Selected papers from the Edward Carey Gardiner Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Gardiner, Edward Carey, ca. 1879-1945
label: Names
content: Pennington family
label: Names
content: Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912
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content: Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879
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content: Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
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content: Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888
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content: Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886
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content: Huntington, Daniel, 1816-1906
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content: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
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content: Mason, William, fl. 1808-1844
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content: Page, William, 1811-1885
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content: Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
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content: Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872
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content: Sartain, John, 1808-1897
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content: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
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content: Tanner, Benjamin, 1775-1848
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content: Thorpe, Thomas Bangs, 1815-1878
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the Archives of American Art, 1955.
creator: label: Creator
content: Gardiner, Edward Carey, ca. 1879-1945
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Carey, Baird and Pennington families were prominent in publishing, politics, and cultural and economic affairs of Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Partial microfilm reel.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1794-1872
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gardedwa
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel P24 (fr. 114-179) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Edward Carey Gardiner Collection.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Selected papers from the Carey and Pennington family papers, and the Henry Carey Baird papers, relating to art, artists, engraving and publishing.
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content: Included are: nine letters from Benjamin Tanner to Mathew Carey, Mar.12, 1794-Dec. 3, 1794, about engraving maps of China and Russia from copper plates for Carey; letters to Henry C. Carey from Thomas Buchanan Read, 1856, inviting Carey to spend an evening with him to meet Frank Goodrich, Paris correspondent of the New York Times; from Rembrandt Peale, 1859, announcing an exhibition of his paintings at his home with a view of disposing of them; from D.H. Mason, 1872, regarding an exchange of portraits and other subjects; from Charles Robert Leslie, 1834-1859 (7 items), about Leslie's position as Drawing Master at West Point, a proposed visit to England, Leslie's opinion of Paris, and other subjects;
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content: from Daniel Huntington, 1850-1870 (5 items), concerning borrowing a printing copies of Carey's paintings; from Thomas Sully, 1862, thanking Carey for his approval of Sully's son's conduct as a soldier; and three receipts to Carey for subscriptions to the Sully Fund for the years 1868, 1869, and 1871, signed by James Claghorn, Treasurer. Edward L. Carey papers include a letter from F.O.C. Darley, April 21, 1845, about designs for "Simon Luggs"; from William Page, Mar. 17, 1843, wishing to exhibit "Young Traders" at the National Academy; and from John Cheney, Nov. 18, 1843, about his brother and the artist Daniel Huntington; an account of Powers' bust of Proserpine once owned by Carey; and a resoultion of the National Academy of Design regarding the death of Carey, June 23, 1845.
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content: Items selected from the Henry Carey Baird papers include: copyright papers and letters to Baird, 1845-1855, relating to the publication of Thomas Bangs Thorpe's book The Mysteries of the Backwoods; two letters from Thomas Sully, July 6, 1856, reminding Baird of the portrait, and Dec. 2, 1857, regarding Baird's paper on the "money panic"; a letter from John Sartain, May 24, 1850, ordering 75 cuts of flowers for some books being prepared; from John Rogers, Nov. 28, 1872, about Carey's "Unity of Law"; from William Mason, June 5, 1851, concerning some drawings of Mason's spinning machine; from Daniel Huntington, May 22 and July 27, 1850 about two paintings loaned by Carey and the delay in returning them; and a letter from P.S. Duval, Jan. 5, 1852, about drawings of 8 plates of flowers, done to test lithography for that type of work.
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content: Two items from the Pennington family section include a clipping of "Penn's Treaty with the Indians" by Benjamin West, owned by Henry Pennington; and a letter to John Pennington from G. McMurtrie, 1853, regarding Thomas Sully.