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Advertisements
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Col-214
Scope and Contents
This artificial and still open collection contains printed broadsides, brochures, posters, and other advertising material. Printed processes used include: woodblock printing, engraving, lithography, and photolithography. The majority of the material was produced during the 19th century in New England and the Middle Atlantic states. The most numerous ads are for furniture, clothing and dress, pottery and glassware, and booksellers/stationers. The many illustrations depict products, mechanical...
Dates:
between approximately 1740 and approximately 1940
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Alfred Craven Harrison papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WA-0001
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, invoices, and business and legal documents. The records reflect Alfred Harrison’s personal activities and involvement with the Winterthur Corporation; legal and financial matters involving the estates of Ruth Wales du Pont and Henry Francis du Pont; activities in Boca Grande Florida; and the rental matters concerning a New York Park Avenue apartment. The collection also contains a hotel bill from Claridge’s hotel in London, a letter from Elise...
Dates:
1938-1973
Found in:
Winterthur Library
American Institute for Conservation (AIC) Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: Col-701
Scope and Contents
Interviews, both original taped interviews and transcripts of them, mostly with American conservators or cultural heritage professionals and scholars who worked closely with conservators. The oral history project is sponsored by the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (formerly Fellows of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works [FAIC]), and is ongoing, with new material added annually. Included with most of the transcripts are supporting materials, such...
Dates:
1976 - 2023
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Anne Louise Hadley White papers
Collection
Identifier: Col-134
Scope and Contents
Includes a scrapbook, a cookbook, and a Forget Me Not Album (i.e. autograph album) created by Anne Hadley. The scrapbook consists of 101 color printed gift and trade cards advertising such products as Star cough drops, shoes, vaseline, Coats' thread, sarsaparilla, a Clinton, Mass., dry goods store, and painters' supplies. The firms represented were located in Massachusetts, New York, Washington, D.C., and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Many of the cards show either children engaged in various...
Dates:
c.1880 - c.1930
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Baltimore, Maryland merchant ledger
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Col-1030
Content Description
Store book of an unnamed Baltimore, Maryland merchant kept between 1804 and 1808, detailing the sale of goods such as various fabrics, threads, buttons, shoes, tobacco, coffee, sugar. May detail the sale of goods such as tobacco and shoes to people of color or enslaved people. Written on the front cover is the title "store book."
Dates:
1804-1808
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Belcher Hancock Society of the Cincinnati certificate
Collection — Frame: 1
Identifier: Col-1028
Content Description
Society of Cincinnati certificate for Belcher Hancock, signed by George Washington.
Dates:
1784-05-05
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Byrdcliffe Records
Collection
Identifier: Col.-209
Scope and Contents
The Byrdcliffe archives includes family correspondence, featuring letters to and from Jane and Ralph Whitehead beginning in the 1890s; photographs, many of which are dated and the people in them identified (twenty of which were taken by Jesse Tarbox Beals); more than 600 original drawings and paintings, including furniture designs by Edna Walker and Zulma Steele, and colored designs for rugs created by Marie Little; approximately 575 issues of magazines; scrapbooks; over 700 study prints...
Dates:
Majority of material found in circa 1869-2000
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Cabinet maker's day book
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: Col-1025
Content Description
Day book for the years 1837-1846, kept by a Dover, DE cabinet maker. Research suggests that the ledger may have been kept by Stephen Toppan, one of three cabinet makers listed in directories as working in Dover in 1838.Jobs listed in the daybook include making and repairing various pieces of furniture, including chairs, tables, bureaus, cradles, bedframes, bookcases, mirror frames, and coffins. Charges listed also incude varnishing, as well as the sale of smaller items such as...
Dates:
1837-1846
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Charles Graff receipt book
Collection — Container: Doc-65
Identifier: Doc-65
Scope and Contents
Twenty-nine signed receipts for a variety of goods, such as "fifteen Dollars in full for a Mattrass," and "Seven hundred twenty four Dollars 50/100 ... for 100 Kegs of Lard." Includes commodities shipped to Havana, Cuba. At the back of the book are some rough sketches of buildings, evidently done at a much later time as one appears to be a skyscraper.
Dates:
1799 - 1806
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Coates family silhouette collection
Collection — Container: Doc-139
Identifier: Doc-139
Scope and Contents
Contains 77 negative silhouettes mounted on black backgrounds, all but three of which are identified on a "List of Names" at the beginning of the volume. There are also six leaves of 'Scherenschnitten' pictures; and then eight un-mounted silhouettes (six of which are identified) laid in. These loose silhouettes are now in separate sleeves. Many members of the Coates family are pictured, as are members of the Hornor, Morrison, Evans, Redman, Randolph, Pickering, Hopkins, Snowden, and Yarnall...
Dates:
[1800?] - [1825?]
Found in:
Winterthur Library