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Description

Folder 134

Curatorial Remarks

The etchings are probably 1426.319, Percy Thomas, Temple Bar, 1880. The inscription in pencil states: "Percy Thomas Compliments to Thomas Moran, Esquire," 1426.318, Percy Thomas, The Dealers, 1896. The inscription reads "Mrs. Moran with Percy Thomas' Compliments."

Sandra Pauly, Luce Curatorial Scholar of American Art, 2022

Scope and Contents This map contains depictions of Louisiana territory and the surrounding areas, such as Florida, Carolina and as north as the Great Lakes. This map also depicts areas near Louisiana as inhabited by Indigenous peoples, such as the Apache and the Padoucas tribes. Inscribed in type, "The Landing Place of Fyrnand Soto in 1539" in middle on recto; Inscribed in type, "Explanation: [house] Habitations of the Indians [asterisk] Promiscuous Nations [plus sign] Nations destroyed [snake emblem] Course...

Description From Map CardHerman Moll, (d.1732), GeographerJ. Nutt, London, 1717Scale: 1:20,000,000See Phillips Atlases, Vol. 1, p. 312 (Entry #557, vol.5 p.[7962]).Hargrett Collection, p.339 Label Text Herman Moll's 18th-century map shows European settlements and many Indigenous nations, including the Apaches in present-day New Mexico and the "Chicachas" (Chickasaws) and "Chaktas" (Choctaws) in present-day...

Transcript (DCI) Col. Parvley wrote in 1746, That there was a Fall ¼ Mile long 12 Miles below Uforsee to which the French Boats MIght come & from thence transport what they please to any Town over the Hills. Mr. Kelly a Trader Said the French Boats came up formerly to great Uforsee.The River herein called Mississipi River is in fact only a large Branch of it and runs into it below the junction of the Ohio and Wabache in one Stream together with them. ...

Description From catalog info:G. Rollos (fl. 1754-89) English Engraver.London: The British Magazine [1760?]Scale: 1:7,000,000Not located in Phillips Label Text Made during the French and Indian War (1754-63), this map labels the British colonies of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia as "territories in dispute." While European powers fought to claim control of these regions, the map records elsewhere...

Description

Folder 171

Curatorial Remarks

See also 3879.799.

Sandra Pauly, Luce Curatorial Scholar of American Art, 2022

Description

Folder 93

Curatorial Remarks

Both Thomas Moran and Mary Nimmo Moran were members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, of which Francis Seymour Haden was a founder. See also 5176.217.

Sandra Pauly, Luce Curatorial Scholar of American Art, 2022

Description

Folder 92

Curatorial Remarks

Philip Gilbert Hamerton founded and edited the British art journal The Portfolio (1870-1893).

Sandra Pauly, Luce Curatorial Scholar of American Art, 2022

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Emil William Lenders (n. d.), cowboy and artist, was born in London and educated in Germany, having studied art at the Academy of Munich. He painted buffalo at the 101 Ranch in the 1890's, and was later associated with Buffalo Bill (William Cody). The papers consist of three books containing color sketches of American Indians and their artifacts, including cattle brands, with notes; a catalog of Lender's collection of books; a...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This letter came from the library of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth and was sold at a public auction from Sotheby and Company in 1948. It is described as follows: "Examination of some Indians in Relation to ye condition of ye French in Canada, at a Meeting of the Comm. for managing the Indian Affairs in Albany, 21 June 1709, contemporary MS., 3 pp. folio." It is a report of the "Indian Spies" who had been sent into Canada to see...