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Scope and Contents Consists of ink silhouette portraits bound in two separately titled volumes, dated 1790-1800. Death dates added in vol. 2 as late as 1825 indicate that these volumes had an active life after date of creation. Volume 1 is titled An Occasional Collection of Physiognomical Sketches, chiefly North American, and drawn from the life; designed to preserve the characteristic features of personally, mentally, or officially Remarkable Persons, and the endeared memory of Private Friends or Public...