Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan / by John L. Stephens
Image Count:
1
Description:
Facing p. 171.
Subject (Geographic):
Central America --Antiquities, Central America --Description and travel, Chiapas (Mexico) --Description and travel, Mexico --Antiquities, Mexico --Description and travel, and Yucatan (Mexico : State) --De
Subject (Topic):
Indian sculpture --Mexico, Indians of Central America, and Mayas --Antiquities
Drawings of various complexity, presumably by a boy and for him by an adult, which depict figures and activities of fictitious nations on sheets of a ledger volume, circa 1899-1900. Drawings consist primarily of military figures, inhabitants, indigenous animals, and naval ships of Browlia, Frowlia, and Souv, in addition to a map of the nation of Browlia, a Browlian postage stamp, and flags for the nations Browlia and Ounyhonte. Several of the drawings are on sheets, which are then mounted on leaves of the ledger volume. Other items include two photographic prints that depict the boy, poetry and songs in English and Browlian, a clipping of lines from a Welsh religious publication that may have inspired the Browlian language, and eighteen collages created from magazine halftone images. The creator provides English and Browlian commentary about drawings and items with pencil inscriptions as well as typescript created with a dollar typewriter.
Description:
Although the entire scrapbook has been renumbered in pencil by the creator, several otherwise blank pages have not been digitized. and Volume has been partially disbound.
Subject (Topic):
Imaginary creatures, Imaginary languages, Imaginary places, Imaginary societies, and Imaginary wars and battles
Great Britain. Army. 44th Regiment Smith, Robert, fl. 1814
Published / Created:
[1814]
Call Number:
GEN MSS FILE 366 (Brsides)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Includes five insets showing detailed positions at: Benedict; a point northwest of Benedict; Nottingham; Upper Marlborough; and "Wood Yard" (southwest of Upper Marlborough). and Manuscript map, pen-and-ink and watercolor, detailing the advance of British forces under Major General Robert Ross on Washington, D.C., including the Battle of Bladensburg, and the route of the army's return after the burning of Washington. Shows area in Maryland from Benedict to Bladensburg, including Washington, D.C.
Description:
Artist/cartographer attribution from donor files., Bears manuscript notes in pencil in a different hand., Purchased by Paul Mellon from C. A. Stonehill, Inc., 1958. Bequest of Paul Mellon (Yale 1929), 2000., Robert Smith, Lieutenant of the British 44th Regiment., Scale ca. 1:160,000. Scale of insets ca. 1:21,000., and Title from caption.
Subject (Geographic):
Maryland--History--War of 1812--Maps and Washington (D.C.)--History--Capture by the British, 1814--Maps
Subject (Name):
Ross, Robert,--1766-1814 and Smith, Robert,--fl. 1814
A photograph album containing 46 varnished salted paper prints of views of San Francisco dated 1852-1860, 14 of them signed by G.R. Fardon, which includes all but 6 of the photographs in Fardon's San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco. Includes a photograph of Fort Gunnybags, June 1856. Two maps of San Francisco are tipped in.
Alternative Title:
San Francisco album.
Description:
First photograph carries stamp: "Amic Gazan [&] Mazzucchelli Sun Pictures.", G.R. Fardon traveled from New York to San Francisco in 1849. There he experimented with daguerreotypes, and developed a process by which prints on paper could be made from collodion glass plate negatives. In 1856 Herre & Bauer printed his San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco., Manuscript captions., Presentation inscription by James de Fremery to his wife, dated November 2 1859, with later inscription noting gift to son James L. de Fremery., Purchased from William Reese Company on the Frederick W. Beinecke Fund, 1998., and Title from front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Amic Gazan & Mazzucchelli Sun Pictures, De Fremery, James, 1826-1899--Presentation inscription to his wife, Fardon, G. R., Lindenkohl, A, and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856