James Reid Lambdin collection
name: label: Creator
content: Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889
label: Names
content: Artists' Fund Society
label: Names
content: Columbian Society of Artists
label: Names
content: National Art Association (Washington, D.C.)
label: Names
content: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Sartain, John, 1808-1897
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art -- Exhibitions
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This collection was compiled by Lambdin and housed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Lent for microfilming, 1955, by the PAFA.
creator: label: Creator
content: Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Portrait and miniature painter. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa. and studied art in Philadelphia under Edward Miles and Thomas Sully. Upon his return to Pittsburgh, he was a proprietor of a museum and oversaw his own art gallery. He later spent many years as an officer of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before his death in Philadelphia.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Reels ((ca. 200 items on 6 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1831-1896
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lambjame
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels P38-P41, P52 & P63 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: A finding aid to the Lambdin pamphlet collection on microfilm reels P38-P40 can be found in the appendices of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts finding aid available at all Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Pamphlets, speeches, transactions, reviews, auction and exhibition catalogs, and other printed materials relating to art and art organizations mainly in the Philadelphia area, but also including New York, Boston, Baltimore, Louisianna, Europe and elsewhere. Among the societies represented are the National Academy of Design, National Art Association, Artists' Fund Society, Philadelphia Museum Company, Northern Society of Painters in Watercolor, American Art Union, Apollo Association, Columbian Society of Artists and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; correspondence between committees of the Artists Fund Society, headed by John Sartain, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and charters and by-laws of the Artists Fund Society.