Read family papers
name: label: Creator
content: Read family
label: Names
content: Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902
label: Names
content: Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900
label: Names
content: Fosdick, W. W. (William Whiteman), 1825-1862
label: Names
content: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
label: Names
content: Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908
label: Names
content: Knaus, Ludwig, 1829-1910
label: Names
content: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
label: Names
content: Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873
label: Names
content: Read, Harriet Denison Butler, 1837-1935
label: Names
content: Read, Mary Alice, 1845-1870
label: Names
content: Read, Mary Pratt, 1818-1855
label: Names
content: Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872
label: Names
content: Richards, T. Addison (Thomas Addison), 1820-1900
label: Names
content: Rogers, Randolph, 1825-1892
label: Names
content: Sartain, John, 1808-1897
label: Names
content: Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888
label: Names
content: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
label: Names
content: Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895
label: Names
content: Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
topic: label: Occupation
content: Poets
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1979 by Denison L. Burton.
creator: label: Creator
content: Read family
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Thomas Buchanan Read was a poet, a portrait and history painter, and sometime sculptor, and worked in the U.S. and abroad.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 229 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1848-1935
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.readread
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 1478 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Denison Burton, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence between Read family members, Thomas Buchanan Read, Mary Pratt Read, Mary Alice Read, and Harriet Denison Butler Read, and notable military, literary, political, and artistic figures, particluarly of the 19th century. Correspondents include Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, William Whiteman Fosdick, Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, Ludwig Knaus, Hiram Powers, Thomas Addison Richards, Randolph Rogers, John Sartain, William Wetmore Story, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Philip Sheridan, James Garfield, and William Tecumseh Sherman, among others.