Scrapbooks and Albums
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873
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content: Hiram Powers papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 14; 3 folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1847-1876
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.powehira, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains two albums and a scrapbook compiled by members of the Powers family. Included is a scrapbook containing news clippings regarding the American tour and public response to Hiram Powers' sculpture "Greek Slave" and several notices of his death in 1873. Also found is an album presented to Louisa Powers from her mother that contains autographed poems and quotations from several notable authors, including Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Bayard Taylor, Thomas Buchanan Read, William Cullen Bryant, and the Trollope family. Another album found here, possibly belonging to Louisa Powers, contains three pencil drawings by Preston Powers, poetry, and dried flowers collected on travels during 1867.