Collection Items

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    Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Farmhouse] Catalog Record Only 1 drawing : graphite ; 11.5 x 12.5 cm (sheet) | Sketch shows a large building, possibly a farmhouse, with outbuildings and trees.
    • Contributor: Pollard, James
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Plantaadje Adrichem Catalog Record Only 1 drawing : ink wash and red ink ; 16.3 x 27.3 cm (image), on sheet 33.2 x 42.5 cm. | Drawing shows a pastoral setting with cows in the foreground and buildings with palm and other trees around them.
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Plantaadje Adrichem Catalog Record Only 1 drawing : ink wash ; 19 x 26.5 cm (image), on sheet 34.2 x 44.8 cm. | Drawing shows a man standing in the middle distance between palm trees, a large grinding stone for sharpening tools is at the base of one palm tree; to the right and in the background are two outbuildings, possibly on a plantation.
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Pl. Adrichem Catalog Record Only 1 drawing : ink wash ; 14.7 x 17.8 cm (image), on sheet 34.2 x 44.8 cm. | Drawing shows a group of people, possibly plantation workers, gathered outside a building, some are carrying baskets and boxes; the plantation owner or overseer is standing with two workers in the lower right. A small tree is on the left.
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Buildings along waterfront, possibly Plantaadje Adrichem, Suriname] Catalog Record Only 1 drawing : watercolor ; 20.2 x 26 cm (image), on sheet 27.6 x 34 cm. | Drawing shows a river in the foreground, with large buildings and possibly a boathouse in the background.
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    De Niger Koffy Catalog Record Only 1 drawing : ink wash ; 18.8 x 12.6 cm (image), on sheet 34.2 x 22.5 cm. | Drawing shows a full-length portrait of a man, standing, left profile, holding a whip(?) in left hand.
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Delaware and Lehigh rivers at Easton Pa. 1 drawing : ink and ink wash over graphite underdrawing. | Landscape drawing shows Easton, Pennsylvania on the far side of the Lehigh River with the hills of New Jersey in the distance. Two horses tow a barge in foreground on a road beside a hillock. A covered bridge crosses the Delaware River at the midpoint of the landscape.
    • Contributor: Kollner, Augustus
    • Date: 1844-06-02
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Mount Washington. At Easton Pa. south 1 drawing : ink and ink wash over graphite underdrawing. | Landscape drawing shows a hill, Mount Washington from Easton, Pennsylvania on the far side of the Lehigh River. A road winds around the hill in the foreground.
    • Contributor: Kollner, Augustus
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Richmond & Reading R.R., Phila. 1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 11.2 x 15.7 cm. | Drawing shows a rural setting with railroad tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company that may lead to the Port Richmond terminal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    • Contributor: Kollner, Augustus
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Jefferson City 1 drawing : ink and ink wash ; sheet 12.5 x 18.5 cm. | Drawing shows a scene near the waterfront with a capitol building atop a hill next to the Missouri River where a steamboat approaches the shore; shows other buildings along the waterfront and, in the foreground, a horse-drawn cart with two women on board.
    • Contributor: Sachse, E. (Edward)
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Southwest view of Sanderson's Franklin House, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia] 1 drawing : watercolor over graphite ; 33 x 50.6 cm (sheet)
    • Contributor: Smith, John Rubens
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Pencil exercise, no. 7 - half-timbered house] 1 drawing : graphite ; sheet 23.3 x 15.5 cm.
    • Contributor: Smith, Richard Sanger
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Pencil exercise, no. 2 - lying dog] 1 drawing : graphite ; sheet 15.8 x 16.8 cm.
    • Contributor: Smith, Richard Sanger
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Surveyor of customs 1 drawing : pen & ink, and ink brush. | Drawing shows a customs agent, seen from behind, reading a newspaper identified only as "Herald." Bayard Taylor traveled extensively in Europe between 1844 and his death in 1879.
    • Contributor: Taylor, Bayard
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Curious lava formations 1 drawing : ink brush and watercolor. | Illustration shows seven land formations, many of which resemble coral and sea shells.
    • Contributor: Taylor, Bayard
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Deputy
    A deputy collector     1 drawing : ink brush. | Drawing shows a deputy collector, or civil servant, smoking as he leans on the back two legs of his chair, feet near a fireplace. Taylor traveled extensively in Europe between 1844 and his death in 1879.
    • Contributor: Taylor, Bayard
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Colored individuals along the road side 1 drawing : pen & ink and ink wash. | Drawing shows an African American slave woman leaning against a split rail fence along with three children. She says, "Oh I so glad you come, 'massa says he wish you were in da bottom of the sea--but you ain't in de bottom of the sea. You are here--Oh I so glad to see you."…
    • Contributor: Taylor, Bayard
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Collector 1 drawing : pen & ink and ink wash. | Drawing shows a public documents civil servant asleep before a fireplace. He leans on the back two legs of his chair. Bayard Taylor made at extensive trips to Europe between 1844 his death in 1879.
    • Contributor: Taylor, Bayard
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Clerk 1 drawing : pen & ink and ink wash. | Humorous drawing shows a customs house clerk asleep at his desk. Bayard Taylor made extensive travels to Europe and Egypt between 1844 and 1878.
    • Contributor: Taylor, Bayard
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Appraiser 1 drawing : pen & ink and ink wash. | Humorous drawing shows a public documents appraiser, from behind, asleep at his desk, a frowning crowd has gathered on the other side of his window. Bayard Taylor made extensive travels to Europe and Egypt between 1844 and 1878.
    • Contributor: Taylor, Bayard
    • Date: 1844-01-01
  • Collection
    Drawings (Documentary) The Documentary Drawings category includes more than 4,000 drawings made between 1750 and 1970. Eye-witness sketches made during the U.S. Civil War are the most frequently used images. Also included are topographical views, bank note vignettes, portraits, and courtroom sketches. A large group of Russian drawings show areas of China in the 1800s. Among the well-known artists represented by numerous works are William Birch,…
    • Date: 1750

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