George Catlin manuscripts and drawings
name: label: Creator
content: Catlin, George, 1796-1872
topic: label: Occupation
content: Illustrators
label: Occupation
content: Ethnological illustrators
label: Occupation
content: Ethnological painters
label: Occupation
content: Miniature painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters
label: Topic
content: Art and race
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Portraits
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1976 by Judith Catlin, relationship to George Catlin is not known.
creator: label: Creator
content: Catlin, George, 1796-1872
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Portrait painter and miniaturist, ethnographer, best known for his paintings of the American Indian. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1893
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.catlgemd
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 1191 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Writings, notes; drawings of ships, submarines, and parts of sailing vessels; a rough draft of an essay on the Steamship Slipper, and an incomplete essay addressed to the Consular Agency of the U. States of America...Belgium.