Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Catlin, George, 1796-1872
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content: George Catlin papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Folders (Boxes 1, 6; Reel 5824)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1825-circa 1872
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.catlgeor, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series includes several handwritten notebooks by Catlin, as well as printed memorials and petitions written by Catlin. Also found is a handwritten French translation of Catlin's 1845 exhibition catalog and a partial handwritten manuscript "Travels in Europe." The subscription notebook was originally created circa 1825 to record subscription sales for a printed version of a portrait of the Hon. Tapping Reeve, a Connecticut judge painted by Catlin. The printing was never actually undertaken, however, and the book was later used in 1841 as a memo book during Catlin's stay in London. Of particular interest are the Notebooks numbered 6 and 7. Both contain notes about Catlin's paintings and exhibitions, as well as cultural information about the Indian tribes, such as name translations. One notebook describes a Mandan battle in gruesome detail.