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is a scholarly journal published twice yearly by the American Historical Print Collectors Society. 

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Afro-Americana Graphics at The Library Company of Philadelphia, 164

Arkansas Traveller, The, prints of, 125

American Antiquarian Society, AHPCS fellows at, 154; print collection, 9

American Art-Union, 2, 194, 196

American Historical Print Collectors Society, annual meetings, 154; founding and growth, 154; presidents, 154

American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, 174

American Scenery, 10; dating of its prints, 80; geographical catalog, 119; Hudson River views, 12

Amon Carter Museum print collection, 50

Archives, Public, of Canada, print collection, 73

Art Journal, The, wood engravings of Colorado and the Pacific Railways, 113

Asheville, N.C., as depicted in prints, 180; as “The Land of the Sky,” 180

Audubon, John James, as producer, promoter, and publisher, 127; portrait prints, 140 ; his Birds: identifying original and later editions, 129 ; facsimile, 96 ; subscribers, 98

Audubon, John Woodhouse, 31

Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington, The, 93, 107

Baker, Joseph E., 179

Baillie, James, 196

Ballou's Pictorial, illustrations of Mass., 117; and A.R. Waud, 137

Baltimore, views of, 59, 193 ; and Civil War, 138

Banknote engravings, 2 ; images of women workers on, 115

Barber, John Warner, 22

Barnum's Museum, images of, 99;

Bartholomew, William N., 168

Bartlett, William Henry, and American Scenery, 10; dating of prints, 80; geographical cat., 119; Hudson River views, 14; his views of Canada, 123

Beacon, New York, 158

Beck and Pauli Lithographing Co., 60

Beecher, Henry Ward, images relating to 1872 scandal, 139

Belcher, Gov. Jonathan, mezzotint of, 182

Bennett, William, an early lithographer, 193, aquatints, 196

Bierstadt, Albert, 159

Billings, Hammatt, book illustrations, 67, for Uncle Tom's Cabin, 81

Bingham, George Caleb, 4, 89

Bingham, William, Birch's view of his house, 87

Binns, John, 165

Birch, William, 12, 87

bird's-eye views of cities:

  • New Orleans, 95;
  • Lawrence, KS, 111

birds, illustrations of American, 84

Birds of America, 127; identifying originals, restrikes, etc., 129; subscribers, 98

birth and baptismal certificates, 183

Bloody Massacre, by Paul Revere, 182

Blyth, Samuel, and Washington mezzotints, 188

Bodmer, Karl, 50, 66; facsimile ed., 96

book illustration, American,

  • aspects of, 32 ;
  • of birds, 84;
  • botanical, 79;
  • children's: humor in, 70;
  • and Currier & Ives lithographs, 110;
  • by Hammatt Billings, 67;
  • medical, 128;
  • for Tennyson's Enoch Arden, 52

Boston, art teaching in schools, 159; as center of lithography, and views of, 62

Boston Artists' Association, 159, 168

Boston Atheneaum print collection, 62

botanical illustration in Philadelphia, 79

Bradley, Will, 34

Brechall, Martin, 183

Brooklyn Bridge, images of, 53

Brown, Eliphalet, Jr., 187

Buell, Abel, 1

Bufford, J. H., 179; prints of The Arkansas Traveller, 125, sheet music covers, 187

Burgess, Frank, 70

Burlington Drawing Book of Flowers, 157

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, 18

Bush Hill, Philadelphia, 64

Cabinet of Natural History . . ., 24

California,

  • prints of, 50;
  • Currier & Ives prints of, 122;
  • pictorial lettersheets of, 26;
  • Scenery of the Pacific Railways and Colorado, 113

Calvert, Thomas, 169

Calvert Lithographing, Engraving, and Map Publishing Co. (Detroit), 169

cameo stamps, 169

camp meetings, images of, 49

Canada: Public Archives of Canada Print Collection, 73 ; etchings of, by Stephen Parrish and Charles Adams Platt, 143; growth of graphic arts industry in, 147 ; Picturesque Canada, 85; views of by Bartlett and Canadian artists, 123

Canterbury, N. H., views of, 174

Carte-de-visite photographs, 175

Catesby, Mark, 3, 58

Catlin, George, 50 ; facsimile ed., 96

CDVs (cartes-de-visites), 175

cemeteries, rural, images of, 86

Chapman, Henry T., 177

Charles, William, 11

Cheney, John, 74

Chicago Historical Society print collection, 56

Chicago Illustrated, 43

Chicago portage, maps of, 76

children's book illustration, 70 , 110

chromolithography, of posters, 9

Church, Frederick Stuart, 178

Cincinnati industrial fairs, 176

city views as promotional pieces, 111 , in souvenir viewbooks, 78

Civil War, and political prints, 179; "ironclad" vessels in, 167

Claghorn, James Lawrence, 176

Clay, Edward Williams, 42

"Coffin Handbills," 165, 172

Cole, Thomas, 156, Voyage of Life series, 75

collecting of prints, in the Gilded Age, 176

collecting practices, "Finders Keepers", 105 ; at the National Portrait Gallery, 71

Collins & Perkins, 128

Colorado, images of, 113

Columbus, Christopher, early iconography of, 103

Confederate image, the, 77

Confederate leaders, prints of, 77

Corwin, Edward B., 170

Cosmopolitan Art Association, 194

Cosmopolitan Art Journal, 194

Cox, Palmer, 70

Creifelds, Richard, 177

Crocker, J. Denison, 191

Cruickshank, George, illustrations for Uncle Tom's Cabin, 81

Currier, Nathaniel, photo of, 120; apprenticeship and training, 196; ; and map and book illustrations, 184; and map of China, 160; and prints of "questionable taste," 121 , 141 ; and sheet music cover "Tippecanoe", 160; and Steam Boat Lexington, 93, 107; pictorial context for his prints, 196

Currier & Ives:

  • and American children's books, 110
  • and American parlor, 94
  • and CDVs (cartes-de-visites), 175
  • and Erskine Nicol, 175
  • and Harper's Weekly, 160
  • and Harry T. Peters, 7
  • and image of woman, 38
  • and Kellogg firm, 82
  • billhead, 1852, 160
  • Convanience, 175
  • "Darktown Series," 195
  • Homeward-Bound, 175
  • Inconvanience, 175
  • Outward-Bound, 175
  • Pirates, The, 187
  • previously uncataloged, 133
  • prints copied by others, 184
  • prints depicting African Americans, 195
  • prints of The Arkansas Traveller, 125
  • prints of "questionable taste," 121 , 141
  • photograph of Supreme Court, 100
  • Reconstruction era prints, 195
  • Slave Trade, 187
  • "unconventional C&I," 145184, 189
  • unrecorded, 160
  • research, 108
  • sidelines in 1852,  160
  • The Season of Rest, 94

"Darktown Series," 195

Darrow, Titus, 191

Davis, Alexander J., 170

Dawe, Philip, his The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man..., and The Bostonians in Distress, 182

Deerfield, Massachusetts, 182, print collection, 182

De Kay, Charles, 177

de Thulstrup, Thure, 131

Derby, Chauncey Lyman, 194

Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection, 18

Discord, The, 171

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 70

double-sided prints, 171

Doughty, Thomas, 24

Downing, Andrew Jackson, 170

Downing, Jack, mythical hero, 42

Dulheuer, Heinrich, 183

Duquesne Club, and lithograph of Pittsburgh, 185

Durand, Asher B., 21

Duval, P. S., 187

Early Ephrata Artist, 183

Edmonds, Francis William, 21

Ehre Vater Artist, the, 183

Ellis, George B., 102

Enders (Ostrom) Ornithology Collection, The Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 84

Endicott, George, 196

Endicott & Co., 167; lithographs at The Mariner's Museum, 167

Enoch Arden, illustrations for, 52

Ephrata Cloister, printed birth and baptismal forms, 183

erotic images on sheet music covers, 1840-1860, 187

Essay on Gothic Architecture (Hopkins), 157

Essex Institute print collection, 39

etchings in auction catalogues, 177

Faber, John, mezzotint of Gov. Jonathan Belcher, 182

Fabronius, Dominique C., 179

facsimile eds. of Audubon, Bodmer, and Catlin,96

Family Electioneering or . . ., 11

Farny, Henry F., 55

Farrer, Henry, 47

Fashion plates, at Historic Deefield, Inc., 182

Ferris, Stephen J., 177

Flynt, Helen Geier, and Henry Needham,  182

Four Seasons of Life: Old Age: The Season of Rest, 94

Fowle, Edward Augustus, 168

Fraktur, 183

Frames, shellwork,  182

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 14 , 55 ; and F. H. Schell, 138

Franklin, Benjamin, portrait prints of, 153

Free Library of Philadelphia, 37, 46

Fremont's report on Rocky Mountains, 161

Frost, A.B., 70

Frost, Seth, 159

Gifford, R. Swain, 20

Girl of the Period, 175

Gleason's Pictorial, 5 ; illustrations of Mass., 117

Gold Rush, California, lithographs of, 31 ; lettersheets, 26

Goldsmith's Daughter, The, 109

Gothic architecture, 157

Goupil, Vibert & Co., 37, 196

Government publications, illustrated, of American West, 161

Graham, Billy, Center Museum, Wheaton, IL, 49

Gray, Francis Calley, 176

Grant, Ulysses S., 173

Greeley, Horace, 173

Green-Wood cemetery, engravings of, 86

Hall, James, 35 , 50

Hancock, John, portrait of, 48

Harper's Weekly, views of: Hudson River, 92 ; shipbuilding, 97; Wall Street panics, 14 ; and Winslow Homer, 5, 162; and Henry F. Farny, 55 ; and Thure de Thulstrup, 131

Harrison, William Henry, 160

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Canterbury Shaker village, 174

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village print resources, 16, 33

Hill, John, 19, 124, 158, 196

Hiller, Joseph, Sr., 48, 188

Historic Deerfield, Inc., 182

History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 35, 166

Hitchcock, James Ripley Wellman, 177

Hitchings, Henry, 159, 168

Hoen, A., & Co., 59

Hoevelman, Arnold, 183

Homer, Winslow, 5; book illustrations by, 134 ; Sharpshooter, 126; Gen. Garibaldi, 162

Hone, Philip, 158

Hopkins, John Henry, 157

Hopkins, John Henry, Jr., 157

Howells, William Dean, and A Chance Acquaintance, 180

Hudson River Portfolio, 10 , 124

Hudson River views, 124 ; from Harper's Weekly, 92; at Mariner's Museum, 167 

Huntington, Archer and Anna, 167

Huntington Library print collection, 142

Hurd, Nathaniel, portrait of the Rev. Joseph Sewall, 182

Iconography of Manhattan Island, The (I. N. Phelps Stokes), 163

Imbert, Anthony, 42

“I’m Not to Blame for Being White, Sir!”, 179

Imprint, annotated bibliography of articles in Vols. 1-25, 155

industry, views of, 158

"ironclad" vessels, views of, 167

Jackson, Andrew, 165, 172

Johnson, Eastman, 132, 175

Johnson, Frank, 173

Johnston, David Claypoole, 42, 172

Johnston, Thomas, his Quebec, The Capital of New-France, 182

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, 66

Juengling, Frederick, 177

Kellogg firm, Hartford, 82, 191

Kellogg, E. C., 191

Keppler, Joseph, 139

King, Charles Bird, 35, 166

King, James S., 177

Kipps, Alfred, 179

Kirby, Thomas E., 177

Koehler, Sylvester, criticism of etchings in auction catalogues, 177; exhibitions organized by, 176

Kollner, Augustus, 37

Krebs, Friederich, 183

Kurz, Louis, early years, 43

Kurz & Allison, 38

Land of the Sky, The, 180

Landscape Sketches of Actual Views of New England Scenery, 159

Landscape Studies in Sepia, 159

Leney, William Satchwell, 190

lettersheets, pictorial, 26

Lewis, James Otto, 50, 166

Lexington, The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat, 93, 107

Library Company of Philadelphia, Afro-Americana graphics, 164; on-line catalog, 164

Lincoln, Abraham, in prints, 61, 173

Little, Nina Fletcher, 188

Longacre, James Barton, 21

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, as print collector, 136

Longfellow National Historic Site print collection, 136

Lossing, Benson, J., 124

Lucas, Fielding, Jr., 59

Magnus, Charles, 26

Mallory, Richard Parrott, 168

maps, of America, at the American Museum in Britain, 91 ; of Chicago portage, 76

markets for prints in America, 1670-1790, 150

Mariner's Museum, The (Newport News, Va.), 167

Marks, Montague, 177

Marsh, George Perkins, 176

Maryland Historical Society print collection, 59

Massachusetts, Deerfield, 182;election of 1862, 179; people and places illustrated in Ballou's and Gleason's Pictorials, 117

Massachusetts Historical Society print collection, 34

Matteawan, 158

McClellan, George and family, 173

McCullough, Hall Park, 188

McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 35, 50, 166

McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 35, 166

medical illustrations, early, 128

medical imagery, in political prints, 28

Mexican War, prints of, 50

Meyer, Herrman J., 64

Meyer, Joseph, 64

Meyer's Universum, 64

mezzotint engraver, John Sartain, 54

Milbert, Jacques Gerard, 10 , 124, 156

Miller, Alfred Jacob, 50 , 59

Milwaukee, as center of lithography, 60

missions, city, in New York, images of, 45

Missouri River towns, views of, 64

Mitchell, Francis Nalder, 168

Moran, Mary Nimmo, 177

Moran, Paul Nimmo, 177

Moran, Peter, etchings for auction catalogues, 177; etchings of the Southwest, 116 ; and Philadelphia Society of Etchers, 118

Moran, Thomas, catalogue for his sale, 1886, etchings for auction catalogues, 177; painter-lithographs, 90; and Picturesque Canada, 85

Morgan, Mary Jane, estate of, 177

Mullens, Lt. John, Reports on the Construction of a Military Road..., 161

Museum of Our National Heritage, Washington exhibition, 44

Museum of the City of New York print collection, 23; and Harry T. Peters, 7

music, sheet music covers, 1840-1860, 187

Napoleon, Governor of the Island of Elba, 172

National Portrait Gallery print collection, 71, 173

Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, 58

New Orleans, bird's-eye views of, 95

New England, rural life in, 181; scenery, views of, 159, 168

New York, collecting and marketing of prints in, 170; etchings of, by Henry Farrer, 47 ; by Charles Henry White, 135 ; Iconography of Manhattan Island, 163; missions in, 45; prints related to in I. N. Phelps Stokes collection, 163

New York Etching Club, 20

New-York Historical Society, print collection, 41, 72; double-sided prints at, 171

New York Public Library print collection, 15, 83, 163

Newell, Peter, 70

Nicol, Erskine, 175

Nutting, Benjamin Franklin, 168

Old Master prints, collection of, 176

Old Sturbridge Village, use of prints, 181

Oregon, Wreck of the Steamer, 171

Otto, Heinrich, 182

Painter-Etchers, and Whistler,69

paintings derived from prints, 112

Palmatary, James T., 185

parlor, American, and Currier & Ives, 94

Parrish, Stephen, Canadian etchings of, 143 ; etchings for auction catalogues, 177;
and Philadelphia Society of Etchers, 118

Patriotic Ladies, A Society of, Edenton in North Carolina, 144

Peabody Essex Museum print collection, 39

Peale, Rembrandt, 192

Pendleton, John, 74

Pennell, Joseph, 57 ; and Philadelphia Society of Etchers, 118

Pennsylvania Germans, their birth and baptismal certificates, 183

Pennsylvania Historical Society print collection, 25

Perkins, Jacob, 21

Perkins, Joseph, 114

Perkins' Sun Lithographic Establishment, New York, 114

Peters, Harry T., 7

Pittsburgh, lithograph of, 185

Platt, Charles Adams, etchings of Canada, 143

Philadelphia:

  • African American presence in, 164
  • views by William Birch, 12;
  • Bush Hill, 64;
  • the Third Street House, 87;
  • botanical illustration in, 79

Philadelphia Society of Etchers, 118

Photomechanical processes, 176

Picturesque Canada, 85

picturesque views, of Fort Ticonderoga, 156

"Picturing America, 1492-1899," N.Y. Public Library exhibition, 83

Piton, Camille, 177

Pocahantas, Van der Passe engraving of, 173

political prints: medical imagery in, 28 ; British print, c. 1775, 144

Porte Crayon (David Hunter Strother), 130

Posters, American, 8

Pownall, Thomas, Gov., 17

Prang, Louis, 6

Prang, Louis, & Co., 179

print care, 27, 36

prints as sources, for oil paintings, 112 ; for "sandpaper paintings," 152

"Prized Prints" at The New-York Historical Society, 72

Public Archives of Canada print collection, 73

Puck, lithographs of Beecher-Tilton scandal, 139

railroad, an "Artists' Excursion" on, 130

rare American prints at The New-York Historical Society, 72

Reading, Pennsylvania, printed birth and baptismal forms, 183

Reed, Abner, 106

Reed, Lumen, 170

Reid, Christian, and William Ludwell Sheppard, 180

Reinagle, Hugh, 156

Revere, Paul, his Bloody Massacre, 182

Revolution, American, prints of events, 156

Rhode Island School of Design, American wallpapers at, 101

Richard III, 172

Robinson, Henry R., 196

Ropes, Joseph, 191

Runke, J.C., 177

Sabin, Joseph F., Jr., 177

Sachse, E., & Co., 59

Salem, MA, Essex Institute prints, 39

Sandby, Paul, 17

sandpaper paintings of the ancient world, 152

Sarony & Major, 187

Sartain, Emily, 65

Sartain, John, 54

Scenographia Americana, 17

Schell, Francis H., 138

Schenck family, 158

Schuller, Johann Valentine, 183

science, men of, use of portrait prints by, 153

Scott, Winfield, 173

Seager, Edward, 168

Sewall, the Rev. Joseph, 182

Shaker dance prints, 104

Shaker village views, 174

Sharpshooter, The, by Winslow Homer, 126

Shays, Daniel, 173

Shelburne Museum Print Collection, 149

Shellwork frames, 182

sheet music covers, 1840-1860, with erotic images, 187

Sheppard, William Ludwell, 180

shipbuilding, images of, in New York, 97

Sloan, John, early years, 30

Smillie, James (1807-1885), career in New York, 186, engraving of Voyage of Life, 75

Smillie, James David (1833-1909),

  • engraving of The Goldsmith's Daughter, 109;
  • etchings, 40;
  • etchings for auction catalogs, 177;
  • and New York Etching Club, 20
  • "Notes" on presenting his father's print collection to the New York Public Library, 1901, 186

Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Jr., 168

Smith, Sidney L., 177

Smith, Walter, 159

Sonntag, Henriette, 171

Spencerian Drawing-Book No. 2, 159

Speyer, Friederich, 183

Spooner, Shearjashbub, 170

Stafford Springs, CT, Six Views in Aquatinta (1810), 106

Statue of Liberty, images of, 68

Stebbins, James A.H., 177

Stewart, Alexander T., estate of, 177

Stock Market, N.Y., panics of, 14

Stokes, Edward Stiles, 160

Stokes, I.N. Phelps, 15, 83, 163

Stopp, Klaus, collection of printed Taufscheine, 183

Strother, David Hunter, 130

souvenir viewbooks, after 1876 Centennial Exhibition, 78

Sumner, Charles, 176

Suydam, Augustus, 170

Tannahill Research Library, Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI, 16, 33

Tappan, William Henry, 168

Tappan and Bradford, lithographers, 168

Taufscheine, 183

Tennyson's Enoch Arden, illustrations for, 52

textile industry, images of women in, 115

Thulstrup, Thure de, 131

Thompson, Lydia, 175

Ticknor and Fields, 52

Ticonderoga, images of, 156

Tilton, J. E. & Co., 52

Truax, Charles H., 177

Truxton's Victory, 171

Twachtman, John H., 177

uncataloged Currier & Ives prints, 133

Uncle Tom's Cabin, illustrations for, 67 , 81

"unconventional" Currier & Ives items, 145

United States Illustrated, The, 64

Valentines, American printed, 13

Vermont Drawing Book of Flowers, The, 157

Vermont Historical Society, 157

Voyage of Life, engravings of, 75

Volck, Adalbert Johann, 59 , 77

Wall, William Guy, 10, 124, 156

Wall Street, images of panics of, 14

wallpapers, American, at Rhode Island School of Design, 101

Washington, George, American Superhero, 44; 18th-century images of, 51, 173; His Excellency and Lady Washington, mezzotints, 188, G. Washington in his Last Illness, 171

Washington family, the, prints of, 148

Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 84

Waud, Alfred R., in Boston, 1856-60, 137

Webb, Electra Havemeyer, print collection at Shelburne Museum, 149

Weir, J. Alden, 177

West, illustrated government publications of, 161; photographs of American, 159

West, Benjamin, his use of prints as sources, 112

West Point, early prints of, 29

West Point Museum prints, 29

Whipple, M. J., 168

Whistler, James M, his influence on American Painter-Etchers, 69; on Pennell, 57

White, Charles Henry, 135

White Mountain School of Art, 6

Williams, Frederick D., 168

Wissler, Jacques, 46

Wittemann Brothers, 87

Wood, Thomas Waterman, 146

wood engraving, for medical illustrations, 128

Woodward, J. D., 113

women, images of, 38; working in factories, 115

Yale, Leroy M., 20

Yale University Art Gallery print collection, 88


 

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