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Search results: 19 Finding Aids
Guide to the Album File [ca. 1880-ca. 1980] (Bulk 1860-1920) PR-002
The Album File consists of published and unpublished volumes and scrapbooks acquired from various sources. Styles of albums vary from manufactured carte-de-visite albums to scrapbooks made by pasting images and clippings into accounting ledgers, and fine presentation albums with leather or velvet covers and ornate metal clasps. Albums were created to document families, places, or events, or to honor a person's career. Some volumes included in the file are published works documenting well know locations or persons. The materials comprising the albums are primarily photographic including tintypes, albumen prints, silver gelatin prints, platinum prints and cyanotypes, but also include clippings, engravings and etchings, drawings and other materials. Various photographers, printmakers, and artists are included in the collection.
Guide to the Art Poster File ca. 1890-1910 (bulk 1895-1896) PR-055-01
The Art Posters include advertisements for books, magazines, and newspapers
Guide to the American Art-Union Print Collection 1840-1851 PR 159
Collection of prints issued by the American Art-Union, a subscription-based art organization.
Guide to the John James Audubon Print Collection [1820] - 1860, 1985 PR 162
The Audubon print collection contains hand-colored aquatints, lithographs, chromolithographs, and items of ephemera of or pertaining to the work of John James Audubon, including both original prints from his famous color-plate books of natural history, and later, derivative prints of the same.
Guide to the Playing Card and Game Collection 1549-present (Bulk 1800-1899) PR 115
The collection includes American and European playing cards and card games, primarily from the 19th century. Includes one of the oldest dated cards in existence.
Guide to the Clipper Ship Card Collection 1858-1880, undated (Bulk 1850s-1860s) PR 116
Clipper ship cards were printed to inform prospective passengers and freight shippers of a vessel's impending departure.
Guide to the Issachar Cozzens Portfolio Print Collection 1800 - [1865] PR 145
Collection of early nineteenth century natural history and miscellaneous prints collected by Issachar Cozzens.
Guide to the Fine Art Prints of New York City 1870-2003 (Bulk 1900-1940) PR 229
Collection of art prints showing views of and scenes in New York City. Includes engravings, etchings, lithographs, and other printmaking processes.
The collection consists of ca. 3,500 prints of United States presidents, vice-presidents, cabinet officers, and Supreme Court justices. Most are engravings or lithographs but also present are woodcuts, etchings, photogravures, illustrations from books, portrayals on sheet music covers, and profiles on silk badges.
The James Hazen Hyde Collection consists of 766 prints and some posters from the 16th-20th centuries, the majority of which relate to the theme of the Four Continents. Other minor themes in the collection include historical, religious and political subjects, with a small folder devoted to material on Benjamin Franklin. There are also a number of playing cards, caricatures, and popular prints from Épinal.
Guide to the Society of Iconophiles Print Collection 1895-1929 PR 160
Collection of prints, mostly New York scenes, issued by the Society of Iconophiles.
Guide to the Pictorial Lettersheet Collection ca. 1840-1890 PR 144
Printed stationery with scenes of New York City and other cities.
Guide to the Lighthouse Photograph and Print Collection [1860]-1938 PR 038
Collection of photographs and prints depicting lighthouses, light vessels, and related equipment, primarily in the United States, from about 1860 through 1938. A few views of foreign lighthouses and equipment are included, as is an album of lithographs of architectural plans, sections, and elevations for lighthouses, light vessels, lenses, and other equipment.
Guide to the McGuigan Collection of John Gadsby Chapman Etchings [1838-1845] PR 265
John Gadsby Chapman, primarily a painter of history, moved to New York City in 1834 and found success as a book illustrator.
Guide to the Printmaker File [1730] - ongoing, Bulk 1800-1860 PR 058
The Printmaker File is comprised of prints which are filed by the artist or engraver. It includes aquatints, engravings, etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts. These prints are likely to be known or studied because of their creators or because of their significance in the history of American printmaking
Guide to the Subject File ca. 1600-ongoing(bulk 1800 - 1950) PR 068
The File consists of prints and photographs filed by subject.
Guide to the World War I Poster File [1914]-1920, bulk 1917-1918 PR-055-007
Collection of posters, pictorial sheets, and related ephemera, [1914]-1920, used by governments and organizations during World War I to persuade citizens to enlist in various branches of the armed services, buy bonds, conserve food and fuel, provide relief, and generally support the war effort
Guide to the Portrait/Subject Collection ca. 1800-Present MSS 34
The Portrait/Subject Collection consists of portraits and photographs of American and British authors, as well as a smaller number depicting actors, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Guide to the Manhattan Graphics Center 9/11 Print Portfolio 2001-2002 PR 257
Collection of art prints from the Manhattan Graphics Center relating to the events of 9/11. Includes engravings, silkscreens, etchings, lithographs, and other printmaking processes.