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Presidential portraits

Description

Primarily etchings or copies of etchings, also one photograph print (Roosevelt). Forty-one items total, arranged alphabetically. Presidents represented include: John Adams (1), John Quincy Adams (8), Chester A. Arthur (1), James Buchanan (1), Grover Cleveland (1), Millard Fillmore (1), James Garfield (3), Ulysses S. Grant (2), William Henry Harrison (1), Rutherford B. Hayes (1), Andrew Jackson (1), Thomas Jefferson (2), Andrew Johnson (1), Abraham Lincoln (2), James Madison (2), William McKinley (1), James Monroe (1), Franklin Pierce (2), James K. Polk (1), Theodore Roosevelt (2), Zachary Taylor (2), John Tyler (1), George Washington (2). Also includes an etching of Martha Washington (1).

Also included in this box are etching copies and portrait photocopies, primarily of U.S. presidents, which Shapiro used as section markers in his collection binders or framed with some individual letters. In addition, there are copies of portraits of Abigail Adams and Dolley Madison, and a photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt, which were included in the addenda gift of February 2022.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1776-2015.
Call number
mssShapiro
Creator
Shapiro, L. Dennis(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
On deposit from L. Dennis and Susan R. Shapiro, December 2019, September 2020, and January 2021.
Gift of Susan R. Shapiro, January 2022.
Gift of Susan R. Shapiro, February 2022.
Gift of Susan R. Shapiro, January 2023.
Gift of Susan R. Shapiro, December 2024.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Rights
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
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