Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingSaml. Adams 1 drawing : oil. | Full-length posthumous portrait of Boston patriot Samuel Adams leaning against a chair. He stands on one paper, while another rests atop a table to the left.- Contributor: Chappel, Alonzo
- Date: 1858-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Men with rifles, possibly a duck hunting party, on the embankment of a river with marsh grasses along the shore, which partially obscures a rowboat; buildings in the background labeled "R", "W", … 1 drawing on grey blue paper : graphite ; sheet 24.5 x 32.8 cm.- Contributor: Queen, James Fuller
- Date: 1858-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Bird hunting party, on a levee with marsh grasses along the shore]
Reed bird shooting 1 drawing on paper : watercolor heightened with white, over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 27.7 x 40.5 cm, on mount 35.2 x 50.5 cm. | Drawing shows several anxiously waiting men with rifles, looking to the right, possibly a duck hunting party, on a levee with marsh grasses along the shore, which partially obscures two men in a rowboat, possibly duck decoys among the…- Contributor: Queen, James Fuller
- Date: 1858-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingFrom Grays Ferry looking south 1 drawing on cream wove paper : watercolor over graphite underdrawing ; 29 x 42.1 cm (sheet), 36.1 x 50.5 cm (card mount) | Drawing shows two steamboats at dock and four riverboats or barges on the Schuylkill River, with marsh in the foreground.- Contributor: Queen, James Fuller
- Date: 1858-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Two children playing checkers or draughts] War roll of the Weccacoe Fire Company, always useful - fireman in peace - soldiers in war. 2 drawings on wove paper : graphite ; 51.5 x 38.7 cm (sheet) | Drawings show (recto, 1858 or 1859) a boy and a girl sitting at a table opposite of each other playing checkers or draughts, while a younger girl stands behind the table, facing right, gesturing toward her sister(?), also, faint outlines of a baby sitting on the floor next to the…- Contributor: Queen, James Fuller
- Date: 1858-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Civilians entering a theater] 1 drawing on cream paper : pencil and black ink wash; 17.4 x 26.2 cm. (sheet).- Contributor: Waud, William
- Date: 1858-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingCharlestown Navy Yard 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil ; 17.4 x 26.2 cm. (sheet). | Broadside view ship docked at navy yard and two images of sailboats.- Contributor: Waud, William - Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph)
- Date: 1858-01-01
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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: 1750
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