Prints Collection

Mss.Prints

Date: 1500-2000 | Size: 1000 item(s)

Abstract

This online guide brings together photographs, engravings, lithographs, and paintings from a legacy APS collection known as the Prints and Photographs collection. The guide was created to provide online access to descriptive information for prints and photographs that were not associated with manuscripts collections. Some of these items are also described in the APS online public access catalog for printed materials. An in-house Print Collection card file arranged by name and subject provides item-level access to some of the items below and additional prints and photographs that do not yet have online descriptions. Former designations for these included the following: Persons, Places and things, Group pictures, Collections (manuscripts); Oversize--Persons, Oversize--Places and things, and Oversize--Collections (manuscripts). When researching at the library, please consult with reference staff to locate these items.

Scope and content

Native American Images Note: Up to 300 Native American images, dating from 1771-1966, representing as many as twenty-five tribes created by a variety of artists and photographers. Images as diverse as The Death of Miantonomo, General Harrison and Tecumseh, portraits of Sitting Bull and Pocahontas. Tribes depicted include the Isleta, Sioux, Seneca, Lenni Lenape, Osage, Shawnee, and Eskimos. Noted artists are Benjamin West, Seth Eastman, William Russell Birch, Frederic Remington, and Karl Bodmer. Material types are over one hundred black and white silver gelatin photographs, albumen prints, black and white engravings, color lithographs, and black and white posters. Of note, hand-colored lithographs of three person portraits of Osage Indians by Louis Boilly and individual portrait color lithographs by John T. Bowen of Iowa, Omaha, and Sioux chiefs. In William Russell Birch's views of Philadelphia, the Native American related works are the "Back of the State House, Philadelphia" and "William Penn's Treaty Tree." Subject related images from the Broadsides and the Garvan Collection are included. Note: Some Native American images from specific collections, such as, Franz Boas, Paul Wallace and Frank Speck are housed in the Prints Collection.

Digital objects note

This collection contains digital materials that are available in the APS Digital Library. Links to these materials are provided with context in the inventory of this finding aid. A general listing of digital objects may also be found here.

Collection Information

Indexing Terms


Genre(s)

  • Albumen prints
  • Engravings.
  • Gelatin silver prints
  • Lithographs.
  • Negatives
  • Posters

Personal Name(s)

  • Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
  • Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
  • Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
  • Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893
  • Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875
  • Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
  • Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
  • Wallace, Paul A. W.
  • Wallace, Paul A. W.
  • West, Benjamin, 1730-1813

Subject(s)

  • Algonquian Indians
  • Cheyenne Indians
  • Creek Indians
  • Dakota Indians
  • Delaware Indians
  • Eskimos -- Greenland -- Social life and customs
  • Indians of North America
  • Iroquois Indians
  • Isleta Indians
  • Kiowa Indians
  • Narraganett Indians
  • Omaha Indians
  • Osage Indians
  • Plains Indians
  • Powhatan Indians
  • Shawnee Indians


Detailed Inventory

 Benjamin Franklin am hofe zu Versailles.
ca. 1820 1 item(s)
 Benjamin Franklin, seated at desk.
1873 1 item(s)

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 Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin title page.
1793 1 item(s)

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 Color engraving of Benjamin Franklin.
n. d. 

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 Benjamin Franklin, brown tone, oval portrait.
ca. 1800 

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 Benjamin Franklin in red coat.
n. d. 

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 "Vertu et Travail."
n. d. 

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 Franklin and Electricity, 1752.
n. d. 

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 Franklin, seated at table.
n. d. 

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 Franklin Residence at Ecton, Northamptonshire.
n. d. 

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 "Prof. Darwin," Figaro's London Sketchbook of Celebrities.
  

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 "Mr. C. R. Darwin, Author of the Origin of Species."
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 "The Contrast, or Things as they are."
  

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 "Mad Tom's First Practical Essay on the Rights of Man."
  

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 "A sure cure for all Paines"
  

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 "A Democrat."
  

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 "The End of Pain."
  

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 "Hear and improve," he pertly cries, "I come to make all nations wise."
  

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 "Two Pair of Portraits."
  

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 "Tree of Liberty, with the Devil Tempting John Bull." 1798
  

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 "London Corresponding Society."
  

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 "Destruction of the French Gun Boats, or Little Boney and the Friend Talley in Hight Glee."
  

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 "We Explain the Rights of Men to de Noblesse."
  

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 The Absent Man.
  

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 Thomas Paine
  

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 Full length view of Thomas Paine, standing, holding copy of "Rights of Man."
  

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 Profile portrait, identified by caption as Thomas Paine.
  

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 Thomas Paine, portrait, as older man with hand in coat.
  

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 "A radical reformer."
  
 "Cobbett at Coventry."
  
 "Mad Tom, or the Man of Rights."
  
 "Tom Paine's nightly pest."
  
 "Wha Wants Me" Cartoon associated with Thomas Paine.
  
 Thomas Paine, portrait, seated with book.
  

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 Thomas Paine house.
  

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 Thomas Paine house.
  

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 Thomas Paine Monument, postcard.
  

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 Thomas Paine Cottage, North and Paine Aves., New Rochelle, N.Y., postcard.
  

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 Thomas Paine Memorial House, New Rochelle, NY, post card.
  

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 One cent Benjamin Franklin stamp, 1892.
  

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 Benjamin Franklin postage stamp, French.
  

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 Benjamin Franklin postage stamp, Italian.
  

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 Benjamin Franklin, 1/2 cent stamps.
  

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 Benjamin Franklin, 250th Anniversary stamps.
  

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 First Postmaster General, Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790.
  

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 Franklin stamp, 1/2 cent, Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Franklin's birth.
  

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 Franklin stamp, two cents.
  

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 Three cent postage stamp centenary, featuring portraits of Washington and Franklin, June 1947.
  

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 One cent Franklin stamp.
  

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 Green and gold one cent stamp, silhouette of Franklin in profile.
  

Other Descriptive Information: Pictured: Banta, Goodale, Harris, Blakeslee?, Gortner?, Shull, DeVries, Davenport

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 Manual Labor Bank note with image of Benjamin Franklin.
  

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 Bank note, Franklin Silk Company.
  

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 "Neither War nor Peace."
  

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 Seth Newhouse, 1842-1921
  
 Death of Miantonomo
  
 Gretomih, Kishagashugah, Minckchatahooh
  
 Medicine man curing a patient
  
 Myhangah, Washingasbha, Marchanthitahtoongah
  
 Sitting Bull
  
 The death cry
  
 The rainbow
  
 Hoboken Bank note with image of Franklin, 1829.
  

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 Thomas Nuttall.
  
F11.21.1 Professor John A. Ryder (1852-1895)
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 12.5 x 9.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Ryder was an American zoologist and embryologist. He worked for the United States Fish Commission from 1880 to 1886 and Professor of Comparative Embryology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1886 to 1895.

F11.21.3 Mathew Arnold (1822-1888)
undatedSize: mount 32.6 x 24.8 cm., image 14.5 x 9.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimage

Other Descriptive Information: Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools

F11.21.4 Edwin Swift Balch
undated 

Other Descriptive Information: Philadelphian. Studied law at Harvard. Was an artist. In 1902 Edwin traveled to, and explored, Antarctica one of the earliest explorations

F11.21.6 Thomas M. Cleemann
1887Size: mount 30.3 x 25.5 cm., image 14 x 10 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Wrote: "Railroad Engineers Practice": A description of the duties of the young enginer in preliminary and location surveys and in construction. 1880 Member of American Philosophical Society

F11.21.7 Statuary To His Majesty Edward VII
undatedSize: image 34.5 x 27.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33LH-B-33
F11.21.8 Albert Einstein
undatedSize: mount 35 x 28 cm., image 27 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Visitor to England. Newspaper article.

F11.21.9 Paul Beck Goddard
1840Size: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 17 x 12 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Image of Goddard enlarged from daguerrotype by Julius Sachse. Goddard was the first person to use bromine in connection with photogrpahy.

F11.21.10 Bas relief of Thomas Jefferson
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 23 x 18 cm. Format: 1 photoimage of bas reliefLH-B-33
F11.21.11 Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Sully, print
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 20 x 18 Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Photograph signed: "The American Philosophical Society with compliments and thanks of Chas. Henry Bach."

F11.21.12 See Kadet Adolph Linoch, photographer Julius Sachse
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 18 x 13.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Probably member of German Navy.

F11.21.14 Lieutenant Julius Lohr, photographer Julius Sachse
undatedSize: mount 35 x 28 cm., image 18 x 13.3 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Probably member of German Navy.

F11.21.15 Crawford W. Long by R. Tait Mckenzie poster
1912Size: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 19 x 19 cm. Format: 1 reproduction of posterLH-B-33
F11.21.16 John G. Morris D.D.(1803-1895), photographer Julius Sachse
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 18 x 13.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Baltimore pastor and civic leader collaborated intimately in changing the nature of Lutheranism in America, creating several major cultural institutions.

F11.21.17 John G. Morris D.D.(1803-1895), photographer Julius Sachse
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 18 x 13.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Baltimore pastor and civic leader collaborated intimately in changing the nature of Lutheranism in America, creating several major cultural institutions.

F11.21.18 Hubert A. Newton (1830-1896), photographer Julius Sachse
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 18 x 13.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: An American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors. Member of American Philosophical Society.

F11.21.19 Charles Willson Peale, "The Artist in His Museum" print
undatedSize: image 33 x 25 cm. Format: 1 photoimage of paintingLH-B-33
F11.21.20 General John Pershing and Ferdinand Foch, autographed photograph
undatedSize: image 35 x 25.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33
F11.22.2 Wilhelm Schmolka, Engineer of War Marines, photographer Julius Sachse
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 18 x 13 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Probably a member of German Navy

F11.22.3 Carl Schreiber, Fleet Surgeon, photographer Julius Sachse
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 18 x 13 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Probably a member of German Navy

F11.22.4 Samuel H. Scudder (1837-1911) , photographer Julius Sachse
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 18 x 13cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Samuel Hubbard Scudder was an American entomologist and palaeontologist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Scudder may be most widely known for his essay on the importance of first-hand, careful observation in the natural sciences.

F11.22.5 Richard Shryock, Smithsonian Institution, Hall of Health
1957Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33
F11.22.7 William Weber, Lieutenant of the Line, photographer Julius Sachse
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 18 x 13 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Probably a member of German Navy.

F11.22.8 Samuel P. Wetherill ( 1881-1967)
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 24 x 18.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Member of American Philosophical Society.

F11.22.9 Attikar Whlir, See Kadet, photographer Julius Sachse
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 18 x 13 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Probably member of German Navy

F11.22.10 Conrad Ritter von Wolf, First Lieutenant, photographer Julius Sachse
undatedSize: mount 35.5 x 28 cm., image 18 x 13 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Probably a member of the German Navy.

F11.22.15 Carnegie Institute at Cold Spring Harbor, New York
1911-1912Size: image 35.3 x 29 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33
F11.22.16 Psychologists at Clark University Meeting
1909Size: image 34 x 26 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Men identified in photograph: Franz Boas, E.B. Titchener, William James, W. Stern, Stanley Hall, Sigmund Freud, W. Jung, Adolph Meyer, H.S. Jennings

F11.22.17 Conseil de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles
1911Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: People in photograph: Goldschmidt, Planck, Rubens, Lindemann, Hasenohrl, Nernst, Brillouin, Sommerfeld, de Broglie, Hostelet, Solvay, Knudsen, Herzen, Jeans, Rutherford, Lorentz, Warburg, Wien, Perrin, Madame Curie, Poincare, Kamerlingh Onnes.

F11.22.18 Institut International de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles
1913Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: People in photograph: Verschaffelt, Laue, Rubens, Goldschmidt, Herzen, Lindemann, deBroglie, Pope, Grunseisen, Hostelet, Hasenohrl, Jeans, Bragg, Madame Curie, Sommerfeld, Einstein, Knudsen, Langevin, Nernst, Rutherford, Wien, Thomson, Warburg, Lorentz, Brillouin, Barlow, Kamerlingh Onnes, Wood, Gouy, Weiss.

F11.22.19 Institut International de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles
1921 April 1-6Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: People in photographer: Bragg, de Haas, Barkla, Siegbahn, Brillouin, Van Aubel, Herzen, Ehrenfest, Verschafelt, Knudsen, Perrin, Langevin, Richardson, Larmor, Kamerlingh Onnes, Zeeman, De Broglie, Michelson, Weiss, Brillouin, Solvay, Lorentz, Rutherford, Millikan, Madame Curie.

F11.22.20 Institut International de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles
1924 April 24-29Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: People in photograph: Brillouin, Henriot, de Donder, Bauer, Herzen, Piccard, Schrodinger, Bridgman, Verschaffelt, Debye, Joffe, Richardson, Broniewski, Rosenhain, Langevin, Hevesy, Rutherford, Madame Curie, Hall, Lorentz, Bragg, Brillouin, Keesom, Van Aubel.

F11.24.1 Institut International de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles
1927Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: People in photograph: Piccard, Henriot, Ehrenfest, Herzen, de Donder, Schrodinger, Verschaffelt, Pauli, Heisenberg, Fowler, Brillouin, Debye, Knudsen, Bragg, Kramers, Dirac, Compton, de Broglie, Born, Bohr, Langmuir, Planck, Curie, Lorentz, Einstein, Langevin, Guye, Wilson, Richardson.

F11.24.2 Institut International de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles
1930Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: People in photograph: Piccard, Gerlach, Darwin, Dirac, Henriiot, Manneback, Kramers, Van Vleck, Heisenberg, Herzen, Verschaffelt, Cotton, Errera, Stern, Bauer, Kapitza, Brillouin, Debye, Pauli, Dorfman, Fermi, de Donder, Zeeman, Weiss, Sommerfeld, Curie, Langevin, Einstein, Richardson, Cabrera, Bohr, de Haas.

F11.24.3 Institut International de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles
1933 October 22-29Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Autographed photograph of attendees.

F11.24.4 Institut International de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles
1948Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: People in photograph: Cockcroft, Tonnelat, Schroedinger, Richardson, Bohr, Pauli, Bragg, Meitner, Dirac, Kramers, de Donder, Heitler, Verschaffelt, Scherrer, Stahel, Klein, Blackett, Dee, Bloch, Frisch, Peierls, Bhabha, Oppenheimer, Occhialini, Powell, Casimir, de Hemptinne, Kipfer, Auger, Perrin, Serber, Rosenfeld, Ferretti, Moller, Leprince-Ringuet, Balasse, Flamache, Groven, Goche, Demeur, Errera, Van Isacker, Van Hove, Terrler, Goldschmidt, Marton, Dilworth, Prigogine, Geheniau, Henriot, Van Styvendael

F11.24.5 Institut International de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles
1951Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: People in photograph: Gaspart, Lomer, Cottrell, Homes, Curien, Rathenau, Koster, Rudberg, Flamache, Goche, Groven, Orowan, Burgers, Shockley, Guinier, Smith, Dehlinger, Laval, Henriot, Crussaro, Allen, Cauchois, Borelius, Bragg, Moller, Seitz, Hollomon, Frank

F11.24.6 Institut International de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles
1954 September 13-18Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: People in photograph: Gorter, Kittel, Matthias, Onsager, Smit, Jones, Lowdin, Seeger, Kipfer, Balasse, Prigogine, Pippard, Fumi, van Vleck, Goche, Geheniau,Mendelssohn, Frohlich, Pines, Moller, Pauli, Bragg, Mott, Neel, Meissner, Macdonald, Shull, Friedel

F11.24.7 Institut International de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles
1958 June 9-14Size: image 35 x 28 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: People in photograph: Hoyle, van de Hulst, Sandage, Wheeler, Zanstra, Ledoux, Klein, Morgan, Kukaskin, Fierz, Baade, Bondi, Gold, Rosenfeld, Lovell, Geneniau, Ambarzumian, Schatzman, McCrea, Oort, Lemaitre, Gorter, Pauli, Bragg, Oppenheimer, Moller, Shapley, Heckmann

F11.24.10 Isleta Pueblo, church
1966Size: mount 35.1 x 28 cm., image 25.2 x 20.3 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33
F11.24.11 Isleta Pueblo, roundhouse
1966Size: mount 35.4 x 27.6 cm., image 25.2 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: "Ceremonial chamber in charge of the War chief. This is where the scalps are kept. Entry only from above."

F11.24.12 Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas (1800-1884) negative
1884 
F8.67.11 John Bachman, naturalist pencil drawing by A. Hutchinson.
undated. Box F8.67.11
LH-B-33

Background note: Clergyman, educator, and naturalist, John Bachman was born in Rhinebeck, N. Y. on February 4, 1790. While a young student in Philadelphia, Bachman became acquainted with several noted naturalists such as Alexander von Humboldt and John Bartram and began a lifelong study of Natural History. During this same period, Bachman abandoned the study of law in favor of the Lutheran ministry and in 1814 began what would become his lifelong position as pastor of St. John's Church in Charleston, S. C. These events frame Bachman's important contributions to the great debates on Natural History and human origins. They would also determine his involvement in matters of education, secession, and the Civil War. John Bachman died in Charleston, S. C. on February 24, 1874. Artist J.J. Audubon and naturalist Bachman met and developed a close personal and working relationship; collaborating to produce books where Bachman supplied much of the text.

Other Descriptive Information: Call number was previously RF B 128.j1