John Warner Barber scrapbook pages
name: label: Creator
content: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885
label: Names
content: Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
label: Names
content: Dow, Lorenzo, 1777-1834
label: Names
content: Jocelyn, Nathaniel, 1796-1881
topic: label: Occupation
content: Engravers
label: Occupation
content: Wood-engravers
label: Topic
content: Wood-engraving
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These pages were found in a book purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts, which subsequently gave them to the Archives of American Art.
creator: label: Creator
content: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Engraver (of both copper and wood), topographical draftsman, and historian. Born February 2, 1798 in East Windsor, Conn.; apprenticed to Abner Reed, engraver; operated his own engraving business in New Haven; studied history and traveled the eastern U.S., gathering information for the books which he wrote and then illustrated with his engravings; died in New Haven on June 22, 1885.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Pages ((on 4 frames of microfilm))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1832-1868
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.barbjohw
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel D22, frames 314-317 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Items "From Diary of J. W. Barber" pasted onto paper: a sketch of Lorenzo Dow, "Preaching on the steps of the South Portico of the State House at New Haven, Conn. June 30th 1832," an illustration from a wood engraving of the "Hudson Co. Court House & Jail Hudson City New Jersey," said to be "the last engraving done by Dr. [Alexander] Anderson" and "published in 1868 by J. W. Barber," and a receipt of 1868 acknowledging that Anderson "Rec.d from Mr. John W. Barber Seven dollars in full for engraving Rahway cut."
label: Scope and Contents
content: On the obverse are two newspaper clippings (one, undated, about "the venerable artist and patriot, Nathaniel Jocelyn" and another of 1853 entitled, "The Bible vs. Tradition!!") as well as an undated illustration from a wood engraving of a large institutional building. On another sheet are pasted a verse, which is said to be a "Fac-Simile of the hand-writing of Dr. Watts," and an illustration from an etching entitled, "Our Grandmothers Kitchen," said to have been "designed in 1867 by John W. Barber, then in his 70th year."