Manuscripts

Benjamin Franklin portraits, 1777-1880: album

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Description: This album contains over 100 portraits of Benjamin Franklin. They range in date from 1777 to about 1880 and include engravings, etchings, and other illustrations. The majority of them were acquired in 1907 at the sale of engravings from the collection of Hon. James T. Mitchell, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania (the title page from that sale catalog is included with the volume along with a numbered listing of the illustrations). Fourteen prints were later added to the volume. There is a handwritten note at the beginning of the volume by a J. M. Fox. The note is regarding the contents of the volume and is dated April 1908.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1908.
Call number: mssHM 75937
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.

Airplanes, 1890-1914: manuscript album

Manuscripts

This volume contains 1,043 illustrations of early airplanes (including 100 original photographs and 224 reproductions of technical design). This collection was brought together before the outbreak of World War 1 (there is a note in pencil in the beginning of the volume "Development of aeroplane construction prior to WW I." - the note is in German). The illustrations, most of which are cuttings from magazines, periodicals and other ephemeral or hard-to-get publications, include captions in German. A detailed list of the contents is in the inside front cover. The first image in the book is of Prince Henry of Russia in an airplane with the quote "Ein Flugapparat ist weder ein offenes Grab, noch ein Kinderspielzeug" ("A flying machine is neither an open grave nor a toy for children"). The next few images are of Orville and Wilbur Wright and their airplane.

mssHM 75936

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Photograph albums

Visual Materials

A collection of 16 photograph albums, about 800 wood-engraved illustrations, 5 scrapbooks of wood engravings, letters, 15 small watercolors, and ephemera related to the Dalziel family of England. The Dalziel Brothers firm produced wood engravings for book illustrations, and this collection contains hundreds of examples of their work. The photograph albums were mostly compiled by Dora Dalziel, a daughter of Edward Dalziel, who also was a photographer, along with her sister, Grace Dalziel. The photographs include their houses (exteriors and interiors), family groups, vacation scenes, informal portraits, and domestic life. Some are captioned, but the majority of photographs don't have identifications. A few albums contain cabinet card and carte-de-visite portraits of various Dalziel family, their friends, and some theater or literary personalities. Two travel albums signed "Dora Dalziel, 1889" contain commercially-made photographs of Europe. The collection also contains hundreds of wood engravings created by the Dalziel Brothers firm, of illustrations by many notable Victorian artists including John Gilbert, John Everett Millais, and John Tenniel. The engravings are mostly individual prints on India paper, with the artist and title usually noted in pencil handwriting. There are also five scrapbooks of wood engravings, clippings, various types of illustrations, some letters, and ephemera, dating from approximately 1830s to 1929. Also included are 15 small watercolors on paper, unsigned.

Series 1

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Leaf from Captain Cook's journal May 3-6, 1770, containing the account of the discovery and naming of Botany Bay : manuscript ; engraved portraits, views and miniature

Manuscripts

A bound volume with the journal leaf tipped in; also with engravings of portraits by William Hodges, John Webber and Nathaniel Dance of James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks and Botany Bay, proofs of engravings of the Copley Medal and a Nathaniel Hone miniature of Cook, on metal, and enameled. The volume is bound in a full red levant morocco with the title on the front cover: "The Only Surviving Leaf of Captain Cook's Journal Containing the Entries Relating to the Discovery and Naming of Botany Bay May 4th 5th & 6th 1770." Please note: In the passage referring to the naming of the bay, the words "Sting Ray Bay" have been deleted, and "Botanist Bay" written in.

mssHM 965

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

The collection of correspondence, documents, engravings, and ephemera of the Westall brothers assembled at the Huntington Library. Included are the correspondence of William and Richard Westall, a bound volume of Richard Westall's illustrations, and printed pieces and photograph reproductions of various and paintings and illustrations.

mssHM 54281-54318, HM 63286

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Manuscript Volume; Correspondence; Ephemera

Manuscripts

mssHM 54281-54318, HM 63286

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Album of works for Jack London's "Children of the Frost,"

Manuscripts

Album of original watercolors and charcoal sketches for the French edition of Jack London's "Children of the Frost." The drawings are primarily vibrant and expressionistic portraits of Eskimos, reminiscent of the work by Georges Rouault. Some of the illustrations depict a progression with the final image at the beginning. For instance, following the "final" watercolor for "In the Forest of the North", there are at least 7 preliminary illustrations in charcoal and black watercolor showing different angles and variations. All eight illustrations found in the French edition of Jack London's "Children of the Frost" are represented in this volume.

mssHM 80824

Benjamin Franklin portraits, 1777-1880: album

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