Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Collection also includes two photographs of Alain LeRoy Locke (1946 and undated); related notes, clippings, and ephemera (1907-1971); a typescript carbon of "The Wise" by Countee Cullen, inscribed to Locke by Cullen; and a checklist for an exhibition of paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner., Four pastel and charcoal drawings given to Russell by Locke in 1952 include three unsigned portraits attributed to Lenwood Harvey Morris, circa 1915-1918, of Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Georgia Douglas Johnson, as well as a portrait of a woman signed and dated by an unidentified artist, "S. H.," 1916., and The collection consists chiefly of letters (most autograph letters, signed) between Alain LeRoy Locke and Maurice V. Russell, 1942-1953. The correspondence discusses Russell's education, career plans, and psychoanalysis, and indicates that Locke supported Russell financially during the years he was in school. The two also exchange news of mutual acquaintances, including "Glenn" and Edward Atkinson. Later correspondence,1954-1980, concerns the death of Alain LeRoy Locke, and commemoration of his life.
Description:
Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954), African American author, philosopher, and central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Educated at Harvard University (BA, 1907, PhD, 1918), Locke taught at Howard University from 1912-1916, 1918-1925, and 1928-1953; in retirement he moved to New York City where he died on June 9, 1954., Formerly owned by Maurice V. Russell and purchased from Jack L. Lindsey on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund and the Carl Van Vechten Fund, 2012., formerly owned by Maurice V. Russell and purchased from William Reese Co. (Swann sale, 2015 March 26, lot 185) on the Carl Van Vechten Fund, 2015., In Box 1: Correspondence, 1942-1948. In Box 2: Correspondence, 1949-1980; Other papers, 1907-1971. In Box 3: Drawings, 1915-1918., Includes correspondence, ephemera, and drawings,, Lenwood Harvey Morris (1889-1920) was an African American artist. He trained at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts during the early twentieth century. His best-known painting is a portrait of Alain Leroy Locke, 1915-1918, in the collection of the Howard University Art Gallery. He died of tuberculosis in 1920., and Maurice V. Russell (1923-1998), director of the Social Service Department of New York University Medical Center (1973-1988), trustee of Columbia University (1987-1995), and director of the Kenworthy-Swift Foundation (1973-1998). Russell received his bachelor's degree from Temple University in 1948, and his master's of social work degree from Columbia University School of Social Work in 1950. He received his PhD from Columbia University Teacher's College in social psychology in 1964.
African American educators, African American philosophers, African American social workers, Educators--New York (State)--New York., Philosophers--New York (State)--New York., and Social workers--New York (State)--New York.
Accompanied by engraved portraits of Charles Dibdin, with biographical notes, manuscript, in an unidentified hand; Anne Dibdin (1757-1835); and William Kitchiner, inscribed by Kitchiner to an unidentified recipient; and clippings of a portrait and caricature of E. Rimbault Dibdin., Autograph manuscript song texts and other writings by Charles Dibdin, some with watermarks dated 1794-1814; an autograph letter, signed, from Dibdin's wife Anne Dibdin to William Kitchiner, 1824 February 28, referring to her husband's death and to a bust of him made by sculptor Robert William Sievier; 12 pencil and watercolor drawings, and 3 etching proofs, by Dibdin's daughter Anne Dibdin for illustrations in his Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland (London, 1801); and 11 autograph letters, signed, from E. Rimbault Dibdin to W. T. Freemantle, English bibliographer and book collector, 1904-1915, with a few draft responses from Freemantle, about Freemantle's collection of books and manuscripts by Charles Dibdin, and E. Rimbault Dibdin's writings about Charles Dibdin., and Autograph manuscript writings by Dibdin consist of song texts: The Cabin Boy (watermarked 1810), The Converted Rake: a Burlettina, The Cuckoo, The Flowing Bowl, The Voyage of Life (first line: "A voyage at sea and all its strife"); plays: The Land of Perfection, The Round Robin (watermarked 1810), Taffy and Whinefred, or, the Gentle Goatherd, The Touchstone, and Zeloida; a poem: Peter Nicked, or the Devil's Darling (watermarked 1794); table entertainments, consisting of narration and songs: The Quizes (watermarked 1814), and The Whim of the Moment (watermarked 1805); and papers relating to his textbook The Musical Mentor, including drafts (some watermarked 1804-1805) for a prospectus, letters seeking subscribers, essays, and song texts, and a printed prospectus.
Description:
Charles Dibdin, English composer, author, and actor; husband of Anne Dibdin (1757-1835); father of engraver Anne Dibdin (born circa 1776)., E. Rimbault Dibdin, English art curator and critic., and Purchased from Peter Murray Hill on the Plain Fund, 1954.
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814--Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--19th century, Composers--England, Engravers--Great Britain, Illustration of books--19th century--Great Britain, and Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting--Great Britain
Three original pen and ink drawings. Two drawings, "Engineers Camp in the Mountains," and an untitled drawing depicting men surveying, contain the pencilled caption in an unidentified hand on verso: "Running the U.P.R.R. line West of Omaha, 1865." The third drawing, entitled "Lieut. H. B. Cushing's Indian fight '68," contains a note on the verso in Ransom's hand briefly listing his military service with the United States Army Infantry and Cavalry.
Description:
Member of surveying party for the Union Pacfic Railroad Company; United States Army officer. and The 1865 drawings were purchased from Edward Eberstadt & Sons in 1974.
Subject (Name):
Cushing, Howard Bass, -1871, Ransom, Frederick E., and Union Pacific Railroad Company--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Wars--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works, Railroads--Nebraska--Pictorial works, and Railroads--Nebraska--Surveying--Pictorial works
Indians of North America--Health and hygiene--Pictorial works, Mouth breathing--Pictorial works, and Sleep positions--Physiological effect--Pictorial works