Negus family papers
name: label: Creator
content: Negus family
label: Names
content: Negus, Arathusa
label: Names
content: Negus, Fanny
label: Names
content: Negus, Joseph, 1797-1823
label: Names
content: Negus, Laura
label: Names
content: Negus, Nathan, 1801-1825
label: Names
content: Negus, Rosannah
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The lender, Elizabeth Fuller, is the wife of Nathan Negus's grand-nephew and inherited the papers.
creator: label: Creator
content: Negus family
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Several members of the Negus family were artists. Nathan and Joseph were itinerant painters who traveled the South.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 110 Items ((on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1808-1844
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.negunegu
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 611 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library, Deerfield, Mass.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Largely correspondence among members of the Negus and Fuller families of Massachusetts, including that of Nathan, his sisters Fanny, Arathusa, Laura, and Rosannah, his brother Joseph, and other family members; genealogical data on the Negus family; a biography of Nathan Negus by the wife of his grand-nephew, Mary Fuller; Negus's diary, Sept. 20, 1819-April 14, 1822, kept in Boston; and a photograph of his self-portrait.