Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingButte City 1 drawing : watercolor, ink brush, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing. | Drawing shows Butte City, California as it looked around 1854, an established mining community, when George Henry Burgess camped near there while seeking gold with his brother Charles. There are forty buildings, including residences and store fronts. Miners seek gold in a trench on the outskirts of town, lower right.- Contributor: Burgess, George Henry
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingPortland, Maine, U.S.A. 1 drawing : watercolor and opaque white over graphite. | Drawing shows spires and buildings of Portland, Maine from across the harbor. Small figures of men and woman stand on the shore in the foreground, watching boats and ships sail. Three steamships travel up and down the water.- Contributor: Hatton, W. S.
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Children planting a tree] 1 drawing : graphite ; sheet 16 x 18.5 cm. | Drawing shows a man and a young child who is carrying a small tree or bush, entering a courtyard, headed toward a young girl who is waiting for them to bring the tree to plant in a hole that she has prepared for it, a dog is resting nearby, and a young woman…- Contributor: Merritt, Anna Lea
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Sketch of cascade visible between two bluffs] 1 drawing on grey blue paper : graphite heightened with white chalk ; sheet 35.5 x 26.5 cm.- Contributor: Queen, James Fuller
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Three men standing at the edge of a pond] 1 drawing on grey blue paper : charcoal heightened with white chalk ; sheet 25.5 x 27.5 cm. | Drawing shows three young men standing at the edge of a small pond, the one on the left gestures to the man in the middle, who holds a long stick raised to strike, the man on the right holds a smaller stick poised to strike;…- Contributor: Queen, James Fuller
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Oblique view of a wooden clapboard house with two stories, front porch, widow's walk, and cupola] 1 drawing on grey blue paper : graphite heightened with white chalk ; sheet (oval) 24 x 33.5 cm.- Contributor: Queen, James Fuller
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Oakland Hall near Norristown(?)] 1 drawing on cream paper : graphite ; sheet 16.5 x 26 cm. | Drawing shows a large building on a hill, with a portico, columns, and a large square cupola, and a large lawn in front descending into the foreground; overlooks a smaller home or gatehouse on the lower right, next to the roadway; also shows a covered wagon on the road approaching…- Contributor: Queen, James Fuller
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBleaching Factory May 7th '54 1 drawing on cream paper : graphite ; sheet 13 x 16 cm. | Drawing shows a large factory complex on the far shore of a river, with a sailboat on the river at center in the foreground.- Contributor: Queen, James Fuller
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingWoodbury Creek, June 18th '54 1 drawing on cream paper : graphite ; sheet 16 x 20.5 cm. | Drawing shows a sailboat tied to a wharf on a small creek or channel, with trees near the shore.- Contributor: Queen, James Fuller
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingResidence of Hon. Zadock [Pratt], Prattsville, Green Co. 1 drawing : charcoal, pastel, and ink wash with scraping out. | Drawing shows the home of Zadock Pratt, representative to U.S. Congress 1836, 1842, with fountains in foreground; the Prattsville Bank; with Catskill Mountains in background.- Date: 1854-01-01
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CollectionDrawings (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: 1783
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