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Watercolors (paintings)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Album unique

 Collection — Portfolio 49
Identifier: 9110
Scope and content Eleven original watercolors with holographic descriptions by the artist. Includes a letter to Catlin as well. Descriptions include specifics as to the individuals who are pictured and their place in the tribe they are from. Names of Indians are given in the native language as well as the English version, including: The Surrounder, Red Thunder, The Jumper, Double Walker, Big Elk, Black Dog, Big Crow, Little Soldier, Black Rock, and The Very Brave Chief. Information about Indian culture is...
Dates: 1863.

Cornell-Princeton watercolor

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1
Identifier: 40-2-3821
Scope and content

Watercolor of a Gibson girl holding a Cornell pennant and probably a football, shooing away a Princeton tiger, titled "Scat," by S. (J.?) G. Simpson.

Dates: 1903

Crónica de Michoacán : Mapa de Michoacán.

 Item — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9161
Scope and content

Watercolored copy of a historical scene orginally published in Beaumont's Crónica de Michoacán. Objects in the painting have been labeled.

Dates: Undated

Halsey family papers

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113940898]
Identifier: 2966
Abstract

Personal and professional papers of Francis W. Halsey (Cornell University Class of 1873), a newspaper editor and writer, and of his brother, Frederick A. Halsey (Cornell University M.E. 1878), an engineer and author of a number of articles and books about engineering. Also, letters to Frederick Halsey's daughters Olga and Marion from Fred H. Colvin.

Dates: 1870-1975.