[Liberian senate]
1 drawing : watercolor, ink, and graphite ; 39.4 x 49.2 cm (sheet) | Drawing shows an assembly of the Senate of Liberia; members are numbered, includes corresponding key.
Contributor:
Griffin, Robert K.
Date:1856-01-01
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Round Hill Water Cure Northampton M
1 drawing : ink and graphite with scraping out. | Landscape drawing shows the building and grounds which housed the Round Hill Water Cure in Northampton, Massachusetts, a medical institution based on hydropathic principles, opened by Dr. E. E. Denniston in 1847. Hydropathic institutes, or water cures, were one of the health and personal hygiene reforms that started in the 1840s. The Northampton Association…
Contributor:
Farmer, E. W.
Date:1856-01-17
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Brewery on Upper Schuylkill
1 drawing : watercolor over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 14 x 19 cm. | Drawing shows a view from the Schuylkill River of a large brewery building on the right and a covered bridge to the left in the background.
Contributor:
Kollner, Augustus
Date:1856-01-01
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Winter quarters of HM ships Resolute and Intrepid 53 & 54 in the pack, there -56 Faht.
1 drawing : graphite, ink wash and opaque white. | Drawing shows the British ships Resolute and Intrepid embedded in the ice pack in Melville Sound near the Arctic Ocean in Canada. The British lived in the ships during the winter of 1853 and 1854 and in the summer of 1854 abandoned them and camped on Beechey Island before setting sail for England in…
Contributor:
Mecham, George Frederick
Date:1856-01-01
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Rope ferry Schuylkill
1 drawing on grey blue paper : charcoal heightened with white chalk ; sheet 24.5 x 32.7 cm. | Drawing shows a flat, barge-like rope ferry crossing a narrow point on the Schuylkill River; there is a large building labeled "Hotel" and outbuilding at the far terminus, sailboats and a steamboat on the river, and two men with rifles and a dog waiting on…
[Scene on the Delaware River at Philada. during the severe winter of 1856]
1 drawing on grey blue wove paper : graphite and crayon, color ; 24.7 x 32.5 cm (sheet) | Drawing shows many people from Philadelphia ice skating on the Delaware River, possibly near the Philadelphia Navy Yard, "during the severe winter of 1856."
Contributor:
Queen, James Fuller
Date:1856-01-01
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Lazaretto, Philada. quarantine station May 11th 56
1 drawing on grey blue paper : graphite with white chalk ; sheet 24.5 x 32.8 cm. | Drawing shows several men in a rowboat possibly headed to a ship anchored out of view, a man sits at the stern where there is also an American flag; two sailing ships are anchored at right and left, with a view between them of the Lazaretto…
Contributor:
Queen, James Fuller
Date:1856-01-01
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The calamity of the night of July 1st/56
1 drawing on prepared lithographic paper : graphite and ink ; 24.5 x 31.7 cm (sheet) | Drawing showing the collapse of the Reed Street wharf on the Delaware River in the Southwark section of Philadelphia.
Contributor:
Queen, James Fuller
Date:1856-01-01
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State normal school, N.J.
1 drawing on grey blue paper : graphite ; sheet 24.5 x 32.5 cm. | Drawing shows an oblique view from the street of the front and side of the State Normal School in Trenton, New Jersey.
Contributor:
Queen, James Fuller
Date:1856-01-01
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"Marshall Falls" near Delaware Water Gap
1 drawing on cream paper : watercolor and graphite ; sheet 40 x 27.5 cm. | Drawing shows a man and a woman standing on the shore of a creek, admiring "Marshall Falls", visible between two bluffs in Monroe County, Pennsylvania; two men are standing on the rocky outcropping above the falls.
Contributor:
Queen, James Fuller - Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1856-01-01
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Old bridge, Trenton, April 19th '56
1 drawing on brown paper : graphite ; sheet 16 x 24.5 cm. | Drawing shows men unloading goods from sailing vessel at wharf below bridge.
Contributor:
Queen, James Fuller
Date:1856-01-01
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[Two harness racing horses pulling their sulkies on race course]
1 drawing : graphite on cream paper ; sheet 24.5 x 33 cm. | Drawing shows a harness race, tents in the center of the course identify the "U.S. Agricultural Society" and "President". Spectators in foreground seen from behind.
Contributor:
Queen, James Fuller - Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1856-01-01
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Coast
1 drawing : graphite ; sheet 60.8 x 49.3 cm | Drawing shows a series of seemingly unrelated sketches, including a small map of Iowa, a house, a barn, coastlines, and the number 6 1/4.
Contributor:
Smith, Isola Earle
Date:1856
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Washingtons Head Quarters - Brandywine /
1 drawing : watercolor, graphite, and opaque white. | Landscape drawing shows the house that served as Washington's headquarters at Brandywine, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. On the eve of the Battle of Brandywine in 1777 Washington established his headquarters in the farmhouse of Benjamin Ring, a Quaker farmer and miller.
Contributor:
Stevenson, Frederic
Date:1856-01-01
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Norwegian farm
1 drawing : ink brush and watercolor. | Drawing shows a small clearing among large pine trees with small log houses and crops in the field. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1856-01-01
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Station boy
1 drawing : ink brush and watercolor. | Drawing shows a barefooted boy riding on the back of a cart in Norway, presumably from the railroad or coach station. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1856-01-01
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[Man and woman riding in horse-drawn cart]
1 drawing : ink brush and watercolor. | Drawing shows a man and a woman riding in a small horse-drawn cart, looking at each other. The scene may be in Norway. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1856-01-01
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A peasant family in Norway
1 drawing : pen & ink and watercolor. | Drawing shows a Norwegian family inside a house. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1856-01-01
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Waiting for a nibble
1 drawing : pen & ink. | Drawing shows a man, perhaps in Norway, sleeping beside a stream, his fishing line has looped around the tree behind him, with the hook dangling close to his mouth. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1856-01-01
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Norway, the steamer parting the fjord
1 drawing : ink brush and ink wash. | Drawing shows a sidewheel steamship from behind, as it passes out of a Norwegian fjord. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1856-01-01
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Station house Logen Valley, Norway
1 drawing : ink brush and ink wash. | Drawing shows a man leaning against a large log building at right, near a sleeping ox and empty cart. There are clusters of smaller log buildings nearby. It is not clear whether or not the station in questions is a railroad station or a coach station. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856…
Photo, Print, Drawing[Liberian senate] 1 drawing : watercolor, ink, and graphite ; 39.4 x 49.2 cm (sheet) | Drawing shows an assembly of the Senate of Liberia; members are numbered, includes corresponding key.
Photo, Print, DrawingRound Hill Water Cure Northampton M 1 drawing : ink and graphite with scraping out. | Landscape drawing shows the building and grounds which housed the Round Hill Water Cure in Northampton, Massachusetts, a medical institution based on hydropathic principles, opened by Dr. E. E. Denniston in 1847. Hydropathic institutes, or water cures, were one of the health and personal hygiene reforms that started in the 1840s. The Northampton Association…
Photo, Print, DrawingBrewery on Upper Schuylkill 1 drawing : watercolor over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 14 x 19 cm. | Drawing shows a view from the Schuylkill River of a large brewery building on the right and a covered bridge to the left in the background.
Photo, Print, DrawingWinter quarters of HM ships Resolute and Intrepid 53 & 54 in the pack, there -56 Faht. 1 drawing : graphite, ink wash and opaque white. | Drawing shows the British ships Resolute and Intrepid embedded in the ice pack in Melville Sound near the Arctic Ocean in Canada. The British lived in the ships during the winter of 1853 and 1854 and in the summer of 1854 abandoned them and camped on Beechey Island before setting sail for England in…
Photo, Print, DrawingRope ferry Schuylkill 1 drawing on grey blue paper : charcoal heightened with white chalk ; sheet 24.5 x 32.7 cm. | Drawing shows a flat, barge-like rope ferry crossing a narrow point on the Schuylkill River; there is a large building labeled "Hotel" and outbuilding at the far terminus, sailboats and a steamboat on the river, and two men with rifles and a dog waiting on…
Photo, Print, Drawing[Bird's-eye view of the Fairmount Water Works from above the Schuylkill River, with a stern wheeler at lower right and a suspension bridge on right, in the distance, and Philadelphia in the … 1 drawing on grey blue paper : charcoal heightened with white chalk ; sheet 24.5 x 32.8 cm.
Photo, Print, Drawing[View from the Schuylkill River looking up toward a mansion, possibly Lemon Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, atop a hillside at center; a steam ferry passes on the river below, one man fishes … 1 drawing on grey blue paper : charcoal heightened with white chalk ; sheet 32.7 x 24.7 cm.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Scene on the Delaware River at Philada. during the severe winter of 1856] 1 drawing on grey blue wove paper : graphite and crayon, color ; 24.7 x 32.5 cm (sheet) | Drawing shows many people from Philadelphia ice skating on the Delaware River, possibly near the Philadelphia Navy Yard, "during the severe winter of 1856."
Photo, Print, DrawingLazaretto, Philada. quarantine station May 11th 56 1 drawing on grey blue paper : graphite with white chalk ; sheet 24.5 x 32.8 cm. | Drawing shows several men in a rowboat possibly headed to a ship anchored out of view, a man sits at the stern where there is also an American flag; two sailing ships are anchored at right and left, with a view between them of the Lazaretto…
Photo, Print, DrawingThe calamity of the night of July 1st/56 1 drawing on prepared lithographic paper : graphite and ink ; 24.5 x 31.7 cm (sheet) | Drawing showing the collapse of the Reed Street wharf on the Delaware River in the Southwark section of Philadelphia.
Photo, Print, DrawingState normal school, N.J. 1 drawing on grey blue paper : graphite ; sheet 24.5 x 32.5 cm. | Drawing shows an oblique view from the street of the front and side of the State Normal School in Trenton, New Jersey.
Photo, Print, Drawing"Marshall Falls" near Delaware Water Gap 1 drawing on cream paper : watercolor and graphite ; sheet 40 x 27.5 cm. | Drawing shows a man and a woman standing on the shore of a creek, admiring "Marshall Falls", visible between two bluffs in Monroe County, Pennsylvania; two men are standing on the rocky outcropping above the falls.
Photo, Print, DrawingDelaware Water Gap 1 drawing : watercolor.
Photo, Print, DrawingFairmount [Waterworks on the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Pa.] 1 drawing on layered paper watercolor.
Photo, Print, DrawingOld bridge, Trenton, April 19th '56 1 drawing on brown paper : graphite ; sheet 16 x 24.5 cm. | Drawing shows men unloading goods from sailing vessel at wharf below bridge.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Two harness racing horses pulling their sulkies on race course] 1 drawing : graphite on cream paper ; sheet 24.5 x 33 cm. | Drawing shows a harness race, tents in the center of the course identify the "U.S. Agricultural Society" and "President". Spectators in foreground seen from behind.
Photo, Print, DrawingCoast 1 drawing : graphite ; sheet 60.8 x 49.3 cm | Drawing shows a series of seemingly unrelated sketches, including a small map of Iowa, a house, a barn, coastlines, and the number 6 1/4.
Photo, Print, DrawingWashingtons Head Quarters - Brandywine / 1 drawing : watercolor, graphite, and opaque white. | Landscape drawing shows the house that served as Washington's headquarters at Brandywine, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. On the eve of the Battle of Brandywine in 1777 Washington established his headquarters in the farmhouse of Benjamin Ring, a Quaker farmer and miller.
Photo, Print, DrawingNorwegian farm 1 drawing : ink brush and watercolor. | Drawing shows a small clearing among large pine trees with small log houses and crops in the field. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Photo, Print, DrawingStation boy 1 drawing : ink brush and watercolor. | Drawing shows a barefooted boy riding on the back of a cart in Norway, presumably from the railroad or coach station. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Man and woman riding in horse-drawn cart] 1 drawing : ink brush and watercolor. | Drawing shows a man and a woman riding in a small horse-drawn cart, looking at each other. The scene may be in Norway. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Photo, Print, DrawingA peasant family in Norway 1 drawing : pen & ink and watercolor. | Drawing shows a Norwegian family inside a house. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Photo, Print, DrawingWaiting for a nibble 1 drawing : pen & ink. | Drawing shows a man, perhaps in Norway, sleeping beside a stream, his fishing line has looped around the tree behind him, with the hook dangling close to his mouth. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Photo, Print, DrawingNorway, the steamer parting the fjord 1 drawing : ink brush and ink wash. | Drawing shows a sidewheel steamship from behind, as it passes out of a Norwegian fjord. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of his first wife.
Photo, Print, DrawingStation house Logen Valley, Norway 1 drawing : ink brush and ink wash. | Drawing shows a man leaning against a large log building at right, near a sleeping ox and empty cart. There are clusters of smaller log buildings nearby. It is not clear whether or not the station in questions is a railroad station or a coach station. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856…