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circa 1870

Stuart, Frederick T., 1837-1913

Title: Engraving of John Lothrop Motley.

Adhered to scapbook mount.

GLC02453.51

circa 1850

Parker Sc., G., ?

Title: Engraving of Fitz-Greene Halleck.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Below the image is "From an Original Picture by Henry Inman." "Our Contributors No. VIII"

GLC02453.52

circa 1910

Title: Engraving of John Burroughs.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Below the image reads, "Reproduced from an etching made at Slabsides, by M. Paul Roche."

GLC02453.53

circa 1875

H.B. Hall & Sons, fl. 1850-1900

Title: Engraving of Sidney Lanier.

Adhered to scapbook mount.

GLC02453.54

circa 1850

Sartain, John, 1808-1897

Title: Engraving of Joseph Hopkinson.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Adhered to lower right is typed biographical note. Based on the ca. 1810 portrait by Thomas Sully.

GLC02453.55

circa 1860

H.B. Hall & Sons, fl. 1850-1900

Title: Engraving of John James Ingalls.

Adhered to scrapbook mount.

GLC02453.56

circa 1870

Title: Engraving of Thomas Dunn English.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Song lyrics printed in background, "Oh' don't you remember sweet Alice Ben Bolt."

GLC02453.57

circa 1860

Title: Engraving of Henry Timrod.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. "Drawn from a painting by P.P. Carter." "Owned by the Hon. William A. Courtenay."

GLC02453.58

circa 1860

Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893

Title: Engraving of George William Curtis.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Adhered to lower right is a short biographical note.

GLC02453.59

circa 1890

Title: Engraving of Eugene Field.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note also adhered to scrapbook mount.

GLC02453.60

circa 1880

Wilcox, John Angel James, 1835-?

Title: Engraving of John Fiske.

Adhered to scrapbook mount.

GLC02453.61

circa 1880

H.B. Hall & Sons, fl. 1850-1900

Title: Engraving of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note is adhered to lower right. "Fords, Howard & Hulbert, N.Y." appears below the image.

GLC02453.62

circa 1880

Sartain, John, 1808-1897

Title: Engraving of Charles Fenno Hoffman.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note is adhered to bottom right. Engraved from a portrait by Henry Inman.

GLC02453.63

circa 1880

H.B. Hall & Sons, fl. 1850-1900

Title: Engraving of Josiah Gilbert Holland.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note is adhered to bottom right.

GLC02453.64

circa 1885

Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885

Title: Engraving of Benson John Lossing.

Adhered to scrapbook mount with biographical sketch adhered to lower right. From Lossing's book, History of New York City. "Drawn by J.L. Giles, N.Y."

GLC02453.65

circa 1880

Sartain, John, 1808-1897

Title: Engraving of John Lothrop Motley.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Below image reads, "On steel by John Sartain Phila. after Photograph from life"

GLC02453.66

circa 1870

Pelton, Oliver, 1798-1882

Title: Engraving of James Parton.

Adhered to upper left is a biographical note. Inscribed in pencil lower left is, "c:" and lower right is, "my scarce print."

GLC02453.67

1861-1877

O'Neill, John A., 1836-?

Title: Engraving of Major General Jefferson Columbus Davis

Published by C.B. Richardson. O'Neill, NY is printed below the image.

GLC02455.17

1861-1877

Smith, Henry Wright, 1828-?

Title: Engraving of Henry Wager Halleck

GLC02455.18

1861-1877

Perine, G.E., fl. 1861-1900

Title: Engraving of Major General John A. Dix, U.S.A.

Printed below the image, "From Photograph in possession of his family. New York, G.P. Putnam. Entered according to act of Congress A.D. 1861 by G.P. Putnam, in the clerks office of the district court for the southern district of N.Y."

GLC02455.19