Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873
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content: Hiram Powers papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 10-13, 16, OV 17; 1.8 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1860s-1900, 1927, 1932, 1950s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.powehira, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Photographs are arranged by format and subject matter. The bulk of this series has been scanned. Items not scanned include photographs of artwork.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains numerous photographs of Hiram Powers, his family, friends, notable public figures, and his artwork. Many of the photographs were taken by Hiram Powers' son, Longworth Powers who had a photograph studio in Florence. Found here are several portraits of Hiram Powers, including a portrait of him in his studio apron, standing next to a portrait bust, and photographs of him with the poet William Cullen Bryant and philanthropist George Peabody. Also found are portraits of his wife Elizabeth, son Preston, and three group photographs of the Powers family. 

 Also within this series is Hiram Powers' extensive collection of 267 Cartes de Visite and Cabinet Cards depicting friends, notable figures, and those who sat for portraits by the artist, or who had portraits taken by Longworth Powers. Included are American and European artists, performers, politicians and other leaders, writers, and scientists, many of whom were friends with Powers. Notable figures include the artists Thomas Ball, Charles Francis Fuller, and John Everett Millais, performer Sarah Bernhardt, writers Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, Horace Greeley, Victor Hugo, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bayard Taylor, John Ruskin, John Greenleaf Whittier, Alfred Tennyson, and Mark Twain, and others, such as William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Ward Beecher, Edward Everett, Florence Nightingale, David Livingston, Prince Napoleon, and Queen Victoria. 

 Additional photographs contained in this series include five stereo cards of Woodstock, Vermont, including two photographs of the house where Hiram Powers was born, photographs of Italy and the marble quarry at Carrara, and a collection of photographs of Native Americans belonging to Preston Powers. Also found are photographs of artwork by Hiram and Preston Powers, including photographs of artwork in Powers' studio, and photographs of a painted portrait of a young Hiram Powers by Francis Alexander, and a second painted portrait by an unidentified artist. 

 Also of note is a photograph album kept by Louisa Powers containing photographs of artwork by Powers and photographs of Italy, and two posters with attached photographs by Longworth Powers of people such as Hiram Powers, Thomas Ball, and their artwork, and photographs of Italy. 

 This series also contains many glass plate photographs and negatives, including two lantern slides of unidentified people, possibly taken by Longworth Powers of members of the Powers family. Glass plate negatives consist of three portraits of Hiram Powers and one of his wife Elizabeth, other unidentified portraits, and photographs of sculpture by Powers, which can also be found among the printed photographs in this series.