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Creator:: Whymper, Frederick
Published / Created:: 1864
Call Number:: WA MSS 525
Image Count:: 23
Abstract:: The 23 views and 35 photographs were made on an 1864 exploring expedition of Vancouver Island.
Description:: Frederick Whymper, artist, served on the 1864 Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition initiated by Gov. Kennedy and the Western Union Telegraph Co.'s expedition to Alaska and Siberia., Stored in 1 box., and This collection formerly belonged to Robert Brown, who commanded the Vancouver expedition. It was acquired from Prof. Rudmore-Brown of Trinity College, Dublin and given to the library by William Robertson Coe.
Subject (Geographic):: Vancouver Island (B.C.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):: Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition and Whymper, Frederick
Subject (Topic):: Watercolor painting
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sepia photographs and watercolor drawings.

Creator:: St. Clair, Thomas Staunton
Published / Created:: 1810-1814.
Call Number:: GEN MSS 410 (folio)
Image Count:: 46
Abstract:: Album of watercolors depicting Belém Castle on the river Tagus, Coimbra and Sabugal, Portugal, the Battle of Bussaco, the march to Badajoz, the crossing at Villa Velha, the Siege of Badajoz, crossing the Bridge of Alcántara, Spain, and the Pyrenees taken from Arbonne in France. Captions carry detailed descriptions of battles and countryside.
Alternative Title:: Sketches in the peninsula during the war from 1812 to 1814
Description:: Gift of William Ireland Starr.
Subject (Geographic):: Badajoz (Spain)--History--Siege, 1812, Coimbra (Portugal)--Pictorial works, and Tagus River (Spain and Portugal)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):: Bussaco, Battle of, Portugal, 1810--Pictorial works, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Pictorial works, Peninsular War, 1807-1814--Spain, and Torre de Belém (Lisbon, Portugal)--Pictorial works
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sketches in Spain, Portugal and France, during the war / taken by Lieut. Col. Thos. Staunton St. Clair, from 1810 to 1813.

Creator:: Leech, John, 1817-1864
Published / Created:: [1843?]
Call Number:: GEN MSS 19
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: Signed drawing depicting the ghost of Christmas Yet To Come pointing down at a slab with Ebenezer Scrooge's name on it. Scrooge is kneeling with his face buried in his hands.
Description:: Bound in a purple levant morocco large quarto folder, gilt tooled and lined with purple silk., Ex libris A. Edward Newton. Ex libris Charles J. Rosenbloom. Bequest of Charles J. Rosenbloom, 1974., and John Leech illustrated the first edition of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (London, 1843).
Subject (Name):: Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870.--Christmas carol
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The last of the spirits.