Winterthur Digital Collections
Winterthur Digital Collections
In addition to imprints and manuscripts, The Edward Deming Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection includes about 1,200 different images of the Shaker religious sect. At least fifteen Shaker communities located in eight states are represented. Although the photographs depict more than a century of Shaker life, most date from a fifty-year span …
John Lewis Krimmel (1786-1821), portrait and genre painter, emigrated from Germany to Philadelphia around 1809. He took a few art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and with other artists, but was largely self-taught. Inspired by his new environment, he practiced his art by sketching local people of different ages, classes, …
Charles Magnus (1826-1900) was a lithographer, publisher, mapmaker, bookseller, and stationer working in New York City from 1850-1899. Born in Elberfeld, Germany, he immigrated to America in 1848 and learned the printing business from his older brother.
Magnus' early work includes pictorial letter sheets illustrated with city views and …
This collection of over 300 engraved and hand-drawn bookplates contains plates of individuals, colleges, and circulating libraries in a variety of styles. Personal bookplates in the 1700s featured coats of arms and heraldic emblems that symbolized owners' wealth and lineage. Noted American engravers, among them Nathaniel Hurd, Peter …
Mary Harrod Northend was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the daughter of William D. and Susan Stedman Harrod Northend and a descendant of several old Massachusetts families. She suffered from poor health during her childhood and was not able to attend school regularly. Even so, she became interested in writing, honed her skills, and …
The English furniture making firm Gillow and Company produced these drawings of neoclassical furniture forms and interiors. Beginning in 1730 as a small cabinet shop, Gillow grew to become one of the most successful manufacturers of English furniture for the next 200 years. The firm sold furniture to a wide range of social …
The Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony in Woodstock, N.Y. was established by Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead in 1901, having been influenced by the teachings of John Ruskin from the time he attended college at Oxford. The construction of workshops, studios, and residences began in the winter of 1902 and by the summer of 1903 Byrdcliffe had a …
This sketchbook was most likely created by artist James E. Taylor, a newspaper illustrator during and after the Civil War. James E. Taylor was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1839, graduated from Notre Dame, and briefly served with the 10th New York Infantry. He was particularly noted for the work he did in the American West after the …
Creator of this set of cards, British mathematical instrument maker Thomas Tuttell (ca. 1674-1702) was particularly noted for his quality work in silver, brass, ivory, and wood. The son of William Tuttell, a member of the Cordwainers' Company of London, Tuttell was a member of the Clockmakers Company and in 1700, was appointed Instrument …
The John and Carolyn Grossman Collection, currently housed in the Winterthur Library, contains more than 250,000 items documenting the print processes of lithography and chromolithography from 1820 to 1920. Approximately 80,000 items including cigar labels, bands, and boxes, embossing dies, lithographic stones, progressive proof books, …
Indentures, legal documents between masters and apprentices, outlined terms of service whereby skills were taught to young boys and girls. These agreements contained requirements for behavior on the part of the apprentice or servant as well as details on the training, clothing, and shelter to be provided by the master. Among the trades …
John H. Ragatz's furniture making firm was located at 212 Pear St. or 219 So. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The exact dates of the business are unknown, but it probably existed from ca.1870 to ca.1920.
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The collection consists of rendered drawings or photographs of furniture done by Ragatz or someone else working in his shop. A …
This collection of photographs shows buildings and exhibits at the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia, the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, and the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San …
The William Frost Mobley Collection of Funeral and Mourning Ephemera (1809-1963) consists of American ephemera related to funerals and mourning customs. It features a wide variety of mostly late nineteenth century printed materials that document American funerary and mourning practices of the time. The collection includes …
Louisa M. Clinton may have been the amateur artist who created some of these drawings. A manila folder that accompanied these drawings was marked, "Louisa M. Clinton Library, granddaughter of Gen. Clinton; her teacher was the art teacher Victoria." It also bears the words, "18 Interiors, ca. 1832, Dalkeith and Ardock." There were two …
These wrappers, ca. 1830-1855, have illustrations depicting such subjects as transportation, scenery, buildings, animals, and historical and fictional people. Apparently printers' proofs, some sheets are uncut and include labels with catalog numbers on them. French candy wrappers of this type were popular during the first half of …
A glass photographic format popular in the late 1800s, lantern slides were projected onto a wall or a screen by a magic lantern projector with an internal light source. Typically manufactured in sets, these slides were used for both educational and entertainment purposes in public lectures and in-home displays.
Three collections of …
This group of stereo cards was created in the 1930s when Henry Francis du Pont commissioned photography to document flower arrangements and seasonal changes of textile fabrics used in the rooms of the Winterthur house when it was a private home. The photography is credited to Robert V. Brost, photographer; Annette Karge, colorist; and …
Taken between 1910 and 1921, Winterthur founder Henry Francis du Pont had his estate’s gardens and grounds photographed, using the autochrome process that had been developed by the Lumière brothers – Auguste and Louis – in France and first marketed in 1907. The views include close-ups of flowers, roads, grounds by the house, …
Photographed by the Sanborn Studio, of Wilmington Delaware, these black and white photographs document construction of a large addition to the Winterthur house in 1929-1930. The efforts gone to saving the trees near the house as well as how far the workers had to dig into the hillside are documented as was removing the old porte …
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