Manuscripts

Fannie Taylor scrapbook

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Description: Scrapbook kept created by Fannie Taylor of Saint Louis, Missouri, in the 1850s. The newspaper clippings, illustrations, poetry, and other printed material glued into book, appear to be glued onto a business account book possibly belonging to John Foster, also of Saint Louis. There are other names written in the volume.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1837-1855.
Call number: mssHM 84296
Creator: Taylor, Fannie(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from A.H. Smythe, November 1935.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

James E. Taylor Collection : Scrapbook Two

Visual Materials

The second scrapbook spans 78 pages and contains nearly 380 images. Taylor dedicated the second scrapbook primarily to Union Generals, officers, and their staffs. The most frequently reoccurring image in this volume is that of General Philip Sheridan, who Taylor followed for some time as a special artist for Leslie's Illustrated Magazine. There exists no particular order in which the officers are presented, but Taylor tends to use about a page or two for each. Notably, this scrapbook also contains a set of views of Confederate soldiers drilling and at rest near Pensacola, Florida, by photographer J. D. Edwards. At the end of the volume is a folder containing several loose pencil and pen-and-ink sketches by Taylor (eph. 1-10). A couple of the sketches appear to be in a finished state, while others are possibly preparatory sketches.

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Bayard Taylor letters

Manuscripts

A small group of letters primarily by noted author Bayard Taylor. Of these, most are written to his sister Emma Taylor Lamborn; others are written to his mother Rebecca Way Taylor, his brother-in-law Charles B. Lamborn, and friends including Edmund Clarence Stedman. Other letters include (1) by C. C. Clarke, (1) by George William Curtis, and (1) by Rebecca Way Taylor. This group also includes a few miscellaneous items, notably a photograph of Emma Taylor Lamborn, and a signed engraving of Bayard Taylor.

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James E. Taylor Collection : Scrapbook Three

Visual Materials

The third scrapbook contains around 410 images spread over 60 pages. Taylor used this scrapbook to catalog images and other material relating to the Union and Confederate Navies. This volume holds many steel engraving and woodblock prints of naval officers. Print material in this scrapbook also lists many of the sailors killed at sea and includes an exhaustive descriptive list of Union vessels. The most frequently covered event in this scrapbook is the Battle of Hampton Roads.

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George R. Taylor letter to John S. Phelps

Manuscripts

Handwritten letter by George R. Taylor to Missouri Congressman John S. Phelps, conveying news of the financial challenges facing the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad (later known as the Southwest Pacific Railroad) and the reorganization necessitated by its difficulties. Presumably written in St. Louis, Missouri.

mssHM 83487

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Scrapbooks

Visual Materials

Collection of 3 disbound scrapbooks of Civil War photographs, clippings, and some original artwork compiled by illustrator and Civil War correspondent James E. Taylor, presumably in the mid 1880s. The scrapbooks contain over 1,530 items including images from noted Civil War photographers Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, George N. Barnard, Andrew J. Russell, J. D. Edwards, and others, as well as handwritten annotations by Taylor and supplementary ephemera and clippings from contemporary newspapers and magazines. Some of the photographic prints are possibly one of a kind. The scrapbooks focus on the Eastern Theater of the war, primarily depicting locations and events in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Included in the scrapbooks are views of battlefields, street views of towns, buildings and ruins, military camps, field hospitals, portraits of Civil War generals and soldiers, and images of casualties and battle scenes. There are several loose pencil and pen-and-ink sketches by Taylor located at the end of volume 2.

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James E. Taylor Collection : Scrapbook One

Visual Materials

The first scrapbook of the Taylor collection is the largest of the three with 108 pages and some 730 images. This scrapbook also has the most diverse group of images, with no specific unifying theme running throughout. However, in general, the first scrapbook focuses on battlefield sites, carnage and destruction of war, and the notable military personnel. Taylor dedicated many pages to battles at Antietam and Gettysburg. The pages for both battles contain many images of dead soldiers by Alexander Gardner, James Gibson, Timothy O'Sullivan, and others, as well as portraits of the Generals and their staffs, and views of the land and buildings of the battlefield. Another important series in the first scrapbook are images and text related to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the execution of the conspirators. These pages contain five of Alexander Gardner's ten image series depicting the execution of the Lincoln conspirators in Washington, DC, on July 7, 1865.

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Fannie Taylor scrapbook

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