Portraits.
Subject
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Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Great composers and musicians collection
Collection — Bound manuscript 1++: [Barcode: 31924083687057]
Identifier: 4674
Abstract
Autographs, brief music manuscripts, and/or portraits of famous and lesser-known Western European and American composers and performers, including Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Busoni, Elgar, Gounod, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, MacDowell, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Paderewski, Paganini, Rossini, Anton Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Schubert, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Toscanini, Verdi, Wagner, Weber, and Hugo Wolf. The bound volume includes autographs, manuscript...
Dates:
1780 - 1910
Harry S. Truman papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4655
Scope and content
Letters, clippings, photographs, slides, film reels, television scripts, and sound recordings by, to, or about Harry S. Truman, focussing on his experiences as an artillery captain in World War I and his years as President. Letters, chiefly between Truman and Arthur W. Wilson, include a substantial letter Truman wrote from Verdun in January 1919, detailing his artillery unit's movements and experiences in combat in the fall of 1918. Subsequent letters are mainly social in nature, but include...
Dates:
1918-1981.
Jacques Reich engravings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4005
Scope and content
Engraved portraits by Jacques Reich include Andrew Dickson White (6 copies); John Paul Jones, James Madison, Wiliam Makepeace Thackeray, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Charles Evans Hughes, and one identified portrait.
Dates:
1890-1911.
James Joyce collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4609
Abstract
Manuscripts, letters, documents, photographs, bound manuscripts, galley proofs, and broadsides by, to or about James Joyce, mainly in the early years of his writing career. Manuscripts include the earliest known manuscript of his first book of poems, Chamber Music; a typescript of the first sketch of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; an essay containing an important early statement of Joyce's literary theory; and manuscripts for parts of Dubliners, Stephen Hero, Ulysses, Pomes Penyeach,...
Dates:
1893 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1920
Krum family papers
Collection
Identifier: 8647
Scope and content
Krum Family material includes bibles, letters to Amelia A. Krum and Landon D. Krum, insurance policies and mortgages, newspaper clippings, photographs and other documents pertaining to the Krum family and Krum's Corners in Ulysses, Tompkins County, New York. The papers of Landon D. Krum and his daughter Amelia A. Krum are most prominently represented across the collection.Clippings and publications include newspaper articles from The Ithaca Journal...
Dates:
1837-1957
Lester Sharp lantern slide collection
Collection
Identifier: 6690
Abstract
Black and white glass lantern slides of portaits of various botanists from the 1500s-1900s, used by Professor Sharp in his lectures.
Dates:
[19--]
Lucinda Cawley political and commemorative textiles collection
Collection
Identifier: 8433
Abstract
Approximately 100 commemorative textiles, buttons, photographs and other ephemera relating to United States presidential campaigns, United States military, World's Fairs, as well as other events from the late 19th century through the early 21st century.
Dates:
1860s-2008.
Olaf Brauner papers
Collection
Identifier: 14-14-907
Scope and content
Autochromes, negatives and prints of Brauner's portraits, other paintings and sculpture; signed photographs presented to him by Auguste Rodin, Theodore Spicer-Simson, Booth Tarkington, Jonas Lie, and others; also, a photograph of Brauner at his easel, medallions, plaques, sketches, and printed matter in Norwegian and English. Also, pamphlets and clippings pertaining to Brauner and the Cornell University College of Architecture.
Dates:
1899-1950.
Physicians and scientists : Ben Grauer collection
Collection
Identifier: 4782
Scope and content
Consists chiefly of manuscript correspondence of various French, German, and British physicians and scientists, with some portrait engravings and sketches, biographical information, and portrait photographs. Also included are undated home remedies and prescriptions in French which appear to be of the late 18th or early 19th century; notes in French on biological processes, from the period ca. 1793-1805; notes for medical journal articles in English and French; and a legal document of 1738...
Dates:
1738-1950-(bulk 1870-1925).
Portraits and pictures collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8415
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...
Dates:
1610-1900.