William Henry Shelton autobiography
name: label: Creator
content: Shelton, W. H. (William Henry), 1840-1932?
label: Names
content: Harper's Magazine Foundation
label: Names
content: Salmagundi Club
label: Names
content: Tile Club
label: Names
content: Quartley, Arthur, 1839-1886
label: Names
content: Reinhart, Charles Stanley, 1844-1896
label: Names
content: Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915
title: label: Topic
content: Century illustrated monthly magazine
label: Topic
content: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper
label: Topic
content: New York ledger
topic: label: Occupation
content: Authors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Engravers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Illustrators -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Soldiers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent 1974 by the New-York Historical Society.
creator: label: Creator
content: Shelton, W. H. (William Henry), 1840-1932?
function: label: Function
content: Artist colonies
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 450 Pages ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1840-1890
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.shelwill
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 800 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: New-York Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Typescript of Shelton's unpublished autobiography, in which he writes of his boyhood in New York and his experiences in the Civil War. Shelton also describes his career as an artist-illustrator in New York City, beginning in 1871, work for LESLIE'S, HARPER'S, CENTURY, and the NEW YORK LEDGER, how engraving was done, the beginning of the artists' colony at Cold Spring Harbor with Stanley Reinhart, Arthur Quartley, and others, the work of Frank Smith, the colony at East Hampton, and recollections of the Tile Club and the Salmagundi Club.