
Guide to the Daniel Huntington Study Portrait Photographs Collection
ca. 1870-1890
PR 256
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024
Phone: (212) 873-3400
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Collection processed by Processed by Jenny Gotwals and Sandra Markham
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on December 13, 2011
Description is in
English.
Descriptive Summary
Title: | Daniel Huntington Study Portrait Collection |
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Dates: | ca. 1870-1890 |
Abstract: | The collection holds 141 portrait photographs used by Huntington for his study of the subjects painted by him. |
Quantity: | 0.42 Linear feet (141 photographs, 12 folders) |
Location note: | Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections |
Call Phrase: | PR 256 |
Biographical Note
Daniel Huntington (1814-1906) was educated at Hamilton College. He studied panting with Samuel Morse and Henry Inman in New York City. He primarily painted portraits and landscapes. Huntington was president of the National Academy of Design, and Vice-President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Scope and Content Note
Two years after Daniel Huntington's death, his son Charles Richards Huntington (1847-1915) presented the New-York Historical Society with a collection of 141 portrait photographs used by his father "for his study of the subjects painted by him." Each of the men (and the single woman, Mary McCrea Stuart) in the collection is represented by one or more portrait photographs which had been blown-up to life-size dimensions, sometimes made from a previously existing negative or one made of an earlier photograph. In the case of sitters who died before the advent of paper photography, images were taken from daguerreotypes. The enlargements were mounted on a stiff paperboard and roughly trimmed almost to the shape of the subject's head. Each of the portraits has the sitter's surname in pencil on the verso; some have a shorthand clue to an occupation, profession, title, or institutional affiliation. These annotations, if contemporary to Huntington or his son, have been transcribed in the box and folder list that follows. Many of the photographs have a puncture at their top, most likely from the nail Huntington used to tack them up in view of his easel.
The sitters are familiar to students of nineteenth-century New York: they include prominent bankers, merchants, industrialists, educators, financiers, generals, lawyers, judges, politicians, government officials, and men of the cloth. The photographs are generally not dated. Several note that they were made from daguerreotypes and a few mention particular photographers, or are mounted on the backs of printed boards from photographers' studios. The images that are dated range from the 1870s (Henry Potter) to the 1890s (Kelly, Gracie, Schurz, and Sheldon). Photographers mentioned are Bogardus (Adams, Arthur) and Sarony (Tilden), with one annotated by Huntington as having been taken in his studio (Sherman). Eight of the portraits are mounted on the verso of stamped boards from the Rockwood Studio (Brown, Gracie, Johnston, Henry Potter, Taft, and Weir) or Kurtz (Dodge Sr. and Hostetter) in New York. In addition, the portrait of Henry Codman Potter is mounted on the verso of a large photograph of Calvary Baptist Church, on West Twenty-third Street.
Oil portraits of these sitters are now in the New York Chamber of Commerce Collection at the New York State Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, New York Public Library, Harvard University, Vassar College, and West Point Museum, among other institutions. The New-York Historical Society owns more than twenty portraits painted by Huntington. Other portraits remain in private collections, including those of social clubs, hospitals, corporations, and the families who commissioned them from the artist.
Arrangement
Photographs are filed alphabetically by sitter; life dates and vocations were added during processing.
Access Points
Subject Names
- Huntington, Daniel, 1816-1906.
Document Type
- Photographic prints.
- Portraits.
Subject Topics
- Men -- Portraits.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift of Charles R. Huntington, April 9, 1908.
Access Restrictions
Open to qualified researchers.
Photocopying undertaken by staff only. Limited to twenty exposures of stable, unbound material per day. See guidelines in Print Room for details.
Use Restrictions
Permission to reproduce any Print Room holdings through publication must be obtained
from:
Rights and Reproductions
The New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024
Phone: (212) 873-3400 ext. 270
Fax: (212) 579-8794
Preferred Citation
This collection should be cited as: Daniel Huntington Study Portrait Photographs, PR 256, Department of Prints, Photogaphs, and Architectural Collections, The New-York Historical Society.
Container List
Portraits
Scope and Contents notePortraits are filed alphabetically by sitter; life dates and vocations were added during processing. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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Box: | Folder : 1 | Adams, William (1813-1897), clergyman
General noteOn verso:(taken by Bogardus photographer) |
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Box: | Folder : | Arthur, Chester Alan (1830-1886), politician |
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Box: | Folder : | Aspinwall, William Henry (1807-1875), businessman |
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Box: | Folder : | Avery, Samuel Putnam (1822-1904), art dealer, philanthropist |
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Box: | Folder : | Babcock, Samuel D. (1822-1902), banker |
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Box: | Folder : | Beardsley, Samuel (1790-1860), judge, politician
General noteOn verso: (perish commerce perish credit) |
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Box: | Folder : | Blatchford, Samuel (1820-1883), judge |
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Box: | Folder : | Booth, Henry Matthias (1843-1899), clergyman, educator
General noteOn verso: of Auburn [Theological Seminary] |
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Box: | Folder : | Brown, James (1791-1877), banker |
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Box: | Folder : | Brown, James M. (1820-1890), banker |
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Box: | Folder : | Bruce, George (1781-1866), typefounder
General noteOn verso: from daguerreotype |
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Box: | Folder : 2 | Cameron, James Donald (1833-1918), politician
General noteOn verso: Senator Cameron, Sec of War |
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Box: | Folder : | Chittenden, Simeon Baldwin (1814-1889), merchant |
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Box: | Folder : | Clark, Luther C. (d. 1877) |
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Box: | Folder : | Colgate, Robert (1812-1885), merchant |
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Box: | Folder : | Coxe, Arthur Cleveland (1818-1896), clergyman
General noteOn verso: Bishop of Western New York (Buffalo) |
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Box: | Folder : | Curtiss, Cyrus (d. 1879), merhcant [2 images]
General noteOn verso: of Washington Life Insurance Co.? |
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Box: | Folder : | Davis, Noah (1818-1902), judge |
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Box: | Folder : | Dodge, William E., Sr. (1805-1883), merchant |
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Box: | Folder : | Dodge, William E., Jr. (1832-1903), businessman [2 images] |
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Box: | Folder : | Drisler, Henry (1818-1897), educator
General noteOn verso: Prof |
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Box: | Folder : | Dwight, Theodore W. (1822-1892), educator [3 images]
General noteOn verso 1 & 2: of Columbia Law School; on verso 3: of Law School Columbia |
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Box: | Folder : 3 | Edwards, Henry Pierrepont (1809-1855), judge
General noteOn verso: (from a Daguerre) |
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Box: | Folder : | Field, Benjamin Hazard (1814-1893), philanthropist |
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Box: | Folder : | Field, Cyrus West (1819-1892), capitalist [2 images]
General noteOn verso #2: capital likeness D.H. |
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Box: | Folder : | Fry, Charles M. (1822-1892), merchant, bank president
General noteSee: Folder 12 |
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Box: | Folder : | Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore (1817-1885), politician [2 images] |
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Box: | Folder : | Gallatin, Albert (1761-1849), politician, diplomat
General noteOn verso: from a daguerreotype |
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Box: | Folder : | Gardiner, John Lyon (1841-1920), gentleman
General noteSee: Folder 12 |
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Box: | Folder : | Garrison, Cornelius K. (1809-1885), businessman [2 images]
General noteOn verso: "Com"[modore] |
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Box: | Folder : | Gracie, James King (1840-1903), philanthropist
General noteSee: Folder 12 |
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Box: | Folder : 4 | Hallgarten,Julius (1842?-1884), banker
General noteOn verso: from the small photo |
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Box: | Folder : | Hamilton, Alexander, Jr. (1816-1889), lawyer
General noteOn verso: afterward President of Astor Library Trustees |
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Box: | Folder : | Hastings, Thomas S. (1827-1911), clergyman |
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Box: | Folder : | Hayes, Rutherford Birchard (1822-1893), politician [3 images]
General noteOn verso #2: after his presidency |
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Box: | Folder : | Hoffman, Eugene Augustus (1829-1902), clergyman, educator [2 images]
General noteOn verso: Dean Hoffman |
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Box: | Folder : | Hoffman, Samuel Verplanck (1802-1880), lawyer
General noteOn verso: father of Dean H. of the Seminary |
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Box: | Folder : | Hostetter, David Herbert (1819-1888), manufacturer |
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Box: | Folder : | Hunt, Wilson G. (1804-1892), merchant |
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Box: | Folder : 5 | Jacobi, Abraham (1830-1919), doctor, educator |
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Box: | Folder : | James, Daniel Willis (1832-1907), merchant |
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Box: | Folder : | Jesup, Morris Ketchum (1830-1908), financier [2 images] |
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Box: | Folder : | Johnston, John Taylor (1820-1893), railroad president
General noteSee: Folder 12 |
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Box: | Folder : | Jones, John Divine (1814-1895), businessman
General noteOn verso: Pres of Atlantic Ins. Co. |
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Box: | Folder : | Kelly, Eugene (1806-1894), banker
General noteOn verso: 1891 |
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Box: | Folder : | Kelly, William (1807-1872), philanthropist |
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Box: | Folder : | Kendrick, Henry L. (1812-1891), educator
General noteOn verso: of West Point |
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Box: | Folder : | Kennedy, Robert Lenox (1822-1887), banker [2 images]
General noteOn verso #2: too severe - but very like |
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Box: | Folder : | King, Richard (d. 1891), businessman
General noteOn verso: Prest of Bank of Commerce |
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Box: | Folder : 6 | Lauterbach, Edward (1844-1923), lawyer, politician |
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Box: | Folder : | Lenox, James (1800-1880), philanthropist
General noteOn verso: This is quite large enough rather larger than life |
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Box: | Folder : | Lincoln, Robert Todd (1843-1926), lawyer, politician
General noteOn verso: (son of Prest Lincoln Secy of War) |
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Box: | Folder : | Low, Abbot Augustus (1843-1912), inventor |
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Box: | Folder : | Low, Seth (1850-1916), educator, politician [2 images]
General noteOn verso #1: when Prest of Columbia
General noteOn verso #2: Pres. Columbia University & Mayor of N.Y. & Bklyn |
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Box: | Folder : | Lyman, Theodore Benedict (1815-1993), clergyman
General noteOn verso: Bishop of N Carolina |
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Box: | Folder : | McGee, James (d. 1898), businessman |
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Box: | Folder : | McLane, James Woods (1839-1912), doctor, educator
General noteSee: oversize |
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Box: | Folder : | Martin, Charles Jackson (d. 1888), businessman
General noteOn verso: Prest Home Insurance |
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Box: | Folder : | Mills, Darius Ogden (1825-1910), banker |
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Box: | Folder : | North, Edward (1820-1903), educator
General noteOn verso: Prof Ham College |
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Box: | Folder : | Nye, Ezra (1798-1866), sea captain
General note[from a daguerreotype] |
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Box: | Folder : 7 | Owen [Owens?], Thomas J. (d. 1881?), shipping merchant
General noteOn verso: painted June 1882 taken from another (much earlier) photograph |
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Box: | Folder : | Parker, Amasa Junius (1807-1890), judge |
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Box: | Folder : | Phelps, John Jay (1810-1869), merchant
General noteOn verso: father of Wm Walter Phelps [1839-1894] |
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Box: | Folder : | Phelps, Royal (1809-1884), merchant
General noteOn verso: he was in bad health & died soon after this was taken |
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Box: | Folder : | Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn (1808-1888), philanthropist
General noteOn verso: of Brooklyn NY |
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Box: | Folder : | Potter, Henry Codman (1834-1908), clergyman
General noteOn verso: of Grace [Church] (about 1875) |
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Box: | Folder : | Prentice, Ezra Parmalee (1797-1876), businessman
General noteOn verso: of Albany |
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Box: | Folder : | Prime, William Cowper (1825-1905), lawyer, educator
General noteOn verso: V Prest of Metr Mus of Art |
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Box: | Folder : | Pruyn, Robert Lansing (1825-1906), businessman
General noteSee: Folder 12 |
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Box: | Folder : | Raven, Anton Adolph (1843-1919), businessman
General noteOn verso: of Atlantic Mutual Ins Co. |
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Box: | Folder : | Ray, Robert (1794-1879), banker |
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Box: | Folder : | Rolston, Roswell Graves (1838-1898), businessman
General noteOn verso: Prest Farmers Loan & Trust Co. |
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Box: | Folder : | Roosevelt, Theodore Sr. (1831-1878) |
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Box: | Folder : 8 | Sage, Henry Williams (1814-1897), businessman, philanthropist
General noteOn verso: of Ithaca |
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Box: | Folder : | Schermerhorn, William Colford (1821-1903), philanthropist
General noteOn verso: Prof Ham College |
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Box: | Folder : | Schurz, Carl (1829-1906), politician, diplomat
General noteOn verso: 1899 |
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Box: | Folder : | Schwab, Gustav (1822-1888), businessman |
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Box: | Folder : | Scott, Thomas A. (1823-1881), railroad man
General noteOn verso: of Philada (before his paralysis)(good likeness) |
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Box: | Folder : | Sheldon, James O. (1823-1907), banker
General noteOn verso: 1899 |
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Box: | Folder : | Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888), military |
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Box: | Folder : | Sherman, John (1823-1900), politician [2 images]
General noteOn verso #1: taken in my studio DH
General noteOn verso #2: taken when Secy of the Treasury |
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Box: | Folder : 9 | Sibley, Hiram (1807-1888), industrialist, philanthropist
General noteOn verso: (died July 1888) |
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Box: | Folder : | Silliman, Benjamin (1805-1901), lawyer
General noteOn verso: Council for Bank of Commerce too old (when taken) but about right for him now 1888 / yes-good yet in 1898 |
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Box: | Folder : | Smith, Gerrit (1797-1874), philanthropist |
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Box: | Folder : | Stokes, James Boutler (1804-1881), banker
General noteOn verso: father of Anson Phelps Stokes |
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Box: | Folder : | Stranahan, James Samuel Thomas (1808-1898), politician
General noteOn verso: (of Brooklyn) |
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Box: | Folder : | Stuart, Robert L. (1806-1882), merchant, philanthropist [3 images] |
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Box: | Folder : | Stuart, Mary McCrea [Mrs. Robert L.] (d 1891), philanthropist |
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Box: | Folder : | Sturges, Jonathan (1802-1874), merchant |
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Box: | Folder : | Sutherland, Jabez Gridley (1825-1902), judge |
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Box: | Folder : | Taft, Alphonso (1810-1891), politician
General noteSee: Folder 12 |
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Box: | Folder : 10 | Thomas, Lewis (d. 1880), grain merchant
General noteOn verso: (of Produce Exchange) |
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Box: | Folder : | Thompson, David (d. 1871?), businessman
General noteOn verso: NY Life & Trust? |
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Box: | Folder : | Tibbits, George Moritimer (1796-1878), gentleman
General noteOn verso: Troy [NY] |
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Box: | Folder : | Tilden, Samuel Jones (1814-1886), politician [2 images]
General noteOn verso #1: fm Saronys port photo |
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Box: | Folder : | Tracy, Edward H. (d. 1875), engineer
General noteSee: Folder 12 |
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Box: | Folder : | Travers, William Riggin (1819-1887), financier |
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Box: | Folder : | Trimble, George Thomas (1793-1872), merchant
General noteSee: Folder 12 |
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Box: | Folder : | Trimble, Merritt (1824-1903), banker
General noteOn verso: "Bank for Savings" N.Y. |
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Box: | Folder : | Vail, Henry F. (1812-1881), banker [2 images]
General noteOn verso: Prest Bank of Commerce |
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Box: | Folder : | Vail, Thomas Hubbard (1812-1889) |
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Box: | Folder : | Vanderbilt, Cornelius II (1843-1899) [2 images]
General noteOn verso #1: does not do him justice too old & severe
General noteOn verso #2: not long before his attack [1896] a strong likeness |
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Box: | Folder : | Vanderpoel, Aaron (1799-1870), judge |
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Box: | Folder : 11 | Warren, John (1799-1878), stockbroker
General noteOn verso: Prest of Board of Brokers (Stock Exchange) |
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Box: | Folder : | Warren, J. Kearney (d. 1895) |
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Box: | Folder : | Washburn, Edward Abiel (1819-1881), clergyman
General noteOn verso: of Calvary Church |
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Box: | Folder : | Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889), painter
General noteSee: Folder 12 |
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Box: | Folder : | Whipple, Henry B., Rev. (1822-1901), clergyman
General noteOn verso: Bishop / He said "it looked like a Methodist parson" yet it is a tremendous likeness D.H. |
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Box: | Folder : | White, Andrew Dickson (1832-1918), diplomat
General noteOn verso: President of Cornell about 1890, minister to Germany 1899 |
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Box: | Folder : | White, Chandler (d. 1856) [from a daguerreotype]
General noteOn verso: of the first Cable Syndicate This is from an old daguerreotype of the only likeness to be found of him |
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Box: | Folder : | Whittingham, William Rollison (1805-1879), clergyman, Bishop of Maryland
General noteOn verso: This is severe (as it should be) from the Daguerreotype / fine for character (but it was very hot weather & his shirt-collar showed it)! (not a bad Savonarola) D.H. |
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Box: | Folder : | Williams, John S. (1814-1876), businessman
General noteOn verso: of Williams & Guyon [Guion] |
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Box: | Folder : | Winthrop, Robert (1832-1892), banker
General noteOn verso: of New York |
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Box: | Folder : | Winthrop, Robert Charles (1809-1894), lawyer [2 images]
General noteOn verso #1: very good before he began to grow feeble |
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Box: | Folder : | Wolfe, John David (1792-1872), merchant [2 images] |
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Box: | Folder : | Woodruff, Lewis Bartholomew (1809-1875), judge
General noteOn verso: Lewis B. US Circuit Court |
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Box: | Folder : | Washburn, Edward Abiel (1819-1881), clergyman
General noteOn verso: of Calvary Church |
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Box: | Folder : | Washburn, Edward Abiel (1819-1881), clergyman
General noteOn verso: of Calvary Church |
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Oversize Portraits
Scope and Contents noteFiled alphabetically by sitter; life dates and vocations were added during processing. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: | Folder : 12 | Fry, Charles M. (1822-1892), merchant, bank president
General noteOn verso: President of Bank of NY taken about 1888-90 he died Nov 1892 |
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Box: | Folder : | Gardiner, John Lyon (1841-1910), gentleman |
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Box: | Folder : | Gracie, James King (1840-1903), philanthropist
General noteOn verso: 1878 |
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Box: | Folder : | Johnston, John Taylor (1820-1893), railroad president
General noteOn verso: Capital Likeness DH |
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Box: | Folder : | McLane, James Woods (1839-1912), doctor, educator
General noteOn verso: June 1898 / Dr. J.W. McLane / Pres of Trustees College Physicians & Surgeons / James W. McLane MD |
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Box: | Folder : | Pruyn, Robert Lansing (1852-1906), businessman |
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Box: | Folder : | Taft, Alphonso (1810-1891), politician |
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Box: | Folder : | Tracy, Edward H. (d. 1875), engineer |
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Box: | Folder : | Trimble, George Thomas (1793-1872), merchant
General noteOn verso: NY Hospital? |
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Box: | Folder : | Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889), painter
General noteOn verso: of West Point |
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