Harper's Magazine Autograph Letter collection
name: label: Creator
content: Harper & Brothers. Art Dept
title: label: Topic
content: Harper's magazine
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1967 by Pierpont Morgan Library.
creator: label: Creator
content: Harper & Brothers. Art Dept
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Reels (ca. 700 items (on 3 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1851-1895
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.harpbrot
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 N709-N711 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters from artists and writers to HARPER'S MAGAZINE dealing with late nineteenth-century illustrations and articles for that publication. A separate group concerns Whistler's suit against Harper and Brothers for its alleged libel in DuMauriers's TRILBY, and another comprises eighteen James Jackson Jarves letters, 1853-1855, on his articles. Some of the correspondents are Poultney Bigelow, William Merritt Chase, A.B. Frost, Richard Morris Hunt, Francis Millet, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, Charles S. Reinhardt, Albert E. Sterner and J.Q.A. Ward.