Root's Gallery, Philadelphia, and Van Loan & Ennis' Gallery, Philadelphia. UNMICROFILMED: Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and 17 glass negatives of the Smith family. Bio / His Notes: Family of artists; Philadelphia, Pa. area. Painters, Mary and Xanthus Smith, were the children of Russell Smith, a scenic and panoramic landscape painter. Additional forms: 35mm microfilm reels 2035-2040 and 2062 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. |
| extent | 4.5 linear ft. (on 7 microfilm reels) reels 2035-2040 and 2062 |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Writings Photographs Deguerreotype |
| access | Microfilmed material must be consulted on microfilm. Use of microfilmed material requires an appointment. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 1978-1979 by Franklin R. Smith, a descendant of Smith. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:38 |
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| title | Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. photograph collection, [ca. 1850]-1890. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Photographs of 19th century artists, including Thomas Sully, Rembrandt Peale, Frederick de Bourg Richards, Edward Moran, John Moran, William Trost Richards, Edmund Darch Lewis, George Bacon Wood, Isaac Williams, James Reid Lambdin, Samuel Bell Waugh, Peter Frederick Rothermel, the Sartain family, the Sartain home, John Sartain, Samuel Sartain, William Sartain, Emily Sartain, Thomas Buchanan Read, Thomas Eakins's motion studies, the Pennsylvania State Capitol, group portraits of women from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Artists Fund Society, James S. Earle and Son, and the Fine Art Gallery at the Great Sanitary Fair. Bio / His Notes: Archive repository; Philadelphia, Pa. |
| extent | 0.2 linear ft. (on partial microfilm reel) reel 3919 |
| formats | Microfilm Photographs |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/library-company-philadelphia-print-dept-photograph-collection-10147 |
| finding aid | Finding aid on microfilm. |
| acquisition information | Microfilmed in 1986 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Photographs were compiled from various collections of the Print Dept. of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Location of Original: Originals in the Library Company of Philadelphia, Print Department. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:38 |
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| title | Joseph Sill selected diaries, 1832-1854. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Ca. 850 pages of selected art related excerpts from Sill's diaries. The diaries date from 1832 to 1854 and document his own painting activities, his association with the Artists and Amateurs Association, Artists' Fund Society, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He gives his reactions to the work of other artists as seen in exhibitions in Philadelphia and New York, especially at the National Academy of Design, as well as in private collections. He writes about panoramas shown in Philadelphia, purchases of works of art for himself and others, commissions to artists to paint pictures for him, etc. In particular he writes frequently of his friend, the collector and patron Edward L. Carey, and of Carey's collection. He often mentions John Sartain, James R. Lambdin, Peter F. Rothermel, Daniel Huntington, Thomas Sully, William H. Furness, Emanuel Leutze, George L. Saunders, Samuel B. Waugh, Paul Weber, William J. Hubard, Monachesi, and John Neagle. He tells of the founding and subsequent activities of the Art-Union of Philadelphia; the sale of Joshua Shaw's paintings and his misfortunes; the work and ill natured personality of William Page; meeting with and a drawing and description of John J. Audubon; a controversy between Robert W. Weir and Samuel F. B. Morse about who will paint the Mayflower Compact; V. G. Audubon's efforts to get subscribers for his father's book; and Bowen's lithographic shop. He characterizes Edward Watmough and William E. Winner. Bio / His Notes: Collector, amateur painter; Philadelphia, Pa. |
| extent | 2 partial microfilm reels. reels P29-P30 |
| formats | Microfilm Diaries |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/joseph-sill-selected-diaries-13482 |
| acquisition information | Microfilmed for the Archives of American Art in 1955 by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Diaries donated to the Society by Edward Madiera. Location of Original: Originals in Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Joseph Sill diaries, Mss. collection # 600. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:38 |
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| title | Artist File: Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889 |
| repository | National Portrait Gallery Library |
| description | Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs. |
| extent | contact repository for further details |
| formats | Artist Files Ephemera |
| access | Folder(s) do not circulate. Folder(s) available for use only at the holding library |
| record source | http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Art-Design/artandartistfiles/ |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:40 |
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| title | The James R. Lambdin Pamphlet Collection, 1813–59 (10 volumes) |
| repository | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |
| description | James R. Lambdin (1807–1889) was a portrait painter who served on the Pennsylvania Academy board from 1845 to 1864. This collection consists of 240 items bound in ten volumes. It includes American exhibition catalogues, essays, addresses, charters and bylaws of art organizations, descriptions of famous works of art, and guides to private collections. There is also a small number of auction catalogues. The volumes are assembled in essentially random order and are filmed on Archives of American Art reels P38–P41, with a list of titles in the 1990 AAA guide. |
| extent | 10 volumes |
| formats | Ephemera Catalogs Writings Administrative Records |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | http://www.pafa.org/SiteData/doc/archivesWebMssCollec%20fnl/67129de26fdcfacd6f59893b2be5e1b8/archivesWebMssCollec%20fnl.pdf |
| finding aid | Alphabetical and chronological card file indexes are available at the Archives. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:43 |
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