Scope and content Includes a letter from Ford to F. W. Hodge discussing the oil paintings that she has of American Indians. The paintings are believed in part to be copies of ones owned by the Smithsonian. She includes photos of all eleven as well as a description of each. She has also annotated the back of some of the photos to include additional information about the original paintings and painters. She mentions their similarity to the McKinney and Hall lithographs and Lewis collection paintings as well....

Scope and content Portraits of significant European and American literary and historical figures, and pictures of various theatres in England, France, Germany, and the United States. Subjects include Otto von Bismarck, William Blake, Anne Boleyn, Daniel Boone, Joseph Brant, Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer, Oliver Cromwell, astronomer Johannes Mayr (or Major; image dated 1610), President James Garfield, General James Oglethorpe (shown at the posthumous sale of Dr. Johnson's books in 1785), and many...