Financial and Legal Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873
setName: label: See more items in
content: Hiram Powers papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 10, OV 17; 8 folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1840s-1892, 1915
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.powehira, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Items are arranged chronologically within each folder. This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains scattered financial and legal records primarily documenting Hiram Powers' career as an artist. Included are patent documents for several sculpture designs, such as "Greek Slave," and for the invention of tools used in his studio. Also found are Power of Attorney agreements for Powers' business dealings in the United States while he lived in Florence, and other legal agreements, regarding both personal matters and the sale and commission of sculptures. This series also contains various financial account statements and miscellaneous financial records, such as bills and receipts. Many of these items are in Italian.