James Robb papers
name: label: Creator
content: Robb, James, 1814-1881
label: Names
content: Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889
label: Names
content: Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilworth), 1801-1860
label: Names
content: Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894
label: Names
content: Huntington, Daniel, 1816-1906
label: Names
content: Kellogg, Miner K. (Miner Kilbourne), 1814-1889
label: Names
content: Kemble, William
label: Names
content: Macalester, Charles, 1798-1873
label: Names
content: Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873
label: Names
content: Weir, Robert Walter, 1803-1889
label: Names
content: Wilde, Richard Henry, 1789-1847
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- United States
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1983 by Herbert Gray, a collector of autographed letters. This group of James Robb papers was included in a scrapbook that Mr. Gray purchased, containing letters to and from various historical figures. The remainder of the James Robb items from the scrapbook (ca. 157 letters and receipts pertaining to the purchase and sale of the Robb art collection) were donated to the Historic New Orleans Collection, a major repository of manuscript material on Robb.
creator: label: Creator
content: Robb, James, 1814-1881
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Railroad and banking tycoon, art collector; active in New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century. Robb collected European and American art. Much of his collection was sold in 1859; some works from his collection are in the New Orleans Museum of Art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1846-1871
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.robbjame
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3948 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Fourteen letters written to Robb, 1846-1871, from John Gadsby Chapman, Henry Dilworth Gilpin, James H. Hackett, George Peter Alexander Healy, Daniel Huntington, Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, William Kemble, Charles Macalester, Hiram Powers, Robert Walter Weir, and Richard Henry Wilde; a letter written to "My Dear Sir" by Robb, 1848; a handwritten copy of an agreement between Hiram Powers and Robb concerning the exhibiting of Powers' THE GREEK SLAVE, 1848; a page of clippings, undated and 1859, relating to the sale of the Robb collection and to his railroad affiliation.