A collection of holograph letters from Beauford Delaney addressed (collectively) to his friend, Don Freeman, Freeman's wife, Lydia, and their son, Roy. The letters span the years 1950-1968, although two empty envelopes, franked with the dates 1969 and 1970 are included. The letters cover events in Delaney's life, spent during most of this period in Paris, and news of mutual friends. Also included are an ink sketch by Delaney, dated 1967, and two letters from Richard A. Long to Don Freeman, dated 1976, concerning Delaney
Description:
Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), American artist. and Don Freeman (1908-1978), American artist and author of children's book.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Paris., and United States.
Subject (Name):
Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979., Freeman, Don, 1908-1978., Freeman, Lydia., Freeman, R., and Long, Richard.
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American painters, Expatriate painters, and Painters
Poster showing jars of canned goods, including "Tomatoes," "Peas," and "Monarch Brand Unsweetened" which contains a caricature of the Kaiser
Description:
Title, date, and publisher from item., Below title: Write for free book / The National War Garden Commission / Charles Lathrop Pack - President ; P.S. Ridsdale - Secretary.", and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
A crude portrayal of a fight on the floor of Congress between Vermont Representative Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold of Connecticut. The row was originally prompted by an insulting reference to Lyon on Griswold's part. The interior of Congress Hall is shown, with the Speaker Jonathan Dayton and Clerk Jonathan W. Condy (both seated), Chaplain Ashbel Green (in profile on the left), and several others looking on, as Griswold, armed with a cane, kicks Lyon, who grasps the former's arm and raises a pair of fireplace tongs to strike him. Below are the verses: "He in a trice struck Lyon thrice / Upon his head, enrag'd sir, / Who seiz'd the tongs to ease his wrongs, / And Griswold thus engag'd, sir."
Description:
Title etched above image., Below image in lower right corner: Congress Hall, in Philada., Feb. 15, 1798, S.E. Cor. 6th & Chestnut St., Four lines of verse in two columns below image in center: He in a trice struck Lyon thrice, upon his head, enrag'd sir, who seized the tongs to ease his wrongs, and Griswold thus engag'd, sir., Three of the spectators are identified by numbered references etched on left and top of plate, outside image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Pictures amplifying subject: cock fight., and Mss. annotation above plate "from Mr. McAllister, 30 August 1859, his father has the plate."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Griswold, Roger, 1762-1812, Lyon, Matthew, 1749-1822, Dayton, Jonathan, 1760-1824, Condy, Jonathan Williams, 1770-1828, Green, Ashbel, and Congress Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.),
Connecticut hospital for the insane. Main building
Description:
Title in ink below image, Signed within drawing at lower right., Date of production based on date Shew Hall (depicted) was built., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals --, Connecticut Valley Hospital, and Mental institutions
Manuscript contract, dated 1847 Feb 4, in ink, between Thomas L. McKenney and John T. Bowen. Agreement states terms for the revision and republication of McKenney's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, a work McKenney first published in 1837 with James Hall. Appended to the contract is a supporting document, signed by Victor G. Audubon and dated 1847 Feb 4, providing a limited guarantee of Bowen's fiscal obligations to McKenney. Another manuscript document, addressed to McKenney from Bowen and dated 1847 Feb 15, records Bowen's offer to find another guarantor or cease further publication of the work. The last sheet documents McKenney's assignation of power of attorney to John Paine of New York (section dated 1847 July 17) and Paine's assignation of power of attorney to Robert M. Strattan of New York (section dated 1847 May 27). Documents are bound together with ribbon
Description:
Thomas Loraine McKenney, author, Superintendent of Indian Trade (1816-1822), first Superintendent of Indian Affairs (1824-1830). John T. Bowen, British artist and engraver born in 1801, active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. and Removed from an imperfect copy of Thomas Loraine McKenney's History of the Indian Tribes of North America (Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1848-1850), autographed on front wrappers of part 17 by R. M. Strattan, 242 Water Street.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Audubon, Victor Gifford, 1809-1860., Bowen, John T., approximately 1801-1856?, Hall, James, 1793-1868., McKenney, Thomas L. 1785-1859. (Thomas Loraine),, Paine, John, fl. 1847., and Strattan, Robert M.
Print depicts Custer and dismounted U.S. soldiers attacked by mounted Native Americans; Custer, standing in center, pistol raised in his right hand, saber in his left
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc43 881mu: Imperfect: Trimmed to image only; wanting caption title and attributions., Title from caption below image., and Signed in plate lower right corner: "Jno. Mulvaney 1881" and printed in plate lower left: copyrighted.
Publisher:
Chicago Litho. & Engraving Co.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Montana., and United States.
Subject (Name):
Custer, George A. 1839-1876 (George Armstrong), and Custer, George A. 1839-1876. (George Armstrong),
Subject (Topic):
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 and Battles
The diary records an 1874 voyage from New York via Panama to California. The unidentified author describes the weather, the ship's progress, shipboard life, Aspinwall (Colón), Panama, the train trip across the Isthmus, the landscape and villages, Acapulco, and the voyage to San Francisco. There is a detailed description of San Francisco and more information on California towns, agriculture, mining, flora and fauna. The diary also chronicles a train trip from Rocklin, California to Reno, Nevada, where the author found work on an alfalfa farm. The author continued overland by train through Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska to Chicago and then Detroit. The author traveled to New York by way of Niagara Falls and The volume includes illustrations of California, Nevada, and Niagara Falls as well as maps of the railroad routes. There is a list of the illustrations and a list of plants identified. The author also created an abstract of the diary in the back of the volume
Subject (Geographic):
Nevada., United States., West (U.S.), Acapulco (Mexico), Colón (Panama), California, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Nevada, Panama, Salt Lake City (Utah), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Central Pacific Railroad Company., Colon (Steamship), Montana (Steamship), Panama Railroad Co., and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Alfalfa, Railroad travel, and Description and travel
Title from item., Date derived from dates of World War I., In margin lower left: No. 29., and Subject: American soldier standing above a defeated German.
Publisher:
United States Food Administration and Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918, Economic aspects, Food conservation, Food supply, Soldiers, Pickelhaubes, Fighting, and Battlefields
Title from item., In lower margin: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-544268 ; U. S. Department of Agriculture - War Food Administration ; 10., Text below images: Eat a lunch that packs a punch!, In the center of pie chart of seven food groups is the wartime nutrition program logo: U.S. Needs Us Strong. Eat the Basic 7 Every Day., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
U. S. Department of Agriculture - War Food Administration
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
Nutrition, Requirements, World War, 1939-1945, Food supply, War work, Fruit, Vegetables, Dairy products, Bread, and Industry
